Damn, so that's why he liked Jesse. and that last scene, easily the best performance Jonathan Banks has ever given.
Better Call Saul
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This weeks episode was deep and emotions were running high I was clapping by the end of it, but also sad that it had to end.
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Last night good episode. I like to see Saul and Jimmy work together and steal the money back. SO COOL.
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Alright. Time for the guessing game!
Jonathan Banks, who plays Mike, has said that the real fun starts in episode 9 if I'm not mistaken. And I'm about to bet what that fun will be. Spoilers up to episode 7.
! In the episode from last week we discovered Mikes past with the two cops down from Philadelphia. In e07 we discover that while one of them is a straightshooter that will try to do anything to pin down Mike for murder, the other one is crooked and is trying to prevent it from happening, saying that some stones are better left unturned. At the same time he's hopeful, talking about the early retirement of crooked cops and bringing in more new, honest blood. We shall see. The more hopeful this series get the more I feel like it will go straight to hell.
! My theory is that this straightshooter will actually find something and that he'll be killed because of it. Maybe my Mike. Maybe by some other crooked cop. Somehow Nachos will be involved since we haven't seen him in forever and he's supposed to be a part of the main cast…
My guess is that the season finale (there will be 10 episodes this first season) will be mainly about Mikes past getting back to haunt him and Saul being caught up in the whole mess. The main thing that speaks against this is the fact that the cops are not named and therefore less likely to be important? It's still a guess.
! EDIT: Oh dear, the young cop really does have a name. Detective Abbasi. He's so dead.
! I also wonder if Chuck will die this season. He's getting a lot better now and Saul is trying to do good which... brings up the probability of him dying. Since we don't see him in BB he's either dead or has cut off ties with Saul entirely. It might happen in a later season, tho, as Chuck would be a great excuse to bring Jesse into the show (Jesses aunt Ginny lives 1 min away).Thoughts?
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we did not see the secret life of Saul in BB. Chuck might be alive.
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The Kettlemans are very amusing characters. Notice the subtle things Craig does and how his control freak of a wife always shuts him down or cut him off.
This goes to show you how well crafted each character is in this show. -
Saul was so humble at the beginning, that couple was already doomed and still he wanted to help them.
I liked Mike's episode as well, Saul almost didn't appear in it.
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@superv:
The Kettlemans are very amusing characters. Notice the subtle things Craig does and how his control freak of a wife always shuts him down or cut him off.
This goes to show you how well crafted each character is in this show.My favorite gag is when the waitress asked if they want more coffe, Saul said no, the wife said no, the husband puts up his coffee cup and the waitress had already walked away.
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we did not see the secret life of Saul in BB. Chuck might be alive.
Well, would Saul really open up such a shady lawyer practice if Chuck was still alive? Remember, he loves his brother and has figured out that Chucks mental issues are connected to Chuck thinking that he does bad things. And in the end of BB he leaves without turning back, if Chuck got his health back or something he might have asked for help or if it hadn't gotten better maybe he wouldn't have left at all?
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Last night Chhuck went outside. HE IS CURED. he will prob side with the law company and Jimmy will not like he anymore.
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=) Looks like it. Doomsday is definitely getting closer.
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My favorite gag is when the waitress asked if they want more coffe, Saul said no, the wife said no, the husband puts up his coffee cup and the waitress had already walked away.
They improvised that.
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Last night Chhuck went outside. HE IS CURED.
He's "cured" because, as Skogstroll pointed out, his condition is directly tied to the way Jimmy lives his life. When he took his younger brother out of prison, Jimmy promised he would fix his ways, but he probably did something very bad that triggered Chuck's disease (as hinted by the doctor a couple of episodes ago).
Jimmy is fighting for a good cause right now, so that's bringing Chuck back on his feet. Obviously, as we know by the way the "Saul Goodman" persona resurfaced, that won't last forever.Jimmy losing his way again, Chuck getting worse and dying, making Jimmy/Saul go all "screw morals" afterwards is a likely event leading up to the kind of lawyer we came to know in BrB. At least, the way things are looking now (i'm actually more curious to learn what happened to Howard and Kim).
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what an arrogant piece of shit! after all that Jimmy has done for him and he treats him this way.
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I AM SO MAD AT CHUCK RIGHT NOW. If I was a lawyer I would hire my sis Theresa.
YOU SUCK CHUCK.
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Dammit Chuck. I don't know if I still like him after this episode. At least we got more Mike action.
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Wow… I... did not see that coming.
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Seeing people talk about how they hate chuck after the episode (haven't seen it yet) is sad cause it felt like Chuck was finally likeable in the episode before.
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Do yourself a favour and avoid social media before you watch a new episode of BCS. I do.
