Irlandesa
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Well this sucks for Michele McLaren. She and Warner Brothers parted ways over "creative differences" on The Wonder Woman movie. I am not a Comics fan but I was looking forward to seeing what she was going to do with a feature.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/wonder-woman-movie-loses-director-788500
I can only hope this means she'll now have time for another ep of Better Call Saul.
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The latest insider podcast has further gelled my issues with the Howard Hamlin twist. (They are really undermining themselves with this look at sausagemaking, I have to say.) Patrick Fabian was on again, and made some comments, and posed some questions, that Vince and Peter couldn't answer (they even "jokingly" griped "Caught!").
I think Patrick Fabian is smart and asks a lot of good questions but just because there are a lot of questions by the switch doesn't mean there aren't any simple answers.
Why didn't he send a secretary over? Perhaps Chuck wasn't ready to work immediately after his breakdown and they got into a rut habit of covering his clients and not giving him work. Chuck seems to have a lot of power at HHM so if he wanted to work, he probably could have asked for it. It wasn't until Jimmy kind of "slipped" work into his vicinity that he took up the law again. Or maybe Howard needs Chuck's prestige in name only but prefers him to be as silent as possible except when it comes to Jimmy.
Why did he not like him at the Kettlemans? We already know the Kettlemans were considered an important case. He probably didn't trust Jimmy sniffing around them.
When asked whether or not he felt "vindicated" by the reveal, he talked a lot about how this perhaps changes how one looks at Howard because he isn't the big bad in the Jimmy/HHM situation so perhaps he's not as nasty as he was initially presented with the little ifnormation we had. But then he throws out--"or he could be revealed to be the biggest douchebag yet" just not for the reasons viewers initially thought he was a douchebag.
I don't think the reveal has contradicted any decision that came before it. It just opened up the door for more layers to be developed as we learn some of these answers.
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No, I rent, thanks; but the Whites are clearly not meant to be seen as rolling in it, that's the point of the entire series IMO. Skyler eBaying, don't use Credit Card XYZ, look at our 1970's wooden paneling we have never updated, but clearly YMMV, lol.
Rolling in it? No. But they weren't lower class. They had a house. They had cars. They had health insurance through Walt's job and they could afford to have Skylar be a stay at home mom. Walt did some extra work and Skylar used eBay to help make a little extra money but they would be solidly middle class.
What was depressing, and sadly accurate, is how an unexpected illness can devastate a family's finances even if they do have health insurance.
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I only watched the first few episodes of BB. I thought the moral struggles of the chemistry teacher were well-written and intense, but I dropped out when it looked like those issues were resolved in favor of the drug dealer anti-hero persona. Since I don't have any idea what "Saul" is like in BB, I hate to go digging through the BB/BCS thread, so can someone just tell me: Was BB as good as this show?
I know everyone else has responded but I'll also say that I think the totality of Breaking Bad is exceptional. Season 1 of Better Call Saul might be a touch better but it wasn't hampered with a writers' strike like Breaking Bad was. However, I think it's unfair to compare since what Breaking Bad did was such a singular achievement. Its ability to tell a full complete story without much fat while also being a character study is pretty amazing. I don't know when you gave up but it's not a linear progression. The show goes back and forth between two different personas. I think the biggest surprise for me was which persona was actually the authentic one when it came to Walter White. It took me a while to realize it but when I went back to watch, I saw things I didn't see at first because I had one of idea of who he was supposed to be based on good old fashioned television tropes I brought to my viewing and he was actually quite different all along.
No promises that you'll enjoy it but I think it's far simpler than drug kingpin badass. Multiple characters do struggle with their own morality.
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Cant't wait to see Stephen Merchant, he was totally on Fleek on Jimmys's show.
The Stephen, Jimmy and Joseph battle was my favorite version. Stephen should be good because wasn't the story that Stephen, John and Emily sort of "invented" the game? (Not that it didn't exist before but they started doing it at dinner parties for fun--like charades.)
I think that's why I thought Emily was the strongest when it was just a person and a song. Emily has more experience with no production. "No Diggity" was great. But Anne totally killed with Miley. I don't know if that can be topped.
