Thank you for serving as the stand-in for the folks with reasonable opinions on this insanely odiferous conversation.

I think that he knew it would be successful and he thought they might shoot him down. "Better to ask forgiveness than permission," as the old saying goes. He figured that he'd show off what a success the commercial was and everything would be water under the bridge. I don't think that's just "We have to do it my…

But the only reason that Tio was willing to go along with the plan is that Gus had left him alive with nothing to live for. His family was dead. Dying and taking Gus with him was his best option, because Gus made it so.

Can you see Mike finding an old enemy and taunting him, even if he was already laid up in a nursing home? Gus was very close to Mike's level, but he had a weakness that Mike didn't have, a need to gain vengeance for the death of Max. It motivated almost everything that he did in a way that proved to be his undoing.

> If that method was genuinely effective, why would the community have to keep reinforcing those rules?

You Scientology idiots really think this line is worth the effort, eh?

Yeah, it's never explicitly stated, but I'm relatively certain that Tuco's biggest problem is that he gets his hands on Walt's good blue shit in unlimited qualities and becomes properly addicted.

I was utterly convinced that the 'Vamanos.' / 'I wish!' exchange when they were looking at the pest control truck was leading to this, and I really wish it had. Not that it wasn't great, but yeah.

Yeah, "Sexual preference" is definitely common nomenclature.

Well, the ARG stuff was pretty well summed up as soon as Internet figured it out, so I wasn't too upset by it. There was no reason to dive all the way in so much as you just had to read other people's summaries. But there's both the shark with the logo and the giant floodable tank at the Hydra that point toward the…

Oh sure, someone's going to get the gist after only four viewings. GET IT TOGETHER GH.

I can't see how following characters into the afterlife and seeing how they were able to come to peace with themselves and who they were translates to a waste of time, but you know. That's just like, etc.

The whole point of N&P was reminding us that the assholes we're watching aren't the only people on the island, but they really only wasted our time in a single episode that was the most gloriously amazing punchline to all of the fan whining about their existence. So I personally can't complain.

Agreed, this was my very first thought when I saw the headline, actually.

I think that finally getting to recruit Hurley so that Jacob could lay down the burden of protecting the island was probably necessary to actually finish the threat once and for all, right?

The Hatch was built by the Dharma corporation, just like the other hatches. It was called "The Swan" by the Dharmites who created it.

You're a God-damned hero.

I'm super glad that I can at least spread the horror to others. IT'S SO MADDENING. And obviously Google does nothing.

I can't think of anywhere else to bring this, but I'm having the worst time with this and you're the only ones I can possibly think of to help me think of this line delivery.

I will never get tired of repeating Davis's suggestion on Treme - change the Hornets' name to "The New Orleans Tabernacle Choir."