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What happens when Samaritan is gone? How do you top a god-like AI in the next season?

I also loved Martine's eye roll when Root started fighting back on the bed. I agree with the Machine: Harold is not interchangeable. I hope Michael Emerson stays with the show until the end. Reese, on the other hand, has the look of a character about to be offed. Serene about life, acknowledging a friendship with Lionel. I'm worried we're going to lose him next week.

Unless the pace speeds up markedly, I don't think 2 episodes is enough to resolve everything. So clearly they intend to drag this out. As Cody said, I'll finish out the season but I doubt I'll be back. Too many stupid people and not enough smart questions. Unlike Lost, they just don't have the character depth to make that worthwhile. Or maybe Lost just had the good fortune to be the innovator, so the audience was a lot more forgiving for the original than they are for Lost clones these days.

Speaking of, are they going to try to stretch this out into another season? One season is an interesting story. Anything more is a soap opera. I liked Lost. Even the ending, once I gave it a couple of days to think about it. The neverending mystery about what was going on was tolerable because I found enough of the characters engaging. But that is less true for this show so far, and I think if they decide to take 5 seasons to tell this story I probably won't stick around for it.

Yeah, I'm done. I've read several places where it helps to have a previous understanding of the historical events to find this interesting, but I don't, so...I don't.

What did Juliette mean when she said that sex with Renard was picking up where they left off? When did they start making out with each other? Or is that going back to a couple of seasons ago when they were obsessing?

Oh for sure, I was just expanding on your idea that two shows that don't compare can be equally good.

Agreed. Until I watched BB I believed the best show ever made was the new Battlestar Galactica. After BB I was torn. Then I realized they could both be #1 because it was apples and oranges. As a study of the evolution of a single character, BB is it. BSG, on the other hand, follows the changes that a host of well-drawn characters noble and flawed, go through, within themselves and amongst each other, in the most desperate struggle of their lives.

Ha! Classic! Cuse had to backpedal on the idea for Lost so he tries it out here? Love it! And I can't think of anything I've seen so far that would negate that theory either.

I love this show, though it does have two problems people have already mentioned: clumsy exposition and heavy-handed foreshadowing. I think both of those are due to being a Big-3 network show, CBS specifically. Oh what this show could have been on AMC or HBO.

Someone upthread mentioned how it might be interesting to see Jimmy and Hamlin go head-to-head. I was thinking along the same lines, although I wasn't thinking of Hamlin. I wonder if G+G could somehow swing it so that Jimmy and Chuck were adversaries in the courtroom. How would Chuck react if we were beaten, fair and square, by someone who was not a real lawyer?

Has anyone watched the entire confession on the DVD? Was Saul explicitly implicated in anything criminal by Jesse? Yes Saul's position was dire when he ran, but was it because he feared prison? Or execution?

What did he have to do with the actual murders? Unless they were active participants, lawyers are not liable for their clients' crimes, are they? ETA: I can't recall now: was Saul running from the law, or from other bad guys who were after Walt and Jesse (e.g., the bikers, drug cartels).

Now that Walt is dead and Jesse has likely disappeared for good, what charges might be waiting for Saul? When he finds out those two are gone, might he resurface without fear of pursuit by the authorities?

Did Julie look at all? Wasn't it the psychiatrist who did all actual the searching?

This feels like a back-door pilot. Is this "International Unit" part of the FBI? I thought the FBI's mandate was purely domestic, though granted I am no expert.

My guess is that it's related to why all these dead people are so hungry all the time. Somehow she is metabolizing the alcohol much faster than normal, so she's not getting drunk.

Hm, maybe so. Then perhaps it is really only Chuck's respect that matters. And he's never going to get that.

I don't think it's about money at this moment. I think it's about respect. James M. McGill, Esq. doesn't get any. But Slippin' Jimmy? Everyone wanted to be his friend.

Oh Chuck, what have you done? You broke your boy.

I love British drama. I am smart and patient and can sit through just about anything. But this was really boring. I'm on the fence about continuing.

Someone remind me why Kurt "doesn't need the money". Who doesn't even try for a half-mil?

You know, I'm starting to give Howard the benefit of the doubt here. I'm thinking if he were that big a dick, he wouldn't have told Kim the truth. Maybe he urged her to use her friendship to try to get Jimmy to take the deal because he didn't want Jimmy to lose out after all that hard work. He's been doing Chuck's dirty work for years now and it certainly looked to be wearing on him tonight.

Jimmy's buildup was brilliant. I kept going back and forth on whether or not he'd figured it out, even though, after that lingering shot on the charging cell, I knew he'd figured it out. And Chuck's cold, dead eyes when he realized he'd been found out. Odenkirk and McKean were just masterful in that scene.

I wonder if Howard would be willing to work with Jimmy if it weren't for Chuck nixing it. He seemed genuine in his praise of Jimmy's efforts.