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Daft
Only thing I didn't love was that the Nazi's didn't kill Walt and instead gave him a bunch of cash and told him to move on.


I feel like that's not remotely realistic. How could they not know he will seek revenge?
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That was low on the ringing-true scale. Same (for me anyway) with Skyler's instant, complete acceptance of Marie's message without proof - and jumping straight into the deal with Junior.

I love the show but it has its moments that really require some just-go-with-it.

Frankly, there have been worse moments in the show's history. There have been some out-and-out eyerollers. Anyone remember that mass poisoning at that latin drug kingpin's party scenario?
 
Episode was entitled Ozymandias. Fan as I am of tying neat little ribbons on things, this is Ozymandias.


Ozymandias

I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: `Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear --
"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.'

Percy Bysshe Shelley
 
rjt721
Kill the Nazi's. They killed Hank and stole $70 million.
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Fine, but why.

Does Walt even care anymore at this point? Or is part of his ideals/morals is getting even or settling scores he thinks aren't fair towards him? His irrationality recently led me to believe he didn't care bout the money especially after he watched Hank die.
 
Daft
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I feel like that's not remotely realistic. How could they not know he will seek revenge?
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I didn't like that either. These guys showed how cold-blooded killers they were and Walts less than agreeable handstake/verbal agreement along with minimal eye contact left me with little reason as to why he deserved another shot.
 
FreeFall
Fine, but why.

Does Walt even care anymore at this point? Or is part of his ideals/morals is getting even or settling scores he thinks aren't fair towards him? His irrationality recently led me to believe he didn't care bout the money especially after he watched Hank die.
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He absolutely cares about the money. He wouldn't have gone to such lengths to hide the money in the desert otherwise. And his love for the money clouded his judgment by allowing Hank and Jesse to get the best of him by baiting him to the desert.

Think back to his speech about being in the "empire business."
 
Matty
No. His phone speech was calculated so Skylar can potentially be in the clear w/ the Po Po - he made it look like he was the abusive husband who kept his submissive woman on a need-to-know basis. He knew he was past the point of no return and he just tried to save whatever is left of his family.
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Genius of him but did Skylar realized what he was doing?
 
Blitty
So you don't think he was being genuine about taking the 11 million and starting a new life with his family..?
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I think he was, but now that that option is off the table, he's got nothing left to lose. He's a dead man already. #cancer

I take back my negative comments about the past several episodes. Looks like shit's about to out-Scarface Scarface.
 
Skyler absolutely picked up on Walt's intention with the phone call. Of course she didn't know how Walt had been influenced by their baby's first plaintive words.

But once they got into it, they both knew a corner had been turned.

That was one really inspired bit of TV right there.
 
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