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Unzip and Attack
Mar 3, 2008

USPOL May

theflyingexecutive posted:

The only way it could have been more obvious would have Mike had gone to he vet and said:
"hey I found this tracking device on my car that some bad guys put there, which I realized after seeing generic gas caps for sale at a junkyard, can you get me a tracking device except I'll have the receiver so I can see where the bad guys go? I'm going to trick them into taking it by running the battery down on their tracking device so when they come to replace it, it will actually be my tracking device instead of theirs. Then I'm going to take their replacement tracking device and put it in my front yard, so they'll think I'm still at home, but I'll be tracking them with my tracking device that I had tricked them into taking."
"Ok, what kind of tracking device is it?"
"Well you see, after I found the tracking device, I looked at it under a magnifying glass. On the label it had the model number, but it also said transmitter in big words. the words weren't really big, they just looked that way because I was using a magnifying glass. If I want to trick the bad guys and follow them to their bad guy hideout I need to know what kind of tracking device system they use, so I would like you to buy a tracking device system from you, the man who does illegal things for me for money"
"Ok, also I would like extra money because it is late at night, specifically 3:30am, a time which most people understand to be late at night and I would not prefer to be awake this late at night, I would like to be asleep, as is customary for most people to do at 3:30am, a late at night time"
"Ok here is your extra money for being up late at night and also getting this illegal tracking device system for me. I am not attempting to negotiate this extra rate because I have a lot of money and finding the bad guys is very important to me"
"Thank you for the extra money, now I would like to go because it is late at night"

I haven't laughed this much from a single post in a long time. Thanks.

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MiddleOne
Feb 17, 2011

Edgar Allen Ho posted:

I told my photographer friend to watch this. She texted almost immediately upon starting S1 that she was impressed at how the first Cinnabon scene was shot and she's still impressed at the camera work several episodes in.

This show is seriously the best cinematography on TV in god-knows-how-long, maybe ever. BB was good but BCS has obviously honed the craft further regardless of if you think the stories stack up.

You should force her to watch Preacher and The Patriot.

Colonel Whitey
May 22, 2004

This shit's about to go off.
They said on the podcast they have a new cinematographer this season but judging by the first episode it's still very good.

SweetMercifulCrap!
Jan 28, 2012
Lipstick Apathy

Edgar Allen Ho posted:

I told my photographer friend to watch this. She texted almost immediately upon starting S1 that she was impressed at how the first Cinnabon scene was shot and she's still impressed at the camera work several episodes in.

This show is seriously the best cinematography on TV in god-knows-how-long, maybe ever. BB was good but BCS has obviously honed the craft further regardless of if you think the stories stack up.

Yeah, I would go as far as to say that the cinematography is a huge part of what makes this show work. It's part of the storytelling. Imagine the extended scene of Mike dismantling the car without the camerawork we saw.

Edgar Allen Ho
Apr 3, 2017

by sebmojo

Steve2911 posted:

All he really has to do is show Kim the tape. She'd probably ditch Jimbo and voluntarily sacrifice Mesa Verde.

That wouldn't mend Chuck's ego though so he won't do that.

I dunno if I'm reading Kim right but she still seems to like and think well of Jimmy, and she's also seen him stress over Chuck's well-being. She might well buy into the confession being a lie to make Chuck feel better. I could see her thinking that, and then eventually Jimmy confesses it's really, really true and THEN she ditches him. I think she'd maintain a connection with him even if they sever professionally though. It'd be really cute/sad if even BB-era Saul still has Kim checking up on him.

MiddleOne posted:

You should force her to watch Preacher and The Patriot.

We actually did a comedy watch of Braveheart a few months ago, it's basically The Patriot in plaid.

Vermain
Sep 5, 2006



Edgar Allen Ho posted:

I told my photographer friend to watch this. She texted almost immediately upon starting S1 that she was impressed at how the first Cinnabon scene was shot and she's still impressed at the camera work several episodes in.

This show is seriously the best cinematography on TV in god-knows-how-long, maybe ever. BB was good but BCS has obviously honed the craft further regardless of if you think the stories stack up.

