So I found out what the issue is with me not being able to stream and it turns out It's just my hardware I just don't have the capacity on this laptop to really put together a Good stream like it's just keyframe depths and just audio issues that I haven't been able to rectify Maybe you could do with some more troubleshooting to figure out what's going on But unfortunately, I wasn't able to deliver on a live stream So instead what I'm going to do what I've done is pre-recorded the topics I wanted to cover and Slap them together in this video that you're watching here We're going to cover some things today the two big things. I've wanted to talk about for a while That's light-year and better call soul specifically this article that I saw about an episode that has been very divisive Yeah, so I recorded this this is all happening after the whole show has released So bear that in mind there will be spoilers for both spoilers for light-year and better call soul ahead. Thank you Okay light-year Light-year review. Let's talk about light-year So light-year is a movie that came out. It was released in theaters I went to see it in theaters at the drive-ins actually with my partner We went down to the nearby drive-ins Second time we've ever been to the drive-ins first time was jackass for that was great Jackass forever remember when people thought that the title of that movie was gonna be jackass were not done yet I know that would have been a little bit distasteful, but um, yeah, we went to see the new light-year movie and We watched it it was Yeah, it was a fun movie-going experience. That's for sure at the drive-ins It's a real it's a really nice layout like it's always Perfectly timed at least we haven't been there in any sort of even when it's daylight savings We get the perfect amount of um, you know, the sun's going down as the pre-roll is happening So we get all the different ads Yeah, movie ads are about the same as the drive-ins as you get with The regular Cinema the other cinema that we go to nearby and I mentioned it in my castle review was it's a at Pentridge prison and what used to be Pentridge prison is now is just the Pentridge complex That's a pretty good cinema. Yeah, they've got definitely has a bit more of a local feel and The pre-roll makes it feel like you're in a more classic cinema setting really gets you in the mood And yeah, comfy seating and all that all that jizz and jazz But yeah, the drive-ins isn't too bad either Obviously you get to sit in your own car and as long as it doesn't smell you got your car and good nick Then yeah, the movie-going experience can be pretty good. Yeah That was a concern for me when we were going to the drive-ins that It was gonna be there was gonna be a weird audio sync issue with having to tune into the frequency and all that But no, like my sound system in my car is pretty good and we we rolled up for light year and yeah It all sounded really good as far as Just yet, but that's the good thing as well the volume You can obviously talk and have a bit more of a chattering sesh going on The only concerns of of course go into the drive-ins are that you know, you want to make sure that you pass correctly That's not a big of a drama. What the bigger drama is that?  We were there We had an $11 hot dog that we bought at the canteen at the center of the complex Tasted more like a fire of the hot dog, but that's fine. It's not about the quality when it comes to the food of the Sinema's it's about the experience having said that the other cinema that I mentioned that I go to near our place Their popcorn is pretty Taj pretty top quality Very always even if it's not overly warm if you don't get the freshest batch It still has a nice flavoring to I think they use olive oil instead of butter. It's very interesting Yeah, but obviously that the yeah, like I said, it's about the experience. It's not about the food that you're getting That's why you pay make it. That's my cat It's about the experience. I've repeated myself quite a few times. I guess maybe I'm stalling because I'm Yeah, I am very passionate about light. Yeah, what are you talking about? Yeah, it was definitely You're a good buddy Yeah, sorry my cat was trying to eat a good topic. Um, yeah, I'm gonna talk about the movie now Yeah So light year is a movie that happened it was released Well, we hear my cat tearing up the rug Yeah, so we went to see light year and Obviously going in I have I have a bit of an attachment to this toy story franchise I think that was made clear with a certain video. I released back in the past Past remember the word past that's gonna come up in this review a little bit So, yeah, we went to see light year. We sat down We were getting all rigmarold Ready for the viewing experience and the movie was fine It was fine at least on the first watch Maybe we were watching it and we were like, hmm. Hmm But it was enjoyable enough and there was a few things that I was noticing that it's like, oh, this is Okay Like I obviously there was like I had no doubt in my mind that the movie was not going to be as bad as toy story 4 But there was still that curiosity a of how bad is it going to be Didn't think it was going to be bad. I know there was a bit of talk up before this films release about different topics that I'm just not all too interested in in terms of reviewing whether a film is good or not So I was like, I just want to go in and see how good the whole package is How well written how all this and that because yeah so Watched it like I said the first view experience was fine, but then a couple days ago watched it again and Yeah, it's got a few more issues than I thought but yeah, let's just talk about it because This is definitely lower tier for Pixar, but it's spider-means. They're worst worst film I'd say it's it's weird. I feel like it's got more Contrivances and just other insane conveniences than Cars 2 but cars 2 I feel like is like just character bullshit that just doesn't really add up and just a complete like reversal on a lot of it's It's like asking Okay, think about how alien and aliens Right, we're talking about cars now, but we're talking about alien but like in reference to cars We're not talking about like you for a second. Think about it between alien. You got this very very atmospheric very Haunting and slow-paced very patient horror film About like all these character dynamics and all this just like the betrayal and paranoia and the looming fear of the threat Just hanging overhead. Whereas the second one is a bit more of a just gun hoe like The odds are against us sort of action thriller So there's a bit of a change difference A difference in the direction between the two films both are still great if you ask me which one I preferred I'd probably say aliens even though alien is fantastic both of them are great movies But if I had to pick a preference it would be aliens It's kind of with cars because you got the first one, which is just like a silly action adventure kind of but at the same time very Very intimate sort of like a little character piece about like just you know uh a guy who's sort of chevonistic and up his own ass, but then You know learn humility and there's this whole thing about the town and all all of that sense Yeah, very low level character drama then the second one is a spy thriller With death and guns and explosions and it's such a It's crazy how much of a leap up. Yeah, I watched the cars movies again with my girlfriend recently and it's saying just how like You got cars, which is like, yeah, it's all right cars two.  And then cars three it's like, uh, okay a little bit of course correction It's still not as good as the first one, but it has more of a It feels like more of a continuation of that of that first one and apparently a lot of the people behind it agreed that's what Puts me under the impression of like cars two. I definitely think it's worse than light year, but Light year is still not good It's not a very good movie And there are reasons for that and I will go into those reasons right now First we'll just talk about some of the stuff that I liked about it though that I thought was pretty good The music it's obviously nothing to cry. I'm about but Michael G. O'Chino obviously does a decent job ringing a very complete feel To the score of this film does very well in that regard And yeah, there's a few just motifs that I picked out and a bit of re-incorporation And a lot of scenes that were elevated by the music that he was putting into it He's a good composer Chris Evans does a decent job as Buzz obviously there's no replacing Tim Allen but in terms of being a different character pretty much altogether and Sort of fitting a different vibe with a different character through line because that's the weird thing this buzz isn't really the Legend that we see in the first three films of a Toy Story, but he's also Not a rookie It's a weird one. It's basically where where you see Buzz at the end of oh no All right, we'll get into that in a second. Yeah But the portrayal that they try to have with this buzz obviously a slightly younger just going into Toy Story sort of mentality Like obviously they're different characters like I said, but there's still Like the first toy story it's like his character in light year is meant to be a reference for that At least at the end of light year all that development and everything um Yeah, Chris Evans did a decent job Um animation the of course it's a Pixar. What do you expect? But some really good animation and a lot This is just a better use of uh mithong sling and the way that things are staged It feels like a more thought out experience compared to Toy Story 4 Which just had really great animation but very bland Uh way of portraying things that made it feel very insular There was no really there was no real sense of grandness to Toy Story 4 At least in the way that like everything was captured. There was a very Constricted sort of vibe to the camera work in Toy Story 4 Whereas this it does feel a lot more. It's weird. It gets that intimacy between character stuff Even if some of the character stuff isn't very solid. We'll get to that soon. Um Um But Yeah, when you need the grandness it does pretty well with that and there's some very visually thrilling action sequences Even if there's a lot of head scratching around the mechanics of everything Um sound design. Yeah, the sound design was good. Uh, it definitely when we went went to watch it in theaters it was very Well, yeah, everything was mixed very well in terms of not feeling too It wasn't anything too egregious there And yeah, just the sounds they used it just felt very Properly presented and there was a lot of thought put into have this movie sounds Um, some of the jokes were okay. There was some that got a chuckle out of me I'm also just uh, it wasn't just like jokes themselves. We're just like humorous scenarios and stuff that maybe Hey, there was one We'll talk about Taika Waititi's character because there's a bit to say about him, but um Yeah, there was a sequence where he like dropped this like Transporter thing. I'm a diggin it looped itself and it was Yeah, it was just kind of There's a few things in terms of like that sequence Sequence and how it messes with a lot of timing and where the characters need to be at that moment Where they're going to go and just a sense of like really this now But just the the visual of it and the way it was presented. It was like There's it was a fine thing and um It's the character of Hawthorne um spoilers Uh her death scene there wasn't really too much to say about a character.   I guess at least the movie doesn't really hang around too much Like I think there's too much tricked in it and sometimes the pacing like the runtime can feel can be felt but I guess the pacing made it grow quicker But yeah, the death scene was pretty well presented where there's like this character The buzz really cares about there were partners back in the um The old days of the space academy ranger And Yeah, it felt like they took the time to really all right Let's slow this down a bit and really get sense the loss between these two characters in terms of like Oh, I never get to see buzz again. And then at the same time like buzz is like, oh, I came back and She's not there but getting that goodbye. It was nice And yeah, like I mentioned with the score earlier Geochino does pretty well in terms of giving us something subtle that isn't too overbearing You know in any sense of like, yeah, we get it. It's sad. It is it's tasteful. It's done pretty well Having said that obviously it's just like that character death surely buzz would have been informed of that of when he rocked up or There would be some inclination to that some communication That's the thing when buzz goes on these missions and stuff There's no real sense of just like who is operating this stuff who's overlooking stuff and making sure there's some correspondence Or just approaching buzz with the information where's the communication? It's it's a bit weird. So I feel like you should have been informed about as soon as you rocked up It should have every time he turns back up. That's the thing they should be like aircraft approaching It's like yeah, you know, like the first time it happened they seem to be There seemed to be some indication that oh later in the film it seems like they knew he was coming back Because it's like oh it's going to take longer Oh, you know what right now we're going to talk about those hyperspace sequences because it seems that they are completely unaware of the fact that hyperspace does Not age you but obviously puts you in a different sort of time experience Because of the way you're like experiencing the environment and the way it's kind of preserving you in that sort of cocoon of hyperspacery they don't know that that The time relative to you is going to be different to how the rest of the world experiences that have a hell do they not know that have a hell this buzz How is he not aware of that when he goes on the journey?  There's like no way they know this technology. They've been using it. They're developing it now because Like they're redeveloping it with the resources that they have on this planet because they obviously need to escape after being marooned so They know about this technology. They are aware of how it operates and the science behind it Surely they would have some awareness of the fact that it does advance time in some regards along their journeys or even as They individually experience it like they've obviously got these like I'm starting to wonder if Those ships that they do use to go on the hyperspace Missions around the sun if they were already on the the turnip as it's referred to the turnip the mothership If there was some if they were parked on that ship or if that's something that they developed after they got marooned there hyperspace The space rangers seem pretty woefully incompetent stark man. I'm just curious as to how they operate as an organization because the fact that They immediately send like two space rangers out to explore the planet without any sort of like did you guys want to set some sort of perimeter have a bit more You know drones go out and explore what the hell is actually going on cameras some sort of surveying things just like Recognize that these vines are moving that there's these bugs that Can overwhelm you if you're not careful Yeah, there's a lot of they really jump into How they want to present this story um Yeah, the reliance on classic lines sometimes they definitely made sense within the context of the Of the film Like obviously buzz has his like blast when he's like damn That's totally fine. I imagine that's a word he would have picked up there And the fact that it's one of the first few words he says in toy story one, you know blast this takes weeks to repair It's like oh, that's totally fine. It's obviously a word that he's familiar with It's a word that he's programmed with as a toy if that's how toys work in toy store. We still will will never know but um Yeah, there's other times. I remember near the start of the film when Buzz is informing a rookie character of All right. Here's how you need to Like what you need to know when you're experiencing the world as a space ranger How you're exploring the things you need to take into account of what you're doing He's like giving him this big impassioned speech and uh, the Hawthorne character is behind him being pretty playful Putting on some epic music and stuff with her little uh speaker thing on her suit And buzz is like, uh, do you turn that off and she's like, oh, sorry I was just trying to add to the moment and he's like you're mocking me, aren't you?   