morons seething about the time skip and not seeing Saul's full transformation haven't realized we already saw him transform as early as season 5 when he literally calls himself Saul Goodman in his profession in Law. Kim leaving was the nail in the coffin for him to completely lose himself. We don't need some gay montage or anymore scenes, nor do we need an explanation for the statue of liberty.
Agreed. We've gotten all of the explanations in passing
>Statue of Liberty he sees at the Kettleman's new scam site
>Kim and his old friend suggest the caddy
>Cliff and Maine is where he gets the idea to dress colourfully
>Saul Goodman starts out as a character to sell ad-space
>Kim leaving him and crushing his heart turns him toward prostitutes
>The vet-doctor with criminal connections and his little book is retiring. Jimmy expresses interest in picking that up.
>Explanation for the office locale
>Reputation as a "Criminal" lawyer comes from his work with Lalo
The time skip makes complete narrative sense. We've had all the blanks filled in. I don't need to see him buy the car, buy the infatable, move into the mansion, etc
In fact, if anything I'm more excited by the fact that we have 4 episodes left and we're all caught up with Breaking Bad. It makes me curious as to what those final episodes will have in store.
Strange to see an intelligent Cinemaphile poster for once.
But the pacing of the show had led us to believe we would see that though. It's fien from a narrative standpoint but is quite jarring compared to how the shows pave has been.
I felt like it was intentionally jarring. It hit harder to go from Kim leaving straight to Saul waking up with a hooker in full Saul mode.
It was definitely intentionally jarring. It's not like they're incapable of at least attempting a montage to show the passage of time, they've done it many times over the course of the show and often do it well, but they show this huge timeskip with so much changed as if it was just any scene going from one to the next. It's clearly supposed to be blunt to hammer in how Kim leaving was the last straw for Jimmy to give himself over to the Saul persona.
>In fact, if anything I'm more excited by the fact that we have 4 episodes left and we're all caught up with Breaking Bad
this, first half of this season was pretty slow with the build up to the howard stuff, which was fine, but i'm glad we're finally moving into different territory for the series
>In fact, if anything I'm more excited by the fact that we have 4 episodes left and we're all caught up with Breaking Bad.
Yeah. I am curious about how what they have to show that we didn't already see in Breaking Bad. I was expecting one single final episode for Gene but now maybe it might be more and that has me interested.
yeah now that all of the BCS exclusive characters have been dealt with this feels like the first time on the show where i don't really know where things are going to go
They don't know where it's going to go either by this point. I guarantee you the last four episodes are going to suck someone believably hard you're going to want your money back
>no refunds Walter
20 minutes of Gus trying to get his Gussy gushed in except this time by force.
Gus will canonically be confirmed as a power bottom or he just wanted to make friends and we were expecting homosexual shit because homosexual shit get's shoved into everything
This. We've already had all the pieces placed for his transformation throughout 5 seasons. Kim leaving him was the final important piece - the rest we don't really need to see.
But But But we need to see him get the Mansion, We need to see him get the blow up statue from the KettleBlack folk, We need to see him get his car insurance renewed, we need to see him lose every single hair follicle to explain the gross chrome dome that can get covered with a few ultra thick hairs.
After the break up scene with Kim he should have turned to the camera and said, "Now I will fully become Saul."
>points finger guns at the camera
>"Better Call It's All Good Man!"
Tbh I’m still curious about where Kim went and what she is doing “now”. Also what’s the deal with anyone people here being excited about Gene?
Some people want to be spoon fed everything. People have been asking when he Jimmy became Saul, but the answer we received was that Jimmy died when Kim left and all that was left was Saul.
>just fill in the blanks and write your own headcanon bro
BRAVO VINCENZENTO
I'm glad we spent so much time on cartelshit and Mike instead of Sauls character developement. That's where the real kino is at. Mike being a geriatric operator and Gus creeping on waiters is literal pleb filter (and the most important part of sauls story)
Youre the type of Black person who would say How can we know its a duck
To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand Breaking Better Call Saul. The humour is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of lawyeristic semitics and american contemporary history most of the jokes will go over a typical viewer's head. There's also Jimmy's nihilistic outlook, which is deftly woven into his characterisation- his personal philosophy draws heavily from Narodnaya Volya literature, for instance. The fans understand this stuff; they have the intellectual capacity to truly appreciate the depths of these jokes, to realise that they're not just funny- they say something deep about LIFE. As a consequence people who dislike Better Call Saul truly ARE capeshitting morons who get immediately filtered- of course they wouldn't appreciate, for instance, the humour in Jimmy's existential catchphrase "Better Call Saul" which itself is a cryptic reference to Turgenev's Russian epic Fathers and Sons. I'm smirking right now just imagining one of those addlepated simpletons scratching their heads in confusion as Vince Gilligan's genius wit unfolds itself on their television screens. What fools.. how I pity them.
