"Better Call Saul" Ends

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On August 15, the series finale of Better Call Saul aired. Between Breaking Bad, the 2019 movie El Camino, and this, the Breaking Bad franchise has finally concluded after a legendary 14 year run.

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I cried at the end.

Because Breaking Bad was a tragedy I assumed that Better Call Saul would be one too but I'm glad it was a love story and I'm glad even Slippin' JImmy can still sacrifice everything for love.
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I've only seen YouTube clips of Season 6 so far, but the finale was something else. We spent 5 seasons of Breaking Bad rooting for Walt but this last episode framed it from the perspective of everybody else: he was an immoral drug lord and he and his co-conspirators (Saul included) were heinous criminals deserving of harsh punishment. This "antihero Western" was objectively indistinguishable from a glamorized documentary about a real-life cutthroat mafia cartel.
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I stopped rooting for Walt after the plane blew up.  Then it was like, you know, there's worse things than Cancer....
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I mean, he didn't actually cause the plane thing. You could say he was responsible via the butterfly effect, but that's not really the same thing. Walt never chose to push a button to make two planes collide.
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I mean, he didn't actually cause the plane thing. You could say he was responsible via the butterfly effect, but that's not really the same thing. Walt never chose to push a button to make two planes collide.

No but that's when any rational man would've rethought his life.

That eye of the bear burnt just like Fring.  That eye that Walter pockets and embraces Heisenberg with certainty. That's when Walt pushed the button.

When Saul tells the story of how he met Walter and brings Marie to the point of forgiveness and then uses that to negotiate, I was certain that Saul had pocketed his eyeball so I am glad that his love for Kim, at least, was non-negotiable.


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I have people waiting for me. They don't know what I do, they never will. They're protected. But I do what I do so they can have a better life. And if I live or if I die, it really doesn't make a difference to me as long as they have what they need. So when it's my time to go, I will go knowing I did everything I could for them. Now, you ask me how I keep going? That's how.

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Legen— wait for it— dary…

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I think badger looks like Jimmy McGill.

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I bet Greyparrot looks like Hector Salamanca.

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