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I don't get how this is possible. They "live in a culture of fear of firing and pay cuts" but no one made them sign a non compete when they started their job?
I'm not a legal or HR expert but I do read some blogs related to HR/management and from what I recall reading, non-competes aren't enforceable in CA except under really specific circumstances. I'm not sure if whatever these agents did as a job would fall under these specific circumstances where a non-compete is enforceable but this may be why they don't have agents sign one.
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He didn't want her to have another man's baby and he is painted as the bad guy. Why didn't she give him time to come around to the idea in his own time.
It didn't stop with him simply not wanting to have another man's baby. If that were all it was Jane wouldn't have broken up with him because he did come around. Jane broke up with Michael because of how that desire manifested itself into lies and, from her perspective, endgangering her child's welfare.
Michael's feelings were okay. His actions were the problem.
I think we’ve identified the same problem, we’re just phrasing it differently. In fact, you’ve just pinpointed the source of my current discontent with the show. There is no follow through. The writers build up to a big reveal, and then…….nothing (see bolded). There have been too many dropped characters and storylines, and the murder of Raphael’s father should have been much more than a plot point (especially for Luisa considering that it was Rose who killed him).
Yep. That was a point I wanted to make too but felt I had already rambled on long enough. I like the little things of this show too. I like the relationship between the women. Rogelio amuses me. I generally like Raf and Jane. I can swing between loving and hating Petra. But plot is nice too. I liked how the show didn't linger on stupid things too long. Secrets weren't neverending to the point of stupidity. That said, good soap opera builds to the climax and then shows the fallout. There has been very little fallout shown from some of the major arcs from the beginning of the season.
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Rafael clearly thinks a nanny is a good solution so that Jane doesn't have to do everything alone. On the other hand, Jane thinks Rafael should be the one pinching in. I'm interested to see how they will resolve those differences.Rafael likely thought it was a good solution because he grew up with nannies so it's normal to him. This is an important difference. Breaking up won't solve it because regardless of whether or not they're together, they're going to be co-parents.
I don't know how many times they're gonna rehash this storyline of Jane going batshit worrying about some hypothetical her brain's cooked up then fretting when Rafael doesn't react to the imaginary hypothetical exactly the way she wants him to.
This! That really bothered me about the scene. Rafael gave her a solution. She didn't like that solution. She wanted something else from him. He didn't read her mind. It's just like when he proposed to her and she gave him that test about not writing to see if he'd know he should tell her differently.
For me, the show has felt flat since the Sin Rostro reveal. I don't think pacing is the problem, it's that they didn't replace Sin Rostro with another compelling story arc.Here's why I said pacing--they burned through a lot of story in thirteen episodes. The concept of Sin Rostro was introduced in the pilot. Episode 13 is when the audience should discover who it is. Episode 14 is NOT the episode in which Sin Rostro should then disappear. [Ep numbers may be off, I didn't go double check.] There's mystery in not knowing who Sin Rostro is. There's also intrigue in the audience knowing who it is but the rest of the fictional world does not know. We also had this build up to Petra's past yet that mystery is pretty much over as well. Milos isn't an evil villain--he just has "anger issues" so there's no second arc to that story either, especially since her mother is MIA. Luisa was vindicated and she disappeared. And oh, Sin Rostro killed Rafael's father. You're right that had they replaced these arcs with another compelling arc, it'd be fine. But had they paced the stories out a bit more, they'd also be in a better position. All these secondary characters wouldn't be MIA. I know there were likely some availability issues but probably not for all of the actors.
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I don't remember her being disloyal. At least not yet. Now I'm afraid...
Me neither. She has, however, not done everything Jimmy wanted her to do. And that's why I get a little nervous when I see posts in the episode threads talk about hoping Kim doesn't betray Jimmy or that they dread the inevitable backstabbing. What would that entail? Does this mean she does something to purposely hurt Jimmy? Or does it involve living her own moral code that's at cross purposes with Jimmy's life and is that really betrayal? As of right now, I don't think she has come even close to betraying him other than not telling him the whole truth about Chuck. Yet even there she did it to protect Jimmy and not hurt him.
