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geebsTV commentary:
Vampire Diaries- Holy frick, Nina Dobrev is leaving at the end of the season?! Aw man, hopefully she has some other projects lined up, because it will be disappointing to not have her grace my TV screen anymore. But ha, so does that mean the show really will go the Bamon and Steroline routes? You got to admit, that's kinda hilarious, the show started on the love triangle between Elena and the Salvatore brothers, and since the show is going on without her, that means she's ending up with neither.
Better Call Saul- Wow, this was kinda a depressing ep. So we find out the big event that Chuck had bailed Jimmy out of (which was apparently 10 years previous to the current time on the show). Turns out Jimmy was once married, his wife left him for some rich douche. So, he was drinking, saw the guy's Beemer double parked in the street, and shit through the sun roof. Only, there were a couple of kids in the car. And so the douche really wants to nail Jimmy's ass to the wall, and with the kids present he could start throwing in sex offender charges in there. So Chuck got Jimmy out of it and that's how he ended up in Albuquerque.
In any case, he takes Howard's offer, and despite Chuck thinking he's worthless, he still gives Howard specific instructions on how to continue to care for Chuck. Howard is shocked at the level of commitment Jimmy had been showing toward his brother, and its funny that now that the truth is out there, it seems the two of them could've actually gotten along if Jimmy's brother hadn't sandbagged him.
But yeah, leaving his life in Chicago for ABQ and it seemingly amounting to nothing is too much for him, so he take a break and goes to visit his friend Marco in Chicago. They pick up where they left off, running a bunch of scams for a week, before Jimmy says duty calls and he has elder law clients to take care of. But, Marco wants to run the alley scam one more time. Only when Jimmy finds him, Marco actually is dying. Turns out he was dying the whole time, and he wanted one last hurrah with his best friend, and it was the greatest week of his life.
At the funeral, Kim calls, saying the case is actually too big for their firm, so they're partnering with another one, and they want to hire him on. Why? Because Jimmy's clients think the world of him, and Kim and Howard went to bat for him.
Too bad right before he takes the meeting, he realizes that's not what he wants. I'm guessing he was trying to be a legit lawyer to make Chuck proud. But since he'll never get what he wants from Chuck, why is he just getting by when he can combine his con man and lawyer skills to make real bank? In the end, he asks Mike, why they didn't just take the money and run. Mike didn't because he's a consummate professional and that's what he was paid to do. Jimmy says he did it to do the right thing. But, with nothing being good enough for Chuck, he doesn't even know what the right thing means anymore. And so he ditches the meeting, and drives off, well on the path to becoming Saul Goodman.
Vampire Diaries- Holy frick, Nina Dobrev is leaving at the end of the season?! Aw man, hopefully she has some other projects lined up, because it will be disappointing to not have her grace my TV screen anymore. But ha, so does that mean the show really will go the Bamon and Steroline routes? You got to admit, that's kinda hilarious, the show started on the love triangle between Elena and the Salvatore brothers, and since the show is going on without her, that means she's ending up with neither.
Better Call Saul- Wow, this was kinda a depressing ep. So we find out the big event that Chuck had bailed Jimmy out of (which was apparently 10 years previous to the current time on the show). Turns out Jimmy was once married, his wife left him for some rich douche. So, he was drinking, saw the guy's Beemer double parked in the street, and shit through the sun roof. Only, there were a couple of kids in the car. And so the douche really wants to nail Jimmy's ass to the wall, and with the kids present he could start throwing in sex offender charges in there. So Chuck got Jimmy out of it and that's how he ended up in Albuquerque.
In any case, he takes Howard's offer, and despite Chuck thinking he's worthless, he still gives Howard specific instructions on how to continue to care for Chuck. Howard is shocked at the level of commitment Jimmy had been showing toward his brother, and its funny that now that the truth is out there, it seems the two of them could've actually gotten along if Jimmy's brother hadn't sandbagged him.
But yeah, leaving his life in Chicago for ABQ and it seemingly amounting to nothing is too much for him, so he take a break and goes to visit his friend Marco in Chicago. They pick up where they left off, running a bunch of scams for a week, before Jimmy says duty calls and he has elder law clients to take care of. But, Marco wants to run the alley scam one more time. Only when Jimmy finds him, Marco actually is dying. Turns out he was dying the whole time, and he wanted one last hurrah with his best friend, and it was the greatest week of his life.
At the funeral, Kim calls, saying the case is actually too big for their firm, so they're partnering with another one, and they want to hire him on. Why? Because Jimmy's clients think the world of him, and Kim and Howard went to bat for him.
Too bad right before he takes the meeting, he realizes that's not what he wants. I'm guessing he was trying to be a legit lawyer to make Chuck proud. But since he'll never get what he wants from Chuck, why is he just getting by when he can combine his con man and lawyer skills to make real bank? In the end, he asks Mike, why they didn't just take the money and run. Mike didn't because he's a consummate professional and that's what he was paid to do. Jimmy says he did it to do the right thing. But, with nothing being good enough for Chuck, he doesn't even know what the right thing means anymore. And so he ditches the meeting, and drives off, well on the path to becoming Saul Goodman.
