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

The glass is always greener, so to speak.

just fyi u no putting it out there if someone wants to drop 200K off at my place id be cool w/ it

they really could let him got to vegas and gamble a shit ton of cash now that he has the backstory and launder the cash that way, no?

i mean in reply to johns post you dont have to attract every customer, even if you just get the ones who are a 50/0 proposition to come to you or another dealer thats a big win

50/50 obvs

xpost That's be super ironic: launder the money as a means to ratify your front story. Of course, I doubt most pro gamblers pull in millions a year. Like, I think you'd get banned pretty fast.

but as i said imo its at least somewhat a pathological thing w/gus, note him lecturing the pollos employee on proper hotel pan washing protocol

Gus, the Anal Retentive Drug Lord.

basically

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theres no advantage to having by far the best product, cause obvs there is

there's an advantage but it's hardly enough of one to justify Gus's lab, is the point. Walt's trailer crank was already better enough to command an extra couple hundred bucks per lb. - think about weed, say - you might pay 50-100 more per oz if the shit was gonna knock you flat, but you wouldn't pay 200 more an oz because fuck it, at that point you could just smoke more of the good-enough stuff you're buying for cheaper. tweak's the same, the real advantage to the clean stuff is that it won't fuck you up as bad as the heavily adulterated shit but no tweaker actually cares about that

i mean in reply to johns post you dont have to attract every customer, even if you just get the ones who are a 50/0 proposition to come to you or another dealer thats a big win

this is otm though, long game Gus drives everybody else out of business but the concept of a long-game meth dealer, now this is so unrealistic as to be science fiction

gus is for sure playing the long game!

Are you saying Gus is an alien?

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I want Gus in the final season to try to get a "legalize meth" bill on the state ballot

gus' lab, its not a huge expense in the big picture of things, and it makes it super easy for walt to make LOTS of hi-qual meth, i think in that case its abt the quantity and the quality - before gus was getting most of his product from the cartel, then when he decided to go w/just his own shit he needed a better lab - and you know gus is prob kinda geeking out on it, and walt and gale for sure geeked out on it, so why not

ugh now that i've opened the box do ppl realize just how RIDICULOUS it is that gale had his lab notebook at home in the first place? i've just got a confidentiality agreement, no threat of execution from hardened druglords, and never in a million years would i or anyone else at my lab dream of taking home a datasheet or protocol nevermind a NOTEBOOK. and that's just to preserve secrets from other labs, labs that would never say be able to pull us over for speeding or get a warrant to search our place. also who installed this equipment? there's a limited number of ppl in albuquerque who could do it and they would have some idea of what kind of lab they were setting up and they might even find it curious they were setting it up mysteriously in the basement of a chicken plant. also who's calibrating this equipment? it sure as fuck isn't walt or jesse and if it isn't being routinely calibrated by techs why even go through the pretense of quality control? also who is gus buying chemicals from? whether it's emd/merck or fischer or vwr or whoever guess what: they keep very thorough records of who is buying what, when, and how much. and they are routinely audited. and if you buy/use a certain volume of certain chemicals the federal government will be made aware of this and made aware of you (weird they sorta understood this w/ car washes but not labs). also regarding the notebooks and the security cams in the first place: ARE YOU KEEPING NOTES ON A CRIMINAL CONSPIRACY?

gale set up the lab / gus gets his chemicals through the dry cleaning biz / notebook uh oops

RIDICULOUS

really the only aspect of the lab stuff on breaking bad that has rang true (since they moved to a real lab) was when gale was telling gus he needed all this expensive equipment that he didn't really need (walt and jesse didn't need it in the trailer and scaling up hardly requires going gmp or whatever) but he really wanted cuz it was nicer and newer and cooler and the money guy didn't know what the science guy was talking about but if the science guy says he needs it than the money guy figures he better get it. that rang true.

that - and if you're making enough dough to pay Walt what's he's earning, why not splash a few g's on some dope lab equipment?!

yeah was trying to figure how much gus is pulling, if he can afford to pay walt $7m a year my god

as for the notebok thing: people are stupid. even smart people are stupid. Gale left his notebook at his place because he needed his smores, or whatever, recipe. he figured nothing bad has happened so far and like all people - especially stupid people - he felt comfortable doing so. probably never gave it a second thought.

