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Re: TV: Better Call Saul
Posted: Tue August 28, 2018 8:30 pm
by @SkitchP
The Argonaut wrote:I don't agree either, g2t. The real Jimmy was always hiding behind the goofy Saul Goodman cartoon. You would see him break character in moments of stress and be a real person. Also, if I'm not mistaken, very few if any of the major problems Walt got into were because of a fuck-up on Saul's part. He was good at what he did, even if Walt sometimes didn't listen to him or he got in over his head by the end
And I think by Breaking Bad he's.. given up on anything that's not just personal gain. He's lost his brother, he's lost Kim, he's lost his self respect. He functions entirely out of greed.. and with nothing left to lose he is going to be slightly more wreckless in what he's willing to do, which isn't "bright".
Re: TV: Better Call Saul
Posted: Tue August 28, 2018 11:20 pm
by given2trade
ok i'm wrong whatever
i do love this show.
Re: TV: Better Call Saul
Posted: Tue August 28, 2018 11:28 pm
by Norah
very wrong
Re: TV: Better Call Saul
Posted: Wed August 29, 2018 1:21 am
by given2trade
stfu chud
Re: TV: Better Call Saul
Posted: Wed August 29, 2018 1:32 am
by Mecca
given2shade
Re: TV: Better Call Saul
Posted: Wed August 29, 2018 2:26 am
by VinylGuy
Another solid episode.
Re: TV: Better Call Saul
Posted: Wed August 29, 2018 2:29 am
by given2trade
stfu mecca
Re: TV: Better Call Saul
Posted: Wed August 29, 2018 4:25 am
by tragabigzanda
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.
Re: TV: Better Call Saul
Posted: Wed August 29, 2018 3:50 pm
by VinylGuy
Yeah i love Mike and Nacho...it was a gorgeously shot episode too.
Re: TV: Better Call Saul
Posted: Wed August 29, 2018 3:57 pm
by tragabigzanda
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.
Re: TV: Better Call Saul
Posted: Wed August 29, 2018 9:52 pm
by Jorge
Michael Mando (Nacho on BCS) did a great reddit AMA today.
https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/ ... tter_call/
I particularly liked this response
Michael Mando wrote:Hello Michael! Do you have an opinion on whether the shootout in the last episode (S04E04) was the very first time that Nacho killed someone? Your acting and shocked expression seemed to indicate that it was.
That's a great question and I believe, even though he has seen a lot of violence in his life (especially when Tuco was around), this was the first time he has ever killed anyone (this is just my opinion, not a fact in the show - however, Heather Marion (our wonderful writer of the episode) and I had that talk and felt it would be adequate to play it as such)... it's tragic because it's something he naively believed he would never have to do.
Re: TV: Better Call Saul
Posted: Wed August 29, 2018 10:33 pm
by Jammer XCI
Mike doesn't take any shit from Gus. Awesome.
The Salamanca twins are still fucking cartoonish as fuck-all though, yeah let's just waltz in and shoot everything up. Plan's working.
The origin story of Saul's cell phone collection has finally been solved though.

Re: TV: Better Call Saul
Posted: Tue September 04, 2018 3:10 am
by Jorge
Terrific episode
Re: TV: Better Call Saul
Posted: Tue September 04, 2018 7:37 pm
by Norah
yeah i really enjoyed it
Re: TV: Better Call Saul
Posted: Tue September 04, 2018 9:09 pm
by @SkitchP
Was that the first time we've seen something on this show that actually takes place directly within the breaking bad timeline?
Re: TV: Better Call Saul
Posted: Wed September 05, 2018 12:30 am
by The Argonaut
I believe so. Not sure why we saw it, though. Just as a reminder?
It also raises an interesting question: could one thoroughly enjoy, appreciate, and understand this show if they know nothing about BB?
Re: TV: Better Call Saul
Posted: Wed September 05, 2018 12:34 am
by tragabigzanda
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.
Re: TV: Better Call Saul
Posted: Wed September 05, 2018 12:42 am
by Jorge
The Argonaut wrote:I believe so. Not sure why we saw it, though. Just as a reminder?
This show never plays with its chronology just because, it's always meant to illuminate or recontextualize something we're about to see or have seen before. This flash forward to start the episode was meant to contrast with the very end of the episode, as well as draw a bunch of thematic and plot parallels not just with this episode but with what we've seen in the show so far. I really loved that it seemed to be shot Breaking Bad style -- it
felt like Breaking Bad, texturally, and if I didn't know any better I'd say it might have even been shot on film. Nice little touch by the production team.
Re: TV: Better Call Saul
Posted: Thu September 06, 2018 12:36 pm
by Bammer
If you don’t know Breaking Bad, as a viewer I think you’re pretty damn confused about dedicating half the episode to Mike interviewing excavation architects.
Re: TV: Better Call Saul
Posted: Thu September 06, 2018 12:38 pm
by Bammer
theplatypus wrote:Mecca wrote:theplatypus wrote:
what a cast; each character has had an impact on me at some point
Spoilery observation about that photo
- Spoiler: show
- Bob Odenkirk is dressed and made up exactly as in his last appearance in Breaking Bad (episode Granite State), even down to cut on the forehead

Good sleuthing
