Maybe, but I was really looking forward to seeing that arc play out. So it's kind of a pity to me that the show now seems to be veering away from that direction.

Alright, that's pretty fucking funny.

I have mixed feelings about this episode. On the one hand I liked it because it did some solid character work, on Abraham and Eugene especially, and it did certainly keep me watching for the entire hour. On the other hand there are some things that I see as faults.
First off we have Noah looking forward and then dying.…

I was commenting specifically on what the things the other person didn't like about this episode and the previous ones were. If you aren't bothered by those specific things, then obviously you wouldn't find it relevant.

Wrong for America? Well that's a hoot.

With all due respect Donna, and forgive me if I've misinterpreted this, but I doubt that Saul's vibrant dialogue has anything to do with Odenkirk as a writer if that's what you were implying with "his contributions." I know that Bob Odenkirk has gone on record as saying that he does not change the dialogue he's given…

It's just a guess on my part, but I'm glad you found it informative. As for the length, I just love thinking about these things and I'm often actually worried that I'll go on for too long. =p

I think we're still heading down that route, but I think complexity is often a function of time. So what I'm basically saying is that pacing could've been an important player in more ways than one, rather than directly being an issue of forward motion alone it could be an issue of time to expose Saul's character per…

I don't entirely disagree and I think the first few episodes were definitely more "forward motion" oriented, whereas the last two have paused a little more to show us some of the secondary characters. I personally have still liked the last two episodes however, despite liking the episodes before that more.

I pretty much agree with this review in its entirety. There was a lot of leaning on familiar tropes which despite the fact that it was clearly meant to be noir, seemed a little played. That being said however repeated as they may be, they were done completely right. The dark noir shots and schemes as familiar as they…

I don't think they're turning evil. It's like I said several episodes ago, this time they're the crazy ones who are going to sabotage the local utopia. Not because they're evil or are malevolent, but because they've been forever changed, damaged by wandering "out there" for so long.

I thought it was again a pretty good episode. This season of The Walking Dead is, to me at least, shaping up to be consistently good television and not in the "it's exciting to watch people get torn to pieces after running for their lives" kind of way.
Carol's ability to effectively be invisible and hide behind the…

You know, I get this and I figured as much at the time but I feel like it could've still been accomplished while reducing the time spent on it by just a little bit.

This was still a good episode, but I agree with the observation that it had some flaws, especially towards the beginning where some scenes or parts of scenes (like the old lady) went on for what I thought was just a little bit too long to be maximally effective. I know that the philosophy of Vince Gilligan and his…

In my opinion the best episode this season, so far. I found seeing these people who've been damaged so heavily over the past few seasons trying to integrate into a society again, all in their own ways, quite compelling.
I'm also glad that this episode seems to be steering things in the direction I was hoping this was…

There could be additional flash-forwards or part of the show could end up running concurrently with some of Breaking Bad.

I was just saying it because I think while some might prefer your method of watching, I wanted to make sure that the other type of person (like me) was also represented to the person who asked the question.

That makes a certain amount of sense to me. While he went outside the way he acted did kind of remind me of a panic attack.

It was intense, but I loved that intensity. Nothing makes me feel like I'm in the same world as the characters as just basically isolating myself from the rest of the world for a little while and just immersing myself in their world.

With sleep in between them, but almost. Season 5 hadn't started airing yet, but I watched season 1 to the end of season 4 without really stopping.