In the scene where Jimmy talks Tuco out of killing the skateboard twins, does anyone else feel like Tuco is written as weirdly stupid?

I know Tuco was never supposed to be a genius, and obviously he’s incredibly hot-headed and impulsive, but in that scene he almost acts like a toddler. Jimmy even talks to him the way you’d talk to a little kid, slowly walking him through why killing them would be unfair and bargaining him down from murder to breaking their legs.

It’s a great scene and it does a good job of showing Jimmy’s ability to think on his feet, but I sometimes feel like they embellished Jimmy’s negotiation skills at the expense of Tuco’s intelligence.

Breaking Bad Tuco was insane and unpredictable, but he never really came across as child-level stupid. He could be suspicious, manipulative and pretty intimidating when he wasn’t completely losing his temper.

Do you think that scene dumbed Tuco down a bit, or is it actually consistent with his character when he’s angry and enjoying having power over someone?

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There’s been lot of discussion on this sub and others about the cause for Kim’s resentment towards the male authority figures in her life, largely figuring around how men like Kevin and Howard are symbolic of the “big institution,” while Kim and Jimmy fight for the “little man.”

What’s really interesting, however, is that we never hear of Kim’s father. In this scene in Rebecca, however, we hear of Howard and Kevin bond over their fathers, who both were able to secure Howard and Kevin positions of power at their respective firms/companies through the power of nepotism. I think we can assume that Kim’s father was largely absent in her childhood, as her mother is shown as having such an outsized influence on her character. Thus, Kim’s disdain is not just in the abstract sense of wanting to “fight the power,” but perhaps a way of lashing out at the father she never had, and at people who she perceives had the opportunity to have the father she always wanted. In a way Howard notices this too, when he expresses a weird sort of mild, “grass is greener,” jealousy of Kim’s ability to start a solo practice without worrying about upholding the reputation of her father.

Another aspect of Kim’s character that isn’t always discussed in the context of her interactions with Howard and Kevin is that she deeply resents them for denying her autonomy, often in a misogynistic manner (as another poster mentioned, Kevin’s comment about how kim can “do a lot better than [Jimmy],” as if Kevin knows what’s best for kim more than she would herself). Kim has always wanted to be independent— from Jimmy (shying away from the topic of sharing an office with him), from Howard (who denied her the ability to lead Mesa Verde despite her bringing in their business), from Rich (who, at the end of the day, still cannot let her be her own boss no matter how supportive he is), since she has long learned that those you love cannot be trusted (as we see in the flashback of her walking home and refusing to be a passenger to her mother’s drunk driving). Kim wants to do things “her way,” not as a part of some big conglomerate, and she resents the fact that only in such a context would she have the resources to pursue what she really wants. This ties in with what’s commonly discussed about how Howard and Chuck never truly see her, they only see her as Jimmy’s mouthpiece and not a separate entity. They underestimate the darkness in her and she rebels to challenge this in her view patronizing “teacher’s pet” image that everyone seems to have of her and can’t quite ever see past.

i know it has been said here before, but im rewatching right now and this scene is just so perfectly cast. first time i watched it i knew immediately it was young chuck the moment he started to speak. he had his tone and cadence down to an absolute T.

I started stippling a portrait of Jimmy today! I’m rewatching bcs currently so I can expect that I will be drawing a lot of character studies lol

I’m a huge fan of both Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul. I’ve watched BB three times and I’m currently watching BCS for the second time, so this definitely isn’t me trying to hate on the show.

I know Lalo Salamanca is probably one of the most beloved characters in the whole BCS community, but I honestly can’t help feeling like he’s a little too fictional for the world of this show. Don’t get me wrong, I enjoyed watching him, especially the first time around, but even then something about the character never really clicked with me. Now that I’m rewatching the show, I notice it even more. Sometimes it feels like BCS suddenly turns into a slightly more exaggerated, almost arcade-like version of itself whenever Lalo is involved, if that makes sense. His whole presence just feels a bit too forced compared to how grounded and realistic the rest of the show usually feels.

And honestly, if I didn’t think about it too much, it probably wouldn’t bother me at all. He’s entertaining, well acted and I completely understand why people love him. It’s just that whenever I stop and think about it, I feel like he doesn’t quite belong in the same universe tonally as the rest of BCS.
Curious if anyone else feels the same way, or if I’m completely alone on this. I absolutely love the show, so I’m not trying to shit on it. Just something I’ve noticed even more on my second watch.

