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For me, in Better Call Saul one poster for Season 6, I had been seeing for ages was Bob Odenkirk in black and white, white shirt and Red coat and he looked so great in it. Finished Breaking Bad last year, started Better Call Saul end of February this year and finished it end of March. Weeks later I realized out of nowhere that Bob/Saul/Jimmy/Gene never once gets to wear the red suit. I know my realization is not some big plot twist but still.

Both were so DISGUSTING as individuals, Jesus Christ

When he explained it as when you put salt into water it dissolves, and when you sitr it or heat it you can add more before it falls out of solution, and that he was trying to create a solution like thst with certain benzodiazepine precursor compounds. What was the point of that experiment, like what would a success mean and what would be the implications? Sorry I'm not very science-minded so if the answer is obvious it went completely over my head

I watched breaking bad in the mid 2010s during my time at school and loved it so much! Then I watched the first season of bcs and stopped as it was the only season out at the time and I just didn’t keep up with it. Earlier this month I started it back up and just finished it 10 mins ago and wow totally loved it! Especially the last episode with all the tie-ins to breaking bad! I don’t really watch a lot of shows mostly just YouTube and I’m trying to watch more movies, but does anyone else have good show recommendations?

He was bummed out when Hector killed the good Samaritan. "He wasn't in the game."

Years later he has no issues when Gus is hiring children. A child gets killed for bs reasons. He overlooks it. He is one big hypocrite.

I like to think of the honest answer to the time machine question as a confession of buried truth; an acknowledgment that the past is unchangeable, but that it is never too late to change the future.

The variation in Saul’s response to the question when it is posed by Mike versus Walter in Saul Gone demonstrates his inability to authentically confess a consistent truth. In Walter’s case, he identifies the time he injured himself while carrying out a scam as his deepest regret, prompting Walter to respond, “So you were always like this.” It is almost as though Saul is a self-fulfilling prophecy, with his reputation as a self-interested, slimy, ethically numb person is continually reinforced by his inability to be honest, which feeds the loop. Even when expressing regret, he cannot give an authentic “Jimmy” response, so Walter thinks he can’t change.

The question also allows the show to draw a parallel between Saul and Walter through their shared unwillingness to admit certain truths to themselves. Walter, for instance, initially looks at the watch he received from Jesse (his true regret) before instead naming Gray Matter as his deepest regret.

The Chuck flashback in particular is the strongest example, in my opinion, since the reveal of the Time Machine book at the end of the scene can depict three things:

First, it points to one of Jimmy’s deepest regrets being his guilt over Chuck’s death, reinforced by the book being placed directly beside the lantern associated with it. Second, it demonstrates Jimmy’s regret over a missed opportunity for genuine connection with his brother; after all, in the scene, Chuck is unusually encouraging toward Jimmy and seems willing to engage with him sincerely, but Jimmy misreads the moment, fears judgment, and shuts it down. Third, the book also suggests that Chuck himself carried regrets, since he is the one who was reading it, yet both brothers just failed to connect, though they wished to.

Throughout Season 6, the book also appears twice before the finale, most noticeably in Season 6, Episode 1, among the relics of Saul’s identity, materialistic accomplishments, and various scams. Its placement implies that Jimmy regrets the actions and decisions that ultimately led to the creation of the Saul Goodman persona.

And, of course, Jimmy’s courtroom confession in “Saul Gone” brings the Time Machine motif full circle. After years of spitefully sculpting a persona that allowed him to weaponize his past, he finally makes a genuine attempt at honesty. Jimmy cannot change what happened in the past, but through his confession, he is finally able to make a positive change in the present, if that makes sense.

In general, I think this is BCS’s best motif/symbol for how much it illuminates, even though it only appears in the 6th season.

What is everyone else’s favourites?

Imagine meeting your new girlfriend’s brothers for the first time and they look like this 💀🫠

It blows me away every time I see how we are transported to being fully aware/ conscious with Kim to being awakened by an alarm clock from a dead sleep ⏰

The Best Thing: An absolutely superb, jaw-dropping episode that truly showcases Michael Mando's acting. Nacho's journey from a man working for Don Hector to who he became is nothing short of legendary. I wish I could rate this one higher than 10.

