I feel like the line from the trailers "who's here to see Saul Goodman?" Was partially directed at the audience. We have all been excited to see how he finally goes over the edge and goes all into the Saul persona but when it happened, it was like a gut punch and all we want is Jimmy McGill back even though we know that doesn't happen
A part of me kinda wants the show to go down the lazy path and have jimy and Kim run randomly run into eachother in the Gene timeline. I just want someone in this series to have a happy ending :(
I think season 1 really undersold the show. it planted some interesting seeds, but it kind of meandered during the first few episodes. it really had more of an uphill battle as a show, much more than Breaking Bad ever did. no one would've batted an eye if it flopped. but man oh man, I'm so glad it didn't.
Another thing I want to add to the Gus wine bar scene on top of what you have already said is when Mike and Jimmy both said this quote, “One day you’ll wake up, and then you’ll suddenly realize that you haven’t thought about it at all, and that’s the moment you know that you can forget.” In this brief instance, we can see Gus actually forget about Max entirely (aka the whole entire reason why he went down this path to begin with. He wanted to get revenge for Max), as we see him potentially considering a “new life” with this bartender, but then he not only realizes that he can’t be with him due to being the man he is, but also the realization that he hasn’t thought about Max at all, and he cannot allow himself to do that, so he immediately leaves. He’s reminded that he needs to keep his mind focused on the bigger picture for Max and he quickly snaps out of it. It’s also worth noting that this only happened after the bartender had just described the wine with having a “meaty/bloody” taste to it, and then only to see Gus’s mood immediately shift after drinking the rest. He’s again reminded about his whole plot for revenge by that small insignificant detail about the wine, as it’s a phrase that’s very similar to “blood for blood”, which once again reminded him about the cartel since it’s a line that Hector always says, and Hector being his number one enemy. This was an enormous victory for Gus that should’ve called for a huge celebration and all he does is drink a single glass of wine all alone, and forgetting about Max and his problems for a brief moment, before suddenly being reminded of them again. It’s incredibly sad because he WAS genuinely happy too.
Kim was more of an enabler to me. The whole Howard scheme/plot was pushed HEAVILY by her, and he pushed back multiple times saying things like "are you sure about this?" and such. She really did push him into the Saul Goodman persona. She let her inner demons out full-throttle.
The timeskip scene hit me. I remember losing my first love awkwardly, abruptly, and painfully. It was the worst day of my life 9 years ago. But now, I don't even think about it, and sometimes even forget it happened. While I live my best life.
It’s interesting to hear you say that, because it seems like you had the normal, healthy response to loss that Jimmy does not. You feel the pain but eventually you find a way to move on and love again. Jimmy doesn’t move on from his losses. After Kim leaves, to avoid the pain of loving and losing again, he becomes soulless Saul, who cares about no one, and just lives for material status. I think a tiny bit of Jimmy - who loved his brother, his friend, and his wife- is still in there somewhere, though. We’ll see him again before the show is done.
@@sopyleecrypt6899 oh the beginning was absolutely terrible for me. The tears, the booze, it took me 7 years to get over her. But once I graduated from high school, I rarely had time to mope about it. Military school, college, art school, and martial arts kept me occupied. Now I work from home, make my own hours, and am trying to get the attention of another girl.
@@luliu4572 thank you for sharing your story. i broke up with my first true love a few months back and it’s really hard to imagine a life without her even tho a good bit of time has passed. i don’t know what else to do to let go and move on but to just keep living, but i have a hard time just doing even that much. i’m about to start college and am at a really huge turning point, but it’s like i can’t put my head in the right place because of the broken heart i still have over her.
@@arobb1016 alright, here's what I advice because it was what I did. 1. Delete any social media that your ex uses. Distance yourself from that person as much as possible. It helped that I went to college away from my home state. 2. Network as much as you can, make new friends. Make as many new memories as possible. Drown out the good memories you once had. 3. Find and learn a hobby. And I'm not talking about video games. I'm talking about music, drawing, dancing, singing, martial arts. Anything that remotely grabs your interests, just do it. This will help with advice 2. 4. Build your confidence back up. Hit the gym as much as possible and shape a better version of yourself. 5. When you can, try a strip club. Believe it or not, this help tremendously for me. It showed me that there are other fish in the sea. It showed me that there are people that will treat me right. It showed me that I don't need my ex to be happy. BUT DO NOT FALL IN LOVE WITH THESE GIRLS!
I love that scene with Gus so gd much. He looks so adorable. The closing shot on that scene was brilliant--just the wine bottle and wine glass alone. Brought a tear to my eye because that's the point when Gus realises that he'll never be truly happy since he's so fixated on revenge and he can't be vulnerable with anything. Freaking masterful acting on Mr. Esposito's part.
