Better Call Saul (AMC) TV Show • Page 85

Still wild that BB only covers a year's time lol

 

I think about this all the time

 

Once Walter meets Saul, Saul puts him on the fast track to connecting with the most awful people on earth, Saul is good at that, huh?

 

Ah yes true haha. Well, I still couldn’t remember the proper beginning once i started thinking about it

 

Walter White is the most efficient master criminal of all time. Newbie-to-retired in one year. Drug kingpin speedrun.

 

Well it covers two years. 50th birthday at the beginning. 52nd at the Dennys

 

It's crazy to me that Jimmy has been through so much crazy dangerous shit. (Tuco in the first episode, the shootout in the desert, etc...) And the dude was still happy-go-lucky wanting to fuck with Howard the entire time. lol

 

There's the time jump in the last two episodes but the vast majority of the show takes place in a little over a year.

 

Part of me wishes they'd already done it in the stupidest, most throwaway way imaginable. Like first season, Jimmy's walking down the street, knocks into someone, camera pulls out to reveal younger Jesse picking his bag up off the ground, exasperated, and then saying "Aaargh I'm going to be late for chemistry, Mr White's going to murder me!"

Why?

 

In retrospect, my dream obviously didn't happen because it was the end of an episode and it panned to Jesse on stage at like, a fucking carnival, by himself, and a spotlight slowly revealed him on stage alone, then the credits rolled

 

Still time to sell that idea to Gould and Gilligan. A section of BCS fans would go wild trying to figure out the meaning of it.

 

A new prequel series of Jesse's former life as a carnie

 

I would bet any amount of money that the AMC suits are trying to sell Vince & Peter on doing a young Mike spinoff

 

In a rewatch sense I find it pretty slow and uneventful so I always skip it. It was a weird writer's strike season too. Meh.

 

There’s some dud storylines in early breaking bad, but nothing has gotten me hooked into a show more than Walt counting the plate pieces and one is missing.

 

The episode that got me hooked was the one with the cold open that showed a bald Walt walking away from a smoking building. Then the episode showed what led to that. That was cool.

 

Yea there's no way AMC isn't begging for another show in this universe

 

I remember posting something online back then about the spin-off that basically said something to the effect of 'I'll give the spin-off a shot, but it sounds ridiculous.' I think there were a lot of people who felt that way. And considering the discussion we had yesterday in here, about a lot of BB fans who are not watching BCS, that probably rings true.

Glad I gave it a shot.

Also, I'm pretty confident in saying that AMC originally pitched or promoted BCS as a 30-minute comedy.

 

They did, yeah, and I remember a lot of hesitation in response to that. They even tried to write it that way in the beginning, but as they began breaking scripts down they realized there was too much thematic depth and drama to confine it to 30 minutes and call it a comedy so they switched gears. That initial comedy pitch also had to do with Bob Odenkirk’s own trepidation over committing to too much time away from his family. It was a sacrifice he was ultimately willing to make because he knew the material was too strong not to be told in a longer format.

 

In classic Breaking Bad fashion, the writers room started with a simple idea that kinda wrote them into a corner, and kept expanding on it and warping it into something more exciting and unexpected.

They certainly considered making it a 30 min comedy at first and then quickly remembered that they arent exactly comedy writers and just did what they knew best - writing the best drama on tv

 

I swear to God if Ozark wins one award over this show

 

I was extremely skeptical of this show before it aired. Spinoffs of popular shows don't always have the best track record (for every Frasier, there are twenty Joeys). Plus it's a prequel, which are almost always bad. But I was hooked from episode 1 and it's somehow only gotten better from there. I don't think it's an exaggeration to say this is arguably the best prequel of all time. It's also just purely one of the best tv shows I've ever had the privilege to watch.

 

Literally forgot about Joey

 

spin off looking at hector salamanca if the creators are getting asked