Better Call Saul

[Internet War Criminal]

Jimmy already exploded at Howard on S5E7, so Jimmy got out all those emotions. Besides Slippin’ Jimmy is the type of nigga to slip on a retailer floor than punch someone in the face. He’s a grifter and believes he can always talk it out in his favor.

Yeah I know that, but it's been a full season, they brought up the 'I'm glad Chuck is dead' early in the episode, and being in the ring would produce a lot of adrenaline and feelings could have easily come up in a way I'm disappointed they didn't.

This is the problem with prequels. We know Gus and Mike survive. Lalo most likely does not. So any tension over who lives and does not cannot really exist.

Bang on.

Same with the rest of your post, as well

 

[God of Nothing]

i went full sports bro when they got in the ring

 

[Liebestod]

i went full sports bro when they got in the ring

Idk why Jimmy even bothered going into the ring, and started flailing around, he barely put up a fight lol

 

[God of Nothing]

Idk why Jimmy even bothered going into the ring, and started flailing around, he barely put up a fight lol

blood calls to blood
a true man cannot back down when he is challenged

 

[Hallucinogenic Penguin]

Idk why Jimmy even bothered going into the ring, and started flailing around, he barely put up a fight lol

He was just mostly fucking around with Howard. Ole Jimmy was probably thinking.
“Yeah you can give me a few good punches and I’ll get a black eye but that’s nothing to what I’m doing and going to do to your reputation”

Also any theories on what happens to Howard? A lot of people are theorizing he gets whacked by either Gus’s men or Lalo with him trying to always follow Jimmy around via his PI.

 

[Trans Fat 41g]

He was just mostly fucking around with Howard. Ole Jimmy was probably thinking.
“Yeah you can give me a few good punches and I’ll get a black eye but that’s nothing to what I’m doing and going to do to your reputation”

Also any theories on what happens to Howard? A lot of people are theorizing he gets whacked by either Gus’s men or Lalo with him trying to always follow Jimmy around via his PI.

I am thinking a similar situation to the printing office incident with Chuck.

Jimmy can be smart, calculating, but he underestimates the exact total of damage his influence has. He has no trust from the past, and probably now deceased or transferred, sandpiper residents. He's probably caused them a great deal of stress from his colluding and seduction. What I think happens to Howard, is now that Kim has the edge, probably involves an unanticipated fatal response to stress. I anticipate a car accident, or even spontaneous suicide. Probably the former, while she and Jimmy, or her alone witnesses this event. If the latter happens, Kim will probably start to break down. Not out of guilt, but paranoia of being a suspect in his death.

 

[Skitarii]

Theories for the rest of the season:

1. The guy Howard has investigating Saul will catch him in the act (colluding with the cartel or whatever), but Mike's men will step in and give Saul the opportunity to frame it as a stalking case, tanking Howard's reputation for good and causing him to leave AQ

2. Howard's man gets caught in the crossfire between Lalo and Gus and dies an unsatisfactory but realistic death and is never mentioned again, fitting the series' theme of transcience and the irrelevance of bystanders in a world of wolves and sheep

 

[AnOminous]

It's clear that taking Howard and Jimmy, if they got in a fight Howard would win. Dude is clearly the kind of guy who not only has a personal trainer but probably actually trains for boxing (in the way white collar dudes do, not real boxing)

I was glad he had the balls to take him on knowing he was going to get his ass kicked, and that he pretty much had it coming. The question is whether Kim will move on from this weird vendetta.

 

[Internet War Criminal]

I was glad he had the balls to take him on knowing he was going to get his ass kicked, and that he pretty much had it coming. The question is whether Kim will move on from this weird vendetta.

That's not how I read it at all. I read it more as Saul walking away and thinking 'That fucking cunt still thinks he's better than me... Fuck it I'm not letting him think he got one on me'. When he got in the ring, Saul thought he had called his bluff, that Howard never meant it and it was just another power play, that's why he was fucking around.

If anything it just reinforced his hatred by him going 'How dare he trick me into the ring and hit me for real' type of thing. I think he's going to be doubling down, and that's what is gonna lead to the end of Howard, the PI is just a red herring*

At least I hope so, because slippin jimmy causing Howard's death would add more depth to his character than Howard getting whacked because he accidentally got into the cartel's way.

 

[AnOminous]

That's not how I read it at all. I read it more as Saul walking away and thinking 'That fucking cunt still thinks he's better than me... Fuck it I'm not letting him think he got one on me'. When he got in the ring, Saul thought he had called his bluff, that Howard never meant it and it was just another power play, that's why he was fucking around.

I got real Kyanka getting into the ring with Uwe Boll vibes from that shit.

