Better Call Saul

[No0neKnows]

howard was literally foreshadowed to die

 

[Trans Fat 41g]

howard was literally foreshadowed to die

The cliche part of my brain makes me speculate that Jimmy and Kim have this "just a prank bro" moment, that ends with Howard on the ground agonizing and gasping for air absolutely terrified for his life, while they increasingly cringe and walk backwards out of view never talking about it again.

 

[Vinluv Handesbukia]

I am not crazy! I know he forgotten that ID. I knew he left it in his other pants. "No ID,No Party" As if I could ever make such a mistake. Never. Never! I just - I just couldn't prove it. He covered his tracks, he got that Pajeetinx Jorge to lie for him. You think this is something? You think this is bad? This? This Boogieing? He's done worse. That IV! Are you telling me that a man just happens to bring a functioning IV to a Halloween party? No! *He* orchestrated it! Avery! He *accidentally* pulled out an IV by ""his bad"" instead of an ID! And I let him in! And I shouldn't have. I took him into my own party! What was I *thinking*? He'll never change. He'll *never* change! Ever since he was employed at Animagine, *always* the same! Just couldn't keep his eyes ouff of the production department!
>But not our Avery! Couldn't be precious *Avery*!

Dancing them blind! And *HE* gets to be a Animator? What a sick joke! I should've stopped him when I had the chance!
And you, you HAVE to stop them! You -

 

[StrawberryDouche]

The cliche part of my brain makes me speculate that Jimmy and Kim have this "just a prank bro" moment, that ends with Howard on the ground agonizing and gasping for air absolutely terrified for his life, while they increasingly cringe and walk backwards out of view never talking about it again.

One of the ways I think it could go down is, Howard offers to take a drug test to clear his name, Kim and Jimmy surreptitiously dose him and he dies.

 

[Rumpled Foreskin]

Oh wow , hai James Urbaniak! This scene was a treat.

 

[TheHarbinger]

Last season probably could have been one season based on this pace so far.

 

[nosemouth]

Huh?

 

[Trans Fat 41g]

He has an issue with the pacing of this season or something? I dunno, at least it's the final one, so the breaking bad universe can have all loose ends tied and we can move on. I am hyped to see how low the ruining of Howard gets, above all else, and whatever happens with Gene.

 

[jacaszek]

man this was intense lol

 

[Trans Fat 41g]

So, Howard beats the shit out of Jimmy, and wants to tail him further. Kim is hyped about a big plot, and the cursed booze is mentioned. Howard IS going to get drugged, isn't he? As per theory someone else here posted.

Of course the lab is referenced. Because of course.

 

[Anorexic Robot]

Im pretty sure howard following jimmy is going to result in gus's guys accidently taking out howard thinking hes with lalo

 

[Frail Snail]

I wonder what kind of Wile E. Coyote shit is being set up to happen in that lab for the showdown between Gus and Lalo, with measuring out the distance from the power cable to the excavator and hiding the gun in its track. Or is it just a red herring to lead into the first situation across the entire series where Gus has to do something on the fly without a solid plan?

 

[Internet War Criminal]

That Fring scene was nothing in terms of tension.

The one that was real fucking tense above all else for me was the boxing. I had no idea how it was gonna turn out and I expected a possible surging of all emotions related to chuck and shit to come up and for Saul to really fucking lose it.

In the end it didn't turn out the way I was expecting it to, and I'm kind of let down by that.

 

[anti SJW]

I'm wondering if Jimmy and Kim knew Howard would react like that if Howard suspected Jimmy of something and Jimmy may have took a dive to make it look like Howard "won".

 

[Trans Fat 41g]

The boxing scene, if anything, shows us that Kim is the one with the edge in this duo. In fact, she seems elated to escalate her plans after Jimmy got his ass kicked. She sounds like there was something a lot more serious than a concussion to hope for. Jimmy getting the shit beat out of him in BB shows us he wouldn't have been the most adept in the ring, emotions or not. The most Jimmy did that was a show of physical aggression was using a poker to break open a drawer and break apart a cassette tape. Mentally, he was hardened a bit by that trek out in the desert.

 

[No0neKnows]

I'm just baffled how architects unironically project cubes like this, call it a building and then think '..yep. i'm good. professional architect'. Disgusting. It hurts my autism.

Also, just scanned some threads about BCS and here's some good bits:
EP05 opening shot sliding open vs closing shot sliding closed. The show is all about visual direction.

