[spoiler]I love the scene where Jesse is taking apart Todd’s apartment, and you get overhead view of all of the rooms that is scouring through.
Just enough Walt.[/spoiler]
Liked it, but in part because I loved BB, and this is like a pretty good BB episode. But not a top 10 episode. In some ways, the circumstances are similar to the Deadwood movie, and I think they did it better. But I liked it, and I’m happy it exists.
Robert Forster passed away today. 
I was glad he was able to get a final role in El Camino. I loved watching him work.
I liked it a lot.
Looks like Jane was the apparition.
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Merged threads.
I loved how the vacuum peddler wouldn’t discount his price. And what Jessie had to do to get the $1,800 dollars. Great touch.
Jesse will never have a happy ending no matter what. He will have PTSD his whole life.
I appreciate that we understand the brutality Jesse endured without having to see it. The scars and the PTSD tell the story. For a chilling moment, I thought we were going see what ‘fun’ Todd had dreamed up for a weekend alone with Jesse.
I liked the movie but it was really just two good episodes of Breaking Bad. They went to all that trouble, why not make another season? I wouldn’t mind finding out what happened to all the other characters too. Walt sent a whole bunch of chaos in motion and seeing the consequences would have made plenty of material. Did Gretchen and Elliot make good on their coerced promise? What is Walt jr. having for breakfast? Where is Marie now?
But hey, I’ll take what I can get. Maybe they’ll be another one. Some of my favorite touches: the bizarre Todd and Lydia snow globe. Jesse calling out Walt for being on stage when he graduated and forgetting about it. Badger owning a freaking Fiero, a car I forgot about 20 years ago. Badger and Skinny Pete happily handing over their ‘hitman’ cash. Good fun, would recommend. I’ll probably watch it twice.
This is the best way to put it, I think. I enjoyed it a lot, and I’d certainly watch more in the future, but there wasn’t much to differentiate it from the main BB series.
The Fiero was a nice touch.
Yeah, I have a question about him. He runs his business in Albuquerque, and all his clients have been from there, too. Just how large of a seamy underworld (with people who need to “disappear”) can a city the size of Albuquerque sustain? It just seems kind of convenient that he could set up shop in a relative podunk and stay in business just from the local population.
Fair.
There’s about 1.1 million people in the combined ABQ-Santa Fe MSA. Walt, of course, had a larger market.
I liked the fact that, when Breaking Bad ended GQ interviewed Vince Gilligan and, talking about Jesse, asked, “What do you think happened to him?”
And he replied:
My personal feeling is that he got away. But the most likely thing, as negative as this sounds, is that they’re going to find this kid’s fingerprints all over this lab and they’re going to find him within a day or a week or a month. And he’s still going to be on the hook for the murder of two federal agents. But yeah, even though that’s the most likely outcome, the way I see it is that he got away and got to Alaska, changed his name, and had a new life. You want that for the kid. He deserves it.
Right off the bat, they clearly have an issue with a lot of drugs, gangs and violence in the area, so there’s that. But keep in mind that Mike and Saul have more than just Walt and Jesse as clients. I’d imagine they’ve put feelers out to make their services known. Not that anyone knows exactly what’s going on, but if someone in California or Colorado or Mexico needs to disappear, they know a guy that knows a guy who knows a guy and eventually find him.
And, yeah, the $1800. That’s $1800 out of a quarter million (or $125,000 if you look at it that way). I was kinda surprised that he was a stickler over that. I was surprised he didn’t let it go or Vince didn’t make it a bit more. The other guy had close to a half million dollars, so Vince could have made Jesse $50,000 short and it still would have played out the same.
As for the actual show, I liked it, I thought it was great, Aaron Paul has clearly grown as an actor. However, it felt like it could have been the next episode or two of Breaking Bad, or even integrated into the final season somehow. But, maybe that’s a good thing. It didn’t feel like the entire cast and crew took a few years off.
Todd got fat.
I could see his point. Everyone has a sad story and if he eats $1800 for one client, it won’t be the last time he does it. And consider: If you have it in you to get $123.2 K together, you certainly (as Jesse did) have it in you to get the full amount. What was his line? “If tugging on heartstrings is your best option, you might have a better chance going to law enforcement.” Or something like that.
Just watched it. It was somehow both the longest AND shortest 2 hrs of my life. It was great. Even though nothing surprising happened. Or anything really exciting., either. Worth seeing. 7 thumbs up.