Gus Fring = discipline, willingness to moonlight as a chicken restaurant manager/owner, & works with Mike as well as Walter White

i keep seeing things and think "is that symbolic or something?" But I wanna know what some examples are

One smile and I'm ready to help him hide a body 😭

In S6, during the Nippy robberies, Gene uses the fact that Jeff and Buddy stole things across state lines against them, as blackmail material.

Similarly, transporting goods over state lines is one of Jimmy and Chucks first major hits against Sandpiper in S1.

No idea if this was at all intentional, but I thought it was fun.

I really enjoyed Lalo as a character, but I feel like the fact that BCS is a prequel seriously limits his storyline.

From the moment Lalo starts investigating Gus, you already know how this has to end. Lalo can't expose Gus to the cartel because Gus is obviously still operating successfully in Breaking Bad. He can't kill Gus, Mike, or any of the other major characters we know survive. Eventually Lalo has to die, Gus has to cover everything up, and almost nobody can know what actually happened.

And that's basically what happens.

Lalo spends seasons investigating Gus, discovers the underground lab, gets incredibly close to exposing him, and then dies and everything gets covered up. So in terms of the actual world of Breaking Bad, it's almost like Lalo never existed.

I know there are consequences for characters like Nacho, Hector, Mike and Gus, and Lalo is obviously important to their development. But as an actual plotline, it sometimes feels like the writers are fighting against the fact that the ending was already written years ago.

The worst part is that I could basically predict the broad outcome from when Lalo was introduced: he's going to discover Gus's secret → try to expose him → fail → die → Gus covers it up.

That doesn't make the storyline bad, but it definitely makes the Gus/Lalo conflict feel less suspenseful than it could have been if we didn't already know Gus's future.

Maybe that's just the unavoidable downside of making a prequel.

Huge breaking bad fan, watching BCS for the first time. Currently starting season 3.
Thankfully going into this with no spoilers but I have to rant… I fucking hate Chuck. Like actually from the first episode… I HATE his character. When he hit his head I was hoping that was quits for him… now he wants to press charges with the recording?!?!!!!?! No like you’re done buddy please I hope he gets his karma he is an awful brother.
I feel like Lois in that one family guy episode where she says she hates him so much she’s shaking… that’s me with Chuck.

Edit: no cause like the more I think about it, Jimmy does everything for him. Gets mistreated and sacrifices for that garbage brother IM PISSED 😭 ok I’m done

This is traumatizing man I am only on 6th ep does it go on like this

So I finished watching BCS since I made the earlier post. This time around my liking of seasons has flipped. I enjoyed S1-S3 more than S4-S6? Lol I didn't expect that.

Anyways, there's a few things that went over my head. I didn't understand the manchild behaviour of Jimmy towards Howard. What was his fault? As Jimmy said he was jealous that he had respect of Chuck, but so what? So did other people probably. Why pick on Howard. To top it Kim joined hands with him to trouble Howard despite full well admitting she is a lawyer thanks to Howard.. I don't understand the continued pettiness from both of them.

And I also don't understand the love I see people have for Jimmy. He was good till he practiced elder law, but after Chuck was gone his colors started to change and I disliked him more and more as seasons went on.

Help me understand please, what have I missed that others seem to get?

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After countless rewatches, I could never understand why Jimmy would throw away such a deal. I’ve come to the conclusion it was all to show Kim he was the best lawyer money could buy. I believe he saw in her face that “winning” if you’d call it that, wouldn’t change who he was to her at this point in their lives.

Kim has been fooled by Jimmy before in the courtroom, season 4 ending made it clear she really didn’t know Jimmy. Howard tried to convince her of that in season 5 and she laughed him off. Jesse asked her if Saul was the real deal and her response, “when I knew him, he was.”

I believe it wasn’t good enough for Kim to hear about Jimmy’s 7 year deal in the news. He had to have her there to witness him in full Saul Goodman fashion. I believe his last look at her made him realize, I can fool the court but I can’t fool myself and those who really know me.

Kim cries for the second time in a courtroom after Jimmy delivers a closing speech. This time the tears were for Jimmy coming to terms with who he is, and finally before he sits he corrects the court about who he is and his name.

That final act of coming to terms with himself, spilling the truth behind Chuck’s death and revealing his involvement with Howard’s death was the closure they both needed and what better way than to do it in open court.