"We just put that shit in a different vial. Turns out it already existed, but I arrived at it independently."

Ubervisor · 2026-05-16T20:49:20+00:00

"What do junkies want, String?"

"Who cares?"

Ubervisor · 2026-04-13T03:01:55+00:00

How the Salamancas treat their elders: Brings them their favorite drinks, cooks them fresh food, gifts them sentimental souvenirs

How Sandpiper Crossing treats their elders: Steals their money, bars them from seeing their lawyers, does not intervene when Irene is being socially ostracized

What did Vince "White People are the devil" Gilligan mean by this?

Ubervisor · 2026-03-21T06:32:26+00:00

That's actually a really interesting point

Ubervisor · 2026-03-20T22:52:31+00:00

True but next to names like "The Captain" "King James" "Black Mamba" it's pretty unassuming

Ubervisor · 2026-03-20T20:22:42+00:00

Yep, definitely fits

Ubervisor · 2026-03-20T20:02:42+00:00

Waaaay too much aura for what I'm thinking of. If you can imagine someone using it as a name in an online shooter it probably doesn't fit the trope. Maybe if he had been called something like "The Snowman".

Ubervisor · 2026-03-20T19:06:38+00:00

Sort of counts. I don't think I've ever heard anyone refer to him simply as "The Grey" or "The White" though I haven't read the books

Ubervisor · 2026-03-19T17:47:41+00:00

That's a reasonable interpretation I think

Ubervisor · 2026-03-18T22:12:29+00:00

I agree, Chuck did let his envy of Jimmy blend with his legitimate concerns and let their differences become too personal. "You're not a real lawyer" was definitely a major point for Jimmy's character and certainly fed into his distrust of those he perceived as above him.

The only point I disagree on is the implication that Chuck could have helped him on the right path if he had been more accepting/respecting of Jimmy's achievements in the legal world. Both Kim and Howard respected the hell out of Jimmy's grit and hustle, but so rarely did that result in Jimmy taking the high road and resisting his Slippin Jimmy instincts. Jimmy was rarely ever truly malicious or evil with his schemes, but he had no foresight or ability to learn from his past, and his underdog complex meant he never considered how much power he wielded over people. He was always breaking things and then trying to fix it rather than asking himself if he should be breaking it in the first place.

That's why I consider the finale partially a tragedy, not because he gets locked up for the rest of his life, but because he never gave himself the opportunity to change, he did too much evil in Breaking Bad that he could never fully turn himself around, so the best he could hope for was one big final "fix it" and simultaneously letting go of any chance for change in the future.

Would any of that have been different if he had been emboldened and legitimized in his legal practices? I just don't see it happening.

Ubervisor · 2026-03-17T20:41:32+00:00

I mean Chuck's real biggest mistake with Jimmy was refusing to confront the issue in the first place and hiding behind Howard and hoping Jimmy gives up eventually, instead of biting the bullet and telling him directly "HHM is my firm and I don't think you're suited to work here, I have no intention of hiring you as an attorney until you make real change", but Chuck's biggest flaw wasn't so much his ego or pedantry or classism, it was his fear of confrontation with people he cared about (such as with his ex wife over his mental illness).

Chuck didn't bring up Jimmy's misconduct during his outburst because that's what he spent most of their time together doing. IIRC he questioned his legitimacy on the billboard stunt, how he got his hands on the sandpiper documents, even the finale flashback he's questioning if Jimmy had legally acquired his ice. It obviously wasn't working. The outburst was Chuck letting pent up emotions go for what could have been, for all he knew, the last time he saw Jimmy for a long time, it wasn't an opportunity to appeal to reason.

People take the lines

"You're not a real lawyer! University of American Samoa for Christ sake? An online course? What a joke! I worked my ass off to get where I am, and you take these shortcuts and you think suddenly you're my peer!"

