1) Oh man, thank you for pointing out T-Bone's injury saga. I love that they did not even try to pretend that there was any point to that whole ordeal other than to show us that the racist dude is not racist anymore so it is okay to like him now. Because if they were going to pretend otherwise they maybe would have spent TWO SECONDS on his injury and whether or not he was going to be okay considering he could not even STAND UP. Poor T-Bone, you clearly have one more episode left to live.
2) Carl had more lines in this episode than he did in the entire first season.
AHAHAHAHA I was so wrong! IT WAS WALT. *laughing in my crawlspace*
Also, I would argue that BB has always had a comic-booky edge to it--this is the show that introduced the cousins by having them crawl all the way through Mexico, put a dude's head on a turtle (which was a bomb!), etc.
My official theory is this: Gus did know about the ricin in the cigarette. However, he poisoned Brock some other way. Dude has already shown he knows his way around a poisoning, also the logistics of getting the cigarette to wherever Brock was (school?) and then into his food are way too convoluted. He poisons Brock, then has Tyrus take the cigarette out of Jesse's stuff in the lab so that it LOOKS like Walter poisoned Jesse. Gus has known about the cigarette for ages, probably (Mike or Tyrus or the cameras had to have seen it/seen it being discussed), but knows that it's better that you're enemy doesn't know you are onto him.
The fact that Gus backed off as soon as Jesse revealed that he knows Brock was poisoned, but "the doctors" don't know how, proves that Gus had some involvement in the poisoning.
Nerd alert! Hulu numbers do not count for nothing. I'm not even sure they have an accurate way of counting them yet and either way, the advertising $$$ are WAAAY LESS.
DVR Numbers count a little, but only within I think a week of the episode initially airing.
Watching it live, strangely, doesn't actually really count unless you have a Nielsen box.
She agreed to cook Ted's books, this is not a situation that is entirely of his making (mostly, though). And instead of extricating herself she is giving him $600,000.
ALL DAY I have been refreshing my RSS feed going "WHERE IS THE GD VIDEOGUM BREAKING BAD RECAP" and I was so excited when it appeared!!!
Am I the only one who seriously does not believe Saul would just be all, "Fine, lady, here is $600,000 for your terrible plan that I think is terrible and I am the lawyer of your ex-ish husband who is the owner of the $600,000 so I will definitely not call him and tell him what is up." Also DUH SKYLER just LEAVE IT at "Ted can find $600,000 by himself, the IRS thinks I am a dumb bimbo and will not investigate me for his terrible decisions because why bother." Ughhh do not be the money fairy, now you have to kill him.
I haven't seen anyone else point this out so I will point it out: Skyler's big dream career is TO BE A WRITER. Remember in one of the episodes (season 2? sure, season 2) they have a flashback and Marie and Skyler are chilling and Marie is all "you published a book of short stories, Skyler!" and she's all "Yep I did, wonder if my propensity for spinning tall tales will come in handy ever in the future!" and the New York Times Book Review was all "Good short stories, bad dialogue. Who says 'it's a doozy!' NO ONE."
Yeah I'm sorry you guys, but I LOVE Tin Tin and it was a huge part of my childhood and I will be the first and only person in line to see this movie. WHATEVS, ALL THE MOVIE THEATER IS FOR ME.
But what about using broad brushstrokes to kind of prove a point about using broad brushstrokes? Basically political debate in this country has become VERY black/white and that is bad and silly! I don't think all Tea Party members are racist. But my understanding of their views indicates to me that there is not much logic beyond a very black/white Democrat/Republican dichotomy with little in-depth examination of issues. So I do think the Tea Party was brought about by and feeds this simplistic worldview that ENCOURAGES painting everything in broad brushstrokes, whether they hate Obama's policies or hate that he is black. However, I do happen to think there is a strong current of racism within the Tea Party (also classism and anti-intellectualism).
Yes, it is possible. But it is NOT possible to dislike Obama because of government spending and running a large budget deficit and like Bush, because BUSH DID MORE OF THAT THAN OBAMA IS DOING. Therefore, you must like Bush and dislike Obama for another reason, maybe because you have a reflexive hatred and mistrust of Democrats/liberals that is based on nothing except a myopic worldview that sets Democrats as "bad" and Republicans as "good" because that is how you were raised and you believe it unconditionally without examining why or what you are actually supporting. So when someone says government spending and deficits are bad, you believe it and agree with them regardless of the fact that they are only saying it because of the myopic worldview previously described.
Or maybe because you have a reflexive hatred and mistrust of people who are not white. Because you are racist.
I finally watched this last night (earlier I was just talking out of my ass, yay!)
UGH. I GOT SO DRUNK AFTER.
I am actually angry that six million people watched this. Terriers got cancelled and then six million people watched THIS.
I might write a review in the voice of The Smoke Monster from Lost later.
Or Michael Clarke Duncan's magical death row inmate from The Green Mile!
Or Morgan Freeman's not-literally-magical-but-was-able-to-smuggle-all-kinds-of-crap-into-prison-so-that-is-kind-of-magic Narrator from the Shawshank Redemption!
Or Will Smith's magical golf caddy Bagger Vance from Bagger Vance! (Okay, that was not Frank Darabont, but LORD that movie).
“I get in trouble for eating whipped cream right out of the container. Bad to the bone!”
This is code for doing whippets. THE TRUE MEANING OF "WHIP MY HAIR" IS REVEALED.
Yeah I mean based on the article they weren't doing much writing. And they DEFINITELY aren't doing much story editing. But I think that means they need a better story editor on staff, not zero story editors.
You forgot the most important part! Season Two scripts will be accepted on spec from freelancers (the Guild will love this). Errybody, get crackin'!
EXT. DAYLIGHT
Slow pan across an overgrown golf course. We come upon two zombies, kneeled over an unknown form, feeding hungrily.
ZOMBIE #1: RARRRR.
ZOMBIE #2: Blerrrghhh.
The camera slowly zooms in on the zombies, culminating in a close-up of the zombies faces as they shovel human innards into their hungry maws. The zombies are LORI and RICK GRIMES. They are consuming their son, CARL.
I was thinking, and it actually kind of makes sense that Grimes would want to go to the CDC? It's a terrible idea, but given that he was in a coma during the collapse of civilization and a presumably massive failure of government he would probably have more faith in (a) the idea that the government is half-way functioning and helping and (b) the existence of a cure for zombie. Again, still not a good plan, but you can at least see his line of reasoning.
What REALLY doesn't make sense is that the government would be all, "Hey, you! You one dude! SOLVE THE ZOMBIE PLAGUE BY YOURSELF. Here's a bunker and some brain!" But I get the feeling we're going to find out where the other scientists went next week.
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