Either That Or I Have Some Sort Of Pop Culture Apophenia Thing Going On
Posted on January 23, 2010 by andrew
This is random, but I’ve been occasionally re-watching Season 2 of The Wire while doing reading for school the last few weeks. I finished the reading I was doing a bit earlier, but I left the DVD going, so I’ve actually been paying attention for the last hour or so. Anyway, I’m on the seventh episode, and the detail is tracking a shipment on a truck that left the pier. You might remember this scene: Lester and Beadie are in the office on the computer, Kima watches the truck leave the pier, Prez picks it up for a few blocks, and then Bunk watches it pull into the lot of some sort of warehouse.
So here’s the (potentially) interesting part: The sign outside the lot where Bunk watches the truck pull in says “Pyramid, Inc.” Now, “Pyramid” was also the name of Veidt’s delivery company in Watchmen. Any chance that a television show with an explicit mantra of “All the pieces matter” is intentionally referencing another piece of popular entertainment famous for its near-obsessive attention to detail?
It could be a coincidence, but I wouldn’t be remotely surprised to learn that the writer or director of this particular episode was a big comic book fan.
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