Thread 213867674

It's better than Breaking Bad.

>>213867674 (OP)
The black and white filter stuff was very reddit. I’d love a color version to be released

Isn't that pretty much the consensus?

>>213867674 (OP)
True, except that it's worse in every single way.

>>213867674 (OP)
The ending was so fucking scuffed its unreal. The rest of it was fantastic, sans the Lalo superpowers crap, he should have died in the compound raid

Both shows are stupid and even being reminded that New Mexico exists puts me in a weeklong depression

>>213867674 (OP)
It just turns into Breaking Bad in the last two seasons

>>213867674 (OP)
reddit: the show

>>213868193
Mike was far, far, far worse.

>>213868262
Name one thing Mike did that seemed "outlandish" to you

>>213868293
>lemme use my mantis shrimp powers to knock you out and steel your gun before you can blink
>let me and my 90yo body withstand a beating from a guy who we see beat someone to death on breaking bad
>gun shot to the shoulder? lol who gives a fuck
The guy is a cartoon in Breaking Bad. Lalo has some bullshit like turning into spiderman and jumping up into the ceiling, but Mike just breaks any realism n the story.

>>213868262
Mike's shit was at least believable, Lalo jumped down out of a ceiling and landed on his feet without even fucking flinching.

>>213868363
Hmm you have a point

>>213868395
>Mike's shit was at least believable
No, it wasn't. It was retarded and now I can watch kill him like a bitch in a much better mindset.

>>213868514
The way Walt managed to luck himself out of situations was also ridiculous, whatever about being the main character but come on

>>213868608
What situations were those? The show has some reality problems with the chemistry stuff like mercury fulminate, but he never gains superhuman abilities that I recall.

I don't entirely agree with the anons who say it went to shit after Chuck died. I think season 4 maintains the high quality of the earlier seasons and is also a necessary postscript for the Chuck arc and the fallout from it setting Jimmy down the final path towards scumbaggery, while the Werner arc completes Mike's descent into cold blooded killer. It would've been an ideal place to wrap up the main storylines.

>>213868808
It really goes to shit once the present timeline takes over everything. The cartel arc is what drove the show.

>>213867674 (OP)
saul is too shit of a main character

It's worse than Breaking Bad and should never have been made. You see the characters in Breaking Bad with limited information and you make your own backstories for them. Then you watch Better call Saul and their actual backstories are weird and really lame. Mike is just some former cop guy and parking attendant? Before Saul was a sleazy lawyer he was some sort of not so good lawyer? And all the actors are so goddamn old. It's all just very forced and awkward. I really wished I never watched the show.

died with Chuck.

It's better than The Wire

well said, Ivan

>>213868966
you have to be joking. I watched two seasons of this garbage hoping it would be only to be met by meandering plot with too many characters interrupted by 12 minutes of impromptu JAZZ every episode and no conclusions. fuck treme, seriously

>>213868923
I also love when two characters have a really tense standoff… except you know jack shit will happen because they’re both alive in BB.

The greasy shit I did earlier that blocked my toilet is better than Breaking Bad

>>213867674 (OP)
But is it better than buck breaking?

what the fuck are you talking about

>>213868193
>The ending was so fucking scuffed its unreal.
I watched it after hearing people complain about it for years. I can't remember what happened.

>>213870563
>antihero saves loved one at great personal cost as a penance for their amoral behavior over the series duration

Waow, so unique and 2deep. Totally not unsatisfying and trite.

The content density of Better Call Saul is as engaging as all of the filler bits in DBZ combined.

>>213870725
>saved
He didn't save shit. Kim is going to get wrecked in the civil suit. Jimmy didn't do anything that would help Kim.

>>213871098
>oh noooooo I’ll lose my rented lower middle class Florida home… whatever will I dooooooo????

>>213871195
As opposed to what? It's not as if she was going to get charged with anything.

>>213867674 (OP)
That's a very common opinion. You failed at being contrarian

>bus chant scene
I am in disbelief to this day. Imagine if Uncle Jack saw Walt during the finale and said
>hey, it's Breaking Bad!

>>213867674 (OP)
It unironically is, Howard was based and integritypilled.

>>213872075
>shitposting has really done a nomber on you.

>>213867674 (OP)
Yep.

>>213870899
This honestly I didn't get it tho.
I mean, she would have been just as miserable alone, doing menial work with no life and no actual close relationships, and nothing in her character suggests that she's incapable to be alone and codependent enough to NEED a partner to function.

So what, she decided to get railed on the regular by a ridicolous guy she more or less despises only so that she could punish herself just a bit more?

