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***Official "Space Blanket" for Better Call Saul*** (3 Viewers)

BigJim® said:
Meh, I agree most attorneys would take the 'go pound sand' approach but seems to me there was clear benefit in this instance to spinning a story in effort remove this very numbskull client from future investigation and perhaps surveillance. Pound sand would only have made the cops more suspicious they were onto something here.
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I think the idea is he gets off on spinning the stories and this was a way for him to have some fun.

 
shadyridr said:
I think the idea is he gets off on spinning the stories and this was a way for him to have some fun.
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Well, yeah, as others mentioned it would be a boring TV show if that wasn't the case. All I was opining is, in this particular instance, there was some actual added value to his approach. He had to recognize immediately that (1) his client was terrifyingly bad under pressure and (2) the police needed an answer to walk away. So, he satisfied their curiosity with a tantalizing tale, and they will now forget about this weirdo. Maybe they wouldn't have invested resources to pursue the guy anyway (to DW's point), but does anyone doubt that numbskull client would have strung himself up (likely dragging Mike with him) if the police put even one iota of added energy into it? I think that is all part of the theme of this show also; His style can be uniquely effective for representing the seedy crowd who would otherwise be their own worst enemy. Secondarily, he's also protecting Mike's interests. 

 
BigJim® said:
Well, yeah, as others mentioned it would be a boring TV show if that wasn't the case. All I was opining is, in this particular instance, there was some actual added value to his approach. He had to recognize immediately that (1) his client was terrifyingly bad under pressure and (2) the police needed an answer to walk away. So, he satisfied their curiosity with a tantalizing tale, and they will now forget about this weirdo. Maybe they wouldn't have invested resources to pursue the guy anyway (to DW's point), but does anyone doubt that numbskull client would have strung himself up (likely dragging Mike with him) if the police put even one iota of added energy into it? I think that is all part of the theme of this show also; His style can be uniquely effective for representing the seedy crowd who would otherwise be their own worst enemy. Secondarily, he's also protecting Mike's interests. 
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why do you keep re-posting this?

I keep coming back into the thread when there's a new post, and this is third different time it was this post.

 
Well, yeah, as others mentioned it would be a boring TV show if that wasn't the case. All I was opining is, in this particular instance, there was some actual added value to his approach. He had to recognize immediately that (1) his client was terrifyingly bad under pressure and (2) the police needed an answer to walk away. So, he satisfied their curiosity with a tantalizing tale, and they will now forget about this weirdo. Maybe they wouldn't have invested resources to pursue the guy anyway (to DW's point), but does anyone doubt that numbskull client would have strung himself up (likely dragging Mike with him) if the police put even one iota of added energy into it? I think that is all part of the theme of this show also; His style can be uniquely effective for representing the seedy crowd who would otherwise be their own worst enemy. Secondarily, he's also protecting Mike's interests. 

 
Capella said:
Well, yeah, as others mentioned it would be a boring TV show if that wasn't the case. All I was opining is, in this particular instance, there was some actual added value to his approach. He had to recognize immediately that (1) his client was terrifyingly bad under pressure and (2) the police needed an answer to walk away. So, he satisfied their curiosity with a tantalizing tale, and they will now forget about this weirdo. Maybe they wouldn't have invested resources to pursue the guy anyway (to DW's point), but does anyone doubt that numbskull client would have strung himself up (likely dragging Mike with him) if the police put even one iota of added energy into it? I think that is all part of the theme of this show also; His style can be uniquely effective for representing the seedy crowd who would otherwise be their own worst enemy. Secondarily, he's also protecting Mike's interests. 
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have a nice season guy

 
comfortably numb said:
Let me guess, you kept your valuable cards is penny sleeves?
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are you people actually arguing over what a fictional character is doing with fictional baseball cards?

