Talk:Better Call Saul season 3

Year the season takes place in
Article says, "The third season, unlike the previous two, mainly takes place in 2003, a year after the events of the first two seasons." This makes it sound like there's a one-year time jump between season 2 and season 3, which there's not, season 3 begins right after season 2 ended. It's just that the year now is 2003 because the first two seasons covered about one year of events. Kumagoro-42 (talk) 03:22, 9 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Problem solved; rephrased sentence for you. Thanks for pointing that out. The Optimistic One (talk) 05:49, 23 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks for taking the time to rephrase this. Let's see, though. Now it says, "The third season begins right after the end of the second season", and that's positive. But I can't tell/remember if the second season "took place in late 2002" (as opposed to early 2002, or 2003 already); do we have a source confirming this? Also, stating that 2002 was "a year before the events of roughly the last half of the third season" sounds a bit convoluted (and factually impossible, since one year as a whole can't be a full year away from a much narrower period). Thing is, season 3 doesn't contain a moment depicting the change of date (in the last episode, we're only told in passing that the year is now 2003), and no time jump of any sort separating the first half and the second half. In fact, I don't think the entire season covers much time at all: there's the hearing, which is imminent during the first few episodes and happens in episode 5, and right afterwards Jimmy has to sell his airtime as quickly as possible (he sees a one-week delay by a prospective buyer as unacceptable), and he only succeeds in doing it by episode 8, and at that very point Kim takes the new client, leading to the car crash, which just happened by the finale, when we learn it's 2003. I'd say the whole thing is just a few weeks. I'd honestly cut it short and just state that by the end of the season, the year is 2003, since that's the only certain temporal reference we've got. What do you think? Kumagoro-42 (talk) 13:07, 23 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Your very welcome! The second season probably started somewhere in late 2002, giving that the third season went into the year 2003 as it progressed. The likelihood that S2 started in early 2002 is very slim, this also could be said for S3 giving that 2003 was mentioned later in the season (presumably in the latter half of the season). The third season happening in the space of a few weeks seems inconceivable. The entire season probably took place within 3-4 months. I would cut it to make it shorter as well. How about we just add this sentence; The third season begins right after the end of the second season, which took place in late 2002, by the time the season concludes, the year is 2003. The Optimistic One (talk) 13:39, 23 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Sounds about right! (The year being 2003 is only mentioned in the season 3 finale, I checked the transcriptions). Kumagoro-42 (talk) 03:19, 24 June 2018 (UTC)
 * ✅ The Optimistic One (talk) 15:46, 24 June 2018 (UTC)