Aggies76 said:

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TexAgs91 said:

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Who was Saul talking to in the car in the teaser at the end? Kim?

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It has to be Kim.

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I thought it was pulled from the speech when they were sitting on the bed after Howard was carted off.

Some of you are the absolute worst. The complaints in this thread read like such entitled nonsense from a bunch of temper-tantrum-throwing snowflakes.

First of all, for the dozenth time, Better Call Saul - the show - is over. It's done.

This is the epilogue.

Therefore, since the Better Call Saul story is already complete, there can be no "wasted" episodes, if for no other reason than there's no story left to waste.

Further, to anyone who thinks that the buildup of Gene flash-forwards over the seasons was a "waste" as well, simply because the cab driver is now out of the picture, clearly hasn't been paying attention to this show for five seasons now. Because it was never about some random cab driver from Albuquerque outing Gene.

It's clear now that it was all a buildup to finally get Gene's Saul juices flowing again.

That's what the whole thing with the shirt and tie was there at the end. Gene now has the Saul bug and he's not going to be able to stop. Gene can't quit Saul, which, I'm guessing, will be his ultimate undoing in the three episodes to come. Unless Kim is there to somehow save him from himself, seeing as that's what the entire thematic premise of both BCS and BB has always been - the idea that *we* are our own worst enemies. Not Gus, not the cartels, and certainly not some random cab driver. Saul has always been Jimmy's worst enemy, he just reared his ugly head once more, and they could not have handled that any more brilliantly. In other words, Jimmy/Gene can run from criminals, the law, and whoever else, but he can't run from himself.

I mean, this is literally one of the best-written shows in the history of television, one that's *already* given us a phenomenal final season. And for some of you, the *instant* you think they wasted an hour on what was otherwise a fantastic episode of television, you start b*tching and moaning as if the filmmakers somehow faltered now, here at the homestretch, when A) they haven't let us down yet, and B) you're the ones failing to see the meaning behind tonight's episode.

You're certainly entitled to your opinion.

If we all only understood The Art behind all of this. THE ART!!

Brian Earl Spilner said:

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TCTTS said:

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YNWA_AG said:

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TCTTS said:

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Tonight! There are only four more #BetterCallSaul eps left and this one ROARS! Brilliant, one-of-a kind @MMMacLaren directs, remarkable @alisontatlock writes and I love every second. My take: you REALLY don't want spoilers for this one. pic.twitter.com/uCDei9Bp6b

— Peter Gould (@petergould) July 25, 2022

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"You don't want spoilers but I'm allowed to spoil a big reveal before the finale season drops to get people to watch the show."

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He revealed the Walt/Jesse thing before the season because they knew that's all anyone would be asking in every interview, so they decided to get it out of the way up front, knowing the show had so many more surprises to come (his words). Pretty savvy if you ask me.

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Couldn't disagree more. Instead, people have been waiting for them to pop up all season and are probably disappointed each time they don't.

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What are you talking about? I don't know of a single person who has been waiting for Walt and Jesse to pop up in the 2004 timeline. I mean, Jesse was in *junior high* at the time. Otherwise, the only time any of us expected we might see them was at the very end of the last episode, there in Saul's office.

TCTTS said:

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Some of you are the absolute worst. The complaints in this thread read like such entitled nonsense from a bunch of temper-tantrum-throwing snowflakes.

First of all, for the dozenth time, Better Call Saul - the show - is over. It's done.

This is the epilogue.

Therefore, since the Better Call Saul story is already complete, there can be no "wasted" episodes, if for no other reason than there's no story left to waste.

Further, to anyone who thinks that the buildup of Gene flash-forwards over the seasons was a "waste" as well, simply because the cab driver is now out of the picture, clearly hasn't been paying attention to this show for five seasons now. Because it was never about some random cab driver from Albuquerque outing Gene.

It was all a buildup to finally get Gene's Saul juices flowing again.

That's what the whole thing with the shirt and tie was there at the end. Gene now has the Saul bug and he's not going to be able to stop. Gene can't quit Saul, which, I'm guessing, will be his ultimate undoing in the three episodes to come. Unless Kim is there to somehow save him from himself, seeing as that's what the entire thematic premise of both BCS and BB has always been - the idea that *we* are our own worst enemies. Not Gus, not the cartels, and certainly not some random cab driver. Saul has always been Jimmy's worst enemy, he just reared his ugly head once more, and they could not have handled that any more brilliantly. In other words, Jimmy/Gene can run from criminals, the law, and whoever else, but he can't run from himself.

I mean, this is literally one of the best-written shows in the history of television, one that's *already* given us a phenomenal final season. And for some of you, the *instant* you think they wasted an hour on what was otherwise a fantastic episode of television, you start b*tching and moaning as if the filmmakers somehow faltered now, here at the homestretch, when A) they haven't let us down yet, and B) you're the ones failing to see the meaning behind tonight's episode.

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Try re-reading the rest of what you wrote after the bolded part. You seem to be the only one throwing a temper tantrum. Some of us just thought it was a boring episode with poor placement. Lighten up, Francis.

