Better Call Saul (spoilers ahoy)

After that preview, this will definitely deserve it's own thread. Mike Ehrmantraut fucking owns.

 

 

Saw these last night. Glad Mike seems to be a regular.

 

edit: Thought he'd just have bit parts here & there.

Edited December 1, 2014 by olo

Yeah hoping Mike is the other lead, Michael Mckean will play Saul's brother, we might see Huley, and Bryan Cranston & Aaron Paul will pop up from time to time in the background. Albuquerque isn't that big.

 

The 2nd video reminded me of this:

 

Big thumbs down for YouTube's regional block, can't view that first video.

This could be a real great show though... Any estimate of when it starts being aired?

February 9th

 

try playing it from their home page:

 

http://www.amctv.com/shows/better-call-saul

  On 12/1/2014 at 4:22 PM, Rubin Farr said:

February 9th

 

try playing it from their home page:

 

http://www.amctv.com/shows/better-call-saul

No dice too, AMC is also doing this with anything Walking Dead related, never watched the Talking Dead or any previews because of that. Ah well...

Why block their website ? That's lame

Huge fan of Breaking Bad here, I will give it a try. It seems to go more into humor territory which is fine, because Saul can be funny.

Online comic

 

http://www.amctv.com/shows/better-call-saul/client-development-comic

  On 12/1/2014 at 4:17 PM, Herr Jan said:

Big thumbs down for YouTube's regional block, can't view that first video.

 

This could be a real great show though... Any estimate of when it starts being aired?

 

https://hide.me/en/proxy

i had my doubts about this but that first episode was excellent.

Yep all doubts cast aside Vince is gonna take us on another great ride. Glad to see it has the same production tier as Breaking Bad... My only qualm right now is that I can't marathon to the next episode.

I loved the little moment between Jimmy and Mike as the toll booth guy. Mike is fuckin great, glad he'll be back in this series as well.

Pilot was quite good

Average episode i reckon ae. Kinda lame cliffhanger and i don't really like how so many breaking bad characters are incorporated

Liked the cold open. Kinda bored by the rest of it. Everything was done fine (acting/direction/cinematography), but no major feels yet. See how part 2 goes tonight. Not down with adding

so soon. Was hoping the show would develop before adding BB characters. Besides Mike that is.

 

Lets see where it goes/10

Edited February 9, 2015 by olo

Opening was excellent, he made it! My girlfriend left the room @ court room video lol. This is gonna be another great ride.

are these airing every night until the season is over? is waiting a week for the next installment not the way to do tv anymore? if thats the case, thanks netflix!

 

i really enjoyed last nights episode but i have an underlying fear that theyre gonna go over the top with breaking bad callbacks and cheese it up a bit. regardless i'm pretty excited to see whatever crazy stuff goes down tonight.

  On 2/9/2015 at 1:50 PM, olo said:

Not down with adding

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Tuco

 

yeah, i felt like that was walking the fine line between "cool shout-out for the fans" and "building hype with material from another show"

 

other than that i enjoyed it quite a bit. dave porter seems to have come up with an entirely new sound palette for this thing, which is impressive considering the range of sounds the BrBa ost had.

  On 2/9/2015 at 3:41 PM, Cryptowen said:

 

  On 2/9/2015 at 1:50 PM, olo said:

Not down with adding

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Tuco

 

yeah, i felt like that was walking the fine line between "cool shout-out for the fans" and "building hype with material from another show"

 

 

Technically, that character should be around for however long this show runs really. I wonder how integral he'll be for the series? Saul didn't have anything to do with him in the breaking bad series though did he?

  On 2/9/2015 at 2:57 PM, andihow said:

are these airing every night until the season is over? is waiting a week for the next installment not the way to do tv anymore? if thats the case, thanks netflix!

 

i really enjoyed last nights episode but i have an underlying fear that theyre gonna go over the top with breaking bad callbacks and cheese it up a bit. regardless i'm pretty excited to see whatever crazy stuff goes down tonight.

No just the 2 part premiere, Sun is regular time slot.

Excellent first episode, but I like it when plot unveils slowly. Can't wait for tonight's episode

  On 2/9/2015 at 10:15 AM, Chris Toffer said:

Average episode i reckon ae. Kinda lame cliffhanger and i don't really like how so many breaking bad characters are incorporated

felt the same, I mean I knew going in this was going to inevitably (drastically) change our understanding of the character relationships in Breaking Bad, and I have to say I can't see that ending up good in any way. A prequel by design of something we already love is destined to sort of fuck up in some way. If it was trying to be it's own show with it's own set of characters with little/no connection to the Breaking Bad story I could see it working out, but no. The Tuco appearance at the end was a little bit like wtf you guys are already leading into the Breaking Bad plot? maybe a little too soon? weird

 

edit: also i little more heavy/overly dramatic than i was expecting.

Edited February 9, 2015 by John Ehrlichman

They're still set many years before BrBa (date on the video in the trial was oct. 2001, Breaking Bad starts in 2008/2009). There's lots of room for things to come and go and come again. Referring to the character at the end of the episode.

 

Thought the episode was really good and on it's way to blazing its own trail. It could get really messy if there's too much crossover, I agree. But if it's handled well, who knows (considering Vince Gilligan and the crew). There were also lots of subtle references. But I think even these will thin out drastically as the show goes on. Looking forward to the second ep.

Vince gilligan I do have a lot of faith in, but besides Breaking Bad (which was fairly consistently brilliant) he has had his hand in some misfires (odd ones, but still not great results). Take the other spin-off show that he took the helm of after leaving the X-files, The Lone Gunmen. Did not turn out well, which was surprising since the episodes of the X-files he was behind were probably the best ones. I think at some point he knew he had drastically fucked up doing his own show and went back to the X-files to write the episode 'Jump the Shark' where he killed off all the lone gunmen at once, so his self awareness is what gives me pause from pre-judging Better Call Saul. .

edit: but i still found a lot more than just simple nitpciks in the first episode. Take for example the skateboard ramp lecture/slipping jimmy story, how much did that remind you of one of those (eventually overused) allegorical monologues (Jesse's had to put down the dog story) from Breaking Bad? The writing felt a little bit tired to me. I'm personally much more interested in watching stuff about Saul from after the Breaking Bad storyline, I was a little disappointed when they pulled away from the black and white opening scene of him living in what looks like witness protection. I hope they do don't do many things that alter or fundamentally change our understanding of Breaking Bad's storyline, and instead just flesh out the universe more. I would almost be ok with them showing more of the German madrigal or Grey Matter side of things, that was a side of the plot that never got much explanation, but the Mexican drug cartel stuff at least for me doesn't need more of a back story

Edited February 10, 2015 by John Ehrlichman