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Better Call Saul is the best written show on television.
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Better Call Saul is the best written show on television.
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I was good, Kim.
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Why?
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Because it doesn't really have to play by the rules that most prestige TV shows play by.
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Its creators wrote those rules.
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Better Call Saul is one of the rare acts of franchise storytelling that feels on a level with the original.
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You think about it, how many sequels or prequels ever reach the same heights as the story they are building off of?
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Godfather 2?
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Empire Strikes Back?
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It's a really short list.
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Breaking Bad was part of a generation of prestige television shows that broke our brains.
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Somewhere along the line, it felt like all the best shows became obsessed with their own mortality,
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and all the conversation around those shows were about how they would end and how they would feel once they were done.
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Saul does not have that problem.
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Sure, there are some lingering questions.
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What happens to Kim Wexler?
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What happens to Nacho?
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Does Gene make it out of Nebraska alive?
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But by and large, we know what happens.
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We just don't know how.
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How is where Peter Gould and Vince Gilligan,
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the creators of Better Call Saul, make their bones.
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If you think of it in basic journalism school terms,
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a show is responsible for who,
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what, when, where, why, and how.
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Saul is almost entirely concerned with how.
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The end point of the show is known,
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so Saul can indulge in a level of detail that most other stories would breeze by.
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Most shows have moments where characters simply tell you who they are or who they want to be,
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because they need to make sure the audience understands the stakes and knows the direction.
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We're not bad people.
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But we did a bad thing.
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We already know all that stuff with Better Call Saul.
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It's a show about process.
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Yes, of Jimmy becoming Saul,
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but it's really about how enormous moments in life are consequences of seemingly minor decisions and actions.
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In the Breaking Bad past,
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those actions could be harrowing.
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Think about a sequence from Breaking Bad like the opening of Box Cutter from the beginning of season four.
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We learn so much more about who and what Gus is
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by watching him get dressed in that infamous orange jumpsuit while Walt pleads for his life
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than we would have if he had given a classic villain speech.
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We could listen to him talk about how he will stop at nothing to get what he wants,
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or we can watch him kill his own henchman Victor in front of Walt, Jesse, and Mike.
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Better Call Saul's actions may feel a little bit more pedestrian,
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but they say just as much about the characters.
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Just think about one of the best episodes of Saul, Season 4's Cushada.
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With Huell facing serious jail time,
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Jimmy goes on a bus trip from ABQ to Huell's hometown in Louisiana,
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enlisting his fellow riders to help with a postcard campaign to compel the judge to be more lenient with his bodyguard sentencing.
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We learn so much more about the lengths that Jimmy will go
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and the ways he can game the system to get what he wants.
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He will never go straight at a problem.
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He always looks for a shortcut,
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even if that takes him across state lines.
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When you're telling a story largely through process and action,
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where the action is mail fraud or the construction of a super lab for the cooking of meth,
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you can allow themes to emerge over time rather than be explicitly stated with dialogue.
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When Breaking Bad was breaking big,
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there was an off-repeated Vince Gilligan quote that served as the show's elevator pitch.
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Mr. Chips to Scarface.
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We were going to follow the sharp descent of a family man who becomes a drug lord.
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Saul doesn't have a convenient tagline,
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but there is an idea emerging from the show,
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and it's one about reinvention and adaptation.
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The characters on Saul that we know move forward into the Breaking Bad world are the ones who adapt,
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whether they change their names,
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the side of the law they work on,
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or the people that they work for and with.
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We're talking about Mike, Saul, and Gus, of course.
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It's a cop-turned-bagman, a Mr. Fix-It for a drug dealer,
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a drug dealer turned respectable businessman who really is still a drug dealer,
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and a lawyer who is so certain of who he needs to become,
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he changes his name into a catchphrase.
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It's all good, man.
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The people who have real connections in the world are the ones at risk.
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Nacho is doing what he can to protect his father,
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and Kim is doing what she can to save the Jimmy she loves from becoming the Saul she is repelled by.
