Yeah. If the show were about Mike’s career, the same complaints could be made about his final act playing out with Walt. Mike’s a careful, controlled guy for decades and then at the very end gets sucked into working with this unbalanced dude who, after just a few months, kills him almost by accident. How’s that satisfying?
I think that’s how things are supposed to work in the show, though. Each of the characters think that they’re the one who can control the dangerous, chaotic situations they put themselves into. That might be true for a while, but each success leads them to greater danger until they unleash something that gets them. The Nazis seem to be to Walt what Walt is to almost everyone he meets.
And hey, regardless of how you feel about the Nazis, it could be worse. They could have another plane drop out of the sky and this time fall on Walter.
I don’t think Todd has any moral problems with killing- or anything else, for that matter. He always does what the person in charge wants him to do and he’s never argued with anybody so far. But this might be his first time shooting at somebody who’s shooting back. Drew Sharp was unarmed and Declan’s guys were probably armed but they were taken by surprise. On the other hand Jesse is unarmed.
The only reason Walt tried to call off the Nazis was because his brother-in-law showed up. Since all Walt claims to care about is family, and every unexpected turn from episode 1 on has made his life shittier and shittier, I’d say Hank’s chances are poor.
There’s also the Ozymandias aspect. Walt’s empire has to be lost in the desert (money or no money). If Hank’s dead at Walt’s hand, there’s not much empire left to go home to (money or no money). Jesse told Hank it would turn out the opposite of how Hank saw it playing out, Hank saw himself arresting Walt and closing the Heisenberg case.
I read that poem and can only see Walt surviving the shootout with both family and money lost in the desert, just the sneer on his lip and the frown left.
Is he that inexperienced though? Drew wasn’t that close to him and he pulled his gun and shot him almost without taking time to aim. It’s hard to hit anything with a pistol when you take the time to aim. He looked like a pro during that shot.
Look, if Hank was going to die in the shootout, he would be dead already. It makes no dramatic sense for him to survive until the cliffhanger and then die at the beginning of the next episode.
I’m saying this: Todd laid the groundwork for this connection, and he’s been there since (I checked) the third episode of season five. That’s 10 episodes ago now. We first saw Uncle Jack and Kenny four episodes ago, at the end of the last half season. So they’re not just appearing as the new bad guys with four episodes left.
By comparison, Gus first appeared in Season 2 and lasted to the end of Season 4–and was featured prominently in most of the episodes in-between, unlike the Nazi crew who’ve barely been featured at all.
But even that aside, he was a far more interesting and nuanced character than these guys, who appear to be 1-dimensional and simply not compelling.
The good guys and the bad guys were maybe 40 to 50 feet apart. That would be a difficult distance for a shot with a handgun, but missing a shot at that distance with a rifle is ridiculous. Unless… the Nazis are… Cylons!
Has anyone ever mentioned that Walt looks like Lenin, the famous Russian Communist? Was it Lenin or Stalin who said, when asked about the millions of deaths he was responsible for, “It was necessary.”
And the facebook recap, from what I will describe as a really weird and/or pain in the ass site. FSR I can’t get to it just by taking the URL from last week and updating the episode #. Weird.
If Walt’s money somehow comes into the custody of the federal government, does the fact that he buried it on tribal land give the Navajo Nation any legal claim to it?
I haven’t been following theses threads because I’ve always been at least several episodes behind and I didn’t want to spoil it for myself. So my question has probably been addressed somewhere in an earlier thread and if you can send me there I’d appreciate it.
What I want to know is: What does Hank’s rock and mineral collection have to do with anything? They made a big deal about it for a few episodes and then…nothing! Did it come into play somewhere and I missed it? TIA
People have weird, almost juvenile expectations as far as every element of this show being re-used. Marie’s shoplifting, Hank’s obsession over minerals - these aren’t plot elements that need to tie things up. We’re not going to have a caper in the final episode that requires Marie to shoplift a keycard off a security guard, Hank to carve just the right minerals up to fool a retina scanner, and Mike’s granddaughter’s skill at hungry hungry hippos to pull off.