How did walt know he was the original target?
Yeah seemed like a random bullet Hank just slid into the gun.
There's an inconsistency where the bullet dropped, cuz when the guy reloaded he was a car length away from where Hank was lying down. Then when he goes to get the axe, the bullet is next to Hank's gun.
I'm just nitpicker'ing.
Kind of a slow episode. I'm looking forward to next week's though.![]()
I really hate where the Skyler character is going.
I think Jesse is going to be history soon, he's unable to see the big picture like Walt is and is reverting to his old habits.
And Walt is going to be the one to take him out. He admired the way Gus handled things to seize control of the southwest meth trade and he wants to be more like that. The more that Skylar turns into mega-bitch the more Walt will go towards the dark side. I can see Walt training another guy to cook so that he can move up the ladder and work with Gus on the business end of things. Then, in another season or two, Walt will fight Gus for control.
I can see Walt taking out Jessie, but part of the reason for that would be to keep his recipe a secret. We already saw how fast he canned Gale, when it appeared that Gale had mastered his technique. I just don't see him sharing it with anyone else.
His recipe is his ace in the hole. In order for him train someone new, he would have to have ascended so far up the ladder that this relatively risk free $15 mil/year is no longer worth his time.
I also think that two seasons (assuming 1 season = 1 year of elapsed show time) is far too soon for Walt to challenge Gus for command. While Walt is perhaps Gus' intellectual equal, we already know it takes a lot more than brains to succeed at this business. You need all the connections, the muscle, the infrastructure to handle nationwide distribution, all things that Walt isn't even close to having yet.
We've all seen how clumsily Walt has handled non-cooking related problems.
And Walt is going to be the one to take him out.
Wow this latest episode sucked incredibly hard. This current season is so hit and miss for me. Season 2 is definitely the superior season, so far.
The point of the fly thing is to prove that Walt is losing it.
Wow thanks for your insightful, in depth analysis. What would we do without the genius that is fleabag
Don't you have some tyres you should be inflating to sidewall?
Wow this latest episode sucked incredibly hard. This current season is so hit and miss for me. Season 2 is definitely the superior season, so far.
Apparently I missed the whole section when Walt falls off that catwalk- my dvr freezes up during the part where he steps over the rail and then goes right to a commercial. My friend said that was his favorite part and I didn't even see it.
My wife hated it but I really liked it - it's sorta one of those high concept, stage play like episodes that are stripped down and show lots of character development (remember Heroe's top notch "Company Man" episode?). Not particularly exciting but well executed. Also, Walt going crazy aside, watch the first shot again (close up of fly while Skylar sings nursery songs). It's a flashback to the night Walt watched Jesse's gf die - the fly (at least to Walt) is the all seeing eye of god, and represents his blossoming sense of guilt. Remember, Walt never owned his involvement in the death of Jesse's girl, the passengers on the flight, or the users of his drugs. By the end of the last episode he acknowledges that everything is connected, and that he's making poison. Walt is finding humanity, and it's driving him crazy.
I agree; I just feel like the episode dragged. You can see him slowly coming to this realization over the last few episodes. The problem I have with this past episode is that it dragged on and on. The part about "I've lived too long..." that part was great. I just felt like they didn't need a full epi to get this point across. It was tortuously boring for the first 25 minutes.
I started watching last week based on the good things I read here and other forums. I've watched everything and am current. All I can say is WOW. I've never watched a show that I got so emotionally tied to. When Walt is in trouble, I end up feeling guilty - seriously - for like an hour after I watch. I've never had a show that made me feel like that. And the hate I have for Skyler - wow, not healthy.