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Better Call Saul ***Spoilers***

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,358 ✭✭✭seraphimvc


    Imagine we would be mind blown over a series that is literally about cinnabon bun making by Gene - I am sure i would be praising the cinematography and minute details 😂



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,358 ✭✭✭seraphimvc


    Ah yes on the BCS intro - these washed out clips/footage related to Jimmy - i heard a fan theory not long ago and it kinda makes sense.

    These seasons of intros come from the video tapes that Gene have been watching over and over and over again.....

    And we know what happens to VHS tape (damn i feel old) when it broke down after too many watches



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,127 ✭✭✭De Bhál


    that can twisting thing, I never heard of that before, I assume everyone will be trying it with their next carbonated can of whatever.

    My favourite thing about the episode was the camera shot of Lalo in the drain with binoculars looking at the laundry.

    I was hoping we'd see a shot of Walt or Jesse heading into the laundry from the pov of his binoculars.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 36,478 ✭✭✭✭Penn


    There's no chance he would have seen Walt or Jesse. This is all happening a few years before the events of Breaking Bad. Tuco is still in prison before being released prior to season 1 of Breaking Bad, and Saul's office has a different decor than in Breaking Bad.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,404 ✭✭✭Royale with Cheese


    Was Gale cooking in the underground meth lab before Walt and Jesse? It's been so long now, can't remember exactly how that timeline went.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 36,478 ✭✭✭✭Penn


    Not fully. He set up the lab and did a few cooks but couldn't get the purity high enough to match Walt's. That's what led Gus to hire Walt directly to run the lab. So I'd say between the end of BCS and the start of BB, Gus spends most of the time getting the lab constructed and fully fitted out.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,741 ✭✭✭✭gormdubhgorm


    I just realised the BCS writers engaged in some black comedy in the end scene s6e8.

    Howard going on about always ‘landing on his feet’. Unknown to them all his fate was to soon land on his back.

    Guff about stuff, and stuff about guff.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 36,478 ✭✭✭✭Penn


    The thwack when his head hit off the table on the way down was sickening....



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 270 ✭✭Captain Barnacles




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,741 ✭✭✭✭gormdubhgorm


    Was I imagining a look of realisation on Howard why Chuck started doing the can twisting? Being prepared for anything etc.

    Basically Kim and Jimmy destroyed HHM first Chuck - Jimmy triggered his suicide hearing/insurance.

    Mostly Kim’s lead planning indirectly led to Howard’s murder. Kim has been getting away with it all her life. Getting what she wants. It is about time she gets caught. I wouldn’t be sorry if she did not survive. As Mike would say she made her choices she is ‘in the game’.

    HHM a once proud firm now is not only finished but has a tarnished legacy all thanks to Jimmy and Kim. One partner mentally unstable suicidal (which Jimmy let Howard take the blame for). The other partner Howard now rumoured to be a cocaine addict in his death. Both reputations destroyed in life and death.

    I am definitely not shouting for Kim/Jimmy. Unfortunately we know one survives.

    Guff about stuff, and stuff about guff.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 270 ✭✭Captain Barnacles


     just the incongruousness of seeing Lalo and Howard in the same room added to the horror of it.

    Yes!!

    And Tony Dalton ! what an actor, he nails the part.

    I thought Gus did the job as a cold calculating sociopath well .... but Lalo is another level...



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,358 ✭✭✭seraphimvc


    What Howard said to Jimmy/Kim was exactly right about what they are, they are really just doing it for the fun (Kim even gave up the lunch of next level opportunity for her career) - which 'answers' the same question that the audience (me anyway lol) has been wondering what did Howard really fault them aha.

    And then the only sex scene happened in the series was right after that - i knew it that they must have done it purposely because we almost never even see Kim/Jimmy kissing on lips (basic intimacy) - it shows how twisted they are (but to me they are just funny and cute in a way? aha), they get off from doing (very elaborated) 'pranks' like that.

    And they thought Howard would be alright after that anyway - but then BAM. Ya the ultimate prankster duo thought all was 'for the fun' until someone actually died (indirectly) caused by them. And now we will see where this fire they have been playing will lead them to - arrghh cant wait for July now.

    The whole thing is tragic and sad but also funny and goofy at the same time - is actually the same theme from season1 til now so ya i really admire the team can come up stories that develop the characters so well with depth, magical tv really.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,016 ✭✭✭EltonJohn69


    Apparently a Howard prequel series is being announced Friday !!!!!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,741 ✭✭✭✭gormdubhgorm


    I know nothing much about acting but surely it very difficult to do what Dalton does with the Lalo character?

    Casually switching between menacing then happy. And looking natural while doing so.

