Disappointed in Omar's Story line (Spoiler).

gebbel

Watched Omar's final moment last night and it felt like an anti-climax...I mean the manner of his exit! I was expecting a showdown with at least Chris and Snoop...and possibly even Marlo himself! But getting laid out by a seemingly 10 year old kid!! He deserved a much more dramatic exit!

I bought the box-set last month and this is first time I have been left questioning the script!!

Am I being too harsh?

amacachi

The title is a pretty big spoiler IMO.


Don't know if you've read about it before, but that kid was in an earlier season, after a shootout he's shown with his friends imitating Omar.
As well as that, the way he died was to show a few things, that he was perpetuating violence (the kid imitating him) and that his death was no big deal, he was just another scummy drug dealer that no-one cares about.

gebbel

amacachi wrote: »

The title is a pretty big spoiler IMO.


Don't know if you've read about it before, but that kid was in an earlier season, after a shootout he's shown with his friends imitating Omar.
As well as that, the way he died was to show a few things, that he was perpetuating violence (the kid imitating him) and that his death was no big deal, he was just another scummy drug dealer that no-one cares about.

OK I see, thanks. I had forgotten about the earlier imitation. That does change it alright. The symbolism is indeed there then. I guess I'm just disappointed that he won't be around any more and expected a massive climax to his story.

amacachi

gebbel wrote: »

OK I see, thanks. I had forgotten about the earlier imitation. That does change it alright. The symbolism is indeed there then. I guess I'm just disappointed that he won't be around any more and expected a massive climax to his story.

I was the same tbh. Have you watched past it? Because there's another little detail

in the morgue the tags are on the wrong feet, another symbol that in there he's nothing but another gangster with no special treatment.

abouttobebanned

That's what hollywood does to ya. Makes ya immune to good writing.

Penn

abouttobebanned wrote: »

That's what hollywood does to ya. Makes ya immune to good writing.

Thats hardly fair. It took me a while to recognise who the kid was too because in fairness, there was more than one kid trying to be Omar in that scene which was more than 2 seasons before, meaning the kid was also about 2 years older.

gebbel

I've seen just one episode after it, I should finish the lot by Sunday.

mikhail

It's my understanding that Omar's death is true to the end of one of the real-life Baltimore gangsters he's based on.

It's also interesting that an adult in that situation probably wouldn't have gotten him. He saw the kid and dismissed him as a threat. In a way, that makes the death bigger.

amacachi has it right. Omar's death, uncerimonious and hardly mourned (though already becomming mythic on the streets) is a nod to the human cost of the drug trade.

Turtyturd

amacachi wrote: »

I was the same tbh. Have you watched past it? Because there's another little detail

in the morgue the tags are on the wrong feet, another symbol that in there he's nothing but another gangster with no special treatment.

His death is also ignored by the paper in favour of a fire in a upper class white area

if I remember correctly. Showing that despite his reputation in his neighbourhood on the grand scale of things he didnt matter.

Also

wasnt the gun he was shot with the one he hid in the fridge when the cops surrounded the store and arrested him?

spitfireIRL

Turtyturd wrote: »

wasnt the gun he was shot with the one he hid in the fridge when the cops surrounded the store and arrested him?

I didn't know that where did you hear that?

K4t

Kenard imitates Omar in season 3 and in the episodes leading up to his killing of Omar in season 5 Kenard refers to Omar as being 'gimpy as a mother****a'! and when Omar walks towards a group of kids playing, all of the kids run away except for Kenard. This shows Kenard did not feel the same intimidation as others did around Omar. Then of course he kills him. The shock was like nothing else I've ever felt while watching television!

stephenmario

I thought this too but in the last episode of the show: Marlo overhears these two guys talking on a corner about Omar being killed and they immediately shoot down that it was kenard that killed him saying it was something like russian mobsters (can't remember exctly what they said). But it shows that his rep (which is the one of two things marlo ever really wanted) is bigger than Omar was.

Spacedog

I heard a bunch of around 20 DC boys with AKs had him surrounded, they blazed away for 15 minutes before Omar was finally dead for sure. for real! :eek:

carter3

That's exactly what I love about the wire. They don't try and glamourise the drug trade. No matter who you are and how big in the programme in an instant you're gone. They killed off D'Angelo in the same way