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Better Call Saul, the TV series

JirinPanthosa said:
Robert Forster didn't even appear on screen until the second to last episode of Breaking Bad, yet he was a known entity since season 4. It would have been great to have him play the vacuum guy. But all they need is to show Kim make a phone call then get picked up by a car in the middle of the desert.
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Exactly, Kim makes the call about her vacuum being broken, cut to a final goodbye with Jimmy. Alternatively it isn't impossible that Vacuum Guy has an apprentice, or that even that Robert Forster was the apprentice and there's a different vacuum guy! Someone real old who says Kim is his last job before he passes the business on the some young whippersnapper :lol:

Turd Ferguson said:
They could always go the Saw route and show pivotal scenes with Walter, Jesse and Saul from Breaking Bad, then showing an alternate viewpoint where Kim is there (kinda like Saw did, showing Hoffman and Amanda being involved from the beginning). I just don't want Kim to die :(

The Howard thing messed with me. Sure, he was a douche, but he didn't deserve to be buried by Lalo for all eternity in the underground lab.
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Howard definitely didn't deserve that. It's very reminiscent of what happened to Hank and Steve Gomez in BB I guess. I imagine the DEA may dig up to super lab and find their bodies. If Howard is ID'd by his DNA it's possible his reputation might be cleared, especially given by that point people will know Jimmy was up to his neck in cartel business.
 
Someone online speculated that as this was the episode where Bob Odenkirk had his heart attack maybe Kim going instead of Jimmy was a last minute switch?
 
One thing I started thinking about. We saw Gene use a random pay phone to call one of his Cinnabon staff. It was kinda antiquated even in the time of BB. That staff wouldn’t find it odd to see an unknown number call and turns out to be the boss in or after 2008- just as smartphones were coming into common use?


Trying to nail down when the Gene scenes happened. It has to be within a few years or Gene would have used an IPhone or Android not to set off suspicions to his staff.
 
Finn said:
One thing I started thinking about. We saw Gene use a random pay phone to call one of his Cinnabon staff. It was kinda antiquated even in the time of BB. That staff wouldn’t find it odd to see an unknown number call and turns out to be the boss in or after 2008- just as smartphones were coming into common use?


Trying to nail down when the Gene scenes happened. It has to be within a few years or Gene would have used an IPhone or Android not to set off suspicions to his staff.
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I would have expected him to have a burner phone on standby. You don't use a smart phone traceable directly to you to make a call about illegal activities.

You don't see many pay phones anymore, but I wouldn't be surprised to see a few still in operation especially out in the sticks.
 
Calling work isn't illegal.....

I know 2008ish seems like a long time ago now...before COVID, Trump presidency, Cubs winning the world series (Jimmy might have been a fan...), Michael Jackson being dead, and all that, but calling a subordinate from an unknown number might have seemed off, something Gene might have wanted to avoid with people he's around a lot these days.


But what do I know, I never had to disappear myself....
 
Finn said:
Calling work isn't illegal.....

I know 2008ish seems like a long time ago now...before COVID, Trump presidency, Cubs winning the world series (Jimmy might have been a fan...), Michael Jackson being dead, and all that, but calling a subordinate from an unknown number might have seemed off, something Gene might have wanted to avoid with people he's around a lot these days.


But what do I know, I never had to disappear myself....
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I thought we were discussing the call to vacuum guy, my mistake.
 
Are we all agreed that Lyle is really the unsung hero in this show? I mean, the kid had to both open and close the restaurant multiple days in a row, as well as make out the staff schedules, and has nothing but complete loyalty to Fring.
 
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Kirby said:
Are we all agreed that Lyle is really the unsung hero in this show? I mean, the kid had to both open and close the restaurant multiple days in a row, as well as make out the staff schedules, and has nothing but complete loyalty to Fring.
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I think he's a dumbass if he doesn't suspect anything. After that incident when Lalo showed up, he should have suspected Fring wasn't so innocent....
 
I mean seriously, if someone showed up at our place of employment and wanted to talk with our boss like that, we wouldn't be able to look at our superior like nothing happened...really?
 
Well. Shit.

And just like that, Kim is gone.

At least she didn't die.

But no Vacuum Guy, no run for her life. Just simply quit her life's passion and walked away.

Not because of Howard. Not because of Lalo. Not because of all of the nefarious stuff Jimmy was doing.

But because she had an epiphany. That Kim and Jimmy together were poison for everyone around them.

And now it's just Saul Goodman.

If it weren't for the final four remaining episodes, I could practically be content with the show ending right here and now.

But, of course, Peter and Vince still have a few more tricks up their sleeves and I have no idea what they are (beyond resolving Gene's story).

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On a different note, I loved the sheer intensity of the between Gus and the Dons. I didn't think anything serious would happen, I just loved how damn cool Gus played the whole thing. Don Eladio is no fool. He knows there's something going on there but he doesn't care as long as it doesn't effect him personally.

As...odd...as the whole exchange with the wine connoisseur appeared, I enjoyed having Reed Diamond just randomly pop up as a one-off character. I figure there's some meaning behind that special vintage that Gus bought that connects to Breaking Bad but I don't remember what it could be.
 
We're pretty firmly in the Breaking Bad era, now, so I expect the next episode to include Mike introducing Saul to the meth business.
 
Alright. Jimmy's looking for Kimmy...as Gene. He may have been for all those years...
 
Finn said:
Alright. Jimmy's looking for Kimmy...as Gene. He may have been for all those years...
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It seems obvious that the phone call he had Francesca set up for his birthday would have been Kim, because who else would he want to hear from on that day?
 
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