u/Homestar-Runner26

Not my quote, but I love this as a philosophy because it applies to pretty much everything. There are people who love living alone, there are people who love living with family or having roommates or being married, etc. There’s something for everyone in this world, as long as you understand that getting one thing always means giving up something else and there’s no perfect solution where you get everything you want and everyone wins (sorry, Liz Lemon). As someone who has lived with friends, with family and with a few significant others, I know that living alone is best for me because of the freedoms I enjoy that I can’t have otherwise. That means I have to be more vigilant about my physical health because my one emergency contact, my sister, lives hours away. Ok, so I live a healthy and active lifestyle and try not to do crazy stuff, but there’s no guarantee I won’t trip and fall down the stairs for no reason. But that’s the trade off, any disadvantage that comes with my lifestyle is greatly offset by the many advantages. I have the benefit of hindsight, I know now what works for me and what doesn’t and this is my best life. There are tradeoffs and it’s not perfect, but it’s darn close.

Not a new topic, I’m sure, but I’m new so here goes.

There were a few times on the show where you saw characters accidentally create something beautiful that could never last and that they could never fully enjoy. I think Gus loved the restaurant and that he could have happily spent the rest of his life running it, but he was too far gone and too focused on the mission. You could tell he had passion for it, though. Then there was the moment we see Skylar realize the carwash was a viable business and we see the wheels were turning in her head: it was turning a profit, it was a local institution, the whole family could work there together. The way they got there meant it was never going to work out long term, but you could see her thought process for a split second and the brief moment of hope it gives her. Plus, it fit her skill set and I think she legitimately enjoyed it. The other one that comes to mind is Jesse and Andrea, he started out trying to play her but you can see the moment he falls in love with her and sees her and Brock as his future. Suddenly Jesse Pinkman, family man exists. I’m sure there are others, those are the ones that stood out.

The show was very good at showing us the high price of crime and the things that might have been. Or maybe it’s just ironic that these scenarios only came to be because people were breaking the law and creating beautiful things they could never have for themselves.

I see the question come up a lot about whether living alone means you can’t have a successful romantic relationship. I love living alone for a thousand different reasons, and I found out through dating trial and error that cohabiting isn’t for me. Ideally I’d like a relationship where she and I are committed to each other but we each live in our own space. Seems simple enough, and lots of women in this sub seem to agree with that idea, except that I’ve never once met a woman in the real world who agrees. Not friends, not family members, coworkers or actual dates. Back when I was still actively dating (several years ago by now) and when I was still on apps, women were all overwhelming opposed to the concept. On apps especially women would say they were looking for just friends or casual, but when I’d match with them and get to know them, they’d always say something like “Yeah, I’d like casual at first but the whole point of dating is to settle down/get married/live together.” So there’s a disconnect, women on Reddit champion the idea of dating and living alone but those women don’t seem to exist outside of this platform. And I think I figured out why.

It’s simple statistics. If even 1% of women share this belief, that’s hundreds of millions of women worldwide, but that’s still a drop in the bucket compared to the billions on the planet. And there’s the answer. They exist but are spread out across the world, they live in different cities and states and countries (mostly living in large urban centers and I don’t), so far away that they may as well live on different planets. It’s not a disconnect between Reddit and reality, it’s a geography issue, and the chances of me meeting one of these unicorns in the wild who is compatible with me are slim to none. And that’s probably true for everyone else on here. So my advice is, be true to yourself and stay the course. Accept it and enjoy your life, that’s what I’m doing. If the majority of people dating want to settle down, you won’t improve your chances by compromising on your core values. You’ll only make yourself and someone else miserable. Maybe the universe will put a unicorn in your path, there’s a good chance it won’t, at the end of the day it doesn’t matter because this lifestyle is my/our best case scenario and I wouldn’t change it for the world.

Just watched this today and I have questions, I know I’m very late to the party but making a new post is easier than sifting through thousands of threads from two years ago. Ok, so I really liked the episode, it didn’t feel AI generated like I saw a lot of people say, and I didn’t get the impression that they had no clue how to end it. I liked the ambiguous ending, I feel like it was open to interpretation. A couple of things that stood out to me, when I saw the blood at the end my first reaction was that it looked like paint and not real blood, but maybe that was misdirection? Also, Cliff definitely wasn’t afraid of David even though he was bigger. We saw him punch him and never back down from him, so for him to come back at the very end and not immediately confront him says to me that something so shocking or brutal had to have happened for him to not retaliate. Whatever happened made him either not want to attack David or made him powerless to attack David. No answers from me, like I said I like the ambiguity, but those are two things that stuck with me. Thoughts?

I remember watching BCS the first time and having a hard time seeing Jimmy become Saul, he was likable and charismatic instead of smarmy and sleazy, even knowing the show would take several seasons to bridge that gulf seemed implausible. In my third watch I had the obvious thought that in BB we see Saul through Walt’s eyes, the man who only sees a two bit bus bench lawyer, but BCS is Jimmy’s story and shows us how he sees himself. Walt is the main character in his story and we see people the way he does, BCS is Jimmy’s story so same goes for him. Walt believes he’s an unrecognized genius, Jimmy thinks he’s Robin Hood. The two shows are not objective third person exposes, more like a retrospective of how each character justifies their choices based on their own world view. In Walt’s story everyone who isn’t him is an incompetent moron, to Jimmy everyone who isn’t him is a jack-booted thug, and if we had a show from Hank’s perspective everyone else would be pathetic losers.

BCS is easily one of my favorite shows of all time, but the whole plot is based on the idea that no one in Omaha recognized one of the most easily recognizable faces in the country. A mustache isn’t a disguise, facial recognition software definitely existed, Saul was all over billboards and TV for years, and Omaha really isn’t that far from Albuquerque.