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What's your take on Saul? I mean, outside of the basic "plot", what do you think the creators are trying to accomplish with it?
What's the artistic "point" of the show?
I take it you think that binge watching the show is the preferable way to experience it. That's cool; different strokes.
I think my comparison with something like HofL works, from the perspective of the audience having a certain set of expectations, and the auteur bending the material to make something completely different than what those expectations are.
I think it's especially true in the case of BCS. I believe it will be possible to, if you have not seen any of the material before: you could:
Watch BB in order, and develop a certain idea of the character of Saul Goodman. His motivations, his life goals, his beliefs, etcetera.
You could then watch BCS, in which everything you thought you knew about Saul is determined to be wrong.
THEN you go back and watch BB again, knowing what you now know about Saul, and now a part of BB becomes completely different than what you thought the first time through. BB has significantly "changed" after watching it, then watching BCS, then watching BB again.
Beautiful. It takes what many, many authors have tried to do, make something meaningful in a prequel format, and make it truly count in some way, but almost all of those are either relatively pointless or crudely simplistic in terms of overall narrative structure, the cause and effect rippling through the overall story in a way that matters. I don't remember seeing anything like this from a prequel.
And I love, simply love, how the details are stitched together. There's just so much detail that has been lovingly put in, that echoes and reverberates through the entire saga. Beautifully crafted.
I'm not positive, but I'm pretty sure that Net Trix has had zero to do with the vision of the show. Since I've never seen any "content" there that does much more than blow ass, i'm relatively sure that Net Trix isn't in the writers room. I could be wrong. But from everything I've seen, Net Trix cares about the artistry of the work about as much as Donald Trump cares about you or me. Again, I could be wrong; for all I know Peter Gould is an agent of the devil. But I don't believe that.
Anyway, I will continue to watch BCS regardless of Net Trick's power over us all! I know i WON'T be watching these shows on NetTrix. That's bad juju right there.
It's got to have you tied up in knots that Netflix is the reason why this show exists {nm} Jul 19, 09:54
Could you expand on that please? (Am honestly ignorant of the connection.) {nm} Jul 19, 14:27
No one was watching BREAKING BAD on AMC until people found the show on Netflix and VOD {nm} Jul 19, 16:05
No one was watching BREAKING BAD on AMC until people found the show on Netflix and VOD {nm} Jul 19, 16:05
https://www.vox.com/platform/amp/recode/2020/7/14/21312595/netflix-breaking-bad-podcast-streaming-land-of-the-giants {nm} Jul 19, 16:17
_I_ was watching it on AMC! :P If it was so obscure in first run, how did it get five seasons? {nm} Jul 19, 17:47
Netflix {nm} Jul 19, 19:59
This was back when they were throwing big wads of money at pretty much everything? {nm} Jul 20, 13:52
They will always throw wads at money at everything. Their content budget is over $15b {nm} Jul 21, 13:18
Nah; that doesn't bother me at all. Jul 20, 00:05
wow {nm} Jul 20, 01:13
What's your take on Saul? I mean, outside of the basic "plot", what do you think the creators are trying to accomplish with it? Jul 20, 11:51
That's interesting; Net Trix has done everything in their power, to bring theatrical distribution of motion pictures DOWN. Jul 21, 16:33
That's just so stupid. Net Trix "boycotts" ALL theaters in Southern California, EXCEPT TWO. Net Trix HATES theaters. {nm} Jul 27, 16:09