It's like work that's so very clearly the thing that they do that they're doing the relationship that they have The fact that he's like you're mocking me, aren't you just like Yes, of course like you could say it's just as obvious with Woody, but there's a bit more like Okay, here's a relationship. We have stopped with this spaceman thing. It's getting on my nerves. Stay away from Andy He's mine. No one's taking him away from me And so the fact that like he's come up and just like don't even think about a cowboy and it's just like my eyeballs could have It sucked from their sockets Um where does the helmet thing and Woody's just like you think this is real? Oh, I thought it was an axe and There's a bit more of a bitterness there and like, oh, okay. I get it Whereas this one it's like, okay They're like pretty much the instant pateco the best friend and stuff and they're very aware of how they stand within each other's lives And the way they communicate. So the whole like you're mocking me, aren't you? like Not only like from obviously what had just happened with the way that like You know She was like making fun of him for speaking in the mission log stuff. Nobody nobody listens to those I thought that was going to be reincorporated later later on when she's like Nobody listens to those. Oh, that's going to come up again I thought that was obviously made sense within the context of just like oh the idea that People do mission logs, but nobody listens to them And the fact that she pointed that out when he's doing it because he's obviously very passionate about it and very By the book's regulation for the most part obviously he has his hangups about rookies and autopilots, but um Yeah, I thought I was going to be reincorporated later where he has a voice lock I guess that kind of happens with the the death scene that I mentioned earlier because it's a hologram It's like the while buzz was on one of his journeys Hawthorne recorded a Um a little hologram message for him to see upon his return and then we get something like that later When we see the character of socks the little Cat the little robotic kitten that was given to buzz to deal with his Trauma from coming out of hyperspace or at least along his journey and experiencing, you know Like you lost five Well, you did lose four years, but you experienced five minutes You know, we we got to feel those like four years So this bot this robot is here to Help you and ingratiate you back into the world and then there's a message that was recorded within his System that he shows buzz later as a way of bolstering the whole team and their spirits and stuff So it did I it's not really it's kind of separated from the whole mission log thing because there's no like Hawthorne mission log and like oh that would have been pretty cute to see that she recorded something for buzz and he listened to it in a way that like sort of bolsters like his experience his um Perspective and just like brought him back from the second act low point that sort of thing And she'd be like oh, I know he listens to these things I know he makes them himself So surely and then he could look on the library and just the fact that he's the only one doing it Of these mission logs, but then he says oh Hawthorne recorded something. So yeah um So the pre title screen that we're jumping back a bit because I forgot to mention this about the movie earlier The way it's set up is that this is an in-universe film that came out just before toy story one um That inspired andy to get the buzz light your toy because it's so cool They even for the film released a promotional image that was like it looks like concept art from It honestly looks like pixar metaverse the design at least andy looks fine, but the other people in the background of the picture Holy crap, it's like cube lady over here just these weird. Oh, look at this guy Yeah, so this was the setup that they were having for the film Look at andy taking out two seats beside for all of his toys It's like excuse me young boy can my boyfriend sit here, please and then he's like no That's the alien seat. Why has he got the aliens now? That's weird I'm not going to hang up on this teaser thing too much because I think it's obviously just a cute little bit of concept art that was released to Promote the film and there's nothing here that we're supposed to really take as gospel So I'm not going to yeah Take that into account too much. Um, well, it's kind of cute that like they have Woody Really enjoying the film obviously you can see in the picture that he's kind of smiling like wow This is that reinforces the fact that it's like man, he's really cool this character in the film This is obviously before he appears as a toy in his life So it's like just this character to him. He just the fact that he enjoys. I don't know It doesn't really add anything to Toy Story too much just a cute little throwaway thing a little bit of trivia, I suppose if it's If it's actually something that we take seriously and the whole grand things grand scheme of things, which I don't So You can I don't totally up to you Um, but yeah the before the film starts it gets that dune Epic music and shit, um and it comes up and it says Uh Tells you that the film was released in 1995 Um, and it was Andy Davis's favorite film It's like, oh, okay. That's the kind of that's the issue with the whole setup of Lightyear They're doing this in universe thing because that's one weird thing about when this movie was coming out A lot of people were confused as to is it the man that the toy is based on like this is a prequel Is this just a reboot completely in and of itself on its own? separated from anything toy story, but it's like no it's an in-universe film excuse me that Andy watched before The events of toy stories like oh Okay, and I think if they were going to do that they probably should have done more than this title screen to really ground people into that and to make this feel feel a bit more Engratiated with the world and more of an experience. They could have done I remember the spongebob movie where like the pirates are actually like yeah There was that um spongebob movie where The pirates go and see it something and the cuts back and forth to them It's like spongebob was going on this adventure. I think he's he's going to retrieve the crown from plankton Plankton has hidden it off in some place. I can't remember Plotter that movie that was a trip though. I gotta re-watch that movie. That'll be fun I remember being traumatized with um There was a scene where spongebob and Patrick get like dehydrated just dry out As they're singing the gooby-goober song The pirates are all crying as they pull out of the screen in the film and do a little fourth wall thing It's like Jesus Christ um but um Yeah, this movie Could have done with something like that like an end sequence that pull back and showed that they were watching the screen as well Because that's the thing It seems that they wanted to make this its own standalone thing that you could watch with a little bit of context That it is an in-universe film, but they kind of put this little Title thing at the start that kind of confuses things with being like, okay It was his favorite film. It never got mentioned in Toy Story It seemed like a completely separate thing that was kind of like They made it seem like it was just the toy itself that was getting made because people were really into space travel and um, you know, once the astronauts went up children only wanted to play with space toys That was obviously a bit more time before the first toy story because that was The idea when the Woody's Roundup thing got cancelled because people were getting into more like uh astronauts and space and stuff. It's like what cowboys were getting less interesting and Why eventually Buzz would get made because it was catering to more of that interest That's how the original Toy Story films were setting up But it's like no the Buzz Lightyear toy is actually based on the character from this film Which is like, oh Okay, and like I said, it never gets mentioned as a thing. It's It never makes any sort of appearance It just seems like it's its own thing and it's like, okay I suppose we can go with this if you want. It's kind of funny that um I remember the You know what the Buzz Lightyear from star command Movie because it ended up becoming the pilot of the tv show when that became a thing But Buzz Lightyear from star command that 2d movie that came out They had a some animated sequences in Andy's room where they're like, oh, let's watch this dvd because it looked like that sorry vcr That came out when Sorry everybody, that's my cat Okay You're okay Hey um Yeah They made it seem like that that came out After the toy to capitalize more on its popularity or something. I can't remember exactly That's the weird thing about the fact that this movie was made when we already have Buzz Lightyear from star command Which a lot of people really like and the characters are a lot more endearing It's still not very great. It's cheesy and dumb, but I don't know There's a bit the way that star command operates in that film feels a lot more competent Because in this film the fact that like so that the they're the space explorers on this turnip thing I guess they don't have a home world or anything Sort of that so something happens to the ship. They're messed up Like they can't communicate with any outside influence or anything like that Especially if you're going to land on a planet like that surely It's like, all right Let's have the turnip stay out here and then we'll get the space range just to go down in a separate vessel The fact that they park the the most important like mothership on this unknown terrain that ends up getting Just bashed in by these vines that they don't have any sort of sensors for or any cameras like As is portrayed in the film the vines are able to wrap itself around the legs before anyone becomes aware of the situation And it just starts messing everything up and thankfully those vines didn't Uh ruin everything like thrust arise Wise because the base of the ship not even the legs that jotted out at the bottom The base just underneath it was starting to get pulled into the terrain as well. It was all getting messed up the fact that It just doesn't affect it at all. It's really weird in my mind Oh, yeah, um All the space ranges. This was just a funny thing when it would just appear because they just I guess they wanted to show us Like what? buzzers the momentum of the ship as he was turning it when they were trying to escape the the vine planet um When he was pulling up you can see that the guys in the hyperspace capsules Like they're in no, sorry. They're in like they're in hypersleep. I guess um They're not secured. They're rocking around in the little cocoons just like knocking and stuff about the the casing and everything and apparently he's like surely you'd want to be Strapped down or secured to some regard in in that like if that crashes you've been messed up now Yeah, that ship crashes Yeah, it was a weebum um Yeah, because I don't know if I explained very well the events of what led to that but essentially the idea was Um buzz and commander Hawthorne along with this rookie who just appears out of nowhere for a little gag He's just buzzers saying all this mean stuff about how he doesn't like rookies and then they appear in This the camera pulls out and he's just there in you know I guess buzz didn't have peripheral vision at that moment or this character just manifested literally out of nowhere Who knows Yeah, the ship doesn't have shields as well It's just it's really weird the fact that they didn't have any sensors like hey, we've got some sort of uh active life form we're getting some life readings um Yeah, so the idea is that they obviously get buzz and Hawthorne and this rookie land Then all of a sudden they start getting attacked on this unknown planet by all these different creatures and the vines That start missing with the ship So they all run back and buzz has to try to escape with all of them But as he's trying to pull the ship up and get away it bashes into a rock and Oh into a side of a cliff and it kind of messes with it and they end up getting like crashing there And it messes with the hyper crystals was the Crystallic fusion that's it. It's a very unstable science um It's obviously something that they would have made I guess on the quote unquote homeworld if they have one What is there's just there's a lot of mechanics here that really didn't feel like they were thought Through this is like, okay. Did you guys get that from your space travels of like another Agency you don't have any backup ones sort of lying around encased in anything Just yeah, this movie I'm a rewatch does not hold up as much as I thought I remember watching it for the first time and just being like, oh, it was fine It was obviously it's still even on this second watch better than Toy Story 4 but Yeah, the first time you watch it like, oh, it's just this cute little side adventure All these characters Yeah But yeah, they end up Getting lost on the planet and then they have to start developing their own Crystallic fusion with the resources on that planet And buzz is the one who volunteers after a year of this production We get a time lapse showing that they Kind of set up a large base on the planet and they're about to do their hyperspace thing like to test the Crystallic fusion that they've developed so that they can Use it in the turnip the home the mother ship here Buzz tested it out when he comes back yet for years have passed away And the testing doesn't go well because the the fuel is unstable. So it doesn't end up operating as it should have So they have to keep our retrying the fact that he gets back there and immediately is like, all right Let's try again the fact that like it doesn't really seem to set in for him that like four years have passed And it's just like, okay, let's really take our time and get everybody sitting down and developing the stuff and researching it because Yeah, what the way it ends up Because he goes on a bunch of these trips and that's how Hawthorne ages past him But because he comes back one day after all these trips and she's died and it's really weighing on him That he basically he's the cause because he was trying to pilot the mother ship out of here, but it crashed So he's really committed to redoing this His companion the cat that I mentioned earlier socks Has worked out the formula while he was While he was on one of his treks around the sun, but um It took 62 years for him Okay, and what do we see the like when he goes to get the crystallic fusion again because like after that last trip and after socks has figured it out the new commander of Uh stark man has said all right. No more treks. We need to