Better Call Saul

[anti SJW]

I think its a good bet we'll see Chuck in the finale.

 

[StrawberryDouche]

Finally, Kim Wexler takes the stand. Jimmy is optimistic, thinking his former lover, of all people, would at least give him a kind word. Instead, Kim callously assault's Jimmy's character as well, pinning the blame for how they mutually destroyed Howard Hamlin solely on Jimmy and his malign influence over her. She talks about how apathetic Jimmy was over driving his own brother to suicide, establishing that this sort of thing was child's play for the disgraced lawyer. Utterly defeated, Jimmy accepts his guilty sentence with no resistance.

I don't know if a big dramatic courtroom scene will happen with call back characters testifying against him. More often than not, what people guess doesn't happen.

However.

It was Kim who suggested they get married so she couldn't be compelled to testify in the event of all their chicanery unravelling. It was likewise Kim who wanted the divorce.

I don't know if that suggests or foreshadows anything in the end, other than Kim was always out to serve herself, which is really a theme in the BB universe.

BB and BCS are tragedies. There will be no happy endings for anyone.

Tomorrow, fam. Tomorrow we will know how it all ends. I am very excited!

 

[Internet War Criminal]

BB and BCS are tragedies. There will be no happy endings for anyone.

Kim and Jimmy reunite, just as he's bleeding to death and the world goes back to full color. Pottery.

 

[Someone in a Tree]

Gene timeline is 2010 ? Any chance there will be a flash forward to the present date ?

Jimmy/Saul/Gene has transitioned into a strong woman, and no lawyer is willing to prosecute because deadnaming her will result in Twitter trolls firebombing their offices.

 

[Weeb Slinger]

In the present day of the Better Call Saul timeline, Jimmy and Kim are both languishing in purgatories of their own making.

Kim has supressed every facet of her personality because she believes that this is the only way to prevent a resurgence of her worst tendencies. She has effectively performed a voluntarily lobotomy that also encompasses her social, professional and romantic lives, dialling down her intelligence, her critical faculties, her ambition, and so on, below even that of her low-wattage co-workers. I found her Florida scenes in Waterworks painful to watch.

Meanwhile, Jimmy is working a dull, repetitive job that is literally killing him. A man like him cannot thrive without someone or something that he can creatively rebel against.

Both choose to respond to their circumstances in different ways. For Kim this entails coming clean. Perhaps Jimmy getting in touch made her realise that she couldn't bury the destructive, thrill-seeking side of her character. She needs to reconcile with it and move past it. For that to happen she has to be honest and open about her past. Unlike Jimmy, who seems capable of only fleeting remorse, Kim appears to bear the weight of her actions. She has it in her to grow as a person.

Jimmy responds to his situation by lapsing into the same patterns of behaviour that got him into trouble in the first place. Only now he's supressed these impulses for so long that he can't stop himself from escalating. He's become a harder and meaner person. When he holds back it isn't because he is troubled by any sense of morality; it's because he is afraid of venturing into unknown territory.

An ending that puts Jimmy in a situation where he has the opportunity to engineer more elaborate scams will probably not be particularly satisfying, whether that is jail or another shell identity. If it feels like there is the potential for another season of Better Call Saul but the writers decided to end it here, then that will not be a good conclusion.

If he can't stop then someone or something has to stop him.

I suppose they could follow in the footsteps of Carlito's Way - have an innocuous figure from Jimmy's past resurface and take him out. Maybe he miraculously escapes justice, only to be gunned down on the courthouse steps by Nacho's grieving father.

 

[anti SJW]

I heard the final episode is 100 minutes.

 

[UmQasaan]

>gene has an intense chase and showdown with the cops
>decides to turn himself in
>gets represented by oakley
>Kim is present and the nationally televised trial
>Gene is now jimmy scared shitless, facing the music like he told Walt
>Guilty on contempt, evading arrest, conspiracy
>40 years with parole hearing in 3 years
>Jimmy is even more petrified, frightened about the prospect of prison
>As Jimmy is walking out, he locks eyes with Kim
>Initial shock turns into faint satisfaction for both of them, with a slight smirk on Jimmy's face
>Montage ensues, Johnny Cash's cover of "I wont back down" plays

 

[IceCreamForCrow]

Jimmy dead or not dead?

Anyone wanna make predictions

 

[Daniel Wallace]

Jimmy dead or not dead?

Anyone wanna make predictions

Walt Jr. is actually autistic, and everything was all in his head.

 

[TheHarbinger]

Jimmy dead or not dead?

