re: Better Call Saul S3 E10 Lantern (Season Finale)

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i was watching LSU get beat on iPad so I glanced away a few times but I don't recall seeing any scenes with Mike. His storyline wasn't wrapped up already was it? I feel like I missed something.

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It was wrapped up enough to end the season on. He was hired by Gus. We'll see what that entails starting next season.



Anyone think there may be a big time jump before the start of the next season? There's still years from now until the start of Breaking Bad; if this show is going to be 5 seasons long there's going to have to be a time jump. It's 2003 on Better Call Saul and the Breaking Bad pilot episode starts on Walt's birthday, Sept 28, 2008.

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Can we turn this into the BCS CRACKPOT THREAD? There's so much fun to be had

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Well, we have a whole year to conjecture so we might as well go all out

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It is possible Chuck leaves it to someone else. I can't see him committing suicide knowing that money would go straight to Jimmy. Time will tell, but the firm is still on the hook for that money to go somewhere.

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I think Chuck was so broken and despondent when he committed suicide that he didn't even give a shite to think about where any of his money will go.

Given Chuck's previous secret loathing of his brother (not hiring him at the firm etc.) it's very likely that if he does have a will, Jimmy ain't in it. But who knows, really, because I think Chuck deep down did care for Jimmy at a certain level. But you can care for someone and at the same time know they're a bad person and want to keep them away.

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And her pushing all her meetings back. What is she thinking? She's got work to do. Something in her head clicked when Francesca was still there. It isn't just her needing more time for recovery

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I think you may be on to something here. With the amount of foreshadowing they do, I kind of raised an eyebrow when Jimmy was giving Kim some medicine. Remember when he asked her something like "Tylenol or the good stuff." She replied "always the good stuff."

I'm just wondering if things go completely off the rails with Kim.

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maybe Kim broke bad

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Not yet. Patience.

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My takeaway from the episode was that Jimmy realized his superpower was to destroy things.

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And that may affect his relationship with Kim. His brother's words were, "In the end, you’re going to hurt everyone around you. You can’t help it. So stop apologizing and accept it. "

The irony may be that this was Chuck's realization about himself. But using those words to Jimmy may cause Jimmy to blame himself for Kim's injury (writers chose to injure Kim for a reason). So in order to protect Kim from Jimmy, Jimmy may just destroy himself in a similar manner that he did in front of Irene and the old ladies. Could that scene have been a foreshadowing of what Jimmy will do with his relationship with Kim?

That may mean that J+K =/= S, but in my opinion, it makes more sense than believing Kim was operating behind the scenes in BB. It's far more plausible that Jimmy drove her away from him to protect her from him causing her additional harm.

The next season will have to be about how Jimmy pushes Kim away. We'll feel sympathy for her because Kim is loyal to him and there is no need to separate. But Jimmy has his own mental demons, just as his brother Chuck did. He doesn't think rationally.

The theory is still wrong. In the show she talked about admiring Atticus Finch, how making a difference is what matters to her. That helping a local bank become a regional bank is not fulfilling.

She is going to recover and move on to something bigger like advocacy. She isn't going to be swindling and bailing out drug dealers even if she is a financier. You completely undercut the character of straight arrow Kim Wexler that never had any seeds of corruption to begin with.

But we'll wait and wait. And when the bridge gets burned and she goes her own way, we'll laugh about all the space this ridiculous theory took up on this board.

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I do find it funny that him doing that to Irene pissed off all of TigerDroppings

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To be fair it didn't bother me. You have all these old ladies in the class action that will probably be dead in "a number of years" it takes to settle like the firm is doing.

At least this way they get their cash before they are 6 ft. under. Yea Jimmy did it as shitty was as possible but it's a better outcome for everyone involved IMO.

The fact that it bothers you so much that people would want to talk about theories about a fictional TV show says a lot about your personality.

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I know most of us were tired of Chuck, but that fire lighting up in silence and straight to credits.. that was powerful..

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This. Propably the most powerful scene since Hank was killed in BB.