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Originally Posted by timun
I'm doing just that; I've only watched the first couple episodes of Breaking Bad. I know Gus, Mike and Saul are in BB, and know that at least one of those characters meets a gruesome demise, but otherwise I only know a flimsy outline of the plot of BB.
So far I've greatly enjoyed BCS, and I'm glad that I didn't really get into it until just a few weeks ago and binged from start to season 6, episode 7 (Howard's end...). I don't think I would have had as much of an appreciation for the story (-ies) they've told if I wasn't able to binge a few episodes at a time; the storylines are so intertwined and serialized that it would be very easy to forget key plot points if I had to wait months/years between seasons.
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I started watching
Breaking Bad recently, and so far so good. In retrospect I don't know why I didn't get into this show when it came out, but somehow it just couldn't keep my attention whereas now, having watched
Better Call Saul, it does.
As someone who started with BCS I now get to see the call-backs and Easter eggs from BB that were sprinkled in BCS, but I experience them from the opposite side of the story. It's a credit to the writing that I think I am having the same sort of fun seeing these tips of the hat in BB as a BB fan would have had watching BCS. "Oh hey, it's Domingo! I guess after Nacho and Lalo were gone he struck out on his own. Oh, and there's Tuco! And they even 'call back' to that ######y businessman who Jimmy and Kim conned into buying them drinks in seasons 1 or 2!"
I'm up to about five episodes into BB season 2, and I find I prefer BCS quite a bit more. I find the characters in BCS much more sympathetic and interesting. Walter and Jesse are... okay, but I don't see much of a redemption arc for either of them. I thought Jimmy in particular was a much more compelling character in that he often does the wrong thing for "right" reasons, and his descent into becoming Saul Goodman is tragic. Granted there's still plenty of BB for me to watch, but I just don't find Walt and Jesse as interesting. Some of the side characters are pretty well acted though, especially given how much I dislike the characters. Skyler and Marie in particular are really loathsome to me. Did most BB watchers at the time dislike them as much as I do?