That was her best line so far, easily.

Hey, soap operas have plenty of comedy value!

This show is coming together nicely.  This was easily the strongest episode so far.

I'm glad Parminder K. Nagra is getting work on something popular.  It's too bad (though hardly surprising) that she didn't do nearly as well out of Bend It Like Beckham as Keira Knightley did.  Though six seasons of ER money is nothing to sneeze at.

People care about dogs more than other people.

You might say that's just because Mike's amibtion has already reached
its natural end point, but it's easy to imagine that Walt's ambition
might not even have a natural end point.

There's a new one.

Stannis is given far more in the way of favourable qualities in the books than in the show, which ignores things like his genuinely radical ideas for how the Westerosi state should be run, and the degree to which his ideas of justice for both rich and poor are so different from the other contenders for the throne. …

The Sandman was a bit too obviously a character backstory/development prompt for Abbie, but I liked it, on the whole (and, like the pilot, it gave some very good, creepy visuals).  And it's good that they're focusing on giving the characters depth this quickly.

I hope it's Bart the Bear, the one they used on Game of Thrones last season.

Tracy was a man's name first, including in England.  Tracy Letts is from the tale end of the time where its growing popularity as a girl's name led to its ceasing to be used for boys much.

I don't think his having benefited from it too renders it not positive.

One of the more consistent themes of the series is that it's impossible not to hurt innocent people whilst engaged in a life of crime (though the series actually never really addressed the most obvious source of that, namely, all the meth addicts that Walt is exploiting), so I rather doubt Mike never harmed innocents,…

Well, Vince Gilligan says it's up to interpretation what happened to Jesse after, but that he likes to think he got away.

I think the other part is that Mike's mindset, and Gus's, is limited.
Mike, crucially, won't kill "his guys" and in general lets his badness
flow in specific areas.

Are you envisioning civil or criminal forfeiture proceedings here? I assume civil, since criminal forfeiture requires convictions. Once the US has seized such property, the owner can challenge it in federal court, and must show ownership of the property and that it isn't related to drug dealings. That would be…

but I can't think of a single thing he's done that I would consider positive.

Yeah, but the government cannot just take people's money, and their investigators are not omnipotent.  They'd no doubt take an interest in the trust, but they need actual evidence (particularly when facing people who have the ability to push back, as Gretchen and Elliot do), and there isn't much of anything for them…

@avclub-b6ad9ed5179f5855fa5b91a7f2b1ee80:disqus :  Let's say that Gretchen and Elliot, being smart people, do the smart thing:  they give Walter Jr. $9+ million of their own money in trust, and either eat the loss or else wait to filter the actual drug money into their own accounts through the labyrinthine channels of…

Your stance on this seems to be premised on the idea that the DEA and the federal government is omniscient.