Omar's death ..

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Mar08 -Mr.Candy: Though I hugely enjoyed the character of Omar, I had to admit that he was by far the least likely character to ever really exist. From robbing from the rich and giving to the poor all the way to performing "Spider-Man shit"-Omar was becoming a bit like some sort of caped superhero. And I must admit I was particularly disappointed when Stringer was killed by not just Omar, the odd entity, but Mouzone, the other fairly fucking unlikely character. I'm not saying that there aren't stick up men beyond repute or Fruit of Islam hit men who aren't quirky- I'm just saying that combined it was the equivalent of you or me getting murdered by James Bond and Dick Tracy.
 ..Prior to episode 8 of season 5 I honest to God thought that Chris and Omar were going to have some sort of ultimate battle and, I dunno, kill eachother. But that would've been just right- exactly as Batman or some such would've done it. No, for all his immortality Omar had to die in an anti-climatic way. His death confirmed his place in reality. Maybe if this had happened earlier we would've been ok with it but because it happened at the last hurrah it seemed to some as vindictive.
Also, who else thinks Omar's death was pretty much identical to that Gregory Peck movie "The Gunfighter"? Peck is the best gunfighter in the west but lives in constant fear because people always want to challenge him and take his glorious title. Finally, he is shot in the back, without even getting the chance to draw his gun.

May08 -Ankai: My father recently finished watching the show. When I was visiting a few weeks ago, I asked him how he felt about Omar's death. He was a little confused about the question. When I told him about the media and internet hubbub about him dying at the hands of a kid, he told me that he did not get it. As he saw it, Omar was one guy going around with a gun and nobody just went up and shot him. I suppose that, to him, a twelve-year-old shooting a man in a liquor store is not quite as shocking as one man walking down a dangerous street and absolutely everyone running away from him.