Auroraborealus

As far as cousins marrying in Westeros goes, I don't think it is seen as taboo. When Sansa first showed up at the Eyrie, Lysa commiserated with her about being forced to marry Tyrion and then threw out quite casually that once Tyrion was dead, Sansa would be free to marry Sweet Robin. Sansa definitely wasn't thrilled at the prospect of another forced marriage to a snotty nosed, breastfeeding 10 year old but I never got the "ewww, we're cousins" vibe then or later when Robin told her once they were married they could throw people they didn't like out the moon door. Of course, being raised as siblings definitely ups the ick factor but she and Jon were never close growing up anyway.

My question is why was the deceit needed in the first place? Why did Pilcher have to kidnap the residents of the town instead of putting out a call for volunteers? Recently, in the real world, hundreds of people tried for a chance to volunteer for a one way mission to Mars. Doomsday cults attract scores of people. Even in WP, he had volunteers in the mountain who ran things behind the scenes. If he had volunteers instead of kidnapped victims the whole "having to keep a secret/no talking about your former lives/hidden camera" lifestyle wouldn't be necessary.

I LOVED this scene when Tuco was going through different options for the twins' punishment "Blind them? I'll cut out their tongues? Columbian necktie!" Each one was horrifying to Saul and elicited louder and louder screams from the twins. Yet, to Tuco, it was just another day at the office.

That actually wasn't Nacho who irritated Tuco with the comment about the black eyes. It was No Doze! Nice little call back to when he did the same thing in Breaking Bad and got beaten to death by Tuco. Explains why Tuco went batshit on him. I mean, if the guy can't learn to shut his mouth after FIVE YEARS. Lol. And Tuco's other henchman, the big guy, Gonzo, who was crushed to death under the junk cars while trying to hide No Doze's body, was there in the leg breaking scene too.

OK, did I really hear that jagaloon, Kody, state something along the lines of "I'm not involved in day to day discipline. I just take care of the big issues"? Well, duh! That's how you do everything else in this family of three single moms, one empty-nester and a punkin pie haircutted sperm donor.

Ha, I had a Mercury Sable in the early 2000's and I swear I saw at least a dozen on the road every day, both Sables and Taurus's, that looked almost identical to my car. It was a pretty popular car at the time, at least where I live, so I'd say the twins making a mistake is plausible.

The twins accidentally jumped in front of the wrong car. We see Betsy getting in a brown Mercury wagon, the car that hit the twin was a brown Ford Taurus wagon. They are basically the same car models with the Mercury being slighly fancier. Tuco's grandma isn't Betsy's maid. She just happened to drive by with a similar car at the wrong time.

The lunch thing is definitely not isolated to Asian kids. The thing is, back then, especially in suburban areas with little ethnic presence, people just didn't have any exposure to authentic "foreign" food. You probably had Olive Garden, Taco Bell and a couple of Americanized Chinese restaurants. Everything else was weird and gross. Nowadays, ethnic food is much more accepted and even considered rather hip. Where I live now, in the suburbs of Denver, Colorado, there are several Korean restaurants that serve fairly authentic food. Indian food is becoming increasingly popular. There are pho restaurants on every corner. I go to Hmart (a huge Korean grocery store) and there are just as many white people shopping there as Asians. My kids' non asian friends eat sushi. It is a very different time from I grew up.

Hi PRgal! Nice to meet you! My name is Aurora and my parents emigrated from South Korea in the early 70's. I was born in Tampa, Florida in 1975 and my family moved to Orlando when I was 5 years old. I can say that I very much can identify with the experiences the show has shown us so far. There was a tiny, scattered Korean population in Orlando when I was growing up, enough for one church and one small Korean market 20 miles from where we lived. I was usually the only Asian kid in my class, or in my neighborhood. For the most part my family was treated by our American neighbors as something alien and exotic. The kids treated me the same way until they realized that, unlike my parents, I spoke perfect English and liked the same Saturday morning cartoons as they did and most of them came around and treated me like any other kid. My mother was an excellent cook but I didn't learn to appreciate it until much later because I resented being sent to school with Korean lunch instead of sandwiches and chips like my friends. My parents pushed me hard in school, I had to to take all honors or AP classes and was expected to get straight A's. As far as spending money, they scrimped and saved on most things but were surprisingly open walleted with me. My mother never bought any clothing for herself that wasn't on sale but I always had nice, fairly fashionable clothes and shoes. When computers became a thing I was one of the first on my friends to have one and internet access. I am enjoying this show so far and look forward to watching more.

I agree that having Walter (the black kid) call Eddie a chink was less about making black people look bad and more about illustrating how a boy who, up til now, had been the bottom rung of the ladder, in turn heaped the same abuse on a newcomer who he percieved as someone whom he could step on. And it's kind of odd to me anyway, that they portray him as the only black kid in school. Back in the 80s and 90s in Orlando, while I was often the only Asian kid in my class, there were always several black kids and up til about 6th grade I got ching chonged by black and white kids alike. I also made friends with both black and white kids so I never saw either one or the other as more racist than the other. As far as physical discipline, I think many of us who had FOB parents had the same experience. You just didn't get out of line unless you want to get the shit smacked out of you. And I'm not sure if it the same for Chinese, Japanese or other Asian parents, but my Korean mom had creative ways of putting me in "time out" half squatting against the wall with my arms straight over my head until my legs were trembling from exhaustion and I lost feeling in my arms. This was a common disciplinary method for Koreans and I sure learned not to repeat the actions that got me there. There were many times parents of my American friends would comment on how polite and respectful I was and they never realized it was because respect for adults was beaten into us.

Ha, my kids refer to the local Hmart as the "stinky fish smelling store". Luckily, they all enjoy most of the Korean food I make them and don't seem to mind the smell.And yes with the cheese! My grandmother in Korea abhored cheese and claimed foreigners (Americans) smelled like rotten milk. I like to tell this to people who return from visiting Korea and say everyone smells like garlic. It's just in what you're accustomed to.

To be fair, some of the food was stinky even to us. Once, my parents made gopchang, intestines very similar to chitterlings and I had to leave the house during prep because they smelled so bad. And the days my mom made kimchi stew the house smelled like it for days. It is and more so then than now. I mean, in retrospect I suppose complaining about racist bullies to my beergutted, good 'ol boy PE teacher who asked me in the first grade if my parents were commies and if we were from North or South Korea was an exercise in futility.

I echo most of the opinions here about the Sonny/Will/Paul triangle. I just want to say the stabbing scene with Sonny trying to scream with the hand over his mouth killed me and I'm the person who usually laughs at the hokey shootings/stabbings/bludgeonings that happen in soaps.

I'm sure the black kid will feature again in future episodes. It would be nice if they continue the arc between the two of them over several episodes instead of neatly wrapping everything up in half an hour. And as far as the racism being ignored by the school, it wasn't so unusual back then. I grew up in Orlando in the 80s-90s and I remember in elementary school being called all sorts of racist names by bullies and nothing was ever done about it. When I complained to a teacher I was invariably told to ignore it and worry about my own behavior.

Yes, my parents were way fobbier than the Huangs. Lol