Tony Franklins Other Shoe said:

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How did the box stay there on the loading dock so long when the manager got so pissed about it? Did I miss something while reading an email?

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Gene promised the manager that he would send a truck to pick up the box the next morning, and she agreed.

Good lord, dude.

It's like not everyone has the same opinions all the time. No reason to get this worked up about it.

I didn't see anyone do this when you posted your dislike of Nope.

I really enjoyed it. Everything about this show just captivates me: the way it's shot, scenes that have unclear meaning until later in the episode, the attention to detail, the way Jimmy wins people over with his folksiness while scheming them. So yeah, I loved it even though it was a bit of a bottle episode and didn't advance things a ton. Who doesn't love a good heist? Plus Larry Gergich and college football talk!

But I'm not gonna lecture you guys if you didn't like it.

Some of y'all have horrible opinions.

This is literally the first episode where we don't know what will happen.

We knew Gus lives.
We knew Saul lives.
We knew Kim leaves the picture.
We knew Nacho doesn't live.
We knew Hector lives....

Etc etc etc.

We don't know what happens to Gene.

I thought the shirt scene could also be interpreted as him hanging Saul up and knowing he can't fully go back to his old ways, while also comforted by the fact he still has "it."

There were also some really great tidbits in tonight's episode and some hilarious lines as well. And as usual, Jimmy is at his most honest when he's in the middle of a con.

I'm not bashing anyone's opinions. I'm bashing the complaints that the episode was a "waste" and "didn't move the story forward," when it so clearly and objectively wasn't a waste and did, indeed, move the story forward. There's a difference.

"Good Lord" is right. The folks complaining about the complainers are way worse than the complainers.

TCTTS said:

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Brian Earl Spilner said:

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TCTTS said:

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YNWA_AG said:

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TCTTS said:

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Tonight! There are only four more #BetterCallSaul eps left and this one ROARS! Brilliant, one-of-a kind @MMMacLaren directs, remarkable @alisontatlock writes and I love every second. My take: you REALLY don't want spoilers for this one. pic.twitter.com/uCDei9Bp6b

— Peter Gould (@petergould) July 25, 2022

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"You don't want spoilers but I'm allowed to spoil a big reveal before the finale season drops to get people to watch the show."

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He revealed the Walt/Jesse thing before the season because they knew that's all anyone would be asking in every interview, so they decided to get it out of the way up front, knowing the show had so many more surprises to come (his words). Pretty savvy if you ask me.

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Couldn't disagree more. Instead, people have been waiting for them to pop up all season and are probably disappointed each time they don't.

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What are you talking about? I don't know of a single person who has been waiting for Walt and Jesse to pop up in the 2004 timeline. I mean, Jesse was in *junior high* at the time. Otherwise, the only time any of us expected we might see them was at the very end of the last episode, there in Saul's office.

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Obviously just Walt in the Jimmy timeline, and then Walt/Jesse last week and again this week. You clearly know what I mean.

Point being, there is absolutely zero reason to spoil that before the season even starts, when it wouldn't even be seen until the end of the season. Especially considering they literally flew them out to ABQ in secret, and kept them under blankets and stuff so they wouldn't be photographed.

Why go through all that trouble and then spoil it anyway? Doesn't make a whole lot of sense.

I definitely was expecting in the first 15-30 mins for them to come back from commercial in color and in the BB timeline. I thought they'd set up the con, but not show the payoff until a future episode. It will be interesting to see where they pick up next week.

Honestly, the thing I was rooting for the most this episode was just one, off-handed mention of A&M amongst all the Nebraska/Big XII talk. There were so many chances, too. It would have been the perfect marriage of show and thread and this place would have absolutely lost its mind.

TCTTS said:

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I'm not bashing anyone's opinions. I'm bashing the complaints that the episode was a "waste" and "didn't move the story forward," when it so clearly and objectively wasn't a waste and did, indeed, move the story forward. There's a difference.

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I don't disagree with the thought that it moved the story forward, but I disagree with the approach of coming in here to reprimand everyone who disliked the episode.

Just because it moved his character along doesn't mean it has to be universally enjoyed.

I'm somewhere in the middle, to be honest. Didn't love it, didn't hate it. But the way your post comes off is like a nutty fanboy.

I know you love the show, as do I, but seriously, I encourage you to re-read your post a few times from the perspective of someone who loved Nope, for example, and was defending it against posters who hated it such as yourself.

TCTTS said:

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Honestly, the thing I was rooting for the most this episode was just one, off-handed mention of A&M amongst all the Nebraska/Big XII talk. There were so many chances, too. It would have been the perfect marriage of show and thread and this place would have absolutely lost its mind.

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Ha, I told my wife, "if he's pissed about the Texas game, wait until they play us in a few weeks."

I was at Nebraska 2010!

I never really like the BCS episodes that don't deal directly with Breaking Bad story lines. The episodes with Mike, Gus and the Salamancas are always great. The ones centered around his sibling rivalry or his depressing life up in Nebraska are just boring. I hope, at the very least, that they can tie this back into the main story line somehow.

