Better Call Saul

TheHarbinger said:
If Chuck had supported Jimmy he could have been a decent honest lawyer. Jimmy working stuff with the elderly was fine. All they had to do was fold the Sandpiper case into HHM and bring Jimmy on as secondary with someone like Chuck or Howard leading and showing Jimmy the ropes. Instead both Chuck and Howard sabotage Jimmy behind his back and conspire to steal the case from him. Chuck even uses a phone contradicting his illness to electricity to backstab Jimmy. Howard did not hire Jimmy for one reason.....Chuck. Had nothing to do with his law school. Howard even admits as much to Jimmy. He takes the Sandpiper case from Jimmy as well because of Chuck.

Chuck also lies about what their mother's last words were. He was just sick his entire adult life. And eventually his ex-wife and Jimmy abandon him. Even Howard and all of his friends at HHM no longer visit him after his public meltdown. No one even does a wellness check on Chuck. His ex-wife Rebecca leaves Chuck after his breakdown because even she was tired of him.

Jesse gets away to another state with a new identity but some battle scars but ultimately it is implied he lives out the rest of his life fine. Walt takes on a new identity, but returns to his old name and home instead of fleeing, and dies in one last insane rampage of death (knowing his cancer will kill him anyways). Jimmy is under a new identity as well. All three main characters having used the vacuum repair service. The only two relatively unique endings left would be Jimmy having to live as Gene forever in his own personal prison. And never being Jimmy or Saul again. Or being exposed as Saul Goodman and having to turn himself in for arrest or just being arrested. And going to prison for a long time.

I believe that someone, likely new retard version of Jeff the cab driver, will hang up posters throughout the mall saying "FBI and DEA's most wanted. Saul Goodman. $5million Reward All Information". And Jimmy will have no choice but to either waste his diamonds on one last vacuum identity. Or turn himself in. And possibly the horribly cliche and predictable ending of his lawyer being Kim and then color returning to his life will be used.
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You don't think Marion or the manager will upend hin...?
 
Norbert the Tiger said:
You don't think Marion or the manager will upend hin...?
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If anyone messes with Gene or exposes him as Saul to the FBI or DEA it would be funniest if it was Marion the old woman. Because Jimmy started his law career with elder law. So having an elderly woman blow his life up would be ironic and hilarious. Revenge of Irene Landry.
 
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TheHarbinger said:
If anyone messes with Gene or exposes him as Saul to the FBI or DEA it would be funniest if it was Marion the old woman. Because Jimmy started his law career with elder law. So having an elderly woman blow his life up would be ironic and hilarious. Revenge of Irene Landry.
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Would make sense since why else would you hire Carol Burnett for such a minor role.
 
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Naitsirhc Rodriguez said:
Supposedly the actor has an exclusivity contract with HBO which prevented him from shooting with any outside productions as he's doing something with them, haven't looked into it myself so it may or may not be true.
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This is correct. So blame HBO to be honest. Happy for the actor getting to work with HBO though because he really was excellent.

Not going to lie, really feel like that one episode took this show down several notches from it's original greatness.
 
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AnOminous said:
Fuck you, Jimmy. How did you fuck this up?

We're going to find out.
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We already did find out. Lalo Salamanca showed up, shot Howard in the head right before their very eyes and put them both a harrowing experience. If it were not for that, the caper with Howard would have done mild damag to his reputation, but he would have recovered.
Kim is wrong that they are fine apart. Saul becomes a depraved, vice ridden criminal lawyer without her. I cant say how I would react if Lalo Salamanca came in my place and show a former colleauge in cold blood, but I think Kim and others take way too much blame.

On other matters, there is this video with Rhea and Bob. There are some clues in it, spoilers below.


Odenkirk states that Marion is related to someone "you've met." IIt is unclear to me that whether you refers to Rhea/Kim or the audience. Is it possible Kim has met Jeff?

This segment here is also instructive:


Rhea says the penchant for scheming (Slipping Jimmy) is not something that can ever just stop. This suggests to me that Gene will get a taste again, and that will be his undoing.
 
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Naitsirhc Rodriguez said:
Supposedly the actor has an exclusivity contract with HBO which prevented him from shooting with any outside productions as he's doing something with them, haven't looked into it myself so it may or may not be true.
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Fortunato Brown said:
This is correct. So blame HBO to be honest. Happy for the actor getting to work with HBO though because he really was excellent.

Not going to lie, really feel like that one episode took this show down several notches from it's original greatness.
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AMC and Vinge Gilligan are at fault for this. They had the actor contracted for BCS for multiple seasons around a specific shooting schedule. They they kept delaying his season six shooting scenes, over and over, to the point where they then conflicted with his HBO schedule. He had his scheduled cleared for his BCS scenes over a year ago but AMC delayed it for an entire year putting them in conflict with HBO. Why did they delay so much? Could be COVID, rewrites, Odenkirk's heart attack. Do not really care.

The actor and HBO told AMC that they would need to wait for him to shoot his HBO work and then he would do BCS right after. AMC decided that they could not wait anymore and recast and rewrote the part. Though they denied the rewrite, it is extremely obvious that they are not the same character. And that the part was clearly rewritten. The new actor was mediocre. They built Jeff up, across an entire season even, like the White Walkers from Game of Thrones and turned it into nothing in the end. Arya with her dagger and Gene with a shopping spree.
 
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This is a good way to build hype lol
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IceCreamForCrow said:
Waiting to be proven right
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Well, you were kind of right. Just wasn't Jeff who couldn't get over it. Still, it feels weird to have that be the 3rd-to-last episode. Good thing the cinematography makes up for the weird pacing. Jeff looking all nervous at Saul in the rearview, mirroring (heh) the earlier scene where the roles were reversed, was pottery.
 
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Haha what's he up to man, what's he doing?

I think this was a great ep. The closer we get to the finale the less plot armor Gene has. I like having genuinely no idea what to expect from the show for once. As soon as that last mark took out his meds my immediate thought was they'd accidentally kill him. If every other post-ep teaser is any indication, the cops rolling up is a red herring. I dont know if there's time anymore for a "return to ABQ for one last job of defending himself" but I'm calling Gene finishes out the series a free man.
 
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With the scam run montage it’s guaranteed that jimmy’s gonna take the second disappearing offer from the vacuum guy not sure how they would pull it off since the actor passed away but this is getting interesting
First time I have no clue what’s gonna happen next and it’s some exiting stuff
 
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