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btw i think i've mentioned this before but BOTH of the guys that come in to fuck with our uv specs rock walter white looks: white, bald, glasses, same type of beards. and it's TWO of them. really does make me giddy every time they come in.

hah

i've seen other middle aged dudes w/ that look also, makes me wonder if it's an actual 'thing', the way tony soprano took a certain middle aged dude look and codified a degree of badass to it.

well bald head / goatee is def a thing

omg this episode

flashback was so fucking intense

I would be so fine w/ the rest of this season being like godfather 2 and half of every episode being a gus flashback

naw I hope not though because part of what made the flashback so intense was how out-of-nowhere it seemed...like...wait what the fuck? oh, sudden flashback

i didnt really vibe on the flashback too many 80s clothes couldnt get the vibe theyre going 4 filter lens & shit oh this guy died, who cares

makeup job was pretty lol and a little distracting

i don't know how gus/mike knew about the GPS device but gus' quick thinking was brilliant - "do it" - and now he has a perfect tool for buying a little time from hank

Gus didn't know about the GPS until Walter showed him. He knew Walt and Hank were there because Mike had told him. Mike knew they were coming because he followed them.

i guess the dude just knows what magnetic GPS trackers look like

i love seeing Hank in full-on maverick mode!

sorta think Walt needs to realize that very few, if any, security cameras have microphones in them, and even if they did, there's no way anyone is listening to their output

But won't Hank now know that Gus found the tracker and took it off? Which is in and of itself suspicious? Unless Gus will take it on and off his car as needed, I guess.

Regarding the notebook, you ever hear the one about the Apple employee who dropped his prototype iPhone in a bar?

Unless Gus will take it on and off his car as needed, I guess.

i'm pretty sure this is the idea - gus has turned the tracker to his advantage

i have read elsewhere that gus's former partner, the chilean wunderkind, has a pretty dead-on upper-class urban chilean accent in this show

Gus already took it off his car, towards the end of the show, before he drove to visit Hector.

sorta think Walt needs to realize that very few, if any, security cameras have microphones in them, and even if they did, there's no way anyone is listening to their output

Hahaha every time he makes a speech to the camera I say, "Is there even audio on that?"

Gale's "Lab Notes" struck me less as actual lab notes and more as his own diary that he labeled "Lab Notes" for the same reason I labeled my high school diaries "Song Lyrics."

I also sort of love how Gus comes to visit Hector to fuck with him but also because Hector is one of the only people Gus can talk to about his day with any honesty.

Do you think "Is today the day, Hector?" is about Gus one day killing Hector or is it more of a philosophical question about "Is today the day I get caught/lose my drug empire/change my name and skip town"?

I defo felt they were trying to tell us gus and max were lovers. Some fairly heavy tv style hints there.

Any chance gus was boning gale too? The only way s4 can end is him making walt "an indecent proposal"

Apparently Vince Gilligan addressed that in a podcast about the show (that I did not listen to - someone mentioned it in the comments on.... Sepinwall's recap? probably) said that it was "open to interpretation" but that he didn't necessarily mean to convey that they were lovers.

Didn't they kind of hint that Gale was in love with W.W.? Not that that would preclude him and Gus boning

He had a wall of vagina sketch in his lab book so I seriously doubt he was a homosexual.

the parallel between walt being honest with the mute security cam and gus being honest with the mute tio just struck me

Oooo. Good one!

Yeah, this show is nothing if not about stoic, stubborn, passive-aggressive, proud lack of communication.

Gale admired walt for his work. Why does everything have to nbe sexual?!

"To W.W. My star, my perfect silence." Make your own mind up

Gale admired walt for his work. Why does everything have to nbe sexual?!

I feel the same way about the idea that Gus and his original business partner were lovers. I mean, if your longtime friend and business partner who is like your brother is murdered in front of you in part because of your actions, and then the murderer holds you down in a pool of your friend's blood while you stare into his dead eyes and watch his brains seep into a swimming pool, I bet you'd cry and start a scholarship fund, too.