Lalo couldn't control himself and caused that himself. If he were smart he would have known he already lost Mike. He added that hit and run on with no benefit... Dumbass.
I love Mike's expression when he notices he's being tailed. He just sighs and looks like he's thinking, 'What, really? Oh all right...' This whole thing is just a minor annoyance to him.
@@silasbarnaby8870 I’m half and half on Gus right now, he seems a lot more violent and arrogant in season 5 especially! I liked the calm yet intimidating posture he always had in BB but maybe he grows to that point!
@@hutchinsonfilms1406 i think the gus you're seeing right now is the real Gus and the one you saw in breaking bad is an act. He's only calm when he needs to be calm but he's a smart angry man mostly - pretty much led to his downfall in breaking bad.
@@sagharkakkar164 most of the anger we see is due to the old salamanca. There’s just more interactions with the old salamanca in BCS than BB is my idea
These kinds of scenes are what I love about Vince Gilligan because he demonstrates creative solutions to problems that normal people wouldn't think of. This is a pretty smart way to lose a tail.
@@damiaangroenhart4138 its the breaking bad credits. everyone remembers Vince's name plastered across the screen at the start and end of every episode. Other writers names aren't given that much screentime.
Another thing about it is that it also serves a purpose a whole season later! The dude who got hit by Lalo's car filed a hit and run report, which ended up helping boost evidence of Lalo's crime.
@@darkprinceofdorne Walter White always outsmarts Mike. Remember when Mike put Walter in handcuffs? Walter improvised to escape out of that situation in one of the most intelligent and unpredictable ways ever. Walter is much better at improvising than Mike.
I think it's more like the reconstructed archetype of a pro We were used to see "pros" in old movies in their 30's or 40's, and I think Mike is a more like a real life pro, and old man who knows how the water flows because he has seen a lot through his life
@@BIGDZ8346 Seriously tho I think if the gate stayed open, the result would be the same. Guy in the middle would still gonna try putting the card in, Lalo would be more pissed by this imbécil.
They always ask you "how could YOUR previous experience benefit the company". We always bullshit. I guess Gus Fring's HR department is better than EDS.
@@johncastillo2194 That's literally textbook definition of forshadowing. If you take the time to show chekhovs gun, you better use it in the next scene, no pointless elements.
Newer cars are built to break easier because when you get in an accident you want the car to absorb the blow so you slow down slower. With older cars they don't break so it's an instant stop. Remember it's not the fall that kills you it's the sudden stop
Old cars, armor on the outside, new cars, armor in the inside. Tesla's, freakin tanks heavy as a F350 just daring someone to get in their way and find out
The MacGyver moments in the Breaking Bad universe are my absolute favorite. Genius writing. Mike reaches in his glove box and you see his gun on purpose simply to throw off the audience. Then when you see him chewing the gum, you’re thinking, “what is he doing”?
I love when later in the series that Lalo singles out Mike and asks to meet him in front of Fring and Bolsa. At first it seemed like it was kinda of a power play by Lalo, but Lalo knows the game and simply wanted to meet the adversary that out witted him. There was an unspoken respect for Mike.
@@dog_owner vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvverneeeeeerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr zieeeeeegggggggggggggggggggllllllllllllleeeeeeeeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrr what's he up to man? whats he doing?
To check if a car is following you, just drive around the block. Make four left turns or four right turns. If they make all the same turns, you know you're being tailed. It also tells your pursuer that their cover is blown, which may or may not be a good thing, depending on the situation.
I don't know why but this is one of my favorite scenes. Something about how simple and effective and creative it was. And watching the gum inside the machine was so satisfying.
I love that they think of everything like the fact that Mike has to have precise timing, when to pull out so that he got another car between him and Lalo
I love the small detail that there's a gun next to the chewing gum and you'd expect for a moment for him to take the gun but he takes out something else that you don't know what he'll use for. It's the counterpart of another scene from BB when Skyler confronts Walt and there's a phone next to a knife and you'd expect her to pick up the phone and call the police but she chooses the more radical option of drawing out the knife.
i appreciate that when the writers give mike scenes like this, they make him smart in a way thats in line with his character. mike worked parking security, so it makes sense he'd know how to abuse the gates in this way.
I love how the writers portray how Mike chooses cleverness over violence by pushing the gun aside and grabbing the gum. It‘s these small details that make that show so great.