Anyone wanna make predictions

The obvious ending is Jimmy gets arrested. Goes to jail. Runs the prison as Saul Goodman. Kim becomes a lawyer again and uses the Sandpiper diamonds to open a new practice. Ending is not ambiguous if Kim waits for Jimmy to get out of jail. She will not. Just like Walt and Jesse reunited one last time and Jesse escaped. Jimmy and Kim will reunite one last time with Kim escaping.

Some specific finale predictions:

- Jimmy will get arrested or turn himself in. He will fail to contact the vacuum man once again. Walls will close in on him.
- Kim will get sworn in as a lawyer, either for Jimmy's trial, or after it, once Jimmy is jailed. She wants to be a lawyer still.
- Jimmy is jailed for a long sentence, the DEA shows no mercy when they failed to get both Walt and Jesse, and so they go hard on Jimmy out of spite.
- Jimmy gives his diamonds, Sandpiper money, to Kim. Kim uses them to open a law practice. Maybe gives some to Howard's widow (doubtful).
- Chuck is referenced, maybe a flashback, something to whitewash his character and make him more positive. They will make Chuck sympathetic.
- Walt and Jimmy flashback in the basement of the vacuum business. Walt talks about returning to ABQ for unfinished business or something like that.
- Jimmy in jail immediately becomes Saul Goodman. Acts like Andy from Shawshank and becomes boss of the prisoners.
- Maybe some references to Hank or Skyler or like a wildcard like Gretchen and Elliott.

Anyone else want to make specific predictions? I feel like all of this stuff is really obvious though.

 

[Internet War Criminal]

Anyone else want to make specific predictions? I feel like all of this stuff is really obvious though.

Kim and Jimmy reunite, just as he's bleeding to death and the world goes back to full color. Pottery.

 

[Nuns with guns]

I think its a good bet we'll see Chuck in the finale.

Apparently, there was some leak that Michael McKean will appear. I'm excited, although skeptical they can pull off a better scene than his appearance on Winner. McKean is probably the best actor and his character was my favorite.

 

[Harambe]

I'm excited for the finale. I think it's a foregone conclusion that Jimmy gets caught, but the tension will be about Kim and Jimmy both having to face up to what they did in the show. I think the finale will mostly focus on prosecutors trying to play Jimmy off of Kim, once they catch Jimmy they'll have a material basis to prosecute Kim, and the final episode will be about their loyalty toward each other and if Jimmy can sacrifice himself for Kim's benefit.

 

[Johnny Salami]

I don't think Walt ever thought Jesse & the Nazis were working together.

While hiding out he thought they killed him. When he finds out they're cooking meth he plans to kill them all including Jesse. When he sees Jesse as a prisoner he decides to spare him then asks to be killed by him.

 

[Something Awful]

I heard the final episode is 100 minutes.

I believe that's the runtime with commercials. The actual episode is 67 minutes.

 

[anti SJW]

What they should do is totally go in a different direction for the finale.

Make it a musical.

 

[Daniel Wallace]

What they should do is totally go in a different direction for the finale.

Make it a musical.

Slippin' On Broadway

 

[BetterFuckChuck]

Random thought i had: if kiwi farms was around in universe around the time of show would chuck and howard have had lolcow threads before the truth came out?

 

[Harambe]

Random thought i had: if kiwi farms was around in universe around the time of show would chuck and howard have had lolcow threads before the truth came out?

how the fuck would chuck have a lolcow thread the man freaked out at seeing a battery, he wasn't documenting his life online for us

howard, maybe, if he survived the lalo thing he might have ended up being exactly like legal eagle, but with the spiciness of a baroque conspiracy that destroyed his reputation that no one here would believe. literally no one here would buy his story that he was drugged surreptitiously through doctored photos given by a fake PI hired by his worst enemy, a sleazy criminal defense attorney whom he never really did anything to besides offer jobs and act a little smarmy around

 

[BetterFuckChuck]

I love these episode posters theyve been doing

Spoiler

“Let justice be done though the heavens fall” was the text the youtube channel posted it with

how the fuck would chuck have a lolcow thread the man freaked out at seeing a battery, he wasn't documenting his life online for us

howard, maybe, if he survived the lalo thing he might have ended up being exactly like legal eagle, but with the spiciness of a baroque conspiracy that destroyed his reputation that no one here would believe. literally no one here would buy his story that he was drugged surreptitiously through doctored photos given by a fake PI hired by his worst enemy, a sleazy criminal defense attorney whom he never really did anything to besides offer jobs and act a little smarmy around

Tru but at the same time I bet it’d be some kind of footnote. “Oh this guy i was neighbors with ran to my porch to take a newspaper and then killed himself a year later”