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proximoception) wrote2017-03-26 12:44 am
proximoception) wrote2017-03-26 12:44 am
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Better Call Saul 1&2 rewatch thoughts:
1. If The Walking Dead is a show that didn't realize how much it had hobbled itself and then (eventually, inconsistently) learned to make a virtue of necessity this is a show that made everything hard as hell for itself because those working on it are so good at this point that that's just what easy looks like to them. Their lead is a comedian. Their second lead is like 75 or something. Worst: the show is mostly about actual, non-trial, non-murder, non-Perry Mason lawyering. That it's an allegory about deontological vs. consequentialist understandings of right and wrong isn't such a big deal - even superheroes are about that these days. But this show has had several subplots revolving around, like, billing.
2. Is the title not just referring to his commercials (as in "you had better call Saul") but also presenting another adjective-proper-noun nickname along the lines of Slippin' Jimmy? If Jimmy slips backwards because his corner-cutting makes him uncareful, Saul is someone who finds ways to situationally make a "better call" when following the rules proves detrimental?
3. The color scheme is sure up to something. They're almost always keeping both yellow and blue in the shot. Yellow seems to be a color of rules or boundaries or something along those lines, blue (e.g. Hamlindigo) of lawyers or other officials (so, what, legal compliance?), and red that of rulebreaking or maybe just making one's own rules. Instances of note: Jimmy's first car (yellow with a red door), Lance's second shirt in 2.09 (blue with a big red stripe). I couldn't make out the colors of the pens Kim seemed to be switching between in 2.10 but choosing between them would fit her role at the time.
4. On the rewatch the recorded conversation in 2.10 seems less clearly damning, but very clearly something where Jimmy would need to get Chuck put away if he wants to defend it as just humoring a crazy person. So I imagine that's what they must be headed toward.
0. How great this show is.
1. If The Walking Dead is a show that didn't realize how much it had hobbled itself and then (eventually, inconsistently) learned to make a virtue of necessity this is a show that made everything hard as hell for itself because those working on it are so good at this point that that's just what easy looks like to them. Their lead is a comedian. Their second lead is like 75 or something. Worst: the show is mostly about actual, non-trial, non-murder, non-Perry Mason lawyering. That it's an allegory about deontological vs. consequentialist understandings of right and wrong isn't such a big deal - even superheroes are about that these days. But this show has had several subplots revolving around, like, billing.
2. Is the title not just referring to his commercials (as in "you had better call Saul") but also presenting another adjective-proper-noun nickname along the lines of Slippin' Jimmy? If Jimmy slips backwards because his corner-cutting makes him uncareful, Saul is someone who finds ways to situationally make a "better call" when following the rules proves detrimental?
3. The color scheme is sure up to something. They're almost always keeping both yellow and blue in the shot. Yellow seems to be a color of rules or boundaries or something along those lines, blue (e.g. Hamlindigo) of lawyers or other officials (so, what, legal compliance?), and red that of rulebreaking or maybe just making one's own rules. Instances of note: Jimmy's first car (yellow with a red door), Lance's second shirt in 2.09 (blue with a big red stripe). I couldn't make out the colors of the pens Kim seemed to be switching between in 2.10 but choosing between them would fit her role at the time.
4. On the rewatch the recorded conversation in 2.10 seems less clearly damning, but very clearly something where Jimmy would need to get Chuck put away if he wants to defend it as just humoring a crazy person. So I imagine that's what they must be headed toward.
0. How great this show is.
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Yeah sure is great. The bedroom scene with Kim Wexler coaxing him into action is still one of my favorite scenes in any show ever.
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I watched 1.01 last night. Can't believe how good it was and how much they got into one episode.
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Though rewatching confirmed the 2.10 timelapsed exterior shot really is the first of the series. So maybe the two will merge or something? Sidewequel-ize?
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I think I probably agree. Caveat though that I haven't watched nearly everything that's good and some shows swing harder for the fences but that's not everything.
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