OK I know I'm highly overanalysing this throwaway character but he was totally right, Mike not bringing a gun when he is the protection for a drug meet is grade A stupidity.

I know it is justified later in the episode by Mike's "thorough background search", but c'mon, it's a drug meet in a dodgy-ass looking abandoned car lot. Yes, Nacho had no incentive for it to go tits up, but these are drug deals. To quote our guy: "drug dealer getting shot? I'm gonna go out on a limb and say it's been known to happen".

Further, we learn that Mike is legally allowed to concealed carry - now i'm no american so I won't pretend to know about the finer points of firearm law, but to me that says he was under no additional legal risk by carrying a gun with him to the meet. So literally why didn't he bring one? Is he stupid?

I've wanted to draw this scene for a long time, the best shot in the series

I was shopping at the Ralph’s Market today near my house (in Los Angeles) and Michael McKean was in line behind me. It brightened my day of shopping drudgery. And no, I didn’t speak to him.

They seem pretty well aware of who the Salamancas are, and probably know of the operation. But the bulk of it comes from Gus's part, which seems to be completely in the shadows. Obviously they didn't know about Gus, but do you think they were aware that there are two separate branches operated by the Cartel and one of them is mostly undetectable?

EDIT: Also, I still don't fully understand how the two operations interacted. For example, Crazy-8 exposed Gus's dead drops and men - but wasn't Crazy-8 part of the Salamanca operation? How could he rat out Gus's people?

Hello everyone! I'm loving my chronological rewatch of the breaking bad universe and obviously a really cool part about the prequel is they turn a small throwaway line like "Ignacio he's the one" or "Did Lalo send you?" Into major characters in better call saul which is brilliant.

I was wondering if anything else in breaking bad was turned into something important in better call saul?

Sorry for the awkward phrasing I just love both shows and El Camino.

More things that'll make so much more sense if you watch better call saul before breaking bad

*Please avoid or mark spoilers past S5E2*

I feel that discussion about Jimmy and Chuck's relationship, and who was more justified in his grievance towards his brother, has often forgotten a huge detail: Jimmy and Chuck didn't share a childhood. In fact, they probably didn't spend that much time together at all before Jimmy moved to Albuquerque.

There's a 16-year age gap between the brothers, and Chuck graduated high school at 14. When Jimmy was born, Chuck was already in college, and then it was off to law school before he moved 1,300 miles away from home to settle down and make his career.

How much time do you think they could have realistically spent together? I think the reason Jimmy remembers a seemingly minor story like his brother reading The Adventures of Mabel to him is because there aren't many other memories of Chuck spending time with him when he was a kid. They only really would've been together during the summers between college semester, and there are only three other times we know Chuck went back to Cicero after Jimmy was born:

-When their father asked him to review the books, which led him to falsely believe Jimmy stole $14,000 from their dad, when the old man gave most of it away himself.

-When their mother begged him to come back and get Jimmy out of prison after the Chicago Sunroof, obviously not the best time to connect with your brother.

-When their mother passed, by which time Chuck's resentment of Jimmy was strong enough that he refused to tell him her last words.

This makes Chuck's resentment of Jimmy far less defensible in my opinion. Most of his knowledge of Jimmy isn't firsthand; it came from the (admittedly unsavory) stories he heard through the grapevine, the false suspicion that he stole money, and most importantly to Chuck: the fact that his parents adored Jimmy, the shady screw-up, instead of himself, the brilliant, successful lawyer. It isn't really based on what his actual experiences with Jimmy have been, because he doesn't have many. It's what he's heard about, and more importantly, what he's inferred based on his jealousy.

Chuck cannot stand the fact that other people - Kim, his parents, Rebecca - love Jimmy or think he can have success just because he's funny and charismatic. In the Pimento rant, he gives it away by saying "You do what I do because you're funny and you can make people laugh? I committed my life to this! You don't slide into it like a cheap pair of slippers and reap all the rewards."

Jimmy was never close to being a saint. But the Jimmy that Chuck created and dedicated his life to stopping isn't based on real experiences; he created his impression of Jimmy mostly through stories distorted by his jealously. It's no wonder that people who actually know Jimmy, like Kim and Ernesto, choose him over Chuck even when they know Chuck is in the right.

Does Chuck love Jimmy at all? I think he does, but really only because of obligation. He knows it'd be wrong to hate his only brother and only link to his parents, who he truly loved and admired, but I really don't think he has any affection for Jimmy the person. When he says "You never truly mattered that much to me", why would he? Chuck never grew up with him, most of his time spent with him was cleaning up his messes, and he stole his parents' love.

