The Scene That Made Me Fall in Love with Better Call Saul
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- Опубліковано 6 жов 2024
- The pistachios, Mason. What do they mean?!?
Watch and find out.
A lot of stories fail to get "show, don't tell" right. Better Call Saul is not one of those shows. The scene of Mike swapping the trackers is one of the absolute best examples of this storytelling method on modern TV.
Mike is such a great antithesis to Walter.
He’s so methodical in almost everything. What he did was carefully planned.
Meanwhile, Walter was just shooting and bombing his way to victory. An agent of chaos.
"I just realized I could have gotten the names from Lydia."
"Shut the fuck up and let me die."
Walter? You mean Pinkman
@@SERGIODELRÍOREYESPinkman was childish at the beginning then grew as a character. Walter was crazy from the beginning, he was manipulative and egotistical til the end. I thought he was the good guy until the end the first time I watched the series but when I watched it a second time, he was just scary by how crazy he was under the guise of caring for his loved ones. I was mad at myself for hating on Skylar the first time I watched the series because everything she did was to support her husband and it all actually makes sense, she was the normal one in the series not Walter.
I love Mike in both shows. I feel that Walt’s story is a tragedy in the classic sense, a hero brought to ruin by his own flaw. In Walt’s case, he starts breaking bad out of love and concern for his family, but his love of power and intimidation drive him too far. Pinkman is the unluckiest victim of Walt’s madness. Mike is the coolest badassiest character ever devised 😍❤‼
I have to admit, I was confused a bit when I first watched this particular scene. You REALLY have to be on top of it to really digest all of Mike's actions and their broader implications. But the thing with the pistachios is just a beautiful little mark of creativity that, as a Gilliverse viewer, you simply come to expect! Great analysis, hope you cover BCS more in the future.
It’s a brilliant scene.
I definitely plan to talk BCS more in the future. The character arcs there are simply too good to ignore.
When you write like this it makes rewatching sooooo much more fun, you can watch countless times but there will always be something that feels fresh like you've never seen it before
I remember watching this for the first time, and was absolutely confused but also thoroughly intrigued. Thank you covering such a niche yet awesome scene.
It was such a cool experience piecing this scene together as it was happening. Glad you enjoyed it!
tbh that amount of pistaccios would signify merely minutes if it was me
Plus pistachios are YUMMY, showing that Mike has great taste.
The ENTIRE show is like this. That’s why it’s the best show ever put on television.
This is the exact same advice I've given to storytellers on UA-cam.
To many of them will create a fan fiction and then pause it multiple times every few minutes just to try and explain what's going on.
I give them the advice, let the story show the explanation. Don't pause the story to tell the explanation.
Shame Gus didn't notice him spending 6 hours at a junkyard.
OMG i love it when i find other people who enjoy the same shows i do. I really liked breaking bad & I loved better call saul. Needless to say, I was sad when it ended. There's not very many series available that compares or comes close to these 2 masterpieces.
I loved Better Call Saul so much. It's everything: the characters, the cinematography, the script, the acting, the plot, the colours... What a delight watching this show was. I had not seen Breaking Bad prior, so I had no previous knowledge, but it didn't take away from the experience one bit.
Mike is such a brilliant character, I loved him in both series. He was the anti to WW and I became a sucker for him the more Walter becomes unhinged.
Brilliant review...brilliant episode! It's Twofer Saturday! :D
Thank you!
Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould are the true masters of “visual storytelling”.
Not that pretentious Zack Snyder.
Better Call Saul is such an amazing show!! Better Call Saul and Breaking Bad do show don’t tell better than any other show except maybe The Wire And sometimes The Wire shows a bit too much.
Succession does show don’t tell super well too.
One thing I love about Better Call Saul, is that it really made me realize that there's beauty in the simple and mundane things.
From Saul doing pettiest things to get fired, Nacho throwing pills, Mike disassembling his car, to once again Saul advertising to sell phones.
All of it, in isolation just seems like very tedious stuff, and yet it's incredibly satisfying to see the pay-off because you know why these characters are doing these things. Just seeing someone so focused and so patient into doing something so simple is brilliant, and it's something we take for granted a lot of time.
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Thank you so much!
This is the moment Master Samwise Better Called Saul
Why is he eating pistachios made me think of a legendary line:
“I'll take a potato chip... and eat it!“
Better Call Saul is my favorite show of all time
As an old saying goes: "Speaking is silver, silence is gold".
Well breaking bad and better call sual are best show ever made
They're certainly up there for me.
Funny, it's one of the scenes I didn't like. Seeing Mike do all this stuff for me was "okay, he's a badass operator, I get it".
I think the scene that struck me the most in BCS is when the army commander comes back to tell Saul to drop his add. It gives such depth as to who the character of Saul is, and the consequences he has over the world.
Do you think shows stopped asking for their viewers attention because they knew they wouldn’t get it, or did viewers stop giving shows their undivided attention because they realized it wasn’t needed?
Brilliant. It's been a while now since I watched this but I do remember that sequence and how thrilling it was discovering and working out the pieces along the way, then wondering what precisely was his plan when he put it all back together.
I never did fully watch Breaking Bad (limited opportunity when it first aired and then just the timing of life) so I knew a few of the characters and general plot but I never realized the genius behind the show. Better Call Saul roped me in so hard it was like the most beautiful self-torture of suspense and pain, haha! Contrasted with what has become the very lazy and practically insulting writing we see so often today, it stood out that much more as an absolute work of art 😍
I can't stand that I'm tainting the comments with this request, but I wonder if you've seen a certain very pink movie and what your thoughts are around the writing and implementation. Personally I felt slapped in the face with a lot of telling, not showing, and wonder how it might have been done correctly to maintain satire, but in a more intelligent way. I knew I likely wouldn't agree with the messaging, but was fully ready to welcome a well-crafted film and it simply fell flat for me.
Have you gone back and watched Breaking Bad now? It's absolutely worth it if you haven't.
I personally prefer Better Call Saul, to be honest, but there's a reason Breaking Bad stands up as one of the greatest TV shows of all time.
As for Barbie... maybe? At some point. There are interesting ideas floating around that movie, but the discourse around it isn't the healthiest, so I don't know.
@@master_samwise I haven't watched Breaking Bad just yet since the drug use and aggressive sequences are still a bit too intense for me compared to Saul, but I'm definitely planning to get to it at some point!
I totally agree regarding Barbie. As I asked about it I thought, "But maybe in a year or so when things have settled down some." 😉
Love your channel and your values clearly evidenced by your points of focus. Keep up the awesome work!
I forgot some of the details of this scene. Didn't gus' people get suspicious when the tracker they planted was now on a different car??
He took it from his home car I believe.
@@Eilonwy95 Oh yeah my bad. The cream colored burner car didn't have a tracker so he didn't find anything when he took it apart. Gus' people probably just followed him old school when he switched cars.
They both had trackers.
That was one of the worst and most boring scenes I've ever seen. This scene takes like 15min minutes. We all know Mike, we know trackers, this scene along with the show mostly just stalls for time