Maybe I’m misinterpreting a scene(s). In the first or second season, there’s a sequence where Jesse is having a meth-fueled paranoid hallucination of bikers coming to kill him. He runs through his yard and over the back wall. In a later sequence, we see that after he tops the wall he crashes into his parents’ lawn furniture on the other side and the parents come running out of the house to see who’s in their yard. But if IIRC, the two sequences are not sequential, so maybe I made an incorrect assumption about what the second sequence was supposed to indicate.
I was never under the impression that his parents lived right next door. I was always thought that he had run several blocks, at least.
They seemed surprised to see him, which probably wouldn’t be the case if he lived right next door.
Also, when they kicked Jesse out of their house, after finding the joint, didn’t he get in a cab to leave?
That’s certainly possible. I’d be interested to get an answer from the show runners and writers. If they say “yeah, obviously they’re both being irrational, the point of the scene is to show that the stress is causing etc etc etc” then my response would be “ahh… it’s a shame so many of us missed the point of that”. On the other hand, I suspect their response might be “yeah, we got ourselves confused their, hopefully you still caught the important emotional developments there and weren’t too distracted by the confusing and illogical financial details”.
IMO this does not rise to the level of “a plot hole a mile wide”. Though perhaps not completely logical, it still makes sense for Skyler to be paranoid about an extravagant purchase (what else is Walt blowing his cash on?), and we all seem to forget that Walt was able to calm her down afterward, an admission that she may have in fact over-reacted.
Also, I think part of what set Skyler off wasn’t so much the specific amount spent but the fact that it was an extravagance. Even if they can explain the ~$1M as a gambling windfall, she may consider the purchase inconsistent with the frugality typified by someone investing a windfall in a business or spending it on needed medical expenses. Walt probably senses this, and rather than calling her “an idiot” thinks it’s more prudent to talk her down.
If the question is, could the scene have been presented in a way that sealed up all character doubts? Probably, but that may have come at a price to the overall impression of that scene. In short, the demand that everything be airtight and spelled out could have ruined the quiet charm of that scene, the brief intimacy of the two of them sharing a drink together with the sword of Damocles overhead.
His parents are gone. After his parents kicked him out, Jesse turned around and bought the house out from under them and kicked them out. heh.
He didn’t kick them out. They never lived in that house. It was originally his aunt’s house. His parents lived in a different house and still do. They owned the house in question, but they never lived in it.
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Jesse’s aunt had “given” him the first house, but she gave the title to his parents, so they were the legal owners.
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Jesse came to live with his parents in* their* house after the botched attempt to liquefy Crazy 8s corpse resulted in significant damage to his aunt’s former property. He was kicked out when they found his younger brother’s pot and assumed it belonged to him.
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When his parents discover his and Walt’s meth lab, they exercised their rights as legal owners of his aunt’s former property and had him evicted.
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Jesse moved into the house owned by Jane’s father.
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Jesse later discovers that his parents have renovated his aunt’s former property. His parents didn’t disclose that the property had once housed a meth lab, which is illegal, and Saul uses that fact to strong-arm them into accepting a low-ball offer for the property.
Additionally, I’d like to briefly mention the Breaking Bad podcast. Each Week, Kelley Dixon, an editor for the show, hosts a discussion with Vince Gilligan and one or two other guests (usually writers and directors, but often the actors themselves). They discuss the process of creating the show. Their insight into the process is really interesting and Gilligan and his crew are always cracking jokes and making fun of themselves. If you’re at all interested in how the show is made, I’d definitely check it out, if you haven’t already.
Disclaimer - I didn’t read the thread - you’ll see why in a second…
I missed this episode, will it be rebroadcast before the next episode?
I think AMC shows each episode numerous times during the week following it’s initial airing. Looking at their schedule, it looks like it’s being shown one more time before the next episode airs on Sunday evening.
It’s showing 4:30 am tomorrow morning, 8/6.
On Edit: If you have Comcast they have the show on On Demand.
It will be on in about 5 hours at 4:30am EST. No other replays before the next episode on Sunday.
Thanks!