Better Call Saul ***Spoilers***

It was a hell of an ending Like most it seems I thought at the first shot of the candle it would be Lalo at the door. Once he did arrive it was obvious ooor old Howard was @ goner.

One plot point that did jar with me just a little. Howard explained how Jimmy set up the fake PI by calling HM to update their records with the fake number. But how did he know Howard would hire a PI ?

The thing about Gus is the ageing I think - I get too distracted with how much older the younger Gus looks :D

A theory as to how it goes down, why on earth does Gus have to hide a gun when he is on his own turf. You were saying it was obvious what was going to happen, I thought it obvious he was going to turn off lights, count steps etc, but have not a notion as to why. I already said it before.

"Like why does Gus not just carry a gun? it already showed he has them hidden on his body. If drawing Lalo in why not have a sharp shooting henchman/men lying in wait, along with his own gun(s), why risk his own life? Is he expecting to set up a meeting and both parties and be patted/frisked down by some intermediary (could even be Jimmy!). If he does he has to be sure to end up in the correct position."

Assume its going to be set up where he welcomes him in, shows him there's no gun, no henchmen lying in wait so he's safe. Then a flick of the switch and out comes the gun.

Assuming the theory is correct that is.

"Better Call Saul - Mike De-Aged"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeH5_-4xkfE

Fan theory that ‘Jeff’ the taxi driver and the Albuquerque car airfresher are linked to Kim.

Anyone else think Howard was just pretending to be dead ?

There were production delays. To get the season out on time, they needed to put a break in. It was AMCs suggestion. Covered in the BCS Insider podcast.

I've been rewatching Breaking Bad and the scene in the final season where Mike has to abandon Kaylee in the playground because the DEA is coming for him hits a lot harder now after BCS given all the extra time we've seen them together.

It also puts into context Mike's anger at Walter for ruining the good thing they had with Gus's operation given the huge amount of work that Mike put into building the lab and (presumably) defeating Lalo.

I don't agree with any of that ^^^

Just finished that one myself in my rewatch, felt exactly the same. Obviously the different actor for his granddaughter slightly takes away from it but when you look at the two shows together as one story, Mike certainly has the widest and most sentimental arc of them all.

Another thing I've noticed in the rewatch which may have been obvious to most already, Gus isn't half as much a villain as Walt was. As well as that, I actually enjoyed him taunting Hector having seen their story play out between this and BCS. Gus is something of an antivillian now in my eyes, written as a psychopathic antagonist but I couldn't help but side with him on a lot of things this time around (obviously not having the child shot though).

The main reason I wanted to rewatch was to piece together what might happen with Lalo and Kim in the final episodes. The only theory I have for Kim is:

That's my brain dump anyway. It'll be nice to have it in writing in case there's any truth to it, but knowing Vince Gilligan, absolutely nobody has correctly predicted the events of the final episodes yet.

I just caught up with the show (S6Ep7) and was really disappointed with the first half of this season. Super slow and more about cinematography than story. The massive ratings for the final episode on IMDB suggests that most casual observers have given up in the show. Killing off Howard in the way he was does not make it an amazing episode, it seemed badly planned as even though it is a very slow , character driven show they seemed to cram in the redemption of Howard into the last couple of episodes (Wife, reflective speech, shrink). The whole Howard storyline was badly played out. Massive amounts of time given to a story line with no clear motivation, a huge reliance on good look for kim and Jimmy to succeed , rather than a clever plan and in the end an easy conclusion to the problem.

I fear that the writers are going for the recent trend of trying to get viewers to grow to hate the main characters and kill off the likable ones just to show how unconventional and clever the writers are.

I disagree with this but just to pick up on your last paragraph, getting the viewers to grow to hate the main character is one of the main arcs of Walter in Breaking Bad and arguably likewise with killing the likable ones (Mike, Hank, even Gale). If it is a current trend (I don't watch enough TV to notice it), it was probably inspired by BB to begin with.