Red Mosquito

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.

theplatypus wrote:

The Argonaut wrote:I don't think he was celebrating. That is far too reckless for someone like Mike, especially with his DIL drama. I think he is purposefully looking for Salamanca attention, though I don't know why.

No, I definitely think he was celebrating and I think it's supposed to be out of character. We're seeing a side of Mike we'd never seen before; he's being sloppy, driven by pride and revenge after his family was threatened, picking the half-measures, messing with the cartel when they'd already discarded him, unwittingly getting an innocent civilian killed. When Mike bought a round for the house, I saw a bit of Heisenberg hubris in him, and I think this really colors his frustration with Walter in Breaking Bad.

tragabigzanda wrote:

theplatypus wrote:

The Argonaut wrote:I don't think he was celebrating. That is far too reckless for someone like Mike, especially with his DIL drama. I think he is purposefully looking for Salamanca attention, though I don't know why.

No, I definitely think he was celebrating and I think it's supposed to be out of character. We're seeing a side of Mike we'd never seen before; he's being sloppy, driven by pride and revenge after his family was threatened, picking the half-measures, messing with the cartel when they'd already discarded him, unwittingly getting an innocent civilian killed. When Mike bought a round for the house, I saw a bit of Heisenberg hubris in him, and I think this really colors his frustration with Walter in Breaking Bad.

I think either one of these is plausible. All will be revealed soon.

theplatypus wrote:

The Argonaut wrote:I don't think he was celebrating. That is far too reckless for someone like Mike, especially with his DIL drama. I think he is purposefully looking for Salamanca attention, though I don't know why.

No, I definitely think he was celebrating and I think it's supposed to be out of character. We're seeing a side of Mike we'd never seen before; he's being sloppy, driven by pride and revenge after his family was threatened, picking the half-measures, messing with the cartel when they'd already discarded him, unwittingly getting an innocent civilian killed. When Mike bought a round for the house, I saw a bit of Heisenberg hubris in him, and I think this really colors his frustration with Walter in Breaking Bad.

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:

@SkitchP wrote:

theplatypus wrote:

The Argonaut wrote:I don't think he was celebrating. That is far too reckless for someone like Mike, especially with his DIL drama. I think he is purposefully looking for Salamanca attention, though I don't know why.

No, I definitely think he was celebrating and I think it's supposed to be out of character. We're seeing a side of Mike we'd never seen before; he's being sloppy, driven by pride and revenge after his family was threatened, picking the half-measures, messing with the cartel when they'd already discarded him, unwittingly getting an innocent civilian killed. When Mike bought a round for the house, I saw a bit of Heisenberg hubris in him, and I think this really colors his frustration with Walter in Breaking Bad.

I agree with this.

I also think as time has gone on the viewing public has kind of deified Mike. It's almost like we (myself included) believe he is SO good that he's above making mistakes.

Well, I think we're used to seeing him so in control in BB. In this show, we're seeing the mistakes that lead him there

The Argonaut wrote:But he is always very deliberate. When have we seen him be reckless?

The Argonaut wrote:That was imperfect, but it wasn't reckless. He didn't realize how ruthless his enemy was. And it is exactly the sort of thing Mike will not let go unpunished. Was the revelation of the good samaritan's death before or after the bar scene?

Spoiler: show

so this is how Chuck is out of the picture in BB? my god. Poor Jimmy

The Argonaut wrote:You guys have convinced me. I guess there's no good reason for him to be so stealthy about the heist and then purposefully attract attention.

dprival78 wrote:don't