Working in a reappearance by Gail (sp?) was the only amusing yet horrifying thing in the episode. The ironies in the professions of remorse were of course interesting but didn't exactly go anywhere, except to show (as the shout out told us) that neither Skylar nor Walt really gets it.
I suppose that one might say professional drug dealers would realize that Jesse isn't escalating his drug use, showing that his problems right now are not just drug addiction. But personally I firmly believe that what lot's of people think of as smarts (especially street smarts) is just cunning and shouldn't be thought of so highly.
The opening scene with Mike surviving the fusillade so easily (no, a nicked ear doesn't count) doesn't help me believe in the character. I suppose two gunmen could be thick enough not to conceive someone lying on the floor or that some sort of shielding, like actual cargo, could be inside the truck. But if you've got two men, one goes in and the other covers. Except that would mean dead Mike, which isn't in the script.
The difference between Mike and Jesse should be the difference left between Fring and Walt. That difference is not that Mike is superbadass and Jesse is a druggie loser. The thing in the end is that Walt will want a Mike instead of a Jesse. Walt can put Jesse up against Mike because Jesse hates the murderous bastard for being a murderous bastard. Playing with making Jesse a pathetic loser being saved from the goodness of his heart by good old loyal Walt is absurd at this point in Walt's development. And even Mike should be able to understand there's more going on with Jesse than drugs if he doesn't care about $78K.
Jesse's probably being shoved into rehab as Fring is playing it cool till he can kill Walt without interfering with production.
The show always has flashes of brilliance, but it's spinning its wheels to plump out a season to the next natural arc climax.
I suppose that one might say professional drug dealers would realize that Jesse isn't escalating his drug use, showing that his problems right now are not just drug addiction. But personally I firmly believe that what lot's of people think of as smarts (especially street smarts) is just cunning and shouldn't be thought of so highly.
The opening scene with Mike surviving the fusillade so easily (no, a nicked ear doesn't count) doesn't help me believe in the character. I suppose two gunmen could be thick enough not to conceive someone lying on the floor or that some sort of shielding, like actual cargo, could be inside the truck. But if you've got two men, one goes in and the other covers. Except that would mean dead Mike, which isn't in the script.
The difference between Mike and Jesse should be the difference left between Fring and Walt. That difference is not that Mike is superbadass and Jesse is a druggie loser. The thing in the end is that Walt will want a Mike instead of a Jesse. Walt can put Jesse up against Mike because Jesse hates the murderous bastard for being a murderous bastard. Playing with making Jesse a pathetic loser being saved from the goodness of his heart by good old loyal Walt is absurd at this point in Walt's development. And even Mike should be able to understand there's more going on with Jesse than drugs if he doesn't care about $78K.
Jesse's probably being shoved into rehab as Fring is playing it cool till he can kill Walt without interfering with production.
The show always has flashes of brilliance, but it's spinning its wheels to plump out a season to the next natural arc climax.