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And why is she repelled?
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Because she knows exactly how effective that Saul can be.
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Better Call Saul is a show that stays within the lines,
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but colors in those lines beautifully.
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And you can see that in the smallest of moments,
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the kind any other show would skip by.
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Take this brief shot in the second episode of season five, 50% off.
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Kim is trying to organize her in Jimmy's closet and contending with the influx of garish Saul Goodman outfits.
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But of course, what she is really doing is realizing
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that there is less and less space for Kim Wexler in Jimmy's new life as Saul.
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And you can see that feeling just below the surface in almost every interaction that the two have.
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Even when they're having a renaissance moment in the house they are looking to buy,
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Kim knows they are just pretending,
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just running another con, and the con is the normal life that they could have together,
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living on the level.
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She can't have that with Jimmy.
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When it comes to the underworld side of things,
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Better Call Saul is able to invert crime show tropes with subtlety and humor.
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We have already been through multiple seasons learning about the ins and outs of the Salamanca and Fring crime networks.
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Walt and Jesse served as audience avatars pulling us deeper and deeper into the dark world of meth cooking and distribution.
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In Saul, the audience avatars are people like Lalo Salamanca.
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He is the detective of the show,
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basically Saul's answer for Breaking Bad's Hank.
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He is always asking to be shown how things work,
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where things are, who is doing those things.
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In 50% Off, when Nacho pulls off his daring extraction of the remaining drugs in Mouse's apartment,
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Lalo watches like a kid checking out a movie.
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The car windshield is his screen,
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and he munches on what looks like popcorn, enjoying the show.
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It is a brilliant inversion of the usual fish-out-of-water cliche.
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We're only two episodes into season five of Better Call Saul,
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and you could already teach a class on screenwriting using just Magic Man and 50% off.
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This is how you tell a story.
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We know that Better Call Saul is coming to an end with season six,
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but don't think about how they'll land the plane just yet.
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Enjoy this perfect show while it's still in flight.
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We'll see you guys next time.
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文法と表現の文脈
- 「What happens to～？」 - この質問形式は、状況や登場人物に焦点を当てる際に有効です。可能性を尋ねることで、会話の展開を促します。
- 「It's really about how～」 - この構文は、ある事象の原因や過程を説明する際に使われます。技術的な説明を行う時に非常に役立つ表現です。
- 「we know what happens」 - 知識を前提にした表現で、会話のコンテクストが共有されていることを強調します。
これらの表現を利用して、日常の会話をより自然なものにすることができるでしょう。特に、shadowspeaksの練習を通じて、自分の考えを効果的に表現する手助けとなります。
一般的な発音の落とし穴
感情や状況の重みを表現するための特定の単語やフレーズは、発音が難しい場合があります。例えば、「Gus」や「Jimmy」といったキャラクター名は、英語を学ぶ際に音のニュアンスに注意が必要です。また、「consequences」や「sentencing」のような長い単語も、正確な発音を意識することでよりスムーズに話せます。これらの言葉を、shadow speechの練習を通じて繰り返し練習することで、流暢さを増すことができるでしょう。
シャドーイングとは？英語上達に効果的な理由
シャドーイング（Shadowing）は、もともとプロの通訳者養成プログラムで開発された言語学習法で、多言語習得者として知られるDr. Alexander Arguelles によって広く普及されました。方法はシンプルですが非常に効果的：ネイティブスピーカーの英語を聞きながら、1〜2秒の遅延で声に出してすぐに繰り返す——まるで「影（shadow）」のように話者を追いかけます。文法ドリルや受動的なリスニングと異なり、シャドーイングは脳と口の筋肉が同時にリアルタイムで英語を処理・再現することを強制します。研究により、発音精度、抑揚、リズム、連音、リスニング力、そして会話の流暢さが大幅に向上することが確認されています。IELTSスピーキング対策や自然な英語コミュニケーションを目指す方に特におすすめです。