Yeah, Tuco was a supervillian in Breaking Bad (the baddest motherfucker up to that point) I agree its how they write him and what we know. I was wryly smiling the whole time those two guys who look like The Proclaimers were talking shit to em


BB had so much in the bank by the time that machine gun thing happened he could have made them spontaneously combust and I would have been fine with it. (Plus they built Walter up into a superhero that could actually pull off that crazy shit)

I think they're trying to show that Tuco isn't quite Full Tuco, yet. Maybe he's not that into doing drugs or just getting started and his brain still functions to some extent - even though he can "smell lies".

I liked that he was cooking. Tuco does a lot of cooking in these shows.

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Or you could go with the theory that Walt actually died in New Hampshire and everything that happened in the finale was a dream of his as he died. The fact that Walt is, as Jesse said to Hank, "is luckier than you", is taken to the extreme as everything works out just right for him and he's able to drift in and out of spaces without being seen by anyone.

I don't go with that theory though.

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I still want one of those burritos Walt tried to poison.

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I don't think it could be any more clear that the brother is losing his mind.

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Hey! Any time Tuco wants to stage at Tex Wasabi's, he's more than welcome! Those aren't lies I smell! It's ancho chiles and tomatillos!

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In 2015 I think we've arrived at the point where I dont have to say "Wikipedia isnt always right, but..."

I never watched Breaking Bad. I saw a few moments of the show, including where Saul is introduced into the series. I thought it was funny enough that I would get in on the ground floor of this series.

I generally liked the first two episodes.

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Cant wait til the episode where Saul convinces a woman he's Kevin Costner

Yes, not only in the way he acts but in the way his law partners react.

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That's a great episode, but there are a few episodes of season 3 of The Wire that immediately come to mind as being superior to any installment of Breaking Bad. Notably, the season finale, the episode where Stringer Bell is killed, and the episode where Stringer reveals the truth about D'Angelo's "suicide" to Avonare all significantly better, in my opinion, than "Ozymandias." I haven't fully worked out my analysis of "The Wire" just yet--it is an incredibly complex cultural production that operates at the level of many canonical social realist novels--but the way it (particularly season 3) interweaves the concepts of dystopia (postindustrial Baltimore)and utopia (Hamsterdam), good and evil (through the use of an expansive set of doppelgangers that establish connections between seemingly opposed figures such as, for instance, Stringer Bell and McNulty), and individual destiny and larger structural economic forces is absolutely remarkable. Breaking Bad (another show where the development of multiple doppelganger pairings is fascinating to watch) is fantastic in part because it brilliantly develops Walter White as a metaphor for White America, but conceptually it can't hold a candle to The Wire.

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The guy who plays Tuco looks very old in this show. I know it's been a few years, but guys like Odenkirk, and the older ex-cop who plays Mike generally look the same. Get Tuco some makeup or something.

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Tuco filmed his last BB scene like 7 years before Mike and Saul. It was just more gradual with them.

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Gilligan did a Breaking Bad Insider podcast which was the best official podcast I'd ever heard (along with Ron Moore's whiskey influenced Battlestar Galactica ones).

They're doing another one - Better Call Saul Insider - going to give it a listen tonight.

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Odenkirk is on the first one.

I find this production stuff interesting but I used to do some production stuff in another life.

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I remember when you stole Daniel LaRusso's gf


I might give that a shot. I remember you raving about the BB podcast. How spoiler-ish is it?

for what its worth, i was watching this last night when my grandpa passed. i thought it was good but i guess it killed him

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sorry about that ike

Sorry about your grandpa Ike. Sounds like maybe this was for the best in the end for all involved. At least you
were there for him.

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Is there anything you can't do, Dr.?

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Good call on Tuco and a lot of other good stuff in here
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/12/tuco-breaking-bad-better-call-saul_n_6654794.html

They don't do spoilers at all.

But you have to get past 15 minutes of -

"We're so blessed to have you direct for us"
"This is the greatest writing staff God ever created"
"Our facilities manager can reverse tornadoes"

If you don't get the sugar diabeetus from that, there's pretty good/funny stuff in there.

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Cool, thanks.

I'm horrible at crossword puzzles.

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He appears unable to support a decent college athletics program.

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everything went as well as it possibly could have. he wasnt in pain when he passed, he wasnt even awake as far as i could tell and thats exactly the way we hoped he would go.

what im having a hard time with is the simple fact he wont be around anymore. i just dont want him gone

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