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Originally Posted by Anthony Wolfe
[font=Verdana,verdana,arial][size=2]Point is, I grew attached to Frank, Nick, Ziggy, Beadie, The Greek (or the myth of the Greek). Even if the plot line seems a bit far fetched at times, the show still remains stellar. The constant theme of 'cops wanting to do good dispite pressure from street corners to politics'. It's great...HBO does it again...
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I just watched S2. Whilst for me it would be going too far to say I got attached to Frank or Nick, it was certainly interesting in that with Frank, you could understand that everything he did, was solely for the benefit of his union, to improve the lot of his members. He never benefited personally from his dealings with The Greek, as was confirmed by the police investigations into his personal finances. So whilst notionally 'the bad guy', I felt a lot of sympathy for him.
In contrast, the cop that started the entire investigation, Major Velchek, was a petty little man stroking his own ego, to the extent that he belittled his own son-in-law, who was turning into a fine investigator, before his professional colleagues.
With Nick, less so, since it was all for personal profit, but again at least you could see he was at the end a stand-up guy, trying to save Horseface as well.
The Greek and the rest of his people, I suppose they were the cardboard villains.
I have to say, Stringer conducting a de facto management/business seminar with his boys had to be one of the funniest things I've ever seen -- sorry, just realised that's in S3 Ep 1, which I watched half of last night. But even in S2, when Stringer was applying all his economics and business classes to his 'product', was really funny. All that stuff about when the product is inferior, change the name, and then his boys coming up with the idea of two different names for the same thing, just to give the appearance of competition.
At the end of S2, I was hoping that Beadie would join with the 'real' po-lice, rather than the port cops, since she had been showing so much interest in the investigative techniques of the actual cops. But she went back to her port beat. Oh well. And what's more heart-breaking was the end montage, when Nick was glumly clutching the fence looking in at the port, showing that despite the unit's work, it was business as usual again, Proposition Joe getting supplied via a new connection, new girls being shipped in, and drugs still being dealt.
