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  1. Can’t say I disagree with any of that.
  2. This episode had one job - resolve the Jeff the Cab Driver threat. Could that have been handled differently? Sure. Could it have been better? Oh yes. Was it "The Fly"? No, not that bad, imo.
  3. Again, maybe he had something else to do first, but his goal was to make sure the manager left and didn't hang around waiting because then the whole plan goes tits up. If this is the kind of stuff that made you feel the episode was underwhelming, fine. I'm reserving judgment until I see if this is it for the Gene / Omaha / Cinnabon timeline or not. It seemed to me the main goal of this episode was to tie up how Jimmy / Saul / Gene was going to deal with Jeff the Cab Driver. And it did that. Each of the last three episodes have clearly closed the door on key storylines within the timelines they existed. Also, Jeff was not recast just for the hell of it. The actor that played him originally was not available. I think the writers had to make the best of it and pieced a story together that closed the Jeff threat loop and blended it with a Slippin' Jimmy reprise. Kinda happy they didn't jump around to other timelines within last night's episode. It makes me think we're mostly done with Gene. There's not much more story to tell there.
  4. I'll also add that from a cinematography perspective, having snow in the shots just enhances / clarifies the black and white effect. So, if they chose snow to help with that, that makes sense to me. Going for that Fargo feel, I guess.
  5. The thing that writers and show runners could not predict at the time the prior season Gene scenes were shot was the specific month and year they occurred. I think they just went with "bleak, cold, hardscrabble Midwestern winter" because it lent itself better to describing the misery of Jimmy / Saul / Gene's life. When they planned for S6, my guess is they saw an opportunity to wrap the Gene timeline up in a way that need temporal context with the end of BB, the death of Walter White, and Jesse's escape to Alaska. Based on "Nippy", these events in Omaha occurred just a month and few weeks apart. Maybe that will have meaning in the final three episodes, maybe not. These writers are not lazy, but they will use creative license in an effort to set the feel they want. And to end the series, I can see where they had to just deal with decisions made way back in Seasons 1-5. So, yes snow on the ground in October. Rare, but plausible. The "OMG, it was 60 degrees and sunny that week according the Weather Underground!!!!" takes are just kinda silly. Just nit picky crap that doesn't matter.
  6. The whole "Urbandale is really just 2 hours from Omaha" shit is kinda weak. I think Gene wanted to make sure she wasn't going to hang around. If he said 2, she might. Saying 4 lessens the likelihood that she would stay at the store He stated "I can be there in 4 hours" like he wasn't just going to jump in a truck and leave immediately. C'mon, man.
  7. mid-October is weeks into winter? It's not even winter.
  8. He said in the episode that they erase the tapes (record over them) every 72 hours. This and the timing when it would be caught in inventory was actual dialogue in the show and the whole entire premise for just taking "three things".
  9. We know precisely where we are in the Gene timeline now. Garrett Gilbert! Oh and
  10. This video indicates after some internet research that the handicap tag is valid for 3 years. Based on other factors, he deduces it is still 2005, so about a year after the Howard / Lalo / Kim denouement, i.e. the end of the BCS timeline. Part of his deduction is that Saul has represented so many public masturbators, including Fudge the old guy who appears in the Fifi commercial, and that it's more of a running joke than a direct link to Badger's incarceration (Saul's intro in BB).
  11. Good snag. It says 11 20 08. I stand corrected.
  12. And it kinda tied in with the Jimmy dialogue about "maybe one day, we won't think about it at all", and how that is complete folly. Gus was all daydreaming about sportfucking the sommelier in a French vineyard, then Max clicked into his head, and it reminded him to get back on the Revenge Tour bus.
  13. Saul's LWYERUP vanity plate had a Nov 05 expiration date, so I think we're still a ways from WW.
  14. Nope, not a glimpse. Kim leaving just launched the timeline forward. The transition was amazingly abrupt. One second you hear zippers and tape being unrolled, the next second you see Saul in his hooker bed with a hooker, all Johnny Bluetooth talking hardball tactics with an opposing lawyer and then mentioning he has a "Xanax guy".
  15. Ooooof. That was brutal.
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