Their use of light, color, and framing is almost supernaturally good. I already mentioned the extended shot of Mike creeping around his house, but the shot of him walking away from his revenge killing in Five-O is just beautiful.

lotus circle
Dec 25, 2012

Jushure Iburu
So don't worry

Steve2911 posted:

All he really has to do is show Kim the tape. She'd probably ditch Jimbo and voluntarily sacrifice Mesa Verde.

That wouldn't mend Chuck's ego though so he won't do that.
I don't see what good that would do. Kim is already aware of what Jimmy did with Mesa Verde, and has accepted it so she could have her case back.

theflyingexecutive
Apr 22, 2007

Kim's gonna get disbarred and Jimmy is going to get off on a technicality. She'll rightfully blame him and leave the state and it'll crush him. This will bring him into Gus' orbit and turn him into Saul when he will have previously rejected it because things with Kim and his practice were going well.

Cojawfee
May 31, 2006
I think the US is dumb for not using Celsius
Saul never dealt with Gus.

theflyingexecutive
Apr 22, 2007

Criminal orbit, rather

MiddleOne
Feb 17, 2011

Edgar Allen Ho posted:

We actually did a comedy watch of Braveheart a few months ago, it's basically The Patriot in plaid.

Haha oh sorry that's my bad, not Mel Gibs movie The Patriot. I'm was thinking of Patriot, the TV show that aired earlier this year.

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

Yeah, in Breaking Bad when Saul is setting up the initial meet at Pollos Hermanos he explicitly says "I know a guy (Mike) who knows a guy (Fring)".

theflyingexecutive
Apr 22, 2007

I said orbit for a reason :mad:

Tenzarin
Jul 24, 2007
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Taco Defender

Dr. Tim Whatley posted:

I'm both an idiot and a trash person and people did not understand the tracker thing for multiple pages? Wow.

Somehow where was 4 trackers.

Bobby Digital
Sep 4, 2009
Imagine four gas caps on the edge of a display rack.

Gus works the same way.

Supercar Gautier
Jun 10, 2006

Tenzarin posted:

Somehow where was 4 trackers.

1) The tracker the Bad Guys placed on the burner car
2) The tracker the Bad Guys placed on Mike's actual personal car
3) The tracker Mike bought
4) The tracker the Bad Guys brought in as a replacement when the battery on tracker 2 died

Tenzarin
Jul 24, 2007
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Taco Defender
Wait, they also bought the gas tank lids too?

Supercar Gautier
Jun 10, 2006

They prepared a new cap/tracker/battery before they went to Mike's house, so they could just make the swap on the spot. That's how Mike knew they would drive off with the one he put in the car.

Vintersorg
Mar 3, 2004

President of
the Brendan Fraser
Fan Club



Paying attention is really hard you guys.

Herv
Mar 24, 2005

Soiled Meat
I'm more surprised Mike was able to rent a tool box at the junkyard.

Also, this is beautiful:

theflyingexecutive posted:

"Thank you for the extra money, now I would like to go because it is late at night"

Help Im Alive
Nov 8, 2009

Vintersorg posted:

Paying attention is really hard you guys.

Maybe it's the weird people that post while they watch

theflyingexecutive
Apr 22, 2007

Help Im Alive posted:

Maybe it's the weird people who jerk it to anime while they watch

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

no those people are great, I love skipping five pages of zero-content posts every time a new episode airs

Last Chance
Dec 31, 2004

Bobby Digital posted:

Imagine four gas caps on the edge of a display rack.

Gus works the same way.

clown shoes
Jul 17, 2004

Nothing but clowns down here.
Thread never stood a chance.

GigaPeon
Apr 29, 2003

Go, man, go!
It's me! I'm the guy who got confused when he ditched the tracker at work, but then somehow had it when he got home.

Did I miss a scene where he went back for it?

Supercar Gautier
Jun 10, 2006

He just ditched it so he wouldn't be tracked during his meeting with the vet. Conversely, he doesn't need to hide the fact that he often goes home to his house.

Longbaugh01
Jul 13, 2001

"Surprise, muthafucka."

Bobby Digital posted:

Imagine four gas caps on the edge of a display rack.

Gus works the same way.

Beat me to it. Though I was gonna go with "Four trackers on the edge..." Yours is better.

