Gale helps set up the super lab, so he's coming.
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Gale helps set up the super lab, so he's coming.
Sectorseven
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I don't remember BB terribly well, but I felt like Gale was a relatively new hire at that point. Unless it takes five years to build the lab.
smokeymicpot
Beat EviLore at pool.
Gale seems a long way away honestly.
Darth Pinche
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Amazing episode as always.
Another possible BB reference, at the carpet store, they showed a crazy bowling pin carpet. was that the one used in the arcade Saul tried to get Walter to invest in? It seemed odd that they framed the shot to show the crazy carpet.
Another possible BB reference, at the carpet store, they showed a crazy bowling pin carpet. was that the one used in the arcade Saul tried to get Walter to invest in? It seemed odd that they framed the shot to show the crazy carpet.
smokeymicpot
Beat EviLore at pool.
Right now he probably has an idea for how he wants to do it. It takes time though he needs to make the basement, by the property, and finish the Hector business.
Yeah, but I wouldn't be surprised to see him as early as next season.
smokeymicpot
Beat EviLore at pool.
I assume something happens in Gale's life that makes him take the job in general. Was Gale even cooking by himself?
Darth Pinche
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I can see the season finale revealing ASAC Schraeder and Gomie on stake out somwhere.
gutter_trash
Banned
now that Jimmy is becoming Saul, he will slowly start revealing his darkside (hinted by Chuck's ex).
Possible; could be why Jesse becomes a cook. Tired of getting fronted for other people's product.
I think we probably will see Hank soon since Gus is going to start cooking a lot of meth. It makes sense that Hank and the DEA will start popping up.
TimeEffect
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The actor aged like 30 years, so I doubt it
Oh, Aaron Paul is definitely not showing up...just thought it was cute nod.
Remember when the first season literally ended with Jimmy walking away from a tremendous law opportunity, shortly after announcing he was never going to let his conscience get in the way again, before driving off to the tune of Smoking Purple, essentially implying he had finally made a conscious choice to become Saul...only for the writers to immediately reverse the decision and give us two more seasons of Jimmy?
Fun times.
It's been hinted / rumored Paul is in Season 3.
http://tvline.com/2017/01/24/better-call-saul-aaron-paul-jesse-pinkman-cast-season-3/
Don't see why he wouldn't be at some point.
BobTheFork
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I don't think he is actually cooking right now. Not sure where it comes from up at best it's smaller cooks in different places. He's consolidating.
Isn't Jesse like, 14 at this point in time?
Having Aaron Paul show up outside of the post-BB flashbacks would be absurd.
No; he'd have been 18 when the show started. We are at least a year or 2 in to the story. He's out of high school and likely dealing already.
RecRoulette
Member
Lydia was the only BB cameo where I went "come on" but it wasnt that jarring.
I kinda hope we don't see Jesse or Walt.
Yeah, I get how a lot of these characters already had fairly natural connections to each other before Breaking Bad, but a character like Jesse or Hank showing up would give me Baby Boba Fett prequel vibes. It would just feel too forced and fan servicey to me.
Cornballer
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- Podcast for this week is up
This week it's the usual hosts + Gilligan, Gould, Cherkis (writer), and Borden (assistant director).
This week it's the usual hosts + Gilligan, Gould, Cherkis (writer), and Borden (assistant director).
Pyroclastic
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BCS has taken place before and after breaking bad, so if done well I don't see why it can't take place during the timeline of BB too, as a kind of extra insight into the events of that time. I don't see any point in them bumping into walt while he's still in repressed science teacher mode though I agree. I wouldn't really want to see Jesse in "how do you do, fellow kids" gear either in the BCS timeline either I suppose.
Robdraggoo
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Brilliant. That's so early 2000s web design too
Anyone else find that shot of Gus talking to Tyrus on the phone to be fucking amazing?
The lighting in that shot brought forth Gus' scheming intimidation. He wasn't emoting but you could tell he was pissed. That was shot like a classic Breaking Bad moment where you couldn't tell what was going on in the guy's head.
The lighting in that shot brought forth Gus' scheming intimidation. He wasn't emoting but you could tell he was pissed. That was shot like a classic Breaking Bad moment where you couldn't tell what was going on in the guy's head.
Lord of Castamere
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This leads to intense roleplay in the bedroom, in which Jimmy dresses up as his stepfather and cheats with Kim. You've been Gilligan'd.
Cornballer
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He's shooting Claws right now for TNT. It'll air this Summer.
Hobbestetrician
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I don't get these complaints. They aren't callbacks or nostalgia, this show is a prequel. In BB, Walt and Jesse were the new players entering into a world that was already a well-oiled machine so if we are seeing the story of Saul and Mike before Walt, it makes sense that all these characters would be present. It wouldn't make sense if we DIDN'T see all these characters in a pre-Walt state.
I hope we do. In fact, I think we must. They're really not something that could be completely skipped over. How awkward do you think that would be for people only watching BCS? Everything is going fine, and then bam, next episode or scene, Saul is now Gene and has a new life?
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Who'd have thought a prequel of a show would include characters from it?
You would still need to skip over everything unless Better Call Saul becomes the show that's happening next to Breaking Bad, which would be pretty shitty. Saul has to explain why he is on the run and hiding but we don't need Walter and Jesse to be there for that to happen.
Thinking about this, I'd be really damn curious to see Howard, Chuck and Kim's reaction in the immediate aftermath of Breaking Bad's conclusion, as Saul disappears from the face of the earth as a fugitive.
I could see them ending a season with Walt and Jesse connecting with Saul, and then picking up the next season jumped to post-Breaking Bad, with a news report recapping the events or something similar.
I could see them ending a season with Walt and Jesse connecting with Saul, and then picking up the next season jumped to post-Breaking Bad, with a news report recapping the events or something similar.
I think that's more likely and less confusing than them retelling the entirety of Breaking Bad from Saul's perspective. I bet we'll get a time skip at some point.
*Saul faces the camera*
"I bet you're wondering how I ended up like this."
I think it would be pretty neat to see BCS fill in some of the gaps on BB. And it would be very uncharacteristic of the show not to show something that both would be interesting to see and that the fans would really want to see. Look at how they're clearly enjoying bringing back past BB characters. If you can't tell that Walt and Jesse will be the main event of the cameos...
CharminUltra
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Would be cool to see a before-bb Wendy.
Sometimes it's better to serve the story and not the fans.
That would be pretty interesting. Assuming they're all still around though.
Gozer the Gozerian
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Season 4 will reveal that Kim was actually there with Saul for the entirety of Breaking Bad, she was just always hovering barely out of camera frame and they cut the scenes right before she talked
What would be the harm in showing it though?
Yeah it's clearly fanservice, but it's not done just for its own sake. It makes sense within the narrative and doesn't hurt the integrity of the story at all.
Because it would structurally be really odd.
Do we see the same scenes from Breaking Bad all over again, and then instead of following Walt, we just stay with Saul? Or does he just talk about those scenes to other characters? Do we see new scenes with them that, for whatever reason, we didn't see in Breaking Bad?
At that point it's no longer Jimmy/Saul's story but Walt's. Everything he does has to be centered around Walt just for the next scene that they talk to each other.
BCS works so well because it works so well by itself.
Corpsepyre
Banned
How many years is this set before Breaking Bad?
6 years between start of BCS and start of BB.