    Maybe amateur thespians can tell me how difficult it is?

    Guff about stuff, and stuff about guff.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,016 ✭✭✭EltonJohn69


    He is playing the a psychopath... not the first to do it, but definitely very good at it. His performance is not one dimensional and very charismatic.... kind of like Silence of the lambs or American pyscho



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,866 ✭✭✭Penfailed


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,866 ✭✭✭Penfailed


    Let's see how the hand gun in the tracks of the mini-digger in the lab features now...!

    Post edited by Penfailed on

    Gigs '24 - Ben Ottewell and Ian Ball (Gomez), The Jesus & Mary Chain, The Smashing Pumpkins/Weezer, Pearl Jam, Green Day, Stendhal Festival, Forest Fest, Electric Picnic, Pixies, Ride, Therapy?, Public Service Broadcasting, IDLES, And So I Watch You From Afar

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 36,478 ✭✭✭✭Penn


    I'll say the same thing I probably said when Better Call Saul was announced:

    I like the character and actor, but that seems completely pointless, probably boring, and I really don't think it'll work. Can't see it lasting more than 2 seasons. I'll give it a try anyway though.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,741 ✭✭✭✭gormdubhgorm


    Like another poster said it is likely Lalo gets buried in that lab.

    Unless they do something left field I find it hard to predict what else could happen him. Because the Salamanca name is supposed to die with Hector according to BB.

    Guff about stuff, and stuff about guff.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,291 ✭✭✭Spon Farmer


    I thought that is obvious?

    Gus got tired of waiting and has made a plan plan to expose the lab to draw Lalo in. He counted the steps to the digger so he can get to a gun in the dark.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,291 ✭✭✭Spon Farmer


    EltinJohn69 is obviously making a joke


    EDIT: maybe you are too :p



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,291 ✭✭✭Spon Farmer


    I’m guessing from reactions here that Howard’s murder wasn’t a rumour.

    Isn’t it rare these days to keep a secret like about movies and TV?

    I think I have had every major death in The Walking Dead ruined months in advance even when googling unrelated stuff. Been quiet though since Andrew Lincoln left so I am guessing that only means the show is talked about less.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,741 ✭✭✭✭gormdubhgorm


    It is more people putting two and two together. The writers give the viewers hints to speculate on. For example long ago when Kim was concocting the Howard plan. She said ‘something unforgivable’. The last episode 7 of s6 was called ‘plan and execution’.

    Now these lead to speculation and theories some will be correct - some incorrect. Some half right.

    But the writers in BCS /BB always leave clues/hints for the viewers to try and join the dots.

    Guff about stuff, and stuff about guff.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 53,028 ✭✭✭✭ButtersSuki


    Only getting to comment now. Great episode.

    Anyone else think the way Howard hit his head on the way down and the audible bang it made was a throwback to Chuck when he hit his head in the photocopying shop?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,741 ✭✭✭✭gormdubhgorm


    Spoilers for anyone who does not want to know this foreshadowing hint. It has to do with film Kim and Jimmy were watching s6 e7.

    It was called Born Yesterday 1950.


    Plot -

    ‘The film tells the story of an uneducated young woman, Billie Dawn (played by Judy Holliday, in an Oscar-winning performance) and an uncouth, older, wealthy junkyard tycoon, Harry Brock (Broderick Crawford) who comes to Washington to try to "buy" a congressman. When Billie embarrasses him socially, Brock hires journalist Paul Verrall (William Holden) to educate her. In the process, Billie learns how corrupt Harry is, and eventually falls in love with Paul.’

    This could mean Kim leaves Jimmy for someone else?

    Guff about stuff, and stuff about guff.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,291 ✭✭✭Spon Farmer


    Sorry what I meant was that the reactions of surprise on the thread seem to indictment that this event had leaked or been rumour online



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,305 ✭✭✭✭Snake Plisken


    Decent breakdown on this week's episode including "that photo" that turned out to be a major spoiler on Howard's demise I'm sure someone got their hand slapped plus we now know the fate of 2 of the 4 new characters left in the show with with Howard and Nacho dead just Kim and Lalo's faiths need to be decided


    Post edited by Snake Plisken on


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,386 ✭✭✭✭rubadub


    There are good sites talking about the characters, what season & episode stuff happened if you want to rewatch things

    https://breakingbad.fandom.com/wiki/Lalo_Salamanca



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,291 ✭✭✭Spon Farmer


    I think you posted to the wrong person.

    It was the guy I was responding to that is a bit mixed up.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,752 ✭✭✭tony1kenobi


    I hadn’t picked up on the religious aspect of the show.



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