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T86 Seconds to the Sofa: In Praise of Better Call Saul’s Slowness
But Saul creators Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould are not satisfied to let this show be a companion piece. They understand that we’re all waiting for Saul Goodman to emerge, and they use that to enrich the story by making us feel the weight of the wait. In this respect, the Hummel collector’s descent down the stairs is a visual microcosm of the series’ preordained arc.
I was just having an internal debate with myself on this subject the other day and I came to much the same conclusion, but Onion A.V.’s John Teti has expressed it so eloquently that this article deserves to be read.
I totally agree that slowness is an important element that distinguishes Better Call SaulfromBreaking Bad, which tended to compress time.
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“A happy ending.”
Suit up. ☎️⚖
You know a show is good when the most cruel, ruthless and senseless action makes you very nauseous and unwell after watching it.
Especially when you have been getting used to those type of elements in other stories and almost got desensitized to those sort of things. I know it be might be something weird (even creepy ) to say but I am glad I felt that way after seeing it because that’s the whole purpose of it, the whole purpose of that scene and how you should feel about it. At least I would hope that’s the case because I felt extremely nauseous and uncomfortable when it happened.
Like I don’t want to freak anybody out by saying this. X) It’s just about the way we are influenced by certain other stories sometimes and I’m glad BCS isn’t like that and has never been that way about that particular topic.
Sometimes certain stories makes you forget how impactful and shocking those types of things actually are to the point you don’t feel anything when it happens. You know it is wrong but you lack that shock and impact moment that really puts things into perspective. Plus makes you really realise what just happened or what’s going on.
Of course BrBa wasn’t shy about doing it in a gruesome way and sometimes with a dark comedy vibe to it but there was always that feeling of impact and shock when it still happened. And in BCS it’s even more apparent with the way they do certain things.
There’s not a lot of, (and I mean it), shows or stories like Better Call Saul; they are very rare. And tonight’s episode is an example of that to me.
I’m glad there’s this break until July 11th so we can really digest everything that’s been given, and done to us xD, in the past few weeks and tonight of course.
Only 6 episodes left, it’s almost the end guys. Let’s get ready because we’re not out of the woods yet.
Why does tonight’s episode feel like “Chicanery” all over again ? Like you know being an episode that was 3 seasons in the making.
Like I genuinely have a feeling “Plan and Execution” feels exactly the same way. Something that was 6 seasons in the making and is going to have a giant lasting effect.
Too many characters and things from previous seasons are connected to it from what I’ve seen. Especially the storyline they are getting into. Characters that are from Season 1 and 2 that I’ve seen are coming back or might be coming back. It’s intriguing, very intriguing.
But it’s also scary, it’s truly scary. I don’t know what they’re going to do and I have no idea how they’re going to do it but I just want the episode right now.
I can’t keep waiting. I just want it now. I want to know what happens.
In this house we love and appreciate Jimmy McGill.