BCS has breaking bad beat in every way. It's also a show that demonstrates why Spoilers don't really matter, because it's always about the journey, not the destination.
Nah, not a valid point. If the writing takes in consideration the viewers knowing the destination, then everything is written accordingly. If surprise is an element, spoilers ruin it.
I fear Kim won't appear again. I say fear because I really loved her as a character, she was the backbone to Jimmy's spinal cord, so to speak. But the hard time jump from the break up to Saul's timeline seems to indicate that she's gone for good now. The unspectacular way she just left everything feels more cruel, more real, more bleak than any violent death could have felt. The hole she left behind her really explains the Jimmy to Saul transformation. I love how well written this is and I hate it to the core.
Yah, I've already replied this in a different comment but a part of me would even be ok if they went down the lazy path and made Gene randomly run into Kim.
The Mike & Manuel scene has got to be one of my favorites. There seems to be a double meaning at play with the use of Spanish. Mike uses the word "Justice" and then assumes Manuel doesn't understand the word, when really it's Mike who doesn't. And whether or not he comprehended Manuel's final words, they would ultimately be lost in translation.
07:12 It may also have been Gus trying to save that man from suffering. His last romantic partner died because of the cartel. He may have wanted to spare that man from a similar fate.
@@AdamMovs BCS really does feel like a spiritual successor to the overall theme of the Sopranos, just a bad man trying to change but due to his choice of lifestyle he simply cannot make moral decisions and improve his flaws and by the time both Tony and Jimmy realize it; it's far too late to change and both men decide to gall all in
It’s like with all the loses that he’s experienced already, Kim was the final blow. His brother, Howard, his friend Marco, and finally Kim…all he had left to keep going was the love of the hustle. I used to look at Saul like a charismatic person who was direct but after this episode (and the entire series), Saul was the only thing he has left to escape what it was he’s lost. It was heartbreaking realizing that all this time, we were looking at a broken individual….check on your friends. Smh. Bravo 👏🏾 Also, the convo between Manuel and Mike at the end was reinforcement for his relationship with Jesse I think. The scene in BB where Max was shooting at Gus’ people, I think this part was part of the reason Mike saved Jesse from getting killed.
Yeah… The losses of Marco, Chuck and Kim in his life slowly directed him to fully embrace his alter ego of Saul. Each loss came with a slow and gradual push, and the loss of Kim was the biggest loss and the biggest push for him to fully suppress Jimmy with his Saul persona.
I think Mike sees his own son in both Nacho and Jesse. He can’t completely fight the urge to “save” them in the same way he wishes he could have saved his son.
I don’t know if Mike’s revenge against the cops who killed his son is something to be judged in the same light as carrying out similar acts of violence he commits against others. In all fairness, most parents would inevitably feel a desire for retribution or revenge against the people who murdered their offspring. It doesn’t necessarily dictate their path in life beyond that. In Mike’s case, it’s something more within him that pushed him down that path, not just his son’s death or the revenge he exacted, in my opinion. I think that’s exactly what that scene with Nacho’s dad illuminates.
Really appriciate pointing out that thing about Mike not being a good guy. It always struck me how people are gloryfying ruthless killer because he is "professional" (same with Gus bdw). As mutch as i love how bcs added in human side of Mike I still feel he got what he was working towards in the end, following his own bad choice road.
this show has come full circle in a way that i don't think anyone quite saw coming, forget all the other great parts about it, that alone makes it a great show for me, just how thoughtful the writing is
Has anyone mentioned the fact that we now know how the Jimmy and Saul and Walter and Jesse and Gus stories go, but the Gene story (Breaking Saul?), is the only one totally new, meaning that what the tension, suspense, and danger leads to is completely unknown? We haven’t experienced this kind of thing since the last season of BB.
I disagree kim sticking with jimmy to save him she sticks eith first cause she truly loves him second she likes scamming and third she doesn't want to abandon him like she did her mother she wants to keep her close relationships
Agreed, yea. I didn't mean to make it sound so one dimensional. I think the 'saving' part is definitely an aspect though and a staple of their relationship throughout the show, but for sure not the only reason to why she stays with him.
@@AdamMovs you should re edit the video if you feel you left something out, cause otherwise it’s gonna keep attracting people pointing out your criticisms and providing a reasonable response.
@@AdamMovs I think that maybe they both subconsciously pull eachother down without necessarily realizing it (until the end) due to their nature. And because of that nature neither of them can work with eachother and actually talk about it. Kim moves away and jimmy turns to his hollow work life.
Better Vall Saul is a bleak title. From catchphrase to a beloved character - to the almost foreboding future of a man trying his best to keep hold of what he loves whilst doing what he loves. Saul Goodman isn't a path. He was a dead end.
