What Was Your Reaction When Stringer Bell Got His Noodle Oodled?

[young3000]

He had it coming...tried to turn from a gangsta to gentlemen. Crossed too many lines from killing wallace and D, fukking D's girl, doing crooked deals with Clay...he was lucky he didn't die sooner

 

[Sugar]

I agree.

I got into the series VERY late (literally just started and finished the series up about a month ago), so just from glancing at tidbits of info about the show on the boards over the years I had already knew that Stringer was going to die and even knew it was towards the end of S3, so I wasn't shocked or anything about that in itself. Though how he went out and that it was Avon that pretty much gave him out like that (albeit Avon was almost forced to as well due to Stringer's plotting of Omar and Brother Ozone) was surprising to me.

While I respected Bell's ultimate ambition, the means that he was going thru to get there was quite shiesty and disrespectful indeed. It's to the point that I'm kinda surprised some folks like him like that. He was quite conniving and pretty much was evil. Pretty much no code of honor it seemed. I thought it was hilarious that after all the work he was putting in to go legit, he was about to just blow it all on trying to assassinate Clay Davis for screwing him over like he did. Even his flunkies new that couldn't be done on that level by them, lol.

Right

It's funny cuz that was the inner gangsta in him, something he was tryna get away from, and that's what Clay and the contractors saw him as -- just some nikka from the hood. That's what really angered Stringer -- his position in the world

 

[smoove157]

I can see everyone being mad about String snitching on Avon, but no-sign being mad about Wallace and D'Angelo. Both of them nikkas was gonna snitch, so they had to go, nothing else to say about it.

Also, about the package from Prop Joe, did you see what was happening to them?? Dude from NY was not gonna fukk with them anymore. They were down to scraps on what they had left, and even that shyt was trash. What good are the towers if you can't put anything in them?? AND, when they made the deal with Prop Joe, they made more money.

Avon was off the streets for 2 years, and in that time, the game had changed. He didn't have his finger on the pulse anymore, and Stringer did. He was the one who should have been making all the decisions. Not having to go through Avon for approval while Avon was behind bars.

 

[Khalil's_Black_Excellence]

I can see everyone being mad about String snitching on Avon, but no-sign being mad about Wallace and D'Angelo. Both of them nikkas was gonna snitch, so they had to go, nothing else to say about it.

Also, about the package from Prop Joe, did you see what was happening to them?? Dude from NY was not gonna fukk with them anymore. They were down to scraps on what they had left, and even that shyt was trash. What good are the towers if you can't put anything in them?? AND, when they made the deal with Prop Joe, they made more money.

Avon was off the streets for 2 years, and in that time, the game had changed. He didn't have his finger on the pulse anymore, and Stringer did. He was the one who should have been making all the decisions. Not having to go through Avon for approval while Avon was behind bars.

Wallace getting got for possibly snitching, while still really sad, I could see. D'Angelo didn't really make it known to the Barksdale crew that he was going to snitch, just that he wasn't about them muh-fukkas no more, and to a degree, I don't see him being faulted for that considering he took the 20 years for them. Even in his moment of weakness, he still ultimately choose not to snitch just deal with his time. Stringer moved on him only out of conjecture, at best. And that move seemed all the more dirtier with him moving in on his baby momma too just moments after D's body went cold. Stringer never had a fukk to give from day 1.

 

[Brofato]

I thought it was hilarious that after all the work he was putting in to go legit, he was about to just blow it all on trying to assassinate Clay Davis for screwing him over like he did. Even his flunkies new that couldn't be done on that level by them, lol.

"They saw your ghetto ass comin' from a mile away"

I felt for him on that one, man.

Speaking of the flunkies, Slim Charles became one of my favorite characters on the show after watching it through a second time. Also I always like to mention to anyone who has seen the show and doesn't live in the DC or Maryland area who Slim Charles is around these parts. It was funny as hell seeing him in the show.

 

[Khalil's_Black_Excellence]

"They saw your ghetto ass comin' from a mile away"

I felt for him on that one, man.

Speaking of the flunkies, Slim Charles became one of my favorite characters on the show after watching it through a second time. Also I always like to mention to anyone who has seen the show and doesn't live in the DC or Maryland area who Slim Charles is around these parts. It was funny as hell seeing him in the show.

I was born and raised in D.C./MD and I don't recognize who he is, though he does look a bit familiar. I can't view the vid at work.

Also, funny thing about the show that I don't recall being apart of Maryland vernacular, a lot of folks on there continuously called people "shyt-birds", lol. Maybe it's a b-more thing (I didn't frequent there, for sure, PG County was where I was from).

 

[Brofato]

I was born and raised in D.C./MD and I don't recognize who he is, though he does look a bit familiar. I can't view the vid at work.

Also, funny thing about the show that I don't recall being apart of Maryland vernacular, a lot of folks on there continuously called people "shyt-birds", lol. Maybe it's a b-more thing (I didn't frequent there, for sure, PG County was where I was from).

Haha same here. Baltimore was a whole other world when I was coming up.

 

[Clem]

My reaction was dude thought he was above it all while still being a part of it and it's what got him killed.

 

[61 Corpses]

Speaking of the flunkies, Slim Charles became one of my favorite characters on the show after watching it through a second time.

