Lalo Is the MOST DANGEROUS Character In Better Call Saul

the following contains spoilers for breaking bad el camino and better call saul you have been warned greetings fellow mortals i didn't originally plan to continue making better call saw videos after my jimmy video but i am trying to work in some form of entertainment and i have always thought that the key to gaining and maintaining an audience is by finding the middle ground of what people want and what they don't know that they want so let's keep the better call saw and breaking bad videos go in for a while until i find out what my place on youtube actually will be or i could just outright fail that's always an option right but i think that's part of the beauty of better call sol as a show i don't remember a single person asking for a prequel and eventually wrapping up the loose ends of breaking bad people wanted more breaking bad but they never asked to know more about saul goodman he was an entertaining character during the original show but the audience didn't clamor desperately for more of him because vince gilligan followed his vision and the fans demanded more we got the beauty of better call saul it's weird to think about a possible world where kim howard nacho and chuck don't exist especially if you go back and watch breaking bad most of those characters wouldn't have ever interacted with walter anyway maybe nacho but i think that his best possible conclusion would have been getting as far away from albuquerque new mexico as possible if he had stayed he was doomed to die no matter what maybe not by walter's hands but his story was never going to end well while he was in the drug trade one character from better call saul that we know would have eventually affected walter would have been lalo imagine an alternate timeline where lolo didn't fake his death instead he decided to wait out gus and keep surveillance over everything that the so-called chicken man was doing yes i know that this would have changed saul's story a bit but i think the explosion of his and kim's relationship was going to happen eventually even without lalo killing off howard but that's the thing about lalo surviving if he had lived into walter's origins as a drug lord then walter might have never risen to power think about lalo as a person he has the calculating mind of gus he has the instincts and ingenuity of nacho he has the fighting experience of mike he has a charisma of jimmy he has the ruthlessness of the entire salamanca family out of everyone in the breaking bad universe i would consider him to be the most intimidating and formidable person to exist obviously he's not infallible his defeat at the hands of gus proved that but remember that all it took to beat lalo he killed howard defeated kim and jimmy and had mike scrambling lalo almost single-handedly brought down gus's entire operation imagine doing all of that without any help whatsoever not even walter can claim that imagine if lalo had one other competent person to assist him gus would have lost lalo's impatience got the better of him though part of me understands his impatience his home was destroyed his servants were murdered his trust was broken faking his death did seem like the smart play at the time but staying alive and working with the cartel to have don eladio's personal protection would have been better for him in the long run and imagine if he did just that imagine if he decided to play the long game with gus i don't think that walter would have lived that long if saul goodman didn't exist at that point and get walter a connection to gus lalo would have simply murdered walter's entire family and burned their house to the ground in retaliation to tuco's death he would have probably gone for hank and marie too and he would have succeeded because he's a lot more subtle than the cousins who walk around in a way that make them look like they're planning on murdering everyone around them of course things would have worked out even better for lalo if saul goodman would have been in the picture with walter imagine lalo's reaction when gus would have demanded that walter be spared i bet that you can picture the smile on lalo's face you can hear the gears turning in his mind instead of going after hank immediately he would have decided to play the long game i can imagine him visiting hector to speak of a plan to avenge tuko and bring down gus's entire operation in one fell swoop because as we all know walter proved to be gus's biggest weakness besides the need for revenge walter was a bull's-eye on gus's perfect armor lalo would have seen the conflict and weakness that walter created imagine lalo getting his hands on gail imagine lalo getting his hands on jesse imagine lalo holding walter's baby daughter in one hand and a gun in the other hand he could have had the cousins as his loyal henchmen that's a force that would have eventually brought everything down for gus i think that lala would have killed walter's entire family gail and jesse he would get proof about the super lab then he would drag walter to mexico upon proving gus's deceptions and actions against the cartel lala would personally kill gus and then make walter a slave to make meth and teach people how to cook the top quality product all the while lala would watch and glee as walter slowly died of his cancer of course i can imagine saul getting out of everything without any problems so perhaps it would have been a good ending for him at least this entire scenario seems not only plausible but likely if lalo took a more patient strategy because he is an oddly patient man when he wants to be if something isn't an emergency lalo will deal with situations at his own pace he took the time to charm warner's widow he tracked down a member of the meth lab's construction crew he tried to use words most of the time when violence proved to be the more tedious path but when violence would get him where he wanted to be faster he was shown to have no restraints he killed