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- Dec 28, 2014
This is sort of like complaining that Columbo sucks as a detective show because they start by showing you who did it. Of course the ending is predictable. I'd rather the ending make sense in the context of what kind of show it is rather than some gimmicky bullshit to "subvert expectations."The thing with Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul is they always go for super predictable endings.
There's plenty of gimmicky bullshit in how it gets there, and people complain about that all the time even though if there's any "subverting expectations" it's in those details.
Also Kim has done some bad shit but has genuinely unselfish traits too. She did the sociopathic stuff for fun, not profit. Left to her own devices she uses her skills to help the poor. Jimmy rarely did, and even when he did, would often turn around and fuck over the very people he'd previously helped (Sandpiper). He had enough of a conscience to know stealing from Cancer Man was bad and had qualms about it, but he went and did it anyway, and even berated someone else for having the basic human decency not to rip off that particular guy.
And as for the criticisms of him being stupid for stealing the cigars and watches, wasn't it really obvious he wanted to get caught at that point? He'd just been told he should turn himself in and lacked the balls to do it. Next best thing is to fuck up.
I thought it was an interesting take on a similar but different relationship than between Walt and Jesse. In both cases, the protagonist was much worse than the protege, but Jesse got sucked into worse and worse stuff because he was weak, while Kim was actually in the driver's seat much of the time.
Anyway tl;dr it wasn't quite as good a finale as Felina, but it tied up the series and somewhat redeemed a season that had been floundering much of the time since Lalo and Howard got killed, and in general, the show ended on a high note after looking like it was going straight into a ditch.
Saul is basically where he should be. A funny side effect is he's probably going to be a jailhouse lawyer and probably going to get some of these other genuinely bad motherfuckers out, because the prosecutor just had to go for full revenge, as well as helping with their recreational civil suits. I'd guess he's already doing that, because when he went out to see Kim, everyone all but gave him high fives.