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Nuebot posted:I thought it was, specifically, because the guy who found the trucker in the first place that they killed wound up being the husband of the lady from the therapy group? Or am I wrong about that? I just remember shortly after she gave her story he went out, dug up the body, reported it, and then things started getting rolling. Nah, that guy was hiking (I believe) and vanished. But hearing her talk about how hard it was not knowing what happened to him and if he might still be alive motivated Mike to find and report the dead trucker's body so his family could know what happened to him.
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Nuebot posted:There is literally nothing stopping people from making groups online to watch one episode a week book club style to discuss it, but I guess that'd take some personal effort. There is literally nothing stopping people from waiting until it's done and then binging it all at once, but I guess that'd take some personal effort. Just LOL at the idea that ~water cooler talk~ is some mythical concept and not something you can verifiably see right on these forums with shows that release weekly and all the discussion they generate compared to ghost town bingedrops
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Nuebot posted:I thought it was, specifically, because the guy who found the trucker in the first place that they killed wound up being the husband of the lady from the therapy group? Or am I wrong about that? I just remember shortly after she gave her story he went out, dug up the body, reported it, and then things started getting rolling. I don't think the Good Samaritan was actually Anita's husband, she just reminded him that there are loved ones who suffer whenever the cartel disappears an inconvenient bystander, and he decided he wasn't actually done loving with Hector. He dug up the body so whoever missed him could have some closure, but Anita never brings it up and I'm pretty sure her husband has been dead for more than a couple weeks given her grieving process. Plus dude disappeared on a hike, and IIRC Nacho mentions the Samaritan being a guy who happened to drive by.
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Nuebot posted:There is literally nothing stopping people from making groups online to watch one episode a week book club style to discuss it, but I guess that'd take some personal effort. No amount of personal effort is going to control the behavior of strangers on the internet. I know I can be in this thread right now and talk about Howard’s fate while reading smaller details people picked up on in the episode without fear of someone spoiling the ending of the entire series. Back to the show, I wonder if Howard made the connection that Chuck’s habit of spinning sodas so they don’t explode is likely the result of Jimmy shaking every can in his life.
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*runs out of the posting lab and throws a bunch of papers in the air* weekly episodes are discriminatory against all the people who are going to die before the season finishes
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Heliotrope posted:Nah, that guy was hiking (I believe) and vanished. But hearing her talk about how hard it was not knowing what happened to him and if he might still be alive motivated Mike to find and report the dead trucker's body so his family could know what happened to him. Good point, I'd assumed everything was connected  ghostwritingduck posted:No amount of personal effort is going to control the behavior of strangers on the internet. I know I can be in this thread right now and talk about Howard’s fate while reading smaller details people picked up on in the episode without fear of someone spoiling the ending of the entire series. Yeah, which is why it's stupid to try and dictate that people can only watch something the way you, personally, think it should and gently caress the woes of anyone who falls by the wayside. Look at how mad people get when anyone suggests we should all watch the binge model, after all. No matter what, one group of people is going to be griping about having a harder time avoiding spoilers and such. But with a weekly release people who don't like watching it one week at a time have literally no option but to sit there and hope google doesn't decide to promote every news article about that show I was looking forward to watching later while the inverse, if every series was released in one drop, it's not hard at all to carve out your own weekly niche for like-minded individuals. The poo poo on both ends are not comparable in the least and one option actually allows for both groups to get what they want, one just tells an entire group of the viewing population to gently caress themselves if they don't like pretending chris hardwick is their bff. Nuebot fucked around with this message at 02:36 on May 26, 2022 |
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Nuebot posted:if every series was released in one drop, it's not hard at all to carve out your own weekly niche for like-minded individuals. The problem here would be: Nuebot posted:people ... have literally no option but to sit there and hope google doesn't decided to promote every news article about that show I was looking forward to watching later There is no way to release episodes such that you can watch them all at once or you can watch them over several weeks and either way you won't get spoiled. Either the people who watch them all at once are going to get spoiled while they wait for all the episodes to come out, or the people who watch them week by week are going to get spoiled because they're watching episode 10 ten weeks after all the episodes were released in bulk. It's unfortunate that the way you prefer to watch TV isn't the way Better Call Saul does it. I don't know what more there is to be said, and if there is more to be said, I hope it's in another thread because it's boring, whiny, and unrelated to Better Call Saul. On the subject of Better Call Saul, I think the TV show is putting Jimmy into more powerful a position than he occupies in Breaking Bad. In Breaking Bad he's still representing public masturbators, in Better Call Saul he's already a millionaire with incredible connections. Civilized Fishbot fucked around with this message at 02:46 on May 26, 2022 |
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It's funny how intensely people always argue about the release schedule thing when you have no control over it and the actual decision wouldn't even bother taking your preference into account
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Nuebot posted:Good point, I'd assumed everything was connected Can you at least agree that It’s easier for most people to find 45 minutes in a day for their favorite show than having to find 10 hours for a season drop?