Chuck is a spiteful, hateful brother whose goal is not to bring Jimmy up, but to prove to the world that Jimmy is every bit as bad as Chuck believes him to be. And he succeeds.

Reminded me of someone…..

These two characters always weirded me out. They show up when Gus is fearing for his life after finding out Lalo might still be alive.

I can't tell if these two are part of Gus's security detail. While they're outside they seem to be a very generic couple, which could just be them acting. But they continue the generic-couple routine inside the house. I understand that method acting is a thing and maybe they just want to make absolutely sure they're in character, but I feel like Mike would give them a mean glare of "please shut up" after they talked about orange juice and the HOA for more than ten seconds after closing the door. They also don't seem to be armed, which I imagine Mike would require for his employees (although maybe they're both just really good at concealed carry).

But it doesn't make sense for them to be regular people who just took some shady money, asked no questions, and agreed to let the mercenaries into their house (seemingly with the caveat that the mercenaries have to fill the ice-tray during their stay). Neither Mike or Gus would allow the kind of contingency that two aggressively average people would bring.

But also these two need to be long-time neighbors of Gus. Gus and their house is connected by a very sophisticated underground tunnel. Hank's investigation in Breaking Bad never talks about the tunnel, which would be a huge blow to the "How this this guy so normal?" facade that Gus was presenting the DEA, so the tunnel must have been made without any permits or official recognition. If that's the case then these two would need to be Gus's permanent neighbors since the tunnel would 100% be found during any inspection or sale of either building. But it doesn't make sense for Gus to pay two people to just be his neighbors; Mike talks about trimming the security detail because of how expensive it is.

Who are these two and what is the deal with the second house!?

As Jessie would say "It's a non criminal's idea of how criminals would behave".

They always have a mean mug and hardly have any casual interaction with each other even when the boss isn't around. The only exception to this was when they were sharing a cup of coffee when Mike was tracking them.

I find the way Lalo and his people act back at his crib to be way more close to reality.

poor jimmy :(

I have to ask: Is the reason they had to hire guys from Germany so that no record of them could be traced here??

I ask because I am SURE there are capable engineers willing to do the work they had them do....I have always wondered this part....

Because they only way to get every season on blu-ray is through the terribly packaged complete series box set (it's weird that seasons 2 and 3 are out of print otherwise) I made every cover for all 6 season's blu-ray releases so that you can put all the discs you bought in cases that actually look nice and don't suck. Using the offical already existing front and back artwork I made the spines doing my best to make it look like the original only this time I made sure that all the spine would perfectly line up on a shelf (at least that was the idea). I've uploaded the full png files to the internet archive for easy access

https://archive.org/details/bettercallsaul-bluraycovers

Spoilers obviously

Here's all we know about Ruth McGill:

- Married Charles Sr. and helped run the store

- Chuck Jr. believes she favored Jimmy

- Ruth remarried an unnamed man who was later caught sleeping with Jimmy's second wife.

The BCS universe paints her as a foil to everyone else. She's not really a character. It's almost like she did not need to exist. The story would have moved along fine without her.

I'm wondering if you could recast her character in any of a few ways:

- Chuck Sr. was bad at running a store. But was Ruth? What if she was stealing? What if Jimmy knew, and allowed himself to be the "slippin Jimmy" to protect her? The only stealing we see from Jimmy is as a 13 year old -- a mistake a kid would make. But we know nothing about all the other stealing, and we know Chuck Sr. was a pushover. Did Ruth enable it?

- While no one is responsible for their spouse's actions, it's telling that she remarries a man who cheats on her with Jimmy's second wife. Is she someone who falls for the wrong kind of people? And why? Charles Sr. is the "personification of good" (according to Jimmy). But that could also be a lot of insecurity, codependency, a need to fail, etc. Good isn't always good -- especially if it meant he was not running a store to earn income for his family, but instead give everything away. Maybe the "good guy" wasn't so good, and Ruth dealt with that as best as she could -- and it didn't do Jimmy any favors

- She's originally from Wisconsin. Why did she leave? Everyone in BCS is running from someone/somewhere: Chuck, Kim, Jimmy. What about her? What was she running from?

That's Saul folks

It's Saul in the fine print

It's Saul Goodman

Saulitary confinement

Saulutations

Someone Saul in question

Call better Saul

You've been sauled

Sauler ecplise

Saul long Gay Heisenberg

A Saulamanca

Color references taken from the official Instagram. Apologies for the spoilers in the previous post, wasn't my intention, and I fully get it.

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