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Platystemon posted:Is there any chance that the insurance company looks at the transcript of the Bar hearing, sees Jimmy got a bad shake, and jacks up his rates by something less than 150%? If it's anything close to real life then the insurance company won't give a poo poo unless the supreme court comes and tells them they can't raise his rates 150% for a probation regardless of the situation leading up to it.
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Platystemon posted:Is there any chance that the insurance company looks at the transcript of the Bar hearing, sees Jimmy got a bad shake, and jacks up his rates by something less than 150%? We got an insurance virgin here!
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May 24, 2017 02:39
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Theoretically insurance companies do attempt to make good estimates of the actual risk their clients pose. And then put the price as high as the market will bear.
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May 24, 2017 03:24
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If I worked in insurance I wouldn't touch Jimmy with a 10 foot pole
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OctaviusBeaver posted:I loved how Jimmy stole the community service guy's "I could make it 0" line and used it on the delivery boy. And later, he gets darkly angry at another guy who's a dick to a minimum wage food service worker who lives on tips 
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May 24, 2017 03:38
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Dr Christmas posted:And later, he gets darkly angry at another guy who's a dick to a minimum wage food service worker who lives on tips The lack of a tip is when Jimmy broke bad
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May 24, 2017 03:42
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That scene with Mike and the lady and the broom  . I was thinking to myself "come on mike don't be a poster child for racist minsogynst grandpa" but it was just a fake out.Also as much as I like the storylines about Mike and Gus and the whole drug side of the story I don't really understand why it's there in the first place. It has nothing to do with Saul. They should just rename the show at this point is all I'm saying.
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May 24, 2017 06:43
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It's there because it's part of the world that leads into Breaking Bad, and it is all interwoven together. I listened to this week's podcast. While I was playing Tetris while listening to it, they didn't seem to talk about the episode much. There was a bit about the squatcobbler guy and then a bit about the pills but it was mostly about casting in general.
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May 24, 2017 06:53
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So I just found out from a friend that PLAYUH is K-Strass, the notorious Yo Yo guy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBzWHudBoiA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZ9TLftki5U He fits the show better than I realized.
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May 24, 2017 07:48
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Cnut the Great posted:For all the talk of how good he looks (not that he doesn't), Esposito really does stand out the most for being quite obviously older than he was on BB.
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May 24, 2017 10:24
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Yeah I can't believe they skipped on spending a little change for de-aging software, or at the very least, three hour make-up sessions on Esposito to hide the fact he looks like an old geezer on this prequel show. Not my Better Call Saul 
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May 24, 2017 10:47
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Gus starts dying his hair between BCS and BB. You’re welcome.
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Mr. Sloth posted:Yeah I can't believe they skipped on spending a little change for de-aging software, or at the very least, three hour make-up sessions on Esposito to hide the fact he looks like an old geezer on this prequel show.
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May 24, 2017 11:08
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MC Fruit Stripe posted:Call me callous but I'm on team Jimmy. Chuck? gently caress that guy. Not posting to be contrarian, either. Just shows that different people can have different takeaways. Put me on team Jimmy as well.
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May 24, 2017 11:59
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Sorry guys Chuck owns. He might be a smug rear end in a top hat but he's technically 100% correct, which is the best kind of correct.
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May 24, 2017 12:05
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What if everyones a shithead except for maybe Kim?
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Dear Kim I love you please marry me Sincerely, Future Mr. Wexler
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mobby_6kl posted:Sorry guys Chuck owns. He might be a smug rear end in a top hat but he's technically 100% correct, which is the best kind of correct. I've said it before, but this is really why this show is so good. When you can argue from the point of view of literally any character means that the writers have done a drat fine job.
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May 24, 2017 13:22
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The fact that he's even correct about Jimmy stealing from their dad's till is what gets me. To any outside observer it sounds like such a petty, ancient, baseless accusation but he's absolutely right. Seeing as Chuck got through law school and had a decades-long career before the crazy happened, their dad must have been a pretty decent parent other than the money issues. Chuck probably holds him in high esteem, of course he still begrudges Jimmy for that. Also makes me wonder if some of Chuck's haughtiness is a reaction to his dad's being a schmuck. I can easily see him watching what Jimmy watched in the flashback and developing into the kind of person that thinks every hobo is a scammer or is going to turn around and spend that quarter on booze and drugs.
