Why Better Call Saul Has The Perfect Ending

I review, breakdown and explain Better Call Saul Season 6 and discuss why Better Call Saul Had The Perfect Ending. I explain the characters such as Jimmy, Kim, Gus and Mike, react to the appearance of Walter White and Jesse Pinkman whilst also looking at the connection to Breaking Bad.

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[BrainPilot]

What did you think of The Better Call Saul Ending? Comment your thoughts below!

[rmac]

Did anyone else notice, the man who had cancer that Jimmy robbed. In his bank statements, he had $737, 000. The same amount Walter White said he needed initially to provide for his family once he passed.

[lostintoonami]

Walter: the man who died
Jesse: the man who got away
Saul: the man who confessed

[vryan]

Cant believe they didnt mention the final flashback with chuck. Jimmys dropping off groceries for him and chuck offers jimmy guidance and help on his cases, jimmy turns down the offer and tells chuck that hes only interested in helping so he can lecture him and tell him that hes doing things wrong. Chuck tells jimmy “If you don’t like where you’re heading its never too late to change your path”. Jimmy asks chuck “when have you changed your path?” mocking and hinting that maybe chuck is the one that needs to take his own advice and change. Chuck tells jimmy that they always end up having the same conversation implying that jimmy never changes and probably never will. The scene ends with the time machine book on the counter which refers to the time machine question “do you have any regrets? If you could go back in time what would you change?” Doesnt say but im sure this is the day jimmy wishes he could go back to, maybe have a normal conversation with his brother for once and take his guidance because then events of better call Saul / breaking bad start to unfold (the flashback takes place the night before the first episode, bc chuck asks jimmy if he can start bringing him the newspaper and jimmy says he’ll buy him one in the morning, in the first episode jimmy stops by chucks to drop off the newspaper)

[johnkobebalod]

I loved how Kim pretending to be Jimmy's lawyer in the final scene has a double meaning behind it. Throughout the show she was the only one who truly believed there was good in him and defended him to everyone who looked down on him, be it Chuck, Howard, Suzanne Ericsen, or even Lalo. In the end, Jimmy's final con was making sure Kim knows her faith in him wasn't in vain and he truly was a good person at heart.

[JacktheRah]

The final scenes also showed that Jimmy isn't Walter. While Walter didn't really redeem himself and eventually died as Heisenberg, Saul Goodman died for Jimmy McGill to live, but not in freedom, not free from consequences, not free from his actions but locked up, yet free from Slippin' Jimmy. It showed that the two main characters whose journey's we saw were similar yet very different. Jimmy might never see freedom again but he is free from Saul, he redeemed himself, Walter never really came back, he died as Heisenberg and that's a very interesting and very powerful way to go about things in my opinion. I loved the ending just as I loved the show.

[mrm]

In my opinion, when the prisoners chant "better call saul" and say "its better call saul" is because the character of Saul is dead, but his brand and the impact he made through his brand still remain, and is ultimately the way most people will remember him.

[gregd]

I think Marion being the person to take Jimmy/Saul/Gene down was fitting as he had been underestimating and taking advantage of seniors throughout the series. He thought that her ability to use the internet wouldn't evolve past watching funny cat videos and was therefore not prepared in any way to be outmanouvered by her.

[tomaszpaz]

I'm not kidding - the last scene when Jimmy does that "bang-bang" gesture to Kim... it broke my heart. That small gesture tells more than a thousand words. It meant something like "you go girl, the world is yours. You're smart, beautiful and now... truly free of your bad past". Outstanding finale.

[davealmighty]

The next series will be called "The 'Saul' Shank Redemption", where Saul breaks out of prison after serving 20 years.

[Siansonea]

Of course Jimmy's last big moment would happen in a courtroom. Why did I ever imagine that wouldn't be the case? I love how this show served all of these characters with a perfect ending. Kim was destroyed by Howard's death, which was in a way Howard's own redemption. Howard was always the innocent victim of the people around him, of course he would be killed by someone he didn't even know existed, Howard had always been in the wrong place at the wrong time. Lalo also got a proper sendoff, even though he was the expert chessmaster, every bit the equal of Gustavo Fring, Lalo's luck simply ran out, and Gus was just a tiny bit more paranoid and prepared, which made all the difference. Gus managed to get one over on Hector Salamanca one last time, leading to one of the most unexpectedly funny moments with Don Eladio mocking Hector's bell. Nacho's heroic sacrifice saved his father from the fallout of Nacho's life of bad choices, the only thing Nacho had been trying to do since we were introduced to the character. Mike Ehrmentraut continued to discover the depth of the well he had fallen into when he became a dirty cop, and finally realizes that there is no justice, no redemption coming for him. He is on a path that ends at the barrel of Walter White's gun, and even if he doesn't know the details, he knows the broad strokes. But Kim's path was the most satisfying for me. The kind of funny glimpse into her pathologically pedestrian existence in Florida was the antithesis of Saul Goodman's response to grief and loss. She became a non-person, in a non-relationship, with a non-life. She put herself in purgatory to punish herself, in the most mind-numbing nothing of a life she could create around herself. And when Jimmy threw it back in her face that she had done the same thing he did—that she had not come clean about Howard—that woke her up, and the Kim we knew started to come back to life.

