Better Call Saul S3 Ep 10 | Full Length Reaction!
Added 2024-05-26 16:09:18 +0000 UTC!!!!! CAN YOU BELIEVE WE’RE ALREADY AT THE S3 FINALE OF BETTER CALL SAUL?? I feel like I say this all the time but I feel like we just started this show yesterday… and to basically be halfway through it is mind blowing. 🥹 I appreciate you guys for experiencing this with me and couldn’t do this without you. You really are the best, thank you for everything. ❤️
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Its mentioned a lot in the series before this episode and subsequently, about burning things down; and this was obviously the most literal example.
Saltire
2024-12-22 08:58:41 +0000 UTCI actually think the meter running was all in his head, and he knew he couldn't - or wouldn't - be able to fix it if his own titanic intellect is working against him; and after having pushed every one away, and his career in tatters, what else was there to live for?
Saltire
2024-12-22 08:53:43 +0000 UTCOn the "you never meant that much to me" line, it was a front as you said in the scene as Jimmy walks through the door. Chuck was pushing himself and forcing himself to stop the pain with the "electricity"; but its like an alcoholic who has been sober for a few weeks thinking they are cured - it was all a façade. People who are ill like that don't always open up to others, and end up pushing them away. I think Chuck thinks he is freeing Jimmy from his "burden" of duty to him in case he relapsed. We see at the start of the episode, that Chuck on his own volition, is reading a book to Jimmy - he did care for him, so what he said was a lie; and he knew he couldn't take it back after. Then we see him staring up to the ceiling in the dark, after having his marriage ended to Rebecca, pushing Jimmy away, and Howard; his reputation in tatters, and feeling the pain of this phobia won't ever end - he felt then he had nothing to live for. I honestly also think that the running meter was all in his head too; it probably wasn't running at all, and it was his mind playing tricks on him. To me that is horrifying that someone with a titanic mind like he had, have it work against him, is just horrible. Most probably didn't care for Chuck in this series, but it was a tragedy how twisted up he became.
Saltire
2024-12-22 08:50:32 +0000 UTCAnd it’s very smart
Aiden
2024-07-12 20:27:22 +0000 UTCIdk if you get notifications for older comments so idk if you’ll ever read this but good job refusing OxyContin after surgery, that takes a lot of strength!
Aiden
2024-07-12 20:27:03 +0000 UTCJimmy/Saul does go on to “greater things”…. But not “better,” V, as we all know from watching ‘Breaking Bad.’ Chuck didn’t deserve his fate, but his denial of his feelings towards his own brother helped pave the road to Hell. Looking forward to Season 4!
Philip Isley
2024-05-28 05:14:56 +0000 UTCAbout the pills and Hector: Nacho wasn't poisoning him. He filled the capsules he had swapped out with ibuprofen, which wouldn't hurt Hector, but it DID deprive him of whatever medication he was taking for his heart condition. He was basically waiting for Hector's heart to give out on its own.
Jim A
2024-05-28 00:40:30 +0000 UTCNot really an important point in all of this, but the one thing that Chuck couldn't find; one thing that *might* not need to be switched through a breaker at all: Doorbell. It wouldn't have mattered though and now is unfortunately moot. R.I.P. Charles Lindbergh McGill.
MertzRocks
2024-05-27 04:31:50 +0000 UTCI forgot to mention the jealousy. He would never accept Jimmy as his equal. If he had, "Saul" would have probably never been born.
jeremykg14
2024-05-27 03:34:21 +0000 UTCChuck was basically jealous of Jimmy. Chuck went to all the prestigious schools to become an Attorney while Jimmy took all the shortcuts and became his "Peer". Chuck blames Jimmy for losing the family store --"Not our precious Jimmy!!"-- and basically sending their parents to an early grave. Even after all that, Their Mother's final words are calling out for Jimmy while Chuck was the only one by her side as she passed.
Tim Martin
2024-05-27 03:19:15 +0000 UTCThis is my theory about chuck's mental illness: - He grew up feeling a need to be independent and never learned to be vulnerable or needy, so he spent his whole life internalizing any feelings of loneliness and relied on the company of his brother. Remember he used to treasure the time he spent reading to jimmy by lantern light. - As he grew older and he and Jimmy grew farther apart, even though he had a wife he missed that connection. - his brain converted the emotions he refused to express "i want to go back to reading stories to my brother while camping" into his mental illness. It started to reinforce itself as well, because whenever his condition got worse, what would happen? Jimmy would show up. He would get his brother back, which is the thing he subconsciously wanted all along. - Once he started forcing himself to get better, i'm sure you know what that's like - all that BS starts bubbling up to the surface and it really fucking hurts. Him realizing that he burned the bridge with his longest coworker and friend in an attempt to get revenge on his brother made him resent himself, and he realized that he was self sabotaging this whole time and he couldn't live with it. Just my thoughts!
