Better Call Saul TV Series

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Thebobo

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Jun 19, 2006
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It's not a spoiler if it's already aired.

So you are saying all the posted spoilers in the past that have been covered up with spoiler tags are shows or movies that have not been aired? What a load of tripe. It is a spoiler if you haven't seen it regardless if it's aired.
 

purbeast0

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Sep 13, 2001
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So you are saying all the posted spoilers in the past that have been covered up with spoiler tags are shows or movies that have not been aired? What a load of tripe. It is a spoiler if you haven't seen it regardless if it's aired.
If you're in a TV thread and aren't up to date on the TV show in discussion, that is your problem not mine.
 

Charmonium

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So I guess we dont hide spoilers anymore?
I went back and spoiler tagged most of the post since I'm not really sure which parts would be considered a spoiler.

I never know what I can and can't say (w/o tags) in these threads. It seems to vary a lot and I just follow the crowd.
 
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NuclearNed

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May 18, 2001
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I went back and spoiler tagged most of the post since I'm not really sure which parts would be considered a spoiler.

I never know what I can and can't say (w/o tags) in these threads. It seems to vary a lot and I just follow the crowd.

Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.
 
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Ichinisan

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Oct 9, 2002
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So you are saying all the posted spoilers in the past that have been covered up with spoiler tags are shows or movies that have not been aired? What a load of tripe. It is a spoiler if you haven't seen it regardless if it's aired.
When I don't see the show as it airs, I don't enter this thread until I've caught up. That's easy enough. It's not like Game of Thrones, where you had book readers trying to spoil everything.
 

Charmonium

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When I don't see the show as it airs, I don't enter this thread until I've caught up. That's easy enough. It's not like Game of Thrones, where you had book readers trying to spoil everything.
that's what I do. In fact I try to watch the shows that have threads first so I don't have to avoid them.
 

Newbian

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That was my best guess. It seems like that would prove that Chuck had intentionally set up Jimmy. Not sure what that would do to help Jimmy in his Bar hearing, but he & Kim seem to think its a good thing.
The only thing I can think of is they are trying to get him viewed as mentally ill by the bar by finding this out that he has the tape stashed away and with the pictures mike took.
 

NuclearNed

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May 18, 2001
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That was an amazingly satisfying episode. My question now is "Where does this show go from here?" because for most shows that was a season finale. This season is only halfway finished...
 
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GagHalfrunt

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Apr 19, 2001
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Satisfying? Holy crap, that was the lamest way they could have possibly handled it. All that build-up and all they did was copy the payoff of A Few Good Men, The Caine Mutiny and at least 1000 other movies and TV shows. Get the crazy person on the stand and let them talk until they out themselves? For Christ sake Matlock alone must have done that 20 times. That's how you get closure when you can't think of any intelligent way to do it. They might as well have had Chuck wake up in a shower with Pam Ewing and pass the whole thing off as a dream.
 

Charmonium

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I liked it because it shows you what Jimmy is capable of when he feels free of any familial obligation to Chuck. It shows that he'll go as low as he needs to in order to win, even against his own brother. In the past Jimmy had done his best to humor Chuck by not proving how full of shit his supposed 'illness' was. But now that all out the window. IOW Jimmy will use Chuck's own psychiatric issues against him.

I think the episode showed the first signs of the Saul we see in Breaking Bad. No holds barred approach. So while they used a common trope they did so in a way that actually fit with the story they're trying to tell.

Every story is a rehash of a previous story. There are no new plot lines. What makes a story great is how artfully you weave the pieces together.
 
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Satisfying? Holy crap, that was the lamest way they could have possibly handled it. All that build-up and all they did was copy the payoff of A Few Good Men, The Caine Mutiny and at least 1000 other movies and TV shows. Get the crazy person on the stand and let them talk until they out themselves? For Christ sake Matlock alone must have done that 20 times. That's how you get closure when you can't think of any intelligent way to do it. They might as well have had Chuck wake up in a shower with Pam Ewing and pass the whole thing off as a dream.
I bet someone in Rome wrote a critique something similar to this over 2000 years ago.

Nothing today is really new. It's all rehashed. BCS does a decent rehash though, which is all one can ask.
 

Carson Dyle

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Jul 2, 2012
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No Mike. No Gus. No Hector. No drugs or guns or gadgets ... Won't be an episode that sits well with many fans.
 

purbeast0

No Lifer
Sep 13, 2001
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Satisfying? Holy crap, that was the lamest way they could have possibly handled it. All that build-up and all they did was copy the payoff of A Few Good Men, The Caine Mutiny and at least 1000 other movies and TV shows. Get the crazy person on the stand and let them talk until they out themselves? For Christ sake Matlock alone must have done that 20 times. That's how you get closure when you can't think of any intelligent way to do it. They might as well have had Chuck wake up in a shower with Pam Ewing and pass the whole thing off as a dream.
Why do you even watch this show? You remind me of me before I stopped watching The Walking Dead.
 

GagHalfrunt

Lifer
Apr 19, 2001
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Why do you even watch this show? You remind me of me before I stopped watching The Walking Dead.

Because the first four episodes this season were good.

And if you could watch that episode after two and a half seasons of build-up and not be exasperated at how lame it was then you're clueless. Substitute the battery for Queeg's ball bearings and it's completely inter-changeable with The Caine Mutiny. My god, I would have rather seen a spaceship fly through the window, scoop up Chuck and fly him off to Tatooine. That would be as satisfying as how they handled it.
 

thebestMAX

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Sep 14, 2000
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Such a good episode last week and then this. Hope its the last of Chuck we ever see but I think he was in the next weeks preview (I hope) briefly.

Next week looks promising in both characters and action.
 

ultimatebob

Lifer
Jul 1, 2001
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Finally, we get to see the birth of Saul Goodman on TV

I can't see how they could do more than one more season of this, though. We're quickly coming up on the Breaking Bad season 1 timeline.
 

NuclearNed

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May 18, 2001
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Finally, we get to see the birth of Saul Goodman on TV

I can't see how they could do more than one more season of this, though. We're quickly coming up on the Breaking Bad season 1 timeline.

I think sooner or later they are going to transition to the Cinnabon timeline. I kind of think that maybe next season that will happen.
 
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