Breaking Bad
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Except Junior was pretty persistent in wanting to know WHY things were happening, and wasn't getting any answers. She could have said anything that made sense to put that to rest, but she chose to ignore his pleas for any kind of answers. THAT is what was tearing the family apart at the time, because he was still siding with Walt (which I would think was the last thing Skyler wanted).
I always found the danger angle to be slightly amusing, too. The solution to the dangerous environment Walt created was to ship the kids to Hank's house. Nevermind that Hank had nearly been killed by an ax-wielding cartel hit team not too long ago (granted, that was all part of what Walt created, but does that really represent a significantly safer environment?).
They had already bought the carwash and were laundering money (that started in "Cornered", the sixth episode of the 4th season; Kuby and Huel didn't visit Ted until "Crawl Space", the 11th episode). Their financials behind the purchase of the carwash appeared solid on the surface, but she feared they wouldn't hold up under an IRS audit.
I know it doesn't seem like difficult acting, but Dean Norris's (Hank) death stare during this was excellent.
I was rooting for Walt most of the show, but three events had really made that difficult:
- Blowing up innocent people in the nursing home
- Poisoning the kid
- Whistling while working after convincing Jesse how upset he was about the kid who was shot
The confession sealed that deal that he Skylar are now just plain evil.
CycloneErik
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Loved that stare.
I want to practice it for whatever guy my daughter brings home someday.
You realize no innocent people were hurt in that explosion????
I agree though Walter is very hard to like. I really like Jesse and dislike walt now.
IIRC, the only people killed in the nursing home were Gus, Tyrus and Hector (who was also not innocent in a moral sense, but he also volunteered to do it so he could get revenge against Gus).
The other two points I completely agree with. The other breaking point for me was Walt killing Mike. Mike was guilty of nothing more than accurately sizing up Walt and calling him out on all his BS. And then like the child he is, Walt threw a temper tantrum.
The non-verbal performances have been spectacular this season. Aaron Paul hasn't been given many good lines at all (at least not until last night's "Just ask me for a favor!"), but he's still delivered dynamite performances. He's done an excellent job portraying a guy who's just breaking down and shutting down, and then he was incredible with the way he unleashed all the rage Walt has created within him.
This will go down as one of the best shows of all time. Cranston and Paul have helped put together two of the best characters I've ever seen.
1. No innocent people dies in the nursing home explosion
2. Walt knew how much of the poison to give the kid to not kill him but make him sick
Exactly. I never had any issue with this.
If Walt doesn't do this, he dies, and his family probably does too.
Unless, of course, Skyler hadn't given all his money away and prevented him from "disappearing" them.
I admit, I'm reaching on this one. I just felt like hating a little more for a moment.
Kind of pointless to sit here and debate the morality of all that is happening. If this was real life, yeah I'd probably go and kill Walt myself. But it's a fricking show, and I have been all in on Walt's character, and virtually nothing is going to get in my way of wanting Walt to win. By the way tm3308, you are annoying, and I have skipped every one of your posts since page 29 or 30. Why are you here anyway, don't they have a breaking bad blog at caukeye nation?
Since the name of the show is 'Breaking Bad', I fully expect Hank and Marie to 'Break Bad' in the next episode, especially now that they have their backs against the wall. Seems that every other major character in the show has to this point, besides Walt Jr.
CycloneErik
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Right. It's stunning that nobody in the series "rises above" or whatever we want to call making choices that people would cheer. When push comes to shove, every one of them goes bad.
Have to say, I don't get this desire to pick sides on different characters. In my opinion these aren't static characters you're supposed to love or hate. It has much more of a theater feel of a tragedy than most tv dramas.
