I’m not sure why you would characterize me as a hater. I just found Breaking Bad got to be work to watch. I could tell that it was well done, but it was so heavy. Any comic relief seemed to disappear after the first few episodes. I don’t have the desire to sit through a TV show that is as difficult to get through as War and Peace was to read.
Has it been posited that the meth could actually be in the popsicles? Why go through all that scene with the truck and delivery, if there is nothing but sugary treats inside?
I saw the popsicle as an indicator of the time elapsed since the inspection. The mile marker 10 sign verified that he’s still pretty close to the border. The number of sticks is an indication of how many times he has been inspected. The popsicles are frozen and packaged in the back and if he’s not flagged and inspected he’s not opening a case and taking one.
Personal, you may enjoy how they introduce Saul in BB though this scene doesn’t include him. It’s classic
(S2E8)
I figured it out! He’s not bringing meth INTO the US. Instead, he’s filling another vital role in the merchandising cycle - returning defective/excess/returned/unwanted goods from the distributor to the to the manufacturer. Maybe the NM criminal ordered too much of the wrong type of drug one month, and is returning them for a credit. Maybe the methheads didn’t enjoy the high, so they returned their unused portions for a full refund.
So there was nothing to be found crossing from Mexico into the US - they simply loaded up with popsicles to defray the cost of a roundtrip’s gas.
The driver hides a gun on the US side because everyone knows Tuco and that bunch are crazy!
Whaddya think? I have a second career as TV writer?
I’m not sure the drug trade works quite like a Kohls.
Maybe the truck was made of meth.
I wrote what I meant; please don’t alter my quotes. Anyway, I was taught in school never to use the phrase “in my opinion” since the fact that the author wrote it already makes that evident.
I don’t expect everyone to like a work of art, although there is a certain amount of objectivity to the measure of greatness as well (but that’s a whole 'nother discussion). It’s just particularly interesting to me in this case, where the styles of the shows are so similar.
BCS is decidedly more lighthearted. No one is dying of cancer. No one has decided to sell meth. The main character isn’t immediately descending into some manipulitive a-hole, surrounded by fairly selfish a-holes. Rigamarole, just because the “style” is the same doesn’t mean everyone’s going to feel the shows are similar given the vastly different content.
You may not understand people very much if you can’t see how someone can find one show entertaining but not another, different show with different main actors, different plots, vastly more violence, and a much darker tone.
Cite, please. I want to know how dramatic series greatness is measured objectively and where other shows rank on this scale.
Just a hint on that understanding people thing: if someone doesn’t want to invest six seasons into watching a TV show, they might not actually ‘hate’ it, it’s quite possible for them to be ‘not all that interested in it’.
[quote=“Rigamarole, post:107, topic:751208”]
I wrote what I meant; please don’t alter my quotes. Anyway, I was taught in school never to use the phrase “in my opinion” since the fact that the author wrote it already makes that evident./QUOTE]
The sun rises in the east.
Rigamarole is a <fill in the blank>.
One of these statements expresses fact, the other (possibly) opinion.
Sounds like you went to a crappy school. (Statement of fact).
Dinsdale: Altering quotes within the VBulletin software is against board rules. You clearly were doing it to make a point and criticize Rigamarole’s post, as it stood, as crap. Neither of this is ok.
Warning Issued and tone it down.
You da boss! (fact!)
When the truck pulled into the garage that Mike was surveilling, and the door closed, there was a distinct sound, which I thought was one of those drills they use to remove lugnuts from wheels. So my suspicion is that the contraband is in the tires or in the wheels, or something like that. Which would fit with the nail-hose.
As for the BB vs BCS comparison, we can judge BB as a complete work, which we can’t yet do for BCS. And they’re very different in tone… BCS is slower and more atmospheric. But it’s certainly comparable in terms of quality, which puts both of them in the handful of very best shows ever made, imho.
I don’t think you can reasonably distinguish it as a drill that takes off tires. A high speed drill is a high speed drill. They could be taking off a false panel somewhere.
Fair point. But what you would not need a high speed drill for is opening boxes of frozen treats.
I meant like a false panel on the wall or floor of the truck.
So, it’s not important that Jimmy’s fingerprints are all over those documents? No one will suspect since the address is altered on every one?
But Kim will know who sabotaged the docs …
I heard someone say that Jimmy does the wrong thing for the right reasons, Chuck the right thing for the wrong reasons.
Excellent episode, I love this show.
There’s no need to even think about fingerprints. Those papers will pass through a dozen people and a variety of envelopes and folders over the next month. Further I doubt anyone is going to think of it as a crime scene.
Yes, I’m agreeing that that is just as plausible
The customs guy knocked on the wall and the ceiling of the truck when he was checking it out. So he was looking for that but they could have done a good enough job to get past that.