TCTTS said:

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Honestly, the thing I was rooting for the most this episode was just one, off-handed mention of A&M amongst all the Nebraska/Big XII talk. There were so many chances, too. It would have been the perfect marriage of show and thread and this place would have absolutely lost its mind.

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"Couldn't even manage a touchdown last night (shrugs). How do ya lose a game without giving up a touchdown? And did you see Pelini's brother lose his mind post game? Heard he broke a poor guy's camera."

Buck Turgidson said:

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I never really like the BCS episodes that don't deal directly with Breaking Bad story lines. The episodes with Mike, Gus and the Salamancas are always great. The ones centered around his sibling rivalry or his depressing life up in Nebraska are just boring. I hope, at the very least, that they can tie this back into the main story line somehow.

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I respect your honesty because this is what I feel a lot of posters don't want to admit but they want to say.

Brian Earl Spilner said:

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TCTTS said:

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I'm not bashing anyone's opinions. I'm bashing the complaints that the episode was a "waste" and "didn't move the story forward," when it so clearly and objectively wasn't a waste and did, indeed, move the story forward. There's a difference.

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I don't disagree with the thought that it moved the story forward, but I disagree with the approach of coming in here to reprimand everyone who disliked the episode.

Just because it moved his character along doesn't mean it has to be universally enjoyed.

I'm somewhere in the middle, to be honest. Didn't love it, didn't hate it. But the way your post comes off is like a nutty fanboy.

I know you love the show, as do I, but seriously, I encourage you to re-read your post a few times from the perspective of someone who loved Nope, for example, and was defending it against posters who hated it such as yourself.

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And I would suggest you re-reading my post again as well. Because I wasn't bashing opinions and I wasn't reprimanding anyone for "disliking" the episode. I was specifically referring to the entitled way a few posters responded to the episode. It was the attitude, not the opinion. It simply rubbed me the wrong way in that one of the greatest shows of all time is on a run like this, a show that hasn't faltered once yet, yet because it arrived at a brilliant point in a roundabout way tonight, there were three or four posts that read like the spoiled brats stomping their feet in Willy Wonka's chocolate factory when they didn't get exactly what they wanted. That's it and that's all I was referring to.

TCTTS,

It took me like 2 days to come to grips with the fact that we had seen the end of BCS already. That quick time jump from Kim leaving him to waking up with the prostitute….it hit me hard. Then they end with Saul sitting at his desk looking forward with his " best lawyer" coffee mug. That was the closing shot.

Topher17 said:

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TCTTS said:

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Honestly, the thing I was rooting for the most this episode was just one, off-handed mention of A&M amongst all the Nebraska/Big XII talk. There were so many chances, too. It would have been the perfect marriage of show and thread and this place would have absolutely lost its mind.

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"Couldn't even manage a touchdown last night (shrugs). How do ya lose a game without giving up a touchdown? And did you see Pelini's brother lose his mind post game? Heard he broke a poor guy's camera."

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That was a great game. I remember Von Miller being a menace. I looked up the stats: For some reason Tannehill punted twice? Don't remember that. Good team that year.

TCTTS said:

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Brian Earl Spilner said:

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TCTTS said:

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I'm not bashing anyone's opinions. I'm bashing the complaints that the episode was a "waste" and "didn't move the story forward," when it so clearly and objectively wasn't a waste and did, indeed, move the story forward. There's a difference.

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I don't disagree with the thought that it moved the story forward, but I disagree with the approach of coming in here to reprimand everyone who disliked the episode.

Just because it moved his character along doesn't mean it has to be universally enjoyed.

I'm somewhere in the middle, to be honest. Didn't love it, didn't hate it. But the way your post comes off is like a nutty fanboy.

I know you love the show, as do I, but seriously, I encourage you to re-read your post a few times from the perspective of someone who loved Nope, for example, and was defending it against posters who hated it such as yourself.

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And I would suggest you re-reading my post again as well. Because I wasn't bashing opinions and I wasn't reprimanding anyone for "disliking" the episode. I was specifically referring to the entitled way a few posters responded to the episode. It was the attitude, not the opinion. It simply rubbed me the wrong way in that one of the greatest shows of all time is on a run like this, a show that hasn't faltered once yet, yet because it arrived at a brilliant point in a roundabout way tonight, there were three or four posts that read like the spoiled brats stomping their feet in Willy Wonka's chocolate factory when they didn't get exactly what they wanted. That's it and that's all I was referring to.

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JFC, it's a damn TV show. A good TV show. And some of us who have liked it all along were disappointed in this episode for various reasons. I disagree with most of what you've posted here, but I don't think you're a Gilligan-fart-smelling fanboy because you loved it. You liked it, I was disappointed.

I don't feel entitled to anything except to be entertained how I would like to be entertained. Most of the time this show has done that. Sometimes it hasn't.

Sherman used to call those little QB pooch punts more than most coaches ever have. Too far out to kick a FG, but he was so so conservative. Pretend we were going for it when you knew we weren't and then RT backs up and just pooches it 20 yards.