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Raxivace posted:I think the difference is that Walt was kind of always a shithead, but entering the criminal world only amplified the many negative qualities that were already there. Eh, rewatching season 2 last week I felt a lot less sympathy for Jimmy. It wasn't exactly intentional that he torched Kim's career, but he sure did pour gasoline everywhere he could. We also know that Jimmy gets to be exactly who he wants for 5 or so years after this show ends, while presumably the lives of Chuck, Kim, and Howard are in shambles. Gene seems more like repayment for the borrowed time he lived on as Saul, idk how I would feel about redemption after that. UZR IS BULLSHIT fucked around with this message at 19:39 on Apr 10, 2017 |
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In my headcanon Gene's last name is Parmesan.
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Apr 12, 2017 01:36
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Man at this point I just don't see how they're gonna get to Saul Goodman. They've made Jimmy too human.
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Apr 19, 2017 02:38
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I mean, from a literal path of plot point A to plot point B there's plenty of believable paths they could take. But from a character development standpoint they're almost painting themselves into a corner where the barrier to transform Jimmy into Saul is becoming insurmountable. Like, watch this scene from his first episode in Breaking Bad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTfyuKy5G0c Remember at the end of season 1, when Jimmy says to Mike that he knows what was keeping him from taking the Kettleman's money and running, and he wasn't going to let it stop him anymore? That was a point where it felt natural and believable that Jimmy could make the leap into what we see here. With what we've seen of how invested Jimmy is in his relationships with Kim and Chuck, and how much he's about to lose, it's much harder to see him being happy as Saul. We know he is, and I don't doubt the writers' abilities to get us there, but drat, it's starting to shape up to be a herculean effort.
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Apr 19, 2017 02:49
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I'm 100% sure Jimmy ordered a breakfast burrito. To be a restaurant in Albuquerque it's practically required by law that you serve breakfast burritos, especially fast food restaurants.
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Apr 19, 2017 19:30
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A Huell spinoff would be very short lived since it would just be the DEA finding his body in the safe house Hank left him in like a year after BB ended
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Apr 20, 2017 21:10
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How the hell does Vince Gilligan keep convincing me that 45 minutes is only 25 minutes
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Apr 25, 2017 06:23
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Colonel Whitey posted:Same Tires
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Apr 25, 2017 06:41
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NO LISTEN TO ME posted:Kim's been looking for a paralegal right? I hope Ernie's qualified enough. The clinic was in Mexico and in any event, smuggling contraband into Mexico isn't the part of the equation that's difficult
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Apr 25, 2017 16:09
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WillyTheNewGuy posted:The previous scene with Mike was his meeting with Gus, and Mike's very last line was that he wasn't done with Salamanca. To me that tells me that Gus and Mike are working together on this, or Mike would have kept that last bit to himself. Nah the answer is that you can drive your car with anything you want in it into Mexico because crossing the border heading south is less inconvenient than going over a speed bump
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Apr 26, 2017 02:55
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Venuz Patrol posted:i appreciate that mr. petty with a prior was too pleased to be getting free food to know or care that he was being bribed That was great, he was eating two bags of chips at the same time for lunch and then started eating Jimmy's fries lmao
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Apr 27, 2017 23:13
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Raxivace posted:In general I think Nacho is a bit underused in the series. Nacho was a huge catalyst for Jimmy's plot in season 1 and Mike's in season 2 though?
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May 1, 2017 00:40
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I've loved every episode of both shows up until now but this was garbage filler. Gus' backstory is some boring bullshit that would have been left better unexplained, but it took up almost 30 minutes of this episode.
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May 2, 2017 05:54
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Mr. Gibbycrumbles posted:You are objectively, scientifically provably wrong. The Mike/Gus/Cartel stuff is the best part of this show by far. Mike scenes are good, so far Gus scenes are really really bad. I'd have rather watched 10 minutes of Mike fixing Chuck's door than the scene where Gus has a meeting with his fast food employees
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May 2, 2017 16:00
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Karmine posted:Your personal preferences (to which you're entitled!) notwithstanding, the point of that scene was to show/remind the audience what a mastermind Gus is at not only hiding his criminal enterprise but also to manipulate his civilian employees' loyalty. The humility of admitting he paid them off in Michoacan, the rah rah America stuff, the anger at how the cartel intimidated his customers and threatened his employees. It was great. I got that, but I just didn't care. I think the problem with this episode for me is that we already know how Gus got into this situation with Don Eladio and Hector Salamanca, and we already know how it ends. At this point in time they're in a stalemate that has little room for plot or character development. Gus was a great antagonist for Walter, and could be a great catalyst for Mike's development, but I hope they keep any further interaction between Gus and the cartel to the C plot with only a minor scene or two each episode.
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May 2, 2017 16:53
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Kim has gone from "I can never hear about fake homemade fetish porn" to being an active participant in Jimmy's extralegal scheming. She's not getting out of this clean.