What a great show!

[batmanvsjoker]

The more I rewatch, the more I appreciate this ending. Jimmy willingly facing the consequences of his actions like a man is the very first step to possible redemption.
Jimmy literally underwent through an entire character development in one episode and it didn't feel rushed. That's impressive on the writers' part.

[jameslaird]

The entirety of the BB universe could now be looked at as the tragedy of Jimmy McGill with a Walter White interlude.

[josueamericanistarv]

In the last Walter White flashback, I think he's the one who's "always been like this". His whole life is shattered, his family broken and traumatized forever, and all he can regret is giving Grey Matter to Gretchen and Schwarz. Unbelievable.

[ellagoreyshorrorstories]

In my head canon, Jimmy becomes a MUCH better man in prison, helping prisoners with literacy and with their legal defenses. One of the things that makes Jimmy so fascinating is that, while he has NO moral compass whatsoever, he's actually a brilliant lawyer, and passionately devoted to helping his clients. This will serve him well in prison because he'll finally be someone people can respect.

[janugur]

I believe that the ending was, while still being about the redemption of Jimmy, also about Saul flippin' off to the US Legal System by first reducing his immense punishment to nearly 7 years and then actively choosing to be imprisoned for a proper time on his own terms.

[sotirispanayides]

When saul, walt and jesse were having meetings I always thought and asked myself how this would end. The answer was either they get away with it, either they die, or either they get caught. Jesse got away with it. Walter died. And Saul got caught. What a masterpiece.

[sashastarshanti]

Saul Gone is a masterpiece. Something else to mention, it's subtle, but I think it has relevance in the show, Kim's hair styles. There was the ponytail blonde Kim the lawyer, all business, very capable, very smart. Then there was the brown haired Kim with bangs that couldn't even decide on which mayo to use in her potato salad, living a very bland, boring life as a shadow of who she once was. Then in the finale, Kim's hair is slightly different, shorter, a little more stylish, almost with a film noir quality, especially in the light streaming in from the windows up against the wall smoking with Jimmy. It seems her hair reflected different sides of her character, and in the end, she was stronger, not the blonde ponytail she once was, but a new Kim, more mature and wiser from all she'd experienced going forward.

[wyatthill]

In Breaking Bad, Saul suggests to Walt the option of turning himself in, going to prison with his head held high, and probably running the joint. Not sure if Vince and Peter were intentionally foreshadowing, but it's another nice tidbit

[theghostofspookwagen]

The prison bus scene is in my opinion one of the most important scenes in the entire series and provides a nice contrast between the personalities and fates of Walt and Jimmy. Walt was always selfish, bitter and egotistical, constantly blaming other people for his lot in life, confessing in the end that he only did what he did because 'it felt good'. His biggest regret in life was not putting his wife and kid through so much pain, it was walking out of the chance to be the owner of a multi-million dollar company. In the end, he gets what he wants: for a short time, he was the sole head (not even one head of three!) of a business that was making him millions of dollars a week. Through his ingenuity, he finds a way to leave millions of dollars to his family. And when he dies, he's surrounded by what he holds most dear- cold, unfeeling machines, the tools that catapulted him to the top of the world.

Jimmy on the other hand deeply cares about winning the approval of his peers, especially his brother. You get the sense that part of the reason he became a lawyer in the first place was precisely to win Chuck's respect, which he never quite does. What he does do, however, is, at least for a short time, win the love of a beautiful, intelligent woman who he ends up essentially signing away the rest of his life for, who he doesn't even get to BE with for 86 years (or the rest of his life, really). She's free, he's not, and she's most likely gonna find some other guy on the outside. Jimmy knows this, and yet chooses to take the fall. This sort of selfless love is something that Walt simply wouldn't be capable of.

I interpret the prison bus scene as a sort of epilogue to Jimmy's life. In contrast to the stereotypical "FRESH FISH" prison welcome scene, Jimmy's welcome is truly a warm welcome to what he himself knows is one of the shittiest prisons in the USA. He is condemned to spend 86 years in prison- 86 years among the sort of people that he has spent virtually his entire legal career fighting for. He has finally won the admiration of his peers, arguably to an even greater degree than he first wanted: instead of having Chuck treat him as an equal, he's surrounded by people who look up to him as a protector and role model. While Chuck and his colleagues probably only ever get pats on the back from other people in their circle, maybe a fancy gift every so often from one of their many wealthy clients, Jimmy permanently wins the respect of people who would have had nowhere to go had it not been for him, people who may have done indefensible things and yet who Jimmy chose to defend anyway, and at least in that sense, he's become a better lawyer than Chuck. It's a much quieter ending than Walt's, but a far more profound and satisfying one- he accepts the consequences of his actions, he visibly overcomes his main character flaw (through his slickness he could've gotten a comfy, short prison sentence but gives this up for the world to see at his trial), and he finally gets the respect of his peers, a respect that Walt couldn't have ever dreamed of.