after this weeks episode i thought to myself that the show might be losing some steam.
10000% correct
Too many storylines that are NOT intersecting
Too much Nucky psyche stuff
I loved this show at one time, and I admire the acting, sets, etc...I seriously think there are too many characters who are not central to moving this show forward stealing dialogue and screen time...
I wish Van Patten directed and wrote every episode...it's painfully obvious when he and Terrence Winter walk away and let others contribute...
I hope it turns around quick or they will lose this faithful fan and viewer
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i loved this episode. fucking loved it...including the nucky psyche stuff. it was smart, funny, thoughtful, and gyp rosetti is a god damn lunatic. i like where this is headed.
they are channeling their innner sopranos...and to me, that is great news.
i agree. the harrow admitting the number of people he killed was chilling. how nonchalantly he said it.
also, how is mickey still alive? the minute he starts talking like a hardass he has a gun in his face lol.. i guess the lesson there is to be careful who you lie to about who you are or what you have done. it could come back to bite you in a big way.
nobody has mentioned margaret and what she is doing at the hospital. i can see her becoming a leader in the women's suffrage movement.
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i can easily see Eli taking over Mickey Doyles job(s) here,
in fact the end kinda showed Eli ribbing into Doyle.
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i agree. the harrow admitting the number of people he killed was chilling. how nonchalantly he said it.
also, how is mickey still alive? the minute he starts talking like a hardass he has a gun in his face lol.. i guess the lesson there is to be careful who you lie to about who you are or what you have done. it could come back to bite you in a big way.
nobody has mentioned margaret and what she is doing at the hospital. i can see her becoming a leader in the women's suffrage movement.
eli-- "mickey, i gotta ask you something....how are you still alive?"
Nucky & Owen hide out;
Mickey makes a critica decision in Nuckys abscence;
tensions rise in the feud between Capone and O'Banion.
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weird that some ppl (rolling stone mag being one) are saying that this weeks (Blue Bell Boy) episode was really weak & dull. I thought it was one of the better episodes of the entire series!
weird that some ppl (rolling stone mag being one) are saying that this weeks (Blue Bell Boy) episode was really weak & dull. I thought it was one of the better episodes of the entire series!
yeah, really liked it too.. but i guess i can understand how some might find it a bit tame and want all hell to break loose already..
Nucky's definitely different since killing Jimmy, not letting that kid go to send a message to Owen.. by the end of the season i think everyone will be pleased by what will go down..
really liked seeing more of Capone and him singing to his kid.
I have to say, for as crazy violent this show is, the scene where Capone is singing to his son brought a tear to my eye. I wonder if this is based on reality or the relationship was made up for the show.
I have to say, for as crazy violent this show is, the scene where Capone is singing to his son brought a tear to my eye. I wonder if this is based on reality or the relationship was made up for the show.
100% agree I'll admit, I DID well up, couldn't believe it, my wife looked at me and laughed...was a beautiful moment - I was close to losing it earlier in the episode when he was asking his son to hit him and the kid started crying LOL...
I really needed this show to have the episode it did last night. After last weeks episode, I thought this show was really losing it, however, last night showed that when this show is "on its game" its right there with the top shows on TV.
GREAT episode last night, seems like the set up for what's coming is going to be awesome!
whew---- I also agree that this week was better than last weeks epsiode. :fp:
It will be interesting to see how Eli moves back up and in with Nuckys graces.
The closing segment last night with him telling Nucky about the ambush left us all hanging,
but in the coming scenes for next week, Eli was all dressed up to the Ts.
Also liked the extended segments with Nucky and Owen Slater. :shock:
Seems Nucky got concenred when Mickey double checked the " plan " with Slater,
and Nucky got angry/jealous. ( " What the fuck are you asking him for ? " )
Which is why he whacked that 19 year old Roland Smith
( who i didnt even remember ) to shock Slater and 'scare him straight' so to speak .
Also interesting how theyre building up to either a 2 or 3 way battle with AC- NYC
between Gip Rosetti, Nucky, and Arnold Rothstein.
Also showing Lucky Luciano back in his old neighborhood
( and English subtitles )
and the cultivation of the heroin trade.
Looking forward to next week ,....
:corn: :corn:
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Wow what an opening scene,
When I saw the leather belt ,
I was expecting that to be agent Van Alden and his wifey.
(Little did I know she'd later be whacking the Customs Agent)
Gip Rosetti is one freaky deek !
That erotic asphyxiation will kill ya !
Wish the paperboy woulda been more precise with his handgun,..
