Mecca wrote:Yeah, as someone who just finished a BB rewatch, BCS is better. Breaking Bad took until season 2 to really hit its stride, while BCS hit the ground running.
yeah, and it kinda got weird at the end too.
BCS could end weird too. it's hard wrapping up shows properly.
Im confident about this one closing it properly. All im saying is:
Mecca wrote:Yeah, as someone who just finished a BB rewatch, BCS is better. Breaking Bad took until season 2 to really hit its stride, while BCS hit the ground running.
yeah, and it kinda got weird at the end too.
BCS could end weird too. it's hard wrapping up shows properly.
It's especially tricky for BCS because they have to give us two endings that feel right: the Jimmy story where we see him off to become BB Saul, and the post-BB Gene story.
Anders wrote:I do not have a «neoliberal assessment of geopolitics», so please stop writing that I do.
Mecca wrote:Yeah, as someone who just finished a BB rewatch, BCS is better. Breaking Bad took until season 2 to really hit its stride, while BCS hit the ground running.
yeah, and it kinda got weird at the end too.
BCS could end weird too. it's hard wrapping up shows properly.
It's especially tricky for BCS because they have to give us two endings that feel right: the Jimmy story where we see him off to become BB Saul, and the post-BB Gene story.
Mecca wrote:Yeah, as someone who just finished a BB rewatch, BCS is better. Breaking Bad took until season 2 to really hit its stride, while BCS hit the ground running.
yeah, and it kinda got weird at the end too.
BCS could end weird too. it's hard wrapping up shows properly.
It's especially tricky for BCS because they have to give us two endings that feel right: the Jimmy story where we see him off to become BB Saul, and the post-BB Gene story.
Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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tragabigzanda wrote:2. There’s an exterior shot when jimmy leaves the courthouse, and we see a couple of young skateboarders monkeying around in the background. Cool little nod to how far Jimmy’s come since the first episode.
Nice observation. I did notice the skateboarders, but didn't make that connection.
tragabigzanda wrote:Great ep. Two little things I appreciated:
1. Nacho does some amazing face acting when Lalo returns to the car from the retirement home. He’s staring out the window, at peace, perhaps dreaming of a better life. When Lalo returns, he comes back to reality, his face doing a great job of showing the emotional transition.
2. There’s an exterior shot when jimmy leaves the courthouse, and we see a couple of young skateboarders monkeying around in the background. Cool little nod to how far Jimmy’s come since the first episode.
I liked Nacho better pulling away from the well, thinking he was out for good, then his face does a 180* when Lalo taps his glass.
Skateboarders were a nice touch. Life was so much simpler then.
Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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Finally got to watch the latest episode. Holy shit what an episode.
This is, bar none, the best show on television.
If Rhea doesn't win an Emmy for the work she's done this season, I call bullshit.
So, does Kim actually start HELPING Jimmy in some of his cases now? Maybe they do start a practice together? She is unemployed, after all. Doesn't seem likely, but damn, she sure turned it around on Lalo.
Let me tell you, Homer Simpson is cock of nothing!
- C. Montgomery Burns
Hey Jorge and VG, I just read this on another forum and wanted to know if this is true or if he's full of shit.
One other remnant of the previous episode "Bagman" just occured to me, and BB and BCS have never shied away from double meanings -- both for episode names and for character names.
A rough translation of 'bag man' into Spanish = bolsa/bolso hombre.
Sure enough, the man behind the trouble in the episode was Sr. Bolsa.
Another iteration 'bagman' (one word) translates to 'cobrador', meaning collector or cashier -- which is another trait of our Sr. Bolsa.
Does this compute?
Let me tell you, Homer Simpson is cock of nothing!
- C. Montgomery Burns
wease wrote:Hey Jorge and VG, I just read this on another forum and wanted to know if this is true or if he's full of shit.
One other remnant of the previous episode "Bagman" just occured to me, and BB and BCS have never shied away from double meanings -- both for episode names and for character names.
A rough translation of 'bag man' into Spanish = bolsa/bolso hombre.
Sure enough, the man behind the trouble in the episode was Sr. Bolsa.
Another iteration 'bagman' (one word) translates to 'cobrador', meaning collector or cashier -- which is another trait of our Sr. Bolsa.
Does this compute?
It does. It can also be read as some kind of dealer.
