I'm with you. I was visiting Albuquerque when they first put up that billboard and I saw it off the freeway. I actually thought it was an advertisement for the upcoming show. Now that I think about it, ABQ would be the LAST place you would need to advertise for that show. Plus, it's not like it said "Better Call Saul" on it. I am 2x as dumb for not catching that.
I still do not know what is up with his brother and the whole no electricity deal and that stupid foil blanket? So weird.
He apparently has "electromagnetic sensitivity" which is probably being exacerbated or induced by a psychiatric disorder. At first I thought he'd be sort of an "advisor" character... but now I think he's going to be involved in a way that Saul will have to make a tough decision in how to deal with him.
I felt this episode was mostly backstory and foreshadowing. One of those episodes that seems kind of ho-hum at first but will take on a lot of meaning later on.
Yea I'm just having an issue seeing how he will play a role in this show, but obviously something will happen after Saul tried to hide the front page story from him and the last scene was him opening it up and looking at it. Great show, though. 10x better than I expected.
This...people forget how slow-paced the first seasons of BB, Wire etc. were. You mostly get to know the characters and things are set up for future episodes.
that makes two of us...I was wondering why the person being saved was so ungrateful that he was rescued lol!
People also like to judge on an episode by episode basis, this one sucked, this one was awesome, etc. Me, I'm in for the long haul and will judge it on a seasonal basis. There has to be character development and story arch building or it won't work as a series. I think a lot of groundwork was laid in this episode and we're starting to see the internal struggle he goes through that's going to lead to him becoming it's all good man, Saul Goodman.
Saul is a very different character than Walt but there are some striking similarities. While Walt is much quieter, cold and calculating and doesn't mince words, you see Saul constantly practicing exactly what he's going to say when a particular situation arises, constantly trying to stay a step ahead. They both are masterminds in the way they assess future events. You get the feeling while watching BB that Saul is just a scumbag lawyer and craps his pants whenever violence is threatened, but he went right at Nacho when Nacho accused him of being a rat and set him straight. The back stories are strikingly different but still raise the same moral dilemmas. Walt tries to keep on the straight and narrow until the system inevitably screws him, but his backstory with the company he sold his share in is really what motivates him to build his "legacy". Jimmy on the other hand is tied to his current life as a low level public defender trying to stay good for his brother's sake, but he soon returns to his base instincts to game the system after realizing it is the only way he can get what he really wants, which is that same respect, the same "legacy".
Very well put, solid analysis. I love that this show makes people think about characters in such a way.
Great analysis! We know from the start of BB that Jaul McGoodman doesn't have a fancy office like Hamlin, doesn't have women beating down his doors, and is truly the "criminal" lawyer. So I imagine the arc of this show will be a sort of rising/falling thing, as in he rises to great heights only to be brought down by his scumbaggery. But whereas sometimes WW's need to constantly talk things out could be annoying and counterproductive ("Let's review options...."), with Jimmy, it's the one thing he has in order to rectify situations and is actually a positive for him- as we've seen already with the skaters and with Nacho. I imagine, though, that as it progresses, at some point his mouth and ego will get him in serious trouble.
So, the scam Saul and the big dude pulled...what happens if the guy just takes the money in the wallet? It seems like it would have to be fake money but it didn't seem to play like that. To assume the guy is always going to go for the watch is a pretty big leap of faith. And, what kind of guy walks around with $500+ plus in his wallet like that? I guess Saul must have spotted the dude's large cash amount earlier at the bar they were before and targeted him. But, everyone should have the 101 on the difference between a fake Rolex and a real one. Once you compare the two...the differences are obvious. It was a pretty decent scam, though, because you see the guy has $1,000+...his watch must be a Rolex. I'm sure a lot of people would fall for that...especially if they are already drunk. Anything like that which happens in real life that seems too good to be true...99% of the time it probably is.
If you're drunk at 2 AM in a dark alley I'm not sure you can easily tell the difference. If for some reason the guy happens to take the money, then big guy wakes up and proceeds to raise hell.
I think it was just fake money. When they're laughing in the apartment drinking beer, Saul makes a comment saying "it's just beer money". So I think all they profit is whatever is in the guy's wallet, his $80.
