I think you actually could run BCS concurrent with the Breaking Bad timeline, as Saul certainly spends a lot of time doing things other than representing Walter White.

Yeah, I figured when you were talking about a feeling that anything could happen, there was only one real moment in play there.

You're right, Chuck very clearly tells Jimmy he can use his code.

Well, they offered 100k when it was one Sandpiper location committing the fraud. Sandpiper has twelve locations across multiple states, and if the case goes to trial, there would be punitive damages as well, plus treble damages if it falls under RICO. I mean, I'm not a lawyer, but 12 x 100k = $1.2 million, plus…

Haha, and in that one also McKean is the real law expert and Odenkirk is the con artist / guy who seems fake until the stuff he says is real.

See, I actually think Cinnabon Gene is Saul's ending. The natural ending of BCS is when Saul meets Walter White. Otherwise, you're going to have to either re-cover a lot of material from Breaking Bad, or you're just going to get a title card that says "For what happens between now and the events we are about to show…

The moment that starts with a roadside meeting?

Okay, but to be fair, Donna also said "Combined with a rock star-like ability for creative insight." It's not just having that store of knowledge memorized, it's being able to access it and connect it in ways other people can't, and occasionally as necessary off the top of your head.

The best way I think I've heard it is, the difference between acting and "acting" is "pretending you are" vs. "trying to convince other people you are."

It's a different kind of tragedy. Walter was such an active agent in his own downfall, and at so many points was ultimately responsible for his fate. It seems like we're walking into act two of a tragedy here; Jimmy seems determined to make good, but whatever he did in Act One seems to be keeping people from taking…

I had no idea. Perhaps if your avatar were Lionel Hutz…

"Station Sale" is probably my favorite Jimmy episode, for all the greatness of those three.

"One time my father came home after a night on the town that had turned into a week. My mother says 'John. Is there anything you won't drink?' 'Poison! I'm saving it for you!' Good times…"

I think Joe Rogan is pretty much who he always was, just with a bigger platform. I'm pretty sure most of the conspiracy-theory stuff written for Joe Garelli was based on Rogan.

Well, that I can get behind. Fuck around was how I found myself here in the first place.

So, you comment on discussions and respond to people despite the fact that you don't want to talk to them? That sounds miserable.

Well, the last two are where it particularly stands out— the real problem there seems to me to be that once Martin finished the third book, he didn't really have an idea of what to do next. After all, he was originally going to jump forward in time, right? When he changed his mind on that, I don't think he found a way…

It's far from perfect as an analogy— there really isn't a Maura Tierney in the 30 Rock cast, and Lisa and Jenna's forms of crazy are very different, but they are similarly central to their respective shows. I think Jack McBrayer is closer to the Andy Dick.

"his prose is perfectly competent, and his characterisation, world-building and plotting are brilliant."

Seriously. GRRM started on the fourth book, and ten years after the third one was released, he finally completed the second volume of the monstrosity that the fourth book sprawled into becoming. If he didn't want the show to catch him, he should have held off on signing off on a show version, or he should have started…