4 casualties and none being Rosetti. :shock:
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oh man ...was it ever fucked up! tho by myself just watching the opening scene made me blush
i figured it was gonna be van alden & his wife at first too. now isn't sigred the wacky one? get the idea she's also running from something in her past
margaret catching nucky & billie together in the dress shop. will she have an affair with the dr. (even tho he's engaged) to get back at nucky?
gillian totally lost her sanity. so deep in denial she's become delusional...apparently she actually believes jimmy's alive & in hiding somewhere
just when i was thinking it couldn't get any freakier or creepier than the opening scene...along comes that gory one towards the end :shock: ....yeah that was enough to make me miss angela's lesbian love scences....and i'm not even into chics
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Wish the paperboy woulda been more precise with his handgun,..
4 casualties and none being Rosetti. :shock:
I'm glad he didnt off Rosetti. His character has been fantastic.
Season 3 thus far has been very good. Much better than last season.
last season was much better in my opinion. gyp is a great bad guy...a bit too one dimensional though. if he's going to stick around, they need to develop his character more than they have thus far (weird sex shit aside )
i guess its true
theyre just building up all the suspense
for an explosive and shocking finale ,
that will leave us hangin until next year.
still looking for the beach scenes that were shot here on my beach this past summer.
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--So did Teddy start the fire in the greenhouse, or not ?
--At first Remis was funny. Now he's annoying,
& I somehow wiish that he would get whacked.
--Its a shame everytime we saw the new post jail Eli ,
we had to see Mickey .
I like the evolved character of Eli and look forward to see what happens
between him and Nucky.
Yeah , he tried to kill his brother ,
but maybe jail has changed him somehow.
--Nucky asking the prosecutor Esther Randolph to breakfast
is either really really brilliant,
...or it shows exactly how insane Nucky is becoming.
This may serve to either put him under or save him further on up the road.
Theyre really getting into politics all the way up to the president.
Interesting hearing the names in this context.
Great exchange:
" who do you think the american people will believe, the US Attorney General or a washed up bootlegger from New Jersey " ?
Maybe that dialogue forced Nucky to go see Ms. Randolph.
--Gillian sure is twisted, who the hell knows whats on her mind ?
The funniest line from her scenes last night " Are you sure you're 29? "
The scariest line from her scenes last night : " I'm gonna call you James,.."
He was a king? Okayyyyyyyyyy
--And it was only a question of time before Owen Slater and Margaret
hooked up again - ( since the one time last season )
He's been spending way too much time around , due to Nuckys absence.
And ever since seeing Nucky at the tailor shop with Miss Kent
its seemed like she wanted some revenge , either with the young doctor or owen .
Cant wait for next Sunday !
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I thought Margarets son(forget his name) was going to be looking down from the window when Owen and her were hooking up in the green house.
Reemis gets jailed or whacked next week. He is annoying.
As far as Gillian and this Roger guy that she met and wants to call "James": He looks a lot like Jimmy and I'm guessing that she ends up killing him and using his body to somehow declare Jimmy officially dead so that she can get his property and of course, the house.
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teddy did set the greenhouse on fire...it's just when he mentioned seeing the man (a gypsy) that owen & his guys found a nearby vagrant to blame thus had him "taken care of." no one wants to blame teddy, he looks so innocent...the lil pyro. it ties in with margeret & owen talking about the pooka (irish shape-shifting boogieman)
was surprised to see mickey since he fucked up so bad by ignoring nuckys orders given what happened to the booze shipment & crew in tabor heights. does mickey have something on nucky and eli that he's still kickin after that major mess? :?
it'll be interesting to see how things play out between nucky & esther randolph. how long until they're doing something more intimate at 5am than having breakfast together?
at first i thought gillian hooked up with roger just because of the fact that he resembles jimmy. but it makes sense that she's gonna off him. she does need to have jimmy declared dead so she has total control with everything in her name. the crazy letter last week was a set up for when 'i think i'll call you James' dead body 'comes back to her.' she is flat-out fucking evil :twisted: (pooka of another shape?)
teddy did set the greenhouse on fire...it's just when he mentioned seeing the man (a gypsy) that owen & his guys found a nearby vagrant to blame thus had him "taken care of." no one wants to blame teddy, he looks so innocent...the lil pyro. it ties in with margeret & owen talking about the pooka (irish shape-shifting boogieman)
OK,
lol @ lil pyro.
It was clear the punishment Margaret gave Teddy
hurt Margaret more than Teddy himself.