>>213867674 (OP)
it was enjoyable watching something in that universe where the main guy actually has a chick who has his back, but i still think the show needed chuck too much and couldn't hold my interest once they let the cartel shit dominate. gus wasn't as interesting anymore, the lab construction subplot was spectacularly dull with a complete failure to generate sympathy from me towards werner. lalo was refreshing but there was bizarre supervillain shit with him

>>213868207
wtf you got against new mehico??

>>213870138
held off on watching it for the longest time because of comments like this. but i finally checked it out and i found it way easier to follow than even the wire. what you're saying isn't completely off the mark but the plot has a clear throughline

>>213867674 (OP)
I gave it a try two times but ditched it each time because it was a snoozefest. Farthest I made it was middle of season two.

>>213867674 (OP)
>It's better than Breaking Bad.
Yes it is. What is your question?

>>213871258
>>bus chant scene
>I am in disbelief to this day. Imagine if Uncle Jack saw Walt during the finale and said
>>hey, it's Breaking Bad!
Are you retarded? The guy's slogan on TV ads was literally "better call Saul" and people recognized him for it. Did Walter White have TV ads saying "I'm breaking bad"?

No

what do we think of it /tv/?

>>213867674 (OP)
Recency bias

>>213867674 (OP)
>Cat shit is better than dog shit

>>213874306
Pretty much the same writing team as BCS, so... expect a lot of montages

I often think Better Call Saul is better until I rewatch Breaking Bad clips, and it reminds me of how superior BB actually is. The acting and emotional moments hit harder. It might just be how much older all the actors in BCS look which takes me out of it, and why prequels are generally a shit idea. There was too much Chuck, and the cartel storyline took too much focus away from Jimmy. If it was just a show about lawyer hijicks, it would've been even better. We just had a "good man becomes villain" series-long chacter arc with Walter White, I think it was a mistake to repeat that structurally with Jimmy gradually becoming Saul. Most people were dying for Saul to finally appear by the end and kept getting blueballed

>>213874491
They really should have just had him be Saul from the start. The way it was done, going from freaking out about people dying to casually joking about Badger doesn't really work.

>>213867674 (OP)
true and yet nowhere near the hbo duo

>>213867674 (OP)
Literally nothing happens for 5 seasons and a half: The Show
I sure enjoyed watching an old man dissasembling a car for 1 hour

>>213874375
So expect kino? Awesome.

>>213867674 (OP)
Nope, show died with Chuck

>>213867674 (OP)
It doesnt have the highs of breaking bad but its more consistent so I'd say its about just as good as Breaking Bad

Jimmy should have killed him

>>213871258
kek the show is literally named after his catchphrase so it makes sense they would say it

>>213876312
he kinda did

>>213867674 (OP)

On rewatching BB I realized what a giant dickhead Walter White is.

>>213868170

The whole Chuck McGill saga should've been squeezed down to one season.

>>213868363

Mike is like Elmer Fudd.

>>213872339

Gus is annoying. Pompous, vaguely homosexual, always pouting.

>>213874567
they needed to show jimmy the lawyer "breaking bad" and becoming saul. how fixing his life and trying to walk the straight and narrow path could not possibly work with adversaries like chuck in his way. him telling howard chuck's suicide was howard's cross to bear was his "stay out of my territory" moment.

>>213876581
No its mr magoo

>>213870899
>I think you got some miracle whip on me

>>213876931
the crazy part is him having actual millions from sandpiper, but in breaking bad he comes off as poor

>>213877742
he really seized that bus bench lawyer image to be a man of the persecuted but he did live in a pretty massive and gaudy mansion.

I find the whole BB/BCS universe very comfy and will continue to enjoy. (Except for El Camino, that doesn’t exist)

it's definitely better. for some reason i never watched the last five episodes or so. everything with his brother in it was awful but it's all skippable, wish i'd done so in the early seasons.

>>213872339
It was refreshing in Odenkirks midlife crisis movie where he plays an unstoppable badass killing machine, that the wife character turned out to be totally cool and supportive. I think they learned a lot from the disdain people have for Skyler White

>>213868943

Agreed, Chuck's character was kino. Show dropped off after season 3

>>213876931
Him becoming Saul literally happens in a montage in a single episode in season 6 lol. It’s like the writers just forgot

>>213868363
Big M just knows how to roll punch bro

>>213867674 (OP)
>"Better Call Saul"
>Almost zero storylines actually occurring during his Saul Goodman arc
No one cares about a rectonned backstory about his crazy brother