u/Business_Address_780

Hi, first time posting here.

I've been thinking about this question since the Taliban returned to power. Before 911 the Northern alliance were still able to resist the Taliban despite being outnumbered. However post US invasion, the militias disbanded and the top figures joined the new government. Fast forward to 2021 We all know what happened, as most of the national army lay down their weapons without a fight.

So if say the ethnic militias, such as Tajiks and Hazaras were not disbanded but kept as regional security forces, similar to the Kurds in Iraq, would this have been a better, more effective defense against taliban fighters?

I like to fantasize about this scenario sometimes, if Walt and Jesse just continued their small business on the RV "The crystal ship", and just had Badger and Skinny Pete handle sales. I know its a silly idea, but it would be such a relaxing, comforting, even funny, lighthearted story. Just occasionally dodging cops or solving problems with petty street crimes.

I always felt like this was such a missed opportunity. There were constant flashbacks for Walt, but none for Jesse. I really wanted to see some of classroom scenes of Jesse and Walt back in the day, it would have been hilarious. There must have been some memorable incidents between them, or else Walt would not have remembered him straight away.

I mostly eat dark chocolate of at least 70% cocoa nowadays, due to the insanely high sugar content in most flavoured chocolates available on the market. Like 20~30g per 100g is acceptable, but its just insane that some hazelnut or almond chocolates have up to 40g of sugar. And then there is the rum and raisins, brandy of caramel that goes up to 50~60g. Do customers really enjoy that level of sweetness??

It was always implied he was really good at cooking meth, but what really got me thinking was when Gale told Gus that he could make meth up to 96% pure, but the blue meth that Gus showed him was 99% pure. Now I don't know anything cooking meth, but Gale was in a decent lab, though the super lab that he was assembling wasn't ready at the time, Walt was cooking in an RV. And Gale was supposed to be a pretty good Chemist himself.

So, if anyone is familiar with the chemistry part of cooking meth, does the cook really differ that much in skill or knowledge?

I didn't get why the 2 dealers had to kill Tomas, after Gus explicitly told them not to use children in their operation. Maybe it was a way to slight Jesse? But it seemed really dumb and reckless anyway, even if Jesse didn't seek revenge, it would have caused problems from the police or Gus.

As for Jesse, what was he even thinking? The poison plan was actually good, but when he tried to take 2 in a gunfight, that's just suicidal.

As for Walter, his entire handling of the problem was just bad. He could have simply helped provide the poison, and probably would have gotten away with it, and later help Jesse leave the state.