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S3 ep 6 "The Lord of No Mercy" (contains spoilers)

posted 7 years ago by Popcorn Kernel (2368)
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RIP Ray!
I think Varga's henchmen were on their way to kill him but stupid Emmet saved them the job. Plus now Varga has even more leverage over Emmet,
Varga is making an awful big effort to act extra suspicious in front of the cops. I thought he wanted to stay in the shadows? He could have just stayed out of the room but he barges in and starts drawing attention.
Another dead Stussy will surely attract all kinds of attention.

Varga also showed us more creepy quirks. He's got a thing for Lenin. The tooth picking was just sickening, I can only imagine the stink that must come from those rotting teeth.
So he's Mephistopheles and Emmet made a bargain with him. It reminds me of Homer Simpson selling his soul to the devil for a donut.

[–] Sentient Meat (1509) 7 years ago

I think Varga underestimates the chief and also understands Emmet's limitations so he felt he had to intervene once fate had brought them to his door. Remember his arrogant comment about the IRS being unable to deal with anything more than small potatoes? This is how he views these small time police... and of course these technologically challenged luddites will prove to be his downfall.

Emmet is an asshole. Not in any remarkable special way... just in the average mundane way that most people are. If you cheat someone out their birthright... you just hand it to them and say sorry I took it... you don't say I'm giving it to you.
This being said... so is Ray. Do they deserve to die? No... but I think the Coens have made the argument throughout the film and the series that pettiness not original sin is the downfall of man.

[–] Popcorn Kernel (2368) 7 years ago

Yeah I think Emmet wanted to do the right thing by that point but he's got too much pride and Ray definitely had too much pride. I mean wtf did he want, Emmet to get on his knees and beg him to take the stamp? Just take it and go live a life with your gf. She's waiting for you at the motel. Hurry up and get back to her. But no, they had to get in a silly kindergarten shoving match that ends in a fatality. i can't blame Emmet for that, because it could just as easily have been him who got the glass shard in his jugular.
Don't forget, Ray brought the gun with him and he it never got fired, I expected someone to get shot with that gun but instead he dies by a freak accident.
Ray didn't deserve to die for that little fight, but he had killed 2 people (been complicit and integral to their deaths, anyway) already, so he was for sure not innocent. Emmet had not killed anyone yet, but had stolen and cheated. I feel like now that his cherry is popped, this won't be his last killing. Especially with Varga as his mentor.

[–] JohnTheHumble (107) 7 years ago

I'm thinking that all the men will die and the two attractive women, Nikki and Gloria, will survive.

Anyway, this was a good episode.

[–] SirMildredPierce (25) 7 years ago

But what about Lopez? What about Office Lopez?!? Will she survive?!

[–] JohnTheHumble (107) 7 years ago

Probably, because she looks like a nerd. Nerd-looking females usually survive, in the Fargo universe. I was actually surprised that the main female officer, Gloria, was cast with such an attractive woman (I really love this actress; she isn't stunningly beautiful but she is extremely attractive, like a real woman is, instead of photoshopped models and Hollywood stars).

[–] SirMildredPierce (25) 7 years ago

Meh, I find her features a little too sharp, I actually think Lopez is the more attractive one.

[–] JohnTheHumble (107) 7 years ago

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[–] SirMildredPierce (25) 7 years ago

> Emmet is an asshole. Not in any remarkable special way... just in the average mundane way that most people are. If you cheat someone out their birthright... you just hand it to them and say sorry I took it... you don't say I'm giving it to you.

What?? No way, it was *Ray's* idea to trade the stamps and the Corvette. Just because Emmit made a bit of money off the stamps down the road doesn't make him an asshole. Damn, what you been drinkin' Nikki's Kool-Aid, too?

[–] Sentient Meat (1509) 7 years ago

I thought it was implicit that Emmet was the older brother who cheated the younger dumb brother by taking the item that would appreciate in value while allowing him to take the thing that would go down in value... essentially the Jacob/Esau narrative where the wiser brother fools the dumb brother. In a legal sense, the stamp belongs to Ray... but in an ethical sense it seems a grey area. This is why he keeps asking Sy for counsel because deep down he knows what he did was wrong but he knows the law will exonerate him. Only when it reaches a crisis point does he finally stop listening to Sy but by that point it's too late. Both are wrong... but as someone who is an older brother myself... I'd feel guilty if I used my brains to outsmart my brother out of a fair deal. I would sell them both and split the money.