I think compared to the intesity and darkness of everything else we were seeing it just seemed so mundane in contrast.
That doesn’t show up the Schwartzes as being shallow or superficial, though. It shows them as merely being normal.
Damn it, I was hoping no one would mention that. 
Right- but when everyone around you is immersed in life threatening crises, it just came off as shallow, mundane or normal. It was the contrast that made it seem so.
ETA: I’m agreeing with you. I don’t think they’re shallow. It just felt that way.
Shallow in the context of the dying, deserted meth kingpin Walter White listening in. The man is at both his zenith and nadir at once. The enormity of a man’s entire life can’t be bothered by petty concerns of the day.
You’re not going to get hung up on “shallow” like you did “psychopath”, are you?
Well said. They, themselves, are probably not shallow. To WW looking in, and to the viewer, it certainly feels that way. Perspective, yo.
Mike.
The only stupid thing Mike did was fail to “Better Call Saul.”
As normal as billionaires can be.
[Astronomical nitpick] The collision won’t destroy everything, or indeed anything. Individual stars are light years apart, the closest one to us now is four light years away. Even in the dense galactic centers, stars are a hundreds billion miles apart on average. The odds of one hitting us are, no pun intended, astronomical. The bad news is that the collision will only happen in about four billion years from now, and by then the Sun will already have heated up and destroyed all life on Earth anyway (in about five billion years it will go all-out red giant), so we’ll probably not be here to see it. [/Astronomical nitpick]
Tomorrow will be the most beautiful day of Jesse Pinkman’s life. His breakfast will taste better than any meal you and Flynn have ever had.
We know everything that comes out of their mouth based on a two minute snippet of conversation…
I got that they were maybe innocent, but I don’t equate this with “shallow.”
Indeed, I am pretty sure Walt is jealous of their life, (note how much he really does appreciate their home,) and if he was truly convinced they were shallow, he wouldn’t have such jealousy.
But there is nothing to repair. We now know, fully, at least as fully as possible, who and what Walter White really is. And feeling guilt or shame at the distal effects of his meth cooking is not a characteristic of that person. If this makes us uncomfortable, this doesn’t tell us anything about how the show should have gone, rather, it tells us something about Walter, about us, and how we relate to him.
And others. I think Walt put the ricin on the table beforehand and made sure it was the only packet in the holder. He remarked to Lydia, when she asked how to know to find her and Todd, something about her being a slave to schedules. He knew she would sit right there at that time on that day. If by chance someone else had sat there, I’m sure he would have gone and gotten the ricin packet back.
By that time, Walt looked like any number of homeless street people I saw in Albuquerque. And his appearance was much changed from the person they were looking for.
I wonder if Badger can be blamed for a lot of the trouble. If Badger just hadn’t been so stupid to get arrested that time, then Saul would maybe never have gotten into the picture in the first place. Maybe Walt would have gotten caught soon without money-laundering tips and other assistance, and a lot of people would still be alive, although that includes some who probably shouldn’t be. That would have made for a more boring show though.
Your loss.
Yeah, I’ll have to give you that one. In fact, Gretchen herself was mocking the mentality I described when they were walking towards the door from the car. She asked “are you the man I married? What happened to your intelligence?” What really spoke to her never having suffered the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune however, was her not comprehending how Walt could have that much money.
To be clear, I’m not surprised if she’s pretty innocent about things like that. I just don’t equate this necessarily with shallowness.
That’s not a stupid thing to not know. They’re not firearms experts, and there is a murderer standing in the room with them at that exact moment. That’ll make you overlook some little details.
Also, they don’t have the cameras perspective. They’re not looking down their torsos for the whole scene.
And do only bipod mounted rifles have lasers? Cuz I’m about 99% sure I can get a laser for my Glock and if I’m 100 feet away it’s probably going to jiggle and wander off it’s target from time to time as well.
Besides, if nothing else he proved that even with their home security system, all they have to do is drop their guard for a few seconds and someone can walk right in behind them with out even trying to be quiet and even if they keep the doors locked, someone can hide outside in the bushes and they’ll never know it, but they can’t spend the rest of their lives hiding in the basement, they’ll have to go outside, they’ll have to move about and the ‘snipers’ will get them so they might as well just set up the account and do what Walt asked.
Vince said on the podcast that he likes to think that E&G did in fact pass the money along since they had the means and even if they hated Walt, Walt Jr and Holly really were innocent in all of this. I don’t remember if he said Walt Jr took it, but I believe he said that they did follow Walt’s instructions. He went on to say that of all the things to get blackmailed over “help me provide for my kids” was probably about as innocuous as it gets. It’s not like he was asking them to kill someone.