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That shirt website's sizing chart is genius, for I always fall in between sizes and sometimes these trendy tee shops run smaller than normal.

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Dammit I love this show!

Vet sighting!

This season is already hitting on all cylinders, just great.

And I think Kim will never be intentionally bad to Jimmy. She'll be the voice of reason trying to keep him from fully going Saul.

Which of course means everyone will hate her a la Skyler, Carmela, etc.

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Before the conversation turned to pies I was sure thinking that Mike and Jimmy were framing him to be a pedo. That was genius to take it where it did.

I got excited again when Mike mentioned Tuco Salamanca. Hope we see more of him.

This show is really picking up steam and looking forward to where it goes from here.

And here is where you can buy a sweater shirt (or tshirt, tank top, or hoodie) like that.

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After Better Call Saul is finished Mike may go down as one of the greatest characters in tv history.

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Very true. I feel like in BB, we didn't get the best version of Mike because WW undercut him so much. In BCS, Mike is truly in his element and totally in control.

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Very true. I feel like in BB, we didn't get the best version of Mike because WW undercut him so much. In BCS, Mike is truly in his element and totally in control.

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Not sure if this is a controversial thing to say on this thread, or even if this is been said many times already, but...

This is already better than Breaking Bad. And I liked Breaking Bad

I can't remember, can we talk about previews for upcoming episodes, or is that considered spoilers?

Little too early there.

I get the sense that it may end up being better, but that's a bold statement right now. And I also think they're quite different so to say one is better than the other is tough.

This is almost a comedy/drama while BB was a crime/thriller. This lacks the gritty, edge of your seat thriller aspect we saw in BB. Hell...in the first couple episodes of BB we saw a guy get melted in a bathtub and a guy get choked with a bike lock.

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Very true. I feel like in BB, we didn't get the best version of Mike because WW undercut him so much. In BCS, Mike is truly in his element and totally in control.

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Not sure if this is a controversial thing to say on this thread, or even if this is been said many times already, but...

This is already better than Breaking Bad. And I liked Breaking Bad

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I absolutely love BCS and it's better than I expected but I highly doubt it will ever top BB for me.

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Not sure if this is a controversial thing to say on this thread, or even if this is been said many times already, but...

This is already better than Breaking Bad. And I liked Breaking Bad

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Better than the first few years, but imp any show on tv has a massive hurdle to be better than the last season of breaking bad in particular, especially everything through ozymandias.

There's no way they'll do this, but I'd love for them to just abandon the Breaking Bad prequel aspect. I read an interview with VG where he said, "we really liked Saul Goodman, but we love Jimmy McGill." I think I'm in the same boat. This is a very different show than BB, and I'm actually enjoying it more.

It'd be really hard to abandon the prequel aspect, just because it has all of the same characters and references. So even if they say they are abandoning it, how are people going to just forget about who all of these characters are?

But I agree that this show is great, and would be great even if there was no breaking bad to begin with.

I would think it would be impossible to ditch the BB aspect just from a logistical standpoint. Eventually the timelines would overlap.

There's no way to do it other than just to come out and actively announce that you're doing it and call it something like a parallel universe and I don't see that going over well.

The closest realistic option they probably have is to make each season cover a very short amount of time.

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He's already up there. It's perfect.

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Abso-freakin-lutely!

Breaking Bad Spoiler below...........













I go back to the BB episode where Mike was shot. ********Sorry for the spoiler*********

He was comfortable enough with Walt to not expect it and let his guard down, very unlike Mike when he was dealing with people outside his usual window. Looking back, it really is a bit depressing for him to go out that way but matches up with the wild ride that was Walt acting out.

With the exception of him changing his name to Saul Goodman, opening up his ambulance-chasing law firm, and eventually going underground after it all goes to hell, very little of the day-to-day Walter White & BB plots need to influence this show.

While it may seem like Saul spent all his time doing stuff for Walt, his relationship w/ WW probably only took a couple of hours of his time each week. There's no telling how he spent the other 100+ hours each week . We never really saw his personal life in BB, but nearly everything we see in BCS is his personal life. For all we know, Kim and Chuck could've both been gigantic parts of his life until the very end, and he could've had dozens of extremely colorful clients throughout his business relationship w/ Walt.

We know he flirted with his secretary, but it's also possible that he was in a very committed live-in relationship w/ Kim. Maybe he consulted (or fought) with Chuck on a daily basis. We knew as much about his personal life as those little old ladies in the nursing home do...which is nothing.