Arent people just assuming that that goofball n the show ,you know ,the guy who bought a HUGE yellow nightmare and matching sneakers , would even know how to keep his cards ? Maybe hes just dumb ...maybe he thinks the way they are put away now is just fine ...who knows and who cares  :lmao:

 
BustedKnuckles said:
are you people actually arguing over what a fictional character is doing with fictional baseball cards?

Arent people just assuming that that goofball n the show ,you know ,the guy who bought a HUGE yellow nightmare and matching sneakers , would even know how to keep his cards ? Maybe hes just dumb ...maybe he thinks the way they are put away now is just fine ...who knows and who cares  :lmao:
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well, some of them were his dad's, so maybe his dad was a brilliant collector who knew how to store the cards. they didn't say if the dad was dead or not so this could just be sentimental value thing or what not.

(#not a serious post for u folks who care about the cards.#)

 
So Nerdboy gets his cards back but has to give up the Humvee in the exchange?  Not such a good deal for him.

He should call the cops and report the car stolen so he can get his money back through insurance.

 
Capella said:
Has Saul really committed any crimes?
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Yes, the girlfriend explains this very clearly from getting disbarred perspective, from a criminal perspective at the very least he was guilty of obstructing investigation.

Separately, was the $10K for nerdboy or for Mike?

 
Pigskin Fanatic said:
Yes, the girlfriend explains this very clearly from getting disbarred perspective, from a criminal perspective at the very least he was guilty of obstructing investigation.

Separately, was the $10K for nerdboy or for Mike?
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Seemed to me that Nacho got the Hummer and the drugs, Mike got the $10k and Nerd Supreme got his cards back.  Dork got the worst of that exchange by a longshot.

 
BustedKnuckles said:
are you people actually arguing over what a fictional character is doing with fictional baseball cards?

Arent people just assuming that that goofball n the show ,you know ,the guy who bought a HUGE yellow nightmare and matching sneakers , would even know how to keep his cards ? Maybe hes just dumb ...maybe he thinks the way they are put away now is just fine ...who knows and who cares  :lmao:
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Fictional?  Hold on here a second.  You implying that this isn't real?

 
Evilgrin 72 said:
So Nerdboy gets his cards back but has to give up the Humvee in the exchange?  Not such a good deal for him.

He should call the cops and report the car stolen so he can get his money back through insurance.
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It was a great, it deal kept him out of jail...or the morgue.

 
Evilgrin 72 said:
I don't see him agreeing with that.  I think he's reporting the car stolen.
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Wonder how he'd explain that if the two detectives found out about him reporting it stolen.  They may be dumb, but they're not stupid.  Jimmy's story kind of goes out the window then.

 
Evilgrin 72 said:
I don't see him agreeing with that.  I think he's reporting the car stolen.
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I agree we have not seen the end of this.  Either he reports it stolen, as you say, it is found in an independent raid of a chop shop, or it gets stopped on the way to a chop shop.  At any rate I expect to see the cops with renewed cause to inquire of Wally Cox Jr., for him to do poorly, and for that development to spur the narrative for the rest of the season.

 
Ditkaless Wonders said:
I agree we have not seen the end of this.  Either he reports it stolen, as you say, it is found in an independent raid of a chop shop, or it gets stopped on the way to a chop shop.  At any rate I expect to see the cops with renewed cause to inquire of Wally Cox Jr., for him to do poorly, and for that development to spur the narrative for the rest of the season.
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going back to breaking bad this seems like a very likely scenario. the whole show (bb) was murphy's law on steroids, when things start to unravel they go all ape#### bad until somebody ends up with some out of this world luck that gets them out of it, or someone dies. since this is technically a prequel to it, this hasn't gotten bad enough yet and no one died. Mike mentioned Tuco and iirc he had a prior relationship with Tuco in bb so maybe this is the beginning of that storyline if there will be real tie-ins back to bb. Or Mike already has a relationship to Tuco and we just haven't seen it yet. Crap, this just unraveled my own theory if true.

 
2nd season going much like the first and that's OK with me.

