this shit is literally 70% bullshit filler, i mean every single fricking scene, when breaking bad did it (maybe once every episode) it was done perfectly. it was always rewarding and it always aided the scene, now it's just c**ts waddling across from a place or some other mundane shit that takes up a minute and a half. what the frick is vince doing?
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I agree completely and it's nearly lost me. I get the idea of "artistically" jumping from Kim leaving to Jimmy established as Saul but frick me these last few episodes have been like 10% plot and 90% noodling. It's like they decided to model this season after the Fly episodes. Reddit and Twitter are just eating this shit up and I'm regretting the time I invested into watching and rewatching this show expecting something that surpassed Breaking Bad.
As anti climactic as it was, BCS ended last episode. There's no more loose ends to tie and Jimmy's transition to Saul is complete. Based on the credit spoiler, in the remaining 4 episodes we're going straight to Gene Takovic and my guess we're getting Jimmy's version of El Camino except it'll be split into 4 eps. Even though this current season has been a let down so far, I'm curious where they take the show from here. Bravo Vince.
the biggest mystery is what happens to Kim. The stupid cartel shit was always the most boring part of the BCS.
Yes and no. It's safe to say that during the BB era, she's probably safe but my guess is that after all the loneliness of Gene, Jimmy will try to get back with her. It's been spoiled that this season is going to be "super tragic" and so far it's only been mildly tragic.
so what, they break up? they're fricking married and I don't see a reason for Kim leaving Jimmy. They're both equally amoral so she can't flip out or something similar.
Did you watch yesterdays ep?
yeah, about an hour ago. What's your point?
>so what, they break up? they're fricking married and I don't see a reason for Kim leaving Jimmy. They're both equally amoral so she can't flip out or something similar.
Then wtf is this? lol
fricking killyourself you brainlet pussy incapable of direct conversation.
meds bro
If you watched it then you would have easily picked up the fact that Kim can't live with how things are when they are together. She still loves him but knows she'll fall into ways that only hurt those around them and enables personality traits between them that will only serve to hurt them down the line. That's why she broke up with him. She hates the person she's become, even though she still loves Jimmy.
>If you watched it then you would have easily picked up the fact that Kim can't live with how things are when they are together. She still loves him but knows she'll fall into ways that only hurt those around them and enables personality traits between them that will only serve to hurt them down the line. That's why she broke up with him. She hates the person she's become, even though she still loves Jimmy.
and you got all this out of one hug they shared, which is literally the only interaction they had the whole episode minus at the beginning when Jimmy literally sacrificed himself to give Kim the chance to split.
She spelled it all out in the last scene they shared in the apartment, right before the time skip, anon. Did you speed watch it?
hahha you're an ep behind... sorry for the spoilers
i stopped watching it middle of episode 5
it bores the hell out of me
I honestly feel that there didn't need to be 6 seasons or as much cartel shit.
For the last time, film is not a narrative art.
elaborate on that
No
The show is good breaking bad is bad
Such insightful critique could only be expected from an esteemed denizen of Cinemaphile
>I'm smarter than everyone else on this forum dedicated to an idiotic hobby for the laziest of couch warts.
Agree but it's not film, it's television and narrative is way more important
Oh shut the frick up.
>film is not a narrative art
shit the frick up
Fortunately for me, I don’t have the attention span of a child. So I can appreciate the slower aspects of the show without whining like a little b***h.
No, you're an obligate contrarian with a room temperature IQ.
My room is 115F, so thank you
Fricking kill me, it's so fricking hot and all I can do is shitpost
I'm just ready for it to be over at this point. The only scene I've actually enjoyed watching this season was the Saul montage at the end of the last episode. Everything else has just felt perfunctory, or is obvious filler. Did we really need an entire minute of Mike dropping evidence into a burn barrel?
Rewatch the series and hard cut from the end of S4E10 to the montage from last episode. Nothing in S5 or S6 mattered anyway.
i thought last week's was pretty good. i've been eager for things to start coming to a head and it payed off a little. but this week's was a schlog. with only 5 episodes left i assumed every one would be packed with goodness. but man after about the 8th minute listening to gus gay-flirt with the waiter i was completely checked out, on my phone like a chick.
That scene was supposed to be homosex flirting? I thought Gus was just seeing an old friend from Chile.
If they cut out every mumble and long pause between words jimmy makes the show would be half as long
At least to where i have watched it
this episode was the worst
the gus scene was so fricking bad
15 mins for what? to see that gus is gay and possibly wants a BF?
speedwatchers are something else..
you bet your ass im putting that shit on 4x whenever cartel homosexualry shows up on the screen
You don't need to tell me twice, zoomie.
>gus a gay?
he can't not be one, he's intentionally a type of obama
watch i pet goat 2
>inb4 meds
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Wasn’t it the point that he can get personal relationships with others but willingly chooses to abstain for the sake of hate and revenge?
Yes, it was to show he's capable of being vulnerable and letting his guard down, while he catches himself in the act and decides to return to the stoic, pragmatic mindset in order to not lose focus or develop attachments that would only serve to distract his greater goal. I overall enjoyed the scene due to it giving us a glimpse of who Gus is when not hyper focused and caught up in his job 24/7.
Check it out, a >100 IQ response to the Gus scene.
