@northcoast said:

So, in order for Jimmy to become fully Saul, Kim has to go. (Sorry, Fifthfreedom). I just don't believe Jimmy would've become as totally amoral and mercenary as he was portrayed in Breaking Bad unless Kim was out of the picture. Kim was his rock, his reason for retaining at least some sense of moral decency. She may not die a "tragic" death (like dying as the result of one of Jimmy's deals with the wrong people going bad), it might just be a random death like another car accident or something, or she might break up with Jimmy and move away in disgust (no death, in this scenario). But she definitely has to go. It may not be in Season 4, but it will happen before the series ends.

The show itself will only run for five or six seasons. As with Breaking Bad, I do think Vince Gilligan has some sort of plan for the show and doesn't want it to run for years and years with 100 or more episodes (contrast this with most successful American broadcast network shows-- they just go on and on and on until every last drop of advertising profit is wrung from them; by which time the quality has long been lost).

The end of the final season will consist of several episodes that take place after Breaking Bad, in which we see a fuller picture of Saul's life working at the Cinnabun (under his new alias, of course), or whatever else he is doing if he has lost that job by then. I really hope the showrunners do this! I think a storyline about Saul's life after the Breaking Bad timeline could be really interesting. Maybe he will even cross paths with one of the surviving characters from Breaking Bad. I wouldn't mind seeing Robert Forster again, assuming the actor (Forster) isn't dead in real life by then. He is getting on in years.

Anyway, those are my predictions. Can't wait to see what happens!:)

Truth is; think Kim is pretty flexible when it comes to what Jimmy does as long as she has plausible deniability.

Don’t think it will be one-big-event that changes Jimmy into Saul. I think, based on what we’ve seen so far, it will be an escalating accumulation of larger and larger events that will eventually give us “Breaking Bad” Saul.

It’s like telling a small lie, then having to tell a bigger one to cover for that first lie; and then things just keep snowballing from there.

As for your other two predictions:

1. Think you are right about Gilligan being more about short-and-sweet than long-til-boring.

2. As for Saul's Cinnabun life after BB--can't see any interest in that. Think that would be going to the well one time too many.