just we're setting up Based on this home world like we can't waste this resource anymore buzz goes against that a little bit Risky especially the Like he ends up indeed during a fair few of his comrades During the launch and stuff and just like you don't want anybody on the outside near that as you're taking off Right, so you could have gotten someone really badly hurt there like yeah A bit reckless. I understand his commitment to finishing the mission. I think that's somewhat one of the stronger aspects of this movie until a certain Time issue that comes up later, but we'll be we'll be talking about that. But yeah, I feel like buzz should have taken more time um Like he really should have been okay I can't waste I can't waste these resources that we found we need to take more time to make sure that this is more Stable run more tests and simulations and then I can go out and really test it in the field to make sure that I don't end up Yeah, he ends up wasting what's well over 30 years And Yeah, it's just Yeah, I I know that he isn't at his most rational but there could have been Well from what we were seeing and the commitment to the best outcome from buzz. I Don't think that he would be okay with wasting resources or putting other people in danger So I think that that was a bit rickety but Yeah, because socks was working on the formula and how did he figure it out? Oh, he figured out the exact amount of resources to put in the canister that they needed okay The fact that like this formula like they just there's no real messing about with it It's just the resources that they already have on the base and filling it up in the canister and then activating it okay Like So that's all there was to it I thought there was a bit more. It's like, oh, we need to make sure it's mixed on the full moon or It needs to marinate a little bit longer or something like that But it's just like let's get the percentages right at the percentages I'm like, surely this would have been run through a bit more Simulation and taking into account everything that I've had it's after 62 years with all the tech they have It was just the amounts of all the goo to create the crystals. That was a little bit off Okay, but yeah So the last one is successful But it ends up because he actually buzz achieves hyperspace when he comes back It's ended up advancing time by 22 years and things are a little bit different they've had an invader on the new home world goes by zerg and he ends up meeting with the granddaughter of The Hawthorne character and falls in with a bunch of rookies who turn out to be Like the yeah, so it's a big thing about like obviously he didn't like rookies at the start of the film, but Now they get that little bit of reincorporation when it's like all the granddaughter She's a rookie and this rookie team that he has to take under his wing When it ends up becoming apparent that he needs to have them with him In order to successfully complete the mission Um Taika Waititi is really annoying in this movie And it's it's a shame. It's You know, it will come down to taste if you enjoyed taika in this movie. That is totally fine. But just the bizarre just It's like even after he has the major character moments of realizing it's like you should not be as clumsy as you were There should be a lot more that you're taking into account the way you carry yourself and the way you're operating around these different Systems that we have in place like there's one near the end and just how this just it seems like a complete unawareness from this guy in terms of the the Like the the situation that they're in like Like that joke I mentioned about the A little transporter thing that you press it down and it transports you to this zerg mothership He drops it and it does that loop like I mentioned and it gets distracted by it And it's just like you know buzz has been kidnapped right now and time is of the essence of everything It's like I get you guys wanted a joke and He's to get this guy is easily distracted But this okay Somebody should be yelling at him right now and somebody was the convict in everything But it was much more slapstick silliness and minutes later when this character who's very resourceful It's like I'm going to build a bomb to get at these bad guys that are coming after us We'll talk about who these bad guys are and who they are what they've rocked up and what they're doing um in a second but Yeah, he he The resourceful character gives tyke this chewing gum And says Like you chew on it for a bit then give it back to me It's like all right give it back. It's just like it's still got some flavor in it.  He needs a pen. I guess the pen because it's a space range of pen. Maybe it's More reinforced. It's a bit stronger in terms of jimmying something open But the fact that like yeah, it's the first thing that they go to and it So perfectly. Oh, there's the payoff And he does make a big exclamation He's like, I have this pen because he was playing around with the pen really I was like, oh, it's so cool that this space ranger suit comes with a pen Yeah, none of the jokes with tyke really worked for me other than that Transporter one that I mentioned that was more just uh-huh Yeah, it's very unfortunate to see I love tyke or it I love his movies I think he's really funny and entertaining in a lot of them because he stars and Every one that he's directed hasn't he I haven't seen Thor Love and Thunder yet. I'm hearing Very unfortunate things like I really liked Ragnarok, but apparently this one is too tyke again I haven't seen it so one day But um It seems the general sentiment seems to be people are falling out of love with tyke as well Which is pretty sad to see. I think when he really balances himself out to create a very Approachable fun film that still has a very Heavy emotional Underlining to it that Is very impactful like what we saw with jojo rabbit with boy. He's very capable of it He's a very good director And yeah, when his comedy lands it really lands what we do in the shadows is one of my favorite films um But yeah, it seems the general sentiment around tyke here is that he's like he's getting a little bit too tyke right now Yeah, it's so unfortunate. I know of hollywood. Please don't ruin tyke Yeah, between this film and what i'm hearing about Thor Love and Thunder and say, oh, no I think he needs to take some time but just step away from these really awful awful projects Even like yeah, which as we've established is bad, but it's not as bad as the really really bad pixel stuff but yeah Um, so who were the villains that have rocked up on this planet and who have Impacted buzz's ability to get back to base and give them the successful run of the crystallic fusion that will get them off this planet excuse me It's him So zerg the villain that we saw from the original toy story films adapted in a different way here with a slightly different design As is with buzz like the idea like the toys aren't going to specifically reflect what we saw in the movie Even the toys for the toy story film are different. So that's that's fine. I have no issues with the design of the characters No, sorry. I do have Without like zerg's cape. I guess I wouldn't have been as practical, but Yeah, I feel like the design just felt like that very generic You know, it's got the people have memed it about the superhero costumes of the mcu Just those unnecessary lines everywhere in this over design of everything It was a bit of that with what we saw with zerg, but at least The suit seemed a lot more practical and it had a lot of different mechanisms to it This whole hand change thing that Jotted out so he could catch things at a range So the idea is he's kidnapped buzz and the rookies have to come rescue him in a bit, but um So yeah zerg in this movie is buzz He is an older version of buzz. He just appears He he's like, all right. I need to actually talk with our buzz right now and Like explain the situation so he comes out of the suit and buzz is like dad And that's I think a lot of us were expecting because in the original toy story Well, the toy story too. They were making fun of the fact They did it. They're obviously a parody of the empire strikes back saying it's like, I'll never give in You killed my father. No buzz. I am your father So I don't know I They messed up the the toys program differently. I'm not too sure what went on there Zerg's obviously the mixture between Darth Vader and the emperor. I guess because he has emperor in his name so he's more the universal ruler, but Yeah, the fuck am I saying Sorry, this is I remember the explanation for this and just thinking about it more the fact that so this is buzz from the future He's traveled back in time because that's how these hyper crystals can work if you go forward in time Surely you can rework it to go back and the idea is that in his timeline He has his own I think that's why they do time travel so buzz And like just like our buzz. Oh god. Okay. So old buzz. Fuck. This is going to be really difficult to explain Old buzz. He was successful in his run, too But when he rocked up he was arrested by Hawthorne's replacement He was about to be but then he decided to escape Which I don't really see is okay like his commitment that takes took over 30 years Of like doing this mission time and time again seeing so many friends come and go age like what would have taken It would have been weeks in his time surely weeks or months at the most His friends just get old and die in front of him And he knows there's a lot of people counting on him and he's dedicated to this mission I don't think he would have just run off as he did The explanation like the voice over in the film is just that they abandoned me so I abandoned them I was like, this is just the higher ups.  Yeah using the crystal to just go forward in time as far away as fast away as If he he goes, sorry He goes as far away as further away from time as he can and he ends up traveling centuries into the future Where he comes into contact with this ship. He just rocks up right in front of it very convenient At the back of it, whatever and there's all this tech and it's all abandoned I guess all there's these robots that he ends up with communicating with and they He gets He has this tech and it ends up if he uses the crystal in it, he can go back in time very thankfully He does end up going back in time because time travel is a very sensical concept that always It's like time travel needs to be well thought out, man That's what's so crazy about watching Better Call Saul recently in the finale Spoilers and just there's a conversation about time travel and how it's like theoretically and scientifically impossible So what we're seeing in like your head does not make really that much sense if he's from a separate timeline, I suppose Or if it's just this own timeline The idea with the hyper crystals, I wasn't under the impression that you were traveling in time It was just encasing you in this Experience of time that was not relative to everything else It was propelling you in a way that like had its own preservation chamber in the ship that you were in And the way it was getting you to experience time because this is a thing as well in terms of When we when humans go into space and their experiences with gravity Make it entirely different in terms of they're like not entirely But they're like it messes with the aging process episode slightly the the lack of gravity So when you have stuff like that affecting it with how you experience our relative time Like theoretically the hyperspace that buzz is experiencing. It's not time travel I guess the explanation is just that the tech that he stumbled upon When it's powered with this crystal gives it the energy it needs to travel back in time All right, so if we stop if we get there with like, okay, so It acts as a fuel resource. It's not that the hyperspace crystal itself Is offering the ability to do that. It's the tech. It just needs the power of the crystal but even then it's just so He transports himself back. I guess like keep it vague enough. So it's like you can fill in some stuff, but even then it's just So that that timeline that he experienced He transported out of it into an entirely different timeline But because it can't obviously be the same timeline that things would be really different for him In turn when he goes back and he sees everybody and it's a I can't even get the idea that they were going for and that buzz is confronted with his obsession with completing the mission and then it's just like oh, but People were able to still live their lives and I'm going to take all that away if I do this now Can't believe this But I guess unless they've they're Out of resources back on the home world now It's it's treated as a sacrifice when he gets rid of the crystal because when he gets back It's just like the crystal is gone. It's like, I'm sorry. You have to abandon your mission It's like, oh no bother. You have the you have the like Fuel station over there. Don't you? I guess unless you've dried up all the resources on the planet I think that's what they were trying to say with the forest being kind of fucky Like when he comes back for the last time So, okay If that's what you want to use to say that it really was a sacrifice him giving away that crystal, okay but I guess yeah, there's nothing else that they have to Make another crystal we have to operate with that to really Sysically put it as a sacrifice thing because otherwise it's like, all right. I got rid of that crystal But we could just make another we got all the resources over here Again, that's yet taken to account whether the resources are actually Still there if they didn't use them all up So that ends up being the thing when it's when he's confronted with his obsession It's like no, but people have lived the entire entire life. So there's this big Uh battle where like the rookies and they all come together and then he ends up sacrificing the crystal And he helps them land in a very successful way that feels very cut off with their landing and stuff like is everyone okay? Yep. Oh, okay. There's a really the sense of peril wasn't really there too much. I guess Very weird And it ends up becoming a thing when he gets confronted with the with star command now they're like All right, you look your punishment is that we're going to get you to start the next stage of space rangery It's like, oh, okay.  