Breaking Bad

[Guy Gardener]

From what I can tell, in this show, this fictional version of America, it might just be %99 of the population do use meth and a fair amount of them can probably do that with a high degree of functionality considering something invasive and pernicious can also be almost completely invisible.

I don't want to try meth, I've had many opportunities, but i do think the spin doctors working for the police and such have been spinning the danger associated with this drug considering how ultimately destructive even something as benign as alcohol is, which fools everyday claim they are in control of.

I'm waiting for the episode when Walter finds out another teacher (or the principle?) is a client.

HA!

I just figured it out!

Frakking uppity puritans!

Righteous holier than thou sons of bitches!

Meth is the cure for cancer.

An 80 percent reduction in his tumour after he starts swimming in this shit? Fuck chemo. Fuck chemo up it's stupid ass. He's selling the cure for cancer to barely make enough money to pay for some stop gap super poison which is killing him while pretending to be the cure for cancer.

Oh, irony thy name is Breaking Bad.

They know.

They know and they don't want us to know.

No wonder it's frakking outlawed.

Without cancer they'd be out of pocket and society would collapse from the sudden mortality decrease that there would be no room for all the new little babies and it would dry up the doomed social welfare reserve twice as quick .

Wow.

They imprison people for curing cancer.

People with considerably longer spans because they can never get cancer are routinely sentenced to life imprisonment for curing cancer.

If this stuff was the cure for cancer?

Mothers would be sprinkling it on their kids cornflakes every morning.

(I just had a Dennis Leary moment there did you notice?.)

 

[Agent Richard07]

I didn't even recognize John DeLancie in the May 10th episode until he started talking. Great episode by the way, especially the very end. This show does both intense episodes and slowers ones equally well.

 

[DarkHorse]

BB is a great show and Bryan Cranston is a great actor. Never saw him in the sitcom, but he works well as Walt.

As for Hank, he is a good cop, frat boy mentality, knows that people can have small flaws and knows when to draw the line (i.e., tequila shots for Walter, Jr. - great scene by the way. Haven't we all been to some family outing where the minor throws up for drinking too much alcohol. Sorry if this is a spoiler.)

 

[Capt. Vulcan]

The ending of last episode was pretty awesome, I didn't see it coming. I'm really enjoying the show right now.

The one thing that bothers me is the fact that he's putting his family in danger because he's too prideful to take the money from his old friends. If he really wanted to sacrifice for his family he could have just swallowed his pride and taken the money. I keep thinking back to that as Walt goes through all of this craziness. Even so I'm glad they're shifting Walt over to the dark side right now.

Hmm... seems like a good formula for hit show is to take a formerly cuddly tv actor, shave his head and make him a badass. I'd like Walt to meet Vic Mackey some day, could you imagine that?

 

[exodus]

The ending of last episode was pretty awesome, I didn't see it coming. I'm really enjoying the show right now.

The one thing that bothers me is the fact that he's putting his family in danger because he's too prideful to take the money from his old friends. If he really wanted to sacrifice for his family he could have just swallowed his pride and taken the money. I keep thinking back to that as Walt goes through all of this craziness. Even so I'm glad they're shifting Walt over to the dark side right now.

I think that's what makes the show so good.
Walt is a good man with good intentions but all his intentions are paving his way to Hell with all the bad choices he makes.

 

[species5618]

BB is a great show and Bryan Cranston is a great actor. Never saw him in the sitcom, but he works well as Walt.

As for Hank, he is a good cop, frat boy mentality, knows that people can have small flaws and knows when to draw the line (i.e., tequila shots for Walter, Jr. - great scene by the way. Haven't we all been to some family outing where the minor throws up for drinking too much alcohol. Sorry if this is a spoiler.)

I loved that scene. This show keeps getting better and better, plus I loved the semi-cryptic black and white (minus the pink stuffed animal) opening which I'm guessing is supposed to foreshadow two deaths...possibly Jesse and Walt, but that seems way too obvious. It IS Walt's house and his car in the driveway in that scene, though.

We've seen that B+W opening (earlier portions of it at least) in previous episodes as well, showing the evidence guys bagging what appears to be Walt's glasses.

Oh and Walt's little speech to the methhead in the hardware store was great, as was his warning to him and his buddy in the parking lot: "Stay out of my territory..."

It's like Walt's inner badass has been struggling to get out for years, and this whole meth cooking and dealing experience is the catalyst for it to finally break out.

