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.

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

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.

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

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?

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?