Dale Diaz
2024-05-27 03:14:06 +0000 UTCYeah, on a previous viewing I had some level of closed captioning on, or maybe it was turned off completely, but it would show Spanish translations only. Gus, while performing CPR, was mumbling something like "You can't die you old b@st@rd...not yet" or words to that effect. And it was so smooth how Gus screwed with Hectors distribution, knowing Hector would come in and strong-arm him to use the chicken trucks...all while knowing that Don Eladio would make the obvious decision that finally pushed Hector over the edge.
Tim Martin
2024-05-27 03:05:58 +0000 UTChaving a lung collapse sounds so scary vee. what was that like?
Dale Diaz
2024-05-27 02:45:42 +0000 UTCOf course he didn't deserve to die, but Chuck was a troubled man. His marriage, his medical condition, his diminished time at HHM and of course his relationship with Jimmy and it seemed that something like this was inevitable.
David Cansler
2024-05-27 00:20:49 +0000 UTCChuck's mental illness has always been debated but I believe it has always led back to Jimmy. It was Chuck's divorce that wound up breaking him. Now, with no longer being a lawyer and having pushed Jimmy away, he is completely alone. I believe he truly cared for Jimmy, which was the purpose of that flashback, but he didn't like the way Jimmy was. By telling him he meant nothing to him, he probably thought he would just get Jimmy off the hook and he would be able to move on with his life. In reality he probably just sealed both their fates. Very much looking forward to Season 4!
jeremykg14
2024-05-26 22:50:01 +0000 UTCI believe Chuck's death was foreshadowed in the episode where Jimmy helps him take down the foil covers and there's a line about "burning the house down"!! and the thing you said about the lantern leading someone out of a dark place was so deep when we all knew the ending this episode would take...! but Chuck saying "It would make me prouder" if Jimmy was honest to himself about his true instincts really heralds the coming of Saul...
Juuli Eskelinen
2024-05-26 20:41:33 +0000 UTCas much as I hate Hector, his family really did do a lot for the cartel and it makes sense for him to be angry about it. Also, Gus isnt helping him to save his life, as you may remember from Breaking Bad, he wanted to torture him until he eventually got the chance to kill him which funnily enough came back to bite him xD
neez duts
2024-05-26 19:41:52 +0000 UTCAnd now the true tragedy unveils itself! The last thing Chuck said to Jimmy "you've never mattered all that much to me" is certainly going to hit Jimmy hard. I personally don't believe Chuck means it. As the intro shows, he would read to him as a boy. He got him out of prison & gave him a job at his company to turn him straight. There's a lot of mixed feelings there, of course. After he said that to Jimmy, when Chuck goes to fill in his journal documenting his symptoms, he's unable to put an answer under "emotional state". His unravelling is truly harrowing and shows just how potent a mental illness can be, even to a great mind. He's getting treatment for a condition he knows to be in his head, yet was still feeling the walls for electrical sensation as if he can actually detect it. I think Chuck said that simply because he was lashing out after being ousted from his own company, leaving him with no wife, no parents, no children & no career. And that final lashing out left him without a sibling too. He had nothing; not even his own sanity. And so he decided to end it. Utterly tragic :(
Max Hassam
2024-05-26 18:18:09 +0000 UTCThanks ❤️
Lorenzo Baxter
2024-05-26 17:29:52 +0000 UTCVery well said.
Doomed
2024-05-26 17:18:09 +0000 UTCChuck wasn't putting on a front earlier. His illness is tied to his relationship with Jimmy. We've seen that he has improved when Jimmy was doing better and not scamming. He only showed signs of really bad regression after he pushed away Jimmy. And that's the saddest part. Chuck saying that awful thing, was the lie. Chuck obviously loves him. You dont have a psychosomatic illness connected to your relationship and perception of your brother and just not care about him at all. Thats totally contradictory. Chuck loves Jimmy. But he's also been deeply hurt by Jimmy's behavior. That, combined with a sibling jealousy coming from parents possibly not recognizing Chuck the way they did Jimmy, resulted in this strong love/hate relationship. But saying that lie, pushing Jimmy away when he was clearly also hurting inside, was what just caused Chucks symptoms to exacerbate. The man had a complete mental breakdown and was neurotic. Those final shots of Chucks face are so tragic. You can see he's already set on his course. Chuck absolutely doesn't deserve that. Chuck deserves to get help, both mentally, and also emotionally so that he can let go of this hatred for Jimmy that isn't serving him. You called it, V! Chuck basically condemning Jimmy to his worst impulses, that he will just hurt everyone around him. That he'll never stop. Chuck wasn't inherently right there, but we do know that's where he ends up. I think this moment is really big in the creation of Saul Goodman. At some point, Jimmy probably subconsciously takes this narrative from Chuck that he will never change, and starts believing it himself. Can't wait for season 4!
Lorenzo Baxter
2024-05-26 16:34:00 +0000 UTC