 

[Capt. Vulcan]

Yeah the mystery opening has me wondering. They've left some macguffins around so you can't really guess what's going on. The two dead bodies could be walt and Jesse, but then they could also be the two junkies from hardware store, or Walt jr. and sky, or even his brother and sister-in-law. The explosion could be because walt did the water heater himself, or because his drug making materials, or even the mexican drug cartels.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

The ending of last episode was pretty awesome, I didn't see it coming. I'm really enjoying the show right now.

The one thing that bothers me is the fact that he's putting his family in danger because he's too prideful to take the money from his old friends. If he really wanted to sacrifice for his family he could have just swallowed his pride and taken the money. I keep thinking back to that as Walt goes through all of this craziness. Even so I'm glad they're shifting Walt over to the dark side right now.

I think that's what makes the show so good.
Walt is a good man with good intentions but all his intentions are paving his way to Hell with all the bad choices he makes.

GREAT episode this week! They've done just what they should have at this point in the story - left behind the whole cancer angle as a motive and finally admitted that what Walt really likes is POWAHHH!!!

This has always been coming because if he were only motivated by concern for his family, he wouldn't make money in a way that, if uncovered, could expose them all to financial ruin. It has always been about his frustrations in life at being a "little man." The cancer just gave him a convenient excuse for the amoral pursuit of power he's always wanted. That's why he didn't accept his friends' money - that isn't ever what he really wanted.

And they've done a superb job detailing every step in this psychological transition, so that Walt's "bizarre" and aggressive behavior in this episode seems natural and unforced.

As for Hank, he is a good cop, frat boy mentality, knows that people can have small flaws and knows when to draw the line (i.e., tequila shots for Walter, Jr. - great scene by the way. Haven't we all been to some family outing where the minor throws up for drinking too much alcohol. Sorry if this is a spoiler.)

That really drove home the fact that Hank is a far more responsible citizen now than Walt is - Hank is a goofball only on the surface. Walt is a boy scout, again - only on the surface.

 

[Capt. Vulcan]

Speaking of unforced, they did a good job of shelving the cooking aspect of the show for the rest of the season or more. I was so worried about Walt's supposedly spreading tumor that I didnt' realise that they had removed the need for cooking for the foreseeable future in one neat episode that fit the story perfectly.

 

[exodus]

That dude was right, you can't trust a drug addict.
Jessie is going to screw everything up.............and got his girl back on the stuff too.

 

[Witterquick]

Holy shit.

Spoiler: latest episode

Am I evil for being glad she died?

Q's great in that role. He's like the best father and I feel sorry for him.

 

[Agent Richard07]

Krysten Ritter was hot and made a nice fuck buddy for Jesse. It'll be a shame to see her go, but man! That was well played. I was wondering if they'd get rid her and if so, how? I can't wait to see what the fallout from this will be and if Walt will run into her dad again.

 

[KeptinChris]

Well, that takes care of yoko.
thought she was gonna give Jesse a hot dose and take off with the cash.

 

[Agent Richard07]

^ I thought they were gonna play that out too.

Someone on another board said that she didn't OD, she just choked on her own vomit as a result of her not being on her side when Walt shook Jesse and caused her to roll over.

 

[KeptinChris]

If she didn't OD why was she puking?? Being clean and talking a hit like when she was still using??

 

[Agent Richard07]

^ I think the point was that it wasn't so much the drugs that killed her, it was her being on her back and in a position to choke as a result of Walt's actions.

 

[KeptinChris]

Oh ok. Totally missed Walt pushing her over. I thought the thing was that he could have saved her but let her go caused of her influence on Jesse.

 

[species5618]

Great episode.

Will Jane's demise push Jesse further into drugs, or will this be a wake up call for him?

I suspect the former is the more likely scenario...

 

[Snaploud]

Damn. This show doesn't play around.

 

[Capt. Vulcan]

Oh ok. Totally missed Walt pushing her over. I thought the thing was that he could have saved her but let her go caused of her influence on Jesse.

Yeah there's a scene earlier where she makes it a point to turn Jesse on his side and she says to him "you don't want to choke if you vomit."

Wow... just an amazing episode. From the trailers I was expecting it to be just another episode putting the screws to the main characters, but it wasn't. I was really impressed with how it was done, totally unexpected. First off they just gloss over the whole money exchange, which you'd expect them to milk for all it's worth. Walt gives up the money without much of a fight, which is something I also expected them to milk. And the episode ended up being about the characters. The scene between DeLanci and Walt... Janew junkie side coming out, the desperate lies that she tells so well that you know she's had practice. That final scene.... wow. As she began choking you can literally see all the terrible possiblities and implications flashing through Walt's mind. The best 30 seconds of tv I've seen in years. The emmy was well deserved. I was totally blown away by this ep.