He was just like ho hum,..
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Too many storylines that are NOT intersecting
Too much Nucky psyche stuff
I loved this show at one time, and I admire the acting, sets, etc...I seriously think there are too many characters who are not central to moving this show forward stealing dialogue and screen time...
I wish Van Patten directed and wrote every episode...it's painfully obvious when he and Terrence Winter walk away and let others contribute...
I hope it turns around quick or they will lose this faithful fan and viewer
7.9.03~9.28.04~10.1.05~5.12.06~5.13.06~5.27.06~5.28.06
8.5.08(EV)~10.9.09~5.21.10~6.20.11(EV)~7.5.11(EV)~7.9.11(EV)
11.21.13~8.27.16(EV)~11.14.16(TOTD)~4.13.20~9.27.20~9.26.21~10.2.21
2.15.22 (EV)~2.25.22 (EV)~2.27.22 (EV)~5.3.22~5.7.22~9.17.24~9.29.24
tho rosetti really is a cold-blooded prick. it figures he's attracted to gillian...talk about two pychopathic peas in a pod. :twisted:
and what's up with gillian lying to lucky saying jimmy's away somewhere & not telling him that he's dead?
like how van alden's wife sigred isn't quite so innocent as she previously seemed
everytime they show mickey doyle it makes me wonder how the dumbfuck has managed to stay alive
when nucky asked harrow how many people he's killed? then without pause he replied 63...that was chilling :shock:
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they are channeling their innner sopranos...and to me, that is great news.
also, how is mickey still alive? the minute he starts talking like a hardass he has a gun in his face lol.. i guess the lesson there is to be careful who you lie to about who you are or what you have done. it could come back to bite you in a big way.
nobody has mentioned margaret and what she is doing at the hospital. i can see her becoming a leader in the women's suffrage movement.
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
i gotta gun, he gotta gun, he gotta gun..EVERYBODY's GOT GUNS!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QS8lbfHUI3Q#t=2m37s
in fact the end kinda showed Eli ribbing into Doyle.
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eli-- "mickey, i gotta ask you something....how are you still alive?"
" Blue Bell Boy "
Nucky & Owen hide out;
Mickey makes a critica decision in Nuckys abscence;
tensions rise in the feud between Capone and O'Banion.
:corn: :corn:
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yeah, really liked it too.. but i guess i can understand how some might find it a bit tame and want all hell to break loose already..
Nucky's definitely different since killing Jimmy, not letting that kid go to send a message to Owen.. by the end of the season i think everyone will be pleased by what will go down..
really liked seeing more of Capone and him singing to his kid.
I really needed this show to have the episode it did last night. After last weeks episode, I thought this show was really losing it, however, last night showed that when this show is "on its game" its right there with the top shows on TV.
GREAT episode last night, seems like the set up for what's coming is going to be awesome!
7.9.03~9.28.04~10.1.05~5.12.06~5.13.06~5.27.06~5.28.06
8.5.08(EV)~10.9.09~5.21.10~6.20.11(EV)~7.5.11(EV)~7.9.11(EV)
11.21.13~8.27.16(EV)~11.14.16(TOTD)~4.13.20~9.27.20~9.26.21~10.2.21
2.15.22 (EV)~2.25.22 (EV)~2.27.22 (EV)~5.3.22~5.7.22~9.17.24~9.29.24
It will be interesting to see how Eli moves back up and in with Nuckys graces.
The closing segment last night with him telling Nucky about the ambush left us all hanging,
but in the coming scenes for next week, Eli was all dressed up to the Ts.
Also liked the extended segments with Nucky and Owen Slater. :shock:
Seems Nucky got concenred when Mickey double checked the " plan " with Slater,
and Nucky got angry/jealous. ( " What the fuck are you asking him for ? " )
Which is why he whacked that 19 year old Roland Smith
( who i didnt even remember ) to shock Slater and 'scare him straight' so to speak .
Also interesting how theyre building up to either a 2 or 3 way battle with AC- NYC
between Gip Rosetti, Nucky, and Arnold Rothstein.
Also showing Lucky Luciano back in his old neighborhood
( and English subtitles )
and the cultivation of the heroin trade.
Looking forward to next week ,....
:corn: :corn:
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I stand alone without beliefs
The only truth I know is you.
quite a bit about last night's episode was fucking freaky (or vise versa!)
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yeah. that was beyond fucked up.
glad to see rothstien and lucky side with nucky though.
as good as this year has been, i can't help but think they are missing jimmy more than they thought...i really liked his lesbian wife too.
