I wonder what it actually did. Normal people have souls, even if they're tainted. Why would having a piece of someone else's soul help you if you have one already?

Honestly I'm still not sure what happened in his backstory other than his family dying. Might have to actually read.

Yes. Wasn't Betty Boop supposedly based on a black lady? http://www.nydailynews.com/…

I just looked him up and am endlessly amused that he was Dwalin in LOTR.

I find it nonsensical that people think a soul can be fractioned. Surely every piece is linked, no matter where the pieces are.

This is the downside to hero stories, yeah. Once established as The Hero, there is the need to add more flaws, which tend to make the character less likable. While the Villain of the Week is presented as an obstacle but then humanized to make the audience empathize with the character. Which is why so many people…

I agree that Ennis' God is not very interesting. Oddly, I loved the fake God who showed up in the Lucifer television series. You could see the hints of Jesus-ness and kindness but also the potential for authoritarian utter bugshit temper tantrums. (I think its the vague impression of mental illness he gave off.)

Bah! I've been burning paper lately and its bitter as fuck. :( Wish there was some sort of review of paper types for burning and their smell.

Worse! Apparently the sex was solely for procreation, to replace the dead baby. No wonder Tulip was bored.

Human tipping!

"Keeping" her seems harsh. She asked for drugs first, remember? And sex, for comfort, if I recall correctly. He just kept feeding them to her after she stopped asking..

Omigawd you are so right. Every time I saw Reggie deliberately closing that damn window I was waiting for TULIP to be the one who'd go completely nutter on him. He'd deserve it too. Only assholes smoke in other peoples' houses without rolling the window down. Why the fuck did he keep closing the window anyway?

Jesse's moral authority was always more about his ego. This episode illustrates that, by noting John Wayne really wasn't good to women, so much as he was portayed as The Hero of Good Women.

Definitely. I liked it, because Tulip was such a cliche nonentity before. She was the enabling co-dependent to Jesse's ego-riding alcohol&violence-junkie self-importance with a smattering of Feminism to go with the boobs.

I don't find women attractive though.

We must disagree on this point. I feel the show is showing exactly as much of the character bastardness as was in the books. I hated all these characters just as much as people say they do now.

Enh. These are all fuckers. Jesse is running according to the rule of bros. Not righteousness. And Cassidy violated the rules by lying to Jesse about his girlfriend. The books were pretty specific that Jesse is written according the what a Scottish dude thought of as the mythology of American machismo.

Wasn't that Tulip?

Well, yeah. I mean, they might've changed it in the series, but I suspect Cassidy would have more of the manners of Oscar Wilde or the more genteelly educated old Irish.

Thats fair. It feels like Jesse started getting up on his moral high horse and despising Reggie for disrespecting the Bible. But he also never spoke up and told Reggie to respect his beliefs while in his house.