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Nuebot posted:But with a weekly release people who don't like watching it one week at a time have literally no option but to sit there and hope google doesn't decide to promote every news article about that show I was looking forward to watching later except here you are in the thread discussing the weekly released programme which you are somehow managing to watch despite acting like doing so weekly is terrible and bad. I think binge watchers are massively overstating their aversion to weekly released shows, as that is how it was done for literally all of TV history until extremely recently, and everyone managed.
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Every episode of the entire series drops at the same time, but each one is on a completely different streaming service.
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You have to view BCS as some sort of fuzzy alternate timeline reboot if you consider it at all. Nothing really squares with exactly who he is and the place he occupies in BreakingBad upon close inspection, which makes the painstaking focus of connecting the dots to BB seem pretty pointless. Lalo's stature, his run in with Tuco, his band of brother's experience with Mike, none of it passes the smell test.
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stromboni posted:It's funny how intensely people always argue about the release schedule thing when you have no control over it and the actual decision wouldn't even bother taking your preference into account Because the arguments are stupid, it's an eternal cycle of "We'd get spoiled!" "We get spoiled now." "But my spoilers." Civilized Fishbot posted:It's unfortunate that the way you prefer to watch TV isn't the way Better Call Saul does it. I don't know what more there is to be said, and if there is more to be said, I hope it's in another thread because it's boring, whiny, and unrelated to Better Call Saul. You were literally posting about this last page, it's kind of poo poo to get your digs in then take the high horse telling other people to stop because it's not relevant ~now~. But sure, I'll stop after this post since obviously a something awful argument isn't going to solve netflix's release schedules. ghostwritingduck posted:Can you at least agree that It’s easier for most people to find 45 minutes in a day for their favorite show than having to find 10 hours for a season drop? Sure, but it's still real dumb to limit it exclusively to 45 minutes a week if there's more available. Butterfly Valley posted:except here you are in the thread discussing the weekly released programme which you are somehow managing to watch despite acting like doing so weekly is terrible and bad. I think binge watchers are massively overstating their aversion to weekly released shows, as that is how it was done for literally all of TV history until extremely recently, and everyone managed. "Because we've always done it this way" is a really stupid reason to dig your heels in and not change or progress. From what I understand about most TV production (I know a tiny bit more about animation, rather than live action and I doubt it's 1:1), weekly releases were often typically a matter of budget and production; if you're still producing and editing the second half of a season you want a buffer so you have time, and you might even need the extra budget that comes in from the first half airing well to save your rear end. So when a more modern series does have all of its episodes finished, unlike Better Call Saul which evidently doesn't have the second half of the season complete, the choice to appeal to the tradition just seems limp and needless. Mister Speaker posted:drat, I really should do a rewatch of the whole series in the interim. Mike's story is loving incredible. BCS has definitely turned me around on his story. I was ready to assume it was just fan service in the beginning; but in a series where almost every character is constantly lying and manipulating everyone else, Mike is a surprisingly refreshing source of blunt loyalty.
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As one of the many AMC execs who read this thread, I want to say that your impassioned multi-paragraph screeds have moved me. I'll be speaking with the CEO of AMC, Mr. AMC, at 8am sharp tomorrow and I vow to get the rest of BCS released by 8:15am at the latest.
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Civilized Fishbot posted:On the subject of Better Call Saul, I think the TV show is putting Jimmy into more powerful a position than he occupies in Breaking Bad. In Breaking Bad he's still representing public masturbators, in Better Call Saul he's already a millionaire with incredible connections. That's public service work he does pro bono. Continuing Kim's legacy. He is very helpful with Badger and tells his uncle to accept the police deal.
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FunkyAl posted:That's public service work he does pro bono. Continuing Kim's legacy. He is very helpful with Badger and tells his uncle to accept the police deal. For the value of the services Saul provides, $4,650 might as well be pro-bono.