Yeah, and yeah, there's a lot of just the fact of When they keep running into things and just The mixture between plot armor and plot poison these conveniences that we get There's this whole sequence where they're trapped inside these cones and then they're like, oh, we have to throw ourselves against this once but It's like, oh don't connect or we'll um If we run into each other the cones will put us in a smaller like we'll join us together and the size of the cone Doesn't really change that much. It's it becomes much tighter space. It expands ever so slightly to accommodate for the amount of people but it's still small so as someone is trying to Run and get the door open They're standing right behind them like if they fall back it and rebound enough because these things have a little bit of rebound I suppose and if they fall back they could accidentally come into contact and expand this cone So please don't stand right behind them as they're testing this out Please give it a bit more space Yeah, just the timing on some things like there was this whole sequence where they're battling the zerg's minions Like within the hover section where they're trying to escape with the crystal just before the second act low point where every hit just so happens to perfectly knock their Transporters that each of the minions have on their chest And just yeah, the convenience is there in the way that it's like it's not too consequential Like we keep coming back to zerg ships showing them being transported there It's like we know and I guess maybe they'll try to play it for laughs, but this we see the same thing It doesn't really have an overly humorous presentation to it So it was just like oh, okay. I guess we can cut back and forth to this thing uh yeah just in terms of Where they rock up the fact buzz didn't see the ship upon re-entering That planet's atmosphere it was hovering close enough. It's like you'd see that surely Based on where he was entering In the planet's like atmosphere. He was seeing that surely um So there's that Um, the fact that he just so happens to run into Izzy He's in a perfect spot where she can be within range of him to collect him and rescue him from the zerg bots And yeah, there's this I guess So they're battling the first minion the one that I mentioned earlier that was like that they When buzz were first rocked up from his successful journey When he meets the ragtag band it's like we've got a ship and then the zerg minion comes up And they're perfectly in the line of fire for this thing to like shoot at Buzz ducks out of the way on it shoots at the resourceful member who I mentioned like likes to make bombs and has this Recurrent joke about being on parole. That's very very very funny It happens many times and it's funnier each time it happens So there's that um Yeah, the ship is perfectly in line. The thing takes the ship out with its blast like oh Okay, there we go. That was lucky and then buzz doesn't tell the rookies about the They have a cloaking device because there's an all right, we're going to go get another ship and all right Let's put on these space rangers suits and they have perfect No, they have perfect. Excuse me. They have the ability to turn invisible for a short period of time Which they end up using but buzz doesn't tell them That it has a timer, which it seems like it's saying that he forgot to tell them I guess because he's Of all things to forget to be able to tell them it's like all the only Mechanics to them are like they they're very well aware like at the start of the film when buzz and Hawthorne first used them um That the only things to them are like yet turns you invisible and it's only for a short period of time The fact that he didn't tell them it's just like seems like a very easy thing to not just Tell someone about a little caveat with the usage of this is like, okay I guess we've got to have a little action scene here Yeah, whatever I think that's all I have to say about this like there's There's a lot of issues that just make you roll your eyes throughout the film in terms of conveniences and just dumb shit and all I know for me personally. I'm sure there's like someone who could really enjoy it. It looks like this movie was Not as widely enjoyed as pixiles other stuff. That's the thing turning red that came out after this, didn't it? Yeah, so I watched turning red as well Recently ish and I think that movie is definitely better than like yeah, I actually I kind of enjoyed it I can definitely realize that it has a lot of issues weird implications. The parents are just awful human beings Beans, excuse me awful human beings for not telling their daughter how this thing works But I am sorry spoilers for turning red That's not really that's the main synopsis of the film, but yeah Turning red is whatever remember er had a very funny video on that that I really like it was very short but very succinct That's the thing I feel he said more about turning red in those Six minutes than I've said in this rambly thing of Yeah, just what I thought about light. Yeah Yeah I guess watch it if you want It's a fine. What's so it like whatever movie? Um, I guess the only because I've talked about the posses what few as they were and the negatives which a bunch that they were um And what I would have preferred out of this film. I guess I can quickly talk about that. Um, yeah scratch the connection from Toy Story and it being Andy's favorite movie and just make it a movie about rookie lightyear going on his first space venture. That's what I thought from watching the trailers. I thought it was going to be about him sort of As a rookie And just his first um space flight and stuff the way they're portrayed it. There's obviously a lot of The trailer I guess at least the movie wasn't given away fully in the trailers Which has to be a issue with trailers these days but and it wasn't as like it wasn't as much of a lie as trailers for something like the last first part too but it's still Felt like it was going to be a different story and you know, it didn't If it was going to be that story, maybe I would have had the same issues and it's not necessarily about the idea It's about the execution. I think there are some interesting ideas here, especially like with the whole like Travelling in space and every time you come back everyone's aged a bit and the fact that the relative time you've experienced has been much Less than everybody else. I'm like, oh, that's a really heavy thing to like grapple with with this film does not treat very well at all so I don't really have an issue with that idea. I actually think it's very interesting but I would have gone with a movie about a rookie light year with this first space ventridge Venture, excuse me And I would have added all these crazy concepts like I would have kept time travel far away from this movie That's kind of the thing where it's like it's an in-universe to Toy story movie So I guess we're judging this as if it is just a movie in and of itself Because is it a good thing that this space mumbo jumbo science fiction action adventure movie from the 90s is Broken full of plot holes cheesy as hell But really fun. Isn't it really fun and funny? I mean depending on who you ask I would definitely say it's not fun or funny really Other than some very select instances and it's only you know, it's only fun or funny Against something like Toy Story 4. I wonder if if they never made a Toy Story 4 I probably would have liked this movie less um Yeah, rookie light year a very simple story about his first space venture and he gets uh He gets lost on some other planet and he has to rely on his own resources and fully come through as a new rookie Because that's the thing with like Buzz Lightyear of Star Command that TV show that came out ages ago And then the little film that they used as the pilot. I remember really enjoying as a kid um It's a very similar sort of like you know He doesn't work with people within he ends up team because he had a partner that he lost in a unfortunate tragic accident I find that tv show way more compelling. It has I think I mentioned it earlier a lot of issues as well But the characters are much more fun. There's a much more whole picture To the universe that we're seeing in the in the film and tv show And yeah, his his rag tab group is that rag tag group? I remember really liking a lot more and just the weight that buzz felt on him after his partner died and after he thought that robot died Until it got like reprogrammed and stuff. It was very heavy within the context of it being a you know, Saturday morning cartoon thingamajig but Yeah, much more Much more considerate to all those concepts. I yeah, hey anyone listening go watch Lightyear from buzz lightyear from star command It's I think I haven't watched it in ages. I think you know what it could be just as bad as lightyear But I think there's a lot more to gauge from it in terms of the way it portrays itself in terms of being In an adaptation of the toy and how successful he was in his run when he was first made in the 90s Versus this lightyear movie that apparently always existed within the world of toy story It's just yes, you know whatever um Another I guess like this could be a fun thing to mention I If I was gonna make a spin-off in universe thing of toy story I wouldn't have done buzz lightyear from star command. I wouldn't have done anything on buzz I think there's many other things that you could Do with buzz in this universe as a spin-off thing Even just like I think there's a lot more stories that you could tell with buzz and maybe one day I'll give you my idea for I guess it would be toy story five or revamped toy story four But if I was gonna make yeah this in universe shoot like spin-off of a main character, I would have done Woody's Roundup I would have Done a little run of all the stories in that maybe even an in universe reboot And give it the same sort of style that we saw Oh god if they made that live action I guess it could work definitely maybe because obviously I feel like there's more human proportions to oh no never mind No, not with woody's head. Sorry everyone. I was gonna say there's more human proportions to woody than there is to buzz but um No, that's I think the I think buzz probably looks a bit more human The way that he's mapped out in the in the fact that he's wearing a suit Over himself that obviously makes him look a bit different. But yeah woody's roundup if they Remade in full the original run of the tv show and then do like a lost episode thing where it reveals They did film the finale, but it never got shown to the public until today It's like, oh that could be a cute little thing It could kind of put a spoke in the wheels of what made that finale of toy story two so good like with with Good in terms of character obviously those issues with the mechanics in that and sequence but When you know woody is like pretend it's the final episode of woody's roundup And then just he's like it was cancelled. We never thought you made it. Well, let's find out together It's like that's a great little moment with those characters right there. So maybe woody's roundup would affect for that, but If they were going to do anything like this with an in-universe character and make a in-universe spin-off Why not woody's roundup? Yeah, that's that's light. Yeah Better Call Saul just released its final episode final episode of the entire series and Yeah, before I get into that final episode. I'll mention a few little things but uh, um Yeah, this is the first show I've ever watched from the start of its run Like as it was coming out, you know anticipating when it was coming out and then finished watching it And just like binged and stayed up to date. There was a little bit of a dip. I think around season two I wasn't I stepped away from it for a little bit just because It like came out when I was in high school. I was way more Excuse me, I guess into the more action oriented stuff But yeah, I think after a year of stepping away not watching the show I went back into it and got a back up to date in time for season four and Yeah It's it's a fantastic television show. It has some of the best character writing I've ever seen amazing cinematography editing acting Just like really Very purposeful uses of music that really match without overbearing or undermining scenes It's it's just masterful in what they were able to achieve not flawless like get the impression With with Better Call Saul and Breaking Bad that people find them to be without flaw. They're just perfect TV shows um No such thing theoretically possible, but no such thing at this point in time and yeah, Better Call Saul is no exception It's got points where it dips. I can't really Vocalize it right now in terms of it's it's mostly just some conveniences every now and there that don't take away major elements of the story, but Yeah, it does like it, you know for the whole show it's sprinting But there's every a few times where it just sort of stumbles ever so slightly it always gets back on track and Yeah, it's it's fantastic one of my favorite tv shows ever I think I prefer it more than Breaking Bad. I you know in terms of which is better. I don't know I couldn't really say I just I prefer I prefer the slower burn character drama stuff I really like Jimmy as the protagonist and just seeing that fall that feels a lot more um Character motivated than Breaking Bad Like it's absolutely character motivated in Breaking Bad But the element of the cancer and stuff like that Like it's still a very interesting idea and what it what it encourages a man to do when he's faced with his own mortality a person or rather, but um Yeah, what we see in Better Call Saul Just the fact that you know somebody being steered down this path because of their own actions And the people around them trying to have their influence in their life. It's life. Sorry Uh Yeah, it's it's it's superb There's been so much said about this show that it would honestly be a bit superfluous for me to say But I want to reiterate just How amazing the show is I want to maybe do a video somewhere down the track about that um Season six part one finale spoilers plan an execution Just and the a certain character death that really got me to reevaluate their role in the show and Just the the the Things that led up to it and just as its own payoff, but also propelling us into the second half It was it really It was It's the I haven't felt my stomach just have a pit in it in so long in a good way I want to make a video on that scene somewhere down. Yeah I want to make a video on yeah, I want to make a video on that scene. It's just so well executed. Ha ha But for now though, I thought we could have a bit of fun Looking at this article That was released a while ago Pull it up. So we have this article from Forbes Now if you've been staying up to date with Breaking Bad, you know that there's this episode that came out called nippy That was a bit con not break. Sorry everyone not breaking bad better call soul um Better call soul had this episode coming out called nippy and it was a bit of a controversial one people didn't really like it as much so it is more of a bottle experience that didn't really propel the story forward I think the general sentiment on it will be a bit different with the context of the final Episode and perhaps the writer of this article Will feel the same way But I my ears perked up When I saw the title of this article because after watching that episode. I really enjoyed it I thought the way it paid off a lot of those forward in time Like flash forwards that we were seeing with The character of gene in previous seasons obviously jimmy soul's incarnation in the present day Just after the breaking bad timeline The way it paid all that off and pushed it forward and all the little things that they were able to It's so weird how they got all these new characters these new experiences in there without it feeling rushed or last minute It was masterful Very interesting But yeah a lot of people felt it was A bit too insular and didn't really move anything forward found it boring so Yeah, that's fine If you feel that way that's totally I know people don't like the fly episode of breaking bad. It's one of my absolute favorites. I think it's Fantastic in terms of the character drama that we get in and I think it's a very important episode In terms of showing us character perspectives from walt and jesse And just the mental state of their situation And yeah, like I said the perspective on just like past events that we saw with Jesse's Jesse's partner passed away Yeah, there was a lot there very very strong in my opinion and I felt similarly about nippy There wasn't as much bigger picture character stuff, but it was important in building foundations Oh, there was there was bigger picture character stuff in terms of You know being a scam that jimmy pulls in his post breaking bad new gene mustache and glasses timeline, so There was a fair bit there, but that was yeah Of that became much clearer as episodes went on but people Feel compelled to say that the episode is bad and