Sagebrush posted:

no those people are great, I love skipping five pages of zero-content posts every time a new episode airs

Yeah this is the point I've gotten to as well.

Last Chance
Dec 31, 2004

GigaPeon posted:

It's me! I'm the guy who got confused when he ditched the tracker at work, but then somehow had it when he got home.

Did I miss a scene where he went back for it?

*eye twitches* He left it at the parking garage so his early morning vet call wouldn't attract suspicion from whoever's tailing him. So we can assume he put it on again before he left the garage and went home and a day or so passes until he gets the test unit from the vet guy.

E: beaten didn't see the above posts

Squashy Nipples
Aug 18, 2007

I'm SOOO happy that this is back!

I like the slow paced episodes, because it allows them to indulge me in something that I've loved in both BB and BCS: lighting porn. And not just the day scenes inside Chuck's house, I loved all of the night scenes with Mike.

Javid
Oct 21, 2004

:jpmf:
Mike slowly and methodically doing something initially confusing is always great as eventually the lightbulb goes on and you figure out what he's up to. Him stealing the bag of cash in season 1 is among my favorite sequences ever.

Ditocoaf
Jun 1, 2011

If there's one actual flaw in BCS recently, it's that Jimmy's and Mike's stories are almost entirely separate. It used to be more frequent that Jimmy was up to poo poo that required Mike's help, and vice versa. And Nacho was originally introduced to Jimmy's storyline (in a way that made me think at first he'd be a pretty major character), but then disappeared for a while and resurfaced in Mike's storyline, never talking to Jimmy again. Hopefully they find a way to re-entwine the two plot threads.

hailthefish
Oct 24, 2010

As dumb as it is to take teasers at face value, the one for next episode definitely suggests Mike and Jimmy's stories are getting re-entwined

Squashy Nipples
Aug 18, 2007

AndyElusive posted:

I could honestly watch Mike Ehrmantraut figure things out while taking apart stuff and putting them back together without saying a word for an entire hour and be completely 100% entertained.

Empty quote.

(although, I can't believe how many goons were confused by what happened)


Kuiperdolin posted:

I hope for the junkyard guy to come back.

I love him too. I miss junkyards like that; where I live in New England, they all sold off all of their cars and parts for scrap in the mid-aughts when scrap metal prices went through the roof.

Great prediction, by the way.

QwertySanchez
Jun 19, 2009

a wacky guy
I'm worried that Chuck's plan isn't to catch Jimmy out, but that once Jimmy finds out about the tape, that will be used to prove that Ernesto broke confidentiality and it'll ultimately be loving with Ern's livelihood that is his bartering chip with Jimmy rather than the tape itself.

Poor Ernesto :ohdear:

Tenzarin
Jul 24, 2007
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Taco Defender
So Chuck's plan might harm Ernesto basically making the brothers lose another upcoming lawyer from Howard's firm? So their fight hasn't just harmed themselves at that point. Howard is gonna have some vengeance at one point.

Longbaugh01
Jul 13, 2001

"Surprise, muthafucka."
A Jimmy/Howard team-up would be pretty amusing.

lotus circle
Dec 25, 2012

Jushure Iburu
So don't worry

Ditocoaf posted:

If there's one actual flaw in BCS recently, it's that Jimmy's and Mike's stories are almost entirely separate. It used to be more frequent that Jimmy was up to poo poo that required Mike's help, and vice versa. And Nacho was originally introduced to Jimmy's storyline (in a way that made me think at first he'd be a pretty major character), but then disappeared for a while and resurfaced in Mike's storyline, never talking to Jimmy again. Hopefully they find a way to re-entwine the two plot threads.
Yeah I think especially in Season 2, their paths kind of deviated from one another. Mainly because Jimmy was trying to do things the straight and narrow way, if only because he thought it might endear Kim to him.

Bates
Jun 15, 2006
Wait, who had a tracker?

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Ditocoaf
Jun 1, 2011

Bates posted:

Wait, who had a tracker?

Chuck tricked Ernesto into changing the batteries so he could track Ernesto to 1216 Rosella Dr., where Jimmy hid the fifth tracking device.

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