When I saw the leather belt ,
I was expecting that to be agent Van Alden and his wifey.
(Little did I know she'd later be whacking the Customs Agent)
Gip Rosetti is one freaky deek !
That erotic asphyxiation will kill ya !
Wish the paperboy woulda been more precise with his handgun,..
4 casualties and none being Rosetti. :shock:
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i figured it was gonna be van alden & his wife at first too. now isn't sigred the wacky one? get the idea she's also running from something in her past
margaret catching nucky & billie together in the dress shop. will she have an affair with the dr. (even tho he's engaged) to get back at nucky?
gillian totally lost her sanity. so deep in denial she's become delusional...apparently she actually believes jimmy's alive & in hiding somewhere
just when i was thinking it couldn't get any freakier or creepier than the opening scene...along comes that gory one towards the end :shock: ....yeah that was enough to make me miss angela's lesbian love scences....and i'm not even into chics
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Season 3 thus far has been very good. Much better than last season.
All that I once held as true
I stand alone without beliefs
The only truth I know is you.
100% agree...its just gonna make the show better, the longer he's involved
crazy fuck that he is....i see a auto-erotic asphyxiation death scene in the future :fp:
last season was much better in my opinion. gyp is a great bad guy...a bit too one dimensional though. if he's going to stick around, they need to develop his character more than they have thus far (weird sex shit aside
theyre just building up all the suspense
for an explosive and shocking finale ,
that will leave us hangin until next year.
still looking for the beach scenes that were shot here on my beach this past summer.
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but agree that we are missing jimmy..maybe he missed :shock:
season two seemed much faster paced then this but its so well made and "what a cast "you have to watch.
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--So did Teddy start the fire in the greenhouse, or not ?
--At first Remis was funny. Now he's annoying,
& I somehow wiish that he would get whacked.
--Its a shame everytime we saw the new post jail Eli ,
we had to see Mickey .
I like the evolved character of Eli and look forward to see what happens
between him and Nucky.
Yeah , he tried to kill his brother ,
but maybe jail has changed him somehow.
--Nucky asking the prosecutor Esther Randolph to breakfast
is either really really brilliant,
...or it shows exactly how insane Nucky is becoming.
This may serve to either put him under or save him further on up the road.
Theyre really getting into politics all the way up to the president.
Interesting hearing the names in this context.
Great exchange:
" who do you think the american people will believe, the US Attorney General or a washed up bootlegger from New Jersey " ?
Maybe that dialogue forced Nucky to go see Ms. Randolph.
--Gillian sure is twisted, who the hell knows whats on her mind ?
The funniest line from her scenes last night " Are you sure you're 29? "
The scariest line from her scenes last night : " I'm gonna call you James,.."
He was a king? Okayyyyyyyyyy
--And it was only a question of time before Owen Slater and Margaret
hooked up again - ( since the one time last season )
He's been spending way too much time around , due to Nuckys absence.
And ever since seeing Nucky at the tailor shop with Miss Kent
its seemed like she wanted some revenge , either with the young doctor or owen .
Cant wait for next Sunday !
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Reemis gets jailed or whacked next week. He is annoying.
As far as Gillian and this Roger guy that she met and wants to call "James": He looks a lot like Jimmy and I'm guessing that she ends up killing him and using his body to somehow declare Jimmy officially dead so that she can get his property and of course, the house.
All that I once held as true
I stand alone without beliefs
The only truth I know is you.
Teddy
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was surprised to see mickey since he fucked up so bad by ignoring nuckys orders given what happened to the booze shipment & crew in tabor heights. does mickey have something on nucky and eli that he's still kickin after that major mess? :?
it'll be interesting to see how things play out between nucky & esther randolph. how long until they're doing something more intimate at 5am than having breakfast together?
at first i thought gillian hooked up with roger just because of the fact that he resembles jimmy. but it makes sense that she's gonna off him. she does need to have jimmy declared dead so she has total control with everything in her name. the crazy letter last week was a set up for when 'i think i'll call you James' dead body 'comes back to her.' she is flat-out fucking evil :twisted: (pooka of another shape?)
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OK,
lol @ lil pyro.
It was clear the punishment Margaret gave Teddy
hurt Margaret more than Teddy himself.
He was just like ho hum,..
:corn:
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Rosetti will be all guns a blazing towards Nucky/Rothstein/Lucciano to try and save his own ass.
I knew Gillian was going to "off" Roger.
All that I once held as true
I stand alone without beliefs
The only truth I know is you.