Hank is on to the RV and Jesse. He calls Walt to ask if Jesse ever had an RV. Walt denies any knowledge but moments later Hank sees Jesse bombing out of his house.
Come on, get that Spidey sense tingling.
Then he gets a call that Marie is in the hospital. Why would Jesse know her name (when he eventually realizes it was a hoax)? Feels like it's not a massive jump that Walt has tipped Jesse off.
¿Por qué a todo el mundo le cae mal Skyler? Imagina que tienes tu vida entera armada con tu esposo: tienes un hijo y están esperando a una segunda hija. Tu esposo le da cáncer y tú haces todo lo posible para pagar sus tratamientos, y lo único que parece querer es morirse, dejándote sola. Y encima de eso, te miente sobre todo y te oculta cosas. Lo de que se mete con Ted no es nada comparado con lo que hace Walter. En esta escena, te das cuenta de que Skyler siempre fue buena y de verdad le importaba su familia. Walter solo le gustaba cocinar y tener poder.
In S4E3, Bogdan is being told that his car wash leaks toxic materials into the ground or whatever.
I mean ok, it's a tv show and all - but come on! He didn't ask for any official documentation from the agent, he didn't make calls, and it's hard to believe that he at least doesn't have a layer that is taking care of legal stuff in his business.
very odd. (btw im it's my first watch-through, so maybe it happens later so dumb me i guess)
I was watching the scene where Gus' partner got killed at Eladio's villa. I had never noticed the way Hector supported his arm with his other hand as he took the shot of tequila, common among people who've had minor strokes. In the same scene when standing over Gus I noticed the same hand (weak one) is curled, again a common symptom of minor stroke (or strokes). I'm guessing this is why he was on the heart meds, that when swapped for sugar, triggered the full stroke that paralyzed him. Still love that you can notice little details like that after several watches.
Title. I felt bad the first time but with the way he constantly belittled those around him, even in a joking manner, i.e., the prostitute, beating Jesse, humiliating Walt at his party. Also he is seen as some kind of saint by a lot of people but literally there is a scene when he's about to send Jesse to talk to Walt he says he doesn't care at all if Walt kills him. He also tried to manipulate Skylar into confessing. Just seeing him sit there as a manipulator like everyone else and get no flak for it by the community really triggered me. Ngl I was grinning from ear to ear the second time. I mean he's not as big of a villain as the others in the show but I just like watching hypocrites get what they deserve.
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In the episode where the Cousins buy the bulletproof vests and the arms dealer gives them that special hollow-point round, which later ends up being the bullet Hank uses to kill Marco.
On a basic plot level, I understand the setup/payoff: the bullet is introduced early, Marco drops it, Hank uses it later. Classic Chekhov’s gun/bullet.
But what I’m questioning is why the writing frames that bullet as so important when the actual payoff is a point-blank headshot.
If Hank had picked up any compatible round and shot Marco in the forehead, the result should be basically the same. Marco is not wearing a helmet. The bullet’s special properties don’t seem mechanically necessary in the way they would be if Hank used it to pierce a bulletproof vest, for example.
So the scene seems to create a weird contradiction:
The writing gives the bullet the dramatic treatment of a “special solution,” but the situation does not clearly require a special solution.
At the same time, Marco’s behavior almost supports the opposite reading. He sees Hank trying to reload, slowly approaches with the axe, makes no serious attempt to dodge, and basically lets Hank aim at him from close range like his forehead was ready to tank it as long as the bullet has no special property.
In the show, before Walt is uncovered as heisenberg and everything comes out, what events that he caused do we think would be completely global news, and what would just be nationwide news? The plane definitely would be global news.
One of the greatest episodes, of course, but is it really believable that the people that come after Jane’s death would not suspect Jesse? I know Mike explained that it was not the cops who were coming, but he also told Jesse to cover his track marks, indicating that they could have called the cops. But they didn’t do any diligence on whether Jesse was a dealer or a junkie boyfriend who knew more than he was letting on. Even more questionable is that Jane’s dad didn’t report Jesse, even though he knew he was a junkie. Am I missing something?
So idk if anyone has thought of this but I had a theory about the breaking bad universe. I thought of this while rewatching it a while ago and ive been scared to share it because Im scared its dumb but here it is.
