>Top notch production, acting, and directing, but the story
>just went nowhere. It makes my complaints earlier in the
>season about how the story took a step backward even more
>legitimate. Season 1 ended with Jimmy seemingly stepping out
>of the corporate lawyer world to set up his own shop. The
>writers went back on that and then it became the only real
>plot development for Jimmy in the 10 episodes of S2.

Right. I had no problem with them putting the brakes on Jimmy becoming Saul to begin this season. But I was assuming that they had a legitimate, interesting *reason* to put the brakes on. But instead, like you said, they ended up exactly where they left off. I enjoyed the production value like you said but otherwise I feel like this was a waste of 10 hours.


>The Chuck vs. Jimmy story is boring and that cliffhanger is
>lazy. I was really hoping he died there in that copy shop or
>Jimmy committed him at the hospital.

Yep. *That* type of ending would have legitimized the slow burn of S2. Instead we got the cheesy cliffhanger.


>Mike's storyline left me scratching my head a few times. He's
>been told that Salamanca forgot about him and even though
>their business is over, Mike is sticking his nose where it
>doesn't belong which will only bring more danger to him and
>his family. Seems like strange way to get Mike involved with
>the BB underworld.

Yea, I don't remember if it was you or someone else but I argued earlier in this post that Mike's involvement was justified, but watching this episode I started to agree with the "what the hell is he doing this for?" people. Just doesn't seem to intuitively make sense from a natural progression standpoint.


>The pace of Season 1 was fine, but Season 2 was poorly done
>and we're more or less right where we left off. Hope they
>speed it up a bit for Season 3 and focus on plot development.

Right. Again I didn't hate the pace of S2 as much as some people, but I was expecting a payoff and just didn't get it.