# Breaking Bad 5.11 "Confessions" 8/25/13 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 23, 2013, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-11-confessions-8-25-13/666959 "2013-08-23T13:02:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 21
**Author:** ![SlackerInc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slackerinc/32/275_2.png) [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2013, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-11-confessions-8-25-13/666959/401 "2013-08-31T20:29:26Z")
Doesn’t seem fair somehow, eh **standingwave**? **Munch** and **Washoe** , interesting reports from the field, thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2013, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-11-confessions-8-25-13/666959/402 "2013-08-31T22:49:18Z")
> [@standingwave](#): > > I was 48 when it premiered, two years younger than Walt. Today, I am two years older than even the flash-forwarded Walt. How does that work? 😃 Because the show’s been on for 5 years but in Breaking Bad time it’s only been like an hour and a half. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2013, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-11-confessions-8-25-13/666959/403 "2013-09-01T05:58:52Z")
Tonight I re-watched all three new episodes with a friend to get her caught up. The waitress in the diner didn’t hear the gang talking. She wasn’t even near the table at that point. We see her approach the table after they stop talking. She didn’t really seem afraid of the customers either. And it occurred to me that Declan’s gang was based in Phoenix. That’s why we saw Todd and friends drive past a New Mexico sign. It establishes they made the hit out of state and are now back home. So Drew’s disappearance might not have been been news in that location. I don’t think anybody is getting caught that way. But this did jump out to me: > [@Martian Bigfoot](#): > > Todd refers to Walt as “Mr. White”, just like Jesse. He really is the Good Son, isn’t he? Todd calls Walter “Mr. White” a couple of times. Not just on the phone but in front of Uncle Jack and Kenny. And he used Jesse’s name too. So that would at least make it easier for the neo-Nazis to find Walt if they want to. ---
**Author:** ![edwards\_beard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7bcc69/32.png) [@edwards\_beard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/edwards_beard)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2013, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-11-confessions-8-25-13/666959/404 "2013-09-01T15:10:10Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > Todd calls Walter “Mr. White” a couple of times. Not just on the phone but in front of Uncle Jack and Kenny. And he used Jesse’s name too. So that would at least make it easier for the neo-Nazis to find Walt if they want to. I’m not sure I understand what you mean by this…to identify who he is? They already know who Walt is. They met with him face to face for the 10 guys in 2 minutes hit. “You will do it, they way I want done. That’s why I’m paying you.” ---
**Author:** ![SlackerInc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slackerinc/32/275_2.png) [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2013, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-11-confessions-8-25-13/666959/405 "2013-09-01T17:05:34Z")
Doesn’t mean they knew his name. It’s not like he was writing them a personal check and they needed to check his ID or anything. ---
**Author:** ![InternetLegend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/internetlegend/32/13154_2.png) [@InternetLegend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InternetLegend)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2013, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-11-confessions-8-25-13/666959/406 "2013-09-02T02:51:23Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > It’s retaining wall of sorts. It’s all concrete and the blocks are there, as sill as it sounds, to keep people from skateboarding or biking on it. I’ve seen that in other places too. They’re just huge in that place, probably for aesthetic reasons. These are actually functional - they slow water coming off the mountain and into Arroyo del Oso. It’s just on the east side of an arterial road, so there’s not a whole lot of skateboarding potential right there anyway. We don’t get a lot of rain, but when we do, water can get moving _fast_ off the mountain, and the slope is particularly steep just there. > [@pilot141](#): > > Great episode. I loved the tension in the Mexican restaurant. The brilliance of this series is the blending of drama and humor. In the same scene you are laughing at the poor waiter pushing the tableside guacamole and then gasping at Marie telling Walt to kill himself. Although it must be said, the tableside guacamole is excellent (when the avocados are ripe, anyway). > [@Erdosain](#): > > [Skyler] has no obligation or loyalty left to Walt if he can’t keep her kids safe. She wouldn’t narc to Hank, but I could see her leaving the kids there or disappearing with the kids. That’s the thing I kept thinking about during this episode. Everyone, from Walt to Hank to Skyler to Marie, has always said it’s all about family, all the way through the series. Now Hank and Marie are mortal enemies of Walt, Marie and Skyler are permanently estranged, Walt and Skyler are disengaging their kids from Marie and Hank, and Skyler’s connection to Walt is tenuous at best. The family that Walt started out trying to save is blown apart, no matter what. > [@Agent\_Foxtrot](#): > > I looked up the house a while back on Google Maps. It actually exists and someone lives in it. It’s less than a mile away from my house - and I’ve never seen it looking the way it did at the beginning of the episode. I did notice, when they started shooting in that neighborhood, suddenly everyone’s landscaping got a lot neater. > [@MaxTheVool](#): > > And, as others have said, because as horrible as Walt is, he still has lines he doesn’t want to cross, and killing a kid is one of them. Remember that the train heist, where a kid ended up getting killed by Todd, was organized in the very complicated way it was specifically to avoid having to kill anyone innocent. Walt had no way of knowing whether or not Brock would survive the poisoning, and I seriously doubt he cared that much. When no one’s looking, Walt’s sense of morality doesn’t really reach much past caring about the welfare of his own kids, and I’m starting to wonder how far his concern for them has faded at this point. Walt seems to be getting more and more aware and accepting of the fact that he’s mainly interested in getting and keeping power, not in benefiting his family. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2013, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-11-confessions-8-25-13/666959/407 "2013-09-02T02:59:05Z")
> [@InternetLegend](#): > > When no one’s looking, Walt’s sense of morality doesn’t really reach much past caring about the welfare of his own kids, and I’m starting to wonder how far his concern for them has faded at this point. The children have always been his justification for what he’s doing. He cares about them, but it’s in the abstract. The ultimate metaphor for that was when he missed Holly’s birth because of his first big drug deal, but his manipulation of Jr. in this episode was another horrible example. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-11-confessions-8-25-13/666959.md?page=20)