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Has anyone ever found any Bloopers or inconsistencies in The Wire??
I've ALWAYS enjoyed bloopers or just knowing "HEY, that wasn't like that in the previous shot" etc. So have YOU found anything that just wasn't quite how it SHOULD be?
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Re: Bloopers or Inconsistences?
Jun 14, 2008 8:44 PM
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In season 3 in the scene where all of the corner kids are in the elmentary school gym. Check this out: Watch Lt. Mello, when Colvin tries to talk you notice that he has his hat on. When the principal takes over the next screen shot he has his hat off!! LOL!!! It is real quick. LOL!!!
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Re: Bloopers or Inconsistences?
Jun 9, 2008 6:13 PM
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> In season 1 the first scene that introduced Omar: You
> saw Omar, Brandon & Bailey in the van. If you
> noticed when the scene first starts Omar has a hat on
> his head but in the next screen shot he has a dew rag
> on!! LOL....
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> He says something like "This is some real sloppy shit
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> Stringa...........
Great catch!
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Re: Bloopers or Inconsistences?
Jun 9, 2008 4:47 PM
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> Season One:
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> -Kima gets shot but no one can't find or locate her
> to rescue her in time.(My problem is why could'nt
> someone (Police!) think of a tracking device on
> Orlando's car to track their every move...This is the
> 21rst Century right?)
Not for the BPD. They were consistantly working with deficient equipment.
> -Season 2 or 3:
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> Avon comes home from Jessup and goes to a nightclub
> party in his honor and we see Levy sitting with Clay
> Davis talking about a venture between Davis and
> Avon.( Why would Levy put Avon/Stringer in the
> direction of a con-man! Because in the upcoming
> episodes we find Stringer going to Levy about Davis
> and Levy acting as if he is surprised of the
> name/actions of Davis!! Why did'nt he tell them about
> Clay Davis in the first place)
Levy was fine with having them talk to guys like Clay Davis, but he asked that they only do so in his presence or they'd get bled dry. My guess is Stringer ignored that advice. As soon as Levy heard about Stringer's dealings with Clay Davis, he clowned Stringer.
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Re: Bloopers or Inconsistences?
Jun 8, 2008 3:27 PM
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In season 1 the first scene that introduced Omar: You saw Omar, Brandon & Bailey in the van. If you noticed when the scene first starts Omar has a hat on his head but in the next screen shot he has a dew rag on!! LOL....
He says something like "This is some real sloppy shit "
Stringa...........
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Re: Bloopers or Inconsistences?
May 6, 2008 7:02 PM
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Cutty's real name is Dennis and his ex-girlfriend who teaches calls him by his real name.
When she sees him later on when he's doing that truancy thing, she greets him with David and they start talking.
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Re: Bloopers or Inconsistences?
Apr 26, 2008 4:50 PM
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very minor, It can and has snowed around Thanksgiving time in these parts, not as frequently as Cleveland or Chicago, but i day maybe once every 5 or 6 years, we get snow before Xmas , maybe twice in my lifetime, in October, 8th and 11th, but those were total flukes
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Re: Bloopers or Inconsistences?
Apr 26, 2008 4:04 PM
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The biggest one I saw was in season 4. When Omar was in jail, the ground was covered with snow WAY too early in the year. With the season finale set around Christmas, the jail scene would have been late November to early December, and Baltimore is too far south to get snow that early.
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Re: Bloopers or Inconsistences?
Apr 3, 2008 12:27 PM
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That limping and then not limping was a big error to me. You have one of the most popular characters in that season and you let that inconsistency fly in the editing.
Most people thought Omar jumping through that glass of the balcony was not believable, but it was believeable and it did happen. However, that limping and not limping should've been caught.
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Re: Bloopers or Inconsistences?
Apr 3, 2008 11:52 AM
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> Now Omar and the limp- that was a BIG mistake. I
> can't believe the editors missed that one.
