Analyzing Evil: Gustavo "Gus" Fring From Breaking Bad/Better Call Saul 

Hey, I get it. Gotta pay the bills. We still love ya, Vile Eye.

@@StrongandGrand plenty of other less predatory sponsors that pay well. i really wanna see the day when content creators don't sell out their viewers trust for money

Did they really pay you for that "endorsement?" 😏

Considering the subject matter of your videos I’m shocked they didn’t approach you sooner

The best part of Gus Frank is he was hidden in plain sight. I'm more perfect can you get to be a cartel boss that works at a chicken franchise? It's genius. You complain about your food he's very polite it gives you a refund or replaces it but if you cross them he will murder you in the middle of the night.

I think Fring actually does enjoy donating to charity even the dea. I think he genuinely likes people he thinks are "good." I think he cannot bond with people because he's afraid of them being hurt like Max. I think he did have a wife and children at some point but they were murdered (maybe Pinochet.) He probably had a wife and kid prior to meeting Max. Guessing Fring is bisexual.

@@soxpeewee Of course he takes pleasure in being a community pillar, but that’s another aspect of corporate America. Rich people feeling good about the awful things they do by setting up philanthropies and such

@@soxpeewee I always thought of Gus being apart of Pinochet's regime and possibly committing war crimes which is why he fled and made sure nobody can trace him

Man as Corporation

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@@Gamfluent But that's the point. He wanted Hector to suffer by tormenting him with visits from the man who killed the rest of his family.

@@Gamfluent he DID Let him rot. He only returned that one time because he thought Hector had been talking to the DEA

Well at least it’s a suicide with a use/function.

Well at least it’s a suicide with a use/function.

@@joshuabeers6012 , not to mention he wanted Hector to “look at him”…..

ohh so that's what it means. i thought he sighed because the thought of BCS has actually ended and no more stuffs in the near future from this IP, and i was like "i felt that brother" lol

who wants to do a read for Raid Shadow Legends?

@@corsojames I mean shit, if I got the check he got I would

@@masona8821 how much do they pay for an ad anyway?

@@masona8821 it must be hard advertising a game that you know is complete trash

Agreed. He really needs his own video.

I think this a very good one: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-DOEzpSnDA_0.html

Oh definitely

vid named finger

@@zumabbar u jus got fringered

So true. See even the smartest and biggest make mistakes and gus well his biggest mistake was thinking walter wasn't as smart as him. I belive gus thought there was no one that could rival him after the death of Lalo salamanca and along came walter white he was luckier and he was smarter.

there was no conflict in gus's mind, he knew what he truly wanted and understood himself fully. so he didn't have Walter's self destructive impulses

@@keithmichael112 Such a great point 👍

@@childeaterieatkidz4208 he’s the devil, he’s smarter and luckier than you

A better Walter White? He stoops to an even lower level than Walter White who at least partially redeems himself by sacrificing what time he had left by risking his life to ultimately save Jesse from the neo-Nazis, and Walter's supposedly a genius level chemist even though even tweakers can make meth, I don't think it's that hard, it's not like discovering some complex pharmaceutical molecule that saves countless lives throughout the future and is extremely hard to synthesise, that will get you a Nobel prize, or something like that. The only way Gus is better than Walter White is at being a businessman. And I feel as though there's more good businessmen than genius level chemists in the world, though I may possibly be wrong about that...

that cracked me up

that kid's name isn't mike

I refuse to believe that he didnt do that on purpose lol

What if Kid Named Finger is the one who edits these videos?

@@seifoswaglel5823 kid named mike:

I hate him for what he did to Nacho, I would have tried anything to kill this evil prick

Don’t forget he also threatened to kill Walter White’s innocent son and infant daughter only because Jesse didn’t want him to kill Walter.

This is why I supported Lalo in the final season

which episode

@@GenerationalTreasure "I will kill your wife. I will kill your son. I will kill your infant daughter." Just thinking about the way he said it sends chills down my spine.

He plays some mind games there too. He has things around his house that make Walt (a fellow family man) think that Gus is a family man. And then when Jesse comes over, all those things are gone, and Gus appears to be a single guy, just like Jesse. Or idk, maybe he was putting the moves on Jesse...

