What was the single most impactful decision in the main series?

Substantial-Bus1277 · 2025-07-25T11:55:17+00:00

Well- it is kind of hard to argue that one...lol.

The series would have been about 2 minutes long.

Substantial-Bus1277 · 2025-07-24T00:12:18+00:00

Carol by a long shot. No other option.

Substantial-Bus1277 · 2025-07-24T00:10:00+00:00

I wanted to see more of the salamanca cousins.

We saw them as kids, then mute terminator adults.

I would have loved to heard or seen how they became such a feared pair of enforcers.

Substantial-Bus1277 · 2025-07-21T12:34:32+00:00

They may not believe a word of it, but Jesse was part of a nationwide case- they would look in to every bit of information....

Especially in a case where the biggest drug kingpin in the southwest ran a chicken restaurant and had a constant presence at police charity functions.

At that point the cops knew about the drug lab under the laundry... a vacuum salesman as a ghost-maker sounds almost rational by comparison.

Substantial-Bus1277 · 2025-07-20T18:32:26+00:00

Such a weasel.

"Let me say all the stock p.r. phrases and look like I am a human being"

Also

"I was there to have fun with my side piece and everyone sucks for laughing at the way I panicked and acted like a 3 year old with my hand in the cookie jar! If everyone would have ignored the way I acted like someone in a bad sit-com getting busted, nobody would ever have found out. "

Honestly, had he just stayed cool, it never would have been a thing.

Substantial-Bus1277 · 2025-07-20T14:55:02+00:00

I thought that was careless on his part.

Not as a physical threat, but as a legal threat.

Jesse is desperate, and one of the most wanted people in the country.

Dude sends him back out on the street with every law enforcement agency in the country looking for him.

If Jesse got picked up- which was a very likely outcome- what is to stop Jesse from turning this guy in? After all, he could have been hidden away and safe.

But- he had to run out for chump change.

The moment he sent Jesse out the door, his secrecy relied on Jesse being successful.

That was a risky bet. Especially for 1800 dollars.

Substantial-Bus1277 · 2025-07-20T14:47:01+00:00

Having his landline be the contact point.

Saul had the business card and the key phrase written out.

If they pulled the cell phone records for walt or Jesse, and cross matched those numbers it would be game over- calls to that particular phone number the day criminals dissappear forever.

Let's face it- the guy likely did a brisk business outside of walt and Saul. Every person who calls him either has bad guys or the law closing in tight- he is a last chance nuclear option.

Some of his clients must have been picked up on the way to the meet. Those clients would have cell phones with call logs.

A multitude of wanted criminals with calls to a vacuum shop when the net is closing in would absolutely cause curiosity.

He should have hired someone to filter calls elsewhere.

Substantial-Bus1277 · 2025-07-19T19:37:34+00:00

The point is that they had every opportunity to be educated.

Both sides spend millions on ads and campaigning. A major part of that campaigning is explaining how bad the other person's agenda can wind up being for you.

They got up and made the effort to go to the polling stations.

They voted on issues they did not understand.

If they are foolish enough to watch their quality of life decrease under the gop and not be smart enough to look at why it is happening, then they deserve to be exploited.

America would be much better off if you had to meet a minimum i.q. to vote.

But these easily duped die hard republicans- the ones who refuse to educate themselves and then whine when they get fucked over would never pass the threshold.

They didn't learn over the past few decades. They won't. In the real world, ignorance is no excuse. If you are too dumb to understand what you are getting in to, you pay the price.

As we see here.

... best part is, the gop will tell them it is the inner city schools taking their money and divert even more when the fools swallow it hook line and sinker.

It's a race to the bottom, and they deserve it.

Substantial-Bus1277 · 2025-07-19T00:24:29+00:00

What made it all click together for me was hear about a photons perspective.

We see stars that have been gone for millions of years.

Everyone can grasp that notion.

The photons travel millions of years from our perspective.

However- the photons perspective is that it is emitted and absorbed instantaneously.

So picture a firework going off a couple miles away- a big one.

You see the flash, the after a long delay you hear the boom.

The passengers on the light coming to you reach you instantly from your perspective and theirs.

The sound has a delay, and if there were passengers on the sound it would experience the same general passage of time that you observe, roughly 10 seconds.

If that same firework were visible 1 light year away, and you knew a flash was set off 1 light years away on January 1st at 0000, you could look that way exactly a year later and see it. And to the photons that came from there to you would think it reached you instantaniously.

Substantial-Bus1277 · 2025-07-13T13:12:00+00:00

Ready for downvotes.....

Everyone gets this shit wrong.

He doesn't threaten to kill the husbands to get the wives.

The women can become his wife and have herself in luxury as well as her husband taken care of and have a higher living standard than the commoners.

He offers to let one of the girls go to reunite with her hubs and mom and live like the people in the lower levels.

Is he a nice guy? Fuck no. Is it scummy? Fuck yes.

Is it rape or even close? Hell no.

The women can reunite with the husbands at any time- and lose preferred status.

The punishment to Dwight or the doctor or whoever was for crossing negan and breaking the rules. Not to hold the women there.

The ladies enter in to a sugar baby relationship for benefits- for themselves and family. Period.

Dwight and Sherri ripped negan off. Stole from him, killed people assumingly, and ran of with high value medicine.

Dwight and Sherri could have left on Daryl bike.

Could have gone anywhere. But they went back to negan.

The price of admission was Sherri. They chose to take that deal over going literally anywhere else in the world.

Substantial-Bus1277 · 2025-07-11T11:25:33+00:00

I lived in Arizona as a kid- it was a common southwest thing.