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FunkyAl posted:Their sex life is going to get weird. Their bathroom is some kind of greco-roman pleasure palace. I cant imagine kim ever lived in the saul palace. Considering the gus house reveal I kinda think there's some sort of misdirect there
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So, just a thought, but what are the odds that Jimmy buys Howard's house? It should be hitting the market soon.
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Ninurta posted:So, just a thought, but what are the odds that Jimmy buys Howard's house? It should be hitting the market soon. Why would he want to sleep in the guest room?
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Thankfully there’s only 6 episodes left and after that this thread won’t be full of babies crying about not being able to watch everything in one day despite the entire show and the show it’s spun off from never operating that way nor even being on a platform that would even consider it. As much as I’d love to know what happens after Howard got into, uh, the middle of something waiting a week in between(well, 6 weeks in this example thanks to COVID and the star having a heart attack) rolling right into the next episode without letting it simmer a bit whether I check the internet for other theories or reactions or not lessens the impact. It’s like making pasta sauce from scratch and really taking your time vs opening a jar of cheap poo poo and dumping it on your noodles.
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Action Serious posted:Thankfully there’s only 6 episodes left and after that this thread won’t be full of smooth brained little babies crying about not being able to digest and comprehend what happens in a 45 minute episode without spending a week reading all the details that other people write down for them. drat your right weekly releases will continue to remain the norm because it drives engagement and because stupid peoples’ eyes are just as valuable as those who can understand a show while viewing it without help keep posting condescending lil screeds to defend your very important position tho
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Civilized Fishbot posted:On the subject of Better Call Saul, I think the TV show is putting Jimmy into more powerful a position than he occupies in Breaking Bad. In Breaking Bad he's still representing public masturbators, in Better Call Saul he's already a millionaire with incredible connections. Rich people jerk off in Starbucks sometimes. Edit: Chuckling as I remember that time a Blue Jays player got arrested for masturbating in a Florida parking lot because apparently he was too shy to ask his hotel roommate for some privacy. Chamale fucked around with this message at 05:41 on May 26, 2022 |
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Wheeee posted:drat your right Sorry about your brain. 
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Civilized Fishbot posted:On the subject of Better Call Saul, I think the TV show is putting Jimmy into more powerful a position than he occupies in Breaking Bad. In Breaking Bad he's still representing public masturbators, in Better Call Saul he's already a millionaire with incredible connections. I like that he stays in the strip mall office even after he has his millions. Anything else would just be wrong.
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Sir Mat of Dickie posted:I like that he stays in the strip mall office even after he has his millions. Anything else would just be wrong. Jimmy seems to place a high value on personal attachments to stuff, such as him sticking around the same nail salon until eventually making it his office — and doing basic cheap work lets him have fun with it while providing a smoke screen for more high end criminal endeavors.
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I'm not sure why it's even a discussion or a debate about weekly releases or all at once? What cable TV show has even released every episode at once? It's not going to happen unless it's a show made for a streaming platform. CableTV is an outdated business model, but they are going to cling onto the model forever because they have the money and don't give a gently caress. I want the sky to be green, but it's not going to happen so why make a big deal out of the sky being blue?
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The idea of "consumer choice" in the distribution of art is obscene. Human beings are not supposed to be solitary, solipsistic ravenous "consumers". Art is social.
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VROOM VROOM posted:*runs out of the posting lab and throws a bunch of papers in the air* weekly episodes are discriminatory against all the people who are going to die before the season finishes This actually happened in BB...
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christmas boots posted:Jfc I’m jealous of Howard after these last few pages i thought the 'living will envy the dead' was a weird thing for Kim to say while looking straight at the camera but trust the process I guess
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Old Doggy Bastard posted:Jimmy seems to place a high value on personal attachments to stuff, such as him sticking around the same nail salon until eventually making it his office — and doing basic cheap work lets him have fun with it while providing a smoke screen for more high end criminal endeavors. Also sticking with his Esteem (  ) even after he could surely afford a better car.
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I thought the actor who plays Rand Casimiro is the same guy who also played a retired judge/arbitrator in Silicon Valley. I was wrong, but they do look and even sound quite a bit alike. Also lmao that in the swapped photos, they gave the frisbee guy a big waxed moustache also.
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CODChimera posted:drat that blew me away. were people actually expecting Howard to die? were there hints towards that? I think a lot of people assumed because he's not in Breaking Bad and they spent the whole season so far slowly setting him up for a big fall. I didn't know for sure he was going to die but I thought he'd be completely ruined at the very least.
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CODChimera posted:drat that blew me away. were people actually expecting Howard to die? were there hints towards that?
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