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

Lines? What lines?

I'm back on season 5 now. Paid the $25 (it goes to my wife's amazon account, she'll never notice, it's basically a rounding error).

I forgot how strong it starts.

Any predictions for the end? I think Kim will go down and go to prison. Given the tone of the show I don't think she will die. I think flash forward Saul gets caught. It's hard to end a show like this, Dexter, or Breaking Bad where the entire premise is the lead character not getting caught.

BCS is a slower burn and not as consistently violent, but every bit as dramatic. I like BCS better.

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I watched the breaking bad series. I was told better call Saul wasn’t as good what do y’all think

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I personally prefer BB but BCS can absolutely stand on its own merit, even if it wasn't a spinoff. As mentioned it is much slower paced, but I feel like if you know that going on it's not biggie. Especially if you're gonna binge watch seasons 1-5 you won't even notice. The "feel" of the show is extremely similar to Breaking bad. The cinematography, the way the story unfolds, the music, etc. So if you like BB, you'll probably really like BCS too.

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Any predictions for the end? I think Kim will go down and go to prison. Given the tone of the show I don't think she will die.

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Agree about the tone of the show and her surviving. Although i think it would be more interesting if she didn't. It would be in the typical underwhelming watching-paint-dry BCS style if the big facemelter plot reveal that we've been waiting 10 years for is that the only thing that happens to Kim is she goes to jail and loses her law license.

If this is the route they go, it'll have some sort of twist though. TO tie the whole thing together with BB, I think the writers are going to have to turn the audience against Saul. THey need us to hate him. There's going to be some kind of gut wrenching betrayal. Otherwise it doesn't match up with who he is in Breaking Bad.

If she goes to jail, here's how it will happen: things get so bad and sideways and deadly, that Saul thinks the only way he can save her from Lalo and the cartel is to slip up, frame, or turn her in or etc to make is so that she is arrested. Where she can be safe. She won't understand that this is what happened. That he's doing it to protect her. And maybe we won't be let in on his real motivation for it either. She pleas out, and doesn't serve any time, but loses her law license and has to enter the witness relocation program. And there's your betrayal. And Jimmy/Saul is dead to her forever. And theres a scene where she ugly-cries about it and claws Sauls face as he stand there and takes it and the actress that plays kim wins an emmy for it

Here's the jacked up thing about Saul's actions though. How pure were his actions actuually? However he pulls this off turning her in to supposedly protect her, he has also simultaneously somehow made it so that the heat is no longer on him, right?. The cartel allows him to live as we see in BB. And he is still practicing law there too. So........ yes, he saved Kim in a way, but he also saved his own hide too. Which one was the priority there? Were his intentions 100% pure and unselfish afterall? We are left with some gut wrenching questions. And maybe we get answers to them in black in white when Gene confronts Kim (or whatever her new witness protection alias is) in Omaha at Spencer gifts while Saul is on break from his shift at Cinnabuns or something

I'm in S5 rewatch and there's alot of unnecessary Howard appearances, like the writers just want to keep reminding you that he exists for nothing that advances the story, and I see him in the S6 trailer too.

Howard has to, in some way, be involved in whatever gets Kim out of the picture.

Just my theory.

And/Or, Howard has a mental breakdown from his guilt about Chuck.

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I watched the breaking bad series. I was told better call Saul wasn’t as good what do y’all think

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Final answer- go on netflix and just watch S1 E1 and find out for yourself.

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Howard has to, in some way, be involved in whatever gets Kim out of the picture.

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Agree. There's a quick scene in the trailer where Kim asks Howard "Are you building a case against Jimmy?" and he answers "I'm just getting warmed up". And later there's a brief glimpse of Howard walking a warpath with the guitar playing lawyer that Jimmy was a partner with briefly. But the scene is from the point of view of someone surveilling Howard.

And also in the trailer Kim asks Saul "Do you ever feel like you're being followed?"

I don't know how it all intertwines, but Slippin Kimmy is trying to ruin Howard in a con with Saul. And now HOward is coming after Jimmy with guitar playing former partner lawyer. He's watching them, and theyre watching him. And what does Howard find out about Saul? Does he find out the parts that Kim doesn't quite know about yet? Or does howards investigation of Jimmy bring him too close to the cartel where they think he knows something, and maybe HOward is the one that gets offed? And when Kim realizes she played a part in it, it scares her straight and the guilt eats her to pieces because she's mostly a good person. And maybe that's the boring ending that separates Saul and Kim and she moves back to the Kansas City area to do pro bono work, while Saul goes full dirtbag lawyer for Walter white until Gene world. i dont know

That seems likely that Howard will get whacked by getting too close to the cartel It also seems likely Kim will have a wake-up call and realize she needs to get out and go back to KC to do pro-bono work. I didn't like how they ended BB or Dexter; just killing off the main character. I thought it should have been more like Shawshank where the main character goes off into the sunset.

EDIT: Ok, I watched the trailer. Wow, talk about super intense. I think this show goes out with a blaze of glory. It looks like maybe Saul and Mike have to get out of dodge for a while(before BB); maybe Mexico. I would say maybe Kim gets caught in the crossfire along with Howard. I love how Howard says "I'm just getting warmed up". I wonder why Howard goes after Jimmy so hard. Interesting.