Better Call Saul (AMC) TV Show • Page 96

I just looked at the episode guide on IMDB for the next 4 episodes and while there are no plot suggestions, the photos (if accurate) could potentially be minor spoilers.

Episode 10 - Photo of Walt and Jesse
Episode 11 - Photo of Kim and Jimmy
Episode 13 - Photo of Gene

 

Episode 10 description - A new player gets in the game.

 

Good interview with Peter Gould on The Watch today: https://www.theringer.com/2022/7/19...t-be-the-best-episode-of-better-call-saul-yet

 

On 2nd thought, I really enjoyed all the parallels with the side scenes, and basically the key line was Jimmy's 'one day we'll realize we didn't think of it and know that we forgot and we're fine' (or whatever it was). We saw Gus abandoning his personal life because he's never forgotten what happened to Max (which I'm sure the nature of their relationship is still going over some people's heads but this made his sexual orientation pretty clear) and then Mike going to talk to Nacho's Dad because he can't forget that he failed to get Nacho out alive, and then Kim running away because she knows that she won't ever forget (at least without a change of scenery). The question really posed is if Saul is as slimy and remorseless as he seems, or if he has daily moments of torment over what transpired. Is that gaudiness an attempt to hide the pain, or did he just forget completely and living a life he's happy with?

 

I don't want them to milk it like The Walking Dead, but I am not ready for this Gilligan and Gould-sized hole that is about to be in my heart. These shows are just....masterpieces.

 

I’m ready to leave this universe, but not ready to be without this crew. The writers, editors, directors, production designers, cinematographers, all putting on masterclasses the last 13 years. I can only hope that someday most of them can reunite for another project

 

They have a unique touch. I think it comes down to when Peter Gould said that they move at the absolute slowest pace possible when writing and breaking down the season so they don't accidently skip over a small moment that if approached from a different angle, could be big drama. I love plenty of dramatic shows, but not many move at the pace that BB and BCS have.

 

I haven't re-watched BB in a while, do we know exactly where in the timeline the final scene of last night's episode was? Are we assuming it's still pre-BB episode 1? I'm guessing so.

 

I would think it’s around when shit hits the fan.

 

From reddit some sleuths have determined that the license plate tag on his Cadillac in that final scene of last night's episode said 2005 on it. According to the breaking bad wiki, Saul's first appearance in Breaking Bad happens in December 2008. So the assumption is that the scene took place about a year after Kim left and 3 years before he joins Breaking Bad.

 

Ok awesome, thanks. I did notice the tags being 2005, BUT he is also the kind of person who wouldn't be up to date on their registration, so I didn't put a lot of stock into it. Knowing that BCS was around 2004 and BB around 2008 does help though

 

Yup! BCS (aside from flashback memories, flash-forwards of Gene and that final scene) have taken place between 2002-2004 and Breaking Bad takes place between 2008-2010.

 

This episode was Giancarlo Esposito's sendoff on this show wasn't it? Pretty perfect note to end on for that character in this timeline if so

 

Super interesting, I didn't realize we still have about 4 years between BCS and BB with just a few episodes left, now I'm even more curious to see what they do with it.

 

It would be a great send off for his character in the show and setting up him in Breaking Bad

My guess is that we get new scenes from different perspectives during the Breaking Bad era....with what was mentioned above, not sure if that includes additional scenes of Gus and Mike discussing Walt and Jesse that we never saw. We are also going to get a Gene wrap-up, and I don't believe we've seen the last of Kim....maybe Carol Burnett plays Kim's elderly mother? But these next 4 episodes are going to be a giant whirlwind taking place between 2008-2010 I imagine. Lots of time jumps.



What would be SUPER interesting is to see how these two series would feel to people to watched BCS before BrBa. How many storylines would feel off or weird or different? and how many characters in Breaking Bad would feel so different.

 

I'd heed this advice and not go on IMDB to look at these as the certain image for ep 13 definitely implies some plot points. Since I did look, unhide at your own risk as I'm going to speculate on what it means (and I hope I'm wrong for surprises sake)... it looks like Gene is at a doctors office, maybe getting a chest x ray? Now my mind is thinking that if BB was about someone breaking bad because they got cancer, maybe this will end up with Saul/Jimmy getting cancer, and regretting the choices they made as their life is ending as kind of a parallel. Walter used his cancer as an excuse to do bad things, and Jimmy's cancer is at the end of a life of poor choices.

 

Clues also may appear in the cast list on IMDB for ep 10...

 

Yup, devastating episode. Rhea was so fucking good throughout the series. Hope we see her again in some way but it’s fine if we don’t.

I haven’t watched BB in a long time but I was kind of surprised by how extravagant Sauls house is? I remember him as being a low rent strip mall criminal lawyer, did we know he lived in a mansion?

 

The LaLa/Lalo Land ending.

 

We never see him living in a mansion, but he also does a lot of back-end deals with drug dealers, including Walt and Jesse, and takes a cut from their multi-millions, so I'm not surprised he lives large.




Also, on the IMDb front....don't trust everything or try to extrapolate too much. There is a lot of community uploaded placeholders. For instance, this most recent episode had the squat cobbler dude in the cast list on IMDbd and of course he wasn't in the episode at all.

 

heartbreaking episode

 

Im gonna have to rewatch the episode before next monday

 

When Jimmy goes back in the room and all her bags are packed

 

"I love you too. But so what?!"

Just a TV all-timer line

 

I’m on to S3