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

imho short term he just wanted jesse to stabilize partying like that doing tons drugs not giving a shit abt anything puts gus' org at risk, long term i could see trying to turn him against walt

you sound like you've run this kind of operation before

*shrugs suggestively*

Who is on Jesse's shirt. I've seen those hair shirts for baseball players but dont think it's one of those.

Also Jesse reminds me of Lars Urich.

Happy about the relative lack of Skyler screen time in this episode.

Also opening scene with Jesse and Rage was just about perfect.

Rage is not even out yet - October release date. Looks great though

THIS SHOW

what is it that the cartel guys want? walt dead? over tuco? hank dead? started to wonder if maybe gus has a few dea agents on the payroll?

What they don;t want I would imagine is to be completely shut out of Gus's territory.

Tonight's opening was maybe the best ever I think

wait Rage hasn't been released? Isn't the timeline of the show like 2 years ago?

I think the shirt was Steve Aoki's head without a face?

wait Rage hasn't been released? Isn't the timeline of the show like 2 years ago?

― Gukbe, Monday, August 29, 2011 3:43 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

not sure if they've ever specified what exact year it's set in

for all we know it's set in the future!

afaik it's always been something along the lines of "the present day" (ie walt jr driving a 2011 dodge challenger earlier)

Dan's right, it's a Steve Aoki shirt. http://dimmak.bigcartel.com/product/steve-aoki-beard

i think walt jr should take gus up on the offer 2 work at pollos hermanos and bring this whole operation down from the inside

or wind up running it!

and i was assuming the cartel guys still want Walt dead.

Which cartel guys? i kinda thought that the particular division or subset of the cartel that knew Walt more intimately then just the name Heisenberg were all dead.

i don't think so. someone had to have sent the twins last season.

Yeah that other boss that Gus had a meeting with, they worked for him. That guy got raided by the feds while on the phone with Gus before going Rambo and I assumed getting himself killed (they never showed that much though). This was all part of Gus’s power move to wipe out the cartels. The cartel guys you see now are another faction coming in to take up the void.

Yeah that other boss that Gus had a meeting with, they worked for him

from last season though, not to be confused with the most resent meeting

Also opening scene with Jesse and Rage was just about perfect.

I was pretty much at the point of "ok ok I get it" w/r/t/ Jesse's downward spiral so I was glad to see him fixing shit up and whitewashing the walls later in the ep

I like how the scene w/ hank presenting the case against gus to the dea tied up all the unspoken things that've been rattling around in his head the last few eps

also the scene with walt and the car was classic

liked Hank mulling over what Walt Jr was telling him. i have a feeling that's going to be rattling around his brain for a while too!

and i was assuming the cartel guys still want Walt dead.

― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Monday, August 29, 2011 1:49 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark

My first thought is that they want to poach Walt from Gus.

aaron paul TOTALLY killing it this season imo

He really is. Did you notice the veins standing out on his neck in the NA meeting scene? The actor was completely gone, it was Jesse sitting there.

Agree Aaron Paul taking it up a notch

saw him in a scene in Whatever It Takes this weekend

My first thought is that they want to poach Walt from Gus.

yes, this - meaning Walt doesn't know how characteristically self-destructive it is to be nagging someone else to commit murder for him, on the one guy who has a huge investment in protecting and keeping him and his family safe.

http://i.imgur.com/ybQXN.png

Walt and Jesse have a poor record of successfully killing people with ricin, don't they?

Umm yep
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ln5f8iXUOy1qhtqtjo1_400.gif

Saw a preview for that movie Mr White is in during the show. Looks trashy, no? Hellboy from Sons of anarchy is also in it.

Number none nicely done

It's Nicolas Winding Refn, so it could be really great. It won best director at Cannes. xpost

Drive looks awesome

I don't remember - does Fring own one of the DEA guys?

Dunno yet. Probably tho

we know v little about the extent of Fring's tentacles until now - the revelation in this ep that a German-based multinat company has an ownership interest in Pollos raises a whole bunch of q's - is Gus a low-level dude in this company? does he own the German co. but still work his mgr job at Pollos? is the stake just a way of paying for the equipment in kind, and they're only making a slice of chicken profits, not meth profits?

Love how this is a flip of the usual morality tale: Jesse begins pretty amoral and, only through committing various acts of terror, starts to develop a clearer sense of right and wrong, or at least an inkling. Very efficient episode.

What are the odds that the thing the cartel wants from Gus is Walt?

Also, if Gus is in the position to make a $50 mil payout to anyone, then who knows what or who the dude owns.

such a dope episode

I was super happy for Hank at the end.

yes, esp when he won them back after they started rolleyeing over poor stir-crazy lost-it Hank

alternatively, I was so angry at Walt early on that I thought about walking out and not watching the show ever again if he's just going to keep getting worse

top dea guy feels suspect to me - on the take?

i finally watched this new ep so now i can comment...

remember there was a scene in the desert where we got the idea that hank's DEA associate (with the goatee, not the old white guy) was somehow on the take? i remember being like OOOhhhh THAT guy, of course. Hank sure has done some good work, though. I wonder if anyone will follow through on it...

a little eager to dismiss Hank at first. but that would be too obvious for BB, methinks.
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