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Post by mylungswereaching on Feb 23, 2023 15:05:26 GMT -5
I shot the Sheriff.
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Post by mylungswereaching on Feb 21, 2023 7:32:54 GMT -5
Who are you?
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Post by mylungswereaching on Nov 30, 2022 22:14:59 GMT -5
She was a great singer in her time.
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Post by mylungswereaching on Oct 10, 2022 17:24:21 GMT -5
Sweet home Alabama
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Post by mylungswereaching on Sept 12, 2022 16:45:32 GMT -5
Yeah. Like, I admit I never paid her much mind, and a lot of people have *opinions* on her passing, but she always seemed to be dignified. Ignoring the obvious perks of being a literal monarch, it can't have always been an easy gig. She lived in a fishbowl for her whole life. She was raised with a set of values more like the 19th century than the 20th, never mind the 21st century. But unlike many conservatives, she was willing to slowly change for the good of her country. She didn't allow her son to marry the woman he loved and pressured him into marrying someone totally wrong for him. The children turned out well. The marriage was a disaster. Her grandkids married whoever they wanted to. She allowed herself to slowly change. People followed her like many Russians follow Putin. But she couldn't start unnecessary wars. She was old fashioned but she didn't spread hatred.
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Post by mylungswereaching on Sept 8, 2022 20:18:22 GMT -5
RIP Long live the king
She served her country with honor as best she knew how to.
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Post by mylungswereaching on Sept 7, 2022 19:04:29 GMT -5
I do my best to separate the writer from the work in my mind. I don't have the time to do research if the person who wrote the book lives up to my personal standards. I let the work speak for itself. I mostly agree with that stance (one of my favorite takes on that position came from Neil Gaiman's Graveyard Book where he talked about supporting Rudyard Kipling's work even if he can't agree with the personal positions that Kipling took in real life), but the sheer immediacy of a lot of Rowling's current activities give me pause. Is me buying that game adding more to her anti-trans funds? Fueling her next Dune-length novel about the evil betrayals of people who disagree with her? Is it a meaningless drop in the bucket that ultimately won't affect her in any way? I dunno. I'm just not comfortable with it at the moment, despite growing up loving the franchise. And I'm really not trying to be a part of the bandwagon that jumped on her to suddenly declare that nothing she ever wrote was good, I'm really not, I'm just... I don't think I'll be picking this one up. At least... not through legitimate means. The main problem I have is that there is so much evil in the world. If something was made in China human trafficking is probably involved directly or indirectly. Most, pretty much all large companies have evil stuff in their histories. If it has anything to do with religion its tainted by the long history of evil stuff justified by religion including the anti-trans message she's pushing. Its all where do you draw the line and how much can you tolerate. Her views are supported by one of the major political parties in the US and many of its religious leaders. I totally disagree with her but she's got the same views as one third of the US. I bought all her books used so she never got a dime from me.
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Post by mylungswereaching on Sept 6, 2022 21:24:55 GMT -5
I'm on the fence about it. I'd probably be down to give it a shot, but J. K. Rowling has been going out of her way to be such a villain lately that it's hard for me to really separate the game from her. I won't begrudge anyone who wants to give it a shot, though, especially if they've got a lot of childhood nostalgia attached to the property. (And hey, maybe Rowling will learn and grow as a person. She wrote characters who did, so maybe she'll follow suit someday.) I do my best to separate the writer from the work in my mind. I don't have the time to do research if the person who wrote the book lives up to my personal standards. I let the work speak for itself.
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Post by mylungswereaching on Aug 16, 2022 17:37:43 GMT -5
Kim will probably be sued into poverty. But I don't think she really want's a high power job ever again anyway. It would tend to bring out the scammer in her. They still could criminally charge her but they don't have any evidence past her confession, the crimes happened years ago so collecting more evidence would be difficult and she said that Lalo did it but the Mexican government declared Lalo dead with the bodies dental records proving it beyond a reasonable doubt. They'd have to have the Mexican government reopen the case which might be difficult.
Jimmy turned 50 in the previous episode. With a 7 year sentence, he'd be 57 with no money and no career when he got out. He knew he'd probably turn into Gene again. To him, his life as Gene was worse than prison. He's a hero in prison. He can help people who really need it. There are innocent people there and he can be a jailhouse lawyer for them.
Kim loves him but she'd run from him if he was out of prison. The two of them are toxic for each other. They goad each other until they break bad. Kim didn't want to risk going down that path again. But I do think she'll keep in touch. Letters, phone calls and the rare visit. She's not rich so unless she moves to where he is it would be too expensive to visit him more often.
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Post by mylungswereaching on Aug 11, 2022 18:44:43 GMT -5
Seems a little odd considering they should have the best quality collection of KTMA episodes themselves... Unless those old U-matic tapes totally dissolved dust, which we know they didn't because Jim Mallon was uploading portions of them in pretty good quality... Unless they've lost them... Maybe there are sections of them that are a little damaged.