like I said you can feel that way you can find boring You cannot like it, but it's very interesting that it's being phrased as if this is a very Poor episode I guess in terms of its execution. It's writing. So I was interested in having to having a look at what uh, Eric Cain the senior contributor to Forbes magazine, I guess Pines, okay. Yeah. Yeah, well So this this is not reflective of Forbes as as an organization And I will absolutely give the benefit of the doubt to Eric Cain that Perhaps they feel differently after the events Um past this episode and I don't want this to be too serious. Obviously Ben I will it will towards them seriously like Um, you know anybody watching this yet. No, this is just a bit of fun I'm interested to see what they think definitely like be nice Don't go after Eric like let them have their opinions. They write about video games entertainment and culture entertainment and culture Very interesting We can listen to the article, but that's not what we're going to do. We're going to read it All right, here we go. Better call Saul finally gave us a genuinely bad episode I'm interesting. I think the title of this was it used to be The worst episode of better call Saul So it's just a similar sentiment But I think they got rid of the worst near the start of the article just to Soften the blow and not leave as much of a bad taste in people's mouths It definitely feels like it's trying to catch head like Catch eyes and stuff and get people to be like what nippy like there are probably some people who are like I didn't hate nippy, but then they'll see this and like, oh my god Somebody thinks it's bad or people like me who liked it and will be like, oh explain yourself um But yeah Not to say I don't think this is just clickbait. Oh my god. Wait, this is filed under games Is that how it's filed? Fun and games. Am I right? Oh my god, I'm going to keep talking About it's more relevant stuff So, yeah, I believe this is an opinion that they hold. I don't think this is just clickbait or anything just ingenuous This is purely out of good faith. So here we are start off with a nice picture. Oh Carol Burnett, by the way, can we just say? Yeah, fantastic as Marion Or she was able to bring to these last two episodes queen of tv as she is. Yeah, she was fantastic And the fact that like she's 90 dude Is it like 89 90 she She's got a lot of spirit and youth to her that she That really brings a lot to this character, especially as a lot of people point out the relationship between these two between jimmy and Marion how it's Echoes a lot of his experiences with elders past but um Yeah, I won't go much further than that. I don't want to spoil too much Um, yeah, this is after nippy. This is yeah, not This is spoiler-free unless there's there could be stuff down here that does talk about later episodes If it's been updated in any capacity after the finale So I'll let you I'll let everyone bear that in mind But having said that Let's read it Disgusting It's a shame that the first genuinely bad episode of better call soul is also the one featuring a fun cameo From comedic legend carol burnett. But here we are Sort of yeah, oh pining. I guess if you do think that this is the worst episode that I have to shame we've got this like legend He did a very good job and definitely didn't It was not the reason for any of this being bad, but yeah, this is how you feel Then I guess bringing up the fact like oh, it's a shame It's kind of like how a lot of people feel like obi-wan Kenobi That terrible television show we'll be talking about sometime in the future Um, the fact that you got you and McGregor back that you got Hayden christiansen back That they both did a really great job as far as I'm concerned, but They were just given awful scripts so yeah The most recent episode of amc breaking bad prequel was a stinker. Oh no butts about it Oh dismissing the idea that like if somebody was like, oh, I don't think so They'll be like nope. It was awful. Oh I Give me your reasons No butts about it. It's kind of like people can push back about it Like I would have gotten rid of no butts about it because I think there's I don't know what you've What you what reasons you're going to give us in a bit. I can already see something here that I'm going to get a little bit about but We'll see No butts about it. Just Yeah, I don't know what you know what you think you know what you've concluded from this, but Keep keep an open mind. Mr. Mr. Ford was right a king. That's it um Yeah, while bob odenkirk did a fine job as gene in the current black and white timeline just about everything else about this episode failed to deliver There are three big reasons for this. All right. We have three reasons And you can probably already see it on the screen. Here we go recasting. Jeff was a mistake This is a very annoying point that I've seen pushed around quite a bit recently that I can understand people find it's obviously jarring having a different act to come in who doesn't look like Yeah, they've already said it was jarring I think that's the recasting of cab driver Jeff was jarring. I think that's a sentiment a lot of people can agree with but in terms of What exactly is the main issue in terms of is it a flaw with the work because I think The meta reason being that uh don harvey Who played Jeff in the in two appearances in season four and five. I think it was Um, he wasn't available due to some scheduling because he was on another show. I believe so he wasn't able to come back First the recasting of cab driver. Jeff was beyond jarring Yeah, it was jarring like they were different and the text was second to be like, all right. This is the same guy, but Let's figure out if for me it was just the face and I guess All right, we'll get into it in a second I realized that there were booking issues that prevented don harvey from reprising his role as the character But the recasting of recasting choice of pat hilly is simply bizarre I really like pat hilly and I think he still carried a similar vibe I don't think he wears the sweater as well as mr. Harvey, but I think mr. Healy did a very good job as Jeff for one thing they don't look at all alike Yeah, a lot of people look like I don't think that's the thing you've could have gotten someone who looked like don harvey But wasn't a very good actor like you got a good actor being pat hilly Here's don's jeff. Here's pat's jeff. Yeah, they don't look like each other Like the hair has like a sweeping over sort of thing that's sort of similar But obviously a bit more curly and yet just face wise. Yeah, they're two very different people. Oh Slight butt chins there though I remember seeing somebody do a deep fake of don harvey don harvey over pat hilly's face and Yeah, okay, if that's what you want to do but They still if anything they show to me the same sentiment that Oh gee jeff new jeff Yeah, yeah the different actors they look different. Obviously not the same person in the outside world of the character on this show but Yeah, this is the change we got let's see the issues for why it's bad Actually, the name's pay hilly pay hilly So that's a little tight pants and don harvey are the only similar things about these men They're both end in a h. They're both three letter first names That's The only thing similar about them is the fact that they have two very different names He really does a fine job in this episode. Thank you. Don't get me wrong It's just that he does a fine job playing an entirely different character. He's not playing a different character Um, what we're seeing is him in an entirely different context the way that we saw Jeff in his first full appearance like the first time we saw him was in the rear view mirror of the taxi as Like he was clawing in like oh my god So and he obviously had a bit more of a menacing Look about him because he was like oh shit.  It's like don't wait. I'm not gonna tell anybody but um And then the next time we see him soul is like, you know what? I'm gonna handle it myself and tracks down where he is goes to his mom's place and as soon as they rock up They're like What?   You can say in the way they were acting Like I took that up to just being down to just how that actor is able to convey that whether there's actual inconsistencies between the characterization. I just now I don't agree. I think The way that they were communicating that like with With Harvey and he was playing Jeff. There was an obvious sense of like Like oh my god, he's so excited.  He's here like Yeah, what else can you say about that?  Like, you know, obviously not voicing that until they actually get a chance to be alone together But I think the same thing we would have seen gone like We would have experienced with these characters. I I just I can't abide by this in terms of saying it's an actual flaw But if it's something that you feel like you've picked up in terms of their acting styles, okay fair enough, but in terms of actually You know Highlighting this as a as an issue with the continuity and just the Characterization like as if it's a major inconsistency. I just now I'm sorry man. You're just this we're seeing them the two characters in an entirely different context in the way that they're being in their power Dynamics and the way that they're communicating that and being confronted with this new information. So Yeah, it's it's fine. It works. I'm sorry Here's the scene. Yes. So they got the scene there. You notice how oggf is a swaggering cockshore and imposing man Yeah, because he feels like he holds all the power in this situation. He's intimidating. Is he If you got that that's fine Uh, yeah, there are no buts about this either mr. Forbes man About it's him being intimidating. Can I say I didn't really find him that intimidating Maybe sol found him intimidating gene would have found anybody intimidating at that time because he was obviously a much more meek Un Unconfident I guess that's the word character So if Healy was in this situation, we would have gotten a similar vibe like Yeah, he's the kind of guy who could go either way. Maybe he's just having a luck or maybe he'll turn you in for the reward money It's what we got with Um New jeff as well the fact that he didn't really seem to be too fussed about it But when he came back up it's like I could turn you in but then it's just like no I can help you Oh, okay, then I can commit to all this crime stuff Maybe he'll just blackmail you or harass you who can say he's a threat and don harvey's version of jeff is threatening and imposing You explain how in terms of like you said they're swaggering a cocksure Again, I just you know, I don't see it in terms of just saying this is this but that is not like No, I don't I feel like pat healy could If he was given this same direction in this episode like Look at these eyes like obviously the very puppy dog in this picture, but you could get that guy looking very piercing and very say it I I I believe that pay healy Could be up to the task if he was given that same line reading in that same direction We're just like don harvey did a great job And it would have been interesting to see if there was a major difference, you know in an alternate timeline We do see him play jeff if there would be I guess more consistency in the eyes of What this sentiment is and just whether it would work better, but with pat healy it just It's it's fine. There's a through line here that we can see pat healy's version of the jeff of Pat healy's version of jeff is essentially the opposite. He's not imposing in the slightest He seems irritated with sol Yeah, again because it's an entirely different situation that they're being presented with here You think about how sol was acting entirely different in those scenarios as well when jeff was confronting him He was sitting down with his uh legs tucked together. He was having his he was having his lunch He seemed very meek and hunched over and here comes over jeff just being like hey Hey, you're the guy right and then but sol's like I don't know You know because obviously that's an element of him as well that he's got to sort of put that on and act a bit More meek But that's the part of like the fact that he's either had to act like this Or whether he's developed this feeling from the isolation and being away from the sole character Whether this is something that he's Either done for so long that he can't remember either way or something that is just Who he is now that he's felt ever since he started doing This like you know the gene life Who's to say but it's very different to how we see him when he's at maryon's place And he's like oh so jovial and he's obviously playing into the fact of being very oops, excuse me on the nose with how he's communicating between Uh communicating with maryon and the little underlying what he's getting across to jeff and how when they have their first conversation Then they're entirely different characters as well because they've received different information They've had time to think about this and now they're being presented with a very different scenario Saul is the one with the power in this scene Like he's he's he's endgame by by the finish of the episode is I've now manipulated you into committing crime So now if you try to blackmail me, I can blackmail you you try to turn me in I'll turn you in That was his you know, that's fine. I'll do it myself When jeff first called Saul out our intrepid lawyer almost went on the lamb a second time But decided instead to take care of it myself that I think the way you word of that sentence I think it would have been better if you said but decided to take care of it himself and just do the little brackets within Him to let us know that that's not you're making you're bending the phrase to fit in with the sentence a bit better like think like This is how it should read when jeff first called Saul out our intrepid lawyer almost went on the lamb a second time But decided instead to take care of it himself Yeah, that flows a bit of that instead decided to take care of it myself That might have paid off without the recasting then again It's still paid off So don't give me this shit If we look at just the Like the writing itself And how that's got flipped entirely from You know say it i'm not leaving until you say it better call Saul and then you know this time later You know, it's just like all right. You've done crime now, but we're friends. No, we're not friends The fact that he got back because You know, he was on the phone like uh, Saul was on the phone and he's like I need a hoover max extract model 20 But he during the phone call. He's like taking a bit of time to be like, you know, I'll handle it myself I'll take care of it myself so We're seeing just evolution of just characters reacting to different stimuli This is it's not as far away as you think it is mr. Forbes The distance between episodes didn't help and this is something that's just like Okay, if I watch these scenes back to back will it help maybe just the placing of it Wait the distance Oh, this is entirely meta Jeff recognizes soul in season five premiere the premiere aired back in february 22 two years ago global Oh, yeah, that fun time various other ventures attracted us in the meantime. This is If this is the way you're phrasing it Okay, if I binge it now if I watch the entire series because I can because it's over medical soul is over If I watch episode one episode um, this one Will that be okay Will it have like fix things like if it's just like Okay Just like the star wars. Okay, and this is entirely different because it's like the sequels versus The original trilogy would it have been better if they were released closer together? It's kind of irrelevant to the fact of like, all right take it in of itself How well do