Red Mosquito

spike wrote:

Jorge wrote:I've been somewhat skeptical of the "Kim is a silent partner during the Breaking Bad years and helps run Saul's operation behind the scenes" fan theory but episode 1 made it a little more likely. The way she started dictating where Saul Goodman would work and how he'd behave

The cold open… did I spy women’s clothing being taken out of Saul’s?

Ms Harmless wrote:

spike wrote:

Ms Harmless wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:

Ms Harmless wrote:I think they did quite well at the nuance where, yes, Jesse was a POS, but he was still manipulated and exploited by the bigger and more experienced POS (Walt -- I don't mean experienced in crime but certainly experienced in manipulation and abuse); also, Jesse was born into poverty which pushed him into crime, Walter was a bored rich suburbian (the angle that America requires people to spend inhumane amounts on healthcare was a good plot device but didn't make me sympathise with him, I believe he could've found the money somewhere, I don't believe that so much of Jesse)

Man I loved when Walt puts the dollar amount on how much he needs to make in the game before he quits. His decision to keep going was the real heel turn.

absolutely, that's one moment where he realises he's actually enjoying it; something in him already existed to make him the perfect guy for the game; I don't feel like Jesse had the same amount of awareness

this post is a semicolonoscopy!

I don't know when but there was a point a few years ago where I made the important decision to only ever use semi-colons for punctuation on social media (or rather, no full-stops / periods); it's generally worked for me

Ensign9 wrote:

Ms Harmless wrote:

spike wrote:

Ms Harmless wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:

Ms Harmless wrote:I think they did quite well at the nuance where, yes, Jesse was a POS, but he was still manipulated and exploited by the bigger and more experienced POS (Walt -- I don't mean experienced in crime but certainly experienced in manipulation and abuse); also, Jesse was born into poverty which pushed him into crime, Walter was a bored rich suburbian (the angle that America requires people to spend inhumane amounts on healthcare was a good plot device but didn't make me sympathise with him, I believe he could've found the money somewhere, I don't believe that so much of Jesse)

Man I loved when Walt puts the dollar amount on how much he needs to make in the game before he quits. His decision to keep going was the real heel turn.

absolutely, that's one moment where he realises he's actually enjoying it; something in him already existed to make him the perfect guy for the game; I don't feel like Jesse had the same amount of awareness

this post is a semicolonoscopy!

I don't know when but there was a point a few years ago where I made the important decision to only ever use semi-colons for punctuation on social media (or rather, no full-stops / periods); it's generally worked for me

I am addicted to semicolons; this post being case in point.

spike wrote:Is it really okay to use two (or more) in a row, before ending the sentence?

spike wrote:I’m not so sure.

Ms Harmless wrote:

spike wrote:I’m not so sure.

technically you can, for example if you're listing things, and the "items" in your list include commas; in that case, your semi-colons act as more powerful commas

spike wrote:

Ms Harmless wrote:

spike wrote:I’m not so sure.

technically you can, for example if you're listing things, and the "items" in your list include commas; in that case, your semi-colons act as more powerful commas

But what’s the etiquette?

wease wrote:Only got to watch the first episode. Interesting that the season didn’t start with a Gene scene.

spike wrote:

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.

tragabigzanda wrote:One question about the first two eps:

Spoiler: show

Why did Lalo kill the friendly goat farmers? Just misplaced rage from what went down at his house? Or something else?

Spoiler: show

Lalo asks the woman how the guy was after his dental surgery and she reveals Lalo paid for it, which means he had a dental record match patsy. This is why he tells him to leave the stache and soul patch

Mecca wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:One question about the first two eps:

Spoiler: show

Why did Lalo kill the friendly goat farmers? Just misplaced rage from what went down at his house? Or something else?

There was some nuance to what happened but it explains why investigators thought Lalo was dead

Spoiler: show

Lalo asks the woman how the guy was after his dental surgery and she reveals Lalo paid for it, which means he had a dental record match patsy. This is why he tells him to leave the stache and soul patch

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.

tragabigzanda wrote:

Ensign9 wrote:

Mecca wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:One question about the first two eps:

Spoiler: show

Why did Lalo kill the friendly goat farmers? Just misplaced rage from what went down at his house? Or something else?

There was some nuance to what happened but it explains why investigators thought Lalo was dead

Spoiler: show

Lalo asks the woman how the guy was after his dental surgery and she reveals Lalo paid for it, which means he had a dental record match patsy. This is why he tells him to leave the stache and soul patch

That guy’s sole existence was to unknowingly serve as his dead body double in a situation like this.

JFC ok that’s clever and you’re smart. But come on Gilligan, throw me a bone here!

Spoiler: show

When it showed the guy after his shave and Lalo’s face was right over his shoulder was a pretty big clue.