The divorce.
The show is pretty clear about this. Howard says no one knew Jimmy better than Chuck. Kim says that Jimmy is a massive negative influence on her and they need to separate. Jimmy was pulling scams in Chicago without Chuck there. Jimmy is a basically scumbag as a lawyer from day one until becoming Gene. His first major case we see is arranging for car accidents to scam a criminal couple into hiring him so he can raise his profile as a lawyer and stop doing public defender work because the pay is low. He goes after Davis and Main because he cannot help himself. He lies to the bar association to get reinstated. Represents cartel leaders and hitters. Squat cobbler and other false evidence.
Eh, I think if Chuck were still alive that would be a more pressing question, but since Chuck's died, Jimmy's only gotten worse and worse. Did his relationship with Chuck shape him? No doubt, he's Jimmy's brother. But in the end, Jimmy's an adult and was an adult when he found out what Chuck thought about him. No doubt it would sting like hell, but Jimmy didn't need to take that as liscense to do whatever the hell he wanted.
I've read in a few places that Chuck is going to appear in the last episode. Maybe will will get some answers to those questions.
I agree, this is it for me. I don’t think they could get away with starting BCS in 2022. If they hypothetically rebooted BCS this year, Kim would be played by Lizzo.
I liked those subplots because Ted is the typical born on third base and thinks he hit a triple loser son of a family business owner. Ted buying a Mercedes instead of the IRS back taxes was perfectly frustrating in a way that you could imagine a retard like Ted pulling. Same goes for slipping on a rug and breaking his neck.
I agree. The only reason why Kim is doing that confession is to shake up her life from fretting over using Miracle Whip in potato salad. She gave the game away to Howard’s widow: she didn’t expect to get any criminal charges and although the widow said she could sue Kim and likely win, she didn’t appear to be interested in going through it. Kim didn’t really give a fuck about clearing her conscience, she just wanted to do something risky…for fun. She fell back into old habits after talking to Gene.
My track record for predictions is shit but it would be very interesting if it was something that Chuck said that wound up happening. As someone mentioned earlier in this thread, this season has several little “Ghost of Chuck” moments, would be crazy to leave that behind for the final episode.
I hated her in deadwood so of course i was gonna hate her in BB. I think Rhea is much better looking and i'm certain that comes into play as well.
Gene is least cautious version of Jimmy. Which makes no sense because he is the most in danger version of Jimmy. He takes extreme risks which are not necessary. Like returning to the house to rob a guy who has had time for the pills to wear off and wake up and catch him. Every hour they delayed breaking into the house again is another hour for cancer man to wake up after the roofies have worn off. Yet Gene does it anyways. Terrible writing. And he steals watches instead of just photoing the IDs which tips off cancer man that he has been robbed. He is written like a total amateur thief and not some professional con-artist.
Vince Gillian knows the ending of Breaking Bad made Walt into a hero for the reddit fags that liked the show. They can soy face over Walt walking away from explosions and machine gunning people and rescuing Jesse and killing Nazis over and over. Like Walt is Rambo or something. Walt was supposed to go from Mr. Rogers to Scarface. But really was more like Peter Parker into the Terminator. So that reddit fans could jackoff to the idea that a wimpy weakling loser like themselves can become a "Heisenberg" one day. That all nerds have an alpha male gangster inside of them. Like how adults watch Harry Potter or Batman and mentally imagine themselves as heroes and attending Hogwarts and being wizards. That secretly the people who read reddit and watch cartoons could morph into a Navy SEAL in under a year (while battling cancer too). The show became nerd fantasy for creeps and weirdos.
Why read reddit to begin with? As for Gene being out of character, I still see it as a form of subconscious suicide. I also think we never really knew Gene. We knew Jimmy and his limits, he wouldnt suggest Badger get killed, we knew Saul and his limits, he wouldnt poison a child, we’re now seeing a persona that’s not got any copes left and has fewer and fewer limits
Well like I said, subconscious suicide. I think the finale will probably confirm this
The word you're looking for is foreshadowing.
When it showed Gene slipping back into Saul I thought about how Chuck said he can't help himself. Looks like he was right all along.
See im thinking of a different word than foreshadowing because its not like foreshadowing if you know what i mean? Foreshadowing is sort of like chekov’s gun, not literally but it usually is stuff that’s signalled directly. Whereas this is stuff thats vague and could go anywhere but is sort of them forecasting how they’re probably gonna go with it
Yea Saul being born of Kim saying “apart we’re okay” is living proof of Jimmy’s contrarianism