these things go from The first iteration to the continuation and it looks like in here. All right. Yeah, we'll read them Almost to almost Almost two full seasons have transpired between Jeff's first appearance and gene's plan to trick him into committing a crime So he wouldn't turn him over to the to the authorities It's pretty easy to get murky on the details after that long Maybe if Jeff had discovered saw it the very end of season five Or if this episode had taken a place it had taken place earlier in season six. Okay, so That's definitely something I actually I think nippy could have you could probably put it anywhere honestly I kind of agree with that Like if you put it that would have because that was what was so good about the last two episodes about a core soul and seeing kim again because it feels like we had the separation between the It's so weird to me. The big blow-up finale was um Kim and jimmy breaking up and then Like, you know the flash forward showing like uh soul Just before breaking bad That was like the really that's where it hit home for me in terms of like, oh, that was That's one of my favorite episodes of the series I think it's in terms of you asking which was the best episode of this series I think that's definitely up there I'd have to have a big old discussion and conversate about Which one is the best episode of this season and the series honestly but yeah So you kind of you can have a point here of saying That it has been a while. It's like okay fair enough like if Like the teasers for the finale of Breaking Bad season five Very finale. We had those teasers. I think at the start of season five part one and season five part two whereas Um, but a core soul was doing it from the first season It's it's yeah, definitely a presenter. Okay I think it's it is kind of on you if you feel like it's like oh the way it's Presented it's a bit murky. It's like all right fair enough. It has been a while in terms of just the seasons. I'm not going to use outside you know world parameters of Weighing whether this was well-paced and presented to us or not because If I just say, oh man, I didn't watch Star Wars You know, no actually I'll use something that actually happened to me Um, I watched the Fellowship of the Ring when I was a kid A couple years later. I watched the Return of the King and didn't watch the two towers until I was in high school, I think I think I'm not too sure exactly why um but that distance of time between watching them and You know the information that I was getting and reconnecting with what was going on in the story outside of Like how it was actually presented like that's I'm only bringing this up because you've brought up the fact of um, you know the outside influences of what's of how these things were released because If Toy Story 3 had ended up coming out like 20 years later From Toy Story 2 I didn't think I would I wouldn't bring into the fact that it's like it's been 20 years and It doesn't really do a good job of catching us up, which you know, sorry Toy Story 3 does and That's the thing. So does so does this it gives us you don't even really have to watch that interaction between Jeff and Sol to get the context you need With this it's just like it's clear that he knows who Sol is and he's rocked up all of a sudden and it's just like It's just like oh, I want to get you into the game. There's there's enough here that brings you back up And that's the thing I hadn't seen this opening scene Since it like probably came out as well. I might have rewatched the episode. Oh, yeah, I'd rewatch the the series shortly after Season five came out just to catch myself up on it but um, and you know that was within the year of Uh, this episode coming out. So I was much more refreshed and updated you have a point with this one about okay, the amount of time between it maybe if it was Paced out differently to give us the info. So it wouldn't just be like, oh, yeah, we're back to this I get what you mean Like I said, I still think it works with the context they offer us But yeah, I could understand this happening just to people and I wouldn't begrudge it as some sort of like I wouldn't say oh, you just weren't paying attention with this. It's like, okay There is a genuine thing. There is a huge amount of things that happen between the season five premiere and season six part two episode Of that Part at least it would never say three. I think that's Episode three of part two. Yeah, okay fair enough combine this two. No, we're not combining that In the bizarre recasting and having episode that tries to achieve some sort of triumph or so, but fails to stick the landing The things you brought up the the only thing you have there Is the fact that there's been a bit of space within the story between How the events have been presented. I'm sorry that you cannot bring the meta knowledge of there being a 2.5 year real life jump like Just say some scheduling issues Like how can you take this into account when? When watching the Excuse me when watching the episode and judging it critically like Just say if somebody was able to watch this episode earlier And they'd be able to judge it as oh, I only had two years like well, I had 2.5 years obviously This is the scheduling, you know stuff that's been put out by the people who have pushed the film forward So there's a bit more of a rigid sort of way We can follow this in terms of how everyone's experienced it So it is a bit more universal in the fact that everyone's had this 2.5 year real life jump But just say if something happened where this episode couldn't get released And it had to be pushed back like another year or two I wouldn't bring that in To rating how well the episode did in conjunction with everything that happened prior Like this is yeah, I'm sorry, man You need to take this as the story is presented from episode to episode You can't it's like well, I didn't finish watching it that night I ended up watching it the next day and I was a little bit murky on the details I'm sorry and yeah, the bizarre recasting I think it's a And the recasting like if you find a bizarre or it doesn't work for you.  Here we go I think this is going to be a bit more meat and potatoes because I think there's a bit more to say maybe I know there's a little bit of convenience with some of the things that happen in the scam, but I think it was pretty well thought out and Made sense within what was presented to us. I really enjoyed the final scam But let's see what mr. Forbes has to say, okay So Jimmy McGill has always cooked up ludicrous scams But the nippy scam which involved weeks of Cinnabon deliver Cinnabon deliveries to a security guard Played by parks and rec alum Jim O'Hare was kind of stupid If you say so First there was the opening scam in which gene tricks Jeff's mom on her way home from the grocery store by sabotaging her little motorized shopping cart and making up a story about his dog nippy From whence the name of the episode is derived This is all an attempt to put Jeff on the spot apparently so that he could lure him into the game Yeah, the fact that's like he knew like this is the mum and Jeff lives with her It's like if I get in good with the mum and I'm there he can like it's just like all right There's risks involved, but it's he's not going to commit to it if there's like Like risks that are just beyond actually, you know until what we see in the finale He's obviously committing to a few more risks only because he's being pushed to the end of the He's at the end of his rope, but what we're seeing here. He's way more. All right I'm gonna get in good with the mum if I get in good with the mum the rest of this can all go ahead But this plan makes too many assumptions. It has assumptions, but Saul assumes that Jeff will react the way he does when he finds him having drinks with his mum Based on the interaction. He's already had he knows this dude kind of reveres him a bit And it is just like oh if I'm here and with the connections I have and the information I told It's like what are you holding over?  You know, I could turn you in any moment, right? But then he's like oh, I can get you into the game Because like this guy clearly looks up to Jimmy Saul and his going in his doings as a con man as a Excuse me lawyer And he's gone into a bit of trouble himself So Jeff is using that information to be like, all right, I think I can do something here. Let's go talk with him Certainly, this is how a new Jeff might timidly mouth zipped up tight But based on my observations of og Jeff. I don't think so I is very important here because this is just like all right. It's obviously not working for you In saying that this is genuinely an issue with the way the story is able to progress now Saul assumes that this will present an opening to trick Jeff into participating in a scam with him rather than Rather than him calling the police and getting that easy reward money again I'm not sure why Saul would make that assumption. He's taking a risk, but he's he He saw What do you think that he's good with this year and this and he knows this guy is clearly Like there's assumptions, but it's based on what he's been able to take away from the interactions There's way more here than him just saying this random guy. I'm gonna see if he likes me if he'll go along with this scam Why jeff would decide that robbing a department store and then somehow facing the fencing the Then somehow fencing the items somehow fencing the items. You don't think jimmy's gonna have some connections that are outside He's gonna be able to even find them outside of what has um been apprehended by excuse me by the government by the police like He has his ways is a better deal than easy reward money Well, he's clearly got that predilection towards, you know, like, oh, I'm You know, I really looked up to you soul and just the the going and the things you did and all the common maniness. So yeah It all checks out, dude What's the episode again? This you have to pay attention to what the characters are saying and the way that they've set themselves up and the way they're linking in With characters reacting to them and what they bring forth to try to love them over into something Because we obviously know what jimmy's end goal here is Like whether his fallback is to just be like i'm gonna Like step back like if you do end up trying to call the police and like I'll tell them that you help me And all that but Hmm Yeah, he's taken a risk, but he's he's aware that it's like well if I don't say anything there's a very good chance that he's gonna say Something anyway, he's gonna like talk like he saw him as the kind of the mouthy guy He was like, you know, he brought his friend along to be like, hey, so good man works at the Cinnabon So he's like, all right, I need to tell him this is serious.  There's a lot that's like, all right This thing's working. Then we'll go on to the next stage. It's not just like everything just so happened to fall into place It's obviously like We cannot see the 4d chest that jimmy is undertaking here. So yeah, he's gotten good with the security guard He's getting to know the cameras how they're at race 72 hours Probably because he talked with him about it or he's just aware of that sort of stuff from his time as a lawyer That it's a very common practice within malls and he could have had that confirmed with frank That was the name security guard. I'm pretty sure The next thing is like, okay, he goes into the department store and gets the full dimensions and everything like that Then make something up and just like this open field and gets jeff to Um run around and like, all right, you need to pick these items specifically I think there's a lot that he's like putting on him in terms of Committing to that I don't think there's a huge there. There are risks here. It's more risky than a lot of the things he's done in the past, but It's just like, you know, it's kind of what else am I going to do? I want this.   I was awful to my brother. I was I was complicit in all the Walter white goings on and I was very much committed to doing it There was no nothing really forcing my hand at least maybe until the end, but I got myself into that mess It relies on too many moving pieces Jean has to visit the security guards every night with sim and rons. Yeah, what else is he doing? He has to he he has to learn about football and the current game landscape I guess that that wouldn't be a very difficult thing for him to learn He has to go in and scout all the expensive clothes Like any human being could do when going into a department store Then he has to train Jeff using a perfectly plotted out course that mirrors the inside of the department store Now that's one that I could be like all right. There might be something there in terms of he's relying on the fact that he's He can quickly grab all of these sets of three items from all these Things and perfectly spread everything out to make it look like nothing's been fucked with I think there's something there There's a little bit of like things are working perfectly up until he slips but they would have practiced this time and time again and You know the fact that like you know Jeff was very committed to it and all it is is just grabbing a few things Clipping like the things he has to worry about are just running grabbing clipping the things off Then taking them back and chucking them in the cart then he has to hide in the toilet You know that there's a potential for anybody to miss a few things there, but It's not what happens Yeah, I could say there's like okay It's a bit convenient that he was able to get all of the tags off and he didn't forget a single one knowing this is first Knowing this could potentially be the first time that he's done this because obviously the way they word it when he's um When he's talking with sol and stuff Um, they make it seem like this is his first big score But like obviously from his first interaction it seemed like he's gotten into trouble for a few things prior So he has experience it just he needed the mr. Miyagi Yoda training of Sol to really understand crime and how best to do it um Yeah, I think there's just like you pointed out tiny little things that could bring this episode's rating down to an eight out of 10 But to say it's if that's bad. That's the kind of thing if you a bad episode for better call. So what does that look like? It's like oh, it's average Average at worst like I think this episode is really good But like they're like elements that make you might go Hmm, but there's still the fact that like it's this is very possible to happen You know and it would have been reiterated.  