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***Official "Space Blanket" for Better Call Saul*** (1 Viewer)

bigmarc27 said:
I'm good with this, I just don't want to string out 3 more seasons of prequel story. We know where we're at, we know where we're going, let's get there. 
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I'd be fine with a season or two of Saul the Lawyer (pre-BB).  Could be some highly entertaining stories.

 
Walking Boot said:
Yeah, seeing him in BCS, I kind of get worried that he won't be able to finish out the story. He doesn't look too good sometimes. 
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Not to be morbid, but I do wonder what they would do if Banks suddenly passed away.  They can't exactly write Mike out of the storyline since he is too integral to the Gus angle pre-BB.  They'd have to recast the role, which would be odd, but I have faith that they could get someone good who would do the role proud. 

 
AAABatteries said:
I'd be fine with a season or two of Saul the Lawyer (pre-BB).  Could be some highly entertaining stories.
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I could live with just two more, as long as they follow that with a series on The Chesty Misadventures of Betsy Kettlecans or Huell as a Marvel superhero or even the guy who runs the community service trash detail selling cigarette butts out of the back of the bus. Stuck here in VT up to my neck in frikkin greenery, feedin & diaperin my ol peeps, i miss my Burque, da stinkin desert and the wide open spaces and continue to marvel over how cinematic my ol town continues to be.

 
comfortably numb said:
Refresh my memory 

Would would care if Saul came out of hiding?

Feds?

Cartel?

Jacks left over crew?
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The only people I think would care would be the feds, who have Jesse's video confession, Saul is guilty of money laundering, and the feds probably have enough to convict him of such if he is found.

But I don't think it's the Feds that caused Saul to run. He's a con man, and like any con man he's in his comfort zone when he's the one pulling the levers. When the #### hit the fan he finds himself in a situation that he doesn't see how he can control. He doesn't know who wants him dead, but someone probably does, and he's not going to sit idle to learn who it is. That's why he is suspicious of everyone in his new life. 

 
feds don't have jesse's video. hank and steve were going rogue with that. jack's guys took the video & watched it at the KKK-meth lab compound. beat up jesse for clearly naming "todd alquist" in the video. no i haven't watched BB a few times.

 
Politician Spock said:
I think he'd make great contemporary version of Archie Bunker in a reboot of All in the Family. Without the bigotry this time of course. 
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Then why bother?

 
ShaqAttaq said:
feds don't have jesse's video. hank and steve were going rogue with that. jack's guys took the video & watched it at the KKK-meth lab compound. beat up jesse for clearly naming "todd alquist" in the video. no i haven't watched BB a few times.
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Again, Saul doesn't know that. What Saul knows is what Walt told him, which is what Walt heard and saw from Hank, Jesse and Steve. Even if Hank or Steve told Walt they were going rogue with it, why would Walt believe that, and why would Saul believe that. In Saul's mind, he's going to jail for money laundering. If he's lucky, then Hank and Steve went rogue with it. Odds are too great in his mind that the feds want him now. But again, he's more scared of hit on him, then he is of the feds finding him. 

 
AAABatteries said:
True initially but he would have later heard about it I'd think - although I guess he'd never know if there were others.
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If he heard about, that would just increase his anxiety. Jack's connections are the ones that killed all of Mike's guys in jail. Jack is well connected, and if Saul learns he was killed by Walt, now there's a chance of revenge hits being put on those associated with Walt. Even in jail he's not safe from them. 

 
Politician Spock said:
Bigotry was only one of the contemporary cultural issues the show dealt with. Bigotry is just the issue most commonly cited about the show. 
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True, we're currently re-watching the series and there's much more to the show but there's a reason a remake hasn't been done yet. Archie's bigotry is a key element to his character and his growth throughout the show. Not being able to portray that in this PC world negates a big part of that growth and occasional realizations that Archie goes through. You could take it out and still have a show but it will always be missing that element. Might as well just give it a different name.

 
irishidiot said:
epic back fall by Jimmy.  didn't see it coming.  so awesome!
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Didn't see it coming when he knocked the drum stick to the ground or told his cameraman to keep it rolling? That was a really solid fall though. Had to be a stunt double.

 
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jamny said:
True, we're currently re-watching the series and there's much more to the show but there's a reason a remake hasn't been done yet. Archie's bigotry is a key element to his character and his growth throughout the show. Not being able to portray that in this PC world negates a big part of that growth and occasional realizations that Archie goes through. You could take it out and still have a show but it will always be missing that element. Might as well just give it a different name.
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Okay, then keep the bigotry in. Instead of his flaw being a criminal (in BB and BCS), his flaw is he's bigot in a reboot of All in the Family.  

 
Politician Spock said:
I think he'd make great contemporary version of Archie Bunker in a reboot of All in the Family. Without the bigotry this time of course. 
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Wow, you're going to hate my reboot of the Cosby show where Dr. Huxtable is secretly a serial rapist.  Maybe Banks can play the detective putting together the case against him

 
bigmarc27 said:
I really don't think he could carry an entire show by himself.  90% of his scenes don't even have dialogue, it's just him in the desert digging, him in the junkyard taking apart a car, him in his car watching, etc...  He's awesome in the context of this show, but I don't think he's the type to be the headliner. 
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I'd watch it.

 
I know it's the evolution of the character, and perhaps the writers meant for viewers to feel this way, but Jimmy as a desperate ##### was hard to root for. It's one thing when he's screwing over Chuck or some music-store owners who renege on a commercial deal or pulling a con on a guy in a bar, but I ended up feeling really bad for granny Irene and what Jimmy did to her, and then when he threw a little fit when Kim didn't want to drink with him. When Jimmy has done this stuff in the past, there usually seems to have been some underlying good reason, however vague, but this just seemed straight-up greed.

