Shall we anticpate the AMC series "Breaking Bad"? I think I may.

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honestly, i knew i should expect the unexpected with Gus's reaction. but i'm not sure about what he did. why do that? seems too irrational for Gus. why the need for it?

i guessed he was going to kill that guy pretty much the minute he walked in. and the reason was because he's more of a liability than walt/jesse cos he was seen at gail's apartment.

ahhh. true. i guess the whole Gus getting killed thing could be put on him a little as well.

yeah had to be that he was spotted at the scene acting weird.

He also wanted to put the shits up Walt and Jesse big time.

the scene worked, but agree it was out of character for gus... he doesn't get his hands dirty ever and then he wacks somebody?

the way I rationalized it was gus was so pissed about gale and his plans being thwarted that he had to take it out on somebody, and out of the present company that would make the most impact - keep walt + jesse intimidated plus wipe out a guy who was spotted at the scene... but it still didn't make sense given his trusted role in gus' org

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ya. i always thought Gus's team seemed a little sparse to begin with.

have strong urge to rewatch s3 now to see if there are any clues of what's inside LAB NOTES

killer coffee recipes

i guessed he was going to kill that guy pretty much the minute he walked in. and the reason was because he's more of a liability than walt/jesse cos he was seen at gail's apartment.

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ya me too, it somewhat ruined the suspense of that scene 4 me

like if it says "walt's secret sauce" anywhere in there I'm sure we'll get several eps worth of it being dangled under hank's deskridden nose

victor's authoritative initiation of the cook was a nice piece of misdirection tho

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Gus took a risk and hired Walt in the first place because Gale convinced him 96% purity wasn't good enough, Victor wasn't going to reach anywhere near that with his.

and you know gale's advice worked out so awesome for gus

damn

xpost exactly, and why have a crap cook who's implicated in a murder when you can have walt who is begging to work.

i didn't think this was an amazing start i have to say, there were scenes that were sort of pointless, eg skylar driving the car away and coming back, seemed to take ages but what was the point? the length of the gus scene made it feel a bit weirdly edited or uneven, which is v unusual for breaking bad.

not doubting tho, it's the return of the show that's great, it won't succeed or fail for me based on the first episode.

thought the hank bits were great.

Hank stuff was good. as was each scene at Gale's.

thought the colours + lighting during that gus scene were incredible. this is probably the only show i've ever felt inclined to try and watch in HD

seriously gruesome though

the ketchup thing was amazing. i love the playfulness of the show. actually maybe the best part was jesse's deadpan "trust us" after mike asked if the acid worked.

dude who plays mike is just a fantastic actor. he is so well cast, those constant jaw clenches and slight head swivels he does are worth a thousand words. that scene in s3 where he talks about "half-measures" and tells the story about being a policeman etc, is just so unbelievably raw and real.

fuck directTV for not having AMC in HD; I'll be torrenting the next two weeks of this until I'm able to get back on a real cable system.

i didn't think this was an amazing start i have to say, there were scenes that were sort of pointless, eg skylar driving the car away and coming back, seemed to take ages but what was the point?

yeah otm. until the big Gus scene the episode felt underwhelming to me.

did anything important happen once Skyler got into Walt's other apartment? they made a big deal out of the locksmith but then she didn't really find anything there, right? or am I missing something?

just another excuse to show that eyeball

that scene in s3 where he talks about "half-measures" and tells the story about being a policeman etc, is just so unbelievably raw and real.

^ one of my favorite bb moments

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arTnX8tF2_s

I thought the locksmith scene was a great character piece for Skylar... really demonstrated how conniving and manipulative she can be, which I think is a bit of foreshadowing in terms her characters development this season.

Like, when she handed this strange man her newborn baby I was disgusted with her in a way I haven't been before, even though I didn't even like her character until season 3!

on reflection feel the victor thing was a bit stupid...like they made him be seen at the crimespot just so that they could make him have suddenly decided he could cook meth just so they could have gus SURPRISINGLY kill him. not the standard you'd usually expect.

lol crimespot...crimescene!

No, I can see why me showed up at the crimescene... at the end of s3 he was trying to get there before Jesse did. So clearly, he didn't think Gale had already been killed when he went there, he was trying to prevent it!

yeah true...but he did kinda storm in

so what, just another lookey-loo

^ loved that

there were scenes that were sort of pointless, eg skylar driving the car away and coming back, seemed to take ages but what was the point?

TENSION

yeah and just spending a little time with her cause it's been awhile

I was surprised by Victor knowing the recipe. They set it up so that viewers could have guessed it in season 3 but it never entered my mind.

Not surprised by him being killed instead of Walt and Jesse. Mike mentioning the witnesses without an immediate plot payoff gave it away.

plus the ep is called 'box cutter' ffs, someones gettin gashed, isnt gonna be walt or jesse, no reason for mike to get it

the killing was more graphic than reservoir dogs.. crazy to me that this is on TV

have you seen the walking dead

yea i could not even deal w/ that teaser for that show my god

no i haven't

speaking of tarantino, the denny's scene felt like a pretty explicit acknowledgement of the debt they owe to his steez

was going to mention the cleanup --> diner thing being a pretty transparent tarantino homage

I kinda miss the chemistry MacGyver stuff.

I mean, obviously the clean-up was like that, but they did that one already!

the chunky bits... floating in the barrel...

"plus the ep is called 'box cutter' ffs, someones gettin gashed, isnt gonna be walt or jesse, no reason for mike to get it"

Next ep is 'thirty-eight snub'! Any wagers?

I would be cool with them naming each episode after the weapon that kills someone in said episode, that would be clever

And the last episode would be "love"

that's a gun innit? i'd guess hank thinks about shooting himself.

that would be clever - but only if they reversed engineered it so that they had to write around whatever random noun they picked as a little.
s04e08 "Cotton Ball"