Even after Walt & Jesse walk into his office, we could still have several seasons before he winds up at that Cinnabon, and that story line could play a minor part until it all comes crashing down.

Good point. This show can go past the BB start, especially if Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul are willing to make cameos which I believe they've said they are.

I don't think even he expected that Walt would be so pigheaded to do that. They were in the clear, that's where Mike was still the sensible one and Walt was never really in control.

did anyone else love the piece of music chuck was trying to play on the piano. i've listened to several different arrangements of it since i watched this episode.

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I liked it but was wondering what the significance of that particular piece of music was. Knowing Gilligan, it was used for a specific reason.

Prepared originally for Molire's comedy-balet Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme.

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Le Bourgeois gentilhomme satirizes attempts at social climbing and the bourgeois personality, poking fun both at the vulgar, pretentious middle-class and the vain, snobbish aristocracy. The title is meant as an oxymoron: in Molire's France, a "gentleman" was by definition nobly born, and thus there could be no such thing as a bourgeois gentleman.

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Seems deliberate and appropriate given Chuck's view on Jimmy,

I assume the significance was the focus on the handwritten name at the top?

So uh..Aaron Paul did an AMA on Reddit and dropped the following:

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Yeah of course! I'm such a huge fan of Better Call Saul, and of course everyone behind the show. So, who knows?
... maybe I already shot it?
... it might be airing this season?
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Well, actually, I do know, but you'll have to watch and see. But yeah, I'd absolutely be opened to it and we have discussed the possibility.

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Yeah *****!

AMA here: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/47lwuw/whats_up_reddit_its_aaron_paul_back_for_my_second

That guy seriously might be the nicest guy in Hollywood.

Going back to the Cinnabon thing....

I thought the episodes where it shows him at Cinnabon was supposed to be him after the Breaking Bad series. Am I right? He had that side business where if you needed to disappear a guy would show up in a car and take you to your new home with a new name and paperwork.

Didn't he say if he ever disappeared, which he did after they hid out in that home appliance store basement, he would want to work at a Cinnabon?

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Going back to the Cinnabon thing....

I thought the episodes where it shows him at Cinnabon was supposed to be him after the Breaking Bad series. Am I right? He had that side business where if you needed to disappear a guy would show up in a car and take you to your new home with a new name and paperwork.

Didn't he say if he ever disappeared, which he did after they hid out in that home appliance store basement, he would want to work at a Cinnabon?

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Yes. This is correct, although I think the Cinnabon comment was made in gest as opposed to being something he actually wanted to do. Which is why it's funny that Cinnabon is where he ended up.

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I thought the episodes where it shows him at Cinnabon was supposed to be him after the Breaking Bad series. Am I right? He had that side business where if you needed to disappear a guy would show up in a car and take you to your new home with a new name and paperwork.

Didn't he say if he ever disappeared, which he did after they hid out in that home appliance store basement, he would want to work at a Cinnabon?

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Yes.

I think the point above was that the current show could take you all the way from season 1 to that point if it wanted to, there's no reason it couldn't overlap with BB.

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I think the point above was that the current show could take you all the way from season 1 to that point if it wanted to, there's no reason it couldn't overlap with BB.

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BCS has to encompass the entire BB timeline to take it to the Cinnabon scenes. It doesn't have to spend 7 seasons on the BB storyline since Saul Goodman only played a minor role in that storyline when it's all said & done. They could probably get through the entire BB story in 2 seasons or so of BCS.

If BCS does a great job of helping us view the Walt/Gus/Jesse/Mike/etc stories from this other point of view, BCS will likely be considered as one of the greatest shows of all time. Re-filming 5-year old scenes from different angles with the same characters & actors and retelling plotlines from Saul's POV will be something that's never really been done on television before...at least not on such a massive scale as this.

For instance, as BB viewers, we saw Walt & Jesse talking in the car before going into Saul's office about needing a "criminal...lawyer" and then we saw from WW & JP's views of how that conversation with Saul played out...and then we saw them go back and kidnap SG and take him out to the desert before SG convinced them to let him be their lawyer. Now imagine as BCS viewers seeing SG have 2 morons walk into his office without a clue in the world and see how that conversation plays out from SG's perspective. Then, I can only imagine how awesome it'll be when we see that kidnapping/dragging to the desert/convincing WW & JP to hire Saul incident play out from SG's perspective. I can't wait to see how they film that entire kidnapping/desert scene word-for-word like they did before...but with the twist of watching it through SG's eyes.