I like the emphasis on 'breaking' in Breaking Bad. It's all about the breaking. Here in UK we tend to emphasise 'bad' when saying the title. We should really say BAKING bread.
when we began watching better call saul we all wanted jimmy to turn into saul goodman, now everyone was fearing for that moment this show is a masterpiece
It's interesting comparing Jimmy's transformation into Saul with Walt's transformation into "Heisenberg". When Walt finally finishes his transformation into Heisenberg in Season 5 (at least in my opinion that's when you first see him assume the role fully), it's terrifying. He's an absolute monster and is terrifying to watch. When Jimmy becomes Saul properly for the first time (at the beginning of Season 5) it's just sad. It's heartbreaking watching this hollow man walking around in Jimmy's skin, and so now when I watch Breaking Bad and I see Saul it just makes me sad to see who Jimmy became. It's an interesting point of comparison I feel, seeing how these characters change into their personas and how those personas take them over.
I also think there's some interesting parallels in how Heisenberg is basially Walt's ideal version of himself. It's, at least in part, who he wanted to be from pretty early on. Saul on the otherhand is a complete perversion of Jimmy who appeared and grew because of his own mistakes and reinforced by people's opinion of him. Everyone in Jimmy's life sees him as the kind of person that Saul is when he doesn't necessarily want to be like that, and everybody in Walt's life sees him as someone incapable of Heisenberg's actions (like doubting the lengths he'll go to to preserve himself and his empire), even though that's exactly who he is and wants to be.
i was also sad! more for the way it went down though - such a horrible and tragic end for Howard, Kim and Jimmy. I wish the lighter tone would have continued even though I appreciate the greatness that it did not.
dude your videos are awesome i used to watch your dbd stuff and was super surprised when i recognized your voice here. your writing is great keep it up!
He could die in the finale, or locked up and there's a larger chance he'd stay as Saul. Then, in that white room, body slowly succumbing to its failures. There's a glimpse of morality, just teasing us with Jimmy once again and for the last. His last breath just being a statement that he could've been a better person but he didn't. Bet this would be the ending, Gene's heart attack will be more than it is.
I’m surprised by how many people are surprised by how sad Saul is lol. Like it was very clear in breaking bad that this was a lonely man who only had his receptionist and money. Is that not what made it all the more tragic watching, knowing he’a gonna keep spiraling down towards Saul? It’s like a Scorsese movie, I don’t get how people think these are cool happy people lmao.
I'll say this with respect to spoilers. The show came out as phenonomon a few weeks after Breaking Bad ended. There's an anime I watch- my favorite. In it, there is a character with a mysterious past- how did he get there? What does he know? And by the time we figured out how said character got there, I was like "Oh! What happens next!?" and it was kind of hollow... because we already knew. Basically this show.
I also think Gus walking away from the wine guy had another context in that Gus was interested, but unlike Saul and Walter, he’s strong enough to walk away and is not willing to risk getting an innocent caught up. The fact that he was just sitting in the spot where Max was killed was fresh in his mind.
Ok, I'm leaving this before watching, your thumbnail got my angry react click, but the comments all seem to be current happy fans of the show, so ok, I'll stick around 😅
Yeah, I sadly fell for the clickbait as well. I, on the other hand, won't watch it. "Congrats, you tricked me into clicking, but I ain't giving you watch time", ya know?
@@AdamMovs maybe just add some padding and some music with a background… gives people time to finish thinking about what you said and then decide to click on one of your other suggested videos. Imagine a group of people watching RUclips in a group still high and drunk after a night at the club and need a delay to pick the next video …
Better Call Saul is a show that is so weird, because it doesnt have the traditional ending. The main continuity of Better Call Saul essentially ends with his breakup with Kim. Thats the ending of the show. Then we pick up YEARS later and get to see the ending of the character after an entire other show has passed. Its like being kicked in the stomach seeing it. We were so caught up, waiting for Jimmy to become Saul, that we didnt even notice it had already happened.
I thought she would dump him in season 1. Kim was always out of Jimmy's league. So thinking I was wrong, it took us all these seasons to get to what I thought would be fireworks. There was some of that, for sure, but you're right. Now it's just over. Saul Goodman had a hot gf who dumped him and that's why he's like that now. If you told me that was the conclusion years ago I may not have watched at all.
Nacho may have been too deep even in the first season but what I know is if nacho didn't do business with price or decide to want tuco killed those decisions are way lead him down the path to his end in rock and a hard place I think if he didn't panic n try n get tuco killed or even decide to do business on the side with price if he didn't make that decision nachos life night have had a different story n ending.
as heartbreaking as this episode is, I'm a LITTLE disappointed that the show didn't cover ALL of it's bases. we didn't see exactly how Jimmy ended up getting the inflatable statue of liberty from the Kettlemans and we don't know how he knows how the vacuum cleaner guy works. It could be that these things are explained in the coming episodes, but still. For now I guess we'll just have to fill in the gaps with our imagination.
