GUYS. GUYS.
THIS IS THE MOMENT I’VE BEEN WAITING FOR
I CANNOT
I just need SO MUCH MORE Chalky in season three of Boardwalk Empire.
There are many characters whom I hope will get the spotlight more in the new season, but Chalky nearly tops the list for me.
Yay, I’m glad that you’re liking it a lot so far! It really is painfully realistic, which I too love. :) The thing about The Wire is that it’s just so huge. There are soooo many characters, storylines, locations, themes, etc., but instead of it being just a big mess (like it could easily be), it’s just pulled off so flawlessly and artfully. The writing is so fantastic!
Season two is one of my favorites! I’ve noticed from reading and talking to other people that it’s often near the top of people’s lists or near the bottom. It might be my second favorite. I’m just really partial to it! Season four is my favorite for sure, though.
I know exactly what you mean! After I finished The Wire, I just was dying for more Chalky, so I hope that he’ll get a lot more screentime in season three! :D
Hey! :) Well thank you! I miss writing new posts, and I really miss having more Richard in my life! It’s just hard without new inspiration/episodes since I’m not nearly imaginative enough to write stuff out of the blue, and I simply fail when it comes to anything creative like fic!
The last few Richard-related thoughts I’ve had in the past couple of weeks include stuff like this:
I was thinking about his conversation with Angela in the fourth episode of season two before she sketches him, and how he was talking about how he used to draw as a child, and I was suddenly really curious about what it was that he would draw, and I wonder why he stopped. I wonder if he stopped because of the war or if he stopped long before that. I just would love to see what kinds of ideas he’d had as a child. Now we’ve seen his scrapbooks, which are creative in a sense, but I’m sure that his creative endeavors were rather different before the war.
I still have hopes that Richard and Meyer will become friends, whether those hopes will be fruitless or not, haha. I’ve been thinking about Richard’s involvement in season three a lot lately, and I really, really hope that they’ll give him something to do. I have this huge fear that they’ll make him bumble around and that his storyline will be stale and meandering without a lot of development, and then he’ll just die. I guess that is the pessimist in me! I really hope that they won’t do this, though. It’s time for Richard to do something again. I can understand being depressed and lost after having lost your only friends, and it wouldn’t be unrealistic to have him bumble around only to die, honestly, but it also does not make for good storytelling. I really hope that he’ll use Jimmy and Angela’s deaths as a catalyst to go out and do something. It’d be nice if he chose a different path. There really isn’t much keeping him in Atlantic City, and it’d be neat if he maybe went back to Chicago or even tried a new city (New York, Philly…). There are so many directions he can go into, and I just hope that his potential won’t be wasted because he is just SUCH a unique character, and obviously I love him so much.
On that note, a fic with Richard and Meyer being friends or something would be really cool if you’re up for something like that. It’s really nice of you to want to write me something, so thanks a lot! You’re a great writer, so I’m sure that whatever you write will be lovely. :)
Hmmm, this is a hard one! Neither character actually makes my ‘top 10 favorites’ lists for either show, but I also don’t dislike either character.
Jimmy Darmody is a pretty interesting character, and at times I really felt for him…especially after learning more about his past. I liked him in season one, and I especially liked his friendship with Richard Harrow, but for some reason I just never intensely clicked with him on an individual level. I liked watching him in group settings, and, as I said, I loved him with Richard, but he just wasn’t a personal favorite of mine, and I’m not really sure why. I think that he definitely lost some steam in the middle of season two and started meandering too much, and whether that was intentionally done by the writers or just weak writing, it just made me lose some interest in Jimmy. Overall, though, he’s an interesting character, and definitely a unique one on the show. I don’t paint him as an innocent baby martyr as some people like to (despite the fact that, yes, he DID go through some serious shit, and I feel for him for that), and I acknowledge the bad things he’s done, and he’s just another example of why I love Boardwalk Empire for its lack of black-and-white characters. He’s neither all ‘good’ nor all ‘bad,’ and I love seeing those gray areas.
Jimmy McNulty is sort of your typical blow-hard, drunken cop in some ways, but he’s good at his job, and I think that he really cares about his work, about justice, and about the people he gets to know on the streets (Bodie, Omar, etc.), and I especially like that last one about him. He’s an asshole sometimes (which people never fail to call him out on!), and he definitely has taken some shortcuts or made his own paths (like…all of season five), but it’s usually been for the greater good. He’s not my favorite of the cops, but he had some fantastic moments. I loved his lunches with Bodie, his various drunken antics, the way he took riding on the boat with stride, his interactions with Omar, and so on. In this case, he’s a character that I do like…but there are a lot of other characters I happen to like more, so that’s why he doesn’t make the ‘top 10’ for me.
Anyway, I’ve rambled a lot (as I tend to do), and I still haven’t really answered the question!
I guess, on a purely individual level, I’d have to go with Jimmy McNulty. That’s not a slam against Darmody or Boardwalk Empire, because god knows I love that damn show to pieces, but I think I like McNulty on an individual level more than I like Darmody on an individual level. They’re both very good characters, though, and I’ve enjoyed watching them both. Thanks for the question! :)
If either of these two walked up to me and asked me to be his valentine, I’d accept. ;)
I’m so glad that you do too!
I just think that they’d potentially make a good pair since, like I briefly said on the confessions page, they have always struck me as somewhat similar in a few ways. So far on the show (I definitely don’t know the real Meyer Lansky’s history enough to be talking about him), they’ve both been kind of…in the background. They’re significant characters as well as integral parts to what they do, but they’re a little quieter. They seem to prefer to watch/listen, but when they do open their mouths, people listen. Although they might do these things for different reasons, their approaches are so similar.
I like to think of Meyer/Lucky and Richard/Jimmy as somewhat similar dynamics as well. Meyer is a lot more reserved than Lucky. Lucky has the ‘big’ personality, but without Meyer being there to ground him from time to time, who knows what would happen? I see something similar with Richard and Jimmy. Richard is a lot more reserved than Jimmy, and Richard often brings Jimmy back down to earth…or at least tries to. Maybe I’ve looked into it too much or incorrectly, but this is just kind of what I see. :)
Plus…they’d just be so cute as friends! I like to picture tall, lanky Richard walking in to Babette’s or something with tiny little Meyer. I also like to picture ridiculous things like them having a little book club together where they’d meet once a week to discuss whatever book they’d chosen to read. I should probably stop now! :P
