The Warriors The Rewatchables February 5, 2019

Picking Nits

The Orphans fold after one Molotov cocktail; no police after the Union Station death; the Lizzies' shooter misses everyone; the Turnbull ACs drive past instead of running them over; where Luther's bullet went; Luther's reaction to a knife in the hand; nobody could hear Cyrus; the Orphans' dirty faces; cops arrive too fast for the whistle; Ajax's hormones; nobody has a car; where are the other Warriors; the Warriors are not the best

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The Molotov cocktail routs the Orphans, showing why they are a bottom-tier gang not invited to the party; the lack of police or ambulances after a Warrior dies at Union Station (as transcribed) is repeated.
The Lizzies have the Warriors in a confined room, fire about nineteen shots and miss everybody; the gangs are terrible with missed opportunities, and the Turnbull ACs should have run them over instead of driving past.
When Swan's knife hits Luther as he fires, there are three people behind him and nobody is hit, raising where the bullet went, like a magic JFK bullet; Luther reacts to a knife in the hand as if dying, and the Rogues freeze rather than use their numbers, perhaps because nobody liked him; he is a bad leader picked for his chin.
Nobody could hear Cyrus outdoors to 900 gang members without a baso profundo or Sonos beams; the Orphans' dirty faces and jersey-style shirts raise whether they are actual orphans.
The cops arrive in a minute and a half after the undercover cop handcuffs Ajax and blows her whistle; Ajax misplayed a race home by letting his hormones take over.
A Texan perspective: nobody in the gang has one friend with a car or makes one phone call; the nine delegates per gang suggests Terry Rozier and Jalen Brown (as transcribed) style tension over minutes, and the tenth guy might have had a car.
Where are the other Warriors, since Cyrus's math implies a hundred members per gang; nobody is waiting at Coney and nobody calls for backup, and other gangs never go to Coney Island to finish them, compared to what Michael Corleone did between 1946 and 1951.
The Warriors are not the best when several of them die, though they did fight 28 miles from the Bronx to Coney Island; the Riffs are clearly the best, and the Furies with nine guys made a complete strategy error.
Earlier, the subway stops seem mostly correct but the jump from 96th and Broadway to Central Park and the unknown timing of the summit and the arrival at Coney Island are flagged for picking nits.
During the scene discussion, how the Furies lose a nine-against-three fight with bats is raised and parked for picking nits.
Another nitpick during the gang rundown: the Rogues pass the gun down the line instead of having it ready, which is read as dramatic effect or as Luther deciding on a whim while Cyrus spoke.