I miss the show.
You’re not the only one. There’s some other good TV airing, but…there’s definitely a Breaking Bad-shaped hole in the lineup these days.
Thank you. I think this is a big deal, either it’s significant or a goof.
The video doesn’t mention an important Aha! moment that I hardly ever see mentioned, but that, to me, was fairly damning for Walt since season 2 and 3.
At one point, Hank is chasing down an RV that he suspects is being used by meth cooks (I forgot what exactly puts him on the track of this particular type of vehicle, is it tire tracks?) He finds an RV belonging to Jesse Pinkman, tracks it down in a junkyard, and is waiting for a search warrant, when someone calls him on his cell and tells him his wife is in the hospital. He runs off, finds out that the call telling him his wife is in the hospital is a fake, and, enraged, goes to Jesse Pinkman’s house and beats him up. During the beating, I recall him saying something like “how did you know about my wife, how did you know my cell phone number?”
Here’s the kicker: how does he even know Jesse Pinkman? Through Walter White! The first time Hank got shot, he was chasing down Jesse Pinkman (and ended up at Tuco the drug dealer’s house in the desert) because Skyler had told him that Jesse was calling up Walter and she suspected that Jesse was doing drug deals with her husband.
Adam Savage of the Mythbusters did an “Ask Me Anything” on Reddit. One thing he said may be of interest to those following this thread:
Here’s hoping we get to see some real giant magnets in action!
Mythbusters could devote an entire season to Breaking Bad and I would watch. Off the top of my head:
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[li]cook 99.1% meth[/li][li]dissolve bodies using hydrofluoric [/li][li]bathtub bottom eaten with hydrofluoric[/li][li]make phosphene gas and kill some animals[/li][li]start a car fire with a squeegee[/li][li]jump start an rv with an improvised battery[/li][li]make ricin[/li][li]make thermite from an etch-a-sketch[/li][li]use thermite to melt a lock[/li][li]make fulminated mercury and blow up an office[/li][li]power outage using foil balloons[/li][li]crash a 737[/li][li]blow up a car by stuffing a burning, rolled-up magazine into the gas tank feed[/li][li]suicide by defibrillator [/li][li]and fucken magnets![/li][/ul]
C’mon 1,000,000!
Sweeeeet. And please, please, oh pretty please, include Bryan Cranston nod Aaron Paul in that episode. Bryan Cranston is hilarious all on his own; I could see him and Adam hitting it off.
Here’s a couple of decent youtube videos on Mike:
Breaking Bad | Remembering Mike Ehrmantraut | Tribute
Be Like Mike (Ehrmantraut)
Someone on Reddit claimed (so take that with a grain of NaCl) that the character Gale was Canadian which would explain the spelling of “honour”, but would not explain the spelling of “favorite”.
Do those nutty Canucks perhaps spell some “-or”/“-our” words with the Brit spelling, and others with the American spelling? Maybe depending on which part of Canada you are from?
(If Gale even was Canadian.)
ooops… sorry… it appears as though I may have re-animated the dead here.
'S fine by me! When does the final half-season start anyway?
I believe Canadian spelling does conform to American spelling in some cases and British in others. (I’m not aware of any uniquely Canadian spellings!) I don’t know which sides hono(u)r and favo(u)rite fall on.
Since this thread has been reawakened, another point on the whole “Leaves of Grass”, GB issue.
During the third episode of this past season, there’s a scene where Walt is unpacking after moving back in with Skyler. While unpacking he’s removing some books from a carton. He removes the “Leaves of Grass” book, looks at it, smiles and chuckles to himself then offhandedly sets it on a dresser. It’s obvious that they’re making a point of us seeing the book and Walt’s reaction to it.
Here’s a screenshot: http://acrossthemargin.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Leaves-of-the-Grass.png
It strikes me that if it was a gift from Gale, Walt would not have treated it so cavalierly. Especially given the inscription. Granted, he may not have been aware of the inscription (because the pages may have been stuck) but regardless, he’s too careful about details for that. If it was a gift from Gale, then it’s a potential connection between him and Gale, no matter how tenuous. He should have reacted in fear and found a way to burn or otherwise destroy it. Instead he smiled, laid it on the dresser, and it eventually ended up on the back of the toilet. Walt just isn’t that careless.
The writer’s made a point of showing that book and Walt’s reaction to it. This could have been them showing us that Walt has become overconfident, or it could be them showing us that he didn’t see any reason to be concerned about the presence of it in his home.
July, I believe.
Walt Jr. is all grown up in a possibly NSFW photo shoot. (No actual nudity, but lots of shirtless-goth on brooding-she-goth looks for a high end counter-culture clothing line [i.e. pissed off alternative kids who want to piss off their parents but have copies of their credit cards].)
Couple of points. First, remember what Hank told Gomez, “Even pros make mistakes,” and Walt is hardly a pro. He’s extremely intelligent but, as you noted, he’s also extremely overconfident at this point. Walt is also vain and I like to think that he held onto that book as some kind of trophy, a colleague acknowledging his genius.
And don’t forget the dinner following Gale’s murder where Hank was convinced that the Gale had been Heisenberg and the Case of the Blue Meth was pretty much wrapped up. Walt’s ego couldn’t let that stand and he gently put Hank back on track, convincing him that the real Heisenberg was still at large. The :smack: look on Skyler’s face during all this was hysterical, BTW.
I believe that some little part of Walt’s psyche actually wants the world to know of his achievements regardless of the consequences. It’s his personal demon and will probably lead to his downfall.