It's hard to avoid the linked news on Facebook but I can run from the other sites until I get home from work and get to watch it on tuseday evening (Sweden is 6+ hours ahead of the US so it's released in the middle of the night and I wouldn't be able to enjoy it properly early in the morning). Once I watched one of the promos and while it wasn't too revealing it still gave away too much. I don't watch trailers for Marvel movies or other similar things I'm 99% certain I'll watch either. Too many spoilers.
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Do yourself a favour and avoid social media before you watch a new episode of BCS. I do.
It's hard to avoid the linked news on Facebook but I can run from the other sites until I get home from work and get to watch it on tuseday evening (Sweden is 6+ hours ahead of the US so it's released in the middle of the night and I wouldn't be able to enjoy it properly early in the morning). Once I watched one of the promos and while it wasn't too revealing it still gave away too much. I don't watch trailers for Marvel movies or other similar things I'm 99% certain I'll watch either. Too many spoilers.
Honestly, no one in my socials are talking about the show. :/ Like I don't follow or like it on Facebook so no new updates there, and Tumblr is too busy trying to ruin Steven Universe haha.
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! Chuck has a point. Chuck has lived with Saul, he grew up with him. He's put up with all his criminal shenanigans. Even during the season we see Saul do that amazing turn of events with the Billboard. That's the type of person Saul is, he is Slippin Jimmy. He can be Good Slippin Jimmy or Bad Slippin Jimmy but from where we know he ends up and from what we've seen from him so far he is that guy that Chuck calls him out on being.
! Chuck should have been upfront with it though. He shouldn't have been backstabbing him like that for years. I would hate to be Howard and be forced in the middle of that. Also his point with Saul's easy degree is kind of invalidated because the Bar exam determines whether he is qualified to be a lawyers, not his school of choice. And he passed the same exam that Chuck did. But again Chuck has had to live with this guy, he's watched him just skate through life and for someone like Chuck who probably had his nose to grindstone since high school, people like that can be infuriating.
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I've been in defend Chuck overload.
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! Also his point with Saul's easy degree is kind of invalidated because the Bar exam determines whether he is qualified to be a lawyers, not his school of choice. And he passed the same exam that Chuck did.
! You're correct on that, but I feel that Chuck's reason for the backstabbing isn't so much because Jimmy isn't a "qualified" lawyer, but more because Jimmy has been looking for the easy way out of things and getting away with his shenanigans. Chuck has done things by the books and worked hard to where he got, and seeing Jimmy get to it in less time and effort just irks him.
I can sympathize with Chuck, but still… Jimmy's worked hard for the cases he's picked up in BCS, and it's just heart breaking to see his own brother not support him fully. -
Chuck is a big sonofab*tch. I guess he was also responsible for firing Saul before.
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Honestly, no one in my socials are talking about the show. :/ Like I don't follow or like it on Facebook so no new updates there, and Tumblr is too busy trying to ruin Steven Universe haha.
I'm probably the only one in my circles that watch it too but I follow the BCS page on Facebook and it updates very quickly after an episode airs + it links to sites that talk about it. Not only that, but FB automatically link to articles and the likes that talk about BCS.
As for tumblr I recommend; http://heisenbergchronicles.tumblr.com/
There might be a bit too much spam with fanart and the like but the observations are good and there is a lot of behind the scene info (and stuff) they link to. -
Loved Breaking Bad, and I'm loving this so far. It's got all the drama that Breaking Bad had but it puts it in a funnier light, and that's no bad thing at all in my books.
And HOW AWESOME was this week's episode? For the simple reason that Steven Ogg got punched stylishly in the throat.
Mike doesn't know it, but he had one hell of a luxury there - how many people can honestly say they were able to punch TREVOR FREAKING PHILLIPS in the throat and get away with it?
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It definitely seemed to me as jimmy walked out of chucks house that his saul goodman side began to emerge. I wouldn't be surprised to see his disappointment and sadness turn into resentment and anger and saul goodman to be born at the end of the season finale. the show is called "better call saul" after all, and we have yet to see saul this season. it seems like a lot to fit into an episode, but i can see him going to hhm, giving them the case, then taking that money to start his own practice as saul.
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@AfroPower:
Chuck is a big sonofab*tch. I guess he was also responsible for firing Saul before.
He didn't hire him not fire him and it was justified.
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The ass hole should of been honest with Jimmy. HE HAD BEEN LYING FOR OVER A YEARS.
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Season finale inbound
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and it's a great one, i liked how they left it open and pretty much a like finale to the entire show. it's shows like this that keep me coming back, the ones that end with a little dignity and don't pull a cheap cliffhanger to beg the network to renew.
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I am so sad for marco who died and hurt so bad. just feel so bad for jimmy when he wear the ring. HE IS STARTING TO BBE SAUL.
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Great season finale. I liked how Jimmy thought twice and didn't go further into another mistake.
