So this season of The Wire is focusing on the media and how politics can either affect change or prevent it. We see how the media is given free license to slant and direct the general public. We also see how our endearing Mayor Carcetti fights for change (he gives additional funding to schools) but also allows politics to prevent it (he won't allow Feds to fund investigation because it will hurt his run for governor). These circumstances create interesting plotlines, but my favorite plotlines still will always revolve around two of my favorite characters:
How the hell did HBO find a way for the world to fall in love with two sociopaths?!?!? I don't know but I'm smitten! Their bond of trust and loyalty seems so unbreakable. And even though they seem unfazed by the amount of people that they kill, their vulnerability was exposed with one killing that broached a very taboo arena.
Last season when Michael's father came back from Prison, it was very clear that he had violated Michael's innocence from a very young age. Michael hated him like any child victim would hate their victimizer. However, when Michael told Chris that he wanted his father killed, Chris seemed to understand his pain all too well. Chris usually carried his killings out in a calm manner, rarely ever showing emotion. However, when Chris went to kill Michael's dad, he killed him violently, in a fit of rage, expressing an emotion that he had never shown....expressing an emotion that was hidden. While Chris is killing Michael's dad, Snoop is looking on with a concerned look, and it's the first time she show's emotion. I don't think she showed emotion because she cared for the victim, I think she was more concerned for Chris.
These two characters love each other and care for each others' well being. But that's what's so interesting about them. Care and Love are not in the lexicon of sociopaths.
It'll be very interesting to see where love, loyalty, and trust go (or come) when Omar comes back in town.
To be continued
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Correction: It's not Michael's father, it's Bug's (Michael's younger brother).
Anyway, I think the difference here may be that Chris and Snoop are not actual sociopaths, but a product of their own environment in which they developed many psychopathic tendencies. Lack of remorse, violent nature, grandiosity, etc. They see these things as a way of life- kill or be killed- it's all part of the game for them and not so much a mental disorder. They have the capacity to be compassionate, but in that lifestyle, where would it get them?
In any case, they are funny as shit, and who doesn't love a comedian?
episode 54 here we come!
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