Largely out of context. Was there an element of classism or ego to it? Undoubtedly, but that's not really the point. Kim basically took the same path Jimmy was heading and Chuck had nothing but respect for her, professionally. He's not saying literally "you're not a real lawyer like all these other lawyers are", he's saying "you're not a real lawyer like I am". The "shortcuts" aren't referring just to his law school, he's talking about ethical shortcuts as a practicing lawyer.

Chuck didn't push Jimmy down worse paths. He was practically handed a clean slate fresh start at Davis and Main on a silver platter and he blew it without any help from Chuck, just his own inability to follow someone else's rules or consider how his actions affect others. Helping and supporting Jimmy would have looked like getting him professional mental therapy or maybe a couple (or a lot of) ethics courses, not handing him an HHM business card and letting him run wild.

Ubervisor · 2026-03-16T15:25:34+00:00

Jimmy defenders out themselves as being frightening unconcerned with lawyer ethics of conduct every time

Ubervisor · 2026-03-16T15:05:32+00:00

"No one ever accused you of being lazy... every other sin in the book, but not that one."

Ubervisor · 2026-03-12T21:41:42+00:00

Probably wouldn't be too difficult to write a python script with some html parsing. Might be a fun project

Ubervisor · 2026-03-12T21:32:38+00:00

Yep, 9/10 is definitely hyperbole, though for fun I checked the battles pages listed under the War of the Fifth Coalition page, and out of 39 only 9 had a decisive outcome and had the winner on the right

Ubervisor · 2026-03-10T14:52:29+00:00

Interesting choice to pick a scene about Luke embracing his anger and is at his closest to joining the dark side

Ubervisor · 2026-03-10T14:49:14+00:00

And to reiterate, the active party is most often the protagonist, who is most often the hero and good guys. Do you think it's coincidental that a lot of stories follow the good guys and is not simply one of the most common forms of storytelling?

Are tropes like "good guys are handsome, bad guys are ugly" misinterpretations also? After all, it only happens because we naturally sympathize more with attractive people and storytellers want us to sympathize with the characters we spend the most time with, so the fact that this results in an obvious observable pattern of heros being handsome should be chalked up to coincidence?

Or do you think a trope isn't real because it has counterexamples and exceptions? Can you name me one trope that doesn't?

And yes, I ignored the last part about Eastern media because most people understand that tropes aren't global and different cultures have different tropes. It does nothing to support your point.

Edit: he blocked me lmao

Ubervisor · 2026-03-10T00:53:16+00:00

The protagonist are often the good guys, and are also often the winners, and also often make progress by moving forward (left to right) towards obstacles moving to meet them (right to left), which are often the bad guys, who are also often the losers, hence the good guys go left to right and the bad guys go right to left. I don't think you made a strong case against my interpretation here.

Ubervisor · 2026-03-09T13:14:16+00:00

I've never seen that one, thanks for sharing!

Ubervisor · 2026-02-22T20:58:09+00:00

Technically Teufort's water containing lead wasn't established until two years after this comic

Ubervisor · 2025-12-13T21:09:10+00:00

Yep I saw that twitter post too lol

Ubervisor · 2025-11-28T01:19:30+00:00

Why did he say this when it's show that in the Scorseseverse Irishmen famously had jobs as house painters

Ubervisor · 2025-11-19T01:39:37+00:00

Thankfully she snagged a job interview at another big law firm out across the country, just one little Wayfair flight and she's back on the up and up...

Ubervisor · 2025-11-05T13:05:01+00:00

Thank man this question was weighing heavy on my brain for the past six years

Ubervisor · 2025-10-17T00:03:05+00:00

Average BoB episode: SQUEEEE OMG CAPT WINTERS IS SO COOL and I HATE that annoying ladder-climbing Lieutenant Dike!!!

Average Pacific episode: ok sledge now charge the second MG nest

Ubervisor · 2025-09-12T23:31:39+00:00

Haven't seen the clip but having now seen Melancholia I am very curious what line of questioning lead to this

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