Yeah to actually execute this heist They send a fake delivery to the store and then sol uses his bottomless charm to convince the manager to leave it there overnight So they can pick it up in the morning. It's a Trojan horse manure with jeff inside the crate when it's go time jeff There obviously wasn't anything pointing out I didn't think there was any issues specifically with that because it's like if it didn't work Then it didn't work they put him back on the truck and then they do it and it's like all right We'll figure out something else as a thing These things all work out only because there's a lot of commitment to each of them singular components and they I'm not going to say they happen to work out like it's like oh that was lucky it's like they work out because of the commitment that each character has to undertaking these actions Yeah, when it's go time jeff grabs all the merch he can stuff inside a three minute window while sol distracts the guard Then jeff comes Yeah, jeff camps out in the bathroom overnight and leaves in the morning His buddy picks up the crate right on time and nobody's the wiser There's one flub when jeff slips while running and is briefly dazed and Half unconscious on the floor this forces sol to improvise Distracting the guard with fake tears and a sub story about how his parents are dead. His brother is dead Nobody loves him later loves him if he died tomorrow nobody would shock to his funeral He has no friends no family In fact, it's this moment and sol's realization that his story is actually a true story That provide the episode with its one meaningful and profound moment. Okay Sol's distraction works, but leaves him emotionally drained the full weight of his ruined life laid out before him or he was like I'm talking about probably the moment where he takes a second to catch his breath in the stall Like in the hallway whether that was Where he feels legitimately about this situation or if it's something Or it's him just like oh my god. Thank god it worked, you know It could be either or that's an interpretation thing, but Yeah, it's got it's a pretty if it's if you see it as the meaningful and profound moment that it is it is like By your assessment it definitely is like If the episode needs a meaningful and profound Moment necessarily to work and to be good Sol's distraction works and the full weight is probably suddenly an accidental confession His false tears masking true pain longing and loss That's kind of how you see the fact that he or even yeah Just the fact that he did have to do that and that did leave him drained as well On top of the fact that he was worried that Heist wouldn't work out the fact that he's done this after so long. There's a lot here And it's kind of you know It's there's a bit of subtext in the fact that he was crying in that hallway and wondering wondering whether it was Genuine or if it was just Genuine over the like the things that he emotionally laid out to to the guy or if it was Him bullshitting and that took a lot to bullshit that Yeah, alas the rest of the episode felt weirdly stuffed into an otherwise Coherent and compelling final season By trust me the final three episodes really put this one a perspective It relied far too heavily on a character introduced nearly two seasons ago and then recast in the interim It relied on the character that was always that was already pre-existing in the story and who made perfect sense to be here And then a recast that you haven't done the best job and explaining why it's necessarily bad You've got your issues with it.  And the moving pieces and everything that they were able to pack into that last moment Like that's the thing. There's a lot of moving pieces in that and if something faltered like it did in that one They have to account for it. The fact that Casemiro ended up breaking his hand. So they had to retake the photo It was carried off far too easily. Oh, I don't know His ultimate victory over Jeff felt hollow and unsatisfying By having him commit to the thing that he says that he was only Skating by it's like, all right, you want to be real.  But the fact is that he was like blackmailing this guy, you know what he said I'll do it myself and what he does he makes the guy feel like he's actually like really is like see you've done it Now shut the fuck up It's like oh geez Here's to hoping the final three episodes of this show are a whole lot better I think that they were especially the final two episodes I but nippy is kind of up there for me in terms of just working really well on its own But also providing us the framework for what pays off so well about these last three episodes Yeah, I'm sorry man You haven't really done the best job and explaining why this episode is specifically bad Your most valid points are probably that there's some convenience and That it's been a while since we saw these characters within the reference of the season not within the real real world stuff I'm sorry. I will not be accepting that Yeah So you say that's the thing it's like, okay So if this episode if this series was released, you know, just a few months after season five would it be better? It's like I I wouldn't really like you can everyone has their own perspective and way of judging this stuff and their own Standard but like just bringing out the real world things and just I don't think that's very fair It's not very fair on just like okay Bring in the fact that you think it's been a bit of time between what we saw at the start of season five and the second part of season six Don't bring out the real world stuff That's just yeah Because it's like, okay So if somebody reviews the whole series as it's come out now Like somebody decides to make a review two years later from now with it. Well, you know just now because it's all out and says You know You know they could have the same point as you it's been a while since we saw him But that was just the start of season five, you know, I've been to the whole thing in a week I don't know if you could with this. I guess you could with this show, but It'd be a long week Excuse me Yeah, I just I don't accept the real world time deletion All right, here we go. Here's to hoping the final three episodes of the show are a lot better Because this may be the first episode of Better Call Saul's entire run that I genuinely disliked All right, you didn't like it. That's totally fine, man and I wish that you were a bit more like this just didn't work with me rather than saying it was definitively bad because I'm afraid It's just not the case All right an update because I think you got a little bit of pushback on this So let's have a look I've gotten a little pushback on this one. I've also had a lot of fans agree with my take It's been interesting to see just how divisive an episode this really has turned into Though it seems a few of my fellow critics found the same flaws I did found the same issues that they experienced and they're watching not on say flaws with the writing itself with the presentation On the fans side of things many have expressed anger and outrage that I would Decar shade of any flavor on Better Call Saul.  I'm just like, yeah, like I'm trying to at least provide some counter arguments that are a bit more like, you know How dare you say anything against Better Call Saul like I've already I started off this Um explanation by saying there are issues with Better Call Saul There are a fair few conveniences and at times the things don't necessarily line up exactly how I imagine they should have but Yeah, I I think Yeah All right, if that's who you want to Isolate in saying that there are people like saying that and say all right I can believe that like even I think there are people who will say that it's perfect And it's not so okay fair enough many others have thanked me for writing for writing this piece And some of you can point out things wrong with the episode that I didn't notice or don't personally agree with All right, so you're bringing it. Yeah, there's a there's a lot more nuance here um Point out things wrong with this episode that I didn't notice I'd be curious to see what my work Because like I think you've already like the extent of the issues From what I've seen It's just that yeah conveniences and there's been a bit of time between where we saw these characters Um While most of the critics of my criticism have expressed their dislike of my article in rather unsavory ways Typically some combination of personal insults and calls for me to be fired Some have made solid arguments that I respect and honestly I respect your opinion either way If you liked this episode and thought it was a fun brilliant highest and the recasting didn't bother you great I wish I liked it the same way you did then I'd be a happier better call soul fan So that's the thing I the way he's presented this it does seem like at the start that he's saying it's definitively bad But at the end of the day it's saying it doesn't work for him. And so I'm fine to go on with that narrative I wouldn't say that he's just trying to say that this is like an absolute truth This is just something that he's noticed that didn't work for him. So that's that's totally fine Totally fine, but as a critic and a fan this one just didn't stick the landing for me It's nothing personal I've heaped praise on this show for years every now and then even the most brilliant tv shows I've ever missed And maybe it's just a miss for some of us while others loved it, which is fine.  Thomas. I still don't know how to pronounce this guy's name Thomas schnauz even seems to be tossing a little animosity my way Or at least that those who disliked last week's soul Which seems odd though, perhaps less odd when you consider the better call soul normally only receives unbridled prayers I feel like there's a fair bit to infer here like in terms of saying that this is directed at you This is my last episode of better call soul lever. I hope this is Thomas schnauz schnauz I'm sorry if I can't pronounce that name, right? I hope most of you like it I hope I hope a small portion of you and you know who you are a broad senseless buyer and consider it the worst episode ever All right, if you want to say that's about nippy go ahead In any case one thing I wanted to follow up on which I didn't discuss in my review is something I think was important about the episode and that the writers did a good job presenting to viewers Even if I think overall that nippy fell short and what I'm referring to is the fact that the first time in one episode We see gene soul slipping jimmy and jimmy all at once in one person Yeah, there was definitely a bit of payoff here in terms of Every iteration we've seen coming together. I'd agree with that Slipping jimmy appears early on plotting the highest while hopefully yeah Plotting the highest that will hopefully get cab driver jeff back off his back He's the one who sets this elaborate pot up and has been has fun doing it just like the old good old days Uh, yeah, excuse me Jimmy the thoughtful grieving compassionate jimmy comes out briefly when he tells his sub-story to the security guard and realizes Just how sad his life really has become For a moment. We see him grieve his choices and his losses I wonder if he that's the thing is like that could be jimmy or he's just using the facade of jimmy like Sure the way he reacts when he gets out into the hallway seems a bit like I feel like that could be just because he nearly got caught so there's a bit of Influence there. I don't know finally. We get soul the more ruthless Breaking bad soul When he confronts jeff at the end and reveals how he's double crossed him into submission This is a pretty great way to tie these versions of soul goodman together. Do you remember girl soul goodman gene takovic? Yeah, I'd agree Which man is he deep down? Who is soul goodman? Which pieces of jimmy remain? Should be a question mark there is gene a man that kim racy horn would even recognize anymore I suppose these are questions posed in the episode and in the five and a half suit And five and a half seasons leading up to this moment. Yeah, it's definitely what we get Whether beta core soul will answer them remains to be seen We have just a small handful of episodes left to go Tonight's is called breaking bad. Perhaps we'll see walt or jesse at least or perhaps it's a red herring What did you think? Breaking bad was a great episode. I actually I didn't like it as much as like waterworks and And so gone the finale um, I think the I have my reasons that I'll get into another time for now on. Let's get out of here Might as well say it Yeah, I actually don't think that of season six part two that nippy was even the worst episode of This particular section of the series. I um And when I say worse, I'm obviously using that as You know just the yeah the worst for better call. So There was um, so the first episode of part two of season six picking up right after Howard's death and lalo's getting Jimmy and Kim to follow his demands um, obviously trying to lure everyone away from the Laundry that he can That he can get get evidence of to show don eladio um I have just a few issues with like mostly near the end of this episode. I think it like builds itself up itself up so perfectly In the way that you know uh, just With a little description that lalo gives kim in terms of the who's here's who you have to kill Like it's a very obvious thing that we know who she's going to have to quote unquote kill Who lalo is getting her to kill?  That's the thing like I knew that jimmy was probably leading her Like saying you go because Ementrout's gonna be there and they're gonna like pick you up before you even Like as you're at the door, you know It's yeah, I really liked and bringing her into that and her having a chat with gus. It was all very interesting So um Yeah, what we get after that's yeah near the end of the episode Uh gus figures out through that phone call throughout chat with kim Figures out that a lalo is going to the to the laundry. So decides to go down there himself as mike is going to Um Going to kim and jimmy's place to rescue jimmy Not um, they're all a bit too They're all a bit unsure as to where lalo is exactly what his plan is right now but obviously We we know it's presented to us and it's kind of we can already infer that's the main thing He's after is the laundry. He wants to get evidence of it. He wants to undermine gus Um to to his totality. He doesn't want to just kill him right now. Obviously wants to bring him to his knees before um He's obviously got it in his mind that he's gonna reveal himself to The cartel and just be like Yeah, we we made it Sorry, I just got it really weirdly no We made it and just likes like he's not gonna reveal himself as being back from the dead until he has this Written in stone. He has this chiseled out But yeah, so the near the end of the episode after the phone call with kim Gus goes down to the laundry to confront lalo and I think this is a bit of a risk for him. Like I know it's kind of with in As we've seen over season six, he's been Very cautious about the fact that lalo is still alive and he's wearing a bulletproof vest everywhere. He goes and uh, you know high going through this underground bunker He's got a double Um, he's very on edge, you know He zones out at work, but and then like sudden sounds just bangs and crashes from But he like, you know trays being dropped and stuff makes him Jolt, so he's obviously got it. Maybe in his mind that is like that's I'm gonna deal with this Remember the kawaii story that he uh told about told to a hector when he was on when he was recovering from his stroke So something like that. I think he's definitely like I'm gonna confront it But still it feels even when the amount of men he has like the fact that he goes straight in there.  He's got two in people that He's looking out for and everything that could be destroyed by this think about it if If it gets found out about him, he dies and all this bad stuff happens then lile lile's gonna be out of a job um So yeah, that was a bit risky on his part and it's Convenient that they're in like the spot that they can be for lalo to get the drop on all of them And the fact that none of gus's men like sort of sort of duck Properly to get like some proper cover and You know, it just it fit in a little bit too like that was a bit convenient um Obviously they're you know convenience only very tangentially because It all makes sense the what it's coming to right now and we know that lalo is very relentless. He is quite the marksman um but still it felt a bit strange in Yeah, just the perfect setting for him to get the drop on everybody. None of gus's henchmen ducked out of the way Yeah, and then yeah lalo takes him down and Very conveniently like he doesn't you know, I don't want to say conveniently it just It all makes sense how it turns out.   