The more I watch BCS, the more upset I become of how quickly and easily Mike was killed off in BB. I mean, Gus was blown up, Hector sacrificed himself, already injured and bleeding out Tuco shot in a gunfight, Hank executed after a massive shootout, Jack's gang demolished with a robotic machine gun, but Mike gets a cowardly shot in the chest. He deserved more dignity in death than he got.
@@EdNorty I agree with both of these replies, he still stuck it to Walt in his own way, and it really helps to absolutely drive in the stake of Walt's decent into madness where he is no longer careful and controlled, because he immediately realizes that killing Mike was pointless. Leaves a sour taste in your mouth and lets you realize that his downfall is imminent
Dude as bad ass he is he is still old man who might of been exhausted and tired of having to perform at high efficiency in extremely dangerous situations. The slip up is not an insult to his character
@ThisIsALongDrive Exactly. In life, sometimes people don't get what they deserve. No dignity, no fanfare. Just a storied life that just ends up in a barrel of acid.
love this frame on 0:19, where they visually show what the character Mike is, the primitive gun-solves-everything mind is opposed to using an original and creative type of weapon. Mike is not a straightforward brute force guy but more subtle and smart.
@@SangreFriasBack As someone with small connections to Albuquerque, I appreciate the genuine nod to the place. But so many omissions to the 2000s BCS setting, takes me out of immersion. This and the ant street scene are the biggest offenders of anachronisms, followed by some other stuff.
@@hewasaskaterboyshesaidseey5927 Lmao I keep seeing this little joke but some people say that in a serious manner.. like towards the end Walt was absolutely positively not just 'some chemistry teacher' 😂
surprised how many newer model cars can be seen in the parking lot, usually they're amazing with details and getting the right model year cars in shots.
It's funny how Lalo chose to rear end a car which caused the smoothie guy to tear down the barrier when all he had to do was back up, go out the entrance and break that barrier. Would have been cheaper.
He already wasted time by waiting for smoothie guy to go, if he wastes more time by reversing and breaking the entrance then he's certain to lose mkke. Besides paying to repair that car is literally nothing for lalo.
Mike always has gum in the glove compartment for this scenario exactly. Mans is always prepared for someone following and he jams the ticket reader with a wad. True soldier.
I swear to god, You can rely on someone like Vince Gilligan to create an escape scene with something as obscure and simple as a 'Strip of Chewing gum' and make it memorable and ingenius.
I hate seeing things like that, as this is not the first time a newer Tacoma has been seen in BCS. This is set in 2004, but although it is, the identical cab of the 2005 Tacoma also debuted in 2004. Tbh, no one in New Mexico had an '05 Tacoma until November 2004, so it's pretty ridiculous to be seeing that.
The giddy anticipation in knowing that Mike being tailed and choosing to start chewing some gum means that gum will have serious and possibly hilarious consequences, which of course it does
V Cool acting AND writing. Now we know where the expression ''gumming up the works''' comes from. The writers take creative advantage over previously scripting Mike as an honest security gatekeeper at a parking lot. From his experience in arguments with Jimmy McGill, we infer that he knows much about the intricate, inside workings of an automatic payment machine. Brilliant writing! It really is.
One thing I’ve always disliked about this show is how even though it’s supposed to be set in the early 2000s, you always catch these new cars in the background Just a thought
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He knows all these parking garages in and out, he's worked and staked out at each location, personally, to ensure Lalo wouldn't ever guess, he'd need tickets to leave the garage.
But jeez I can’t help but feel bad for the smoothie guy for a shitty day he’s had, first an old man cuts him off just to leave the lot first. Then another crazy ass rear ends his car just to catch up to the old man. imagine what he’s going to tell his wife what took so long to get home
To be fair lalos driving an old chevy monte carlo, and bumpers on cars from those days have solid metal bumpers. The other dude seems to be in a 90's oldsmobile or something and cars from that time and today just have plastic shell bumpers
Crazy thing about Mike is that if he didn’t have that Philly steel worker mentality of knowing his role, he could have been a force unto himself in that life.
I don’t wanna come off as random or annoying but could you please tell me what a philly steel workers mentality’s like (I’m from UK). And I agree Mike is a force to be reckoned with
@@d__0053 So am I, mate. It’s a Coal Workers mentality, a Clyde shipbuilders mentality. You clock on, you do your job to the best of your ability, and you carve out a profitable and stable niche for yourself and try and maximise your earnings. It’s a humility thing. Very self-effacing. He says more or less that Walt should have adopted that mentality rather than trying to replace Fring.