Also^2, you know that Howard is going down the episode he wears this tie

Spoiler

Also^3, about how the show is slow and nothing happens. I know, I have ADHD too and understand you very well. But if you are talking about Gus scenes for example, there's a reason:
Reason 1: Gus was triggered on "Spice Curls" from the meeting he had with Madrigal and Schuler last season.
Reason 1.2: When he said again to the customer, it linked the whole thing to Lalo digging into the lab (which they projected if you can't even remember that).
Reason 2: Thus, it led to the scene of him counting every single step (the boring scene you skipped. it's okay, I did too) in order to plan his defense, from the door to the corner downstaris.
Reason 3: Remember that he's wearing a bulletproof vest and gun attached to his shin? You probably skipped this scene too lol but Gus even left his gun by the excavator after counting his strides from the plug.

So stop bitching and watch slower, don't fast forward everything in 1.5x speed.
>w-w-w-why is this show showing this intro that ends the EP in the same position as the window
>w-w-w-why is this show showing the bottle knuckle that represents Jimmy and Kimmy relationship since Breaking Bad
>w-w-w-why is this show showing all these objects in strange angles, foreshadowing Howard

Then something happens
>th-th-that happened out of nowhere, Vince is a hack!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Stop posting and watch again.

 

[Internet War Criminal]

The boxing scene, if anything, shows us that Kim is the one with the edge in this duo. In fact, she seems elated to escalate her plans after Jimmy got his ass kicked. She sounds like there was something a lot more serious than a concussion to hope for. Jimmy getting the shit beat out of him in BB shows us he wouldn't have been the most adept in the ring, emotions or not. The most Jimmy did that was a show of physical aggression was using a poker to break open a drawer and break apart a cassette tape. Mentally, he was hardened a bit by that trek out in the desert.

Nigga, I'm not saying I was expecting Saul to turn into Bob Odenkirk's character in Nobody (if any of you faggots havent seen it yet, fucking go watch it now), I'm saying I was expecting a fuckton of emotions to eventually burst to the surface and for shit to go really wrong, versus what we got, which was the very expected and boring.

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)

 

[George Floyd Sneed]

I'm wondering if Jimmy and Kim knew Howard would react like that if Howard suspected Jimmy of something and Jimmy may have took a dive to make it look like Howard "won".

I suspect they would know Howard would confront Jimmy on it but there’s no smoking gun. So they can keep fucking with him until Clifford Main decides to take action, whether that be to drop Howard or investigate himself. Cliff himself doesn’t seem like the type to hire goons to investigate Howard or Jimmy; he’s basically an old hippie who got his stripes with mesothelioma class action suits. Which is kind of an interesting bit of retroactivity as back when Jimmy was working for Davis and Main, the partners got angry about creating manipulative ads because their clientele wouldn’t like it.

I'm saying I was expecting a fuckton of emotions to eventually burst to the surface and for shit to go really wrong, versus what we got, which was the very expected and boring.

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.

I'm just baffled how architects unironically project cubes like this, call it a building and then think '..yep. i'm good. professional architect'. Disgusting. It hurts my autism.

Germany is as close to autism on a national level as it’ll ever get. If you tell them how ugly it looks, you’ll get a smug autist sperging about how it’s ackchually functionally correct architecture, complete with a long ass autistic word to describe it.

 

[TheHarbinger]

That Fring scene was nothing in terms of tension.

The one that was real fucking tense above all else for me was the boxing. I had no idea how it was gonna turn out and I expected a possible surging of all emotions related to chuck and shit to come up and for Saul to really fucking lose it.

In the end it didn't turn out the way I was expecting it to, and I'm kind of let down by that.

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. At this point the fans have probably predicated or accurately guessed the exact last few scenes for Lalo. The two most popular theories for Lalo are that he dies in the meth lab and is ironically buried behind the south wall that he is obsessing over. Edgar Allan Poe style. Or he dies in a sniper battle between him and Mike in the desert (which is seeming less and less likely).

The ghost of Chuck is all over this season. Practically every room Jimmy is in has no lightning in it. His office did not even have electricity. Also Jimmy has to now leave his keys and phone at the metal detector now just like entering Chuck's home. So Chuck is haunting Jimmy and will likely be referenced in some major way.

Either Howard ends up a ghost like chuck. Killed by the cartel or even by Kim. Or Howard is the mysterious person he told his secretary to call on a certain date and time. I cannot see any other way.

 

[sasazuka]

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?