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ajaxlepinski wrote:Didn't Tucco show up during Season 1 of BCS? Or, was that BB? Some of this is tough to keep straight...
The episode when like this: Two skate punks jump in front of Jimmy's car - they want to scam a lawsuit against Jimmy. Instead, Jimmy hires the two skate punks to get hit by a car that was supposed to be driven by a rich lady. Unfortunately, the car is being driven by the rich lady's maid, who happens to be Tucco's mother. Tucco's mom takes off, Jimmy and the two punks follow her in Jimmy's car. She runs into the house. They knock on the door and go inside... and surprise! Tucco takes the three out into the desert, makes them dig a grave. Jimmy talks Tucco into sparing their lives and Tucco shoots one (or both) of the punks in the knees.
Pretty sure that was a BCS episode?
Yeah, it was, but Nacho and Mike plot to get Tuco thrown in jail on weapons charges.
Tuco has been in jail most of this series.
This was one moment where Mike learns not to take "half measures".
atrox wrote:yup. S1
Man, so much time elapses between seasons that it's almost impossible to remember all the details.
Walt wrote:But when the hour is nigh, and the lights are low, and I got a little toothpick of a shwag joint in my teeth, and my friends want to hear me play "Into the Void", or "TNT", "or "Cemetery Gates"...I plug my 600 dollar guitar into my 150 dollar amp, and I am a Rawk gawd.
I never know how to feel about Jimmy swindling his way into people's hearts, but then blabbing about how he pulled one over on everyone. It doesn't really seem believable. He should have known Kim wouldn't appreciate him being insincere. He could have at least kept his cool and kept the lie alive with her. It feels forced.
Werner kind of made me sad. Until the gun went off, I really thought Mike might help him disappear, especially when he told Gus he would "take care of it."
Lalo sure is interesting. I have a feeling Gus is going to FUCK him up in a way that will make Victor look like child's play.
Here are my thoughts. Before Jimmy goes into the hearing Kim says no matter what, I'm with you Jimmy. He comes out of the hearing, says one things, and she has this look like this guy is a monster, I need to break up with him.
I was sad about Werner, but I knew Mike had to do it, because in BB he Gus trusts him without question.
I think Lalo will be a big part of next season. He is probably going to steal Gus's big shipment from Mexico and kill some of his distributors. Ultimately Gus or Mike will kill him for payback and then Tucco will get out of jail.
Next season, Saul will move into the strip mall, film a commercial and get his first drug dealer client.
It looks like they were trying to run a parallel with Jimmy and Werner. Too much jackassery from a person, they fall outside the circle of trust and get shunned. Organized crime and organized law are two sides of the same coin. blah blah blah.
I agree his little manic boasting episode at the end felt forced and Kim looks like she's finally figured out what a screwup he is. It resembled the ending from Pumpkin where Christina Ricci looks right at the camera.
Wayne wrote:It looks like they were trying to run a parallel with Jimmy and Werner. Too much jackassery from a person, they fall outside the circle of trust and get shunned. Organized crime and organized law are two sides of the same coin. blah blah blah.
I agree his little manic boasting episode at the end felt forced and Kim looks like she's finally figured out what a screwup he is. It resembled the ending from Pumpkin where Christina Ricci looks right at the camera.
Yeah, that episode was a bit weird. "Forced" describes it well. That whole thing with Jimmy seemed odd. Same with Gail - not quite the same mannerisms seen during Breaking Bad, nor earlier in the season when he popped up. Lalo is a bit over-the-top to feel like a "real" Salamanca to me, too.
Don't get me wrong, I love the series. Just hard to live up to expectations when we're talking about something in the Breaking Bad universe.
Jonathan Banks, Mark Margolis, and Giancarlo Esposito are the best in the series, imo. They have that shit down cold.
I sure hope its not another year and a half or more before the next season. Jonathan Banks is looking ooooold, and it's gonna be hard to put this all in the prequel mindset if Breaking Bad Mike looks 20 years younger than he does in the Saul series.
G-SPACE wrote:Was I the only thinking about David St Hubbins when Chuck and Jimmy were doing the Karaoke?
I told my wife, “fwiw, chuck IS. A professional singer.”
Then I explained spinal tap.
Spinal Tap etc etc etc, he's been great in everything he's ever done.
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The BCS series is a truth story about being shunned for life over known mistakes, regardless of how much work goes toward redemption. Is it nature or nurture? It's a fantastic tale of the Man vs himself and Man vs Man conflict. That's the essence of conflict in literature. Better Call Saul is better than Breaking Bad because it drives at the root of literary conflict in a much more true and direct way. Pretty much every great tale is either man vs man, man vs himself, or man vs nature. (And "man" can be interchanged with "woman". The point is the same.)
Walt wrote:But when the hour is nigh, and the lights are low, and I got a little toothpick of a shwag joint in my teeth, and my friends want to hear me play "Into the Void", or "TNT", "or "Cemetery Gates"...I plug my 600 dollar guitar into my 150 dollar amp, and I am a Rawk gawd.
Great season, loved where it ended up. I'm less interested in how they get into BB and more interested in what (if anything) happens with post BB Jimmy.
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Yeah, it was all good till the very end. They tried to preface the sorta abrupt ending by his speech to that girl who was caught for shoplifting. But even that didn't quite land for me.
If there is any truth to the series not being picked up for another season, then I get it. And that's kinda what it felt like to me. A show that's having its plug pulled and they have to AT LEAST give the punchline
Well, after checking around, apparently that's not the case. There is another season, but it still felt like too rushed to throw in the "It's all good man" line at the end. Whatever. They obviously have to move this story forward in chunks at times. There can't be too long of a shelf life on this series
Walt wrote:But when the hour is nigh, and the lights are low, and I got a little toothpick of a shwag joint in my teeth, and my friends want to hear me play "Into the Void", or "TNT", "or "Cemetery Gates"...I plug my 600 dollar guitar into my 150 dollar amp, and I am a Rawk gawd.
I said next season may be the last. The ratings were terrible this year. Episodes 2 & 3 got 3.4 million viewers. Episodes 13 & 14 (S2) got 2.2 million viewers. Episodes 37, 38 & 39 (S4) got 1.3 million viewers. They are heading in the wrong direction. At this pace there will be 400,000 viewers by Season 6 episode 2.
I can't decide if I think that Kim will just break it off with Jimmy or if somehow she will dead. It definitely feels like she's disturbed at believing Jimmy's speech, but her breaking it off just seems like it wouldn't subvert expectation enough to fit the writer's style.
I think Kim is realizing that everything about Jimmy is needlessly fraudulent. I know a few people like that IRL... even if you ask them the time of day, you can never get a straight answer from them. They have way too many bad ideas/concepts.
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Walt wrote:But when the hour is nigh, and the lights are low, and I got a little toothpick of a shwag joint in my teeth, and my friends want to hear me play "Into the Void", or "TNT", "or "Cemetery Gates"...I plug my 600 dollar guitar into my 150 dollar amp, and I am a Rawk gawd.
Pumpkin! Loved that movie! 