Slim was nowhere near being a flunkie. That nikka basically replaced Stringer as #2 in the third season...and ended up being the when it was all said and done

 

[iamstr8fire]

Anyone else think the brother mouzone character was way too unbelievable and kind of corny?

I read somewhere that he was based in reality. Even still he seemed like a caricature next to everyone else on the show.

 

[Brofato]

Slim was nowhere near being a flunkie. That nikka basically replaced Stringer as #2 in the third season...and ended up being the when it was all said and done

I was using his word as he was referring to Slim. And that's exactly why he became one of my favorite characters

 

[Khalil's_Black_Excellence]

I was using his word as he was referring to Slim. And that's exactly why he became one of my favorite characters

Oh...it was Slim that said that to him? I thought it was that other guy that would break into their lil hood conference meetings and relay news to Stringer. Yeah, Slim Charles was a pretty good character. Kinda wish they would've given him a bit more backstory/developement too.

Oh, and he was in the Backyard Band eh. OH ok. I always hated go-go music, so I wasn't too familiar with him. I do remember reading that on IMDB and telling my wife about it one night, but I must've forgot.

 

[Urbanmiracle]

I agree.

I got into the series VERY late (literally just started and finished the series up about a month ago), so just from glancing at tidbits of info about the show on the boards over the years I had already knew that Stringer was going to die and even knew it was towards the end of S3, so I wasn't shocked or anything about that in itself. Though how he went out and that it was Avon that pretty much gave him out like that (albeit Avon was almost forced to as well due to Stringer's plotting of Omar and Brother Ozone) was surprising to me.

While I respected Bell's ultimate ambition, the means that he was going thru to get there was quite shiesty and disrespectful indeed. It's to the point that I'm kinda surprised some folks like him like that. He was quite conniving and pretty much was evil. Pretty much no code of honor it seemed. I thought it was hilarious that after all the work he was putting in to go legit, he was about to just blow it all on trying to assassinate Clay Davis for screwing him over like he did. Even his flunkies new that couldn't be done on that level by them, lol.

Stringer wasn't the only one who didn't reform accordingly. You're right, season 3 is about change and reform. For BOTH of them. Stringer foresaw that the dope they had wasn't going to cut it and they would be food status to any of the rival crews who wanted what they had. He had no muscle (bird and weebay locked up), surrounded by idiots and knuckleheads. His problem was that he wasn't ready to reform from the street to the business world. All those college classes and he was still a hood from the street.

Avon problem was the game was changing. Stringer said it best:

Territory dont mean shyt if your product is weak!

The game wasn't about the towers. The game was about product. Having the best dope best coke on the streets to keep that money flowing. Stringer said they made twice as much money with less worry about territory, protecting said territory, letting the guns go blam for said territory, thus bringing the police to investigate the murders for said territory. Avon came out of jail thinking that having the best corners meant something. Meanwhile most of Baltimore are going east because prop joe got the better dope. You can have those corners, because the fiends will travel far for my shyt. And stringer knew that. Avon was more of a warrior. More about the gun play. Stringer was the money man. They both were too stubborn to stick adapt the changes around them. Those towers coming down in the season premiere meant everything was changing. The game is still the game but what's at stake is what changes. In their young days it was about those towers. Now it was about having good product.

 

[Khalil's_Black_Excellence]

Stringer wasn't the only one who didn't reform accordingly. You're right, season 3 is about change and reform. For BOTH of them. Stringer foresaw that the dope they had wasn't going to cut it and they would be food status to any of the rival crews who wanted what they had. He had no muscle (bird and weebay locked up), surrounded by idiots and knuckleheads. His problem was that he wasn't ready to reform from the street to the business world. All those college classes and he was still a hood from the street.

Avon problem was the game was changing. Stringer said it best:

Territory dont mean shyt if your product is weak!

The game wasn't about the towers. The game was about product. Having the best dope best coke on the streets to keep that money flowing. Stringer said they made twice as much money with less worry about territory, protecting said territory, letting the guns go blam for said territory, thus bringing the police to investigate the murders for said territory. Avon came out of jail thinking that having the best corners meant something. Meanwhile most of Baltimore are going east because prop joe got the better dope. You can have those corners, because the fiends will travel far for my shyt. And stringer knew that. Avon was more of a warrior. More about the gun play. Stringer was the money man. They both were too stubborn to stick adapt the changes around them. Those towers coming down in the season premiere meant everything was changing. The game is still the game but what's at stake is what changes. In their young days it was about those towers. Now it was about having good product.

The funny thing about Avon wanting to stick to being a gangsta was that during all those years of him being pretty much untouchable, unfukkwittable status had even softened him up a bit. The scene that shows this was when Omar almost got him in the streets. You could see he had legit fear in his eyes at that point (unlike both times when Marlo was under the gun and showed no fear whatsoever, despite not even having a burner on him at either occasion). You could probably even say that him not killing Stringer himself personally when he found out the truth about D as another sign of him weakening a bit as well.

Man, the depth of character development and themes of this show within having as many characters and themes on the show is pretty much unprecedented on tv. I'm almost mad at myself for sleeping on the show so hard during its run and just writing it off as another drug drama. Though I do appreciate being able to consume it all at 1nce rather than having to wait it out season after season, lol. Definitely a goat tv series and the goat crime drama, for sure.

 

[beanz]

i was glad. i respected stringer's vision but him snitching on avon and not supporting him in his war was wack. you dont get to pick and choose when to be loyal.