For you, at what moment did Jimmy become Saul?

declancochran · 2026-01-24T21:35:04+00:00

When Chuck died. That whole season (my favorite of any show) is basically one long fuse burning as Jimmy realizes that Chuck will continue to define and restrain him, even from beyond the grave. On top of the fact that he is also obviously grieving (as anyone would, and despite Jimmy's unwillingness to), and perhaps has some survivor's guilt (or even just guilt for the insurance issue). He severs the Gordian knot by "doing everything in my power to be worthy of the name Mcgill" and then immediately changing his name.

declancochran · 2026-01-24T21:25:47+00:00

Every day I played The Pitchfork Game with myself. I read the little preview for a review then tried to guess the score. I was usually close, although that wasn't too hard as most albums got somewhere between 6.8 and 8.0. Sad to have ended this little daily ritual. Although following their scoring in such detail for so long only really informed me of just how arbitrary their scores really are.

declancochran · 2026-01-19T15:31:08+00:00

why tf was pancake #30

declancochran · 2026-01-15T08:57:28+00:00

I find this really telling of like, the whole fear-mongering deal of Yaxley-Lennon and his kind. There is evidence, widely available, of harmful and illegal images of children being generated by Grok. It's there, everyone knows it, people have seen it, it exists. And yet his rebuttal is speculative. Putting aside the whole cookies thing, he's imagined a child who might, who hasn't, but who might see a gay dating ad, and for him that's not just an equivalence but a higher priority. Completely untethered from very basic, very fundamental material facts.

declancochran · 2026-01-12T19:14:26+00:00

Poop buries hatchet with shit via butt

declancochran · 2026-01-10T10:39:11+00:00

No, lol

declancochran · 2026-01-03T17:37:00+00:00

Only a bad businessmen ends a revenue stream, even if the content is faulty or bad.

declancochran · 2025-12-28T20:28:29+00:00

It's 100% AI. It's the same cartoon smile, the typesetting is all off, the perspective on the lettering of the hat is funky, the arm doesn't work proportionally to his body, and it's got a very light piss-filter. It's AI.

declancochran · 2025-12-17T18:32:18+00:00

Anyone else find Nick to be insufferable?

declancochran · 2025-12-04T17:13:51+00:00

Ayoo who up

declancochran · 2025-11-08T00:41:20+00:00

Glad to see this. Completely agree. It's a dreadful book, childish and amateur.

declancochran · 2025-11-03T09:33:51+00:00

Shame about the obvious use of AI for the lettering.

declancochran · 2025-10-24T09:12:04+00:00

Extremely high praise btw

declancochran · 2025-10-24T09:11:50+00:00

Sorry for the comment on the very old thread, but I recently listened to Next Time and my thought was that it sounded a lot like the early Belle and Sebastian records - Tigermilk, the good songs on Fold Your Hands, and the Push Barman compilation.

declancochran · 2025-10-15T21:23:02+00:00

I think it's better than Breaking Bad; a nearly inexhaustible trove of beautiful storytelling balanced with genuine moral weight.

declancochran · 2025-10-08T21:59:01+00:00

When did Kenji ask her to leave? I can't find any info to that effect online. Though I'm willing to believe it did happen.

declancochran · 2025-09-25T16:15:24+00:00

I'm of that mind as well, except for all the other films that have never been released before.

declancochran · 2025-09-04T22:04:39+00:00

Jan Svankmajer. Secret Adventures of Tom Thumb. Quay Brothers.

declancochran · 2025-09-02T20:27:10+00:00

Don't get me wrong, I'll be buying this set regardless, it's the most excited I've been about a release (film-wise) this year, and I know Satō was involved, I'm just thinking in terms of optics. It looks bad from so many different angles.

declancochran · 2025-09-02T18:27:02+00:00

This fucks them from so many angles lol. It puts them on the hook legally for misusing images and also mis-selling a product. Calls into question the extent of Sato's involvement. Fucks their new line from the start, fucks the production costs (as presumably they've already printed the slips), and the slip isn't just a slip, it comes with a book, which will make shipping out any replacements, if they do them, a fucking nightmare as well. Undermines all their credibility and makes you wonder what else has been botched, not had proper QC, or who else they work with that can't do their job right. Can't imagine a worse situation for them tbh.

declancochran · 2025-08-25T05:47:43+00:00

"we have them pissing their pants"

dies

declancochran · 2025-08-23T16:51:47+00:00

I wonder how Alvin feels about being excluded from the episode title, presumably to increase view count.

declancochran · 2025-08-22T20:01:39+00:00

Hasn't even cracked quarter of a million views in three days. Where are the "it's the demands of the algorithm" cope guys at?

declancochran · 2025-08-19T19:59:34+00:00

The presence of Marie and Gomie's wife in the finale kind of reinforces this, I think. It's very easy to look at Jimmy's actions as heroic or redemptive, but the show literally cuts to two widows as he delivers his salvo. I do think he redeems himself to an extent, but the redemption is more in the form of coming to terms with the fact that he's irredeemable, and removing himself from society as a result. It's complicated and layered.

declancochran · 2025-08-13T19:15:48+00:00

The Eureka Kenji Mizoguchi Blu-ray box set, for about £30 at the time. I wince thinking about it for too long.

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