If anything it just reinforced his hatred by him going 'How dare he trick me into the ring and hit me for real' type of thing. I think he's going to be doubling down, and that's what is gonna lead to the end of Howard, the PI is just a red herring*

At least I hope so, because slippin jimmy causing Howard's death would add more depth to his character than Howard getting whacked because he accidentally got into the cartel's way.

Also looking at it again it's pretty obvious Kim is in full nothing stops this train mode. And Jimmy is still on board.

 

[Hangula Hungui]

Any ideas how they filmed the "Germany" street scenes in the most recent episode? Did they dress up a street somewhere around Albuquerque that's less obviously in New Mexico with a few German signs and then add the tram in with CGI or did they actually have a second unit shoot a scene in Germany?

I‘m sure the background was cgi but the houses, street and tram looked similar to those you see in the Netherlands and northern Germany. From what I‘ve heard, filming in the Netherlands is far cheaper than in Germany.

 

[AnOminous]

I‘m sure the background was cgi but the houses, street and tram looked similar to those you see in the Netherlands and northern Germany. From what I‘ve heard, filming in the Netherlands is far cheaper than in Germany.

It was actually filmed in Albuquerque apparently and yes, obviously, visual effects.

Breaking Bad visited Germany in season five’s “Madrigal,” but you were tasked with showing much more of Germany in this episode. So how did you create Lalo’s (Tony Dalton) European vacation?

We had to find a bar setting and an interior and an exterior for Margarethe’s house that felt like they were outside of our Albuquerque, New Mexico world. We knew visual effects would be some part of it, but our hope is always that we can start with the practical and then embroider on the practical to make it something special and new. So we started looking after 602, and part of it was driving around the city just to see what stuck out until we found a really unusual house. And the modern interior was perfect. Even the size and scale of the appliances felt part of the European aesthetic. And then our production design and set decoration team made it even more specific.

And then we had to find the set within the set, Werner’s study, so that it felt of a piece with the house and of a piece with Werner Ziegler [Rainer Bock], this unusual engineer. So a lot of specific thought went into every single item that populated that set. Andrea Sooch, who plays Margarethe, speaks German so she brought an authenticity to the episode with the European feel that she has, and that young couple in the bar were also true German speakers.

From Hollywood Reporter.

 

[Snigger]

If I were to show a friend breaking bad, BCS, and El Camino, should I do it in release order or chronological order?

 

[AnOminous]

I'd just start with the first episode. It was a really strong opener and the first six episode season is fairly easy to digest compared to later shit. If you just started in the middle you would wonder why you are watching a show about an utter monster. You have to start from the start for Walt to look sympathetic.

 

[TheHarbinger]

If I were to show a friend breaking bad, BCS, and El Camino, should I do it in release order or chronological order?

BCS was clearly written as a prequel. Too many characters are just thrown onto the screen with the expectations that you already know exactly who they are and what they do and how they fit into the story already. Half of BCS is pretty much reintroducing BB characters anyways. And that does not even include the myriad of cameo appearances of BB characters. You might as well re-edit Pulp Fiction or Memento in chronological order for your friend.

Watch BB first. Then El Camino. Then BCS. Especially when BCS will likely end chronologically after BB ended. With Gene living beyond the timeline of Walt dying the lab or beyond even Jesse moving to Alaska.

 

[Milwaukee Macho Man]

If I were to show a friend breaking bad, BCS, and El Camino, should I do it in release order or chronological order?

Anything, I mean absolutely ANYTHING, should be shown/played in release order.

 

[AnOminous]

Slight correction, it wasn't a six episode first season, it was seven. Writer's strike was the reason for the shorter first season.

 

[God of Nothing]

Slight correction, it wasn't a six episode first season, it was seven. Writer's strike was the reason for the shorter first season.

what were they striking?
most of them suck, both figuratively and literally, each other off despite being mediocre at best

Better Call Saul has a good team though. Diamond in a shit trough.

 

[AnOminous]

what were they striking?

Obviously for more money. Why wouldn't they if they have a functional union that can just demand more money? They got it too. While money and working conditions are sort of the core general ideas of unions, in this case, it was specifically over bigger cuts in various forms of media including animation, as well as compulsory shares of residuals for things like DVD media, back when that shit mattered.

It's one of the few remaining unions that can actually have an all members strike any time they feel like it.

Also I should note that the shortened season may have saved Jesse Pinkman's life and Aaron Paul's career because his phenomenal performance saved a season that had been thrown into chaos.

 

[God of Nothing]

It's one of the few remaining unions that can actually have an all members strike any time they feel like it.

Now if only they could write better.

honestly, Aaron Paul's career went nowhere afterward