I do think that what's in Kim's best interest and what Jimmy thinks is in his best interest will start to split as Jimmy morphs into Saul unless Kim decides to morph into Rivka Goodman.
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So much good stuff to respond to...
One last thought. Jimmy hasn't abandoned his rest home clients. They are in excellent hands, two top law firms. They are much better off for having met Jimmy, and yeah, they like, trust, and will miss him. He doesn't have to please them anymore either. Bingo is over.Great thoughts but I don't think Jimmy is necessarily done with the elder clients. In fact, working freelance for HHM might be the way for him to maintain his independence yet serve the clients he found. I just think he's done trying to be just like his older brother. That doesn't necessarily mean he won't continue to interact with an older clientele but next time a Nacho walks through the door, he'll work to keep him a client, regardless of where that money comes from. No more creative accounting to justify taking dirty money.
I suspect it was written that way in the event BCS was not renewed.
BCS was renewed shortly after the pilot was shot. So when this episode was written, they already knew they were getting a second season.
Honeycrisps are more expensive, but those are the only ones I'll eat now.
Not to belabor the apple talk but if you like Honeycrisp, you might like one of its hybrid varieties called Sweet Tango. They're my apple of choice these days. To bring this on topic...does that 1.6 million represent Jimmy's forbidden fruit?
Jimmy rejected the law firm and all of its trappings, Kim is clearly a part of that world.
Kim is Hamlin's girl now.I don't think it's a total repudiation of everything in that world. I just think he's going to stop being a part of it. And I also think his feelings for Kim are so strong that he's not going to completely shut her out. But his choice to to go greyer will eventually take him further from her while she definitely seems to fit in at HHM. Will she hook up with Hamlin as suggested above? I'm not sure but I could see it being yet another small thing that pushes Jimmy to become Saul as I think she, along with Chuck, was a reason for him to play it straight.
What Peter Gould said sounds suspiciously like it's not something they entirely worked out and are looking for viewers to fanwank what happened.
I think the biggest issue with the episode is that it's the season finale. I don't think that ending would be so difficult to accept if it weren't for the fact that it has a sense of finality to it...until next season, anyway. If there were another episode next week, we'd know soon if that last scene was Jimmy 100% embracing being a lawyer who was a criminal or if it was just big talk foreshadowing a larger shift but the one he takes the next day is actually much smaller. I suspect the latter but we won't know for sure until next season.
And yes, Gould does sound like he's leaving things open ended. Gilligan did that too. I don't recall him ever totally shooting down fan speculation. He could be asked whether or not Walt was actually Mike's long lost son and he'd say something like "Well that's an interesting theory." So they do like the audience to speculate and interpret. And no, they don't always have everything figured out. They have the hiatus to figure out where to take Jimmy next. So anyone who binges this show likely won't be as frustrated by this episode as some of us are. Because I agree with a review I heard--it felt simultaneously slow and rushed.
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The movie is scheduled to film in September--around the time they'd otherwise be filming a new season.
http://www.vulture.com/2015/04/looking-wrap-up-movie-will-film-this-fall.html
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Also, maybe nothing, the BCS Insider podcasts left coverage of this episode to last. They recorded the 110 podcast first to get it out of the way because they knew 109 was a better episode, and they didn't want to leave off the podcasting on a downer note. That's my take, anyway. (I've been wrong before.... like I was last week about Chuck!
They've recorded a lot of the podcasts this season out of order. I think it has more to do with scheduling guests than a preference for specific episodes.
I liked the montage in an abstract way. It was kind of cool and a nice way to show Slippin' Jimmy jimmying. Yet I did feel a bit disconnected from it.
I hope next season Jimmy is still Jimmy. I think completely changing his name because Chuck is disappointed in him would be a bit of a cop out. I think there are more clever reasons that better serve plot for him to do that. The shift may feel unearned but if BCS follows BB, I still think we'll still see Jimmy struggle with who exactly he is and this won't be quite the sharp turn it appears to be.
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Corporations are far far more invasive than the government is and for most people, I think their attitude is they're not doing anything wrong anyway so they don't have much to fear.