 
Jimmy hurt granny. I did not like that.

When Jimmy is "walking" the mall he went by a store named Crazy 8.

Liked Kim rhythmically pushing on her car and grunting while doing so.

Chuck and Jimmy share the same mental illness, it just manifests differently.  

 
So the Hector/Gus scene was a little weird for me.  Did Hector fake the attack to see what the reaction would be?  Does he know that the pills were messed with?  I really didnt follow that scene very well.

 
pantherclub said:
So the Hector/Gus scene was a little weird for me.  Did Hector fake the attack to see what the reaction would be?  Does he know that the pills were messed with?  I really didnt follow that scene very well.
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I took it as just the attack wasn't bad enough to overcome the calming placebo effect of the ibuprofen pills. It looks like Nacho was hoping the first attack would take him out but since it didn't he had to talk to his Papa. He still said the upholstery business would only be under Hector's control for a short time so it seems he's still optimistic that they will work in short order. 

 
Psychopav said:
I took it as just the attack wasn't bad enough to overcome the calming placebo effect of the ibuprofen pills. It looks like Nacho was hoping the first attack would take him out but since it didn't he had to talk to his Papa. He still said the upholstery business would only be under Hector's control for a short time so it seems he's still optimistic that they will work in short order. 
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ooh, good point, I had not considered that. 

 
Yeah, they coulda found a better way to get to SlippinJimmy up/Kim down - which i'm guessing will finally stick the fork in it - than that insipid eldersoap they gave us, but it was kinda fun for an ol Burquer to see WinRock Center. NM's 1st big shopping mall (built by the Rockefeller's grandson in '60), it's been a ghost mall for years, with all the tiny shops between the two bigbox stores which are the only reason it aint been torn down still featuring the various states of abandonment of each's closing. I imagine the set dressers had a ball getting leftover merch & neon featured behind each store window the power walkers passed.

Guessing the whole Salamanca/nitro thing is a red herring, which medically it should have been. Can't see Don Hector strokin out any other way than for Don Gustavo's torturous pleasure.

Lot to wrap up next week.

 
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wikkidpissah said:
Yeah, they coulda found a better way to get to SlippinJimmy up/Kim down - which i'm guessing will finally stick the fork in it - than that insipid eldersoap they gave us, but it was kinda fun for an ol Burquer to see WinRock Center. NM's 1st big shopping mall (built by the Rockefeller's grandson in '60), it's been a ghost mall for years, with all the tiny shops between the two bigbox stores which are the only reason it aint been torn down still featuring the various states of abandonment of each's closing. I imagine the set dressers had a ball getting leftover merch & neon featured behind each store window the power walkers passed.

Guessing the whole Salamanca/nitro thing is a red herring, which medically it should have been. Can't see Don Hector strokin out any other way than for Don Gustavo's torturous pleasure.

Lot to wrap up next week.
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Do you think that he has a stroke (or whatever) next episode or will they tease that into next season?

 
pantherclub said:
Do you think that he has a stroke (or whatever) next episode or will they tease that into next season?
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Who knows?! They sure havent hurried to resolve anything yet. They seem to be developing new arcs for Chuck, the SlippinJimmy/CrashinKimmy relationship seemed destined to end soon but the showrunners have a great affection for Kim's character and the actress who plays her, so maybe not. It looked like the Nacho's dad story is just beginning to arc, so even the Don Hector thing is still in play. Suffice it to say i'll be extremely disappointed if several things arent resolved in next wk's finale but it's sure not looking like it from the setup.

 
I haven't been so entertained at a TV show's portrayal of senior citizens since the Del Boca Vista phase 3 arc from Seinfeld.  

 
You think you could keep us out of Florida? We're moving in lock, stock

and barrel. We're gonna be in the pool. We're gonna be in the clubhouse.

We're gonna be all over that shuffleboard court! And I dare you to keep me out!

 
Jimmy ####### with Irene finally crossed a line with me.  You just don't mess with old people, man.

ETA

INNOCENT old people. 

 
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St. Louis Bob said:
Jimmy ####### with Irene finally crossed a line with me.  You just don't mess with old people, man.
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This is one thing I've always appreciated about BB and BCS - there's very few cut and dried good/bad guys.  Walt, Jesse, Gus, Mike and Saul are all pretty bad people by most people's standard but at different times I've felt sympathy or empathy for all of them.

 
wikkidpissah said:
Who knows?! They sure havent hurried to resolve anything yet. They seem to be developing new arcs for Chuck, the SlippinJimmy/CrashinKimmy relationship seemed destined to end soon but the showrunners have a great affection for Kim's character and the actress who plays her, so maybe not. It looked like the Nacho's dad story is just beginning to arc, so even the Don Hector thing is still in play. Suffice it to say i'll be extremely disappointed if several things arent resolved in next wk's finale but it's sure not looking like it from the setup.
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It's the first time in the series that an episode isn't going out to critics beforehand. Points to something big.

 
AAABatteries said:
This is one thing I've always appreciated about BB and BCS - there's very few cut and dried good/bad guys.  Walt, Jesse, Gus, Mike and Saul are all pretty bad people by most people's standard but at different times I've felt sympathy or empathy for all of them.
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They're not that bad.

 
Chuck is doing the same crap to Howard that he did to Jimmy. 

Howard is in a can't win situation. If Chuck stays, he destroys the company. If Chuck is forced out, he destroys the company. The only way Howard keeps his company from being destroyed is if Chuck is dead. 

 
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