without any hesitation there was never any signs of compassion or regret on his face even gus and walter had serious expressions on their faces when they killed lalo acted as though he was smacking at an annoying fly lalo not only murdered fred in cold blood without hesitation he also didn't even flinch at the sight of fred's family in court lolo killed silvia and matio ramos without a second thought just to get a body double for himself and those are two people who actively helped lalo lalo would have also killed warner's widow and all of the other members of the construction crew if he needed to not to mention the casual way that he shot howard in the head it was as though he was stomping on a grasshopper because it was faster than carrying the bug outside not only would have lalo murdered walter's baby daughter he would have tortured walter's entire family in front of heisenberg if need be if he had been alive at the start of breaking bad the salamanca family would have won in the end and the worst part of it would be that we might have liked to watch this alternate scenario i don't know about you but if a what if short series called lalo came out i would watch it because lalo is fun to watch tony dalton did a perfect job bringing the ruthless lalo into existence and making us love to hate him and hate that we love to watch him as well if there's one aspect of storytelling that better call saul and breaking bad ingrained into me it's that perspective is everything back during breaking bad i thought that saul was more of a leech than anything else i thought that he stuck around because walter tolerated him back when i first watched breaking bad i hated anyone who didn't get on board with walter's way of doing things perhaps it's the difference in my age because i was in early high school when breaking bad first started airing but i always got annoyed when a character argued against walter after viewing life from saul's perspective i see his interactions with walter differently walter was an egomaniac that was fumbling around in the dark he had no street skills and thought that he knew everything no one could be smarter than him or know things that he didn't he was humorless at times and didn't have a whole lot of charm if you follow anyone's perspective other than walters from the start then heisenberg was as unlikable as could be it was amazing to watch so imagine flipping the script so that lalo was the protagonist imagine it starting out where he learned about hector's condition so he goes to the u.s to handle things there's this annoying chicken restaurant owner that has a grudge against his family and is trying to ruin them even though they've been part of the cartel since the start this young upstart named nacho is trying to replace his uncle this old man named mike is constantly getting in his way this motor mouth lawyer won't just shut up and do as he's told all of these stupid gringos don't know their place why can't people get over themselves and play their role they shouldn't be that hard all he's trying to do is protect his family everything that he does is for his family granted it might be a little harder to make the audience sympathize with lalo after all he does kill innocent people without hesitation from the star but it's not like he commits these murders as soon as he's introduced if episodes start with flashbacks of his childhood it could flush him out more it could show hector killing his dog to teach him a lesson his parents abusing him his cousins bullying him and his lost loves that were killed because people were trying to kill him and hurt the cartel hell you could throw a love interest in the united states for this theoretical lalo show if you make her extra vulnerable by showing her being deaf or physically weak or sick the writers could show a softer side to lalo there are ways to do this and i would trust the breaking bad writers with that type of storyline and if you follow lalo the writers could make howard seem like this annoying rich white dude that keeps wasting lalo's time when lalo needs to act quickly all of this isn't to defend lalo's violent actions they're inexcusable but there are plenty of other characters in breaking bad who have done inexcusable things walter jesse saul mike gus and we still like watching them so why couldn't a change in perspective make us like watching lalo as the protagonist would flushing him out change how we see him after all he does seem to be different than the other members of his family tuko is an addict with sporadic violent tendencies the cousins are killing machines hector comes off as a ruthless [ __ ] at all times lolo seems different from them at least and i would be interested in exploring why of course i'm not advocating for a salamanca show these are just thought experiments considering that the breaking bad universe seems to be over it would be best to leave that in the realm of fan fiction but like all the new characters and better call saul i found myself being deeply invested in lalo it feels like this is a show where everything fell into place with the writing and the acting and the timing despite the unforgivable things that lalo has done i find myself wanting to watch more of him his combination of competence intelligence and charm made him the single most dangerous character and breaking bad imagine what he could have done if he had help yeah i don't think any of the other characters would have stood a chance thank you so much for watching if you like my takes on storytelling please consider subscribing and liking the video it would really help me out also remember that i'll be self-publishing my novel dance of frozen death at the start of 2023 i hope that you will check it out i appreciate you do not despair

Channel: Love of Storytelling

Views: 8,136

Keywords: Lalo Salamanca, Better Call Saul, Breaking Bad, Walter White, Gus Fring, El Camino, Saul Goodman

Id: bh5hmQGQetE

Length: 13min 48sec (828 seconds)

Published: Fri Sep 16 2022