Plus in the breaking bad world they aren’t big mysteries just small things that don’t need to have an explanation created for them years later after they were introduced
Those things are pretty much answered in the prior season 6 episodes. They got the inflatable statue of Liberty from the Kettlemans - that's presumably the whole story there. Saul figured out how the disappearer worked after he bought Caldera's black book and passively witnessed him disappear. He bought the new car based on what Kim said earlier in the season... idk I feel there's not much to add by showing it, we've been given all the information.
Yeah. It doesn't make or break the episode for me. It just would have been cool to see. But it's not unreasonable to assume that Saul buys the statue from the kettlemens (perhaps after they're investigated by the IRS after a . . . . Ahem . . . anonymous tip). And it's reasonable to assume he figured out how the vacuum cleaner guy works by decoding the black book
I think their tragedies are very different and hard to compare. Jesse is more tragic in how he's a victim of everyone around him, especially his mentor, but Saul is more tragic in how we know the potential and heart that Jimmy has somewhere inside of him that has been repressed and silenced, and how the once well-meaning man has been corrupted into a scummy, selfish lawyer
You start of saying that you know how it ends? No you don't? All you know is that Saul, Gus and Mike survive in their peak form. That's it, pretty much
I feel like the line from the trailers "who's here to see Saul Goodman?" Was partially directed at the audience. We have all been excited to see how he finally goes over the edge and goes all into the Saul persona but when it happened, it was like a gut punch and all we want is Jimmy McGill back even though we know that doesn't happen
A part of me kinda wants the show to go down the lazy path and have jimy and Kim run randomly run into eachother in the Gene timeline. I just want someone in this series to have a happy ending :(
@@mmiisshhaa jesse got a happy ending
@@waltzcentral6500 he didn't seem too happy with his ending.
@@mmiisshhaa I think he accepted it as his best possible ending given the scenario.
@@mmiisshhaa You got your wish! :P
*me watching Season 1* "come on turn Saul come on..."
*me watching S6Ep9* "damn..."
I think season 1 really undersold the show. it planted some interesting seeds, but it kind of meandered during the first few episodes. it really had more of an uphill battle as a show, much more than Breaking Bad ever did. no one would've batted an eye if it flopped. but man oh man, I'm so glad it didn't.
For real, I wanted to see Saul but when it finally happened I hated Saul. I wanted more of Jimmy. This show is incredible.
Another thing I want to add to the Gus wine bar scene on top of what you have already said is when Mike and Jimmy both said this quote, “One day you’ll wake up, and then you’ll suddenly realize that you haven’t thought about it at all, and that’s the moment you know that you can forget.”
In this brief instance, we can see Gus actually forget about Max entirely (aka the whole entire reason why he went down this path to begin with. He wanted to get revenge for Max), as we see him potentially considering a “new life” with this bartender, but then he not only realizes that he can’t be with him due to being the man he is, but also the realization that he hasn’t thought about Max at all, and he cannot allow himself to do that, so he immediately leaves. He’s reminded that he needs to keep his mind focused on the bigger picture for Max and he quickly snaps out of it.
It’s also worth noting that this only happened after the bartender had just described the wine with having a “meaty/bloody” taste to it, and then only to see Gus’s mood immediately shift after drinking the rest. He’s again reminded about his whole plot for revenge by that small insignificant detail about the wine, as it’s a phrase that’s very similar to “blood for blood”, which once again reminded him about the cartel since it’s a line that Hector always says, and Hector being his number one enemy.
This was an enormous victory for Gus that should’ve called for a huge celebration and all he does is drink a single glass of wine all alone, and forgetting about Max and his problems for a brief moment, before suddenly being reminded of them again. It’s incredibly sad because he WAS genuinely happy too.
Season 1-5: wow I can't wait until we Better Call Saul
Season 6: ....I no longer want to call Saul *sobbing*
Kim was more of an enabler to me. The whole Howard scheme/plot was pushed HEAVILY by her, and he pushed back multiple times saying things like "are you sure about this?" and such. She really did push him into the Saul Goodman persona. She let her inner demons out full-throttle.
yeah and he became a friend of the cartel a season before. they both pushed him into the saul goodman persona, it wasn't just kim
No they enable each other
I saw that more as Jimmy having that in him but concerned about whether or not Kim really had it in her
The timeskip scene hit me. I remember losing my first love awkwardly, abruptly, and painfully. It was the worst day of my life 9 years ago. But now, I don't even think about it, and sometimes even forget it happened. While I live my best life.
