Better Call Saul

If it was in a lower-crime area they would have just shot him to death before knocking

Quineloe_sl said:

You're right, of course. I didn't mean to put so much emphasis on the million, I do assume he is living in one of the best districts of the city?

I doubt in the lower class areas the cops would come if someone reported a stolen newspaper.

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if the town is small enough (and white enough) that the crime rate isnt too bad, the cops will come for just about anything. my local paper's police blotter lists some crazy shit the police were called about. a neighbor's tree had a branch fall off onto their next door neighbor lawn. somebody left a few empty beer bottles on a resident's door step, and one terrible person dumped an old couch onto their roadside curb. so a man wrapped in tinfoil stealing a neighbor's newspaper isnt very surprising.

I want to hug that man.

How many idiots try to break into a car with the rope tomorrow?

thats an old trick, newer cars probably dont come with those doorlock doohickys anymore. that old crown vic sure, because its for cops and old people, anything else is usually flush with the door when its locked.

great episode, i wonder how long ago gilligan wrote that backstory for mike and is just now using it?

Knowing Gilligan I'd say not very long

he knows saul hates cops and is not a very honest lawyer

I think that was the best hour of TV I've seen this year.

lanx_sl said:

what did i miss when saul was like "how did you know i'd do that" (pour coffee onto vest)

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Nothing. It's just Mike being Mike, the same way he knew Walt was a ticking time bomb, and how he knew Jesse was essentially a harmless kid in over his head.

Jeeeeesus. That episode was astounding. I want a Mike spin-off show now.

cabbitcabbit_sl said:

Jeeeeesus. That episode was astounding. I want a Mike spin-off show now.

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A new show piggybacking off of the success of the main show focusing on a supporting character. That would never work!

Stosh_sl said:

Nothing. It's just Mike being Mike, the same way he knew Walt was a ticking time bomb, and how he knew Jesse was essentially a harmless kid in over his head.

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Someone reads IGN

How did Mike know that Jimmy would spill that coffee? Because he's Mike. He sees right through people, right to the heart of who they are. It's the same skill that told him Walter White was a bomb waiting to go off, and that Jesse, though flawed, was fundamentally good-natured.

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Better Call Saul: "5-0" ReviewBetter Call Saul: Review - IGN

The whole episode was absolutely excellent and

He played it perfectly to. Mike was always the epitome of understatement with that deadpan stare of his. The desire for your kids to do better and be better than you is at the core of every father, the ones that are worth a shit anyway. It has to be a hard and bitter thing realize you snatched defeat from the jaws of victory on that score. That you failed yourself and your kid. But he didn't oversell it. He told his daughter-in-law that cops aren't touchy feely but if your familiar enough with Mike, there was a world of pain in that face.

Brad2770_sl said:

Someone reads IGN



Better Call Saul: "5-0" ReviewBetter Call Saul: Review - IGN

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No. I just listen to Vince Gilligan on the BCS podcast.

cabbitcabbit_sl said:

Jeeeeesus. That episode was astounding. I want a Mike spin-off show now.

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Now that we've had an episode devoted to Mike and his backstory, I'm betting we're going to start seeing him become more integral to the show. After this, he can't just go back to sitting in a parking garage counting stickers. At some point, we know he's going to become a private investigator (which means he'd have reason to work with Saul), and hopefully we'll eventually get to see how he got involved with Gus.