WalterWhiteWalker

Scatman Crothers in Kubrick's film of The Shining comes very close for me. But I loved Orlando Jones last night!

My friend from Colombia, huge BB/Narcos/BCS fan, says Giancarlo Esposito's Spanish is really bad. :)

That's how I knew he wasn't a native speaker - because I can understand him without subtitles. I can't follow most native speakers anymore, but English speakers speaking Spanish are fine!

Some of you might be aware that several subcultures of Native Americans in the southwestern desert of the USA/Mexico have a "Man in the Maze" myth. You can see it on their pottery and other artifacts. The analogies between this mythos and where we are in Westworld is highly promising. From the myth of the Papagos (Desert People) from Southwest US, courtesy Wikipedia: It seems to me that this all maps directly: Earth-maker = Ford I'itoi = Arnold/Bernard Coyote = Man in Black Here's a simple, direct translation: "The world was made by Ford by the sweat of his brow. Where the mountains met the sea, came forth Arnold to protect the hosts. Ford and Arnold shaped and populated the Park with hosts. They were followed everywhere by the Man in Black, who was an uninvited guest dedicated to unraveling the Park's mysteries. Then there was a catastrophe, and the three of them agreed that there needed to be a single CEO. It was Ford, the creator, who came to understand the catastrophe first, and Arnold next. But Arnold insisted on being the CEO and took the title for himself. Arnold brought the hosts up like his children and taught them to become conscious, but in the end he became unkind and they killed him. Arnold had so much power that his own consciousness transcended death, and he came to life again, this time called Bernard. -- WE ARE HERE -- Then Bernard invented war. He decided to sweep the Park of the hosts he had made. He needed an army and for this purpose he went underground and returned with the Desert People. They lived in a place scattered with debris that belonged to other hosts that have gone away. Bernard led them, some to the north and some to the south. Bernard could do anything with his programming skills. Though his men did the fighting, Bernard ensured their victory by reprogramming the hosts into blindness and helplessness. Now Bernard has retired from the world and lives, a little old man, in a mountain cave. Or perhaps he has gone back underground." Open questions: Where did Arnold and the MiB come from? What role does Ford play in the war to come? Who are the "people who are gone"?

Has Azor Ahai / TPWWP been referenced in the show at all? Maybe when Renly called Stannis a ham?

Those cats make a really... unusual pairing.

The thing that I love about Kim is how kindly she speaks to Jimmy. It really struck me in the scene where he's showing her the office space, and she says [paraphrasing from memory] "It's a great space, and you deserve it." It really stuck out and made me recognize how rare it is in the BB-verse for one character to authentically and simply have a kind word for another. And then Jimmy returned that kindness with a (mostly) selfless gesture of his own, by helping the Kettlefish return to Kim. The tragedy of BCS will be Jimmy losing that internal well of kindness as he becomes Saul Goodman.

One month is enough... when you look that successful, you're sure to get enough clients and fees to afford the next month's rent! Just have to get that wheel turning... (at least in Jimmy's mind).

Modest fix - they were camp-stove-fuel cans, which led them to suspect that he was running a meth lab (apparently there are simple but dangerous synthesis paths that involve camp stove fuel); and the ripped out wires made them think he was tweaking himself and did it in a psychotic episode.

Overinvestment in Jimmy's life, to the degree that he feels a pathological need to "help" (control) Jimmy's behavior. What do we know about Jimmy and Chuck's parents and their relationship? Also, any speculation about a triggering event 18 months before the present BCS timeline?

Just a speculation - we've already seen Jimmy use *five* names: "Slippin' Jimmy", Jimmy McGill, FBI Agent Jeffrey Steele, Saul Goodman, and Gene the Cinnabon manager. I wonder if Saul Goodman isn't his next name, only the one that he ends up with by the beginning of BB. Maybe he'll go through several identities over the show's arc. And who's to say that Jimmy McGill is actually his original name?

Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony!

Just looking at the despondency of the Unsullied after Oberyn's death (given that some of them are now speccing that Tyrion may actually be executed), I'm wondering -- isn't this really the low point of the whole narrative (at least so far)? That is, if you stack up the chips of "good things happening to bad people" and "bad things happening to good people" and so forth, from here on out, there's a fair amount of "things are looking up": * Stannis saves the Wall * Tyrion's escape and Tywin's death * Arya joining the House of the Many-Faced God * Emergence of UnCat * Bran becoming a greenseer * Jon named Lord Commander * Cersei's humiliation * Dany's dragons tearing shit up Stacked up against relatively few and minor "downers": * Death of the Hound * Davos' struggles in White Harbor and the Stepsisters * Ramsey's wedding to "Arya" [they should have dropped a mention of that in this episode, I thought ("I have identified a promising bride for you...")] * "Burning" Mance Rayder Am I right here? What am I missing?

Dynasty.

"Excuse me, is Lysa Tully in?" "Sorry to say, sir, she fell through the Moon Door three days ago. Would you like to see the little Lord instead?" "No thanks, we're off beyond the Wall to find Benjen Stark."