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Thread: Better Call Saul
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07-19-2022, 08:17 PM #176
Seeing a lot of chatter of people claiming BCS is better than BB. I’m not sure either is “better”, BCS just seems a continuation of Vince Gilligan’s mastery of story and camera work. The scene fades are an absolute work of art, from cleaning up blood to swipes of enchilada sauce…
The storytelling gives you small clues in mundane episodes to make you realize later, “That’s what was going on!” Four episodes left, I’m excited to see where it goes, I figure Jessie and Walt will make an appearance sooner rather than later. You have to figure Gene’s relocation will be at least one episode?
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07-19-2022, 08:18 PM #177Registered User
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So, 4 more episodes - what is left to resolve? Chicken man finishes his basement?
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07-19-2022, 09:23 PM #178
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07-20-2022, 12:09 PM #179
Agreed on all points.
I wonder if Walt and Jesse will actually appear or just be alluded to. I bet Gene will get at least a full episode, maybe more; you know Vince hasn't set up all those flash-forwards for nothing, especially the last one where he got made, called the vacuum guy, then said he'd handle shit himself. I'll also bet that we haven't seen the last of Kim.
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07-20-2022, 12:16 PM #180
Yes, it's been confirmed that Walt and Jesse will be reprising their roles from BB.
I ski 135 degree chutes switch to the road.
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07-20-2022, 08:38 PM #181
Excellent.
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07-21-2022, 02:55 AM #182
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08-05-2022, 12:25 PM #183
Only two more to go....
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08-05-2022, 01:25 PM #184
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08-05-2022, 03:02 PM #185
Of course it was. Sounded normal to me.
I ski 135 degree chutes switch to the road.
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08-06-2022, 12:55 PM #186
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08-06-2022, 01:46 PM #187
Was Kim’s closure that she has some sort of employment in Florida, or will that play out more in the finale?
“How does it feel to be the greatest guitarist in the world? I don’t know, go ask Rory Gallagher”. — Jimi Hendrix
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08-06-2022, 08:50 PM #188
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08-07-2022, 07:55 AM #189
I’m predicting Jimmy / Saul ends up behind bars and Kim pays him a visit or something like that.
I ski 135 degree chutes switch to the road.
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08-07-2022, 04:54 PM #190
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08-09-2022, 08:19 PM #191
No spoilers, but damn, the first 20 minutes or so were soul crushing.
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08-10-2022, 05:44 AM #192
Yup ^^
Certainly no winners in this finale it seems....www.apriliaforum.com
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08-11-2022, 08:00 PM #193
Pretty brutal.
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08-16-2022, 02:20 PM #194
Word of the Day: Montrose
Oh Jimmy...It's all good, man“How does it feel to be the greatest guitarist in the world? I don’t know, go ask Rory Gallagher”. — Jimi Hendrix
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08-16-2022, 08:09 PM #195
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08-16-2022, 09:05 PM #196Registered User
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Not that happy with the final 3, or was it 4 shows. For a series which, for the most part, stayed plausible, this just strained credibility too much, started with Gene breaking the window at cancer boys house. Then the cops just happening to roll up behind the cab to take a break. Then the miracle plea bargain. Then the redemption story…
But, it was their story, so they could do what they want.
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08-17-2022, 08:32 PM #197
The ending was well within the bounds set by BB.
I dug it. Kim can't quit.
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08-17-2022, 08:44 PM #198
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08-20-2022, 11:42 AM #199
Jonathan Banks embraces 'not being very pretty' as 'Breaking Bad' hitman
https://www.npr.org/2022/08/19/11182...ing-bad-hitman
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03-28-2024, 01:43 PM #200
I just finished the series. So bumping this because I have some comments, though it may bring me some flak.
It took me years. Literally years. I recall watching early episodes while on a treadmill in the office gym. Which would have been pre pandemic.
Very good but very annoying show.
The pace of the show overall was maddeningly slow. It took me a couple of years just to make it through the first 3 seasons. I mean, everything was well acted and the story was well written and believable, but it just took forever for anything to happen. And even once we got to "more stuff happening", it still had some very slow portions.
The "artsy" quality that was one of the signatures of Breaking Bad, the interesting camera angles and oddball openings, were all here too. But it just felt like it was a little forced and a little too much, like I'm over the idea of mounting a camera on a shopping cart and spending 5 minutes wheeling the cart around a supermarket (I don't recall if that was actually in BCS, but that's the idea). It just felt like they kept returning to the same bag of tricks, and after all the episodes of BB and BCS, it seemed forced and not nearly as innovative as it once did in BB.
The show required you have an encyclopedic knowledge of BB and BCS; they obviously intersected in all sorts of ways which could be cool, but if you didn't remember shit from BB you were SOL because they did no explaining. Some might find it masterful how they wove everything together, but I felt like I needed a massive cheat-sheet or massive BB knowledge to get it all. Admittedly, some of this was made worse for me because I took years to get through BCS, so I sometimes struggled to remember even the storylines and details from earlier episodes of BCS.
And I don't think some of it really worked WITHOUT you having the backstory from BB, it's like the entire BCS show expected you to know BB inside and out, so that when they introduced a character or made reference to a scene from BB, you were expected to get that reference and know what happened in that scene, because it didn't work or make sense otherwise. But I didn't. And it made BCS much weaker as a stand-alone show because of that, IMO."fuck off you asshat gaper shit for brains fucktard wanker." - Jesus Christ
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