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UK_Is_Good said:
I loved the ending tonight.
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Yep, you can see how Saul isn't really cut out for the corporate lawyer world and prefers the sleazier side of it, he needs the rush. Great story with the squat cobbler. I had to start getting into the Breaking Bad episodes again too.
 
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UKWildcats#8 said:
Agreed. I'll admit there were a couple of "slower/blah" episodes in season 1 compared to the rest but NOT the first two.
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I've always though Eps 3&4 were pretty slow, but 1&2 were awesome. And then I think Heisenberg may start in Ep 5 and we know where it goes from there...
 
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What is up with the girl pretending to hear gunshots ? Mike was in the driveway all night, there was no bullets fired into the garage ? Have not watched the episode from last night.
 
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Possibilities:

1) She is just really paranoid. Her husband was murdered not that long ago, relatively speaking

2) She is making up stories to get Mike to buy them a better place to live, playing on how much he loves his granddaughter

3) She is on meth

Mike's relationship with her is very strained in Breaking Bad. Either she finds out about his side dealings or he finds out she is working him, is my guess
 
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Am I remembering correctly from BB that Mike felt a level of responsibility for his son's death? Mike and all the other cops were dirty, but his son wasn't? When he son would not get dirty, he was killed by fellow officers---mysteriously. Mike exacts revenge and is forever walking down the path of no return. Am I remembering this correctly or am I dreaming?

Almost feel sorry for Jimmy. His brother and his sanctimonious comments are pissing me off. Feels like he is trying to push jimmy into becoming Saul---and he is proud about that
 
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downw/ball-lineD said:
Am I remembering correctly from BB that Mike felt a level of responsibility for his son's death? Mike and all the other cops were dirty, but his son wasn't? When he son would not get dirty, he was killed by fellow officers---mysteriously. Mike exacts revenge and is forever walking down the path of no return. Am I remembering this correctly or am I dreaming?

Almost feel sorry for Jimmy. His brother and his sanctimonious comments are pissing me off. Feels like he is trying to push jimmy into becoming Saul---and he is proud about that
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That was actually last season of BCS. Episode 6 I believe.
 
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Like another poster said I am finding myself more interested in Mike's storyline than Saul's.

Chuck is quickly taking over the role of the character everyone hates ala the wife from BB.

Also can we go ahead and get to the Saul Goodman part, we know he isn't going to be Jimmy forever and it's clearly not working out for him or his lady friend.
 
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I was very happy with episodes 3 and 4. I'm definitely interested in learning more about Mike and surprisingly Nacho.
 
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By the way, if you see a phone number for something on this or Breaking Bad you should call it.
(505)242-7700
(505)503-4454
(505)842-5662
I thought it was odd that they were real numbers. Vince really covers all his bases.
 
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TransyCat09 said:
Possibilities:

1) She is just really paranoid. Her husband was murdered not that long ago, relatively speaking

2) She is making up stories to get Mike to buy them a better place to live, playing on how much he loves his granddaughter

3) She is on meth

Mike's relationship with her is very strained in Breaking Bad. Either she finds out about his side dealings or he finds out she is working him, is my guess
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I'm going with number 2.
 
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The thing I don't get is the discrepancy and compression of time / setting. Jimmy is given a '15 Mercedes Benz company car, yet he's not even Saul yet. Sometimes Odenkirk wears nice clothes, sometimes it looks like they he's wearing late 80s stuff with partial mullet. Flip phones, yet flat panel TVs.

The SanteFe office of Ed Begley apparently employed by mole people with one light bulb...

Mike uses a pay phone across street in dirt parking lot...pay phone?

I dunno... it's weird.
 
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Kooky Kats said:
The thing I don't get is the discrepancy and compression of time / setting. Jimmy is given a '15 Mercedes Benz company car, yet he's not even Saul yet. Sometimes Odenkirk wears nice clothes, sometimes it looks like they he's wearing late 80s stuff with partial mullet. Flip phones, yet flat panel TVs.

The SanteFe office of Ed Begley apparently employed by mole people with one light bulb...

Mike uses a pay phone across street in dirt parking lot...pay phone?

I dunno... it's weird.
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The lighting is a style choice. Film noir is a heavy influence on BCS and BB.
 
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Kooky Kats said:
Yes. I know.

But it borders on distractingly poor choice.

Either that or Chuck should work there.
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I agree. I almost feel like Chuck's condition exists just so they can use single source lighting more. I read where Gilligan said he wanted the show to look different than anything else on television.
 
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Looks like Jimmy is about to exit and Saul is stepping in. Wasn't the balloon thing they showed as the preview for the next episode the same balloon guy that flew over his place in the strip mall that Saul's office was in Breaking Bad?

Plus the check at the end is made out to Ice Station Zebra. Watch BB if you don't know what that is.
 
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Because it looks cool?

There was a nice noir style shot when Kim is at the bar and the camera does a slow zoom. Even had some "noir jazz" music playing in the background
 
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Great episode. Chuck is suck a prick, but he's also right.

So far BCS has made all of the characters' actions seem reasonable. Something even BB couldn't do
 
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Gilligan, Gould, and company are masters at writing great tragedy. Excellent show
 
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Nice build up for the end of the season. Jimmy cares way too much about Chuck who couldn't care less about him.
 
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Kennedy_UK said:
Sooooo, a stray bullet puts Hector in the wheelchair?
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A stroke does. When Mike was watching them in the diner, Hector was flipping out about getting robbed and was starting to have some kind of episode. He then took a pill and a glass of water. He has some kind of condition that will put him in the wheelchair.
 
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UK_Is_Good said:
They're pretty even for me now.
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Its all coming together. We obviously know where its going, but Jimmy loses everything. Everyone breaking bad. Who actually writes all of it? I seriously think they have been great tragedies in the Greek sense of the word. Its nice picking up on the character's hubris from Jimmy having a distorted way of bending the rules for what is justice, and Mike hunting drug dealers for money.

It reminds me of Flannery O'Connor's stories, that southern gothic twinge, or Steinbeck's Pastures of Heaven.
 
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