Posted on 08/13/2012 10:12:28 AM PDT by Mr. K
OK I love this show
It is the ONLY show I have watched ON PURPOSE in years (the first episodes of House and early My Name is Earl were up there too)
I loved how Mr White was the nerdy geek in over his head, dumb-lucking his way out of terrible situations in often hilarious ways
But this weeks episode when [SPOILER ALERT] they shot that kid [END SPOILER ALERT] I see no way of getting out of and still making good TV out of it. MY only hope is that the kids wasn't shot, he just passed out. I could see them sending him home with some ice cream being kind of funny
I also am not sure if Walter poisoned that kid of the girlo Jesse was dating or not (I think so, since he hid a dummy poison vile for Jesse to find on purpose)
But he is a getting to be a not-so-sympathic hero anymore...
I could see him killing the chicken guy- and running over the drug dealers jesse was going after, and also exploding the chrystal at the dealers location in one of the early shows...
But now he is hurting innocent kids? and feeling no remorse?
The shows popularity used to be its funny/quirkiness... now it is too much like a soap-opera drama
Hank is a great actor- and I have the major hots for his wife since the 'hospital scene'
but Walter is not as likeable and his wife is getting whiny-bitchy
I think he has certainly struggled with the violent aspect of their business but he was the one who came up with the "big idea" in this episode. I think, like Walt, he has gotten inured to the violence. That is why the repercussions of this latest death should be compelling.
...at the Denny's in the first episode of Season 5.
I think they foreshadowed it with the "say hello to my little friend" scene from Scarface that Walt and Walt, Junior were watching.
They had a scene from "The Cain Mutiny" in the episode last week. I'm sure that wasn't an accident either.
I was wondering about that too- at the beginning he did the ‘birthday bacon’ thing saying his age was 52....
Then, later, in either the same episode or another one, they had his wife doing the bacon thing saying he was 51... so was that a foreshadowing of something coming up on his NEXT birthday? (plus his hair was grown back)
They have had some great foreshadowing in some of these episodes and some confusing, not so great ones
Then right after the Breaking Bad intro screen we come back to present day, meaning the period right after the end of the fourth season, just prior to his 51st birthday. Mike is still in Mexico and hasn't heard about Gus's murder yet, so it's just days after the poisoning and shootout with the cartel.
We don't know what happens to get him to the point of needing a machine gun a year later, but we know it can't be good. Plus, he's coughing, so the implication is that the cancer has come back.
yeah- so I am guessing Skyler is out of the picture
looks like he is readying for the SHTF
This is the journey they put Walter on. The whole show is about the repercussions from one bad decision. In the DVD extras of season 1 Vince Gilligan said that by the end of the show (if they got a long enough run) Walt was not going to be a sympathetic character anymore. Well season 5 is the end of the show...
You do realize this was by no means the first kid killed right? They’re drug lords, they’re bad people, they do bad things.
You’re so right.
Maybe the kid is a symbolic reminder. Kill kids quickly with a bullet or slowly from drugs. Either way, they’re killing kids and that last scene was a reality check from the euphoria of the heist.
Exactly right.
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