re: tOfficial Better Call Saul S06E06 “Axe and Grind” Thread

I can have a civilized discussion if you disagree without insulting me.

The down voters with nothing to say only encourage me.

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Don't provoke him. It would be great if he took a week off.

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great.... a dozen posts of ham responding to himself.

starting to get concerned we may have another druid focket on our hands folks.

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Funny how you ignored the middle name divorce court theory comment.

Do you still think that's a thing? You seemed pretty convinced about that before the season started.

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the only thing thats funny is you dont understand that im making fun of you by citing garbage theories that must be true based off nearly nothing.

We're at the end. It's blatantly obvious he doesn't have it in him to be Saul by himself.

She's made of sterner stuff.

Your turn to tell me she dies or they break up and he flips the Saul switch.

Been hearing that bs for years now.

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give him a heart attack

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Could see that happening for sure.

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The “gift” that Kim’s mom gave her at the end of the first scene, was that the pair of gold earrings that Kim has been wearing this entire series?

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She appears to be wearing the same style while at the vet.

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She literally turned her back on this. Had a clear choice to make about which road to take and turned around.

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I know. I am saying I wonder if this ends up being what turns her back to the good side (so to speak). She's made her "breaking bad" choice, and she's dabbled in swindling shite before. But she also usually has an "oh shite" moment where she snaps back to reality a bit and calms herself down. So I am wondering if that is gonna happen this time or if she's gonna push all the way through to breaking bad (and stay there).

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And, granted, neither Breaking Bad nor this show were ever truly "realistic" but they usually do a good job of meticulously showing the steps in a character's actions/journey so it was a little jarring that they pretty much "cheated" with Lalo being able to track everybody down in Germany with just the barest crumbs to work with. Screw working for Eladio, with his skills he should have had the Salamancas partnered with the CIA instead and he would get the green light to wax Gus whenever he'd like!

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That's a good call, and I think that's what may bother me the most about Lalo. He's basically a cheat code in god-mode. He's always where he needs to be and always gains the upper hand and doesn't lose, basically. It just feels cheap to me. It could've very easily been written to have him get all the info he needed from Magarethe, for example. But instead he's going all over Europe hunting down the workers.

Too much of this feels like "filler" lately, and that is very unlike him. But as always, I have all the faith in the world in Vince, so I am not really worried.


ETA: Does anybody else feel like the vet scene was kinda awkward? Like in what world would he be like "Here, take a look at this book with all of my contact information for all the illegal shite I do..."? I don't care if it was coded or not or that he's wanting to leave the "business," that just seemed like a super stupid move for him to make. He's been portrayed as more careful than that most of the time. It felt sloppy, and like it was forced simply so Saul/Kim could see the vacuum card.

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I agree tou your terms.

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Cool, can you agree to that with everybody else in the thread too? That way you can just suck your own dick and everyone else can just ignore you and actually have some decent discussion about the show?

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1. Didnt like the flashback mom scene

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I agree with that. Or actually, I don't mind them I just wish they had given us glimpses throughout the run of the show as opposed to cramming them into the last season to try to show that Kim isn't who they've shown her to be for five seasons (or four and a half).

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2. Said Sony wanted Vince to split it into 2 parts and Vince wanted 10 episodes, so he's having to fill an extra 4 episodes which explains the unnecessary drawn out plot points.

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That makes some sense, but I would also have expected Vince to have more pull than that considering how successful he's been, especially with this property. I'd have assumed he was in "total creative control" territory at this point. Interesting.

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4. Overall said its a downer episode but we should appreciate these and them letting it breath vs a rushed last season.

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That's just it though, if he had 10 planned out, then you know it wouldn't be rushed at all. Making him spread things out only hurts the story.