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

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mike!

The purpose of the baby was to have the parallel with Jane when they put her to bed on her side instead of her back. I guess they could have done that with walt junior, but that would have been weird.

Huh:

http://www.savewalterwhite.com/

― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, September 14, 2011 4:19 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark

yah this went up along with the site in the show back in s2 or w/e

i may regret weighing in on the whole baby boondoggle...
i can understand why you don't need her around constantly, plot-wise - but her constant absence is strange. like there doesn't seem to have ever been even a mention of them finding someone to help take care of her, we just have no idea what's happened to her most of the time. it's not like she needs to be on screen for 49 minutes, but where is she most of the time? the writers are basically leaving her out for convenience sake, imo - some people are fine with it others are not i guess.

what i've found myself wondering about is Walts hours. he often seems to be busy during daylight hours doing all sorts of stuff - but isn't that when he should be at the lab cranking out crank? when is he actually there?!

He doesn't go in on the weekends.

We've seen Marie looking after her and we've seen her in Skylar's car loads of times.

oh - honestly have no recollection or Marie looking after her!

see, that helps! the car - not so much. bad to keep baby in car for too long.

She's in the car with Skyler, not just left out in the car like a dog.

I know you're not supposed to leave dogs in the car either so don't even start.

Mayo Clinic:

A car seat is designed to protect your child during travel. It's not for use as a replacement crib in your home. A 2009 study showed that sitting upright in a car seat might compress a newborn's chest and lead to lower levels of oxygen. Even mild airway obstruction can impair a child's development. Sitting in a car seat for lengthy periods can also contribute to the development of a flat spot on the back of your baby's head and worsen gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) — a chronic digestive disease. In addition, a child can easily be injured by falling out of an improperly used car seat or while sitting in a car seat that falls from an elevated surface, such as a table or counter. Although it's essential to buckle your child into a car seat during travel, don't let your child sleep or relax in the car seat for long periods of time out of the car.

Anyway, doesn't Marie work, too? Wasn't she a nurse? Wasn't there some line about her being up for a job in management or something? This is peripheral shit, absolutely, but it's weird to bring peripheral stuff up - you know, like babies - if you're not going to follow through.

We don't see the diaper changes, who gives a shit?
i bet the baby cares

yes i have waited all this time to make that feeble joke
they should put a little red bowl cut wig on the baby and rename it "sam"

your "follow through on peripheral stuff" complaint doesn't make sense

"Anyway, doesn't Marie work, too?"

Probably on leave taking care of her husband! Why didn't they have a scene where she had to fill out FMLA paperwork? THAT SHIT IS EXCITING LETMETELLYOU.

if you watch the whole four seasons back, hank only goes to the toilet about once, walt a handful of times, and marie/skyler, hardly at all! yet at no point do we see them clutching themselves in agony...what a stupid fucking show. they would be BURSTING by now.

it's obvious, Marie's shoplifted the baby

btw I'm kind of disappointed that Hank's over moon rocks now

they're not rocks, they're minerals!

the thing is I don't care about how unrealistic it is either but Josh it otm enuf about just how unrealistic because if there's a newborn in the house and exactly no-one ever has to recalibrate their day around it in any way & everybody's got super-busy lives in which the newborn almost never figures then that's kinda like "the characters all have no legs!" "oh really well then how are they walking around all the time and one runs marathons?" "idk they just are, why don't you have a better imagination!"

x-post If you can't differentiate between bodily functions elided or ignored in 99% of all stories and a fucking baby, then I guess we'll never be on the same page.

By follow up on peripheral stuff, I mean, return to or elaborate on things brought up on the show that are peripheral to the central action. For example, buying Walt Jr. a car has been brought up numerous times, even before this season, and they've steadily followed through. Hank's interest in rocks came out of nowhere, but they've managed to gracefully ease us out of that little detour with the occasional Marie quip or the (actually kind of brilliant) idea of Hank using the rock show as an excuse to get out of the house and investigate. Or, in this last ep, bringing us back to Gus' kitchen and reemphasizing the symbolic importance of cooking for a guest, for example.

