Season 3 was more about small issues turning into a big thing because of problems not being handled when they arises for instance Marlo, Hamsterdam, exactly for the reason for the scene with bunny colvin n stringer, they did what they thought was best for business but fukked up when things got serious, Marlo's rise had shyt to do with Avon, and everything to do with Stringer not touching Marlo when he was touchableThe entirety of season 3 debunks this idea. That season revolved around someone undestimsating the young cat, and playing old school games that worked 'back in the day' and being surprised that Marlo was ahead of that shyt.
I would say Avon didn't truly get hip to who he was dealing with in Marlo until Marlo showed up to his fukking trial to watch him get sentenced like
And sure, Avon reworked his connections and established a strategy to retake some power, but that wasn't a day-1 thing. He took L after L after L, many of them because of his arrogance and not taking Marlo seriously, before he dusted himself off and restablished what the King was supposed to be.
After rewatching The Wire, I think it's safe to say Stringer>Avon.
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AnonymityX1000
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If you do get attention from cops which is inevitable because your business is illegal it is way easier for you to get knocked. Plus you have to worry about the politics of the commission itself getting you killed.
Talking about the Greeks, Avon had to do what Marlo did and got to the Greek for the connect before he gave stringer up n he got popped, had he not been jailed he would've went at prop Joe head nextwho was prop joe connect? the greeks right? they might have been the smartest. them old cacs never got caught.
Well...to go far...to WIN in the drug game even, you do the old "LIVE BY THE SWORD DIE BY THE SWORD" shyt. You keep killing all that gets you nervous because that's the only way to really be safe once you go 100% gangsta. That's how one legendary Colombian Drug Overlord won for a long time. Organizing it like a business works if you have the people behind you to enforce it...simple. If you can't do a take over or afford a war, stay in your lane.
It's harder to get knocked since you won't give cops much reason to look into your stuff. Remember, top dudes like Burrell didn't even want to investigate a man that had hundreds of murders to his name just because it would be inconvenient. I can't see them caring too much if bodies stopped dropping.
Yeah but next time a psycho like Marlo comes around Slim Charles and co will know what to do. I really can't see the old heads being so stupid to mess up a good thing.
For instance cheese as soon as his intentions were revealed and he got out of pocket Slim murked him
The thing about that Stringer/Marlo meeting up there..if a guy like Luciano came across a guy like that, who wasn't ready to get in line by the end of that meeting right there? He got to go. He's not gonna work down the line for the future of keeping everything where you want it to go. Bell took too much time to get rid of KEY ENEMIES. He got played like a sucker by Clay but he should of used every resource to get rid of this Marlo nygga when he didn't want to comply.
AnonymityX1000
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Your entire enterprise is illegal, they will always be looking into your stuff. There is no way to avoid that/commission or not and the bodies never completely stop.
You will not know Marlo is a psycho until he kills someone, you already being in a posture of reducing violence guys like him will always get the drop on you.
Ol’Otis
The Picasso of the Ghetto
price of the brick going up"this how you do business
muthafukka didnt even flinch
the co-cop was like
Why do you think they dumbed him down?
Did we watch the same show? They didn't even want to investigate Avon even though they knew he was notorious murderer. Much less when you're not dropping as many bodies.
These men are drug king pins. They've learned their lesson, especially with someone like Slim Charles being at the head. He was the one who saw Cheese for what he was.
Ol’Otis
The Picasso of the Ghetto
everybody saw cheese for what he was