@@transformersrevenge9 Walt’s was the put on when Jesse came over was the real thing . Better call Saul even confirms this . Gus never had a family nor really moved on from Max

@John Wall unless he was playing Jesse

I didn't notice them. Makes a lot of sense for his charecter.

Lol... corporations are always alluding to being "just like us" right. Whatever "us" they want to sell to

yeah, i feel the same

Yep I don’t buy Gus resisting the Pinochet regime. His personality fit the regime of Pinochet and his methodical way of doing things fit someone from a secret police, a hangman or torturer in chief. And I think his escape was due to his sexual orientation. Not resisting the Pinochet regime.

@Der Derwo maybe not general but a middle manager type guy in the CNI or whatever state police they had.

I think gus was a big drug guy in Chile and got kicked out or fled because of Pinochet, which actually happened, it's how the cocaine production ended up in Colombia, by actually happened I mean the real history behind cocaine production

@@tomz5704 That would make for an amazing pre-prequel series, although an unnecessary one of course.

Initially I thought him keeping it as strange but I can't imagine Gus "took care" of his new pet considering the fact that the family wasn't well off at this point. Such a good dark implication

Because Mike is not evil

Mike had alot of compassion under his thick skinned deameanor

Same with Jesse, everyone seems to say that he is a good guy but he is evidently not. He's not as bad as Walter, sure, but he did some pretty messed up stuff.

@@dixienormous9053 I mean Mike and Jesse are not good people but not evil people at the same time. They don’t fit in the “ Analyzing Evil “ videos.

He’s more tragic than evil. He made terrible decisions that caused the death of his son and “forced” him to become a gangster but he wasn’t malicious. He was pragmatic in his approach to evil, always trying to lessen the impact on the innocent.

Well said. His subtle facial expression when he leaves the wine bar and the wine steward was beyond incredible.

Agreed I saw that as well especially since Mike asked Victor if he was seen and Victor admitted he was.

Definitely. He just managed to also make it seem like a warning to Walt and Jesse by doing it in front of them rather than quietly offscreen.

Yup and when you add the scene at the police station where they have a sketch of Victor, it adds up to the fact of witnesses. I’m surprised the creator missed this

Victor also left his car at the scene when he made Jesse drive them back to the lab, big fuckup

True, I love that tragic aspect of his character

I mean.....are we sure that Max was a good person? At the end of the day, he was in love with a cold-blooded psychopath. Assuming the story he told Hector about his childhood was true, Gus was always sadistic and evil. The fact that Max presumably knew this and still entered into a relationship with him implies he was no boyscout either.

@@laughingoctopus6550 As far as we know he was not a psychopath back then. About the story... I wish they hadn't included that. It diminished Gus's character to me.

Ya when he was with Max he seemed less sadistic than before or after.

It makes me so sad for him.

Gus had the makings of a varsity athlete, unlike Tony.

Same

I wasn't waiting. Until I saw him, that is. Now he's the villain I never knew I always wanted to see analyzed.

Ya, this wins the Internet for the rest of the week. 👏👏👏

I rotate this man in my head like rotisserie chicken

That sounds gay af

Agreed, was gonna comment this.

That was one of the scenes of all time!

I liked it when he came to Walter White’s RV and said “It’s Fringin’ time, Heisenberg!” I literally fringed my pants.

One thing too I love about his performance is that we don't get the feeling that this is his 'alter ego' that he struggles to balance with his 'normal' life. In Better Call Saul we feel that about Jimmy/Saul but Giancarlo plays the character entirely different - portraying a much more compelling villain.

It to this day astonishes me that this is the same man who played Buggin Out in Do the Right Thing.

Frank Vincent would’ve done it better

From what I've seen in interviews, Giancarlo Esposito is a real teddy bear sweetheart. It's fascinating to me how actors who play the most evil characters tend to be the most gentle people in real life.

the one thing i hated was when they forced him to try to speak spanish. it was pure cringe.....but that's not his fault. that's on the writers/directors for focing him to try to speak spanish when he very clearly cannot. it would be like me trying to speak mandarin.

And his final scene is sublime, how he emerges from the blast and straightens his jacket/tie, before the camera pans in to his de-fleshed face. That and so many scenes showed what true evil geniuses the show writers are.

