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Gale Boetticher
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They'll do the ol' "Rick gives a speech over stock footage of characters from old episodes" trailer method, surely.

"Usually I think Zack is too harsh on the show"

"it's gonna be pee pee pants city here real soon"

Michonne. Just watched the beginning of last week's episode. I forget the exact lyrics of the Johnny Cash song they used, but they ended the montage with him singing something like "She's already gone" with a shot of Michonne. Then followed that up with Rick telling her he's not going to lose anything or anyone

"I can see him as a goat. Michele even points that out in the episode."

Haha, fair enough. As long as you don't do anything to annoy him, it would definitely be a better time with Jimmy. :P

I just said this as a reply to someone else, but I think it adequately sums up my thoughts on the Chuck/Jimmy arguments we've had:

The show has people completely distrusting a guy in Chuck who, although definitely an asshole and sanctimonious snob, has only really had one situation in his life (at least, what has been shown to us) where he's been dishonest - making Jimmy believe it was Howard, not him, who black-balled him at HHM……

He's kindhearted…..to people he likes. Just about everyone is kindhearted to people who haven't given them reason to be anything else. For people who annoy him or get in his way (i.e. his "babysitter" at the law firm) he's a dick, and to people he dislikes, he's a criminal.

I'd put my classification of the Jimmy we've seen as a "bad guy" who still has a trace of a conscience. A guy who knows he's not good, but is still, at this point, trying to limit the damage he does. And who is just one or two big setbacks away from completely throwing away that conscience. (The Chuck revelation

We know Jimmy started stealing as a kid. We know he (almost surely) continued to steal from the store until it closed when he was a young adult. We know he was a con-man as a young adult (can't really tell how old he was supposed to be during the "Chicago Sunroof," since Odenkirk has been playing him at so many

There's a pretty big difference between "The store would have been a success without Jimmy stealing $14,000" and "The store would have survived without Jimmy stealing $14,000, and his dad's heart wouldn't be broken, seemingly bringing about his death."

Chuck's story included that his father was that "fool." That he couldn't see anything bad in ANYONE, not just Jimmy. That the store was just surviving..

He recognized that his dad had a problem (being a sucker for con-men with sob stories), and chose to make that problem worse by stealing from him.

According to Chuck's story, it wasn't just Jimmy stealing as the little kid he was in this flashback. He was stealing for years, well into his young adult years, adding up to a pretty substantial number.

Ah, didn't notice that.

"Yeah, the money that Jimmy took was money his dad had already given away."

Feeling vindicated after arguing a few weeks ago with people who were convinced that Chuck was just being an asshole when he told Kim about Jimmy consistently stealing money from his dad's register….That there's no way Jimmy would ever do that to family….. that Chuck must just be assuming the worst about Jimmy and

Um, what? For the first season and most of the second season, Skylar was painted as the "the bitchy wife giving Walt an unnecessarily hard time when all he's trying to do is make sure his family isn't screwed when he dies."

He still has SOME morals….but being fine with taking some money from the family business here and there over a lengthy period of time doesn't exactly come close to the immorality of being fine with the skaters getting killed because of his scam. Plenty of room between those two points.