Better Call Saul - Prequel to Breaking Bad
Discussion
A couple of posts from earlier in the thread,
Digitalize said:
Kaj91 said:
I thought last weeks was much better, Mike stealing the money from the Kettlemans house and then returning it just doesn't sit right.
Jimmy did it to force their hand in to returning to HHM and the deal, as they'd already 'returned' the money.RumpleFugly said:
Love this show, a great finish and a lot lined up for S2.
Who was Mike talking about on the phone? "You've worked with him before"... Fring maybe? Can't wait to find out.
Unlikely to see 'him' for a while yet, as Mike is not at that stage yet: http://www.hitfix.com/whats-alan-watching/better-c...Who was Mike talking about on the phone? "You've worked with him before"... Fring maybe? Can't wait to find out.
Sorry I thought the final episode was weak as hell. God the interminable montages in this show! And that bingo sequence! 10 minutes of calling bingo numbers? It just felt like filler. Why go to Chicago and then immediately decide to come back just as you start enjoying life again? Didn't work for me at all
I don't know how I feel about this show. I go through moments of thinking it's genius to moments of thinking "come on pick up the pace". Last night was one of those speed it up please moments.
I think when the next season comes round I'm going to avoid it till it closes and watch the lot over a couple of days.
I think when the next season comes round I'm going to avoid it till it closes and watch the lot over a couple of days.
My concern is that this show can run and run without going anywhere. A few nods to BB here and there is all well and fine but it really should be standing on it's own two feet by now. The worst part is it doesn't even have to reach a climatic point as it can end at any point as it's a back story.
I want to enjoy this show for what it is not what it could be.
I want to enjoy this show for what it is not what it could be.
Miguel Alvarez said:
My concern is that this show can run and run without going anywhere. A few nods to BB here and there is all well and fine but it really should be standing on it's own two feet by now. The worst part is it doesn't even have to reach a climatic point as it can end at any point as it's a back story.
I want to enjoy this show for what it is not what it could be.
The opening sequence to the very first episode is Jimmy, looking very different, working in a bakery. One can only assume either in witness protection or trying to start a new life with a new identity. So I think the writers already have each season roughly plotted and it'll all wind up explaining how Jimmy gets to the bakery.I want to enjoy this show for what it is not what it could be.
krunchkin said:
Sorry I thought the final episode was weak as hell. God the interminable montages in this show! And that bingo sequence! 10 minutes of calling bingo numbers? It just felt like filler. Why go to Chicago and then immediately decide to come back just as you start enjoying life again? Didn't work for me at all
The Bingo sequence showed him having a sort of mini-mental breakdown, he starts off the same old James McGill, Lawyer and friend of the elderly, through calling all the 'B' numbers he's reminded of his brother and realises that his Brother doesn't actually like him, he pities him - once he stopped being James the middle-aged man working in the mailroom and became James McGill Lawyer, his brother quickly loses pity for him and demeans him by telling initially not to use his own name (riding on his coat tails) and further by telling him he's not good enough to work for his firm. I agree it wasn't exciting, but really it only goes on for 5-10 minutes and it's pivotal in what we've all been waiting for - James becoming Saul. The trip to Chicago is his 'blow out' in the same way that a break up can make men go out on a bender, chasing rough women and doing all the things they couldn't when they're in a relationship it's party release and partly 'showing them' - after a week, he gets it out of his system and wants to return back to being a lawyer. It also server to tell us what a Chicago Sunroof is, and how he pulled off being Kevin Costner.
Finally, freed from wanting to prove to his brother that he's a decent, honest person and no longer 'Slipping Jimmy' he has an epiphany of sorts. He doesn't want to take the new job with the respectable firm - it serves no purpose - it's not 'him' really, it's what he thought his brother wanted - but really he wants him in the mailroom to pity because he knows deep down his 'condition' is entirely mental - placing pity on someone for failing of their own doing is a classic way of compensating for feelings of failure because of one of your own.
Anyway, that moment, as brilliantly illustrated by the picture above, when he turns around and leaves (after chatting to Mike for a bit) is the 'money shot' of the whole series - he might not have come up with the name yet - but that was Saul Goodman leaving.
In a more traditional TV series, that last scene wouldn't have worked, because they wouldn't risk putting in the slow, boring Bingo scene, so it would have had to have been more sensational - you can't have one without the other.
That's what I took from it anyway.
Miguel Alvarez said:
I don't know how I feel about this show. I go through moments of thinking it's genius to moments of thinking "come on pick up the pace". Last night was one of those speed it up please moments.
I think when the next season comes round I'm going to avoid it till it closes and watch the lot over a couple of days.
Let be honest BB took a while to get going season 2 I think when the next season comes round I'm going to avoid it till it closes and watch the lot over a couple of days.
Melman Giraffe said:
Miguel Alvarez said:
I don't know how I feel about this show. I go through moments of thinking it's genius to moments of thinking "come on pick up the pace". Last night was one of those speed it up please moments.
I think when the next season comes round I'm going to avoid it till it closes and watch the lot over a couple of days.
Let be honest BB took a while to get going season 2 I think when the next season comes round I'm going to avoid it till it closes and watch the lot over a couple of days.
BCS is unique as it's started off in a very priviledged position. I go from watching it thinking about BB to watching it as a stand alone piece of work. I'm really undecided.
Miguel Alvarez said:
Melman Giraffe said:
Miguel Alvarez said:
I don't know how I feel about this show. I go through moments of thinking it's genius to moments of thinking "come on pick up the pace". Last night was one of those speed it up please moments.
I think when the next season comes round I'm going to avoid it till it closes and watch the lot over a couple of days.
Let be honest BB took a while to get going season 2 I think when the next season comes round I'm going to avoid it till it closes and watch the lot over a couple of days.
BCS is unique as it's started off in a very priviledged position. I go from watching it thinking about BB to watching it as a stand alone piece of work. I'm really undecided.
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