Tis a good way to go

Great analyzation.

Se7en

I see you in every comment section 😂 from Finger memes to Onetake/Kiwi and this - You have to be BB and BCS' biggest fan!😅

saw you in bcs 1x1 table read comments xd

If you say so, Heisenberg.

@@Paul180 lol same. I even see him in penguinz0 videos

Yeah, to think that the actor went from a cameo in Trading Places, to his appearances in Spike Lee Joints, and The Usual Suspects, I think he’d be the last person you would expect to work for a character like Gus….

Similar vibe from that Far Cry 6 trailer. "hahaha" *death stare*

he did that at the Ecuador ComicCon recently and it was truly breathtaking, he's such an amazing actor and person ❤

I feel that it is more to make gus feel almost supernatural

He could have had a stinger made

it can be traced, unless the phone is broken which gus does multiple times like when bolsa died

Been saying that every since he started doing that🤣🤣

Brown noser...

I wish YOU would say instead of this text-to-voice thing. Or if not you, any person.

​@@kyleashby4090Isn't that just the dude's actual voice?

​@@thegrayyernaut it is dude is just on thta good shit

Perhaps his gratitude was honest - but more or less nothing more. Gus has closed himself off to the world a long time ago.

@@wormwoodbecomedelphinus4131 honestly in the terrible life gus grew up in can you blame him?

@@Mike-jv8bv no, but I can blame him more than I can blame an alligator for wanting to snap at me. I see him as a tragic, yet villainous character.

@@wormwoodbecomedelphinus4131 indeed you have a good point. Gus is a monster no doubt. But unlike the Salamanca animal trash who kill and shoot innocnet bystanders. . Gus isn't going to put a hit on you if you aren't in his business.

@@Mike-jv8bv yeah Gus has respect for people to a degree. Blood for blood. That's it

I mean physically, he WAS intimidating, he had a strong physical muscular body when he was changing clothes during the box cutter scene. That and his upright body always was carrying physical strength behind all of his fine proper clothes. As well as his cold icy glaze he was giving off, as well as his sinister smiles that were all masks when you know the truth about him!

I disagree. It's a great scene but it doesn't hold nearly as much weight in my opinion.

@@noahmay7708 This comment is not acceptable. Explain yourself. (LoL I'm joking).

@@sifatshams1113 Explain yourself. Why is that scene SO impactful? It's a great scene, but it wasn't even the most poignant moment in that episode, let alone the show. Full respect, just curious to get your full take on it.

Really subtle and brilliant bit of character building. The visual dialogue of that scene alone tells you most of what you need to know, but the spoken dialogue adds so much on top. I agree, though I'd probably lower the bar to like top five or ten.

@@williammccormick2802 It's literally the one and only time in both shows we see Gus actually relax and enjoy himself. He's just been through all the madness and chaos of BCS, defeated a formidable opponent, and avoided the suspicion of Don Eladio. It's safe to say he's more than earned a break. He starts very lightly flirting with one of the guys who works there, and it's so strangely heartwarming to see a man so vicious, heartless, and cruel act this way, to finally see this side of him. But then, he slowly reminds himself that that a life of peace and happiness is not for him. He has much more work to do, an almost impossible task ahead of him. So he gets up, pays for his drink, and walks away from a world of light and warmth into the path that will eventually lead him to Walter White, Jesse Pinkman, and his death.

I think that’s part of why his death (aside from being just visually shocking + the false “He’s still alive?!!” moment) was so well done. You see the two halves of him, one already dead and skeletal.

Yeah he’s literally named after a German football star. The Pinochet theory is basically like justifying how a guy called Mr Lopez met with a Spanish Freedom Fighter

@@hilotakenaka do you mean Torsten Frings? Not the same name.

Mate Chile is full of Germans.

