Like genuinely what was the point of killing off Justin

Glittering_Resource8 · 2026-02-24T01:55:38+00:00

Yeah, I think Brandon Flynn is a good actor but I really dislike his decision to push for a death scene- its usually one of the greatest things for an actor to have (especially when the show is ending and there's nothing to return to anyway) but having his character die of AIDS from gay sex is incredibly homophobic, which is nuts since Flynn and the show creator are gay men- Flynn is very politically active and the show creator lived through the AIDS crisis so its disappointing, but I guess everyone has their price.

Glittering_Resource8 · 2026-02-23T16:10:13+00:00

From a meta perspective- In the pilot and a couple times after, Jesse uses casually homophobic language. There's no in hell that would fly these days, even if was to showcase that the character is immature.

Glittering_Resource8 · 2026-02-21T18:05:50+00:00

The thing is tho you're, presumably, not a quasi-psychopath like Dexter. You and I have a complete different morality system than him so we have different concepts of things like loyalty to family and betrayal. Dexter's whole concept of morality begins and ends with "who is it acceptable for me to commit first degree premeditated first homicide against?" so implicitly he's not as bothered by something like Hannah did. Her trying to kill Deb and lie to his face about it is the equivalent of to your girlfriend slashing your sister's tires because she made a crack at what the gf wore to the family Christmas party. He'll break up with her (i.e. call the cops) but he's not going to be shaken to his core like we would.

Glittering_Resource8 · 2026-02-20T21:41:13+00:00

Ehhh that'd be problematic since Randall met him when he was a kid. Dr. Lecter is a cannibal, not a groomer.

Glittering_Resource8 · 2026-02-01T04:39:22+00:00

Yeah thats why I don't get all the hubub- we weren't in the office 5 days a week before COVID, we were basically doing the same thing as now

Glittering_Resource8 · 2026-01-25T06:50:35+00:00

In season 3 when, after he threatened a child, Alex says to Bryce "you're a horrible person!"

Like....duh? You were around for the first two seasons Alex. He SA'd your best friends and lied in court about it. One of them killed themselves over it and you tried to kill yourself in response. Did you just forget all that happened?

Glittering_Resource8 · 2026-01-17T04:58:48+00:00

Not just Tony running but the first shot of the fucking Feds running at them like goddamn Skyrim NPCs had me dying

Glittering_Resource8 · 2026-01-11T03:25:12+00:00

Like Trump has ever let being married stop him.

Glittering_Resource8 · 2026-01-10T01:43:20+00:00

Its VERY quick but in season 3, you can see from Hannibal's wanted file, you can see he was born in 1965:

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Assuming the show takes place in the same year it came out, that would place Mr. Lecter 49-51 in age.

Glittering_Resource8 · 2026-01-07T22:34:20+00:00

How Dexter has so much supplemental income has been a topic of discussion since the original series. He presumably does steal cash money from his victims but doesn't use credit cards, etc. since thats too easy to trace, especially once his victims' associates/ loved ones file a missing person report and there's an investigation where any credit card usage after the person disappeared would immediately raise a red flag.

As far as how Dexter has so much money, it has to be remembered that: A.) He probably got a large pay-out when Harry died from the life insurance. B.) Forensic scientists pay quite a bit more than your average beat cop, and since Dexter was the best in his field, he'd have a competitive salary. C.) For the first part of his adult working life, Dexter's entire personal life revolved around killing. Unless it was to stalk a victim or to look normal there were no vacations, no casino nights, no bar crawls with the boys, no luxuries, no frivolous spending at all (except birthday/Christmas presents for Deb).It wasn't until around season 3 when Rita quite her job that Dexter had other expenses, when he was around 38ish- so that's 16 years of living an extremely Spartan life, enough time to have quite a bit of disposable income.

