Bunk's disgust is so authentic and so effective, because it's aimed at Robin Hood and it's coming from Bunk, who just gets the job done and then goes and drinks until he vomits or takes a girl home. This. I'd always loved Bunk but the passion he had in the scene (and Omar's reaction to it). It just had to be Bunk, If they'd gone the conventional route and used McNulty (their go-to angry character) I'd have thrown something at the screen. I think it's one of those scenes that however well written it needed the actors to bring it not just to make it work dramatically but to, I don't know, legitimise it? This isn'tt a white persons story.
It took awhile to sell me on Colvin, but his ideas are half plausible thought experiments and half bugfuck insane, and he knows it. And oh, Carcetti, how I began to hate you. I think by the end it was clear that although his solution may have been half crazy, he was very, very right about what was wrong with the whole war thing (and yes hate Carcetti for seeing it all and still falling back on the war metaphor and selling it brilliantly in that speech that was his opening bid for mayor). Colvin described how turning policemen into soldiers was killing them and this was also the season that gave some measure of understanding/respect for Avon and Cutty and the rest as soldiers. Their whole lives have been lived in a war zone, they were child soldiers and coming to it younger in every generation. Marlo is just scary.
And, oh Stringer and Avon,,,Ack. Show! <3<3<3 Show...now I'm beginning season 4.
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This. I'd always loved Bunk but the passion he had in the scene (and Omar's reaction to it). It just had to be Bunk, If they'd gone the conventional route and used McNulty (their go-to angry character) I'd have thrown something at the screen. I think it's one of those scenes that however well written it needed the actors to bring it not just to make it work dramatically but to, I don't know, legitimise it? This isn'tt a white persons story.
It took awhile to sell me on Colvin, but his ideas are half plausible thought experiments and half bugfuck insane, and he knows it. And oh, Carcetti, how I began to hate you.
I think by the end it was clear that although his solution may have been half crazy, he was very, very right about what was wrong with the whole war thing (and yes hate Carcetti for seeing it all and still falling back on the war metaphor and selling it brilliantly in that speech that was his opening bid for mayor). Colvin described how turning policemen into soldiers was killing them and this was also the season that gave some measure of understanding/respect for Avon and Cutty and the rest as soldiers. Their whole lives have been lived in a war zone, they were child soldiers and coming to it younger in every generation. Marlo is just scary.
And, oh Stringer and Avon,,,Ack. Show! <3<3<3
Show...now I'm beginning season 4.