Television Better Call Saul | Includes Breaking Bad Spoilers

Have the writers said how long they plan on this going on for? If its meant to be a whole 5 series like BB was then I assume it'll have to quicken up eventually.

Series finale summed up the whole show up perfectly. Well acted, tense and shot brilliantly but ultimately not enough actually happens. Still, its entertaining enough for me to carry on with it.
 
LawCharltonBest said:
Why are they so scared to do anything? Whenever a gun gets pointed for example, I always know they will wuss out and they always do. Something really needed to happen in that finale. Hector getting crippled. Jimmy becoming Saul. A shocking death.

Also what was the point in the whole "Frings back" thing?
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They should rename the show 'Better call Stall'.
 
Aint gota Kalou said:
Have the writers said how long they plan on this going on for? If its meant to be a whole 5 series like BB was then I assume it'll have to quicken up eventually.
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It depends on what the end game is. Are we going to get full season of him as Saul? Will we see it during the BB period? After the BB period? Or is it mostly just going to lead to BB - or just to him becoming Saul - and that's that?
 
Can see the last line of the series being his secretary calling him in his office to say a Mr. Mayhew is here to see him.
 
Amir said:
It depends on what the end game is. Are we going to get full season of him as Saul? Will we see it during the BB period? After the BB period? Or is it mostly just going to lead to BB - or just to him becoming Saul - and that's that?
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I'm pretty sure they've said somewhere that we get before, during and after the events of BB
 
Welsh Wonder said:
The note was obviously to do with Fring. I never normally say these things with certainty but for it to be anyone else would be fecking ridiculous.

At least this show is extraordinarily consistent with the shite, 'filler mid-season episode' style of it's finales.


"Brashly confident pacing" :lol:
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My immediate reaction was that it would be him too. I'm sure they'll try to find a way of attributing it to someone else though.
 
Utterly pointless season. Just a flat out terrible finale. The Mike scenes are shit as well. Long, tedious scenes where nothing happens and he looks about 200.
 
CM10 said:
My immediate reaction was that it would be him too. I'm sure they'll try to find a way of attributing it to someone else though.
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They've done an interview saying it was him.

They might have been trolling though
 
I keep worrying (maybe not the right word) that Mike's going to die IRL before he even meets Gus.
 
Ijazz17 said:
What makes you think that? Is it a BB thing that I don't get ?
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I just thought Nacho was behind the note - there's a reason he stood in front of Hector, blocking Mike's shot. He knew he was there, and where he would pick to shoot from.
 
Edgio said:
I just thought Nacho was behind the note - there's a reason he stood in front of Hector, blocking Mike's shot. He knew he was there, and where he would pick to shoot from.
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Didn't the horn go off while Mike was lining up the shot, and therefore it couldn't have been Nacho? Or have I completely misremembered it?
 
Welsh Wonder said:
Didn't the horn go off while Mike was lining up the shot, and therefore it couldn't have been Nacho? Or have I completely misremembered it?
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Yep, that's right, and no way Nacho trusts someone else to get involved with Mike, he's already worried about being found out.
 
Welsh Wonder said:
Didn't the horn go off while Mike was lining up the shot, and therefore it couldn't have been Nacho? Or have I completely misremembered it?
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Yeah, it did - my guess is he spotted Mike's car on approach and got someone else to leave a note.

Rado_N said:
Yep, that's right, and no way Nacho trusts someone else to get involved with Mike, he's already worried about being found out.
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Good point, but it's not completely improbable. I hope you're right and it is Gus though.
 
Ramshock said:
ffs are people still going on about it being a slow burner? :lol:
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Yeah, sick of the moaning now. It is what it is. BB was also a slow burner, nobody seemed to have a problem with that. I think it's nice to have a show that focuses on the small details that affect character and story development rather than one that relies on poor excuses, shark jumping and relentless action.
 
Edgio said:
I just thought Nacho was behind the note - there's a reason he stood in front of Hector, blocking Mike's shot. He knew he was there, and where he would pick to shoot from.
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Good point about that block. But it would mean he hired someone else to place the note. I doubt it though. Coz it also would mean him having to make a call to that said someone infront of Hector.

Nacho could have also used that moment Mike goes back to the car to get away from that house with Hector and drive off if what you said is true.
 
Bobbins.

I wish I'd skipped more episodes.

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It would be so stupid if that was Nacho.
 
Btw, what happened with Nacho in BB, I can't remember half the stuff from BB.
 
Can people stop trying to retroactively paint season 1 of Breaking Bad as some kind of snail paced eventless character study please. With the exception of a couple of mid season eps, it's pretty much constant high stakes life and death drama throughout.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breaking_Bad_(season_1)

As for the finale, not killing Chuck seems like a wasted opportunity. It basically just reset to zero again after something purposeful seemed to have happened. Par for the course at this point though...
 
