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saulgoodthem

cobbler (s02e02)

tomundsen-deactivated20250731

Better Call Saul 1x07

linusbenjamin

Lost Sayid Jarrah × Benjamin Linus // Murder Husbands

sharedsmoke

BETTER CALL SAUL 5.09 ‘Bad Choice Road’ / 6.13 ‘Saul Gone’

kimwexlersponytail

The only thing that kept me going was knowing that you were here.

McWexler in Every Season

SEASON FIVE

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mcwexler in 6.13 Saul Gone

plur1bus

Jimmy: *speaks* Kim: 🙄😬😕🤨😳😟

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jeanndarc

remember peekaboo? keep your eyes closed. you keep them closed, just like that. it's ok, we're going to be ok.

kimwexlersponytail

We are totally done with all that. Over and out. No more. Let's do it again.

McWexler in Every Season

SEASON FOUR

admiralty-xfd

they are my 86 year sentence 💔💔💔

admiralty-xfd

just noticed that saul didn’t park in the handicapped spot the day he knew kim was coming and i’m not quite sure how to handle this information

sunkcost

god this show is perfect. he did come out on top. he had them down to seven years, he likely would have served even less, but the victory was meaningless. no victory or money or power ever meant anything real to him. the scams, the manipulation, were his way of taking back power. of coming out on top of the people who made him feel small, but he never really wanted to win. he didn’t want to be better than everyone else, he wanted to be their equal. he wanted their respect, and he was incapable of winning that. the only person to ever respect him, to see him as their equal, was kim, and he lost that, and so the scams got worse and worse, more and more extreme. the further down he sank the more desperate he was to win, but it never fixed anything, because it’s never been what he really wanted. he finally came out on top here, for the first time ever, really, because he stopped comparing himself to everyone else.

kim didn’t care that he was always down. maybe she cared in the sense that it made her sad, because she wanted better for him, or it frustrated because she knew he was capable of more, but her faith in him was unwavering. that’s why she cleaned up his messes and picked him up when he fell down and protected him from the consequences of his choices. she never stopped protecting him. i think she wished other people could see him the way she did, but it never actually mattered to her what they thought. she saw him, and that’s what mattered, and in the end jimmy realized that too. he could win a million more times and it would never make up for what he lost when he lost her. he gave up on the whole idea of loss and victory. he admitted he was wrong, because he felt it was wrong. it went against what mattered to him. he won, but he hurt people. he won, but he lost everyone he loved. now he’s lost, but he got what he actually wanted. the only thing that walter really cared about was power, and so he ended up alone. all jimmy really wanted was to not be alone anymore, so he gave the power up.

septembersghost

apologies for jumping in on your post, but i just wanted to say that this conclusion is really important, and i feel like it’s being missed a bit in a lot of recaps/reviews that are comparing him to walt, and his confession to walt’s, “i did it for me.” walt’s conclusion is still him craving that power, needing it, his hubris and ego in attaining it consuming everything. he dies still feeling it, and in a lab representing the extent of it and his closeness to it and to the chemistry, even though it’s malignant, even though it’s jesse’s meth, it’s jesse’s prison, to walt it represents his empire. he never let his ego go, he can’t. he loses everyone he loves, but he never gives the power up.

but jimmy does, because it was never about jimmy getting power, it was jimmy feeling small and seeking acceptance and love and belonging, and then failing, and lashing out in the wrong ways.

walt is seen clearly and negatively at the end, and the world will remember him as heisenberg, but walt wouldn’t entirely reject that. and maybe the world will remember jimmy as saul goodman, corrupt lawyer and consiglere, but it doesn’t matter, because jimmy let that go in his soul, and the world’s opinion is irrelevant, because he knows who he is, and the only person whose view of him matters sees him for who he truly is, what he is able to be, and he earns her love. he loves her, and she loves him, and that glowing ember is a power all its own, not one that takes from or crushes others, but one shared quietly and restoratively between them. walt died free, but alone. jimmy lives by giving his freedom up, but he will never have to be alone again. they have each other.