Better Call Saul (TV)

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okay you guys i’ve finally come out to the other side
i feel so played by this show lmfao. literally fuck almost everyone on this fucking show y’all

i knew i’d be having the biggest love and hate relationship with jimmy from the start obvs, but my kim??? i do not get this woman at all anymore like why. she might have been playing jimmy with all of that howard talk, but she had that maliciously gleeful glint in her eye that made me feel like she truly meant it. really soured my opinion of her. and at some point you just start thinking how much responsibility can someone like jimmy even carry for “ruining” her because as an intelligent educated consenting woman she would have all the agency she needed to just walk away. really thought her attitude towards jimmy was going to change once he did that little performance at his appeal hearing but alas, they’re both like addicts i guess

like i don’t even know who i should root for anymore. rooting for nacho would be like hoping the titanic wouldn’t sink


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Ruth wrote:
May 31st, 2020, 8:03 pm
okay you guys i’ve finally come out to the other side
i feel so played by this show lmfao. literally fuck almost everyone on this fucking show y’all

i knew i’d be having the biggest love and hate relationship with jimmy from the start obvs, but my kim??? i do not get this woman at all anymore like why. she might have been playing jimmy with all of that howard talk, but she had that maliciously gleeful glint in her eye that made me feel like she truly meant it. really soured my opinion of her. and at some point you just start thinking how much responsibility can someone like jimmy even carry for “ruining” her because as an intelligent educated consenting woman she would have all the agency she needed to just walk away. really thought her attitude towards jimmy was going to change once he did that little performance at his appeal hearing but alas, they’re both like addicts i guess

like i don’t even know who i should root for anymore. rooting for nacho would be like hoping the titanic wouldn’t sink

Bingo.
Rewatching the entire series really opened my eyes on Kim. When seeing the whole thing in a span of three weeks you really get the idea that she was never 'better' than Slippin' Jimmy, on the contrary, you're watching another character slippin', perhaps even more so, inch by inch.
Does it hurt and confuse? Perhaps, yes. It's definitely not easy to watch. The last season should be interesting.
And we have that Cinabon timeline that could go both ways.

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fuck i’m still thinking about this show and how i’ll never reconcile with the emotional betrayal of
seeing kim changed like that

in hindsight, i was just thinking that her visiting lalo while jimmy was adventuring in the desert was probably the single most stupid thing she had ever done. it actually surprised me a little because she seemed very intelligent and capable of calculating and playing that 4d big brain chess
also just hoping
nothing bad happens to howard. like i know he’s a bit of a twat but out of all the characters, he’s iirc the only one who used his crappy experiences for positive change. even if that meant getting a namaste license plate

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Uh... Wanna hear my prediction on...
... Good ol' Howie?
Well...
... first part of season 6 Jimmy and Kimmy actually go for it, Sandpiper millions and Howard's reputation. But what happens afterwards and also marks the first half of the finale (second being Lalo's retribution) is this: with practically everything that's been keeping him together after Chuck now lost, Howard commits suicide. By hanging. Something old fashioned. Tragedy strucks anew as Kimmy realizes they just went too far, together.
Idk guess I just had a grim and stupid fanboy wants to be a reddit screenwriter day. It could go in different direction completely and probably will cause these guys know how to make the right sort of chess moves.
Perhaps Howard instead makes a switchero and catches them in the act. Whatever it ends up being, I do believe Kim is alive in the Cinabon timeline. Killing her off would be too... Expected?
What are your thoughts?

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m4st4 wrote:
June 3rd, 2020, 12:01 pm
Howard commits suicide. By hanging.
You shut up right now!!!! You say this one more time and I’m banning you. I’m not letting anyone to talk this into existence lmao.
I haven’t yet really had the time to sit down and brainstorm any speculations as to what could possibly happen, especially with Kim or Howard, but I just have this inkling that this isn’t the last we’re seeing of Kim AND Lalo together in one space, so to speak. In my eyes, she really made a mistake of visiting him (as I already had mentioned), and making it *known* just how strong her emotional attachment to Jimmy is. Thanks to Kim Lalo knows Saul is a liar who can’t keep his mouth shut, leading him to go nuts over the whole desert shootout thing, and maybe yes, he likely would have still gone to their house regardless, but she also positions herself as someone who could possibly be an even *better* legal alternative to Saul. Like.. I haven’t delved into reddit too much yet, so I don’t know to what extent this has already been discussed or rejected yet, but I could imagine the discussion at Kim’s house lingering on Lalo’s mind after the murder attempt, since she was so right, and he’s likely desperate for allies. And he’s so much worse than Tuco. Tuco is rabid but he’s also very stupid. Lalo is a smart psychopath. I feel like this could end up being a very troubling situation for Kim herself. Unless she’d be in for it, since she’s like... Slippin Kimmy now.

Anyway. I’m probably super wrong lmao I hope everyone from Kimmy to Nacho and his daddy end up going to Canada or Alaska to chill and live in happiness and peace :angel: :angel: :angel:

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Lol I promise to never speak of it again.
Until it happens. :twisted:
It was a joooke come oooon! :D
I like your observations and we think the same when it comes to...
Kim and Lalo, and Lalo's potential legal interest in her. But sorry Nacho is soooo lost since day one. We call him Sweating Nacho in our household. :lol: Feel sorry for the dude though. How many bosses did he cross so far? Too many, that's for sure.
But kudos on your happy ending forever and ever enthusiasm though. We need more of that nowadays.
I believe the eleventh and final episode could be Cinabon going full color to represent the end of paranoia and start of something new for Jimmy.

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I know Nacho is 99% a goner :cry: I was ready to be irritated by the dude in season 1, but I didn’t even notice how fast I begun to root for him. Poor guy can’t catch a break :cry: I want to give him a hug and escort him to a safe place. Tho my brain is operating in questionable ways tbh I even find Lalo really charismatic lmao. I spent seasons almost idolizing Kim, so I’d be disappointed as fuck, but a part of me wouldn’t judge Kimmy if she was like “eh fuck Jimmy it’s my time to be a friend of the cartel now”. I’m pretty certain there already are some fanfictions about it somewhere lol

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Well, my darkest secret ever probably is the fact that...
Lalo is my secret favorite character.
Soo... Yeah. 👀

I mean, Tony Dalton is so damn charismatic, handsome and versatile. Switching from casual to terrifying in a blink of an eye.

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Kim
's legal career gonna be dead. That's almost certain for me. She's gonna take fall for Jimmy. Maybe she ends up in prison? :think:

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so my dumb ass just found out on reddit that in breaking bad saul apparently mentions both
Nacho and Lalo by name, as if the latter is still alive? Like did the writers screw up here or is this all elaborate? Like if Lalo is dead by the time BrBa stars l'm pretty sure Mike would have told Saul just to.. idk for peace of his mind? But also if he survived, no way Gus wouldn't know? sooo... could he also end up in prison again? or did he just lay low and is now working in a different cinnabon under a fake name post BB? bc this is a fan theory bandwagon i'd totally be a part of
y’all i remember so little of breaking bad. i should probably rewatch.

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