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Better Call Saul 6x3 | Watch Along (Patreon)

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2025-03-25 15:00:15
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Tteaal

it's funny because everyone involved in Nacho's death gets their comeuppance one way or another and no one there makes it out alive. Mike was the farthest from the situation figurately and literally and he was the last of them to die.

Adverb

This episode suuuuuucks. I mean it's great and well made, but I spent the whole series hoping Nacho would escape his choices, and it's heartbreaking his story ends the way it does.

Elesh
>>168884052

No one escapes their choices in BrBa x BCS even Jesse who had almost the best ending didn't make it out without his close ones getting either traumatised or worse.

Chris Bruneau

Nacho went out like a total G! btw, that final speech alone should have won him an emmy, Mike Mando got robbed!

Kara
>>168884052

I empathise but at this point I felt like there was no way Nacho was making it out, especially after El Camino (which aired already).

Tteaal
>>168882054

also his final speech was a mix of "I am the danger", "I watched Jane die" and "I did all this by myself Skylar not you!" by Walt....when Nacho confessed that he orchestrated the whole ordeal to kill Lalo and he'd do it for free again and then he cleared Gus and then confessed to putting Hector in the wheelchair - chef's kiss

Kara

Amazing reaction! The final scene is one of my favs in both shows. When Nacho presses a gun against Bolsa's head, literally every single other person in that scene survives until Breaking Bad. Nacho isn't just fighting some cartel guys, he's fighting the meta-textual reality of the show itself - he cannot kill them because we know they dont die AND he cant kill them because he needs to make sure his Dad isn't harmed. It's another beautiful use of the prequel format, I've never seen anything like it. "There are good deaths and there are bad deaths" Tteaal commented already but also everyone else in that scene is dead by the end of Breaking Bad. In a sense Nacho signs all of their death warrants by putting on such a good show that Gus survives + later wipes out the cartel. If Nacho outs Gus there, if Mike starts blasting, everything changes. But Nacho did the one thing he could do to give his Dad the best possible chance of surviving, and he went out like a G on his own terms... one of the few characters in both shows to have a so-called "good death". Final shoutout to Michael Mando who is often overlooked against a stacked cast, especially as a Mexican-Canadian guy doing a quieter performance. He should be famous in starring roles. Incredible.

Elesh

I love Michael Mando's (Nacho) performance. He is brilliant and already shown great promise with his performance in a video game of all things Far Cry 3 which is a very popular and flagship series and is considered the best part in the series among many reasons and Mando's performance being one of them. So I'm really glad he got to star in a high profile show like BCS and do it really well too.

Skialar M

i think nacho actually considered killing bolsa and that’s why mike told him to “do it.” i think mike would’ve been fine with killing every last one of them from the hill to save nacho if it came down to it in that moment. mike hates that this is what he does and he actually might see this as a fast way out, if nacho decided to shoot bolsa. he ultimately left it up to nacho because it’s his decision. but nacho finally decides not to pull the trigger because he can’t risk any of them surviving and killing his father. its a beautiful and tragic sacrifice.

Skialar M
>>168897829

nacho’s choice to die in that moment also sets the rest of the story in motion. things could’ve turned out way differently for several characters in this universe if nacho decided to rain fire on the cartel. i’m glad nacho gets to set the story straight before he goes out.

Dustin

I mean Gus' pride in Better Call Saul hurts him just as much as it does in BrBa. If he had just let Nacho do his heart medication plan how different would things have played out? Hector gone right then, Tuco coming back who knows when.....so many other things change all because Gus had to be the one to kill Hector, no one else. And here, Nacho literally holds Gus' life in his hands, could easily screw him over and the entire landscape of BrBa changes but Nacho doesn't because it's just not who he is, he has a code, just like Mike, and sticks to it.

Christophe
>>168889760

Have you ever seen Orphan Black? Michael Mando also stars in that as a secondary character, it's so funny seeing him in that role because he's basically comic relief, playing kind of like a doofus. He's got great range.

Christophe

There's kind of a truism that applies to most forms of storytelling, novels, tv shows, movies, whatever, that says that an announced plan never happens. If characters say "here's how such and such is going to happen", you can almost guarantee that it won't. And I like how the showrunners here sort of play a kind of double reverse psychology trick on us. Nacho's death has seemed inevitable for a while now. And in the end, his death pretty much happpens as announced, with only the small twist that he gets the final say in it, but still, pretty much just as Gus and Mike planned. And because we're all so used to the tropes of storytelling, that's almost like a twist in and of itself. The fact that we were told how this is going to end for Nacho makes us think that that can't possibly be how it will actually play out. Which is a great way of getting us to still hope, up until the end, maybe there is a way he gets out. We're almost conditioned to expect the twist. But sometimes inevitabilities truly are inevitable. And this was never going to end well for Nacho. I can almost hear an echo of the final song of Breaking Bad after the end of this episode. "Guess I got what I deserved". Nacho got in with the wrong crowd and they were never going to let him go.

Joe Blankenship

Can't blame Nacho. He went out on his own terms and got to rub some extra shit in Hector's face. I'd forgotten about that bit. That was awesome.

Daymee

I think the flower in the opening scene is called, "Haml-Indigo blue".

MarisoL

Love the opening scene, rain. Rare in the BB universe.

Sammy K

I love the parallels between Jesse and Nacho and their relationship with Mike. Its so heartbreaking because this is Mike’s arc as much as it is theirs.

Jonathan

Actually, it wasn't "he's truth" it was the truth.

Kara
>>168889760

I have! Yeah he's great in it despite not being given much to work with. He's also the main villain in Far Cry 3 (game), really good in that.

Kara
>>168897829

this is headcanon but I firmly believe that if Nacho started shooting, Mike would have finished off all of them and went home lol. he would have LOVED to be able to kill the twins and hector guilt-free. one of those sliding door moments fr.

david p

Nacho going out with a speech like Tyrion at his trial, except the whole su*cide part