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Tom Doolie
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To say that he's only just now lost the moral high ground is so insane… but I guess it's good that something finally got you off his nuts a little bit.

That was a page-turner, surprisingly.

That was a page-turner, surprisingly.

But, devil's advocate — does a sports fan have to care if a competitor is a generally horrible person?  We just want to see him win races.

But, devil's advocate — does a sports fan have to care if a competitor is a generally horrible person?  We just want to see him win races.

TV is for losers.

TV is for losers.

I don't see Gus's motivation in intervening to save Walt.  Walt refused his overture to come back to work.  And it's known (by at least Gus) that not only did Walt shoot Tuco, but it was Walt's DEA brother-in-law who then showed up to finish the job.  Is the quality of the blue meth really that important?  Aren't the

Whatever Skylar accomplished by saying that she fucked Ted could have been accomplished without actually fucking Ted, right?  I mean, she could have just lied to Walt and said she did it.  But she wanted the full transgression…  Interesting.

Walt is unbearable by this point.  I was begging for Skylar to just turn his ass in.

Seems to me that he was always smoking crystal every time something went wrong and gave him emotional trouble, though.

It was an "easy giveaway" after stringing her along with about a million lies.

I thought this was the weakest episode so far.  It felt obvious that it only existed for exposition's sake.  And it didn't bring forward anything all that gripping.  I shudder at the idea of this series overstaying its welcome, like almost everything on television does.
I thought this was going to be a season about

They had never achieved Omar cool; I think the cliche was a weak attempt to bring them there.

Though nicely done (or at least good-looking), I thought the long shot you referred to was in itself also kind of a cliche.
And I thought they definitely blew up the truck to destroy evidence—y'know, to make the bodies and all a whole lot harder to identify.

I agree, it was cliche.

To be fair, his concert performances are hit and miss, and have been for a long time.  But still, you just don't diss him.

To be fair, his concert performances are hit and miss, and have been for a long time.  But still, you just don't diss him.

Dude, it really doesn't.

Dude, it really doesn't.