Quinn said:
JD Shellnut said:
So….what has it been, like 10 years since Kim left Saul? 2003 to 2013?
6. It was 2004 when Howard died and she left and it's 2010 when Gene is in Omaha.
Kim leaves Jimmy middle of 2004, Jimmy calls Francesca Nov 12th, 2010, Francesca inform Jimmy that at some point between March 2010 (when Jimmy went into hiding) and the phone call on Nov 12th that Kim called asking if he was alive. No idea if Jimmy and Kim EVER had contact from 2004 to 2010, the call to Francesca might have been first time Kim EVER reached out. Somehow Jimmy knew how to find her, roughly (I think he somewhat randomly guessed the sprinkler business "it's on a road named after a fish" since he's smart and it's Florida, or perhaps just couldn't quite remember what he had been told) and I don't know how he would know that if there had never been contact. Perhaps he had Mike track her down at some point in BB timeline. How much time do we think passed in last night's episode, how long did scam on what appeared to be a dozen victims run after Nov 12th? I would guess 2-4 months?
If they NEVER had contact 2004 to 2010 and Kim only calls asking about him after the **** went down, it's possible she was doing so on behalf of the Feds and it's possible she told Jimmy that fact when he called her. But so many possibilities for the phone booth conversation, writers keeping us guessing for sure. Kim's dead, remarried, had a kid -maybe Jimmy's kid, perhaps in jail herself, just unwilling to talk to Jimmy, telling him she's turning him in for his own good, on and on for the possibilities. Ever since Jimmy burned Kim in the Mesa Verde meeting, she got angry, and instead of breaking up she offered marriage, I've felt perhaps she had some revenge angle - but that would be too ****ty.
Stubbornness on cancer victim going to take him down? Jeffie's mom too sharp and concerned about Jeffie, she's his demise? Something out of left field, because the writing on the show is good?
I think the writers definitely want us to feel Jimmy is self destructive and deserving of a bad fate, after watching last night's episode anyway. But they also invested 5 seasons into Jimmy backstory and building some sympathy for who he is and why. But as much as we might like the character we saw in BCS over those first 5 seasons, we also now have seen what he did in BB and how he was pivotal in creating Heisenberg. Chuck was right (monkey with a machine gun), Howard was right (you two are soulless, you have something missing, you do it for fun), and Kim was right (we hurt people) - while a bad end to Jimmy might seem tragic and disappointing to a fan of the show I think any other type of ending might seem inauthentic.
