Red Mosquito

spike wrote:

given2trade wrote:I'd watch FIVE FULL SEASONS of Better Call Saul in jail.

Absolutely.

Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

tragabigzanda wrote:Finale was very satisfying. The one criticism I have is that you must have watched all of Breaking Bad to understand what was going on, which hadn’t really been the case up until now.

Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

tragabigzanda wrote:Finale was very satisfying. The one criticism I have is that you must have watched all of Breaking Bad to understand what was going on, which hadn’t really been the case up until now.

Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

@SkitchP wrote: I enjoyed the ending overall as a whole, but the last episode (even the last couple) leaned so much on the history of Saul Goodman from what he did in Breaking Bad more than anything he did in Better Call Saul. Nothing he really did on Saul would have landed him in any sort of actual criminal trouble... instead the end result of his story hinged on things that occured on another series ten years ago.

Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

Jorge wrote:

@SkitchP wrote: I enjoyed the ending overall as a whole, but the last episode (even the last couple) leaned so much on the history of Saul Goodman from what he did in Breaking Bad more than anything he did in Better Call Saul. Nothing he really did on Saul would have landed him in any sort of actual criminal trouble... instead the end result of his story hinged on things that occured on another series ten years ago.

That's the tricky thing about bookending your prequel series with a sequel section. Still, it's not true that the ending wouldn't make sense or would be confusing to someone who hasn't watched Breaking Bad; all the relevant information is spelled out very clearly in the episode itself, at least in broad strokes (my evidence for this is that I watched it with someone who hasn't seen Breaking Bad and they were able to follow it just fine).

The Omaha stuff as a whole had to serve as an epilogue for both BCS and BB and I think they did a reasonably good job. Thematically and in terms of Jimmy and Kim's story, it wraps things up nicely. I loved the "three ghosts of Christmas" approach to the Mike/Walt/Chuck flashbacks, all pointing to the central theme of regret and the choices you can't unmake.

Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

tragabigzanda wrote:Yes but "broad strokes" isn't really great given the circumstances. Imagine if any other beloved show were to end with "You're now going to jail for partaking in these heinous crimes, none of which we ever showed nor otherwise communicated to the viewer during the entirety of our run!"

tragabigzanda wrote:Yes but "broad strokes" isn't really great given the circumstances. Imagine if any other beloved show were to end with "You're now going to jail for partaking in these heinous crimes, none of which we ever showed nor otherwise communicated to the viewer during the entirety of our run!"

Where Jimmy and Kim wound up is all well and good; great event. But you guys are giving them a pass on some pretty clunky storytelling mechanics, IMO.