Jul 26, 2022
episode was underwhelming to me, but I'll hold off on judgment til I see how they structure the rest of the season. felt like this would've worked better as a part 2 opener
Jul 26, 2022·1 reply
pepsi philThey acting like redditors itt
the way people are reacting reminds me of how my uncle freaks out about a very minor Star Wars character being off-character
like bruh we only saw 1 f***ing episode with this dude and they're flipping out as if they recasted Saul or Walt- Jul 26, 2022·1 reply
@Vagabonds what'd you think of the episode bro
Jul 26, 2022·1 replySir Swagalotthe way people are reacting reminds me of how my uncle freaks out about a very minor Star Wars character being off-character
like bruh we only saw 1 f***ing episode with this dude and they're flipping out as if they recasted Saul or WaltIt breaks the immersion but it’s one character
for one episode And they legally couldn’t get the og actor. Not as if they intended for this
Jul 26, 2022Sir Swagalot@Vagabonds what'd you think of the episode bro
wanted a bb era episode but this was a good change of pace after the last few, glad we finally got a full gene story
i think ill appreciate it even more after rewatching the whole show. the recast took me out a lil bit but its not as bad as niggas are saying
- Jul 26, 2022·1 replysmile now
It breaks the immersion but it’s one character
for one episode And they legally couldn’t get the og actor. Not as if they intended for this
that episode felt like forever ago when you compare it to all the s*** leading up to this point. i imagine if you watch the show at a healthy pace it wouldn't ruin the experience yfm
- Jul 26, 2022Sir Swagalot
that episode felt like forever ago when you compare it to all the s*** leading up to this point. i imagine if you watch the show at a healthy pace it wouldn't ruin the experience yfm
My head canon is just to ignore it
- Jul 26, 2022·2 replies
does anybody else think Saul purposefully set himself up by getting Jeff and his friend to do the robbery?
Jul 26, 2022He's got that taste for it back
- Jul 26, 2022Sir Swagalot
does anybody else think Saul purposefully set himself up by getting Jeff and his friend to do the robbery?
He did it so that if Jeff and the other dude WERE to snitch him out, then they would go down with him. He’s making sure they wouldn’t dream of it
Jul 26, 2022·5 replies
GEOLINKJeff was a Saul stan
He thought he became friends with him after all that
I did NOT get that sense from his first two appearances
That last appearance was sooo sinister and this one he’s running around a field saying ‘is this reaaallly how I be a player like you, boss?’ 😭
I kinda admire the sheer audacity of throwing this episode in at this point but I did not get much from it on first viewing
- Jul 26, 2022Everest
I did NOT get that sense from his first two appearances
That last appearance was sooo sinister and this one he’s running around a field saying ‘is this reaaallly how I be a player like you, boss?’ 😭
I kinda admire the sheer audacity of throwing this episode in at this point but I did not get much from it on first viewing
My guess is that’s to communicate Saul’s paranoia being caught
Jul 26, 2022·2 repliesCame to conclusion most of the thread just wanna f*** the old jeff
- Jul 26, 2022·1 replyEverest
I did NOT get that sense from his first two appearances
That last appearance was sooo sinister and this one he’s running around a field saying ‘is this reaaallly how I be a player like you, boss?’ 😭
I kinda admire the sheer audacity of throwing this episode in at this point but I did not get much from it on first viewing
Everyone is sinister until the opp is in your home with your mother having brunch. Jimmy got him on the back foot and gave him the olive branch. He just wanted to feel special. Jimmy made him believe he was.
I mean maybe they wrote themselves into a corner but Jimmy always resolved things with a rude Goldberg ass scheme and manipulation. That's just how this show operates. Unless you wanted Jeff to actually matter, he shouldn't he's a plot point, this is a sensible way to address it and you see Jimmy tasting it again out of necessity. He's hungry. He'd rather destroy himself doing what he loves than have nothing.
- Jul 26, 2022·4 repliesMango
Everyone is sinister until the opp is in your home with your mother having brunch. Jimmy got him on the back foot and gave him the olive branch. He just wanted to feel special. Jimmy made him believe he was.