Had a thought about the series, call me nuts... The final season (whenever we get to that) should be during Breaking Bad.  Bring back Cranston, Paul, and other BB characters and show some of the exact same events but from Saul's perspective.  Make it a mix of the events from BB and whatever storylines are going with BCS.  Tie the 2 series together completely.  BCS ends with him at Cinnabon.  Would be something I think has never done before.  Definitely a challenge to do well but Gilligan could do it.

 
17seconds said:
2nd season going much like the first and that's OK with me.

Had a thought about the series, call me nuts... The final season (whenever we get to that) should be during Breaking Bad.  Bring back Cranston, Paul, and other BB characters and show some of the exact same events but from Saul's perspective.  Make it a mix of the events from BB and whatever storylines are going with BCS.  Tie the 2 series together completely.  BCS ends with him at Cinnabon.  Would be something I think has never done before.  Definitely a challenge to do well but Gilligan could do it.
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it took me exactly 17 seconds to read this 

 
Popinski said:
In that last scene when Jimmy and Kim were eating pie, Kim had on a University of American Samoa sweatshirt :lmao:
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yea, caught that.

I hate to go overboard with this show but I can't believe how impressed I am with the final product they give us from all aspects of production. I had so much doubt this show would even be watchable but I have been proven sooooo wrong. The writing, direction and acting is outstanding.
Ever scene in itself is entertaining.

You know how when at the Oscars when they announce each nominee and they show a clip of the movie the actor is being nominated for and then everyone claps?
I feel like every freaking scene is it's own little representation on how good the show is as a whole.  Each scene is a must watch.

Some serious kudos to the team making this show happen. 
 

 
In the original version of Gennifer Hutchison's script, as Saul co-creator Peter Gould recalls, "There weren't as many names. In fact, I don't know that we named it at all. I think (Jimmy) just said, 'He sits in pies.'"

Saul isn't a show that allows for much improvisation, but on the first day of shooting the second season premiere, Odenkirk pulled Gould and Vince Gilligan aside and, as Gould recalls, praised the episode 2 script, and then, "He pitched the idea: 'Sex acts all have a name. Shouldn't there be a name for this thing?'"

From there, the Saul writers went to town dreaming up alternate names for the Cobbler — "Full Moon Pie," "Boston Cream Splatt," "Simple Simon the ### Man," etc. — which Odenkirk had a field day delivering.

"On this show, he mostly is a performer," Gould said of his leading man, "but every once in a while, you see that he really is one of the great comic minds of our time. That was an example of Bob giving us a direction that we ran with, and then he ran with it in performance. And I just love it. I have to say, that was an interesting evolution of that scene. I'm really proud of it."
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http://www.hitfix.com/whats-alan-watching/how-bob-odenkirk-helped-inspire-the-funniest-better-call-saul-scene-yet

 
sort of a spoiler so

Spoiler
He also declined to allow Jimmy to be hired because Chuck didn’t want to lose him. He’d become Chuck’s closest friend, and his caretaker, and he needed that relationship. Of course, he lost it anyway. The reason Chuck decided to go back to work, essentially, was to check in on his brother, because he does care about Jimmy



A couple of "easter eggs" in here. http://uproxx.com/tv/hoboken-squat-cobbler-video-better-call-saul/4/

 
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Swing 51 said:
Saul isn't a show that allows for much improvisation, but on the first day of shooting the second season premiere, Odenkirk pulled Gould and Vince Gilligan aside and, as Gould recalls, praised the episode 2 script, and then, "He pitched the idea: 'Sex acts all have a name. Shouldn't there be a name for this thing?'"

http://www.hitfix.com/whats-alan-watching/how-bob-odenkirk-helped-inspire-the-funniest-better-call-saul-scene-yet
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I figured a lot of that scene was improv.  Wonder what some of those outtakes are like.

As an aside, I've been watching w/Bob & David on Netflix.   :lmao:

 
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