r/betterCallSaul

when lalo talks to Hector about the fire who's fire was it? why was it special he got the bellhops bell? Were they rivals?

I know BCS got some flak for how they portrayed Germany in the show but Werner Ziegler is the perfect representation of that type of guy. I'm telling you, I have met this exact man before. The name is perfect, the wardrobe is perfect too. Expecially that jacket. His team is pretty good as well, especially Kai. Not much more to say, just wanted to give some props for how perfect that character is.

While watching Breaking Bad, I never really understood why people hated Skyler so much.

After finishing the show, watching El Camino, and then Better Call Saul, I got really into the whole universe. I read a lot of fan theories and opinions, and I still couldn’t fully understand the hate for Skyler.

So I decided to rewatch the show, thinking maybe I’d see things differently this time, knowing how everything ends. I thought maybe I’d pick up on things I missed before or at least understand why so many people dislike her.

Right now I’m at the Season 2 finale, and honestly, I still don’t get it.

At this point, Skyler has just found out that her husband has been lying to her for months. Not only lying, but constantly manipulating and gaslighting her. She’s pregnant (and it’s a surprise pregnancy in her 40s), already dealing with a teenage son who has his own challenges, and they’re financially struggling.

Meanwhile, Walt is:

- Disappearing for long periods without explanation

- Giving her zero emotional support during her pregnancy

- Lying about everything, including his “fugue state”

- Manipulating her concern for his health to cover his lies

- Vanishing for days just to cook meth

- Lying about where the money for his treatment came from

And when she finally starts pulling away or wants to leave, she somehow ends up being seen as the bad guy?

I know how the story goes later, but at least up to this point (Season 2 finale), I genuinely don’t understand the hate. She hasn’t done anything remotely as bad as Walt, and she’s reacting to being lied to and manipulated.

So… what exactly am I missing here? Why do people hate Skyler this much?

In 6x8 gus doesn't listen to Mike to stay hidden and goes to the laundry to investigate

But if he suspected it why didn't he order his guy to have full eyed on the cameras

Also when he saw that lalo had broken in

Why didnt he shout

Take cover he is in!!like any normal person

He may view his men as tools buy here they would protect him

Just like the penguin when he saw Sophia had placed a bomb. One soldier shouted yo Oz what's wrong?

On this situations you have a common enemy why they try to find out more?

Rewatching the show is so helpful, an endless stream of things to appreciate.

It hit me rewatching that Kim was at the scene with Jimmy at the vet and seeing the black book to show that she was exposed to someone being happy getting out of “the game”. She didn’t need to be there, but never a pointless scene—especially in the final season

Strated rewatching BCS for the third time. In the 6th episode, it starts out with Mike in a train station with his daughter in law. He poses as a janitor and goes into the women’s bathroom to get some pads. Why does this old man need pads? Is he secretly transgender? Is he on his period? Additionally, if my theory is right and he is transgender, wouldn’t he/she be on menopause at this point? He looks old so I’d assume he stopped getting periods long before Maddy (his son) was killed.

I feel like Mike is Solid Snake

He won’t kill unless absolutely necessary. He even goes out of his way to not do it.

He prefers being stealthy, loves his family, is insanely good with weapons and understands human psychology probably better than anyone. Speaks with as few words as possible etc…

Mike is Snake….or Snake is Mike

The underground lab construction team

They all got paid quite well for their secrecy

What was to stop Gus from just killing the whole crew after the labs finished, to make sure there's no loose ends? Isn't that something he would do.?

I am currently in season 6, huge fan of breaking bad. Better call Saul was all over in first couple of seasons but now it’s getting better direction. I was really hoping Jimmy and Kim to have an arc and maybe influence each other to be better somehow but seems like the opposite. I was trying to figure out why are they trying to act like that and then it clicked. Kim grew up dirt poor with a wh*re mother. Kim always wanted to escape that. She worked hard and she did escape that financially but mentally she is still stuck. She unknowingly judges all the rich people around her including her own colleagues. She thinks she’s better than them by fighting pro bono cases, trying to justify herself by thinking she’s doing good for the world, but in fact all she’s doing is helping undeserving low lives get less sentences, as if they are going to make better choices moving forward. All Kim has is a poor man’s syndrome, where she subconsciously hates rich and stable, because she comes from chaos and wants everyone to go through it.

Jimmy on the other hand is a parasite. He saw how gullible his dad was and figured out the entire world can be tricked. Jimmy can only turn around a case because he plays wrong. In the world we’re everyone thinks like Jimmy, Jimmy won’t last a day. But because he’s capable of turning situations around he thinks it’s because of his wits and he’s a god but I think it’s only because most of the world plays by the rules. Imagine Howard, chuck, Kevin, Paige, Rich and all other characters played like Jimmy. Jimmy will be struggling to survive.

In short mesa verde didn’t deserve it, Howard didn’t deserve it, Chuck didn’t deserve it. Whatever Chuck did to Jimmy on an individual level was bad but I would still vote for more Chucks and more Howard’s in this world than any Jimmys.

Best character so far in this show is without a doubt Nacho. He didn’t deserve to die.

I have never been a fan of prequels and spin offs and unnecessary sequels - they always were cash grabs more than storytelling but I heard good things about this show.

The episode starts with Saul at Cinnabon….in Omaha. Really? Like really really? Unnecessary call back.

Hard ignore the fact that is set in the past but Bob Odenkirk looks 20 years older.

The twins’ acting is atrocious

It’s the first episode and we see Mike and Tuco already which seemed extremely….extremely cheap. Way too cheap. How small is New Mexico?

First episode and it’s confirming how I feel about these shows. Is the show worth it?

I'm on my fifth rewatch of BCS right now and one thing I hadn't picked up on during previous watches is the ambiguity of "JMM". Obviously you could interpret the initials as James Morgan McGill. Or as Lalo says, "Just Make Money". But there's a lot more to this acronym than at first glance. One such interpretation is "Jimmy Made Mike". If you think about it, it makes perfect sense - without Jimmy's help Mike would be in jail, so it makes perfect sense that Jimmy would seek to memorialize that incident using the "JMM" initialed briefcase. Another interpretation - "Jail Makes Men" which is foreshadowing the ending, as Jimmy is only able to "man up" and accept himself once he decides to go to jail. Or it could be something else entirely - perhaps a different character, "John Michael Moseley", who Vince is perhaps planning to introduce in a future spinoff.

The fact that so much foreshadowing and character development is accomplished through three simple letters - "JMM" - speaks volumes about the genius of Vince Gilligan. God I love this show.

My nomination is S06E09: Nacho’s dad’s ridicule of Mike Ehrmantraut. After learning that Nacho died, his dad dismissed Mike’s pledge that one day the Salamancas would face justice. Such “justice” would just be meaningless revenge, the dad said. At that, Mike was hit with a brutal truth: the justice he thought he’d achieved for his own son by killing those two crooked cops in Philly was nothing of the kind. It was meaningless. Mike’s path to the dark place at which he ended up was in vain. Mike may not have understood the exact words when the dad said in Spanish that “you gangsters are all the same,” but he got the message: Mike was not really better than the “bad people” Nacho fell in with, and Matty was still without justice and always would be.