S45.E10: How Am I the Mobster?

[RockShrimp]

I don’t think Katurah is normally scared of water and I wonder how much the letter from her mother really fucked her up. I wonder if she didn’t tell production she was no contact and they just thought obviously we’ll get a letter from mom. The folks I know who have gone NC have done it for good reasons and it’s extremely emotionally difficult, especially with society telling you you have to forgive family no matter what. 
 

I’m proud of Emily but I hope the non Reba folks figure out something because otherwise the rest of this season is borrrrring. 

[SummerDreams]

I'm wondering if the three tribe of six people format is to blame for this pagonging. I mean, with two tribes of nine people there are more sub-groups and more people who are free agents and can go wherever as a number. I get that the three tribes makes it easier for the viewers to remember who is in which tribe and the alliances formed but them creating an alliance early on with other people being "the enemies" creates this result of the pagonging we see here. Either make them two tribes of nine or make them swap every two tribals so that people must make new alliances.

[millennium]

Is there anyone out there who after watching this episode would hire Jake as their lawyer? 

[Chicago Redshirt]

5 hours ago, millennium said:

Is there anyone out there who after watching this episode would hire Jake as their lawyer? 

Eh, there is really nothing he has done or failed to do in the game that makes me think "Man, he can't be trusted to do a competent job as a lawyer."

Keep in mind, there are different types of lawyers and probably not too many people are 100 percent awesome at 100 percent of the facets of lawyering.

Jake is an assistant public defender. Many of the things that one has to do to be good at that job (being able to analyze evidence, reports and interviews, come up with presentations, know and understand how to apply the law, know how to question witnesses, know how to address a jury) aren't really things that have been showcased in anyone's mid-game. 

He fell for Bruce's lie about having given his idol to Kellie, which might make him naive in game terms. But that doesn't necessarily translate into him being naive in the real world or as an attorney.

He had a little bit more of a breakdown when he realized Bruce was playing him and had doubts about his own BS meter, but I assume some of that was probably exaggerated for the cameras and some of it was amplified by a lack of sleep/food/etc. 

He has stumbled over his words some, but again, I'd expect that is something that is worsened by game conditions.

If anything, it would be the opposite. By all rights, Jake should have been voted out twice and he's still here. Maybe/probably not for much longer unless he pulls another rabbit from a hat. I wouldn't mind someone that lucky on my side.

In the dark about what kind of law Katurah and Julie practice, I don't see Jake as being obviously worse a choice for generic representation than either of them. 

[Drogo]

12 minutes ago, Chicago Redshirt said:

Jake is an assistant public defender. Many of the things that one has to do to be good at that job (being able to analyze evidence, reports and interviews, come up with presentations, know and understand how to apply the law, know how to question witnesses, know how to address a jury) aren't really things that have been showcased in anyone's mid-game. 

I heard recently that something like 98% of convictions are the result of plea deals.

I would 100% trust that Jake knows how to plead guilty for a less harsh punishment. 

[iMonrey]

17 hours ago, Chicago Redshirt said:

He fell for Bruce's lie about having given his idol to Kellie, which might make him naive in game terms. But that doesn't necessarily translate into him being naive in the real world or as an attorney.

Oh I dunno. I can easily foresee Jake on Dateline one day, trying in vain to defend some woman who rather obviously murdered her husband.

[BigRedCheese]

I guess Jake isn't the kind of lawyer you hire, he's one that the state assigns to you when you can't afford to hire one. Still, I like the way he dealt with Drew, that guy's even more douchey than typical douche bros.

 

[Chicago Redshirt]

For what it's worth, Katurah works/worked for the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund and Mama Julie works/worked as a wills and trust attorney according to Above the Law and other Internet stuff.

The skill sets for those jobs overlap in some ways and are very different from Jake's public defender gig. 

[RockShrimp]

On 12/3/2023 at 11:59 PM, Chicago Redshirt said:

Eh, there is really nothing he has done or failed to do in the game that makes me think "Man, he can't be trusted to do a competent job as a lawyer."

 

Now that therapist who quit the first day because she wanted a cigarette on the other hand…

[Katrina Kate]

I bet Hannah stopped telling her clients “You can do hard things!”

[Lantern7]

This is where my mind went seeing Drew without a shirt:

I have anime on the brain. I'm not that sorry about it.