Breaking Bad

[Matty]

Great shit kato-san. I dunno how Anna Gunn could keep a straight face during that whole scene.

 

[illmatick]

Walt is starting to enter a whole new phase of annoyingly stupid for me. I agree 100% with what bread said about the way he's acting around Hank. Only redeemable things about this episode were Ted's death and the final scene.

At this point they should just make a spin-off show with Pinkman/Gustavo/Sal/Mike.

 

[Matty]

Anyone noticed that Walt started coughing again? I think he dies from his cancer in the end. Without ever getting the credit for the blue meth.

Not sure how they plan on dragging out the story another full season though. Gus gets busted? Walt gets busted and he spends a full season in jail dealing with the aftermath of the uber-clusterfuck he created?

In any case you know it's going to end well. Jesus.

 

[Boingers]

Mike joins Jessie and Walt to get rid of Gus. Walt's cancer comes back, only much more progressive than before. Instead of suffering and putting his family through everything all over again, he asks Jessie to kill him. Jessie says no...that he's always thought of him as more of a father than his own father. Walt tells Jessie that he watched as his girlfriend choked on her own vomit until she died in front of him. Jessie kills Walt. The end.

 

[rjt721]

I like it.

Mike seems too loyal to Gus, though. Jesse's proven himself to Mike, but I can't see Mike siding with Walt over Gus.

 

[Boingers]

But Mike might side with Jessie over Gus. Who knows what's going to happen when Mike wakes up? He might end up in a filthy Mexican hospital, thinking Gus abandoned him.

 

[rjt721]

I say the black guy who follows Walt kills everyone. That guy doesn't fuck around.

 

[Matty]

Mike joins Jessie and Walt to get rid of Gus. Walt's cancer comes back, only much more progressive than before. Instead of suffering and putting his family through everything all over again, he asks Jessie to kill him. Jessie says no...that he's always thought of him as more of a father than his own father. Walt tells Jessie that he watched as his girlfriend choked on her own vomit until she died in front of him. Jessie kills Walt. The end.

Oooooh. That's pretty fucking good.

 

[Mudcat]

Here's what I didn't get. Maybe (probably?) I was missing something.

The scene where Ted decided to give back the money to Skyler. It made no sense to me. What was his motivation?

The only thing that made sense was if he was trying to get even more money - but when she suggested that, he denied it. And he seemed sincere. No reason to deny it if it was true.

He threw a couple of reasons out there but they didn't particularly mesh together - just seemed like he was throwing darts - and in any case they were both impossibly stupid.

Does anyone have a sensible interpretation?

 

[stevek173]

He had just decided to ignore the IRS and live his life, and because FAT Skyler assisted in the lie to ward them off for a bit she wasn't having it.

 

[Blitty]

Here's what I didn't get. Maybe (probably?) I was missing something.

The scene where Ted decided to give back the money to Skyler. It made no sense to me. What was his motivation?

The only thing that made sense was if he was trying to get even more money - but when she suggested that, he denied it. And he seemed sincere. No reason to deny it if it was true.

He threw a couple of reasons out there but they didn't particularly mesh together - just seemed like he was throwing darts - and in any case they were both impossibly stupid.

Does anyone have a sensible interpretation?

1) Skylar said that he didn't write the check for the full amount, so he was trying to skim her.

2) He brought up reasons why he needed more money to improve his life. She figured he was blackmailing her for more money.

 

[Matty]

He genuinely thought the money wasn't gonna change anything to his situation. The company was going bankrupt regardless. I think he was suicidal at that point.

 

[Matty]

1) Skylar said that he didn't write the check for the full amount, so he was trying to skim her.

He only took out the amount he used for the downpayment on the Benz.

 

[Mudcat]

He genuinely thought the money wasn't gonna change anything to his situation. The company was going bankrupt regardless.

I got that "argument" but it seemed too impossibly moronic. They also lobbed a thing out there about a moral objection to taking gambling money.

Basically, the writers just wanted the plot to get a to a certain place and they were too lazy to come up with a plausible means. I hate that.

 

[Matty]

I don't think that's it. I had no problem with that scene. Ted is resigned to the fact that he's a shitty decision-maker who ran his family's company to the ground. The 600k was only delaying the inevitable and he didn't wanna have his ex-flame's money on the conscience on top of all the other shit he pulled. His life is over as far as he is concerned.

Might seem far-fetched but The Shrink had a similar reasoning. Desperate people do silly things.

 

[Bread]

O dear. Are you insinuating that Ted = Shrinky? O wow.

:theshrink:

 

[Matty]

Well yeah, same kind of malfunction. Totally.

 

[Jello]

So let me get this straight.

Are we really supposed to believe if Jesse tells the mom it was a ricin poisoning, when he comes back to the hospital several hours later it's not going to be crawling with agents from the FBI, CIA, and CDC to name a few?