It’s interesting to hear you say that, because it seems like you had the normal, healthy response to loss that Jimmy does not. You feel the pain but eventually you find a way to move on and love again. Jimmy doesn’t move on from his losses. After Kim leaves, to avoid the pain of loving and losing again, he becomes soulless Saul, who cares about no one, and just lives for material status. I think a tiny bit of Jimmy - who loved his brother, his friend, and his wife- is still in there somewhere, though. We’ll see him again before the show is done.
@@sopyleecrypt6899 we actually saw that in BB already when Jesse was beating him up
@@sopyleecrypt6899 oh the beginning was absolutely terrible for me. The tears, the booze, it took me 7 years to get over her. But once I graduated from high school, I rarely had time to mope about it. Military school, college, art school, and martial arts kept me occupied. Now I work from home, make my own hours, and am trying to get the attention of another girl.
@@luliu4572 thank you for sharing your story. i broke up with my first true love a few months back and it’s really hard to imagine a life without her even tho a good bit of time has passed. i don’t know what else to do to let go and move on but to just keep living, but i have a hard time just doing even that much. i’m about to start college and am at a really huge turning point, but it’s like i can’t put my head in the right place because of the broken heart i still have over her.
@@arobb1016 alright, here's what I advice because it was what I did.
1. Delete any social media that your ex uses. Distance yourself from that person as much as possible. It helped that I went to college away from my home state.
2. Network as much as you can, make new friends. Make as many new memories as possible. Drown out the good memories you once had.
3. Find and learn a hobby. And I'm not talking about video games. I'm talking about music, drawing, dancing, singing, martial arts. Anything that remotely grabs your interests, just do it. This will help with advice 2.
4. Build your confidence back up. Hit the gym as much as possible and shape a better version of yourself.
5. When you can, try a strip club. Believe it or not, this help tremendously for me. It showed me that there are other fish in the sea. It showed me that there are people that will treat me right. It showed me that I don't need my ex to be happy. BUT DO NOT FALL IN LOVE WITH THESE GIRLS!
I love that scene with Gus so gd much. He looks so adorable. The closing shot on that scene was brilliant--just the wine bottle and wine glass alone. Brought a tear to my eye because that's the point when Gus realises that he'll never be truly happy since he's so fixated on revenge and he can't be vulnerable with anything. Freaking masterful acting on Mr. Esposito's part.
You mean by the guy that rejected him then tried to pull a wool over Gus's eyes by showing him a expensive bottle to buy?
BCS has breaking bad beat in every way. It's also a show that demonstrates why Spoilers don't really matter, because it's always about the journey, not the destination.
Nah, not a valid point. If the writing takes in consideration the viewers knowing the destination, then everything is written accordingly. If surprise is an element, spoilers ruin it.
Imo it's other way around. But Better Call Saul is a really great show too, it just doesn't compare to perfection that is Breaking Bad.
I really have to disagree. BCS was more consistent but Breaking Bads highs are exponentially higher than anything is BCS. Both amazing shows
I just felt empty
I fear Kim won't appear again. I say fear because I really loved her as a character, she was the backbone to Jimmy's spinal cord, so to speak. But the hard time jump from the break up to Saul's timeline seems to indicate that she's gone for good now. The unspectacular way she just left everything feels more cruel, more real, more bleak than any violent death could have felt. The hole she left behind her really explains the Jimmy to Saul transformation. I love how well written this is and I hate it to the core.
Yah, I've already replied this in a different comment but a part of me would even be ok if they went down the lazy path and made Gene randomly run into Kim.
We could really do with an "El Camino-like" epilogue about Kim. Ideally, it would reveal her upbringing & her life after leaving Jimmy.
It's already confirmed she will.
better call saul at its core is a love story between jimmy and kim, shes going to come back by the end.
She came back and it was incredible in the new episode
The Mike & Manuel scene has got to be one of my favorites. There seems to be a double meaning at play with the use of Spanish. Mike uses the word "Justice" and then assumes Manuel doesn't understand the word, when really it's Mike who doesn't. And whether or not he comprehended Manuel's final words, they would ultimately be lost in translation.
very well put
07:12 It may also have been Gus trying to save that man from suffering. His last romantic partner died because of the cartel. He may have wanted to spare that man from a similar fate.
Or he realize because of the life that he’s living he could never be with someone again
Kim leaving Jimmy is like Dr Melfi getting rid of Tony Soprano as a patient… the series after Tony is alone is just… a shell of depression
The whole last season of BCS has very similar vibes to last season of The Sopranos. So dreary and depressing all round.
Same when Jesse left walt in season 5 of BB and Walt cooked with Todd
Great Comparison. But Unlike Dr Melfi and Tony, I really want to see Jimmy and Kim back together.
