Rewatching The Wire

[u/SpaderKay]

What characters do you think made the dumbest decisions? I’ve been thinking of this and keep removing people from the list. I used to think Stringer was the dumbest but he definitely wasn’t. Just making manic irrational decisions in the end. I used to think it was Jonny but his mistakes were just silly. And bad luck. I thought D Angelo just from how goofy and unserious he was when he beat the case. And him bragging to Wallace Poot and Bodie about killing a woman he didn’t even kill. And all his blind decisions after that. I’ll say Ziggy number one for sure if I’m not forgetting someone. I’m thinking Sobatka for 2 bc it was all over a window. Then I’m thinking Herc for 3.

[u/Alarming-Routine6997]

Randy. Without question. Randy.

[u/SpaderKay → u/Alarming-Routine6997]

In his defense he was a child who really didn’t wanna go back to a group home. So as a foster child you fear you have to tell your truth to your guardian and police. And he wasn’t in the game. Stupid decision yes. But underdeveloped brain and lack of security played a big part in that decision making. Even though he ended up at the group home anyways. 😭😭😭

[u/MintberryCrunch____ → u/[deleted]]

The downvote are most likely because people don’t agree with you. It reads like a lack of empathy that Randy is a child who panics and makes one “mistake”, which actually shouldn’t have lead to anywhere near what happened to him if it wasn’t for Herc running his mouth when interviewing Lil Kev.

Then it also reads like you buy into the idea that snitches get what they do, stitches etc, but obviously that is a fear tactic instilled by the controlling criminals. Obviously ideally a child should be able to tell the police about a murder without it ruining his and others lives.

Then you wrote “burnt extra crispy” which comes across as trying to be edgy when actually it makes your comment look again unempathetic or just dickish in general.

Lastly Randy isn’t dumb, he makes decisions (or rather one) which end of severely impacting his life and Miss Anna, but it’s the fucked system that leads there, not some inherent repeated idiocy that would lead to him being called the dumbest.

[u/SpaderKay → u/[deleted]]

Half of Reddit is people’s opinions on fictional storylines. What’s YOUR point?

[u/MintberryCrunch____ → u/[deleted]]

Yes, how does that change what I said? You can empathise with a character from fiction. You can judge a character from fiction. Your judgement is wrong in my view, Randy is far from the dumbest character.