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

were you gomie?

things that make you irrationally happy: being the first person to post on a tv thread the day after the show!

what did you all think of this week? felt it tended to hammer home some of what's going on in case you hadn't twigged it last week, eg they are giving jesse something to believe in, look, here is gus saying "well done" etc.

the scene with the methhead in the house was great. not a major advancement plot-wise but an okay ep i guess. the skyler stuff is getting more annoying though, like, i know they keep having her reference the fact she is just a big moaner, but they kind of need to do more with her character, at the moment she really is just whinging about stuff.

I loved Walt* pulling apart the motivation for Jesse's ridealongs, Jesse going "maybe it was at first but what if they mean it man, ps fuck you," and actually turning himself right by the end of the episode

*except for actually seeing him do this, god what an asshole

re: skyler "whinging" .. uhh, Walt is acting INSANE. She seemed reasonable in last nite's episode.

yeah, stop whining that the guy I worked with was shot in his own home, that'll never happen to me. I make the money, man. I roll the nickels. the game is mine.

plus her last line was the best of the eps

I'm the guy who KNOCKS was a great line too

and then Walt goes in the shower to re-shave his head to try and stay in character

nothing huge happened this episode but it was good, everything they've been building up got cranked up a couple more notches tension-wise

re: skyler "whinging" .. uhh, Walt is acting INSANE. She seemed reasonable in last nite's episode.

yeah this is otm. if you want the show to be Natural Born Killers comic-book stuff then she can not "whinge" but a person involved with what she's been forced by association with her husband to become involved with is literally in peril 24 hours a day, and that also goes for her children: the teenager, and the infant. something is wrong with Skyler if she stops "whinging" for even a minute, given her situation.

now that there are multiple Pollos trucks being shot up or having their drivers murdered I don't think Hank's goofy revelation with the napkin is all that important to the plot. obviously the cops are going to think the ckicken biz is involved in something shady.

gus staging jesse's hero moment and walt subsequently guessing it was staged... feels like magical TV plotting, kinda underwhelmed by that whole thread

the mike + jesse show makes for quality viewing tho

ya. i guess they (the police) are probably going to find that last truck.

i think Walt's "i am the guy that knocks" speech was amazing. sums up everything about his mind-set and how he sees himself perfectly. he could just not stand having Skyler imply that he was frightened or not the alpha-male supreme there.

Skayler's last line of the ep was pretty amazing, and i'm starting to feel bad for her again. the scene with the coin, i think was pretty good too.

Walt was such an asshole this episode. What did he think was going to happen to the cleaning ladies? The options pretty much ranged from bus to Honduras to dead in a ditch.

Loved Walt's "This is all about me!" revelation as Jesse rolled his eyes and fumed.

the scene with the methhead in the house was great.

I enjoyed the scene, but thought it was a slightly cartoonish, PSA ad depiction of drug users. Idk, I've never done meth or come into contact with heavy users so maybe they are really that depraved/malleable.

the dude with the shotgun was dewey crowe btw.

I wonder what Anna Gunn did to her face. I wonder if it's just the weight gain?

four corners is a neat lil place (been there) but did skyler really need to drive the 262 miles from albuquerque just to toss a coin when she could've just rigged herself up a little model on the kitchen floor using a flattened cardboard box and a sharpie? or better yet just flip a coin twice after rigging up a little results key like UT:HH AZ:HT CO:TT NM:TH

nah, definitely looks frozen too (xpost)

Is there some kind of ritual associated with flipping a coin at four corners, or was she just trying to decide whether she should stay in NM or run away to a neighboring state?

She probably started out just driving without a particular plan.

Like after Walt's speech she just wanted to get away from him right that instance.

instant.

I thought the last line was p. lame. Way too writerly. But anyway, will Jesse's tactic really work if i ever need to distract a meth-head?

^important q

I really liked this episode. It was really funny, for a Breaking Bad episode.

ok love this show and

walt im the guy that knocks was great writing and acting

BUT

"its all about me!" was one of the worst writing moments yet in this show.

not pulling any sharkjump here btw, but man that line was superobvious facepalm

http://crosscut.com/2008/10/12/mossback/18561/Indiana-Jones%2C-meth-addict/

is this what they were getting at with the digging?

too many goofy camera tricks in this episode, esp the shovel.
walt trying to speak spanish was pretty lol though.
overall, felt like a lot of time-biding until the next Big Thing happens

I really like this show, so I'm not hatin', but somebody wrote recently about how the creative team wrote themselves into a corner (as they say they love to do) and are now spending a lot of time trying to resolve it, and I'm tending to agree. I'm not saying I want a breakneck pace, but more of a build towards something wouldn't go amiss right about now.

Love camera tricks!!! I think they should have a walt penis cam for a whole episode.

I think Walt figuring out the set-up was the most out-of-character thing so far. I know they tried to make it be part of his 'everything is about me' mindset but Jesse being babysat is kinda enough explanation he would need.

I think they should have a walt penis cam for a whole episode.

snigger

walt's penis doesn't do much

Walt's penis cam ... in Skyler's vagina?

Thanks for that article Matt. Interesting stuff

man, skyler just comes right to the point huh? BLAP. walt like a trapped boxer fending off blows. he has no answers. he's becoming unhinged.

methhead with a shotgun genuinely terrifying.

best ep of the season i reckon

Does anyone think those women are back in Honduras? Or are they in a ditch?

A ditch. In honduras. Cleaning it. But for a lot less money.

Seriously though, is the implication that they are illegals? I would think Gus wouldn't even go that route, just to keep INS out of his bizniz.

You mean ICE. The advantage of using undocumented workers is that you have ultimate leverage over them. They have to do what you say no matter what. I can see that appealing to Gus. I don't think ICE gives a shit as long as everything's quiet. And I imagine Gus usually keeps things very, very quiet.

Yeah, employers with otherwise legit business models exploit their employees' undocumented status to circumvent every measly employment law on the books.

I could see Gus taking a Bluebeard approach with the laundry employees - I'll pay you well but never go into this locked room or I'll send you back to Honduras. Also I could see him not getting ICE involved at all but just taking them south via a private carrier.

The more I think about it, the more I don't think he would have the women killed.

Gus knew it was Walt's fault, not theirs. New Victor said so.

Tyrus. Was Sunday's ep the first time anyone referred to him by name?

think so.

loved the look he gave Walt when Walt tugged at his sleeve

I like that they've spent the first part of this season reinforcing what a completely unpleasant petty egotistical human being Walter White really is.

plus her last line was the best of the eps

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I'm the guy who KNOCKS was a great line too

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i took both of these to be them playing at being gangster, movies are the only reference point they have for this stuff, also theyre both totally retarded

Walt's penis cam ... in Skyler's vagina?

That's when we take this thread to the TMI board. Or maybe just stop watching it. That really truly would be TMI.

yeah how do walt's deductive powers allow him to figure out jesse 'saving' mike was a set-up but do not allow him to think ahead to the consequences of bringing the cleaning ladies into the super secret meth lab?? hmmm

"i'm guy the who knocks" was great especially since it seems like the guy who actually knocked (jesse) is being brought into the running of the criminal organisation and the guy 'taking credit' for it (walt) is actually just an annoyance they cannot currently get around

do we think gus actually sees something in jesse?