D'Angelo Barksdale may of single handily caused the downfall of the Barksdale Organization

[Ol’Otis]

Yeah d wasn't built for that game

Stringer had to kill him to eliminate that possibility of him snitching later on

By season 3 it was an internal crisis
Avon wanted war because he saw Marlo for what he was Stringer tried to legitimize cause he knew you can't play the game forever

 

[smokeurobinson]

i cant help but notice that they were rising to power by selling drugs to and killing hundreds of black people. and being that mcnulty's job was to pick up those people bloody off the street and then have to find out who did it, that was where his desire came from. if he was just gunning for avons and marlos then he wouldnt have been investigating the greeks in season 2, and gotten close enough that they had to leave the country

just my perception :jayhub:

In season 2 It was the Black detectives who were more focused on The Greeks. Mcnulty wasnt even initially part of the detail because his boss didnt want him off that boat. Mcnultys obsession in season 2 was finding the family of the white Jane Doe found in the water.

I dont even know why @BrothaZay would dap what u just said....Mcnulty was an add on to the detail in season 2

 

[Konnan]

Im about due for another rewatch of this

I'll fast forward thru the whole political storylines tho cause that shyt is

 

[get these nets]

D'angelo delivered THE biggest blow to the Barksdale organization by diming out Weebay.

HE drove Bay to the hiding spot in Philly and he gave cops the location.

If Bay was free and on the streets, they have the muscle to hold off Marlo

 

[the cac mamba]

In season 2 It was the Black detectives who were more focused on The Greeks. Mcnulty wasnt even initially part of the detail because his boss didnt want him off that boat. Mcnultys obsession in season 2 was finding the family of the white Jane Doe found in the water.

I dont even know why @BrothaZay would dap what u just said....Mcnulty was an add on to the detail in season 2

alright, so fukk season 2 what about the rest

im not saying im right and you're wrong, but thats what pigs do. they go after drug organizations

 

[Regine Hunter]

Him thinking Bey was about to smoke him and crying when the lights came on was the GOAT moment in the show for me

"Yo Bey man......"

when Bey turned the light on, and his face

 

[smokeurobinson]

alright, so fukk season 2 what about the rest

im not saying im right and you're wrong, but thats what pigs do. they go after drug organizations

Again....No one knew who Avon was until Mcnulty put it out there in season 1. Mcnulty created the team from his obsession. The only reason a team was put together was because of Mcnultys obsession which was also politically motivated. Pigs go after drug organizations, yes, but this wasnt really cop work but more so a higher up(the judge) making shyt happen. But the judge had no motive until Mcnulty started opening his mouth.

Season 2...His obsession is nuetralized

season 3...His obsession continues but dies out when Avon and Stringer fall


Season 4....His obsession slowly starts to kick back in this time with his eyes on Marlo

Season 5...This obsessed motherfukker is biting dead bodies just to take down Marlo

 

[YouMadd?]

Actually Stringer Bell fukked Up the entire barksadale organization.... he literally caused the spiral and downfall with his bad decisions, multiple times. Dont Debate me.

 

[YouMadd?]

Y’all acting like Avon was making smart decisions

Avon was making better decisions than Stringer and at least knew his place in the game. If Avon has his crew of killers Marlo wouldn’t have even been a “war”....

 

[Samori Toure]

Naw, Stringer, the original smart dumbass nikka, had more to do with it.

I don't know, but every year or so I rewatch the wire I think that Stringer is more delusional rather than being a smart dumb nikka. Avon had to eventually break the shyt down to Stringer that they were just dope dealers, because Stringer just didn't want to accept that they were just dope dealers. The nikka even invoked the Robert Rules of Order at a fukking Barksdale meeting and you just know that Stringer had to be involved in that stupid ass co-op shyt.



Now Cheese on the other hand was the original smart dumbass nikka. That dumbass never accounted for shyt like loyalty or underlying friendship among the drug dealers, which is why Slim Charles smoked his ass for setting up Prop Joe for Marlo to kill. Cheese never stopped and realized that the other drug dealers deep down actually liked Prop Joe's scheming fat ass.

On another point I liked parallel stories being run in the Wire in the drug dealers families. D had love and loyalty for his uncle Avon and D would never cross Avon and Avon knew it. Meanwhile Cheese had no love or loyalty for his uncle Prop Joe and it was not until Joe was going to be killed that he realized that his nephew had neither loyalty nor love for him. Prop Joe's death was hard for me to watch, because the betrayal by his nephew seem to hurt him more than the bullet.

 

[raidersreceiver]

As soon as I finish lost ima start the wire. I've never seen it

 

[BrothaZay]

Actually Stringer Bell fukked Up the entire barksadale organization.... he literally caused the spiral and downfall with his bad decisions, multiple times. Dont Debate me.

D started the downfall not Stringer

 

[MustafaSTL]

I don't know, but I think these two moafukkas put a lot of pressure on the Barksdale too.

Oh indeed :omarbrutus:

 

[TooLazyToMakeUp1]

If he was anyone else, he would've been killed after that letter


Once he started getting high and shutting out Avon, it was a wrap. Nothing about him suggests that he wouldn't have turned and snitch

 

[Numpsay]

I never understood the idea that Stringer would do all that shyt with Clay Davis without running it by Levy BEFOREHAND.....why not have your lawyer looking out in that type of thing??

Stringer always thought he was the smartest man in the room.