@@AdamMovs BCS really does feel like a spiritual successor to the overall theme of the Sopranos, just a bad man trying to change but due to his choice of lifestyle he simply cannot make moral decisions and improve his flaws and by the time both Tony and Jimmy realize it; it's far too late to change and both men decide to gall all in
That's exactly why the first seasons of sopranos were my favorite. They were so funny, and then it just gets so depressing
It’s like with all the loses that he’s experienced already, Kim was the final blow. His brother, Howard, his friend Marco, and finally Kim…all he had left to keep going was the love of the hustle.
I used to look at Saul like a charismatic person who was direct but after this episode (and the entire series), Saul was the only thing he has left to escape what it was he’s lost. It was heartbreaking realizing that all this time, we were looking at a broken individual….check on your friends. Smh. Bravo 👏🏾
Also, the convo between Manuel and Mike at the end was reinforcement for his relationship with Jesse I think. The scene in BB where Max was shooting at Gus’ people, I think this part was part of the reason Mike saved Jesse from getting killed.
Yeah… The losses of Marco, Chuck and Kim in his life slowly directed him to fully embrace his alter ego of Saul. Each loss came with a slow and gradual push, and the loss of Kim was the biggest loss and the biggest push for him to fully suppress Jimmy with his Saul persona.
I think Mike sees his own son in both Nacho and Jesse. He can’t completely fight the urge to “save” them in the same way he wishes he could have saved his son.
The show is going to leave a huge void in my life when it comes to an end
I know. I've been waiting for this final season, so excited, but there's a bitter sweetness to it ending for sure : )
You had that void before if this show needed to fill it.
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I don’t think I’ll be able to enjoy watching Saul in Breaking Bad like I did before. Damn it!!!
Somehow.....Lalo has returned.
--early breaking bad finale draft
I don’t know if Mike’s revenge against the cops who killed his son is something to be judged in the same light as carrying out similar acts of violence he commits against others. In all fairness, most parents would inevitably feel a desire for retribution or revenge against the people who murdered their offspring. It doesn’t necessarily dictate their path in life beyond that. In Mike’s case, it’s something more within him that pushed him down that path, not just his son’s death or the revenge he exacted, in my opinion. I think that’s exactly what that scene with Nacho’s dad illuminates.
That's exactly it, as much as you can "Justify" what he did, he still felt killing two people. Most people would never be okay with that on any level.
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Yeah, but I’m not gonna judge him or any parent for doing what he did to those two cops, quite frankly. I get it.
@@diccchocolate416 imo Mike still went easy on them. There is nothing wrong with killing scumbags
Really appriciate pointing out that thing about Mike not being a good guy. It always struck me how people are gloryfying ruthless killer because he is "professional" (same with Gus bdw). As mutch as i love how bcs added in human side of Mike I still feel he got what he was working towards in the end, following his own bad choice road.
It's called being progressive in this country sir. John wick is my hero
We got attached to jimmy so when we saw him turn him into Saul it became a tragdy
After his life in Omaha.He moved to a different place,married and have kids and worked for the CIA as an auditor.Which led us to nobody.
this show has come full circle in a way that i don't think anyone quite saw coming, forget all the other great parts about it, that alone makes it a great show for me, just how thoughtful the writing is
Great videos and insights. You blew my mind with your comparison of Jimmy becoming what he hated about Chuck, such a good point.
Has anyone mentioned the fact that we now know how the Jimmy and Saul and Walter and Jesse and Gus stories go, but the Gene story (Breaking Saul?), is the only one totally new, meaning that what the tension, suspense, and danger leads to is completely unknown? We haven’t experienced this kind of thing since the last season of BB.
I disagree kim sticking with jimmy to save him she sticks eith first cause she truly loves him second she likes scamming and third she doesn't want to abandon him like she did her mother she wants to keep her close relationships
Agreed, yea. I didn't mean to make it sound so one dimensional. I think the 'saving' part is definitely an aspect though and a staple of their relationship throughout the show, but for sure not the only reason to why she stays with him.
@@AdamMovs you should re edit the video if you feel you left something out, cause otherwise it’s gonna keep attracting people pointing out your criticisms and providing a reasonable response.
@@AdamMovs I think that maybe they both subconsciously pull eachother down without necessarily realizing it (until the end) due to their nature. And because of that nature neither of them can work with eachother and actually talk about it. Kim moves away and jimmy turns to his hollow work life.
Better Vall Saul is a bleak title. From catchphrase to a beloved character - to the almost foreboding future of a man trying his best to keep hold of what he loves whilst doing what he loves.
Saul Goodman isn't a path. He was a dead end.
