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Things that were spoiled for you

posted 8 years ago by Joeyjag_97
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I was so careful not to accidentally look at spoilers and completely avoided this board and anything to do with this show until after I watched the finale, which was extremely difficult because I was so desperate to talk about it. Bit anyway, just wanted to know of any of you knew some spoilers going in or were spoiled whilst watching the show.

For me it was

- Stringers death at the end of Season 3, I don't even remember how, I think I was looking up someone's name from the show and then "who killed Stringer Bell" came up on Google like wtf? I was so pissed.

- Carcetti becoming Mayor, wasn't really confirmed a spoiler but after seeing him on the cover for S5 I kind of expected him to win the election

- Valchek becoming Commissioner, which wasn't a big deal really but it made the whole sub plot of Season 5 pretty pointless for me.

Anyway I don't think that's too bad considering how popular The Wire is, im just glad I wasn't spoiled for Omar's death, even though you could sort of see it coming. But the way he died was completely unpredictable.

“If one devalues rationality, the world tends to fall apart.” - von Trier

[–] hammerbutt 8 years ago

The footage showing Omar's death was actually leaked before that season began

[–] Joeyjag_97 8 years ago

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“If one devalues rationality, the world tends to fall apart.” - von Trier

[–] savagebiscuits 8 years ago

I accidentally found out about Omar dying in season five, but not about how it happened. I'm not that bothered about spoilers, though, so wasn't too fussed. I was more fussed that I had to keep quiet about it in front of my wife, whose favourite character was Omar.

[–] jonnyk82 8 years ago

A few years before I watched the series, I somehow found out that Omar dies.

[–] mussobrennon 8 years ago

Like so much stuff, cuz I can't stay away from reading message boards, and things like "ten best wire episodes" before I even started the series, so stringer and Omar's deaths were spoiled, so was Wallace's. In fact, I'm not sure if there was a shocking death for me that wasn't a minor character.

[–] Joeyjag_97 8 years ago

What about Bodie? His death was arguably the most shocking for me.

“If one devalues rationality, the world tends to fall apart.” - von Trier

[–] mussobrennon 8 years ago

Yeah, him too. I knew the episode when Bodie and Stringer would die, but didn't know how, Omar I knew how he died but didn't know exactly which episode, just sometime in season 5,it was so agonizing waiting for that to happen, and with Wallace I just knew he was going to die at some point in season 1.

[–] Rocky15 (508) 5 years ago

I binge watched the entire series over a couple of weeks in 2008, I got through with no spoilers until a guy I was talking to at college about it assumed I had finished the show and told me he’d just seen the episode where Omar died (which I hadn’t seen yet)

I had to bite my tongue from ripping his head off haha