Thread:Mygeto/@comment-1753748-20141020211339/@comment-2039751-20150210205814

There are a ton of BB references in BCS, which is cool. At this point I feel like you really do need to watch BB to fully appreciate this, or else most of the stuff Tuco does, for example, just comes out of nowhere.

So far I think it's a good show. Maybe not as great of a start as BB had, but still good. The main issue I have is the pacing. In the first episode of BB, Walt gets cancer, teams up with Jesse, cooks meth, and kills a guy. All in one episode. In these first two episodes of BCS, all that's really happened so far is Saul met Tuco. Other than that, not much else. Granted, the show isn't going to be the fast-paced high stakes drama that BB was. This is just a sleezy lawyer becoming an even sleezier lawyer. And we know Saul, Mike, Tuco, No-Dose (guy who gets beat to death by Tuco) etc are going to survive, so there's only so much you can to as far as tension. I still enjoyed it, don't get me wrong.

Also I'd like to point out something in the opening of the pilot: Saul's post-BB life at the Cinnabon seems so much like how Walt started out in the beginning of BB. Both are old guys living sad, poor, mundane lives, and constantly look back at their younger days when their lives actually meant something. That's a nice touch.