S4E9 ending


Gavin, with shaved head, on seeing Ehrlich show up in Tibet:

"Are you f---ing kidding me?"

So much for whatever transcendental serenity Gavin was trying to achieve, gone right out the window.

I laughed so hard, I woke up the wife.

Mub

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Well, yeah, it was a given that Gavin won't actually become enlightened. :)
It was just an escape from the world sort of thing for him.

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With T.J. Miller leaving the show, this might be the last we'll see of Erlich, unless he agrees to occasional guesting. The character is so abrasive, yet still such a good counterbalance to the low-key personalities of the rest of the main cast. I'll miss him. I hope they'll at least show him trying to learn meditation.

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And our last scene with Erlich is him laying on a tibetan opium den, smokin' it up. How suitable.

Still no explanation as to who is paying Erlich's property taxes/mortgage/electric-Internet bills while he will be indefinitely out of the show.

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Still no explanation as to who is paying Erlich's property taxes/mortgage/electric-Internet bills while he will be indefinitely out of the show.

The only one with any money in the house is Jin Yang, maybe he will cover expenses until he somehow ends up owning the house. Jin Yang ain't dumb, and hates Erlich.

Another funny thing about S4E9 was when Jin Yang dropped Erlich at the airport, he heaves the bag onto the sidewalk with cigarette in mouth, "Special occasion", getting rid of Erlich.

Mub

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Maybe I interpreted it wrong, but I thought by the end of the season, Jian Yang was broke. He lost it all in China, didn't even get paid for the stolen software. Yao implied that he was forced and threatened to sign it over. Then he lost at the gambling tables and that was the reason he gave Gilfoyle the info he wanted, he bargained to come home to free rent for it. But I could be wrong.

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That wasn't a hostel bed and he wasn't bonging up a smoke. It was a makeshift opium den and he was smoking highly addictive opium. Gavin left him there to die.

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Yeah that's fair.

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Did anyone else notice that in one of the earliest episodes of the series, possibly the pilot, Erlich was smoking a bong and blows out smoke, saying "Bighead!" And that was his final scene in the series, doing the exact same thing. Went out the way he came in, so to speak.

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