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Breaking Bad Season 5 - Official Discussion Thread

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WaTaGuMp said:
This is how I got to watch all of season 5 the first half. Had all 8 episodes watched within 24 hours.
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that is weak. should have finished that in a quarter of that time.

i remember when i watched the first 9 episodes of homeland season 1 back-to-back in one sitting.
 
I'm avoiding this thread because of spoilers, but one gaffe:

Every time we see them with their money stash, from from the drug trade being divided, supposedly unlaundered, it's in these new bank0style stacks, neat and clean.

If it were really the drug money coming to them unlaundered, it'd be mounds of wadded up bills from the drug customers.
 
purbeast0 said:
that is weak. should have finished that in a quarter of that time.

i remember when i watched the first 9 episodes of homeland season 1 back-to-back in one sitting.
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That's nothing. I watched a seacon of 24 in one hour, with each episode playing in one of 24 windows simultaneously.
 
Craig234 said:
I'm avoiding this thread because of spoilers, but one gaffe:

Every time we see them with their money stash, from from the drug trade being divided, supposedly unlaundered, it's in these new bank0style stacks, neat and clean.

If it were really the drug money coming to them unlaundered, it'd be mounds of wadded up bills from the drug customers.
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even when it was a walt & jesse operation with badger & pete as dealers they were just counting & rolling up their bills

at this point they're at the top and several levels away from the dealers
 
Craig234 said:
I'm avoiding this thread because of spoilers, but one gaffe:

Every time we see them with their money stash, from from the drug trade being divided, supposedly unlaundered, it's in these new bank0style stacks, neat and clean.

If it were really the drug money coming to them unlaundered, it'd be mounds of wadded up bills from the drug customers.
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It's fictional like the blue meth, Gus walking around with half his face missing, blowing up a room with a handful of chemicals and being the only one not hurt, a bathtub with a dead body in it falling right through the ceiling, etc etc.

It's a TV show.
 
Number1 said:
It's fictional like the blue meth, Gus walking around with half his face missing, blowing up a room with a handful of chemicals and being the only one not hurt, a bathtub with a dead body in it falling right through the ceiling, etc etc.

It's a TV show.
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Yer Goddam right!
 
Someone watched the MythBusters special.

As for the monies, the part from bulk sales or payment for cooking could reasonably be neat whereas that from small street sales would at least partly have to be exchanged or spent since not worth storing small denominations.
 
the money looking like that isn't far fetched at all. these guys are making deals in the millions. do you all really think that they would be getting 1 million $1 bills to make these purchases? it isn't like they are getting the millions in thousands upon thousands of transactions either, they get that money in huge 1 time transactions.
 
OCGuy said:
Does anyone know if we ever found out who Gus was? Did I miss it?

The cartel leader didn't kill him in the flashback because "He knew who he was." Also, Hank and Mike couldn't find any trace of him in Chilean records.

Did they address this or is it a loose end?
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Nope, we never found out. And when Walt first met with that crew (who got killed last episode at their underground meth lab) he made it a point to tell them that he killed Gus Fring. So I was thinking that would come back to bite him, but that may be a dead end now.
 
OCGuy said:
Does anyone know if we ever found out who Gus was? Did I miss it?

The cartel leader didn't kill him in the flashback because "He knew who he was." Also, Hank and Mike couldn't find any trace of him in Chilean records.

Did they address this or is it a loose end?
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They have intentionally never filled this in. Gilligan has compared it to never finding out what was in the briefcase in Pulp Fiction - http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2...-about-ending-the-season-and-the-series/?_r=0 -