That was funny....limping...not limping...limping. Maybe they left it to mess with us. You would think they would have caught that right off in the editing booth lol.
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Re: Bloopers or Inconsistences?
Apr 3, 2008 10:28 AM
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Thanks Ginger745- I missed that. When did Rhonda say that? I miss having new Wire episodes in my life!
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Re: Bloopers or Inconsistences?
Mar 27, 2008 2:00 PM
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kaydoggg,
Rhonda Pearlman said, she would have to recuse herself. Recuse is a legal term to disqualify or seek to disquality from participation.
Hope that answers your question.
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Re: Bloopers or Inconsistences?
Mar 27, 2008 10:20 AM
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> -Season 2 or 3:
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> Avon comes home from Jessup and goes to a nightclub
> party in his honor and we see Levy sitting with Clay
> Davis talking about a venture between Davis and
> Avon.( Why would Levy put Avon/Stringer in the
> direction of a con-man! Because in the upcoming
> episodes we find Stringer going to Levy about Davis
> and Levy acting as if he is surprised of the
> name/actions of Davis!! Why did'nt he tell them about
> Clay Davis in the first place)
There's nothing saying that he didn't. He told Marlo right off the bat not to meet with those cats without him. I can see Stringer feeling smart enough to ignore the advice.
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Re: Bloopers or Inconsistences?
Mar 27, 2008 10:06 AM
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I loved the last episode, but one question I had was:
Could Daniels really argue in court when his girlfriend (or even past girlfriend) is the judge? This is shown in the final scenes showing where everyone ends up.
That seems like such an obvious conflict of interest, but maybe this kind of thing happens all the time? Any lawyers out there know the answer?
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Re: Bloopers or Inconsistences?
Mar 20, 2008 3:13 PM
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> They should've had Omar jump from a lower apartment.
> It was just too high to be believable.
Question: Is it true that Donnie (Andrews, the inspiration for Omar) in real life jumped off a balcony the same height that Omar did?
David Simon: Actually, two floors higher.
Two floors higher?
David Simon: The Murphy Homes. He also jumped off the rail bridge at Poplar Grove, onto the rail bed. That was probably about three stories. And he hurt his ankle. It's just true. Those jumps, by an athletic person, can actually be made and are made, routinely. By a non-athletic person? if I made it, I'd be all over the pavement and they'd pick me up with a spoon. If you made it, they'd pick you up with a spoon. When 28-year-old Donnie Andrews makes that jump because he has to, sometimes he makes it. It's funny: I'm doing this thing now with
recon Marines, "Generation Kill." And some of them had no problem with the jump. They just started telling stories about recon training. I don't know whether to believe them or not, but I do believe Donnie.
It was a story I actually used, I wrote about the first time back in 1990. That story was all through the ghetto: "They had him cornered, and mother______ jumped off the railroad bridge and kept running. Did not want to die that day." But we did want it to feel a little bit mythic, and "What the ____?" because it fit with the general arc of
Greek tragedy.
http://sepinwall.blogspot.com/2008/03/wire-david-simon-q.html
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Re: Bloopers or Inconsistences?
Mar 20, 2008 2:37 PM
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I never understood why people say McNulty has the Baltimore accent nailed. I've never thought that.
Now Valchek- that is a Baltimore accent! Miss Donnelly at the school has one, too.
I talk to people from other areas for my job, and I always get laughed at for the way I say water (wooder) and wash (woorsh).
Also, Bubs didn't pick his crabs right.
They should've had Omar jump from a lower apartment. It was just too high to be believable.
I think Omar's birthday being wrong on the toe tag was intentional to show that how his death was so insignifigant that they didn't even make an effort to get his stats right.
Now Omar and the limp- that was a BIG mistake. I can't believe the editors missed that one.
If I remember right, they couldn't find Kima when she got shot because someone had turned the street sign around. In a city as poor as Baltimore, it would not surprise me that they don't have GPS in the cop cars.
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