And yes, by the way, i DO have a Better Call Saul tattoo. And no, you cannot see it. It's for the ladies' eyes only- and even then they have to demonstrate that they're within 5 IQ points of my own (preferably lower) beforehand. Nothin personnel kid
I feel like you've been dying to use that line and image but you've jumped the gun and used it where it doesn't fit. I see you and you aren't getting away with shit
All of that shit I mentioned was literally in the show.
Everything was explained. We just don't see it happen in real time. And why should we need to?
>just fill in the blanks and write your own headcanon bro
90% of the times a writer explain in a period that isn't told or a mysterious character past , it ends up being shit.
I wanted an episode consisting entirely of several montages involving the purchase of the new car, house, suits, and black book, the redecoration of his office, and most importantly of all, his hair loss. Would have been kino.
It has literally been a meme for years to say "THIS IS THE MOMENT WHERE JIMMY BECAME SAUL". People are acting like it finally happened all at once during the timeskip when people have literally been calling out all of the evidence of his transformation for years now.
>Kim leaves Saul
>Smash cut to Saul living in a mansion being rich
WOMEN ARE HOLDING US ALL BACK, BROS!!!
>tfw no woman and no mansion
The biggest thing the timeskip says is that absolutely nothing of note happened between Kim leaving and Saul appearing in Breaking Bad.
Like Once in a Lifetime, Saul had his head underwater going through the motions.
>6 season series about a character transformation
>transformation happens off screen
>off screen
THERE IS A LITERAL TIMESKIP IN THE LAST EPISODE WHERE JIMMY SUDDENLY IS THE FULLY FORMED SAUL WE KNOW FROM BB
Yeah, and we're saying he had already transformed you mouth breathing moron. The signs were all there. Your double digit IQ needed a whole montage with le epic theme song shoved in your face so that you could make the connection that he became Saul Goodman.
What else was there to go over?
Everything about him was already there.
>Off screen
This is how I know morons like you haven't watched the show. Makes it easy to filter between who is who.
Is he supposed to snap and suddenly become the Saul we know and love? Dude already is Saul and has been since hiring big booty Frannie and getting all the clientele after bailing Lalo out. The building block's began to be placed the instant he changed his name.
>Jimmy is bitten by a radioactive sleezebag
A transformation suitable for Cinemaphile minds.
>Is he supposed to snap and suddenly become the Saul we know and love?
but that's how it literally happens thanks to the time skip.
if the show had ended in season 3 it would have been great
if the show ended in season 4 it would have been good
it is now garbage. from the beginning the only people involved in the drug business who had any dramatic tension were nacho, the german guy, and later on lalo. now the only characters left are ones we already know from breaking bad, and nothing of consequence could possibly happen to them since their deaths have already played out
Agreed, I also feel like BB tanked in quality in the later seasons but for BCS it actually seemed inevitable considering it’s a prequel and all. Obviously it’d need some tuning but Winner could’ve been a great finale, when we go this close to the BB timeline there are no stakes and every scene feels like it’s dragging on for too long (a feeling I’m sure everyone here has felt at least once this season)
If the point of the show is to illustrate how Jimmy ‘becomes’ Saul, him refusing to accept chucks death is really the only main reason.
>the transformation happens off screen
what fricking transformation lmao
the point of the show is that jimmy doesn't actually have an arc. he doesn't have a transformation in the sense that he is the same person throughout, and the only things which prevent him from acting the way he did prior to getting his law license were, in order
>relationship with chuck
>relationship with HHM/howard and other law firms
>relationship with kim
the show could very easily have ended the relationship with kim in season 4 instead of wasting time on characters who will never be as interesting as they are in breaking bad.
as an aside, the first rule of writing a character-driven story is "is the character at the most interesting point in his life? if so, why not?" the answer to that question is "because they're doing mundane shit" for all of the cartel members
the timeskip was fine, i'm glad they didn't pad out the final season even more by dragging that shit out. people who wanted to see more between saul losing kim and getting rich are the same people who like solo and rogue one where they have entire scenes dedicated to explaining one line of dialogue in the OT. leave something to the fricking imagination you morons
sex the wex
Eladio mocking Hector has been about the only part of this season that hasn't been complete shit
Ahem....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2J97TBQyGbw
Narratively showing the act of him acquiring all those things on screen either throughout the season or after the break up is a no brainer to show the transition to the audience and yes fan service in conjunction with that is a good reason.