Not just that, but think about how out of all companies he chose to get involved with it was a German one, and he had contact with a group of German builders where only one of them spoke English. Kinda strange unless we consider that his family may have came from Germany as, as some have said, there aren't many black Chileans out there, though say his family moved there and weren't born? It would explain how he would seemingly have German connections, learned Spanish though isn't as solid of a speaker, and had a strange past even beyond Chile

@@HerrSchmitti It isn't, but the creators said that his surname was originally going to be Frings, but they dropped the s because it was too awkward to say

I don’t really think he’s a serial killer. Serial killers often have a motivation, a compulsion to kill. Todd executing the kid on the bicycle was more like, “Meh, he saw us and it’s not good to leave any witnesses behind” He was much more nonchalant about killing than any other character. That doesn’t scream serial killer to me. He’s definitely psychopathic but I think he killed due to the circumstances, not compulsion.

@@dksdmusic True. I’ll he honest, I kinda wrote serial killer because I was lazy, but he is definitely not one. He is a psychopath who would do anything to get his rank up. He would just mindlessly follow a leader. His lack of morals makes him a great companion

I think Todd is the most innocent of the group he is a psychopath through and through. Like for example the child he shoots had a tarantula in a Jar and Todd kept it. In my opinion he kept it literally just because the spider was cool looking to him he cannot attach the emotional aspects to things himself he can recognize it in others but not feel it himself

Lalo would be better

@@Nicolas815 Why did Todd balloon up in weight in. the movie and then slim back down again in BB I found that to be a plot hole UNLESS he was anti psychotic medication at the time which makes you gain a crazy amount of weight

evil counterpart of the evil protagonist?

@@melmel6445 I guess eviler would have been more appropriate.

@@DR7081 Walt is more evil

Let's not smoke crack now

This implies Walter isn’t evil himself.

I honestly think Gus didn't have anything to do with Tomas' death. I don't even think the two scumbag groomers had anything to do with it. I think it was just a psycho buyer

Ya, I don't wanna see anyone scrub dog shit of their shoes and onto a desk

Also I really don't think he ordered the murder of Thomas

yes but imo Lalo is even more similar to Landa coz hes also cheerful and got that maliciousness behind his smile

I'm with Nero on this one, although Lalo fits the bill Gus sure seems more like Hans to me. An amazing comparison I never put together until I read this comment.

Yeah he’s my favorite character in both series he’s amazing, so is Mike.

That and he played with his food.

@@freetime2freeminds played?

@@gustavogaming6692 Wanted to keep the old guy alive just to gloat about his victory. Wanted to kill him in person when he thought he was going to snitch. Could have had him killed long ago by someone else. Literally this one flaw is what walter white abuses to kill gus.

Actually is his list for perfection that led to his death. If you remember, when Gale first talked to gus about Walt's blue meth, he persisted that it was the purest ever and tried to persuade him into getting Walt to work for him. Only for a mere 3℅ extra pureness. Something that would most definitely increase incomes but something very risky. Something that a careful man, like gus, wouldn't normally do. As to why he did it...His perfectionism tide with his Crippling OCD are probably the reasons why

I bet shortly before Hector killed himself and Gus Gus wished he'd just let Hector die of his stroke.

So in some measure it can actually be kind of beneficial?

@@an-animal-lover Admittedly, it doesn't feel like that while entangled in cycling compulsions. Many can't regain control; without it, the positives are invisible or inconsequential. It's not always adequately expressed, but OCD is consuming. It steals your thoughts and directs your actions. The sufferer is reduced to an unwilling marionette, generally aware of the futility of their actions even as their skin itches to perform them. Ironically, for many, OCD develops as a way of grasping control in a situation of helplessness. Methodical perfectionism born from OCD will always be a sword that cuts the hand of the wielder. It's not a subdued desire for order. Without compulsions, obsession can carve out new homes.

@@Feiy16 I see

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One interesting thing about Bolsa is two statements he made in BCS and BB: When Lalo asks him if he trusts Gus he says "He will never be one of us, but he makes profit." And then in BB when he and the Twins come to Gus to ask for permission to kill Walter as retribution for Tuco he says to Gus in private referencing to the twins "They are not like us." So he clearly through that Gus was all business like himself and maybe even saw him as a friend.

I am very familiar with the moral/ethical subsets of the lawful/neutral/chaotic system of morality, and Gus Fring is definitely not "lawful good". I'd say he's closer to chaotic good or chaotic neutral. Let me know if you can further support your position, I'm not so proud as to insinuate that I can't be wrong lol. Respectfully, 👍✌

@@firstnamelastname6216 he isn't good and he isn't neutral. He is literally selling illegal drugs.