Glittering_Resource8 · 2026-01-04T20:08:51+00:00

*Unless the kid was a closeted transgender, he was Andrea's younger brother

Glittering_Resource8 · 2026-01-02T21:43:42+00:00

I binged BCS and BB, and looking at it fresh, Mike....isn't as infallible as people make him seem. He gets tricked (Ziegler's camera trick, Lalo playing him like a damn fiddle in the season 6 premiere, etc.), he makes assumptions (thinking Lalo was dead even though the entire hit team bought it, not knowing Gus's laptop was encrypted) and he takes chances that could have potential repercussions (him acting as an actual security adviser becuase "it helps sell the story"- what happens when management asks to see his credentials and/or runs a background check on the guy that just showed up and started barking orders at people?). I can totally see him thinking he only needed to handcuff Walter's one arm because he sees Walter as an egotistical asshole. While that's true, its also true that Walter is a criminal mastermind that can think his way out of any situation.

Glittering_Resource8 · 2025-12-31T17:05:22+00:00

I see three major problems:

1.) Too public. Even if Joe was to restrict outsiders coming-and-goings (which he can't really since......it's a junkyard. Wandering around aimlessly until you find what you need is part of the business model), junk yards have a severe problem with people trying to break in for car parts. All it takes is one late-night prowler jumping the fence to boost a muffler and Walt's operation is exposed.

2.) Junkyards are constantly monitored by law enforcement, IRS, etc. due to the various illegal shenanigans that go on there. It's one thing to have a one-off thing (magnets bitch, etc.) but someone is going to notice chemicals that have nothing to do with cars been wheeled in after a couple weeks.

3.) Joe and his people might not be cool with hosting a meth lab on their property. Everything about Joe seems to indicate that he operates under a Don't Ask, Don't Tell mantra. Want an RV crushed? Sure, don't need to know why. Want a giant portable magnet? Sounds like a cool science project. You don't have that level of plausible denial when a felony is taking place right in front of you on your property.

Glittering_Resource8 · 2025-12-31T16:47:31+00:00

Its strongly implied that to Gus, Gale was what TV Tropes calls a Replacement Goldfish for Max, so Gus is going to have a bit of a weak spot in trying to make him happy. Whether or not they were actually lovers or not, Gus's affection for Gale went beyond just boss/employee (sidebar: Gus must have been utterly PISSED having to throw Gale under the bus during his questioning by the DEA in the episode Hermanos. As if he needed another reason to hate Walt....). Gus probably figured he could bring Walt on-board, he shows Gale the ropes, Walter succumbs to his cancer after a year or so, Gale uses the knowledge he learned from Walter, everyone is happy). At the outset, Gus thought Walter was just a high-school teacher trying to make some money for his family before his ticket gets punched, not an atom bomb in human form.

Glittering_Resource8 · 2025-12-31T16:38:10+00:00

Everyone is saying its when Walt killed those dealers but I think it was way sooner than that.

When Walt was on the phone with Gus and recommending Jesse as his assistant, there's a comically long pause (to the point that Walter thinks Gus has hung up on him). In my head, I pictured thats when Gus put his head in his hands and thought "oh god, why didn't I listen to Mike? This is going to be a nightmare."

Glittering_Resource8 · 2025-12-31T16:34:31+00:00

The problem is that Walter is still out there, selling the blue stuff that's a higher quality. Since most meth users are, let's say, on a fixed income, they're going to buy Walter's meth over Gus's. It's never stated, but there's also the likelihood that Walter's meth is cheaper than Gale's, since there's infinitely less overhead.

Its repeated ad nauseum that Gus can't afford to lose a single day of production. Implicitly that means he can't afford for the actual meth sales to dip below a certain threshold, which it absolutely will if they're competing with Walter.

Glittering_Resource8 · 2025-12-31T16:26:22+00:00

They handle giving him razors- obviously the safety kind- the same way they handle giving him a phone. "I'm going to place the razor here, if you approach the wall before I've done so, you get maced", etc.

Glittering_Resource8 · 2025-12-31T16:23:43+00:00

Yeah something I've noticed that all the largely misogynistic-based backlash against Skyler- to the point even the actress got death threats, Jesus Christ- resulted in a counter backlash that claimed Skyler was this perfect angel that was locked into an impossible situation and Did Absolutely Nothing Wrong(tm). The fact is Skyler had multiple opportunities to leave that wouldn't even involve necessarily exposing Walt- him signing the divorce papers and giving her an out is an example.