Mockney said:
Can people stop trying to retroactively paint season 1 of Breaking Bad as some kind of snail paced eventless character study please. With the exception of a couple of mid season eps, it's pretty much constant high stakes life and death drama throughout.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breaking_Bad_(season_1)
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This - it's very weird. I mean they'd killed two people and had a dead body melted in acid fall through the ceiling by episode two ffs.
 
Mockney said:
Can people stop trying to retroactively paint season 1 of Breaking Bad as some kind of snail paced eventless character study please. With the exception of a couple of mid season eps, it's pretty much constant high stakes life and death drama throughout.
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Has anyone done that? It's generally acknowledged that BB was a slow burner, especially in the first couple of seasons. The difference is that the stakes are higher. Surely people didn't start watching BCS thinking that the stakes would be as high as in BB?

Mockney said:
As for the finale, not killing Chuck seems like a wasted opportunity. It basically just reset to zero again after something purposeful seemed to have happened. Par for the course at this point though...
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Chuck being dead wouldn't facilitate Jimmy's transformation into Saul, as there would be no reason for him to stop using the McGill name. Chuck being alive, still practicing law and being out to get Jimmy for good, does. Ep 9 should have been the season finale though, it was a better cliffhanger. Ep 10 felt like the season 3 opener.
 
I think Nacho and Frings worked together on this. Nacho obviously couldn't put the note there in time so it had to be someone else (Frings) but it wasn't a coincidence that he stood exactly in front of Hector.
 
Still can't believe how average that season finale was. Even if they had just shown a glimpse of Gus I would have been satisfied. Won't be rushing to watch when season 3 comes out.
 
The ending to season 2 was a bit flat, unless season 3 is going to start with some serious twist on what just happened, then it was a bit of a let-down.
 
Does anyone know, or have I just missed it, what the timeline is for BCS ? I mean in relation to the characters appearing in Breaking Bad, how many years previous to BB would the events in season 2 in BCS be ? And am I right in thinking Chuck never appeared in BB so there is an obvious assumption to make after the season 2 finale of BCS...possibly, for anyone who has watched it....???
 
ZAGREB RED said:
Does anyone know, or have I just missed it, what the timeline is for BCS ? I mean in relation to the characters appearing in Breaking Bad, how many years previous to BB would the events in season 2 in BCS be ? And am I right in thinking Chuck never appeared in BB so there is an obvious assumption to make after the season 2 finale of BCS...possibly, for anyone who has watched it....???
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Have you by any chance missed an episode?

Because that comment would make a lot of sense if the penultimate episode had been the finale..
 
Rado_N said:
Have you by any chance missed an episode?

Because that comment would make a lot of sense if the penultimate episode had been the finale..
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Sorry, not quite following, I was alluding to what happened when Saul and Chuck had their conversation about events at the very end of the last episode ?
 
ZAGREB RED said:
Sorry, not quite following, I was alluding to what happened when Saul and Chuck had their conversation about events at the very end of the last episode ?
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Just with you saying with him not being in BB there was an obvious assumption, I thought you meant that he'd be dead :lol:
 
I agree with those saying that this season was a bit too much filler, too much of a slow burner. That said, still thoroughly enjoyed it for the most part. The finale definitely would have benefited from a bigger twist or reveal though - the whole "Chuck recording Jimmy's confession" was so obvious from the second Jimmy started gushing (which was a stupid thing to do in the first place).
 
In season 3, I'm calling Hector killing Nacho and then Mike crippling Hector in retaliation (he isn't allowed to kill him, so he cripples him)

But I think the better ending would be Nacho for whatever reason being against Gus, or trying to kill Gus. And then Mike has to kill Nacho (who he is fond of) to prove his loyalty to Gus and to spark him turning from somebody who won't kill, to the cold blooded killer from BB
 
Welsh Wonder said:
I keep worrying (maybe not the right word) that Mike's going to die IRL before he even meets Gus.
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Hopefully he doesn't die. But because they are leaving a year between seasons, he is going to keep looking older and older as the series goes on. By the end of Call Saul he's going to look ridiculously old compared to how he looks at the beginning of Breaking bad, which obviously is set later.
 
Rado_N said:
Just with you saying with him not being in BB there was an obvious assumption, I thought you meant that he'd be dead :lol:
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Yes, that's what i meant, maybe Saul hired Mike to bump him off after the conversation at the end and that's how they ended up working together, but that's maybe adding 2+2 and coming up with 5....
 
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