He does not follow the law. Chaotic Neutral makes more sense. I do not think Gus cares for the law beyond evading it. Everything he does is to further his goals of revenge and power. Nothing else mattered to him. He is deeply selfish. There is no higher principle he looks to

@@firstnamelastname6216 the point of "Lawful" in the Lawful/ Neutral/ Chaotic is not necessarily attributed to cultural laws, but rather laws of one's own, as in staying true to their own personal code. If Lawful couldn't be against the law or against morals, then how could Lawful Evil exist on the spectrum at all? ☺️

More so than him would be Chuck “law is sacred” McGill

The writing is good, too bad the narration is so awful

@@dansduncan idk i think the narration is great it's calm and collected, presenting the info cleanly if i were to describe it in one word it'd probably be "professional" you might say it lacks personality but i'd say that in of itself is personality

Yeah it feel like that lines sums up the need for a vid on the punisher as well.

@@fortnitesexman bingo

Secret police? what do you mean?

@@TheAlexC meaning he was probably working for the Pinochet government, rather than against.

Fring definitely was part of the Pinochet government...an agent of DINA in the counterinsurgency division in operation Condor.. infiltration, torture, disappearances..the whole nine yards.

Actually this makes a lot of sense,specially in the first meeting with don eladio when don eladio says "remember,you are no longer in chile" so clearly gus in chile had a powerful position (if he was working for the regime,he was probably killing drug lords,maybe even the kingpings feared him in chile,like a chilean hans landa) I got another theory tho What if the anecdote he tells to hector was all metaphors? What if instead of a fruit he started growing plants of coca or other drugs to feed his family? And the chile incident being the regime taking the power and killing kingpings,drugdealers? We never know,but both seem more plausible than "gus was nearly a freedom fighter" when gus its an opportunist,he wont change something,he is pragmatic and would move around a context for his benefit,not change it.

Chiles elite are almost all white of Spanish descent, there are very few black Chileans. My working theory is that Gus is the child of someone moderately important in the regime and a mistress, girlfriend or similar. Its mentioned that his family is important enough to get respect from the cartel but Gus grew up in poverty. He can call on the family name but has so little support he's okay with breaking off from his previous life to go produce drugs. At best guess we have someone who is the child of a mistress, they acknowledge him enough to give some support and a useful low-level job in the military, possibly in the army or interogations, enough to give Gus a seriously scary reputation as well as a talent for being useful and organised. Being black and gay around the very macho Chilean military however would not be a good thing no matter how useful and scary he is so theres a mutually agreed parting, Gus gets a little money and protection as long as he takes himself far away and doesnt actually call in any favours.

It gets even worse when you spend more time alone.

Mike was in the game and he knew whats up.

Mike had every chance in the world to leave and he kept coming back. He deserved what he got purely for what he did to Zeigler and Howard's memory, even though Jimmy is equally culpable there.

Mike may have been a good man, but he repeatedly made deals with the devil, and ultimately made his own bed

Live by the sword; die by the sword.

Mike 100% deserved it. I think Papa Varga summarizes it pretty well in his last scene with Mike.

Jack was not the final boss of the show, it was Walt himself. Walt became the head boss of the drug empire after he killed Gus, and didn't just pack up and leave when he had the opportunity to, marking himself as the ultimate final boss. After season 4, we essentially switch who we're rooting for from Walt to Jesse, as he finally understands how much Walt has manipulated him over the series. Jack (and Hank) was just a representation of how far things have gotten since Walt took over and the karmic comeuppance he gets for the stuff he does in season 5.

Walt was the boss in Season 5, not Jack... it would make sense for Walt to be his own downfall.

nah... too predictable and overly dramatic. And I don't see Jack as the final boss. Jack is kind of skimmed over. In a way, Jesse was the final boss.

Gus was the final boss, Jack was merely the postgame

100% agreed. I could write a lot on this subject, but I think it speaks for itself that Better Call Saul was pretty much just as much about Gus's operation as it was about Jimmy, but there was basically no mention of Jack and his associates besides Lydia if you want to count her. It's pretty clear who the ultimate, most dangerous antagonist of the series was. Even though Jack and his crew weren't nearly as bad and formidable as Gus's crew was, they served a different purpose to the story than being some "bigger bad" than Gus was for the series, but I'm not trying to write a novel about all that here lol

Damn, that's a really good theory. Would fit really well with the timeline of what the CIA was doing in South America, RE drug running.