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They missed their chance for Chuck or Howard or someone to have a high school aged kid, one who gets a little suspicious of his bumbling chemistry teacher hmmm
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drunken officeparty posted:They missed their chance for Chuck or Howard or someone to have a high school aged kid, one who gets a little suspicious of his bumbling chemistry teacher hmmm It should have been that kid that takes his car to Walter's car wash, I don't care how old the actor is, he should have been in this show.
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Also makes me wonder if some of Chuck's haughtiness is a reaction to his dad's being a schmuck. I can easily see him watching what Jimmy watched in the flashback and developing into the kind of person that thinks every hobo is a scammer or is going to turn around and spend that quarter on booze and drugs. You can think every hobo is a scammer who is going to spend that quarter on booze and drugs but there's a huge difference between not wanting to help someone hurt themselves and being a judgemental dick. gently caress Chuck
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Ditocoaf posted:For Mike's thing, I can definitely see him wanting to stay out of things, and I can see him wanting to keep Nacho or Playuh from making bad decisions, but I'm not sure how what's-her-name's story flipped him from one to the other. snoremac posted:Maybe I'm just trained by TV shows to think a bit player's anecdote is designed to motivate a character, but I have no idea how the hiking lady's story convinced Mike to help that guy with Nacho. Mike met her, and they had a nice connection. Mike was visited by Playuh, who told him that Nacho was in the market for empty nitro capsules. Mike immediately cottoned on that Nacho will use them to hit Hector. Mike, not wanting to deal with Playuh and having been dissuaded from anti-Hector action by Gus, washes his hands of the matter. Mike goes to the support group, learns that her husband died mysteriously and she has carried that burden for nearly a decade of intense suffering. Putting a human face to the pain renews and intensifies Mike's animus towards Hector for the murder of the good samaritan (and, to a lesser extent, the driver of the truck) Mike decides that he wants Hector dead again, after all. If it's gonna happen, he's gonna make sure Nacho does it right.
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maskenfreiheit posted:So did Jimmy go in with the intention of loving Chuck, or do you think he decided in the moment? I'm thinking his entire refund attempt was a long con. He knew drat well he wasn't getting that refund he just needed an excuse to get in the room and have the breakdown.
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What I want to know is on a show called Breaking Bad, who the gently caress is this Walter White guy and why should I care about him more than Breaking Bad, our lovable scamp protagonist?
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Maybe that lady's husband disappeared using Ed the disappearer guy and this is how we'll be introduced to him!
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vermin posted:Maybe that lady's husband disappeared using Ed the disappearer guy and this is how we'll be introduced to him! Maybe the lady's husband was the disappearer 
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ALFbrot posted:Mike met her, and they had a nice connection. I don't see how this ends up with Mike and Gus getting along, though, since Gus explicitly told Mike not to kill Hector and he presumably knows everything that happens in Albuquerque. Obviously Hector doesn't die and is instead crippled, which as far as Gus is concerned is maybe the perfect outcome, but that can't be intentional. Mike isn't Walt, who might know what secret poison to put in the capsules to have that effect. Gus will know that Mike and Nacho tried to kill Hector despite his orders. Maybe Mike manages to hide his involvement because he's extraordinarily cautious, but I think Nacho is gonna get box-cutter'd.
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:The fact that he's even correct about Jimmy stealing from their dad's till is what gets me. Eh. Chuck attribute the business's failure and the father's death to Jimmy. His father had a reputation for being an easy mark and was routinely targeted. I'd be surprised if Jimmy were a real factor in what he's blamed for.
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How could Gus know Nacho hates Hector? There isn't much interaction between the two except at Pollos Hermanos.
