re: (OT) Better Call Saul final season...April 18th

Also all the Kim horking was so blatant and in our faces the whole time and we were trying to make theories about what it could mean... overlooking something obvious.

Regarding the veterinarian, what was the central fixture in Jimmy and Kim's apartment through the whole series?

The fish.

The fish is what you use to get into the vet's office. The vet's office is where everything becomes congruent. Nacho, Jimmy, Mike. Houle Babinoux. Probably others I'm forgetting.

And the aquarium is jammed into our eyes in every single scene in their apartment through the entire series.

Does anyone remember the name of the fish? A cursory google search gives me no answers.

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Also all the Kim horking was so blatant and in our faces the whole time

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Amen.

You are big on the lines. Where do all of the lines intersect?

Literally all of the lines intersect at the vet's office.

I can't believe that he doesn't come back in some fashion.

Also, I want to say the name of the fish was Fluffy. But don't quote me on that. But Jimmy made very sure to take care of Fluffy. Telling Lalo not to tap the glass and whatnot. Jimmy actually cared about Fluffy.

Who’s ready for the penultimate episode of BCS? Spoiler I heard that Kim has a part in this next episode and Carol Burnetts character will be in the last two episodes not surprisingly. Wonder how bad Gene/Saul/Viktor screws up this break in with the cancer dude? He seemed like a nice enough guy not like the first one… Bud from Home Alone dude. I think they are trying to show you that Jimmy/Saul knows even though someone is sick they are still capable of being a bad person I.e. Chuck and Walt. But that medicine alarm is going to wake the guy up and Jimmy is going to have to make a decision if he really wants to hurt someone physically.

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waterworks

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Two spaces away from Jail in Monopoly.

So let’s the downvotes rain
But maybe it’s my Louisiana education that a lot of the last few episodes elude me
It was a good episode but it could have been 10 minutes long. I mean with commercials and scenes about Mayonnaise, Kim sitting on a rental car bus, office birthday parties and Gene walking around a house for 10 minutes seems like there is a lot of “time waste” in this

Again maybe what the writers are pitching I am not catching which I get is probably the case
But man some segments of this show just seemed to drag on with no purpose

With that said the scenes that were good were great watches. The End, scene wirh Howard’s wife etc…

Again downvote away

I think a lot of people saw the laptop being the tool that gets Saul busted. I saw it a mile away. I liked the episode. I have to dvr it and forward through the commercials. They should have put this show on Netflix so we can go commercial free. I didn't see Kim turning herself in but this is what saves her as we see in the overall BB universe. I like the way they are wrapping this up. I think at this point Saul dies or goes to jail; that is unless the writers damn him to some other terrible fate. I just don't know what else that could be.

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seems like there is a lot of “time waste” in this

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I agree with that mostly.

I don't mind the slow pace or details. It's just annoying how they prioritize things. They spend so much time on frivolous non-interesting parts of the story, but then spend almost zero time on the major components/the biggest questions.

Examples:
-The set-up of the Howard scam got 4 entire episodes, but Kim quitting the law and dumping Jimmy all happened in about 1 minute and 25 seconds

-The Gene and Jeffy cinnabon mall scam got an entire full length episode, but the answer to where Kim goes and where she is in BB got maybe 7 weird minutes (more on that later)

-We get to see 15 minutes of HOward and Jimmy boxing for no apparent reason, but Kim went from standing on a doorstep about to murder Gus to quitting law/dumping jimmy, to moving to Florida, to coming back to confess to howards widow, to ugly crying on a bus to beg for an emmy award all in probably less than 15 minutes of screen time. So, the cringe boxing match got more time than the biggest question of the entire prequel which is "what happens to Kim?"

-etc etc etc

I don't know. Whatever they're doing is better than anything else out there, so maybe this imbalance is part of the recipe that makes it work. I won't pull punches on the Florida part though. That shite was a massive whiff. I was honestly waiting for the Twilight Zone theme song to start playing at any moment while Kim was in Florida. It felt exactly like an old black and white episode of Twilight Zone. Complete with her doing a puzzle that had no picture on it and acting like she had been kidnapped by a cult. Just wierd.

We need to figure out what the hell that was. Because if there's not more to it that I'm missing, they took the biggest question of the whole show about where Kim went and faceplanted hard on it. Just fell flat on their faces and dropped the ball and accidentally punched themselves in the nuts doing it all. Makes zero sense.

We need to figure out the Florida twilight zone that they created. We also need to figure out why the writers of this show hate working class Americans so much. I usually let it go, but this thing they did in FLorida rubs me the wrong way.

Kim first though.

1) She gets asked three questions by her boyfriend and co-workers in the twilight zone. Mayo or Miracle WHip? Strawberry or Vanilla? and Do they run w/ the bulls on Amazing Race?

-her answer to each one, after taking an excruciatingly long time to think about it, is always a version of.... "I don't know. Maybe."

-her boyfriend even repeats her answer to the amazing race one. As if to point out she always says "maybe" and doesn't choose an answer.

-this is suppose to mean something. what the hell is this suppose to mean?

-is she afraid if she takes a stance on ice cream or mayonnaise that she'll relapse and pull a con and get someone killed? If so, that's god awful and dumb.

Speaking of horking, the scene of her getting horked was pretty grotesque and wholly unnecessary. Why put that in our faces?