That's the funny thing, though. People really do get up in arms when they think it's the government who has access to their e-mail, their Facebook accounts...etc. But they give away access rather nonchalantly when it's a business. Even when it's a business they haven't signed a 'privacy' agreement with.
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Is it just me and my two sisters or has this show lost some of its magic since the start of the season?
I don't know if it's the show overall because I think I enjoyed the last one but this episode fell utterly flat for me. I do think the break neck pacing may be catching up to it.
But I do have the sense that it knew what it was and where it was going for the first thirteen episodes. We had the big Sin Rostro mystery being built up to. I'm sure there are secrets and twists in store for the finale but right now, the episodes do feel like they're treading water a bit and aren't arcing towards something the way they were earlier in the season. That doesn't mean that scenes or stories they tell can't be good or entertaining, I just don't feel the anticipation the way I once did. The breaks don't help either.
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Yes, you could see Snowden was crestfallen. It must have been very sobering to see that and think about how he's had to upend his entire life and live in Russia thinking he was some infamous underdog hero in the U.S.
For all that though, I still don't think most Americans give a damn about the surveillance program or ever will.
I wonder if he's been protected from knowing just how little people care. The thing is, the people who love Snowden REALLY love him. Just today someone tried to put a 100 pound statue of him in a park. I'm sure he has representatives who filter that adulation to him but the reality is, the amount of people who have a strong opinion, either positive or negative, about him is relatively small.
That said, I do think the question asked was the wrong question. I'd guess more people have heard about NSA spying on them than the name of the man who exposed it.
But no, Americans don't care about it because unless they see it, it doesn't affect them. If Snowden really wanted to make noise, he would've stolen dick pics to give to reporters and had those posted online. When all those celebs had their nude photos released, that certainly spurred some companies to up their protection after the outrage
I was wondering how much internet access Snowden has in Russia.
I don't know but apparently Oliver got the interview because Snowden as impressed by the net neutrality segment John did. I don't know if he saw it or if it was shown to him once the interview request was made.
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She's surprisingly charming on Instagram. And I've seen interviews with her where she's charming as well. And I've also seen her stilted. She may not be Mensa material or even interview consistently well. But I don't think she's a dumb blonde either.
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As someone who has complicated feelings about Snowden and his actions, I kind of dreaded that interview. Instead, I loved it. It managed to be funny, ask tough questions about the choices he made and their potentially unintended consequences and reframe the debate in a way that would make Americans care. Too many think that if they're not doing anything wrong, they aren't a target of surveillance.
Too bad this episode didn't air next week after the Game of Thrones and Veep premieres. This show deserves a lot of attention.
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I think The Good Wife is definitely one of the handful of shows that will be seen to have earned the right to have its final season announced AS the final season. I'm sure it'll be getting some sort of season seven (the creators and actors have been talking about that as a done deal for awhile, and they don't usually do that--my guess is that the seventh-season renewal was negotiated at the same time as the season six renewal). I'm expecting that they'll announce season seven as the final season of The Good Wife. If they don't announce that, I actually do expect a shortened season eight to be announced as the final season, a la The Mentalist.
If CBS had negotiated and picked up the show for a 7th season at the same time they picked up the show for a 6th, there is absolutely no reason to not have announced it.
I have heard of creators talking as if a renewal was a strong possibility because the network gives them assurances about how much they support and love the show. Sometimes they are right and a renewal happens. Other times, the plug is pulled. But contract negotiations are going to be a factor unless all they care about is Juliana.
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My favorite comment in the comments area and a thought I had was that Breaking Bad was not about a consistent character. I don't think anyone could have predicted that Walter White in the pilot would become Heisenberg. And the character wasn't consistent either. He'd be badass in a finale and go back to seeming somewhat timid the next season. He'd look to walk away but then his arrogant side would pop up.
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How is Mellissa getting a pass in all of this? n
For not wanting to or choosing not to fuck Phil? She doesn't need a pass for that. She gets to make that choice. Melissa isn't perfect but she has been pretty consistent about valuing Carol as a friend. And she has had reasons to be turned off by the way Phil drools after her and for how he treats Carol. I guess if I felt like she was deliberately trying to Phil crazy, I'd think worse of her but Phil went crazy creepy the moment he met her--the point where he was going to abandon Carol after they had been in the accident.
