[QUOTE=riverboatking;54140888]man im so torn, part of me wants to just wait till the season is over so i can binge it as waiting a week between eps is so brutal, but on the other hand i don't see how i can possibly wait that long.

i understand why it cant work on television but i just wish amc was like prime or netflix n dropped entire seasons at once.[/QUOTE]

SyFy has sort of done just that with the last 2 seasons of 12 Monkeys.

This is a good explanation.

The Cinnabon stuff is not a dream sequence. That would be beyond hacky.

The reason it's in black and white is because the light in his life is gone. He loved being a crooked lawyer and now he's living in fear while working in a ****ing Cinnabon.

If you rewatch the first Gene scene, you see him watch one of his old Saul commercials. It's playing in colour.

The problem is not that you dislike the slow pace or think it is boring. That’s a perfectly legit complaint that drove lots of BB fans away from BCS.

The problem is that you made it to season 4 and still complain about it in here. That’s like posting in a GoT thread that you just watched S04E01 and like the show except for the sex and violence and that you are going to quit if that doesn’t change over the first half of the season. Don’t you think people would rightfully ridicule you that?

I am very sure after season 1, AMC approached Gilligan/Gould about lots of BB fans quitting on BCS because of the slower pace and got a response along the lines of “we’re doing it our way or we don’t do it at all”.

That’s the way they want the show to be and you as a viewer had 3 seasons and one episode to quit if you don’t like it.

I’m with you on this. I’ve been staring at my dvr for four days now. I am spoiled with Netflix. I can’t dtand waiting a week between episodes. But it sucks also knowing it is sitting there waiting to be watched.

(Hearty applause and loud whistling.)

(Standing ovation, flowers tossed onstage.)

Someone just told me that in an interview, Odenkirk said the Gene scenes take place pre-WW death. FWIW.


Can someone remind me exactly how/why Mike got set up with Madrigal? I know he had to launder some money. Where exactly did he get that money? Just doing some random jobs for Gus?

[QUOTE=Kurn, son of Mogh;54141112] i don't want to derail the thread but is 12 monkeys good?
the film was one of my all time favs n im a huge time travel dork but i heard it was meh.

Good but not great. Closer to very good than to meh, IMO.

Gus sends him over there to meet with Lydia so they can pay him as a ‘security consultant’.

He doesn’t have to launder money, but getting a paycheck is vastly superior to getting cash. It’s a no-show job like the construction jobs on the Sopranos (where they have to show occasionally anyway) but apparently Mike is not comfortable doing nothing for that big of a paycheck so he goes over there to do the job they pay him for.

Not to mention that this one appearance sets up the believable story that it's an actual job in the event there's an investigation.

That makes no sense, unless I am forgetting the timeline of the ending of BB. When WW was out in the shed by himself, was that after the meeting with the guy who was going to get him and Saul new identities? If it was after, then it makes sense.

Especially since by this point Jimmy knows that most of the crap Hamlin directed at Jimmy over the past few years was directly orchestrated by Chuck. In many ways, Hamlin and Jimmy were similarly manipulated by Chuck.

I don't buy this. Jimmy was desperate for cash that day. It's difficult to believe he wasted a chunk of his limited time on something he would've thought was an impossibility.

Not sure what that_pope means by "out in the shed". If that means the little cabin in New Hampshire, then yes, it's after the new identities. Remember, the vacuum repair guy brought him up to NH and was visiting every now and again. "Welcome to New Hampshire, Mr. Lambert"

But what TheChamp heard still confuses me. Not sure how Saul (by now Gene) would've known that Walter was/wasn't alive. He's trying to start a new life and keep his head down, wouldn't be checking out Albuquerque, I wouldn't guess.

That's not totally true, he basically asked "what if?" and Gilligan/Gould answered that it was a possibility.

Based on the timeline from BB with his birthday bacon, we know that there's something close to a year (?) between the time Walt goes into hiding and him returning to take care of business.

Seems possible that Gene's scenes happen in that year, if the creators want it to be that way.

Lol that's not a complaint I've hardly even posted itt & what you're really saying is that you're essentially whinging at me for...having patience? I only made it due to binge watching & wouldn't have stuck at it weekly same as BB actually. I didn't think BB picked up until mid way to season 3, yet felt from there to the finale was actually genuinely amazing tv. I'm hoping BCS is the same in time.

Yeah I get that. And them wanting the show the way they want it to be...magically makes it absolutely immune to criticism...how again?


True dat. Or I could....continue too watch it just for the hell of it & continue to comment on it any way I effin well please & cheerfully disregard any argumentum ad hominem insults that comes my way from people who take umbrage at this & go on a whinge at me over it, due to said whinging being of absolutely no interest to me & utterly irrelevant to discussion re the actual show, that might just work too, whaddya reckon Mads?

And then you could use the ignore function rather than get yer knickers in a twist over someone daring to have an ever so slightly dissenting opinion about your special little show & everyone's happy. That way you don't have to read my stupid posts. See how that works?

Or you can continue to insist if I don't like BCS then I kin giiiit out & I can continue laughing at you, whilst simultaneously dismissing your irrelevant point, it's all good.

I think it was to launder money.
Remember them talking about an amount and how long it would take to pay that out.

This is wrong. It's definitely to launder money that Mike stole from Hector's truck. There is a whole scene about it in Season 3 where Mike offers to pay Gus a commission for a laundering it and Gus declines.

Two things I just realized, while reading the last few posts:

1. We assumed with all the hair Gene has lost, that years have passed since his ABQ days. But as stressed out as he gets every time someone looks at him for longer than two seconds, maybe he's aging quite rapidly. Young Jimmy can keep his cool while running a con, because he knows there's little chance of getting caught, and even if he does get pinched, the punishment isn't anything major; but Old Gene is facing a lifetime of Hard Time, if not The Chair, if he gets discovered.

2. "Welcome to New Hampshire, Mr Lambert." Live Free or Die. Walt thought he was getting the former. When it wasn't there, he went for the latter.

+1

You're good at watching tv.

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