What event shocked you most or hit you hardest? May contain spoilers, obviously

Wallace getting shot was the first one that really gave me a lump in my throat.

I think Dookie is written specifically to get at you. From the moment you see him he is playing on his own and being mocked by the other kids. The more you find out about him the more you actually feel for him ( His parents selling his clothes, Prez having to bring him lunch) and you actually feel he might do ok when he takes on the housewife role in the family dynamic with Micheal and Bug. But I think the real moment that got to me with him was when he goes to the school and looks for money from Prez, you know he is not going to use it to go to school but you are really pulling for him and hoping that he is going to.

Another thing that shocked me was when looking through youtube before watching season 5 I seen a video on youtube entitled "McNultys Wake". Spent the whole fifth season wondering how he was going to die before settling on him going completely off the rails and staging a suicide to look like a victim of the Serial Killer , and a martyr to get police funding. Reading that now makes me realise how ridiculous and out of character with the rest of the show it would have been.:rolleyes:

Dukie

Poot and Bodie shot Wallace

Stringer being killed

Kima getting shot

Wallace being shot

Omar would survive

Prez blinding that poor 14year old

McNulty's regression back into a losing battle with his alcoholism and the terrible decision-making that came with it. My abiding memory of The Wire is that it is quite an angry show on the whole. I read that opinion somewhere before and I agree with it 100%. There's very little sense that, after everything, any progress is being made.

Herc abandoning Bubbles when Bubbles was being attacked, Bubbles trying to hang himself, the girl slicing the other girls face in the classroom, Randy's house being set on fire and Carver trying to help him, Chris beating Bugs father, probably more that I've forgotten happened that season.

Dukie asked Michael if he remembered what they did the previous summer. Michael just pauses and says he doesn't. A small enough moment, but really showed the type of person Michael had become. When he first appeared he was always a bit distant, but he just became so cold. I know the end montage showed him as the new Omar, but I still think he became more like Chris. Omar had a code, but I'd doubt Michael would have any problems doing the sort of things Chris did. Just a tragic ending for him.

Frank goes to meet the Greeks, he is a broken man who knows this is his only chance to save his son (in his mind) but just as is their the Greek finds out about his "betrayal". Its heartbreaking watching Frank someone who we rooted for the whole series who has no idea how doomed he is marching to what we know will be a gruesome death.:(

All the ones that got to me most have already been mentioned. Wallace's death shocked me cos it was quite graphic, which I just wasn't expecting. And as they showed his lifeless body, eyes open, slung in the corner, I was just beggin for em to cut to a new scene.

And Dookie at the end, it just left me with my head in my hands...

Bodies Death

Boadie's death for me. I think he's such a good character. Smart, loyal, hard working. As David Simon said, if Boadie had been born anywhere else, he could have been anything, done anything with his life. But because he was born in the ghettos of Baltimore, he had no chance at anything but getting caught up in the game. The scene of his death is really moving. He lived like a soldier and died like a soldier. Unwilling to back down or give up his corner to anyone.

died... Read this on a youtube video of the chess scene...-- You know who died exactly like a Pawn. Bodie. He couldn't turn back and run, he had to stand his ground and fight, he even shoots at Chris and Snoop diagonally from where he's standing, not to mention both of them are attacking like Bishops, and finally O-Dog steps forward out of the doorway, then walks straight to him and kills him, like a Knight's L shape attack. And of course Marlo, the King, is nowhere to be seen, he stays out of the battles. A great callback to season 1's chess scene.

I finished season 5 last night and I'm shocked at the fact that Marlo walked. The most depressing thing for me was when McNulty started doctoring crime scenes. I could just tell it would cause massive problems down the line.