Just seeing the Double-R with modern cars blows my mind.

I'm not saying it was any good — how the hell would I know; I never used one. I'm just saying that it looked like the Holy Grail of early-80s computing.

I just Googled pictures of the Adam — and it still looks sexy.

I remember seeing a print ad for that, back in the day…and thinking, I have never wanted something this much, this fast, after one look at a picture. (Not counting porn etc.) But I never got one.

I remember being kind of offended by the Intellivision, in a weird way, just because I and my friends loved the Atari 2600 so much, for so long, with so many cartridges…and the Atari was cool; it was elegant, the fonts and colors were great (especially that blocky sans-serif "Atari" font that they used for all their…

Yes. But you could run the same software on different IBM PCs; the "platform" idea was starting to take hold. Of course you're right; the Microsoft/IBM deal is what changed the landscape permanently.

It's interesting that the IBM 360 had been around for almost 20 years, and yet the general public still didn't have any contact with the idea of a platform — every "computer system" was its own thing, and you just used whatever BASIC or word processor or chess program was available for the hardware you'd bought.

The subtitle for this season should be “What the fuck is Mike doing now?” (And I mean that in the nicest possible way.)

What you're doing isn't necessarily any crazier than watching the Star Wars movies in their numerical order — and (as you're saying) involves the same kind of reverse-foreshadowing.

Fantastic. I totally missed that!

At this point — at least for Howard — I think it’s less about actually saying what the law is and more about working very hard to corral and manage Chuck’s increasingly irrational and obsessive behavior. (And, for Kim it’s a similar tightrope walk.)

Somehow, with the ambient sound and the extras playing the other customers and the food details (and the menus etc)., combined with the suspenseful aura of menace, the whole scene was like a powerful summation of everything that absolutely sucks about fast food, fast food chains, fast food chain restaurants, and the…

Agreed! I was laughing joyfully, not least because it was such a classic Vince Gilligan reversal of expectations. “Asshole! Tape me? Asshole!” And then he just fucking destroys the tape. Fantastic in every way.

That's what I'm saying (below)! Thank you. The reviewer is doing a great job and is into the show (unlike, say, the Walking Dead reviewer)…but she seems a little fuzzy on the Jimmy/Chuck duel.

Brutal-realities-of-aging-that-affect-all-of-us-dept: all of these actors are doing a more than respectable job of being ten years older than they were on Breaking Bad and having to play that they're ten years younger…but Giancarlo Esposito is conspicuously heavier than he ever was on the other show.

I don't necessarily agree with the reviewer (who, by her own admission, hasn't been quite on top of all the Chuck/Jimmy intrigue) that Jimmy walked into the trap and ruined himself.

Right — I noticed that too. Sometimes Chuck is right. We've got a Shakespearean drama between the brothers here.

It did indeed. Deliberately shot that way. (Like the Colbert credits.)

I think everybody understands this to the extent that it's relevant — but people still find the primary clown image to be intrinsically frightening.

"There's only one God, ma'am…and I'm pretty sure he doesn't dress like that."