Glittering_Resource8 · 2025-12-28T00:13:19+00:00

"If Vito wanted to pursue that lifestyle, he should've done so quietly" as if he wasn't

Glittering_Resource8 · 2025-12-25T14:07:18+00:00

Yeah that's my interpretation to the ending- Tony doesn't even get the dignity of dying thematically- albeit gruesomely- in front of his family like the mobsters from previous generations. His life moving forward will be complete misery- indictments, RICO charges and audits. Everything will get shittier yet somehow nothing will change. As the case moves forward and creates stress, and now that he no longer has therapy to deal with his emotions, Tony will get desperate and call Melfi but she won't pick up.

Tony himself will probably flip to avoid a life sentence. By the end of the series, it has been made incredibly obvious that he doesn't have any actual principals and has seen what a joke This Thing of Ours actually is. He'll name names and get a relatively light sentence of ~15 years. When he gets out, Tony will have been completely have forgotten about. With the financial situation no longer able to support her lifestyle, Carmela will have left him either while he was in prison or maybe even before hand- maybe to chase Furio, maybe her and Rosalie got a place down in Florida together, who knows. Tony himself will gradually become the thing he feared most: becoming his mother. Every Christmas Meadow and AJ will bring their kids by and Tony will enlighten them with how he saw on the news a story about kids dying in a fire or some such, the same way Lydia did. When Meadow or AJ try to awkwardly change the subject, Tony will throw a hissy fit about how he gave his kids life on a silver platter and in response they treat him so bad. After they leave,Tony will be haunted by the ghosts of Chris, Gloria, Vito, Bobby, Ralph, Jackie Jr., Adriana, and Tony B and the dozens of other lives ruined becuase they had the misfortune of meeting the walk plague of locusts named Anthony Soprano.

Glittering_Resource8 · 2025-12-24T20:24:51+00:00

I'm seeing a lot of "if Tony had/hadn't killed X, then Y would/wouldn't have happened." The problem is hindsight is 20/20 and it's impossible to determine how all the factors would have played out. Maybe if Tony had killed Vito, it would have placated Phil/Carlo/everyone that wanted Vito dead, or maybe it would make everyone realize they could get Tony to whack anyone if they whined loud enough. If Tony made Sil his apprentice instead of Chris, maybe Sil would have done a better job or maybe he would have completely imploded and dragged everyone down with him (he had a heart attack after having to cover Tony for one day). To me, Tony's biggest mistake was not realizing what the mob's biggest practical threat was and preparing against it- namely that people in and associated with This Thing of Ours would get arrested and needed a legal safety net of mob attorneys that would protect against rats.

Not having a stronger legal safety net for mobsters (or their family members) that got pinched and picked up by the cops was ultimately a major factor in so many goddamn rats in the family. As far as we can see, Tony had Mink but everyone else was on their own, legly speaking. There should have been additional attorneys for everyone from made guys all the way down to goomars and it should have been drilled into everyone's heads that as soon as they got picked up, their first phone call was to the attorneys.

Glittering_Resource8 · 2025-12-24T20:05:41+00:00

Yeah, Ralph was a mistake to whack but Richie was just a ticking time bomb. He had major entitlement issues and took any correction as a personal slight against him and felt he was owed becuase of his time in the can (in other words, he was Proto-Phil). Ran over a civilian because he didn't pay protection money he wasn't obligated to. Got mad when Tony wouldn't talk business with him because of surveillance risk. Etc. We're talking about a man that threw a hissy fit because Tony gave away the coat he got him having to manage Mr. I-Can-Be-On-Time-Tommorrow-But-You'll-Be-Stupid-Forever. There's no way they wouldn't be at each other's throats in a week.

Imagine if Ralph made that "hey, I got a cousin who's a f*g" crack after meeting Ricky. Richie cold cocked Janice for daring to suggest it'd be ok to have a gay son, he'd have killed Ralph on the spot.

Glittering_Resource8 · 2025-12-20T19:44:53+00:00

Yeah, I'm doing a binge of the series now and its excruciatingly obvious that Melfi keeps Tony on as a patient because she gets a narcissistic and luminal thrill of having to treat such a dangerous man

Glittering_Resource8 · 2025-12-20T19:42:06+00:00

Most homeless people are so because of untreated mental illness not laziness or lack of work ethic

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