I'm just sad Kimmy left us without one last feet scene.
Don't worry, she dies of Ligma
She's gonna come back and represent Gene. During the trial she takes her shoes off, rests her feet on the table and offers to let the judge massage them in exchange for letting Jimmy off scot-free
haha
The episode was fine, only capeshitters were upset that we didn't literally see him suit up and say
>Finally... I have become... Saul Goodman
The Gus scene was a good ending for his character showing that he can't establish connections with people. Mike's final scene was a good way to show how delusional he is in thinking revenge is the answer, him being no different than the gangsters he was involved with. Also circles back around to the stuff with Matty
Vincedrones are freaking hilarious lol. He could shit on their face and they'd find a way to turn it on us anti face shitters
>season 5
>early
Eat shit homosexual
same shit happened with BB. Vince wants to do the pretentious slow burn shit but then realizes he has few episodes left to wrap things up
I expected to see post-breakup Jimmy actually going back to work in his Saul persona and showing some emotional cracks while representing some clients in court, as he gradually hardens his persona and fully commits to Saul since he has nothing else left in his life. Just one episode dedicated to that would have been kino. Not sure why that is too much to ask for. Maybe cut back a little on a few of the "character doing mundane shit" scenes to make room in the script.
you actually put it in a good way although that does sound good there is an aspect of not showing that enhances the dynamic change in that skip. It's often used in fiction like Macbeth not shown killing King Duncan but that he comes back after he's "done the deed" it's a lot more powerful than showing it actually occur but we already know that Saul would struggle without kim there's no reason to show us something we already know but it's not a bad thing to want to see but I'm sure we didn't need to use up an episode slot for it
I think Saul wasn't acting like Saul during season 5 because of Kim and Lalo
then Lalo fricked his life, Kim left him so he had no reason to hold back
What confuses me here is the new aesthetic.
Why did Saul remodel his nice office to a sleazy one?
He was apready infamous among criminals for taking their cases?
He also moved into a mansion to show off his wealth but this is how you get caught cooking the books?
If you want a life of decadence, keep the kino offices and the plush shit and just live fast die young, why purposefully go sleazier?
drug dealers and crackheads were trashing the place everyday, saul decided to just put basic chairs. he has a mansion because of sandpiper money, its all legal and can show it to the irs with no issues
Ahh yeah forgot about sandpiper. That is true. I wonder if he was trying to maximise his sleezeball clients too. I also do not ubderstand the switch in his personal tastes. Yeah he had tacky suits but that was for the clientelle and for Clifford Maines job fiasco. He actually didnt dress like that usually and was happy in his nice little apartment. He would never usually have the greek decor and the giant gold Saul profile like a Roman coin that he had in his entrance hall under normal circumatances. I have a similar decor taste to his and Kims apartment and really like it. I would not then go full tacky Vice City mansion if i had money, even after a nasty divorce.
Did you miss the scene where clients where using the chairs as ash trays. It wasn't going to last.
I forgot that too. Much of this show is becoming forgettable. You dont need too much nice shit though. You can have a respectable air and not have it look like a palace. Take his suits for example. He only dressed in orange and shit when it was the Clifford Maine saga. He dressed well after. Now he is back to being tacky. I put it down to more of a psychological spazz out over kim leaving. He is now just a nihilist.
I like to believe that his clients started a small fire, maybe snuck in looking for saul while on a bender and trashed the place. It was at that moment Saul realized "this is why we can't have nice things!"
We don't NEED anything. But what's the point of making an entire show devoted to this premise and then just leaving it out?
I don’t really care about the timeskip, it’s pretty clear that all the pieces for Saul’s transformation were already in play. Could’ve been a montage but a four-year montage just to show us shit we already know is going to happen would have been kind of corny, though it is already a corny series so it wouldn’t have been too out of place. I’ll just be a little disappointed if that’s the last that we see of Kim. The end of the only actual big question mark of this prequel series is that she just… decides to leave? It makes sense but it’s not exactly exciting.