Avon Barksdale

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[Posted May 15, 2008 @ 2:34 AM]
-SimplyS: Yeah. Poor Avon. I know there's only two ways guys like him end up in the real world dead or in prison, and he and Stringer got both ends of that, respectively. Still, it's weirdly sad to look back on all they had with their organization and see, in the end, it changed nothing. As big as the Barksdales were, their world moved on as much as anyone else.
To me, Avon has been one of those characters who has improved greatly on re-watch (Frank Sobotka is another). I missed the little kindnesses the first time around. The way he sat with his uncle (father? brother?) in the hospital, who'd been turned into a vegetable by the Game. The money he gave to Cutty's gym without any hesitation, without asking anything in return or putting any strings on it. He was a kinder man than Stringer, at his core. I love the nuances of the Barksdale partnership, and I'm only just realizing how critical Avon's role in it was.
I miss him. I miss them all.