Episode 11 of Better Call Saul season 6 is arriving next week, and after episode 10,
there's many ways this show can go come it's end.
The promo trailer and images were released for the
episode the other day, and they suggested that we are going to continue to follow Gene
and Jeff in the post Breaking Bad timeline.
But with the revealed title for this episode also
being detailed, it could mean that we might be seeing more than just the Gene timeline
included and it's going to be interesting to see which route they eventually take.
In this video, I'm going to be breaking down the trailer
and details for Better Call Season 6 episode 11, alongside discussing my general predictions
and theories towards what we might see.
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But without further a do, lets dive into my predictions for Better Call Saul Season 6
Episode 11.
So we know that Better Call Saul has carved it's own route in the television space.
While it introduced characters and beats from Breaking Bad, it has become one of the rare
cases of a prequel show or movie delivering on it's own
storyline and characters.
But before season 6 aired we knew that AMC and the showrunners had revealed that there
would be scenes with Walter White and Jesse Pinkman before Better Call
Saul's conclusion and that we should expect it to change the way we feel about Breaking
Bad and the universe as a whole.
They said that it would only feel right for this particular story
and not feel like forced in cameos for the sake of fan service.
It would serve the ending they are telling and be completely focussed on
accomplishing the messages that this particular show would need to deliver on.
That excited me and had me wondering how they would actually pull it off.
Because we've already seen the devastating twist on Jimmy's decent to the
Saul we see in Breaking Bad after Kim Wexler walks out of his life.
But there's guarrenteed to be more revelations to come, alongside Breaking
Bad scenes to take place.
And what's interesting is that the next episode of Better Call Saul is actually titled 'Breaking
Bad', making us assume that something else connects to that time
period.
With that title and the revealed synopsis, which reads, “the partners escalate their
enterprise to new levels”, it makes us think that we might travel back to Albuquerque,
during the reign of Heisenberg himself.
And what's quite comical is that the title is quite the joke that fans have made over
the years, and that is that Jimmy McGill was once introduced in
an episode of Breaking Bad titled “Better Call Saul,” and now more than 13 years later,
we get an episode titled "Breaking Bad" in Better Call Saul.
I guess it'll be quite appropriate if we see things from that show cross into this
one.
But that brings me to the question of what are we going to see.
Because while we can theorise over the timeline of Breaking Bad being included, the released
images and even the synopsis could actually indicate the reverse.
The new photos are currently all in black-and-white and take place in the time period after Saul
Goodman flees Albuquerque and takes on the identity
of Gene Takovic in a post-Breaking Bad world.
There are two images of Gene Takavic and one of Jeff in Marion's kitchen.
Some fans think that the episode title is actually trolling the
introduction of the Breaking Bad timeline and that the synopsis is solely about Gene
and Jeff undertaking more cons.
Of course, the episode might actually focus solely on Gene and use
the title to convey what's happening with him and his new partner Jeff.
But I think the likely option is that these images could be from a portion of the episode's
content.
We did also get a trailer for Season 6 Episode 11, in
which there's footage of a car at a crossroads, and Gene saying to someone, "I get it... you
get over it, okay, please believe me, before you
know it, you forget all about it.
Go".
So it indicates that there is some sort of decision looming over someone that Gene is
speaking too and he wants them to get over or forget about
something.
To be honest, this could be another misdirection like with the "happy ending line" from Nippy
that we heard in a previous trailer and for me to predict that this is spoken to
Kim Wexler, Marion, Jeff or someone else, then it would probably end up totally wrong.
So far it's very unpredictable.
I guess it's still interesting to consider though, especially since
many of us think that Kim to come back before the end of the show.
So who knows.
I think it might be Jeff that he's talking too, and Jeff might just want to pull off
more cons, while Gene is trying to stay quiet.
At the same time, we know he just can't do that.
We've seen him go the route of slippin Jimmy and transition back to these types of cons
so many times before.
He wants to be better but he just can't get away from that persona.
And Jeff asking for more, even after Gene told him that there would be no more, makes
that process innevitable.