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Post by mylungswereaching on Aug 9, 2022 14:34:21 GMT -5
Ugh. One more episode to go. I didn't watch the Talking Saul with Chris Hardwick thing afterwards. I didn't want to spoil anything. I'm actually not liking the way this is going. I know - it's not over yet and the last ep could be epic (in it's own way), but it's not looking on a BB scale here at the moment. I didn't like Kim's ultimate arc. It had gone down hill for me after the whole weird scheme she and Saul were doing with Howard. (Even before he got shot). And SHE was the one who came up with that whole thing. Still don't know what that whole thing was about. Why pick on Howard? Wish the writers had come up with something else to make them rethink their ways. And then her confession? Leave Saul out of it, since she thought of it (and he was kind of hesitant at first, though, he's an adult, and once he got on board, he really got on board). She should have said she thought the cartel got him or something just to not involve him so much. But, I know - he made his bed, too, and has to also lie in it. I was liking Saul (not all his doings, of course), but then they just made me lose all that for him. I know, it's a show about bad people and they shouldn't be rewarded but, I was hoping there would be some kind of redeeming thing going on toward the end (still not over yet, but...). A lot of shows today are just so damn depressing. It's all about anti-heroes and just plain villains and rotten people and there's no one to really root for or have some hope. I know there are SOME shows out there that still have a true hero, I still watch a few but I can't watch every show in existence to see it. Those shows seem kind of sparse in the landscape these days. This show is just going to make me sad, I think, in the end. The way I read Kim is that she is addicted to the scam. She gets a kick out of it. But doing the same old scam gets boring. So she had to have bigger and bigger scams to get the same thrill. She told herself a bs lie that it was all about saving the little people. It had nothing to do with the little people. It was all about being in control. Being the lawyer who beat the corrupt system. Being the scammer who was the smartest one in the room. What happened to Howard broke her. She wanted to confess but couldn't because that would drag Jimmy down with her. She was the driving force behind what happened to Howard. She was always the responsible one and felt totally responsible for what happened to Howard so she did what she's always done and ran. She ran to a nice easy job with nice people who'll emotionally support her and demand nothing from her. She is terrified of making a decision now. When Gene called and told her to confess, it gave her permission to do what she's wanted to do for years. BCS is a classic tragedy like people have been writing for 3000 years. It's nothing new. A great person whose great flaw brings them down in the end. It's a charter study. Like a lot of stories it started as the story of Saul and ended up as the story of Kim.
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Post by mylungswereaching on Aug 4, 2022 21:58:48 GMT -5
I wonder if the transition from dug hole to Gene lying in bed was a foreshadowing that Saul is going to die, or if it was just a sort of "the death of Gene" and the re-birth of Saul type dealio. I can't see Gene have a happy ending. Bittersweet would be surprising to me. I expect either dead or in prison. He could end up in a chair with a bell but that's already been done. I just can't see him riding off into the sunset with his best girl by his side. Everything that was good about him is gone.
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Post by mylungswereaching on Aug 3, 2022 15:42:23 GMT -5
Saul is starting to lose my sympathy. I didn't, however, like that transition from the hole Walt and Jesse dug him to him as Gene lying in bed. Is it a foreshadowing, or a fake-out foreshadowing? Hmm. (Aaron Paul's voice sounded too deep, heh. Bryan Cranston looked pretty much the same). Is GeSauJimmy trying to crash and burn or what? I know he needed to up his stash, knowing so much got confiscated, but he really seems like "f*ck it all" now. Edit: I'm sure a lot of it had to do with his conversation with Kim (if he got through to her). Edit: Fun fact: Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul have created a brand of their own mezcal called Dos Hombres. spoilers I have a theory about Jimmy/Saul/Gene. Jimmy is a person whose whole personality and view of the world is totally dependent on the people around him. Jimmy was raised in a house where his mother loved him being slipping Jimmy. He learned that Slipping Jimmy got money and girls and his mothers love. But then his mother died and his world fell apart. His brother got him out of trouble and he moved to New Mexico. There his life revolved around his brother and his girlfriend. But his brother rejected him and told him that he was a criminal and there's nothing he can do about it. And his girlfriend was attracted to him because she shared the same vice he did. They steered him towards crime. Saul lived around criminals and quickly took on their values. Do whatever you need to get rich no matter who it hurts. Gene is living all alone. He has no friends. He's a broken bitter man. He doesn't even get pleasure from the scam anymore. He gets no joy out of life. He's doesn't care anymore. He's always had someone around to rely on and give him direction and he has no body now. He's lost and is headed for disaster.
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Post by mylungswereaching on Aug 1, 2022 12:17:16 GMT -5
As a big Star Trek fan I am saddened by her passing. She lived a long and eventful life and inspired many people. She truly lived long and prospered.
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Post by mylungswereaching on Jul 27, 2022 7:14:25 GMT -5
^^^ Yeah, I got the gay vibes in the Gus scene, I was just wondering if there was more to it as he knew the other guy already. I guess I was just overthinking that. Re: Nippy Hey, Carol Burnett. That was pretty smart of Jimmy/Saul/Gene to get that cabbie to be involved in an illegal scheme so "if I go down, you go down" to get him to not bother him any further. I knew as soon as the store manager said to buff the floor that that guy was gonna slip. Was that another allusion to "Slippin'" Jimmy? Like a "here we go again" type of thing. Even though he had to do something about the cab driver (I forget the guy's name), Saul was looking at that suit and getting the bug again. Is he going to ruin something for himself? It was pretty clear that Gus was a regular at the bar so he knew the guy. It felt like Gene did this scam in self defense. He looked happy when he was doing it but didn't seem to get much satisfaction from it when it was done. I thought the episode was dull but it may be important later on.
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