This adds a whole other layer to his story. Like the entire Chilean backstory is just a front/lie to hide his ACTUAL past

This is a very interesting theory also with Hank asking if Gustavo Fring is his real name alluding to the fact it isn’t his name

I agree that Giancarlos Spanish really gets in the way of me buying him as a Chilean but I don't think him being black has much to do with it, black people ma not be as common in Chile but there still some black people there and in the rest of south america in general

"he speaks Spanish with a thick American accent" As a native spanish speaker, the accent of gus is really weird. His accent is something in between german and american (atleast for me), english to spanish speakers tend to have trouble with strong r and sometimes h which gus seems to say relatively well, but he mumbles words with s, c and i. He also stops to accentuate vocals which is common in german to spanish speakers. But at the same time he says names like salamanca in a very american accent. Kinda weird.

Tuco forgets that the drug business is a drug BUSINESS

I think it would be pretty hard. Gus is already pretty tame during BCS compared to BB. Before Max's death, he probably wasn't even close to as violent as he was after his death.

@@kitchensarehot8769 He doesn't have to be violent to be interesting. We could potentially see him going through the same kind of transformation as walter and saul.

Would be a decent idea but the main problem is giancarlo is now too old. You could see from breaking bad to better call saul there's a difference in the way he looks due to aging Also it would kind of ruin the backstory as Gus being unknown adds to the suspense and keeps us intrigued

the actor already looks old, there's no way this'll happen

Time won't allow it. I love BCS, but they were already pushing it with how much older Saul , Mike and Gus look. I didn't realize how much older Mike looked till seeing him in BB clips again.

I think you are correct

no reason it cant be both. ITs clear that in the moment he orders the cleaning hes under immense anxiety and its affecting his present okay-ness The moment its okay, hes able to self soothe and go back to "normal" comfortably, which is the same time the need for the alibi creating is done

I couldn't of said it better myself excellent way to put it

@@amethystlord the Take channel has a great analysis with this idea

One of the products Gus Fring sells is an addictive, damaging ti yiur healrh product mainly targeted at lie income demographics, which overlaps hugely with black; hispanic and other minority groups. The other is meth.

Ummm i dont think so, gus’s personality is based on revenge and control, i dont see corporations doing stuff for revenge

@@sanketm1663 Mcdonalds and burger king; pepsi and coke, even when i was a kid the fed ex and ups guy could not stand each other. there are some lines that you do not cross. for true evil analyze David 'Danny' Pryce Worm/Loophole

2025 be like "analyzing evil: walter white jr"

@@aetu35 analyzing breakfast

I would love to see analyzing evil about todd alquist

@@Kev24 a simple kid who liked breakfast turned into a megalomaniacal gourmet who ran a restaurant empire of slave cooked food in plain sight

Mike, Todd, Lydia, Tuco, Hector, The Twins...

Agreed. Gus was the better version of Walter in so many ways. He cultivated an empire through patience, and smart, calculated risk. He played the long game. Walt was reckless. I think Gus's biggest fault was mistaking this for sloppiness and overestimating his own ability to see a trap coming his way. Walt was smart enough to recognize and use Gus's low opinion of him against him, reckless enough to throw together a plan that easily could have backfired in a million ways, and lucky enough to get away with it.

Walt was never going to succeed with gus due to his ego.

He couldn't give Walt another chance because Walt didn't fear him enough.

@@Bacbi what makes you think a cartel would tolerate incursions on their territory based on their need to get a "proof of concept"? this ain't a startup pitch, this is the streets.

We all RESPECT A LOVE STORY

I wonder if REAL CARTEL PEOPLE WATCH BB and BCS ? Anyone ever see a Vlog or interview on that ?

Gus’s death and Hector’s death is kind of ironic though, as in a way, these people took them selves to hell altogether.

@@marciasloan534 no real cartel guy would admit on record that they're in a cartel

I disagree. I think Gus was angry at Victor for being more occupied in trying to do Walter and Jesse’s job in meth making rather than his own. He killed Victor because Victor wasn’t focused on his own job and to show Walter and Jesse the failure of not being focused on their own iob.

