| S06E13 Series Finale (Spoiler) |  |
Tolles, ja fantastisches Finale. So viele denkwürdige Momente. Jimmy lebt wieder und hat sich rein gewaschen. Only cost his life. Und Saul ist tot - aber nicht wirklich. Aber er ist dort gelandet wo er nur landen konnte. Unter seinen Fans. Peng Peng. What a show...
Ich zitiere aus dem wie immer tollen reddit live thread über jede Menge Eindrücke und Easter Eggs:
[https://www.reddit.com/r/betterCallSaul/comments/wpigm0/better_call_saul_s06e13_series_finale_saul_gone/]
Kim was the one juror he needed to convince.
The names McGill... James McGill. It's almost as if he destroyed Saul Goodman through that confession and went back to who he was... And all for Kim? Heartbreak.
It wasn't a trial about Saul Goodman's sins. It was a trial about Jimmy McGill's soul. This is everything.
The look Kim exchanged with Jimmy after he admitted everything in the courtroom, particularly I think his admission of regret about Chuck, was as powerful as the reaction Skyler had when Walt acknowledged his actions were for all himself. The combination of pity, understanding, pain, and love all in a single look. Absolutely brilliant.
I liked how in the Chuck flashback the book he brought him was "The Time Machine", implying that if Jimmy could go back and change one thing it would be that moment. Really cool way to answer the question by showing not telling and having him explain it all, I loved it.
I love that Mike, the tough bastard that he was, had a genuine moment of introspection with jimmy. He was honest, vulnerable, and kind. Then Walt was just an asshole to him about the same question. It kinda showed with mike how jimmy wasn’t honest enough with himself to be vulnerable, but then with Walt it seemed like he got closer to being honest, but was shit down constantly by Walt’s attitude. Walt’s “vulnerability” was the same cheap, ego driven “I wish I was rich” fantasy that younger jimmy was starting to grow out of.
I really loved the Mike farewell. He starts off by saying if he could go back in time that he would stop his son’s murder. That is, that his biggest regret is letting them kill his son. But, he stops himself and realizes that he regrets becoming himself, he recognizes that his lifestyle, his corruption is what got his son killed. He wishes he could take it all back, never have his son killed, never get into the cartel business or drug business.
The Chuck flashback seems to have taken place the day before the first episode of the show.
From Saul Gone:
Jimmy: "I'll see you tomorrow, Chuck. And I might have the Financial Times!"
From the pilot:
Chuck: "Oh, Financial Times!"
Jimmy: "I know you missed it so I figured what the heck."
As an aside for anyone who happens to read this, I loved that Walter looks at the watch Jesse gave him when he’s thinking about regrets. Of course he doesn’t admit it, but it’s nice to see that he does harbor guilt about what happened to Jesse.
That last line from Chuck: "There's no shame in going back and changing your path" tied everything together beautifully. Obviously in the moment he's trying to manipulate Jimmy into giving up his career as a lawyer, but you look at how his and the other two conversations about the "time machine" blend together and it all comes together as to why he confessed.
Mike's is all about the residual, heavy regrets that you carry on. They linger with you like a weight, and as much as you try to "wake up one day and forget", there are simply some that you'll never forget about. Things that you'll always carry, like Howard's and Chuck's death (and in Mike's case, what I assume was his son's death and before that his first turn down the "bad choice road"). Walt literally brings up that yes, obviously you can't go back into a time machine to change your choices. Saul's knee spiel and the "So you've always been this way" from Walter is pretty funny but also reaffirms that even up until the very end as Saul, he still couldn't come to terms with his brother and what he'd said.
But when Jimmy confesses, he takes a little bit of what he heard from Mike, Walter, and Chuck, and chooses to "change the past" by completely altering the story he told the prosecution. He "comes out" fully about his part in Howard and Chuck, admits the rest of his crimes, and I think he ultimately accepts that if he's out in the real world, "he'll never change" as Chuck had said. Gene/Victor proved that the moment he went back to Jeff. This was the last chance he had to change his path and he took it, and was finally, truly "all rested" as he'd said to Mike at the beginning.
Loved it.
S01E01 vs S06E13:
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