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Really? I'm the only one that thought it was… lacking? I mean, I knew what it was going for, the almost going back to Slippin Jimmy but then changing tracks, trying to be good but failing and instead evolving into something else entierly... but while the idea was good it didn't grip me as the other episodes have. For a finale episode it was kind of tame.
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Really? I'm the only one that thought it was… lacking? I mean, I knew what it was going for, the almost going back to Slippin Jimmy but then changing tracks, trying to be good but failing and instead evolving into something else entierly... but while the idea was good it didn't grip me as the other episodes have. For a finale episode it was kind of tame.
I agree, it wasn't bad but it wasn't exactly a gripping finale.
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The season definitely had it's ups and downs in terms of quality and strength in my opinion but it was great overall. I did expect a bit more something (idk what) in the finale but It was still good. Parts of this season and the finale definitely seemed like a setup for a sweet 2nd season. I wonder if Kim and Hamlin will even be in it at all. Hopefully we get a clear antagonist (someone like Gus Fring) and some Huell bodyguard action.
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Well, in the beginning we were introduced to so many characters like Nacho and the twins… and they just dissapeared? I thought we'd reconnect with them somehow but I guess not. Episodes 5-9 were mindblowing, I loved them so much and I guess that's why I expected more. And now we got to wait until spring 2016 for season 2 =_=
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Not the most gripping finale in the world, but definitely great in regards to setting up season 2.
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I thought the finale would involve Mike and Nacho too. but there so much you can squeeze in 10 episodes.
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At least the first season gave room to these caracthers in the second season.
I hope they keep building up the caracther and leave "Saul" to the very end.
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it is spelled character.
I think he will be Saul bye the end of season 2.
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Well, in the beginning we were introduced to so many characters like Nacho and the twins… and they just dissapeared? I thought we'd reconnect with them somehow but I guess not. Episodes 5-9 were mindblowing, I loved them so much and I guess that's why I expected more. And now we got to wait until spring 2016 for season 2 =_=
I'm sure they'll be back, they'll definitely be doing things in season 2.
I thought the finale was good. I sort of expected something bigger, but then again we really had no reason to. No need to expect an explosion delivered by wheelchair just yet.
The show's been doing a fine job focusing on Jimmy's development, and I've been intrigued and entertained with it. Can't wait to see how the second season progress now that Jimmy's gotten some steps closer to the Saul we've seen on BB.
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@Mr.:
I'm sure they'll be back, they'll definitely be doing things in season 2.
I thought the finale was good. I sort of expected something bigger, but then again we really had no reason to. No need to expect an explosion delivered by wheelchair just yet.
The show's been doing a fine job focusing on Jimmy's development, and I've been intrigued and entertained with it. Can't wait to see how the second season progress now that Jimmy's gotten some steps closer to the Saul we've seen on BB.
Well, BCS has proved that it can make nail biting stories without explosions. And even though this is a finale it didn't need explosions. At the same time it needed something more than it gave us. BCS has been criticized for being slow, wierd and boring by a lot of people but the first 9 episodes built up to something with fantastic promise and it could've proven all those critics wrong, get new followers to join and just be mindblowingly awesome. Finales are special. This episode… was not?
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Well, in the beginning we were introduced to so many characters like Nacho and the twins… and they just dissapeared? I thought we'd reconnect with them somehow but I guess not. Episodes 5-9 were mindblowing, I loved them so much and I guess that's why I expected more. And now we got to wait until spring 2016 for season 2 =_=
NACHO APPEAR IN EPISODE 9 TOO. HE IS NOT DONE WITH SAUL. Saul talka sabout he in BB.
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Just a friendly PSA that the new season starts tomorrow so remember to set your DVRs.
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Well, that was pretty fun.
! The hummer guy is Walter if he were really dumb. Him calling the cops was the stupidest move he could've pulled, and it's likely going to screw him over. Good thing Mike got out of there when he did…
! Saul and Kim's scam was fun. In case anybody didn't catch the reference to Breaking Bad, the stock broker guy was Ken, which is the guy whose car Walter blew up. And the $50 tequila was the same tequila Gus used to poison those Cartel guys. I'm loving these small nods to Breaking Bad that get littered throughout the show.
! I'm a little miffed that we got a glimpse of Jimmy turning into Saul, and then he turns back around and takes the "moral" route. I guess if Chuck/Marco isn't the full turning point, it'll be Kim. -
@Galaxy:
Well, that was pretty fun.
! I'm a little miffed that we got a glimpse of Jimmy turning into Saul, and then he turns back around and takes the "moral" route. I guess if Chuck/Marco isn't the full turning point, it'll be Kim.
I guess they realized that they went too fast into that direction, so they corrected it again in this first episode to bring it back a little and give themselves more time to develop his turning into saul.
Overall it was a nice season start.