I like the emphasis on 'breaking' in Breaking Bad. It's all about the breaking. Here in UK we tend to emphasise 'bad' when saying the title. We should really say BAKING bread.
when we began watching better call saul we all wanted jimmy to turn into saul goodman, now everyone was fearing for that moment
this show is a masterpiece
I feel like I just wanted them to add a little 3 minute montage between Kim leaving and the next scene with him truly as ‘Saul’.
While playing "something stupid"
Incredible work. Love the analysis! Keep it up ^^
couldn’t agree more, we knew what was coming, and it still destroyed us emotional when it did.
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It's interesting comparing Jimmy's transformation into Saul with Walt's transformation into "Heisenberg". When Walt finally finishes his transformation into Heisenberg in Season 5 (at least in my opinion that's when you first see him assume the role fully), it's terrifying. He's an absolute monster and is terrifying to watch. When Jimmy becomes Saul properly for the first time (at the beginning of Season 5) it's just sad. It's heartbreaking watching this hollow man walking around in Jimmy's skin, and so now when I watch Breaking Bad and I see Saul it just makes me sad to see who Jimmy became. It's an interesting point of comparison I feel, seeing how these characters change into their personas and how those personas take them over.
I also think there's some interesting parallels in how Heisenberg is basially Walt's ideal version of himself. It's, at least in part, who he wanted to be from pretty early on. Saul on the otherhand is a complete perversion of Jimmy who appeared and grew because of his own mistakes and reinforced by people's opinion of him. Everyone in Jimmy's life sees him as the kind of person that Saul is when he doesn't necessarily want to be like that, and everybody in Walt's life sees him as someone incapable of Heisenberg's actions (like doubting the lengths he'll go to to preserve himself and his empire), even though that's exactly who he is and wants to be.
Save Jimmy? She was the one who wanted to take Howard down, and Jimmy didn't! Save Jimmy... WTF
saul doesnt even feel like a person anymore
i was also sad! more for the way it went down though - such a horrible and tragic end for Howard, Kim and Jimmy. I wish the lighter tone would have continued even though I appreciate the greatness that it did not.
I like the parallel's you spoke on regarding Mike and Nacho's father.
dude your videos are awesome
i used to watch your dbd stuff and was super surprised when i recognized your voice here. your writing is great keep it up!
Spot on essay, great stuff :)
He could die in the finale, or locked up and there's a larger chance he'd stay as Saul. Then, in that white room, body slowly succumbing to its failures. There's a glimpse of morality, just teasing us with Jimmy once again and for the last. His last breath just being a statement that he could've been a better person but he didn't.
Bet this would be the ending, Gene's heart attack will be more than it is.
FINALLY some intelligent commentary on the series.
the shot of gus with the fire in his eyes is pretty cool (6:40)
I’m so sad it’s almost over
Also, no one mentioned how at 13:40 you can literally see The fire in gus’s eyes
I guess what’s still interesting and surprising is finding out what happens to Gene
I started watching season 1 again because I missed Jimmy and his honest (I'm using the term very loosely here) lawyering.
I’m surprised by how many people are surprised by how sad Saul is lol. Like it was very clear in breaking bad that this was a lonely man who only had his receptionist and money. Is that not what made it all the more tragic watching, knowing he’a gonna keep spiraling down towards Saul? It’s like a Scorsese movie, I don’t get how people think these are cool happy people lmao.
I'll say this with respect to spoilers. The show came out as phenonomon a few weeks after Breaking Bad ended. There's an anime I watch- my favorite. In it, there is a character with a mysterious past- how did he get there? What does he know? And by the time we figured out how said character got there, I was like "Oh! What happens next!?" and it was kind of hollow... because we already knew.
Basically this show.
try not to clickbait challenge (impossible)
Nice job. Good analysis....
will we ever find out Gus' back story in Chile? seems unlikely, with only 2 episodes left...
I mean other forms of media aren’t out of the question right, like a comic or something like that
@@adversekc608 The Slippin' Jimmy cartoon is an example of that. But yeah.. it doesn't imply quality lol
Little scam in shopping mall was so exiting. :)
I also think Gus walking away from the wine guy had another context in that Gus was interested, but unlike Saul and Walter, he’s strong enough to walk away and is not willing to risk getting an innocent caught up. The fact that he was just sitting in the spot where Max was killed was fresh in his mind.
Love your reflections and insights here! Great job! :)
“Batter cool sool”
Ok, I'm leaving this before watching, your thumbnail got my angry react click, but the comments all seem to be current happy fans of the show, so ok, I'll stick around 😅
Yeah, I sadly fell for the clickbait as well. I, on the other hand, won't watch it. "Congrats, you tricked me into clicking, but I ain't giving you watch time", ya know?
