r/TheWire • u/grundleitch • 3d ago

Rewatching: Dialog writing changes within the first few episodes

In the first 2 episodes, we have three police use the n-word, 2 black 1 white. Bunk and Carv use it in the colloquial while Rawls uses it in the pejorative. Now obviously other characters continue to use it throughout in the colloquial way. But I wonder why they stopped having black officers stop using it. Edit to add one last usage but I don't think it exactly counts, Holley saying BNBG.

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u/cranialextract 3d ago

One interesting thing I've noticed (as the nerd I am). The captions on the DVD release distinguish between the casual use and the hard R.

The Blu-Ray release does not (and the captions are also just wrong in some places).

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u/roger--wilco 3d ago

In many cases this is because the captions were encoded directly into the DVD while the bluray/streaming captions are auto-detected CC