Bodie and Poot taking over? They were fukking morons. They were the definition of street solider. Avon used them as cannon fodder, Poot lived in an abandoned row house , he made no money. They never thought on a higher level. They never planned 2 steps ahead ever. Marlo taking his corner was perfect and real, he saw that were just there and didn't have any real connects or muscle.
Breh every "kingpin" is a knucklehead street soldier to begin with. Being around those kinds of dudes myself, it's always guys who were their peers who could share stories of how clueless reckless and dumb this guy was.
My thinking was that from the point they killed wallace and bodie took command of the towers they were on they way up.
And let's be honest, bodie just taking marlo package is a very unrealistic scenario. I've never seen any small timer get bullied into taking a package. They normally willing to go to war for they corner. But in reality a dude in marlo position wouldn't even try to take bodie little corner. Honestly since marlo eventually begun working with prop Joe , them all working together peacefully is more realistic. But it was clear the writers were content with killing bodie off the show and doing it the other way makes it harder to do that. They wanted him to die a certain way.