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Yeah, Mike's the only one who knows that Nacho isn't on board with Hector. And as far as Gus is concerned, Mike checked Nacho's gas cap for a tracker and didn't find one, so presumably he feels like he can help make this happen with no blowback
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Accretionist posted:Eh. Chuck attribute the business's failure and the father's death to Jimmy. His father had a reputation for being an easy mark and was routinely targeted. I'd be surprised if Jimmy were a real factor in what he's blamed for. Pretty sure his dad would have at least kept track of the money he knowingly gave away. The massive shortfall Chuck discovered was almost certainly entirely due to Jimmy using his father's store as his own personal piggy bank for much of his life. Chuck didn't turn out to be right about Jimmy skimming from the till just by pure coincidence. In which case, even if Jimmy wasn't the sole cause of the business's failure (he probably wasn't), he certainly exacerbated its decline. In some ways what Jimmy did is worse. He wasn't stealing from a business that could afford to lose a bunch of money, he was stealing from a business that was already struggling to make it. And he probably used it to buy things like nudie mags and drugs and alcohol. ALFbrot posted:Mike met her, and they had a nice connection. Yeah this is right and I'm an idiot, I totally blanked on the fact that Mike figured out that Nacho was going to try to kill Hector just based on what Pryce told him when they first meet in the episode. Cnut the Great fucked around with this message at 20:06 on May 24, 2017 |
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Maybe I'm forgetting a scene from an earlier season, but didn't a flashback show that Jimmy wasn't actually stealing from his father's business? The con artist came in with a story about needing money for some made up reason, Jimmy tells his dad he's being scammed, then his dad goes in the back to get the money anyway because he's too good-natured to think anyone would do that to him. While he's back there, the con artist buys some cigarettes or something like that to make it clear he has plenty of money, and Jimmy takes the right amount and puts it in the till like any other legitimate purchase. I thought the scene meant that Chuck had been falsely accusing Jimmy of stealing, even though it was actually just their father being an easy mark and Chuck respecting him too much to come to that conclusion. Was there something after the con artist gave Jimmy that "There are two types of people in life, sheep and wolves" comment where he actually took some money out for himself?
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He does slip some from the till in the flashback. I think that the implication is that Chuck thinks it was solely Jimmy, but their dad was a gullible mark who was getting fleeced left and right, so Jimmy just got in on it.
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Sagebrush posted:Maybe Mike manages to hide his involvement because he's extraordinarily cautious, but I think Nacho is gonna get box-cutter'd. Either way, Jimmy probably ends up involved and this is the incident he's referring to when he says in Breaking Bad "it wasn't me, it was Ignacio!" Especially since the first time he met a Salamanca, he ended up on his knees in the desert with a bag over his head - just like when he met Walt and Jesse formally.
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:I've said it before, but this is really why this show is so good. When you can argue from the point of view of literally any character means that the writers have done a drat fine job. And now I shalt argue the show on behalf of Hector Salamanca gently caress THAT loving GUS FRING. THAT'S WHAT. I AM #1, THAT SHOW OFF loving SMUG PRICK. ALL SHOULD FEAR ME BECAUASE I AM A loving SALAMANCA. But seriously most of the characters have extremely understandable POVs.
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lotus circle posted:What I want to know is on a show called Breaking Bad, who the gently caress is this Walter White guy and why should I care about him more than Breaking Bad, our lovable scamp protagonist? I love how people don't trust this show to tie the Mike & Saul plots together with a bow at the end. Doubly so since Saul knows Gus, and is the guy who pointed White to Gus, meaning they absolutely have to cross paths on a criminal level. My guess is that Saul's need for money will leave him to take a big risk and helping Gus, Nacho and Mike with the Hector plan.
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ALFbrot posted:Mike met her, and they had a nice connection. I think you're more or less correct, though I don't think he immediately figured that out. I'd assume he looked the pills up off camera, THEN figured out what was going on. ("These are nitro pills -> Why would Nacho want nitro pills? -> Looks into his associates) but overall I think that was the reason. I wouldn't feel bad for missing it though, it took me a long thought to figure out why one lead to the other. All of this makes me wonder why Mike didn't just gun down Todd down after the kid incident given his ethics, though. Blazing Ownager fucked around with this message at 22:34 on May 24, 2017 |
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NoEyedSquareGuy posted:Maybe I'm forgetting a scene from an earlier season, but didn't a flashback show that Jimmy wasn't actually stealing from his father's business? The con artist came in with a story about needing money for some made up reason, Jimmy tells his dad he's being scammed, then his dad goes in the back to get the money anyway because he's too good-natured to think anyone would do that to him. While he's back there, the con artist buys some cigarettes or something like that to make it clear he has plenty of money, and Jimmy takes the right amount and puts it in the till like any other legitimate purchase. He did grab some cash for himself, if im not mistaken, deciding he wouldn't be a "sheep." McGill senior was terrible at running a business and would failed it himself. Jimmy just made things slightly worse and Chuck always blamed him for the whole mess.
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