I mean maybe they wrote themselves into a corner but Jimmy always resolved things with a rude Goldberg ass scheme and manipulation. That's just how this show operates. Unless you wanted Jeff to actually matter, he shouldn't he's a plot point, this is a sensible way to address it and you see Jimmy tasting it again out of necessity. He's hungry. He'd rather destroy himself doing what he loves than have nothing.
It just felt like such a foreign turn, out of noooowhere when Jimmy first said to him ‘I know what you want…to be a player like me right? One of the big boys?’
And he replied like ‘….yeah, that’s all I want 🥺’
I may need to watch the first 2 of the cab drivers scenes from the older season openings but I swear that was not the implication
Jul 26, 2022EverestI did NOT get that sense from his first two appearances
That last appearance was sooo sinister and this one he’s running around a field saying ‘is this reaaallly how I be a player like you, boss?’ 😭
I kinda admire the sheer audacity of throwing this episode in at this point but I did not get much from it on first viewing
Agreed tbh
- Jul 26, 2022·2 repliesEverest
It just felt like such a foreign turn, out of noooowhere when Jimmy first said to him ‘I know what you want…to be a player like me right? One of the big boys?’
And he replied like ‘….yeah, that’s all I want 🥺’
I may need to watch the first 2 of the cab drivers scenes from the older season openings but I swear that was not the implication
Jeff literally goes up to Saul as a Stan, begging him to do the catchphrase
Jimmy can tell he’s a stan
Jul 26, 2022EverestI did NOT get that sense from his first two appearances
That last appearance was sooo sinister and this one he’s running around a field saying ‘is this reaaallly how I be a player like you, boss?’ 😭
I kinda admire the sheer audacity of throwing this episode in at this point but I did not get much from it on first viewing
it would have been different but Jeff was never supposed to be the downfall of Jimmy, just a fly in the ointment as usual.
- Jul 26, 2022·3 replies
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- Jul 26, 2022Everest
Don’t disrespect BCS by comparing it to SW
- Jul 26, 2022·2 repliessmile now
Jeff literally goes up to Saul as a Stan, begging him to do the catchphrase
Jimmy can tell he’s a stan
You don’t think that scene was shot in such a tense way?
Sure it’s showing Jimmy’s paranoia
And obviously things are set up in this shows fantastic writing TO be subverted
But making him say the catchphrase felt way more like him taunting Saul, reducing him to a catchphrase, making him admit his old life etc
Rather than a genuine fan wanting to hear it
It’s shot so tensely. It felt like Lalo making Saul tell the desert story (now I see it was on purpose to maybe show Jimmy’s PTSD from that moment)
But im super biased because that ‘say better call Saul’ scene is one of my favourites in the show and I’ve projected what I PERSONALLY got from that scene rather than what it became in this episode
- Jul 26, 2022Everest
You don’t think that scene was shot in such a tense way?
Sure it’s showing Jimmy’s paranoia
And obviously things are set up in this shows fantastic writing TO be subverted
But making him say the catchphrase felt way more like him taunting Saul, reducing him to a catchphrase, making him admit his old life etc
Rather than a genuine fan wanting to hear it
It’s shot so tensely. It felt like Lalo making Saul tell the desert story (now I see it was on purpose to maybe show Jimmy’s PTSD from that moment)
But im super biased because that ‘say better call Saul’ scene is one of my favourites in the show and I’ve projected what I PERSONALLY got from that scene rather than what it became in this episode
Nah, it was always viewed as a taunt because Gene viewed this moment as the end possibly. For all he knew, this person was a informant trying to get it out of him and he was f***ed then and there. It’s suppose to be a tense moment showing the paranoia Gene feels
- Jul 26, 2022Everest
You don’t think that scene was shot in such a tense way?
Sure it’s showing Jimmy’s paranoia
And obviously things are set up in this shows fantastic writing TO be subverted
But making him say the catchphrase felt way more like him taunting Saul, reducing him to a catchphrase, making him admit his old life etc
Rather than a genuine fan wanting to hear it
It’s shot so tensely. It felt like Lalo making Saul tell the desert story (now I see it was on purpose to maybe show Jimmy’s PTSD from that moment)
But im super biased because that ‘say better call Saul’ scene is one of my favourites in the show and I’ve projected what I PERSONALLY got from that scene rather than what it became in this episode
the writers will come clean about it so we'll know sooner or later