An example of not following through is Marie mentioning out of nowhere an ep or two ago about a possible promotion, though there's no indication she works, or at least works regularly. That sort of things. Not major omissions, just lazy broad-stroke shortcuts, because I'd never be wondering about, say, Marie's work habits had the show not brought them up. Though the show does have a way of following-up on things belatedly but to good effect, like Ted's tax problems.

ah I was just messing, I don't radically disagree that it's a bit odd to never have the baby in the show.

might i suggest u watch something else for ur peripheral subject needs, perhaps this

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51d3%2Br%2BBrGL._SL500_AA300_.jpg

Is it okay to masturbate in front of a plot point?

this thread gets so dumb with the nitpicking sometimes

Welcome to a show about a tv series on ilx.

Show = thread. Ha.

yeah i know.

god the lost threads were the worst, it was kind of amazing.

marie's work was mentioned when she helped find good doctors for walt. we don't need to know that much about her job. it was just small talk. jeeze.

at least the lost threads involved fun speculation. this is just picking on stupid details for no apparent reason!

maybe the baby is the horse

this is just picking on stupid details for no apparent reason!

Because it's bad, lazy writing on the part of a show otherwise known for anything but? If it frustrates you, look at it the other way: "Breaking Bad" is so solid right now that if wondering about the missing baby is the worst anyone can do, the show's doing pretty well

i don't think it's lazy writing. i think it's smart not to waste time on shit no one cares about. so why devote 100 posts to it?

anyway.

i think gus is pretty brilliant in his manipulation of the walt/jesse relationship. watching walt these days is just painful. but yes, i did think, by the way he brushed off his test results, that he was not telling the whole story.

maybe what the cartel really wants is THE BABY???!?!?!?!?11111???

ahaha

Definite lost vibes coming through here alright...

Maybe walt already died of cancer and is now in hell.

the baby is jacob meth is the island badger is an ageless pirate walt is special

Actual proper speculation - whatever or whoever it is in Gus's past, that is so bad that the head of a Mexican drug cartel did not dare to kill him, is going to rain fucking hellfire down on Walt & Jesse when they eventually kill Gus.

so that would make skyler smokey, right? xp

Have really enjoyed the last few eps, though I do agree that watching Walt has become increasingly painful. Upon discovering that one of the upcoming episodes is entitled 'crawl space' I concocted the following theory in a moment of drunken clarity:

Something happens which leads Walt to believe he is a dead man, so he goes to Saul to arrange this new identity/flee the country forever thing. In order to pay for the service Walt goes into the crawl space to get his cash, only to find that Skyler gave it to Ted already. Walt loses his shit and beats Ted to death. Somehow Hank finds out, and goes to arrest Walt. Walt tells Hank that he has been working for Gus under pain of death or something, and tells Hank he will help bring Gus down if Hank helps him cover up the murder of Ted. Some other stuff happens, Walt dies of cancer.

Maybe not though eh.

I would be so happy to see Ted get killed.

Also I think Walt is going to be none too happy to see over half a million in drug money going to bail out the dude that fucked his wife but that might be the lesser of two evils at the moment.

well Gus is clearly ben, so... Skyler is going to manipulate Gus into killing the baby!! Xp

it'd be more like over half a million in drug money going to try to ensure skylar and their finances don't come under any scrutiny but yes

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yeah what skylar should do is talk this over w/walt explaining simply and clearly why they need to give ted this 650k, what shes gonna do

Especially if Gus suddenly decides to stop paying Walt/holds his money back for some reason, and Walt finds himself in need of a load of cash. Plus obviously the offence it would cause to Walt's enormous superiority complex (I doubt Walt would be rational enough to see it as saving him and his wife from scrutiny). Think Ted is in a spot of bother. A Ted death would also leave the door open for the whole 'Skyler runs off with the baby' thing that was briefly on the cards a while back.

it's called breaking bad not fixing good

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Plus I don't think clearly explaining to Walt why something that he doesn't approve of needs to happen is a good idea really, as per the last scene of the last episode.