There's no way that gus lalo wasn't gonna kill gus right there But obviously set up from a previous episode that there's a gun in the In one of the excavation equipment pieces of excavation equipment from the underground meth lab so yeah Lalo is filming gus He doesn't like the fact the fact that gus is moving around and lalo doesn't look to see it's like What are you up to? What are you planning like tricking about? He's getting a bit distracted by the fact that like gus is saying all these like You're like you salamancas like and besmirching their name and everything like that It's it's pretty satisfying that we get to hear all this stuff and we get it so unfiltered from gus In a way that like in a way that he's directed towards the salamunca that we've never heard before Obviously he said it's a hector, but like the fact that hector is this decrepit old man That it's just that can't fight back really like still has his influence still is relatively dangerous in some regards, but Yeah, that's there's a bit more here the fact that there's a gun on him and like You know one wrong step right here could have led to the end of things um thankfully he gets in the perfect spot to kick the Court out and ducks all of lalo shot despite like we know how good of a shot lalo is And as the like the lights are going down, but he knows he has enough time to like see where he's going with the lights only really Cut full on once gus gets to the excavation equipment and gus has absolutely No visual reference other than like kind of you know feeling the environment a bit of object permanence, uh, so to speak In relatively where he's going to be shooting Towards uh towards lalo and we've never seen gus as a particular marksman all of his kills are very You know these very methodical strange intimidation things that like there's a lot of puppet stringery with the way that he's operating And there's something very interesting about putting him here down in the dirt And I think it would have gone with what they were doing right now But yeah, basically gus fires into the dark and very luckily One of his shots gets the lalo in the throat Now there's this really cool instance a very cool shot where it's over gus's shoulder as he looks into the darkness and he's not too sure if he's hit lalo and You know, he's gonna have to turn the lights back on eventually when you're like So Like there's kind of you know, you're shrinking into your neck because you're like Oh, what's the other shoes going to drop like I was saying to I was watching it with my with my partner and her brother and Uh, I was thinking oh lalo is probably faking it You know playing off the fact that that's what he did with casper in the I think was axon grind episode You know that uh, you know, he took the hit from casper because um He rightly guessed it was very It makes more sense to me that lalo would risk that sort of stuff Like he is that crazy that he would have risked getting a hit from the ax because he like was like thought it's like Oh, he's gonna get me with the blunt side because he's gonna be like who are you who sent you? What is this? Yeah, when he incapacitates anybody retains for a second.  What was I saying get back to the so obviously get lalo's gotten hit in the neck by Gus's stray bullet luckily one of the I think was three shots He empties the whole chamber and there's the the clicking as there's obviously no No more rounds. Forgive me. I might be using the wrong gun terminology. I don't know my guns um Yeah, uh, you know clicking as like the revolver he's shooting from is just you know the bullets that are is very well Put in terms of the like you could feel the desperation. There's a lot in the fact that like the fact that gusts keeps pulling the trigger after emptying every After emptying the whole chamber You can hear that clicking he's love the desperation and they're very like, you know, just like the kind of thing that he he's very very, you know I guess when you when you're playing a video game and you feel that sort of Just the tension of just like oh get out of my face like one of those horror games or something But um, yeah, so he gets lalo in the neck. He's on the ground And yeah, he's killed lalo. It was I don't want to say it was simple as that Like I do like the idea of it's like oh, we were just lucky then and the character's recognizing that like that's a big thing with Lalo and michael Sorry gusts and mike later where they're talking about it and says like you are very lucky then So I do like that aspect of it, but part of me I don't know. There's some part of me that feels like it should have shouldn't have been gusts because those two played the mental warfare and the final act of them you know gusts being on camera And then walking down and unveiling the meth lab and stuff that felt very A good payoff to like where they've come to as characters like, you know You know and I like the villain lets the other guy monologue or something like that um There's a lot of really tasteful interesting decisions that they make there, but at the same time I feel like the physical altercation it was altercation for lack of a better word the physical warfare The battle was between Mike and Lalo And I there was a huge like the the interactions that they had and how they were like they were more physically demanding and the more Like we're gonna get into it like some sort of scuffle For lack of a better word like the way I would have played it out Is that because there was that scene where Mike realizes that Lalo has gone to The the laundry and that gust is probably going there as well because I can't get in contact with him So he's on his way to the laundry. I like the idea of yeah gust flicks lead on Um Lalo is on the ground. I like the idea of he's been hit and he can see the blood and he goes over To check on him, but Lalo is like still alive.  There's a physical thing that I do like Gus was always the more Was the smarter one You know like they kind of equally match they've got very they've got such different That was such a great like one-on-one between those two But I still I felt like there was a payoff missing there between Lalo and Mike If Mike came to the rescue of Gus and was standing in the same place that he'd be standing when he was telling, you know Walter years from now. This is the way it's gonna be like if he if he like shot Lalo and it took a few shots to bring him down as like Lalo was so persistent that like one or two shots aren't bringing him down and the idea of like shooting him in the back as well And there's that like, you know, oh, yeah, these guys aren't heroes I felt like there's that there's so much subtext to Bring in from every scene in better call Saul. I think adding this in there And you could say this I'd agree that it is convenient as well. But basically with this episode Point and shoot that's the name of the episode They've triangulated the destinations that we have in This episode's plot. We've got Kim and Jimmy's apartment Saul's house. Sorry.  There's so many names Gus's house and the laundry so one two three a laundromat. I'm sure and And the fact that Mike was on his way and the different and the distance that you get in between those two I feel like there was definitely enough leeway to push it so that you know the entire time that Gus and Lalo were there, you know, Mike just so happens to turn up and it could still be It's a luck thing as well. Like there's a lot of there's a lot of luck here That's a I will definitely give it to this episode that there's there's a lot of luck in the things that happen But they're very sensical. They all Kind of add up to the same You know, it's it all It is enveloped within the right It's like, oh, yeah, this couldn't conceivably happen. It's not like it's an it's I wouldn't say it's contrived I feel like the only thing that makes me go. Hmm is the fact that Gus goes to the laundromat alone And doesn't tell Mike. Yeah, I feel like That's the biggest issue for me and I feel like that right there is honestly Kind of a bigger eyebrow razor than anything and nippy. Excuse me nippy Yeah, I think nippy probably doesn't reach as high as highs as that is that episode.  I still yeah I really want to make a video on that one day planning execution And that's one of my favorite episodes of the whole series Just the the skin that's being pulled on Howard like it's absolutely horrible because he doesn't deserve it But it's just so entertaining to watch happen and you're like, no Howard way um And yeah, his death was so undeserved and the context of that put him in as a character. It's just yeah So I'd be more than happy to expand on that one day and Yeah, it's one of my favorite scenes from the whole show made me feel absolutely sick I've probably already mentioned that so sorry for the broken recordness. I guess it's just Yeah Point and shoot following on from planning and execution. I think Could have been a bit stronger That's the thing the end result at the end of the episode and everything that followed after it If I gave that tiny tweak of Mike is the one to kill Lalo I still think Like that doesn't fix the major issue that I brought up about Gus Um, maybe you could have him like Tell uh Tell Mike and that's the thing of just like Mike's like don't go there without me It's just like it's just in but he's just like He's on his way and stuff because he knows like I have to do this. It's the kawaii um Yeah I Yeah That's that one stuck out a bit more to me But then yeah, the rest of the series definitely made up for it and If we change that one thing The exact same stuff would have happened So it isn't that real big of a draw for me. I still think it's a great episode But I yeah do think it's Not as tight as nippy in terms of you know, everything having a like sense cool follow-on from like the story beats But yeah that article we just read um, it's The guy's already put forth while I don't like that he worded at the start of the start of it, you know There's no ifs. There's no ifs or buts about it I like he's still Not prefaced What are the post fist? The article saying that it was just how it was gelling with him. So Yeah, I definitely bet bear no ill will to him. It's definitely interesting to hear the different perspectives. It's crazy. Like I remember Um watching nippy and like that was excellent Like I really love the development that it had on you know and really feel like a a lot of forward momentum from all of the flashback scenes and Yeah I guess just the reasoning that he had I feel like the what the one thing he could I can't remember what he bought it. Oh, yeah. So the couple things are bringing up that there were a fair few conveniences and that um There was the sorry Oh, yeah, the distance like the time between like in the episodes when uh, we saw Jean last and Where we see him now And yeah, I'm not taking into account the whole 2.5 year thing because this is like yeah I It's just like so if we if we were in an alternate universe where that episode that series got Sorry that season got released the year after would the score have been lower because it had been an even further distance That we saw Jean and Jeff Yeah, I just I think that seems fair judge the story within its package of You know Don't take into account release times I think that's something to complain about in the meta if there's like, you know, this thing was delayed until oblivion and You know, it wasn't as good as what we were promised I think that that definitely applies more so to video games, but it happens with movies and tv shows for sure Um, yeah, but that was a fun little detour into the Yeah, I really liked talking about better course all even if it was having a look at some detraction, but I think That was definitely better worded than a lot of uh, there's a lot of I know I know a few people may have seen the cheffrelis scapherlis uh video From ages ago. I think he's released something different and sorry released something else and has an addendum in the just in the comments of that video saying that You know we season five haven't come out after he made that video and He felt very differently about the whole thing I just it felt a bit clickbaity saying that it's like, you know, it's not as good as everyone is saying No, I'm sorry. Like that's the thing I've even called Breaking Bad overrated to an extent So I think it's fine to preface it with that But I think a lot of his reasons was just I don't like it and that's fine, but I guess that's just the issue that I have was saying that it's just like why is everybody enjoying this Why is everybody saying it's as good as it is? I'm just like, I don't know man If you don't like it as much as people are, you know hyping it up to be then That's you know, you can comment on maybe the expectations of the hype that's been built up But of the quality of the work itself. I feel like that's something that you're gonna separate I didn't really think that's fair But it's like people said this was going to be the best thing You know that it was going to be absolute perfection golden. It was going to make your toes curl That's Yeah, that's just something that you need to keep your expectations at check, I suppose Um, I noticed that it brought up a lot about conveniences in this Just uh talk about in terms of potential issues for better call soul And I think I should honestly elaborate on the whole idea of conveniences and contrivances Later on because I think obviously we separate conveniences and contrivances like contrivances being very unlikely and conveniences being like It was likely to have happened, but that didn't happen Because it's something that's based on luck And sort of circumstance rather than the forward the actions of the characters If that yeah Conveniences are a very are very fickle subject.  I guess Yeah, if Yeah, we'll have to talk about that another time. Hey, but yeah, thank you for listening to listening to me ramble about better call So all the best wishes to mr. Forbes. I hope he continues to write about stuff in the future I think it was very insightful what he had to say about the different appearances of all the iterations of bob odenkirk's Breaking Bad universe character in the episode of nippy and I appreciate his opinion being shared So, yeah, read the article for yourself if you want and Have your own takeaway Thank you all very much for listening on this pseudo streamage It was a fair bit of fun to just have a bit of a ramble I guess the only thing to say is that just a little catch up on what's going forth Sorry, things have been a bit slow. I'm obviously just juggling this and work and other projects at the moment For my next video. It will be the Every frame of pause Bojack horseman coverage. I've finished rewatching this show and I Will tell you how I feel about it in that video, but um Yeah, and I've re-listened to the coverage who knows Maybe it could end up just being a video of me reinforcing everything that efap had to say about Bojack horseman and then after that we're going to have Oh, yeah, so I'll be releasing another Another video on australian movies. I'm gonna have a look at this movie that I watched eons ago as a The school excursion into the city of melbourne to yeah, we watched this movie at cinema nova called looking for grace And I remember having a certain feeling towards that movie I stumbled upon the trailer the other day and I thought oh, this could be really fun to have a look at um Yeah, I hope everyone is well. Thank you all so much for watching my videos and for all of the great constructive feedback I'm receiving and Yeah, just the the nice words And shout outs it's all just yeah, I've been really cool and Stuff so yeah wishing you all the best looking forward to seeing you