He kills Emilio with poison gas in the pilot! Then chokes Kraft 8 to death with a bicycle lock a couple episodes later. He later kills two of Gus’s street dealers (one by running him over with his car, the other by shooting him in the head), shoots two of Gus’s meth lab employees to death when he’s rescuing Jesse…

Saul went into hiding at the same time as Walt, which is after Jack & crew killed Hank and Gomez in the desert. At that point Gus has been dead for months — something Saul helped set up — and shortly before his death Gus wiped out the cartel. Jesse witnessed the whole thing and even killed a cartel goon himself while…

I feel like El Camino’s sole reason for existing was to give us definitive closure on Jesse’s character, after BrBa appeared to leave him in a no-win situation with the authorities closing in on Walt, and Jesse “escaping” with only the clothes on his back and the burden of unimaginable trauma while wanted for murder…

Wasn’t Saul’s life in danger after the events of Ozymandias? Jack Welker and crew owned the Southwest meth trade at that point, they’d demonstrated a willingness to kill DEA agents, and they would have viewed Saul as a huge loose end. Walt’s exposure would lead the feds to look into his lawyer’s dealings, which I’m…

After doing some Google legal research (the best kind of legal research), I wonder if the statute of limitations will come up in the final episode. While there is no statute of limitations for murder, Gene and Kim were never really involved in murder. The federal statute of limitations for most felonies is 5 years…

Aaron Paul got much better as he grew into the role and Jesse’s character deepened. He did the tormented soul stuff really well, once he was dealing with weighty problems like Jane’s death and Gale’s murder and eventually becoming enslaved. I thought his performance was fine in El Camino. But he seems unable to unpeel…

I feel like watching BCS first would spoil a lot of the reveals in Breaking Bad around the relationship between Gus and the cartel and the meth lab. In the original series, all of these strokes are painted one at a time, gradually revealing a mysterious underworld that turns out to be the backdrop for an epic…

I saw it as, the moment Saul called her in the sprinkler office, all the trauma she had compartmentalized around Lalo and Howard came back all at once. After Howard’s death, Jimmy and Kim each rationalized their earlier behavior differently, with Jimmy coming to view their actions as necessary and justified (creating…

I’m pretty sure this episode contained the only two instances in which Jimmy/Saul/Gene considers committing violence himself across both series — when he’s going to smash the cancer guy with the dog’s urn, and when he threatens to strangle Marion. Both times he doesn’t actually go through with it, because he’s not…

Am I alone in thinking human-William was surprisingly level-headed about his horrifying fate? Despite being frozen in a Vetruvian Man pose for decades, he always seemed kind of civil and eager to engage whenever woken up, even offering advice. It doesn’t seem like they ever let him run a few laps to get some fresh air.

So this has largely flown under the radar given all the other crazy things going on, but did Hale *really* keep human-William in a Winter Soldier-esque cryogenic stasis pod for 30 years just so she could thaw him out for 10 minutes every once in a while to taunt him? And the payoff to all this is that he just gets…

We’re all confused about this because of poor storytelling, but I think the idea is that Hale-bot began as a straight copy of Season 1 & 2 Dolores in a different shell, however she also absorbed aspects of the human Hale’s personality in order to assume her role in the real world. In the process she became attached to…

So it was one thing when Caleb was human and he had a silly hairpiece. My problem is, why would you create 279 replicas of the hairpiece, as opposed to 3D printing a Caleb with his natural hairline? Is that meant to be Caleb-Prime’s real hair? Because I can suspend disbelief for a lot of things with this show but…

They’re going to need some multiverse-bending explanation for why there are suddenly thousands of mutants in the MCU out of nowhere, after mutants were never mentioned throughout 15 years of MCU content. Casting a young Xavier in his 20s or 30s doesn’t really fix this problem, because the mutants are all meant to have…

I have this sinking feeling that The Flash is also going to get shitcanned, meaning that Michael Keaton will have filmed two performances as Batman that are never seen by the public. Maybe Batman Returns is the last we’ll ever see of him in the role and there will be this weird footnote in his obituary about corporate…

I think the real story here is that it has never made sense to film big-budget movies for the direct-to-streaming market. Big budget *series* keep audiences hooked and renewing their subscriptions for years. Dumping a $100 million movie on streaming does nothing to attract or retain new subscribers, because it’s only…

I’m sure they’ll be fine career wise, they’ve already got a proven track record. If the movie really is Catwoman-bad, this whole debacle may wind up doing them a favor, as the party line is that this is all about tax loopholes and corporate mergers, and the public can’t judge the quality of the movie.

I think the explanation there is that the host body fabricator is so advanced that you can just feed it a few still images from someone’s social media feed, and it spits out an exact 3D printed body double. Of course, it’s 100% accurate because whenever they want to show a host double of a human character, they just…

Why would that piss him off? She left him years earlier. Maybe Kim has cancer and Gene devised the whole identity theft scam to save enough money to pay for her treatment.

I think they wanted audiences to worry more about the Jimmy/Saul/Gene story and a little less about when Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul might show up for a single five minute scene. That may be it for their involvement! If it had been kept a “secret,” that could overshadow the main story.