Better Call Saul does not take place before breaking bad, it takes place after breaking bad, also the flashbacks in better call saul and el camino have the actors looking older and different because of subjective memory.
First, Todd is fat in El Camino because Jesse remembers him as bigger because of his trauma and ptsd so he imagines Todd as a big, intimidating man. The reason Walter has a big forehead is because Jesse remembers Walter as a super intelligent guy making him remember Walter with a massive forehead. The reason Jesse looks older in the flashbacks is because he is imagining his present self in his younger selfs place.
Second, Better Call Saul is a sequel to Breaking Bad and El Camino because Gene is actually just remembering his past and everything's in color because hes remembering a brighter past compared to a darker, more depressing present day. He imagines his older self and the other cast older because thats how he remembers them, not how they looked back then but by how they looked when he last saw them. Also Huell being skinner is the only plot hole ive found in this theory but maybe Huell lost a bunch of weight due to stress in the safe house or started working out and stuff and Gene saw Huell between the end of Breaking Bad and the start of Better Call Saul and he remembers him skinnier.
I believe this completely changes the structure of the universe, it goes from Breaking Bad to El Camino to Better Call Saul now and its not just a standard crime story (its not standard but you know what I mean) to a endless, tragic loop of human regret.
I'm from Mexico, and fumigation companies don't cover houses like this, they just cover furniture like beds, tables, etc.
he is kinda funny as well as irritating in both a side loml but still series without him feels so boring
thinking about something during my 5th or 6th rewatch. when jesse tells walt that brock is gonna make it and walt looks emotional and tearing up..was that real emotion? did he actually feel happy that brock wasn’t dying? or was that another act just so jesse wouldn’t think he actually had anything to do with brock being poisoned? how far gone was he at that point?
(i don’t think im breaking any community rules, lmk if i am and i can fix my post)
This may come as a shock to those of you who use this argument to defend Walter, but some parents... are bad. I 100% agree that Walter sees and treats Jesse as a son, but that doesn't mean he treats him well.
Parents can be posessive, controlling, narcissistic and self-serving. And even those parents usually won't let their child get murdered or OD on drugs, but they absolutely will use keeping their child alive as fuel for emotional manipulation and to make the child feel like they owe them something.
In their mind they're doing the right thing, it's for the child's own good, they are a good parent, but in reality they have no interest in even knowing who their child is outside of their usefulness to their own goals (including the goal of seeing themselves as a "good parent").
Walter is a great representation of those types of parents.
In "Fly," Walt locks Jesse out of the lab.
In the subsequent scene where Jesse is looking for a tool to break in, he first picks up a ball peen hammer, then a crow bar, and finally, this sledgehammer (before realizing he can just flip the breaker.)
It HAS to be an homage to the scene in Pulp Fiction, where Butch is looking for a weapon in Maynard's pawn shop...
Couldn't Gus have just had Hank killed immediately after One Minute? Have someone waiting in the parking lot, watch Hank kill the cousins, slip out, kill Hank as he's laying on the ground, then quietly slip away?
In a flashback at the end of the season 4 episode "Hermanos" Fring has a meeting with Don Eladio and some other cartel higher-ups where Hector kills his partner and Don Eladio tells him "the only reason you are alive and he (refering to Frings partner) is not is because I know who you are. But understand. You are not in Chile anymore".
What do you think Don Eladio is refering to here?
-She had to go back and buy him Cheetos man I felt so bad for her during that scene, but I gotta say I went from starting the show at the end of June to already on season 4 man holy sh!t
I am very keen on small details that overlap between both shows timelines and every time I rewatch, I SWEAR I notice something new.
I just realized in BCS S6:E4 “Hit and Run” that the name, “Spooge” is mentioned when SG is returning to his clients at the nail salon. I immediately eyebrow raised since that name rang a bell. That's the meth head that got his head crushed by the ATM in Breaking Bad.
I know this is such a silly thing to mention, but it just shows how much effort was put into both shows.
Vince Gilligan seriously crafted such an amazing franchise, round of applause.
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(I feel as if I need to mention, I watch the franchise on Netflix, and this is only my second time viewing the final seasons of BCS since AMC had access way before Netflix did when they finished the show. Apologies for being an airhead lol.)
It seems that this method of cutting the crust stayed with him forever after his experience with Krazy-8. Interesting.