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...even if they were gonna kill off Omar in the unglamorous way that they did (which I hated, but completely get), he didn't at least take out someone higher up and more important in the Stanfield crew than Savino? I mean, I liked his death scene and all, but guy is a nobody that we haven't seen since season one and they didn't even properly reintroduce him. If Omar wasn't gonna get to Marlo, then at least let him kill Chris, Snoop, Monk, or even Cheese.
Anyway, my personal choice if I had any say in it would have probably been Chris. He was Marlo's #2 and killed more people on-screen than any other character in the show. Omar dropping him would have been bad ass. And his death would have had an interesting consequence that I feel would have fit in the show, too. My explanation of it ended up a bit long winded, so I put it in spoiler tags instead, but hopefully everyone will read it and give me feedback on it:
Btw, I'm probably gonna be posting quite a few Wire threads here since there seems to be a lot of fans here and there's nowhere else to discuss the show with anyone anymore. The only other place is Reddit, but I'm still a noob over there and haven't figured out how to make a thread yet lol.
Anyway, my personal choice if I had any say in it would have probably been Chris. He was Marlo's #2 and killed more people on-screen than any other character in the show. Omar dropping him would have been bad ass. And his death would have had an interesting consequence that I feel would have fit in the show, too. My explanation of it ended up a bit long winded, so I put it in spoiler tags instead, but hopefully everyone will read it and give me feedback on it:
OK, first a trip down memory lane: Bunk gets an arrest warrant on Chris for the murder of Michael's step dad (this scene actually happens right after Omar's death, so you'd have to screw with the timeline and switch it around to make this work), and they later use this charge to get Chris to confess to the murder of all 22 bodies in the vacant row houses with the guarantee of no death penalty if he does. Before he can serve it however, Bunk lets McNulty talk him into holding back on it until after he and Freamon get their secret illegal wiretap case going.
OK, with all that established and kept the same, this is now where my idea comes in: Omar kills Partlow and thus he inadvertently stops the police from solving a huge case that would have put 22 unsolved murders in the win column. The reason that interests (and amuses) me is because Omar always ends up burning the police every season that he kills someone. First with Stinkum in season one (he was caught smuggling drugs on camera, but was murdered before they could use the charge to get him to roll on anyone), then with Stringer Bell in season three (they finally caught Stringer on the wire after chasing him for two years, but he ends up dead before they can have the glory of arresting him... You might recall how depressed McNulty was in particular), and now Chris, whose death here would have prevented the closing of probably the single biggest mass murder case in Baltimore history. Omar's vendetta against a drug crew getting in the way of the police's own investigation would be like a running in-joke by this point.
Furthermore, it would have angered poor Bunk - Bunk would have been pissed at himself for letting Jimmy talk him into not serving the warrant right away, and it also means Bunk would have been even more annoyed at Omar (let's say he still ends up dying the same way later) than he already was after learning he was "back on the hunt" - Because when he finds the hit list on his body and sees Chris' name marked off, he would have immediately put it together that Omar of all people was the one behind the murder.
OK, with all that established and kept the same, this is now where my idea comes in: Omar kills Partlow and thus he inadvertently stops the police from solving a huge case that would have put 22 unsolved murders in the win column. The reason that interests (and amuses) me is because Omar always ends up burning the police every season that he kills someone. First with Stinkum in season one (he was caught smuggling drugs on camera, but was murdered before they could use the charge to get him to roll on anyone), then with Stringer Bell in season three (they finally caught Stringer on the wire after chasing him for two years, but he ends up dead before they can have the glory of arresting him... You might recall how depressed McNulty was in particular), and now Chris, whose death here would have prevented the closing of probably the single biggest mass murder case in Baltimore history. Omar's vendetta against a drug crew getting in the way of the police's own investigation would be like a running in-joke by this point.
Furthermore, it would have angered poor Bunk - Bunk would have been pissed at himself for letting Jimmy talk him into not serving the warrant right away, and it also means Bunk would have been even more annoyed at Omar (let's say he still ends up dying the same way later) than he already was after learning he was "back on the hunt" - Because when he finds the hit list on his body and sees Chris' name marked off, he would have immediately put it together that Omar of all people was the one behind the murder.
Btw, I'm probably gonna be posting quite a few Wire threads here since there seems to be a lot of fans here and there's nowhere else to discuss the show with anyone anymore. The only other place is Reddit, but I'm still a noob over there and haven't figured out how to make a thread yet lol.