Wait... don't you want me to subscribe? Hit the bell thingy? Anything? The video ended so abruptly without an outro! oh well...
you can do that if you want to, but you get more natural growth and active subscribers when you don't - from my experience at least
@@AdamMovs maybe just add some padding and some music with a background… gives people time to finish thinking about what you said and then decide to click on one of your other suggested videos. Imagine a group of people watching RUclips in a group still high and drunk after a night at the club and need a delay to pick the next video …
Dude you are Azhymovs?! You talk about two really different subjects from each other that I like so much lol
Btw nice vid
Thanks : )
Better Call Saul is a show that is so weird, because it doesnt have the traditional ending.
The main continuity of Better Call Saul essentially ends with his breakup with Kim.
Thats the ending of the show.
Then we pick up YEARS later and get to see the ending of the character after an entire other show has passed.
Its like being kicked in the stomach seeing it.
We were so caught up, waiting for Jimmy to become Saul, that we didnt even notice it had already happened.
I think I preferred BCS to BB, but both shows are absolutely amazing
Same, especially seeing the cartel stuff from their perspective more often
I don’t
Walt’s 5-bell Chilean BBQ recipe was the best thing he cooked in BB
mike was definitely not 1 note
"complete" and "decimation" are kind of an oxymoron when combined.
is this the dbd guy?
I thought she would dump him in season 1. Kim was always out of Jimmy's league. So thinking I was wrong, it took us all these seasons to get to what I thought would be fireworks. There was some of that, for sure, but you're right. Now it's just over. Saul Goodman had a hot gf who dumped him and that's why he's like that now. If you told me that was the conclusion years ago I may not have watched at all.
Me too. My heart is aching
bro are you
AZHYMOVS
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your voice is identical
Yes he is, this is his other channel!
No, different guy.
Azhy- Adam movs is actually really fun!
Nacho may have been too deep even in the first season but what I know is if nacho didn't do business with price or decide to want tuco killed those decisions are way lead him down the path to his end in rock and a hard place I think if he didn't panic n try n get tuco killed or even decide to do business on the side with price if he didn't make that decision nachos life night have had a different story n ending.
"and no jimmy" statements that did not age well
Kim runs away and probably changes her name?
Nice clickbait you got. It's all good, man.
“HE DEFECATED THROUGH A SUNROOF!!”
I'm waiting for the narrator to break out in a course of.. my money don't jiggle jiggle it folds I like to see you wiggle wiggle for sure.. and so on
what lol
@@AdamMovs He's saying you sound like Louis Theroux haha. I'd take it as a compliment!
@@koollegged5739 ohhh i see haha
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as heartbreaking as this episode is, I'm a LITTLE disappointed that the show didn't cover ALL of it's bases.
we didn't see exactly how Jimmy ended up getting the inflatable statue of liberty from the Kettlemans and we don't know how he knows how the vacuum cleaner guy works.
It could be that these things are explained in the coming episodes, but still. For now I guess we'll just have to fill in the gaps with our imagination.
I like the mystery, I don’t want to see everything
Plus in the breaking bad world they aren’t big mysteries just small things that don’t need to have an explanation created for them years later after they were introduced
Those are pretty trivial compared to the massive character moments we got. We've been given enough information to piece all that together
Those things are pretty much answered in the prior season 6 episodes. They got the inflatable statue of Liberty from the Kettlemans - that's presumably the whole story there. Saul figured out how the disappearer worked after he bought Caldera's black book and passively witnessed him disappear. He bought the new car based on what Kim said earlier in the season... idk I feel there's not much to add by showing it, we've been given all the information.
Yeah. It doesn't make or break the episode for me. It just would have been cool to see.
But it's not unreasonable to assume that Saul buys the statue from the kettlemens (perhaps after they're investigated by the IRS after a . . . . Ahem . . . anonymous tip).
And it's reasonable to assume he figured out how the vacuum cleaner guy works by decoding the black book
waaiiit, are you AZHYMOVS ? 😳
Do you DBD videos????
Adam clearly never called saul
Your voice sounds weirdly familiar to me
He does those DBD ranking lists.
@@frogholdingmachinegun377 that explains a lot
Disagree with Turning Saul into most tragic character of the universe.
That title easily belongs to Jesse. He had it the worst out of anyone
I think their tragedies are very different and hard to compare. Jesse is more tragic in how he's a victim of everyone around him, especially his mentor, but Saul is more tragic in how we know the potential and heart that Jimmy has somewhere inside of him that has been repressed and silenced, and how the once well-meaning man has been corrupted into a scummy, selfish lawyer
Haych haych Em
Why do all mainly negative reviewers have annoying British accents as bonus?
I hate this show was just clickbait
L+ratio+no bitches+no father+furry+skyler
4/6
You start of saying that you know how it ends? No you don't? All you know is that Saul, Gus and Mike survive in their peak form. That's it, pretty much
I Thought the last 2 episodes were quite shit