Official Better Call Saul thread

[Mr Bread]

i really enjoyed the newest episode, finally got a chance to watch it.  i think this was the big shift in sauls life that confirmed that he should go back to what he is best at, slippin jimmy.

if there's one thing dumbasses excel at, it's feeling powerful emotions and being easily led around by them.

Politics and religion are very good examples of this. 

with film/tv/entertainment, i would consider suspension of disbelief to be a conscious decision (unlike with religion/politics)

that's not what happened to cns when he hated chuck.  you don't have to suspend any disbelief, you have to be a momentary tbt.

i guess not having emotion about anything is the best way to approach life, and berating people behind a computer screen is the best option to medicate your IRL problems, apparently.

[The Big Train]

 

[420seriouscat69]

Wow!

[TownieCat]

B, as in Belize

I love the subtle BB references in BCS. Also, the Chicago sunroof 

[MakeItRain]

Okay I've given it 72 hours...

I'm guessing the lack of posts about the finale is a sign that most were disappointed by it but the fan boys can't bring themselves to be openly critical of the season finale. It was completely useless.

[sonofdaxjones]

Yeah, that finale was pretty blah and extremely cliche, but sometimes good series have to do that in order to set things up for down the line.

[WildcatNkilt]

The finale wasn't great, but I think it is setting up for what could be a great Season 2.  I think the story was necessary. 

[TownieCat]

The finale probably gets a C+, but season 1 gets an A-. The last scene kind of brings things full circle for Jimmy. But where is he driving to in such a hurry? It really leaves it wide open for season 2 to go in a lot of directions.

BCS reminds me more of Mad Men than Breaking Bad. The lead character is constantly fighting against himself on whether to do the right thing or to be a selfish, awful person. And for some reason you're always rooting for him to do the wrong thing because it's more entertaining.

[ksupamplemousse]

Okay I've given it 72 hours...

I'm guessing the lack of posts about the finale is a sign that most were disappointed by it but the fan boys can't bring themselves to be openly critical of the season finale. It was completely useless.

You're pretty short-sighted sometimes. How the eff do you know if it's useless? You haven't seen what comes next. Hasn't Vince Gilligan demonstrated that seemingly insignificant details can actually have great meaning on down the line? So maybe the useful things in that episode just aren't totally apparent to us all yet.That being said, no, the episode was not terribly entertaining. Saul humming Deep Purple was pretty cool though, same with the origins of his ring. Pretty much a snoozefest though.

[ChiComCat]

I don't think it was useless.  It may not have been great, but it definitely advanced the story.

[MakeItRain]

Okay I've given it 72 hours...

I'm guessing the lack of posts about the finale is a sign that most were disappointed by it but the fan boys can't bring themselves to be openly critical of the season finale. It was completely useless.

You're pretty short-sighted sometimes. How the eff do you know if it's useless? You haven't seen what comes next. Hasn't Vince Gilligan demonstrated that seemingly insignificant details can actually have great meaning on down the line? So maybe the useful things in that episode just aren't totally apparent to us all yet.That being said, no, the episode was not terribly entertaining. Saul humming Deep Purple was pretty cool though, same with the origins of his ring. Pretty much a snoozefest though.

It was useless because after the previous episode I was able to determine that Slippin Jimmy was going to come back. The last episode was Jimmy going back home and doing the same stupid crap he was doing before his brother rescued him. The episode ended with Jimmy turning down an opportunity to do legit work. His driving out of the garage was him symbolically and literally turning his back on the man. Slippin Jimmy. It's rare in a dramatic series to have a cliff hanger that actually isn't a cliff hanger, the previous episode was that this was junk.

[CNS]

I also don't think it was useless.  I do think they took an hour to do something they could have done in 15 min.  I think they were just showing that he wasn't leaning toward slipping jimmy, but that he was thoroughly through trying to be anything else and gave up on the legitimate firm route forever.  Not only in a moral way in what he said to Mike, but also in his decline to even talk to a firm about a partner track job.  As bad of an episode as it was, it was the birth of the new and improved slipping jimmy where we were just pregnant before.

[MakeItRain]

I do think they took an hour to do something they could have done in 15 min.

yep, pretty much

[Dub]

I do think they took an hour to do something they could have done in 15 min.

yep, pretty much

This is almost all TV shows fwiw 

[Brock Landers]

The bingo scene dragged on waaay too long

[CNS]

The bingo scene dragged on waaay too long

As did the con scene.

[MakeItRain]

The bingo scene dragged on waaay too long

that was very uncomfortable

[MakeItRain]

I do think they took an hour to do something they could have done in 15 min.

yep, pretty much

This is almost all TV shows fwiw 

not great ones

[ChiComCat]

I enjoyed the discomfort of the bingo scene.  I thought that was the point.  The con scenes dragged quite a bit though.

[star seed 7]

I do think they took an hour to do something they could have done in 15 min.

yep, pretty much

yup, like i said earlier, there's a shitload of filler on this show.  the good stuff is pretty good tho

[CNS]

I don't think there is too much filler outside of two epi's.

[The Big Train]

maybe a little less critique and a little more enjoyment of character development.  breaking bad was slow at the start, mad men(from what i have seen was), you aren't going to blow your load in the first season, why would you, then it gets bland after that. i would prefer slow and set the tone and story than blown away from the start(doesnt happen).

[star seed 7]

you have absolutely no idea what you are talking about

[The Big Train]

i am the moderator of this thread, of course i do

[Stevesie60]

The last two episodes could have been combined into one. I think it was necessary for him to go back and do the scams with his friend because it made him realize that that's who he really is.