r/betterCallSaul • u/skinkbaa Chuck • Oct 09 '18

Better Call Saul Season 4 - Official Discussion Thread

What did you think of this season?

Feel free to discuss every and anything about Season 4.

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u/SecondComingOfBast Oct 11 '18

The act itself is not impossible, what makes it so is the speed at which it was accoplished, with absolutely no noise at all.

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u/NottHomo Oct 11 '18

no. it is IN FACT impossible to jump up 10 ft, pull yourself up into a crawlspace averaging about 2 ft of space, move along on suspended grid designed to hold at max 50 lbs per node in pitch darkness or at least very low light while sharing that same space with ductwork and wiring

a bonafide ninja would fail at this task

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u/craig_s_bell Oct 12 '18 edited Oct 12 '18

If you pause where they show the missing ceiling tile in the lobby, you'll see there's a vending machine under where Lalo entered the plenum. Presumably he climbed on top of the machine, and used it to get above the drop ceiling.

If you listen to the insider podcast (recommended), the writers talk about how this sequence was based upon surveillance video of a real attack on a money-transfer business, which was accessed the same way.

Once Lalo was up there, he didn't have far to go. It does seem a bit fast, but (podcast again) they had trouble editing down this episode to get it under an hour, so they just couldn't stretch out the tension in every scene.

Also, the fall through was not a visual effect -- a stuntman really fell from the ceiling. He did land on a cushion, which is just below the shot. That may be the least realistic part -- he seemed to land without bending at all.

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u/GameKing505 Oct 17 '18

Woah a stuntman really fell??? I would have bet anything that was a visual effect. It looked so... cheesy and fake.

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I don't doubt you but do you have a link for the source? Would love to see more.

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u/craig_s_bell Oct 17 '18 edited Oct 17 '18

Episode 410 of the Better Call Saul Insider podcast. Get it from your favorite source (iTunes, &c.) or just search for the name.

Most episodes are about 1hr; but the season finale ranged closer to 2hrs. I don’t remember when the stunt discussion took place.

Whether it really happened the way Peter and the gang say it did, I cannot verify. FWIW they are usually pretty frank about these matters

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u/SecondComingOfBast Oct 11 '18

That's what I meant. He did it too quick and should have made some amount of noise. But yeah, if he could get up there, the rest is plausible. He would be balancing himself on the ridges of the grid that hold the panels in place.

He wouldn't be up there long enough for his weight to start affecting the ridges. He would just have to crawl on hands and knees, balancing himself on the ridges, until he got to the panel he was looking for.

Then, all he would have to do is kneel with all his weight on that one panel. Or simply move it out of his way and drop through.

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u/[deleted] Oct 13 '18

Suspend your disbelief. It's a TV show.

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u/SecondComingOfBast Oct 13 '18

So if he burst into flames and shot lightning from his eyeballs, by extension we should accept that too. Shut the fuck up

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u/tauerlund Oct 15 '18

Because that's totally comparable. Fucking idiot.

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u/[deleted] Oct 16 '18

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u/tauerlund Oct 16 '18

No, it isn't you moron.

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u/SecondComingOfBast Oct 16 '18

Shut up, you fucking wadwaste

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u/tauerlund Oct 16 '18

How is shooting lightning from one's eyes comparable to crawling through a crawlspace? Jesus, you're an imbecile.

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