But as to the second point, we talked a long time, my writers and I, about what exactly was Gus’s back story? How bad a dude did he have to have been, back in Chile, for the cartel to spare him, even though they were very insulted by his actions? And we went back and forth, we talked about Pinochet and his government, what did he do back there, precisely? And we borrowed a bit from “Pulp Fiction,” I suppose. Because in “Pulp Fiction,” Samuel L. Jackson and John Travolta are carrying around a briefcase, for the entire movie, that the contents of which are only hinted at. At one point, you see a glow emanating from inside the briefcase, but you never do find out for sure what it’s in it. And I always liked that, as a viewer. To me, the audience’s imagination as to who Gus was in his past life is potentially more interesting than any concrete answer we could give them.
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joshsquall said:
I have despised her since she slept with Ted. Casual infidelity as revenge bugs the shit out of me.
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That seems relatively trivial in the context of all the abuse and lies she's been subjected to. I have never understood the hatred toward Skyler, who strikes me as more interesting and sympathetic than Carmela Soprano, her closest cousin in terms of these kinds of shows.
 
Don Vito Corleone said:
That seems relatively trivial in the context of all the abuse and lies she's been subjected to. I have never understood the hatred toward Skyler, who strikes me as more interesting and sympathetic than Carmela Soprano, her closest cousin in terms of these kinds of shows.
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I don't see Carmela and Skylar as being anything alike other than being married to sociopaths. Carmela was a mob wife, she bought into that life willingly and while she didn't approve of Tony's infidelity she was completely okay with his life of crime. The problem with Skylar is her weak, pathetic Hamlet-like position on the fringes of crime. She hates it, but loves it. Looks down upon the criminal aspect while helping to prolong it. Wants to get away from Walt, but doesn't. Pretends to want to protect her kids, but doesn't really do jack shit to get them into a safer situation. It's that refusal to get off the fence that makes it appear that she's got a pole lodged up her ass. Skylar pretends to be morally superior to everyone around her while in many ways being worse. And if Anna Gunn doesn't understand that she's dumber than Skylar is. Rather than complaining that the audience does not understand Skylar, Anna needs to spend a few minutes trying to understand Skylar herself. Don't cry crocodile tears over the character being hated, embrace it and try to pass it off as intentional. Claim that Skylar is hated because that's the way she's written and claim that you love the vitriol because that's proof that she's playing the part well. Even if she isn't.
 
GagHalfrunt said:
I don't see Carmela and Skylar as being anything alike other than being married to sociopaths. Carmela was a mob wife, she bought into that life willingly and while she didn't approve of Tony's infidelity she was completely okay with his life of crime. The problem with Skylar is her weak, pathetic Hamlet-like position on the fringes of crime. She hates it, but loves it. Looks down upon the criminal aspect while helping to prolong it. Wants to get away from Walt, but doesn't. Pretends to want to protect her kids, but doesn't really do jack shit to get them into a safer situation. It's that refusal to get off the fence that makes it appear that she's got a pole lodged up her ass. Skylar pretends to be morally superior to everyone around her while in many ways being worse. And if Anna Gunn doesn't understand that she's dumber than Skylar is. Rather than complaining that the audience does not understand Skylar, Anna needs to spend a few minutes trying to understand Skylar herself. Don't cry crocodile tears over the character being hated, embrace it and try to pass it off as intentional. Claim that Skylar is hated because that's the way she's written and claim that you love the vitriol because that's proof that she's playing the part well. Even if she isn't.
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I absolutely disagree, and find it bizarre and distasteful that you're turning your feelings toward the character onto Anna Gunn.
 
GagHalfrunt said:
She hates it, but loves it. Looks down upon the criminal aspect while helping to prolong it. Wants to get away from Walt, but doesn't.
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She's scared to death of him. She's considered leaving before (remember her standing on the Four Corners Monument?), but is too afraid.
Pretends to want to protect her kids, but doesn't really do jack shit to get them into a safer situation.
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Of course she's tried. She even got them over to her sister's for a while.
Claim that Skylar is hated because that's the way she's written and claim that you love the vitriol because that's proof that she's playing the part well. Even if she isn't.
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Maybe YOU don't think she's playing the part well. Apparently the creators don't feel the same way... Nor do those who nominated her for an Emmy.

I'm not sure what you think Skylar should do. Of course she hates what Walt is doing, and the danger he's put the family in. But he's too deep, and she just doesn't have many choices. Especially considering the predicament she (and Ted) got herself into.
 
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