​@@petermj1098 they do show Gus looking at a sketch drawing of Victor on a Wanted poster when he's waiting to be interrogated by Hank, which may imply Gus's foresight

Agreed. Though if I were Walt it would be interesting to see what choices I would have made differently assuming I had made the initial plunge into this world. Walt though, to me, seemed not to be a team player, had a huge issue with authority and made bad decisions with these hindrances.

but gus had mike take walter to the lab to kill him

@@grantmagnani3023 It was originally jesse who he wanted to get rid of for acting irrational and being very risky to the security of the operation, it was only when Walter intervened to protect jesse did he want walter gone as well.

Gale death was unnecessary? There was literally a whole scene where Gus asked Gale if he could take the lab over because he was going to kill Walt

Oh as for suggestions. I think I speak for everyone when I say that you should definitely make a Homelander (from the boys) video.

While I do agree with everything, the last part I don't. You've have tp be that foolish to believe that Gus would simply let Werner see his wife, even if he got the job done. Especially when Mike tells Werner that himself. Because THAT'S A LIE. And one Mike kept telling himself. He wants to believe that Gus will simply let Werner go, even if him an his men get the job done. One thing to note is how in S4E9, Werner gives a look to the security cameras. I know this is him trying to figure how to escape, but I think the creators made this as him seeing that he's trapped in Gus's debt forever. And Gus himself knows this too. Werner's just like every person that gets involved with Gustavo Fring: AN ASSET. And one that he's not going to simply give up, no matter how much they've done what was asked. Gus made up his mind the moment this whole project started, that Werner can NEVER be free (figuratively and literally).

@@osmanyousif7849 There’s no indication that Gus would have had Werner killed if everything went smoothly. He let all his men go, plus, if you’re going to kill someone, why bother hiding the location from them? All the workers were covered up, nobody knew where they were or who they worked for, and nobody had any reason to give the secret up, since the police would also take their money. We’re given all indications that Gus would have let him go if he simply did what he was tasked with. Lalo would certainly do that, but Gus took all the precautions to let them go safely afterwards, without exposure on his part. He only resorted to having Werner killed after he left, which proved he was unreliable and also knew the location.

Bro frrr 😂 love the lowkey shade without outright saying so

You should look up palpatines past on youtube if you haven't already. I loved learning a bit more about that villian

Yes right off the bat is the first thing that got me about Gus. The mixture of his nationality (chile is not the first country that anyone thinks of for drug lords, and why would a man travel the whole continent up if not out of sheer talent and ambition in his business), name (an odd name for a chilean I'd say as a south american, this vaguely germanic or anglo surname, we barely see anyone with names like that here) and race (not that many black chileans around, and the few there are could be anything - you can't guess their background like a black american from Chicago or a black equatorian from Esmeraldas for example, he could be a descendant of immigrants, or of the rare black slaves there etc. so even his family history is obscure). Literally the first lines of this character's idea only create questions and zero answers, why and how is he so clean and corporate; what's his true opinion on other characters; etc. The contrast of how serious he is and how low he is in life (he's a fast food manager, not the CEO of a million dollar company - but he actually is) and so on. I wrote a lot but it's just rambling and I hope that other people who agree with me and want to write compelling characters like him take lessons from those observations I and many others made of him.

I always thought Gus made up his mind to kill Victor before entering the lab - he couldn't have saved himself by not trying to cook, anyway. Walter's later remark that Victor was flying too close to the sun was his typical egotism.

@@repussified i agree with that, but we don't know whether or not mike revealed to gus that victor was spotted at the crime scene, so it's very possible that these two things are both possible. As for the idea that victor was going to die whether or not he attempted to cook, i mostly agree, however i will say i do feel that it really vindicated gus' decision to him

@@rhubiks8430 Wait what do you guys mean Victor was dead anyway? Me personally I'm still mixed on what exactly drove gus to kill him

@@sia6045 it was definitely because he was spotted at Gale's apartment. Victor became a loose end at that point and had to be dealt with.

Idk how he screwed up the understanding that hard. If it was due to the phone thing then Mike would be guilty too.