You might be right. I just think he probably didn't anticipate getting into that sort of situation, even though it ended up happening pretty quickly.

It seems like both Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul operate on the basic principle that you can't dip your toes into evil and corruption and expect to be able to pull them back out. I doubt Walter originally thought he'd ever end up killing anybody or getting involved with the ABQ drug underworld when he first…

Plus, wouldn't being pirates require something in the way of planning, preparation, and gathering of weaponry and what not? It seems like most people are still flying by the seats of their pants right now, and it's not as if a group of people out on a cruise are suddenly going to decide, "So, I hear it's total zombie…

I have a hard time finding much to like about any of the adults after all the collateral damage they caused with their escape plan last season. Why didn't they just tell everybody what the military was up to? If the military wasn't able to contain a crowd of walkers, they certainly couldn't have contained a crowd of…

Great series overall. I think if there was one weak spot, it was how O.J. was handled as a character. Maybe that's partly an issue of lack of reliable information? I don't know how much O.J. has ever really talked about conversations behind closed doors or about any inner thoughts at the time, but even if he did, a…

Just to clarify my other post - IMO, Deanna was in fact right in telling Rick he was going too far. The guy may have been an abusive jerk, but Rick was still engaging in what amounted to police brutality. I was talking more about the show's implied POV, which seems to go back and forth between questioning or…

What's odd is that the show sometimes seems to embrace the idea that Rick is going too far or losing his marbles, but then another crisis comes along for him to solve and it just kind of peters out. Towards the end of S5, they seem to imply that Deanna is right in that episode where he starts beating the crap out of…

Are that many people really looking for an excuse to be their "worst selves," though? And would an entire community of them really hold together for any length of time? Assemble too many of them in one place and it seems more likely that they'd turn against each other or try to overthrow the leader. I know I'm…

I'm not defending this episode in particular. Heck, I'm not really even defending the series in general. But I do wonder if this setup *might* go somewhere interesting next season.

I'm left with the same questions about Negan that I've had about most of the other antagonists on this show: who is this guy, why is he such an asshole, and how did he convince people to follow him? Somehow I can't imagine that he's much fun to be around even if you're in his favor, or that most people would sign on…

This is just a tangential question that I'm a little curious about - were the rules for censorship on non-premium cable formally changed at some point, or has it just been a sort of unwritten understanding between the networks and the FCC or whoever would normally be monitoring this? It doesn't seem that long ago that…

One minor issue I had with this episode is that they didn't seem to establish that the jury was out of the courtroom when Fuhrman came in to plead the fifth. People who don't know that from RL might think that the jury saw all that. (Unless I just missed a line or establishing shot somewhere?)

EDIT: never mind

Mike's son may not have been an on-screen character, but his fate is still representative of how the world of this show works. Even if he had fully embraced corruption, he wouldn't have deserved it, and he seems to have done far less than that. That's all I meant.

I don't think the show necessarily depicts people "eventually getting what they deserve" at all. The skater guys may have been con men but they certainly didn't deserve to be kidnapped, threatened with death, and have their legs broken. Kim didn't deserve the crap she took from Howard this season. Mike's son paid with…

He also said something to Walt about how it might be time to consider "sending Jesse to Belize," i.e. killing him. Saul Goodman by the time of BB could be amusing, but I would agree that he was a pretty bad person. If we do get some episodes exploring his life as "Gene" in Omaha, I'd be curious to see if he feels any…

Right. Albuquerque is a decent-sized city - she could still be practicing law in the area and just steering clear of Jimmy. I don't think she could tolerate the Saul Goodman persona, but we don't know if that develops before or after the two of them part ways.

Have the producers ever said that they eventually plan to catch up to the present day and have entire episodes following "Gene" in his new life?

I was wondering if maybe they dubbed his lines with Odenkirk's voice.

Yeah, I think Morgan was making more of a broad point about human nature and the possibility for redemption rather than a specific argument that it was somehow materially beneficial in that particular instance.