So for some reason my mic settings were all janky for this video. I ended up fixing it like halfway through recording my s5 tier list, which will be coming out in soon - so keep that in mind. Thanks.
For episode 2 of each season: Marco told Jimmy in 110 that if he were a lawyer he'd be driving around in a White Caddy. Definitely a big factor in Jimmy choosing one.
@@RobinHerzig Yup. When Jimmy tells him he's a lawyer making a living (not rich), Marco replies on how if he's not rich and driving in a white Cadillac he's doing something wrong.
Todd keeping the tarantula was also shown at the end of S5E5 of breaking bad. In his car, after threatened by Mike to not bring a piece to a job w/o telling him
There's an interpretation by the channel Ological that the gradual corruption of the video files seen in the opening is not just evocative of Jimmie's corruption, but also his tendency to metaphorically try to "rewind" his life and start on a new "track".
seeing the opening change at the end of the show really blew me away and I was really hoping that someone would make a video dissecting it so thank you. this was very well made. subscribed
in my interpretation of the seasonal VHS degradation (originally elaborated by Ological in his FANTASTIC basement breakdown series), it's symbolic of how Jimmy is a person who keeps trying to reset his life with a blank slate and reinvent himself to escape the troubles of the past - and like re-recording over a VHS tape, the quality will degrade each time, and the original recording will still bleed through. by the end of his story, as Gene, he's done this too many times and the fragile VHS tape is just completely f*cked. this coincides with his realization that he cant keep running from his past, and has to face the consequences of his actions, from every phase of his life, from Slippin Jimmy to Jimmy McGill Esq. to Saul Goodman, and finally to Gene, if he wants to hang onto some fragment of his soul and find any kind of peace in his life. it's such amazing symbolism to build into a simple effect in just the intro to each episode. bravo vince, bravo peter, etc.
This is a long shot, but I tried to tie this one. 5:53 pay phone reminds me of the one Jimmy used to warn the Kettlemen’s in 103, Nacho. The distinctive difference is that the intro/promo was done in daylight and is aluminum, whereas the episode was done late at night and was blue. There was the use of it in other episodes, but that was the earliest one being used.
I was still a little bummed we didn’t get to see the final transformation a little more. We spent so much time obsessing over little details, why no replace that with a montage showing Saul acquire each of his iconic symbols and the house? Just one fans humble opinion
Leave it to you to do an in-depth study of all the intro sequences. I never knew any of this, and was fascinating to watch. Just like the rest of your quite in-depth videos on the show. I'm sorry to see that they will end but you are adding content even after the fact thank you very much. Kiwi
Yeah always seen the gritty deteriorating openers as metaphor for Saul/Jimmy (later Gene)'s life + career degrading into a less + less recognizable self, as he heads deeper + further away from being Jimmy… till we find him as Gene who literally ran away from everything he ever was or did or achieved We couldn't know how low he'd go, but we could see it kept getting worse Then the VHS is like we're already looking back, before we can see what's ahead
Memento is my favorite film of all time and BCS is the only other film the use cor for the past and black/white for the present. Brilliant. I been watching this series since winter of 2008 when BrBa aired. What an amazing ride.
0:45 uuhm that's not low budget though. back in the days even HHM wouldn't have spent that much money on digital effects in their commercials. before 2010 you could really make some money with simple photoshop work. wich goes to show how in vaine saul becomes with his image.
The tapes and theme cutting out in the Gene/Viktor episodes could be symbolic of how, now that the Jimmy/Saul story is finished, we are now in uncharted territory, and there's no telling what could happen.
Not sure about the intros, but I find it so intriguing how much Kim and Walter have in common from a directed point of view. Specifically having the same shot at the airport like you said here, or how they walked towards Gus's house, and more. I suppose one could say that BCS is much more about Kim breaking bad than Jimmy who already did before it started, but it's just such an interesting choice. Especially since she seems like a side character at best for most of the first season
