Iunno the whole hype about this show. then again Im the first to say I aint seen it, but I aint seen it cuz I aint interested. I been a dope feen for how long. Been on the streets and in the hood, in the game as a buyer and a seller, and damn, Im tired of this shit. This life gets old quick when you live it, and happy as I am to be outside of the dope game now, i aint tryna re live all that shit when I just want to sit down and watch some TV. And with all these cops and investigations and phone taps and surveillance and shit, damn, that shit makes me fuckin nervous. I cant stand watchin busts on shows like DEA, etc, to this very day. Once you been hit by the jump out boys and suddenly your nightmare turned to reality and hit with these distributing charges, etc, you dont want no reminder of that shit, to re live how it felt when you watch it go down on the screen. The tension, of knowin people is gettin watched, all that TNT taskforce shit with the feds and all that, it just puts this feeling in me whenever i see it in another show or movie, and from the things i hear i know the Wire is full of that type shit, so it aint number one on my list of shit i wanna see.
Just like prison shows was the last fuckin thing I wanted to watch back when I had been told that I was headin for edna mahan womens correctional , before my lawyer caught the illegal wiretap they did on me and i copped out, I really did not want to watch that shit. To somebody outside the life, its interesting, to somebody who is dealing with that shit, its the last shit you wanna see on your tv when you just tryna relax.
Im good on the wire. Iunno, I aint saying that I wouldnt watch if i had to or w/ever, but I just feel like the idea, the content, aint that appealing to me. If I want to see that shit I can just close my eyes and rewind....
Also, I got some beef with shows like this. I posted this in NSADD the other day but i wanted to put it here where more ppl could share their reply to it:
you know wats funny to me
that so many people who is all upper class, suburb type , 'normal' folks..not even drug users, but ppl who would never consider doin a drug, who would call the cops if they found a junkie shooting up in a stall in the bathroom and accidently opened the door, will watch the wire and think its so great
the concept is "great", its so dramatic and "real" and its such a good show but yet the real life of all that is somethin they would want "out of my neighborhood!" if they found out there was some drug dealer from the hood moving in to their suburb....They identify with the characters and think oh so and so is so great, awesome character, all that but yet in real life they scorn the drug dealer without a ged or the corner hustler or the junkie who uses it....I dont get it.
when u bring certain ideas to the public it makes them think they so 'down' and cool with it, but they only like the fantasy version...its so pathetic seeing people who watch it and think its so amazing but they would look down on all the people and situations tht the show portrays, if it was there in their real life....it creates hypocrites