I realize the science I referenced is based on small samples, but it's still science, and those of you who aren't dismissing it outright are (deliberately?) misinterpreting it. There are two studies that basically replicate each others' results. They both find that horny women (e.g. Melissa) whose mates are sexually unattractive (e.g. Todd) will cheat or be tempted to cheat with men who are more sexually attractive (e.g. Phil). That backs up my point perfectly.
No it really doesn't. For one, the title of the article suggests something more scandalous than the article discusses. The article talks about how women are likely to be attracted to or fantasize about other men during certain times of the month. Yet it doesn't appear they have data how often that actually converted into cheating.
Second, at least one of the studies discussed how women perceived their partner. Did they find them attractive? If so, they were less likely to let their minds wander.
Third, none of these studies only offered one alternative. None of them said "your partner is an overweight guy who has a great personality, is kind and can provide for you. When you are ovulating, is your choice of fantasy the average looking guy you think is kind of a creeper and a dick?" Now give me that study and it'll be relevant. It sounds like these women had the choice of all other men....of whom there are some who a woman would be attracted to/fantasize about.
Sexual attraction for women, for me at least, is about more than simple aesthetics. Everything counts. Objectively, I know Brad Pitt is a good looking guy but he has never entered my fantasies. I'm more likely to want to chase down Stephen Merchant.
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I mean this is the same network that wanted to continue HIMYM into a 10th season, when even the 9th was a huge stretch creatively and killed all the goodwill of the previous 8.
But HIMYM had very good ratings. It made CBS money. The only reason The Good Wife might likely be renewed is because of prestige. A 7th season isn't even guaranteed at this point.
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So Nacho thinks it's okay to steal from thieves. (To me, that's more honorable than Robin Hood stealing from the rich to give to the poor.) And he thinks Jimmy deserves a finder's fee for bringing those Kettlemans to his attention—just as Howard Hamlin offered Jimmy $20,000 for the Sandpiper Crossing case.
I don't think Nacho's choice to steal from thieves is about "honor" but rather practicality. It's smarter to steal from thieves because thieves can't call the cops. It was exactly the reason Jimmy laughed at Betsy when she threatened to call the police after he told her the money was gone.
Nacho is definitely no Tuco. Even working with Pryce is a smart decision. It is way outside of the people he usually runs with so he's less likely to be caught by Tuco.
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It all boils down to whether or not Jimmy would have become Saul if his brother would have helped him out. That isn't a question anyone can truly answer even if they've seen all of Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul. It's a hypothetical.
No successful person has gotten there without some help. No one has rehabilitated without some sort of help. I know a lot think they did it on their own but someone, somewhere along the line gave them the benefit of the doubt. Without that chance, who knows what would have happened to them? This isn't to rob people of their own choice but anyone who thinks that Jimmy would have walked the straight and narrow if he worked at HHM is just as right as someone who thinks he wouldn't have.
All I know is that I've seen Jimmy seriously trying to do the right thing. Sure, he has a certain flair but he works hard to do the right thing and it keeps not paying off for him. But if it did...?
{Or what lovinbob said as I was writing this up.)
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If you're made of money, you can get the same degree over again. In fact, you may only have to take half the classes, since credits from certain courses will transfer over. I had one college take D's as transfer credits as long as I had enough corresponding B's.
Was it the same degree? I actually had a similar experience where I had to consider possibly getting a degree I almost had at another school and it didn't look like anyone would accept that. Luckily, it worked out but a "better school" likely wouldn't let Jimmy enroll for another J.D. But perhaps if he decided to go further and get the law equivalent of a PhD.
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S01.E09: The Do-Over / S01.E10: Pranks For Nothin' 2015.04.12
in The Last Man On Earth [V]
Perhaps they felt vague episode descriptions should follow January Jones. (If you watch Mad Men, that was a Mad Men joke. No one does vague episode descriptions quite like that show. Someone arrives. Someone leaves. Someone drops something (and it'll probably be a paperclip.) 0