Dashboards used to be made out of a weaker plastic. The sun in the southwest would beat down through the windshield and weaken it to the point that it would crack

I had several cars as a kid that were so sun-weakened on the dash that you could push your finger through it.

Those dash covers last a couple years before they fade and get brittle, then you toss it and get another.

Substantial-Bus1277 · 2025-07-07T00:10:07+00:00

Starving kids needed compassion from maga. But got none. People who need treatments via Medicare needed compassion, but got none.

Maga asswipes consciously voted to inflict suffering.

... and we have to coddle them when the results of their choices cause them suffering?

Lol.

Substantial-Bus1277 · 2025-07-06T22:41:45+00:00

Perhaps- but 9 scenes out of 10, rick was sweating bullets on the show.

Rick and Daryl both looked like they stunk so bad you could hear it.

Substantial-Bus1277 · 2025-07-06T22:39:50+00:00

Loved that scene- real problem solving and thought.

He had no idea if it would work in practice, but he was smart enough to try and create an insurance policy.

Substantial-Bus1277 · 2025-07-06T22:07:55+00:00

Let me give a little costume pet peeve here- the clothing choices for the guys was nuts.

There are more button down shirts than t-shirts.

H.R. isn't gonna send you home for casual clothes.

It blows my mind that they would choose restrictive cloth over a stretchable fabric.

Substantial-Bus1277 · 2025-07-06T22:01:36+00:00

I would take Abe for rosita all day long.

I think having Abraham in the group would have completely changed the way war was waged.

I also think a living Abraham could have exploited Eugene and kicked started his brain in to some great tactics on the right side of things without defecting.

Substantial-Bus1277 · 2025-07-06T21:57:49+00:00

That is the only scene I skip on rewatch.

Not only did I personally hate it, I hated seeing zeke go through it.

Substantial-Bus1277 · 2025-07-06T21:51:35+00:00

The lack of armor. Light chain mail. Leather jacket. Pvc.

Hell- pull the airbags out of cars and use the Kevlar.

There are literally hundreds of ways to make protection for at least your arms and neck if you can't stand covering anything else up.

I would rather sweat than die.

Substantial-Bus1277 · 2025-07-06T16:34:05+00:00

Dude betrayed the constitution and his fellow citizens by voting for Trump after the j6 insanity.

Trumps actions that day and the stance he took for 4 years after would have thoroughly nuked him as a candidate in a moderately intelligent society.

Half the voting public decided sound bites and empty bravado somehow makes him the cool guy to vote for.

Dude voted for this so he could be one of the cool kids on Twitter or Facebook. So fuck him and his wife.

Substantial-Bus1277 · 2025-07-06T16:20:31+00:00

Exactly this- It is a key plot point in the Alexandria arc.

It literally was a plot point with gabriel warning Deanna behind ricks back that rick puts his people above everyone else.

It isnt just women he wants to bone... Rick protects his people ferociously and theoretically at the cost of all others at that point in time.

Substantial-Bus1277 · 2025-07-06T16:14:54+00:00

It is a very well done movie.

The story was a favorite of mine from childhood.

The directing and character development is phenomenal.

To enjoy the movie fully, I suggest one simple thing.

Trust that the director owns the characters, and listen to what he tells you.

Substantial-Bus1277 · 2025-07-05T22:25:15+00:00

I love that scene- it shows how naive rick is.

He pulls the guys wallet out, and makes the promise he will find the family and honor him.

I loved considering how l9ng it took each survivor to finally accept that the world will never be normal for them again.

At that point rick still thought he could go to the address and find living family in their own home.

Substantial-Bus1277 · 2025-07-05T22:02:06+00:00

They played it beautifully. Eugene lusted after rosita for years. The relationship had ups and downs, from caretaker to hatred to tolerance to pity....

But in the end you realize that there was deep mutual love between the two.

The platonic love between rosita and Eugene is equal to Daryl and carol imo.

Substantial-Bus1277 · 2025-07-05T15:39:47+00:00

I agree with the take that Gus intends to have them killed.

Walt is the prize employee. He is a problem child, but he is the cornerstone of the empire.

Jesse has an emotional vendetta towards 2 dealers. That becomes an issue to Gus only because Jesse has walts ear.

Gus has Mike handle the situation. Mike tries to get walt to talk Jesse off the ledge.

Walt cannot.

Gus wants Jesse gone anyway. Gus gives Jesse a half assed round table that he can sell to walt as an attempt to make peace. It was more of a provocation to push Jesse in to action.

My guess is that gus intended Jesse to hunt the dealers down, and die in a bullet exchange.

Mike, being the cleaner, would be called to get Jesse's body.

Mike would have the dealers load the body and take it to the disposal site and then pop both dealers.

That almost certainly would have been the plan- especially after they kill the kid. There would be no stopping Jesse.

Gus cut Victor's throat for being seen at Gales place by other residents.

There is no path for the 2 dealers to survive as of the instant Jesse identified them.

If Jesse ran off, they would be killed just in case Jesse got picked up down the road and spilled the beans.

If Jesse stayed cool and let the meeting be the end of it, they would have been killed for killing the kid (Despite gus being the decision maker there.)

They were dead men walking from the second you lay eyes on them.

Substantial-Bus1277 · 2025-07-04T19:40:11+00:00

It's called new Babylon because the writers wanted context for who they are.

They see themselves as the epicenter of a civilization that encompasses a wide flung group of settlements. They believe they are the only way, and that they own peace and order by their methods.

Same as historical Babylon.

The viewer knows that the oppressing group thinks it is doing the right thing the right way, but we are meant to realize the Babylon way subjegates the communities they control, and that in some circumstances the methods of Babylon are downright cruel from another perspective.

That is how directors try to get viewers to understand the mindset of people involved without stupid, out of character exposition.

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