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I still don't know how I feel about the "SG WAS HERE" teaser. The teaser of the pilot (Address Unknown) was so amazing and meaningful that I think revisiting Saul's post BB life without a lot more to say was a strange decision. We already know that he misses being Saul Goodman and we know that he feels stuck in his current life. It does slightly reveal that he misses being Saul and not Jimmy, I suppose. The fact that Gene is afraid of opening the alarm door and that Jimmy wants to flip the light switch for no reason gives a lot of context for his current (2002) place as a character and how different it will be for him in the future, but revisiting that black and white world of misery for that felt a little cheap. It feels so good not to know what's going on, and what means what. I've seen season 1 so much that I have at the very least a rough understanding of what I think everything means. The electricity, the colors, the bingo machine, the coffee, the fire, the blacklight; all these things are cataloged and have great meaning to me. Whereas in season 2 episode 1, there are plenty of new symbols that I have no clue about. Jimmy drifting in the pool with his cellphone in a plastic bag and his food tied to the chair, the painting in his office, Pryce; they all have an air of mystery behind them because I trust the showrunners so implicitly. If the Kettlemans were a symbol for Jimmy's denial, what is Pryce? A symbol for his naivete? Of Mike's? All he had to do in episode one was show up and say "No, I don't think so." And he was still amazing.

I, too, twitch a bit whenever anybody says this season is going well because we were so bad last year. This season is *fine* because Sam and Jack are still rookies, Lehner got injured, and we lost ~40 goals that we thought we were going to get from Moulson and Ennis. The defense has been about as good as I thought they'd be (maybe even a little bit better).

That was a hell of a lot funnier than I expected. Jimmy's scam with Kim was so fun, and we finally got to hear "brotherman" guy talk to a client instead of like a douche. In season 1 of Breaking Bad Walt blew his car up, whereas Jimmy just cons him into paying for an entire bottle of super expensive tequila one shot at a time. That's a pretty accurate comparison between those two characters. (The tequila, zafiro añejo, is the same fictional liquor that Gus used to poison Don Eladio). I didn't foresee Jimmy not making his turn away from his legit lawyer life yet. Learning that there was a scene between Jimmy being in the parking lot (with all the space in the frame behind his head) and talking to Mike on his way out was very interesting. I've spent a lot of time thinking about what exactly was happening there, so it feels really weird to learn about an extra scene that we didn't see the first time around. At the end of the episode when he accepted the Davis and Main job it made me really sad. They really want Jimmy there, but he's basically just teasing them because he wants to feel good for a while. He's aimlessly drifting along in the world of legitimate lawyers. The unlit fireplace in his office was a nice callback to Kim's cigarette and the Kettleman's fireplace from season 1. It broke my heart that Jimmy didn't want Kim to leave her bedroom/didn't want to leave it himself. I'm afraid for Jimmy that it was just a one night thing for Kim. And having the girl you like is a great thing, but it can't be the only thing in your life. I love that Pryce's storyline picked right back up where we left it in episode 9 last year. Everything was so deliciously poorly done on his part, from refusing Mike, to letting Nacho chill in his hummer, to calling the freakin' cops. The brand spankin' new H2 is a nice temporal aspect to add to a story that's taking place in 2002. That episode felt like it took 15 minutes to watch, such a blast.

Shhhhhhhh.

After the Kane goal, Rob Ray didn't mention Samson's pass at all. AND the broadcast went to a replay before it finished the lineup graphic and I never got to learn who the Avs D-men were. Why do we have to deal with auch an amateurish broadcast team? Isn't it 2016? Nice game. Glad I finally caught one. Sam and Jack are awesome.

How does this pay off any more than him having consistent wingers this year?

Piling on to the Hobbit a little bit, they did a good job making the main villain look like a total useless dunce. He had a bunch of helpless dwarves cornered in his lair and he couldn't even kill a single one before the end of the movie? One was resting on his snout for a few seconds for sake! Then he flies toward the town all like "I AM DEATH!" Who's death? Who did you kill you reptilian loser?? I didn't even see the third one. I don't feel like I missed anything.

Hot Daniel is so bad at matching lines that we're actively worse when he gets last change. When we're away the effect is about neutral, instead of negative. :devil:

Sometimes that's just how you wear socks.

WildCard and Thorny are in Hufflepuff.

This caused an existential crisis. Am I the brick or is the brick me? How can I ever love if I don't yet know myself? How can I afflict whatever I am on another stranger? So I snuck in and left a note on her bathroom mirror. I'm still a little light headed from it, though. Insight. grateful

This got weird. I might've laughed a little.

Bogo is meh. Kane is awesome. He's not the goal scorer I expected, but he tilts the ice in our favor every time he's out there. And once the Sabres have a couple more goal scorers, it'll be nice to have a warhammer of a volume scorer to round out the top 9. Armia has 2 goals and 1 assist in 22 games and is destined for the second line.

Boom. I called this girl, and then I recalled her a few times. Still nothing back. :( Do I throw a brick through her front window or myself?

Evander Kane is such a freakin' badass. I've been waiting to see him fight in a Sabres sweater and he did not disappoint. I remember thinking after the second fight that I don't remember a Sabre fighting the same guy twice in the same game. And then a third? What was Petrovic thinking?

We can do that after we trade him. And if he signs elsewhere, whatevs, he's replaceable.

If it's a seller's market we'll get a 1st. Otherwise, he's just worth a 2nd.

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GMTM doesn't care about 3rd round picks! He'll just snipe diamonds with our two 7ths.

How so? Breaking in rookies with consistent linemates isn't any less of an investment in the future.

I'd roll O'Reilly - Eichel - Samson as our top 3 centers tonight. Our forwards don't have anywhere near enough (talented) sandpaper now that both Larsson and Girgensons are hurt. This is going to be a tough one.

Marchand lifted Risto's stick, which is perfectly legal. It was a sneaky good play by the Rat. Risto should've been gripping his stick tighter, but I thought he made the best of the play after that. He pushed the Rat a bit and the ref thought he was grabbing him? Lame. But what are you going to do? The armbar is practically how Jagr made his living.

I just never know what to expect from you, Freeman. :lol:

That article didn't make me like Lucic any more at all. In fact, that was the worst Players' Tribune article I've read yet. Entirely a fluff piece about how much Lucic loves Boston. Meh.

Eichel's back to having absolutely no winger help. Oh well.