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

I mean, if the theme of the show is that actions have consequences, and those consequences change people, Jesse is easily the most changed. And, Gus is hoping, changeable.

xxp Bogdan & Badger

just fyi i sb'd everyone itt that referenced the television program 'LOST' in any way

Hero!

I referenced Diff'rent Strokes, I hope you SBed me too because frankly, I deserve it.

ha ha - Lamp!

it's obvious, Marie's shoplifted the baby

she took MOI BOIBEE

the baby is mitochondrial eve

Hero!

at least we weren't referencing the tv show HEROES

Jesse is so obnoxious. He's like a juggalo, without the makeup.

well yeah

icp for life BITCH

Wouldn't it be hilarious if the Whites got a dog?

and named it Ol' Blue

The Whites do have a dog.

it takes care of the baby

bravo

who really takes care of the baby though and what are the legal implications of hank getting the fingerprints from the cup?!?!?!?!?!?!

I don't get this thread. Is the purpose to play out every possible iteration of what could happen in the show?

APPARENTLY

really? boooooring

ah come on they tease us into doing it. Not the baby thing, that's a boring line of discussion, but part of the fun of this show is getting into the language of it and figuring out the mechanics of what if X acts this way? and the chain reaction down to every character who's linked in their different ways. Also trying to figure out what's potentially relevant, like how Walt told everyone his current condition is just fine buuuut in such a way we're all picking it apart to see if he's bullshitting and what this might mean.

the funny thing about that is that yes, walt could be bullshitting, but otoh it just might be indicative of how fucked he's became that telling his family he's still in remission is just something that slips his mind and that he has to be prompted on. he's too wrapped up in trying to get jesse to poison gus.

yah imo its no accident that this show is all about chain rxns

yes that also occurred to me
xpost

Knowing - or "knowing" - Walt, he's probably in a big hurry to make sure Gus is killed before he dies of cancer, not just for the assurance that Gus is not there to mess with his family, but also because he's an asshole who wants Gus dead.

oh shit

i'm a simple man, i know, but i loved that.

I couldn't find this thread so I posted my "holy shit" on another one. however I repeat for the benefit of all...holy shit

Gangsta gangsta

Fuck yeah top to bottom

loved the swimming pool continuity, gave that whole scene so much more meaning.

Ted is gonna die.

I didn't think it was possible to feel an ounce of sympathy for Walt at this point, but these canny motherfuckers - the writers, in tandem with Cranston - pulled it off. God damn.

ya.

that Walt scene.

yeah.

THIS SHOW

it's insane. i was just thinking earlier today that i was getting tired of the two-dimensional Walt we've been treated to so far this season...
ya.

walts scene was for the emmy reel, for real

I haven't seen the new one but I know absolutely no one is sick of talking about the baby yet so I just want to go there once more and say that both Josh and those arguing against him are right, in this way: the show is very much about Walt, and frankly, Walt doesn't give a shit about his baby, hence not much baby in the show. Hank cared about his minerals a lot for awhile so we saw that. Jesse cared about meth and video games for awhile and we saw that. Walt seems barely cognisant that his baby even exists.

SPOILER no baby in this week's eps

and while we are quibbling about details I would like a doctor to opine on what type of magic poison can kill a 300 lb man stone dead while a 150 lb man is successfully throwing it back up

Uh, well maybe not entirely successfully?

Gus swallowed some kinda pre-emptive antidote right at the start of the pool scene. (Fairly implausible in itself but at least it's an explanation)

oh yeah, forgot about that

If I was Gus, I don't think I'd be methodically laying towels around the bathroom while having seconds to expel a poison from my system.

That said, probably my favorite episode this season.

lol - i was thinking that too. i would be diving head-first into that toilet, if i'd even made it there before barfing my face off.

Poison thing was a bit unrealistic (but since the show isn't built on realism so really cares) but that seems like quibbling about what was otherwise an awesome awesome ep from start to fin.

Walt has been trying to get Jesse to poison Gus, and meanwhile Gus is poisoning himself.

the other thing about Walt choosing not to act re gothy hottie is that his initial hesitation isn't a calculated "hey if she dies that's good for me getting Jesse back" but "oh shit if I turn her then I might get caught being here! what to do?" and then "oh shit - well if I just KEEP STANDING HERE DOING NOTHING then it's totally not my fault and I was going to pretend I wasn't here anyway, so I just have to do that to myself as well as to Jesse."

it's another delicious layer of him being able to convince himself that it's all circumstances that have inexorably led to his corruption, that he has no agency and thus responsibility

― puke of hurl (sic), Wednesday, July 13, 2011 10:25 PM (2 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

this is from way back but i just wanted to say i disagree with it, i think this was the moment at which walt DOES take a conscious step towards agency, and he knows it