And I think this kind of setup could also lead into what we might see with the timelines
in this next episode.
What I think we might see is an episode that is part Gene and part Breaking Bad era focussed.
I think by showing the complications of Gene's partnership with Jeff and contrasting that
with Saul, Walt and Jesse in the Breaking Bad timeline, we'll maybe get a story or a
set of questions that purely build on the ending from last week's episode.
The idea of whether Gene will repeat his previous actions and
become Saul Goodman once again.
We know that the shirt he saw in store reminded him of the persona he took on and I think
he was tugging with the idea of putting that shirt on once again.
In an interview after the Nippy episode aired the showrunners said that Gene can't stay
quiet.
He has to do something and that suggestion of being Saul again or getting involved in
that world keeps him functioning.
Maybe we learn now that there's a difference to that process and that this time maybe he's
doing this not just to get away from the quiet identity of
Gene, but because it could help to keep his mind of Kim.
Maybe being Saul actually kept his mind away from that loss.
Him playing those Saul Goodman tapes at the beginning of the show
and the reminsicing over being Saul in the store last week, might just be his way of
dealing with the loss of the person he loved the most.
I don't know but that seems like it would fit
with the psychologically devastating narrative beats that they've teased this ending would
have.
And in this new episode if we started to see that in a contrast between Gene and the Breaking
Bad's timelines, the parent show could then be used to add to this story.
It would not only make us see Saul differently in Breaking
Bad but it could help us understand his pain to a greater degree.
And it would also set up a Kim return quite well with that being the emotional pull for
Jimmy's identity formula.
They might show that Gene is struggling to make it work with Jeff after undertaking more
cons and it almost puts him in this point of desperation for seeing Kim again.
Constrasting that with the partners of Walter and Jesse
coming to Saul in Breaking Bad, and possibly seeing that in a new way through what we've
learned about Saul, would then feed into the central
narrative of Gene and his Saul identity problem.
I think the end of this show is going to be about that Saul Goodman identity and whether
Gene would put it back on or change for the better.
And what would become of him if he did meet Kim again.
Do they both change.
Do they go back to being as they were after possibly longing for each other?
Or does Gene accept what happened when Kim left and how does he go
on without her?
It's all going to be really intriguing to see how they tackle it and I love all the
unpredictability going into these last few episodes.
Something to keep in mind is that in the last day the titles for the last two episodes have
leaked via TV Passport, a website that has been right about all the titles
so far.
The last two episodes are rumoured are rumoured to be titled, "Waterworks" and "Saul Gone".
So that final title could mean many different things when it comes to his identity
and what happens to it at the end of the show.
But yes, if I had to put a guess on it right now, I think by titling this next episode
'Breaking Bad' and having a synopsis that refers to
partners, I think it suggests that we could see a sort of correlation between that Gene
and Jeff partnership with the Walt and Jesse one, once they came in contact with Saul.
Not sure if it would be at the beginning of that collaboration
or at a point in between the Breaking Bad events, but that would be my current guess
on the timelines we could see and maybe why they
are used.
And from this would come a bold answer on whether Gene would put that suit jacket back
on come the final two episodes.
I'll probabaly end up totally wrong for all the best
reasons and I hope that whatever direction the showrunners go in, it will be a satisfying
end to the story we've followed for many years.
But they were my thoughts and predictions for Better Call Saul Season 6 Episode 11.
With Thomas Schnauz directing the Breaking Bad episode, I'm expecting another classic
from this show to really push in the endgame of what we might
see.
As I said, I think we could see both scenes from the Gene timeline and the Breaking Bad
time period, and ones that could really pull and tug on the idea of whether Gene will
go back to his old ways.
We'll have to see, but I have faith in these writers and showrunners to bring the show
to a satisfying end with whatever direction they go in.
But what are your predictions and theories surrounding what happens in the next episode
and do you think we'll see flashbacks to the Breaking Bad timeline
with appearances from Walter White and Jesse Pinkman?
Let me know down below in the comments section.
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