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May 4, 2017 21:57
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Supercar Gautier posted:Saul's BB office was in an L-shaped strip mall, the location hasn't been seen on BCS yet. And it won't be. After BB ended, Saul's office space got ripped out and turned into a lovely bar. https://www.google.com/maps/place/S...5318671!6m1!1e1 That said, there's about a hundred other malls around town they could use that would be close enough. UZR IS BULLSHIT fucked around with this message at 06:03 on May 11, 2017 |
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May 11, 2017 06:00
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In this universe a $40 bottle of Johnnie Walker is tepid off brand generic cola. $10000 bottles of Macallan 35 are classic Coke.
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May 17, 2017 03:36
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So Mike's conversation with the concrete paving woman...he was trying to avoid going full time into the cleaner business because he didn't want his granddaughter to ever know that her Pop-pop was a criminal. And hearing that woman talk about her husband going missing in the Gila National Forest made him realize that even if he gets caught in some cartel crossfire, his family would likely never figure out the truth about what happened to him. Right?
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May 23, 2017 06:16
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BRAKE FOR MOOSE posted:My interpretation was that Mike is indirectly responsible for an innocent getting whacked in the desert by Hector and the story reminded him of it. Ah yeah I forgot about the good samaritan. This is probably it
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May 23, 2017 14:41
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It seems like Chuck is insured as an individual rather than HHM having a policy that covers the entire firm, but I wonder if Chuck being considered a higher risk would affect Howard as well.
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May 23, 2017 22:46
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Oxyclean posted:I can't believe people are criticizing Jimmy for getting Chuck's policy hit when the real villain is the insurance lady. Why is no-one talking about this ruthless monster?! One of the best parts of this show (and BB) is Gilligan & co's ability to bring back characters from minor side plots in earlier seasons and make them relevant in the main plot. I'm looking forward to finding out how Pryce develops what isn't technically a hearing problem, but sometimes when there's a lot of noises going on at the same time, he hears them as one big jumble. UZR IS BULLSHIT fucked around with this message at 18:41 on May 29, 2017 |
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May 29, 2017 18:23
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hiddenmovement posted:Plus, it's the insurance for one man, not the entire firm, and he's not been hit with a malpractice suit or a conduct charge by the bar, so the grounds the insurer has to ramp the premiums up on a long time customer with a flawless record seems pretty shakey. Even if they do ramp the premiums up, so what? Just eat it, he's rich as hell. The sneak peak for next week is a meeting between Hamlin, Chuck, and the insurance company. They want to double the premiums on every lawyer in the firm. The fight between Chuck and Jimmy is going to end up taking down all of HHM 
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Cerebral Mayhem posted:Instead of a stroke, it might be that Hector suffers cardiac arrest for long enough to cause brain damage. He was fully lucid in BB though.
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i am the bird posted:Kim later changes her name to
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Hah, there's a Mesa Verde trailer park where I live. Someone should do an inventory of how many things in the real southwest are called Mesa Verde. wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncountable_Set
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Sucks that after tomorrow we're gonna have to wait a year+ for more episodes. Gimme Jimmy ☹️
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Jun 19, 2017 03:01
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Eh, I've defended this show's slow pace in the past but I really think they botched the second half of this season. Having Jimmy's arc for the season end with him doing the right thing with the olds was sort of a wet fart for where they're at with his character. They need to step on the gas if they're back for season 4. Which I am still on board for, but less enthusiastically so than I have been up til now.
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EatinCake posted:Strange to me that folks think having him step back some of his manipulation of old ladies was a bad, uncharacteristic moment. The thing for me is they're getting pretty close to beating a dead horse with that point though. It wouldn't be as much of a disappointment if they hadn't clearly run out of ideas for the other part of the show. As others have pointed out, Mike's story was basically dropped and his scenes turned into boring universe building at the end of this season. They really have nothing to do with Gus because he and the cartel are already in the stalemate we know them to be in during BB. Nacho's machinations against Hector sort of came out of nowhere and the payoff was delivered to us far too cleanly compared to how these things usually go in this world. To be fair I really enjoyed Howard's arc post meltdown. The scene where he tells Jimmy to bring a tin cup next time is one of the best in the series and a much stronger piece of development for Jimmy than his final scene with Chuck.
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Jun 20, 2017 14:56
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Jimmy would definitely find out through the grapevine what happened in that board room. Could set up a battle between him and Howard over the money as an impotent way of dealing with their guilt.
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Jun 21, 2017 12:49
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Durzel posted:Is that the boardroom where only Howard and Chuck were present? What grapevine is this you speak of? Huh Chuck was willing to sue us even though it would destroy our company, but in under 5 minutes Howard talked him out of it. He's one hell of a lawyer!
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Jun 21, 2017 14:52
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I don't think Jimmy will get the money, but if they aren't gonna do a time skip it's definitely one thing that could force further conflict between the main players.
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Spellman posted:Chuck entrusted the 8 million dollars from the HHM buyout to his trusted university colleague Gustavo Fring, which he used to purchase the infrastructure for an 8 million dollar supermeth lab in a laundry mat. No no no, he left everything to the Institute for EHS Research, a nonprofit initiative started by Madrigal Electromotiv.
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Holy gently caress that's a special meltdown.
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