Good narratives are all about choices. Chuck dies because Jimmy chooses petty revenge over forgiveness. Howard dies because he chooses to compromise his ‘namaste’ values and sink to Jimmy’s mindset (‘I will dedicate the rest of my life to destroying you’) and therefore was around when Jimmy’s punishment returned. Kim chooses to take responsibility for her actions, and leaves the bar. Jimmy chooses *not* to take accountability, and without anyone left to reel him in, becomes full-Saul.
Choices create narrative tension through values dissonance. A character’s wants, needs, desires, goals, and morals come into conflict, and a character has to select one at the expense of the other. We see that Gus has the capacity for softness and vulnerability. We see that he wants intimacy—not necessarily romantic or sexual intimacy, but just SOME type of closeness and genuine connection with another human being—but he willfully turns away from it. With all his money and power, he could abandon the cartel and the superlab; he could have a real life, be a real person, with friends and lovers and connection and some degree of happiness. But he chooses not to. Whether out of fear, dedication, or even simple habit, he chooses his work; he chooses loneliness, hate, determination, and revenge. Much like Saul.
BCS is so much better than BrBa. I can't imagine being a plebian monkey like yourself.
Then just read the plot summaries on wikipedia.
Why even bother watching anything at all.
Remember when we got a whole half season of Mike following a GPS tracker and shooting a hole in a shoe with some sand in it? Somehow that was more important than the immediate aftermath of the breakup. Bravo Vince.
good morning i hate diversity quotas
women can neither write nor direct the kind of shit that would satisfy an autismo like myself, breaking bad is a VERY well made show, both directing and writing, saul is passable, all of the 4 anons that say otherwise ITT are the bcs general scum who do it do have something to get out of bed for
it's not filler. it's character development.
Better be Boring
the show is like watching the same stageplay everyweek
>Saul doing scams
>Kim doing lawyer shit
>Mike doing solid guy shit
Those are the only good parts of the show. Whenever it gets back to the "main plot" it goes to shit.
>, now it's just c**ts waddling across from a place or some other mundane shit that takes up a minute and a half
You just described every streaming show in existence. Search your feelings, you know it to be true. You look at your phone and realise you're wasting your life.
>Mike’s career with Gus begins with “you’re a man who understands revenge”
>Mike’s role in BCS ends with Nacho’s dad telling him “all he knows is revenge”
fricking Vince Kubrick over here, people will be doing analysis specials of this show on Amazon for decades and still finding new chapters ripped right out of filmmaking 101
Seriously, what was the point of the Gus wine scene? Non meme answers only
mainly to show gus is unquestionably a gay for diversity points but also to show that gus is forever alone, he tells the other queer hes saving the bottle for a special occasion and the guy makes an excuse to leave. gus is an incel and this drives his rage for power and revenge in bb
Unironically this. The cartel convo gives some more context to the hate between Hector and Gus and the bar scene does this subtly in the other direction. Gus is a homo. Theres a good chance Max was more than a business partner.
Gus isn’t a cold robot, he wants friendship like everyone else but can’t because of his job
To subtly reveal Gus is a homosexual to gain wokepoints without it angering Cinemaphile
It can't seriously be taking Cinemaphile this long to figure out Gus is gay, surely. His entire character arc is getting revenge on Eladio for killing his partner, have you not seen Breaking Bad?
if you cry this much over spilled beaner, you're surely a homosexual
called it from day on
one*
One last look at Gus underneath. Basically so consumed by revenge that he can’t get get any relationships.
Checkhov's bottle of 1978 Cote Rotie.
subtly vetting the waiter as a potential recruit for his restaurant. sadly, he was not up to pollos standards.
gus can't have a relationship because he knows anyone who is involved with him is probably going to get hurt, so like the wine, he just savours what a little bit at a time.
See
For a narrative-centric analysis.
I hope Michael Mando gets a huge career boost from his time as Nacho. It showed he can do Vaas level crazy and far subtler characters both.
Nacho acts really homosexual and didn't do much with the character.
Lalo on the other hand was the best thing in the entire series. He even outshined Saul. So we got a spinoff because saul's character is so much fun, then over a couple seasons made Saul/Jimmy no fun. The whole series is pointless now.
>The whole series is pointless now
it always was
Agree current season is meh, Last season was up there with the best of BB
it's tragic to see how much bob has deteriorated
lalo sewer scenes were best filler
I miss him so much bros
"WHY DON'T THINGS JUST HAPPEN!!! MY BRAIN CAN'T PAY ATTENTION AND APPRECIATE A SHOW IF IT DOESN'T HAVE THE FORMATTING OF A WB ORIGINAL OR CAPESHIT!!!"
Dumb fricking ADHD zoomers are ruining TV. Go watch some CGI space explosions or something.
kys shit eating homosexual
Vince really conned AMC into funding 6 seasons of nothing happening. What a guy
Saul never needed an origin story. If you're gonna make a show, just make 90s lawyer kino with Saul dealing with a different case every week.
You incels are so butthurt that we don't like our time being wasted on 35 minutes of panning shots per episode.
YEAH BRO LOOK GUS IN THE FRICKING TUNNEL, I SURE ASS HELL HAVEN'T SEEN THIS EXACT SAME SHIT 15 TIMES BEFORE
it's artistic anon, if you don't like it watch more capeshit