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Originally Posted by notorious
Jimmy takes shortcuts. That's why he bypassed the screening of his ad.
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If he takes shortcuts, then why did he go out of his way to produce an ad when the firm was perfectly content with putting an ad in the market. A lot of work for something Mains shrugged off.
Jimmy is trying to do the right thing. He put unnecessary pressure on himself to succeed because he wants to prove to his brother he can do the job and do it legitimately. He knows the boring ad will bomb and that his brother will immediately shout about how Jimmy can't do the job unless he cheats. His need to prove his brother wrong was the one thing he did wrong in an otherwise very clean approach.
Jimmy's approach isn't disturbing. Mains didn't seem to mind when Jimmy was doing shady shit he didn't know about, and actually encouraged Jimmy to keep doing it. He pretty much implied that marketing was Jimmy's thing and that he was fine with whatever Jimmy thought was best. So if Mains is pissy about Jimmy testing out an ad, it's pretty hypocritical. In this case, it doesn't seem at all like Jimmy's trying to be slippery. That he gets in huge trouble for trying to go legit... well, that seems like a pretty good setup for what we all know will eventually happen.