Remember how Breaking Bad Saul was a cartoonish caricature meant as one-note comic relief? Remember how his greed, wisecracks, and slimeball antics were generally good for a few laughs even as the storyline got darker? Turns out he’s actually the broken shell of a man who lost everyone he ever cared about until his empathy and whatever remained of his ethics were gone and only a callous Amoral Attorney remained. Turns out that he’s been spending all that drug money trying to fill a void that no amount of material possessions can ever fill.
Edited by Millardkillmoore on Jul 18th 2022 at 10:02:53 AM
Jimmy said he was "yitzing" Howard. is that a new word? I can't find it in the dictionary.
For all the distance in their relationship, Cheryl seemed to know Howard pretty well, and she did not buy Jimmy's story. She thinks there's something more to Howard's death.
Oh crap. Was Jimmy supposed to go in the car with Kim, but Kim just drove off without him? She seems to feel really bad about how she set up Howard. Could this be how she dies? She changes her story and tries to reveal the truth about what happened to Howard and Gus has her killed?
Now that's the Saul Goodman we all know and love!
Edited by beneficii on Jul 18th 2022 at 9:56:55 AM
I mean, he's responsible for Howard's death not Saul but he's blaming Saul.
Mike's Start of Darkness is that Dirty Cop types killed his son.
Now he's a Dirty Cop or at least every bit as dirty.
Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.Re the word "Yitz" -
I'm not holding myself out as any kind of expert on Yiddish/Jewish terms, but I've never heard of it, and from a Google search, I don't find the scam meaning being listed on any reputable dictionary kind of source.
Like there's one sort of sub-Urban Dictionary site, but no hits come up for Yiddish dictionary websites.
I'm open to being proved wrong, but I suspect it's Yiddish sounding gibberish, which is appropriate for Saul/Jimmy.
Specifically, it kind of makes me think of the words "kibbitz" (to joke around) and "yutz" (someone who is gullible) and I can see how with those in mind, "yitz" sounds like it could be the Yiddish word for scamming.
Y'know, I dunno what to think of Kim's thought process in "Fun and Games". For as strong, smart, and charismatic as she is, she's a much darker person than even Jimmy is. I also don't believe that Jimmy made her worse. That just seems like an excuse, because the shoplifting flashback makes clear she wasn't entirely a saint prior to meeting Jimmy.
At Howard's wake, she chooses to use Howard's final words to gaslight his widow into believing something horrible, all to avoid feeling guilt over what happened. And rather than face up to the consequences of her actions, she chooses to run. Which makes me wonder, is she really made of that "sterner stuff" that Mike seemed to believe she was made of?
Okey Dokey!Is the stronger choice to choose to stay? She leaves because she knows if she stays it'll just be more of this, forever. I think it demonstrates tremendous strength of character to leave the law, to decide she can't be trusted with it and she has no place in it, no matter how much she loves it and loves helping people. And I think it demonstrates tremendous strength of character to leave Jimmy, a person she loves and who makes her happy, because she knows that sustaining that relationship will mean both of them decide to hurt more people for fun. (As for whether Jimmy is "bad for her", she makes it very clear when she leaves that she thinks she's making him worse as well—that their bad instincts feed one another.)
What would facing up to the consequences involve? She'd have to be willing to put Jimmy behind bars. Mike, too. And Mike would never let that happen—there'd be a bullet in her head the moment she became a risk to not only him, but Gus—she knows what he looks like, what he sounds like, and where he lives. To say nothing of the fact that—and look, I don't wanna get too political here—but the show clearly does not have the utmost faith in the justice system to do the right thing unaided. Why would Kim submit herself to its judgement in the first place? There's just nothing to be gained here.
I think it's nevertheless admirable, demonstrates "sterner stuff", to do what you can to mitigate the damage, and destroy parts of your life that mean a lot to you in the process.
Edited by Wackd on Jul 21st 2022 at 1:56:34 PM
Maybe you'd be less disappointed if you stopped expecting things to be Carmen Sandiego movies.I mean, I know we have four episodes left to see the rest of the pieces, but as it were now, this feels like "Kim lit the match and then ran". She pushed Jimmy into the scam with Howard and even admitted she didn’t tell Jimmy that Lalo was alive because she was having too much fun scamming Howard. Now that there are finally serious consequences to her actions, she is bailing on him.
Plus, I seem to recall a conversation Mike and Jimmy had in the desert about her being in the game because she knows his business. So I doubt she's out of the woods.
Okey Dokey!Edited by Wackd on Jul 21st 2022 at 12:53:11 PM
Maybe you'd be less disappointed if you stopped expecting things to be Carmen Sandiego movies.Oh wow, extended Gene sequence. It's been going for over 10 minutes.
EDIT: More than halfway, and it's still shown nothing but Gene.
EDIT 2: Wow. All Gene all black and white. He just can't help himself and continues pulling schemes with people. At least he got that inquisitive guy off his back.
Edited by beneficii on Jul 25th 2022 at 6:59:11 AM
That robbery was the tensest scene in either show, even though the stakes are ridiculously low this time. Also, I know the guy had a different name, but that older security guard is definitely Jerry.
The legend has returned.Edited by Wackd on Jul 25th 2022 at 10:34:47 AM
Maybe you'd be less disappointed if you stopped expecting things to be Carmen Sandiego movies.To be fair, his life was a miserable Ironic Hell.
He's not losing much.
Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.

Everyone here is taken it as a given that she would've killed Gus, but creator interviews
, seem to indicate they don't know if she would've pulled the trigger if given the chance. Just the fact that she was willing to go to that door is indicative of her love, but they are not sure she could have actually killed him. (Open in incognito mode [ctrl+shift+n] if paywalled).
Edited by jjjj2 on Jul 13th 2022 at 7:06:52 AM
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