Thank you for noticing it. I was starting to think that it was either invisible, or just so stupid that people were ignoring it out of embarrassment for me. 
New AMC promo - there are clips of scenes from the next season, so don’t watch it if you want to be completely unspoiled.
Not sure if the other ones were posted upthread, but teaser 1 teaser 2 and promo 1.
And there lies the main problem, if it can be considered one (since it didn’t bother me), was doing something for the convenience of the plot instead of something that the characters would logically do. Which also happens a few times later too, but not to nearly the same degree as tripe like Lost.
And no, I didn’t forget he had just been shot at; I still don’t buy it as justification for his actions. Again though, not a big deal to me.
I was going to say something right after you posted it, but I don’t like to bump threads just to agree.
This board could use a Like button.
What gives you the impression that Walt is a rational person? Everything he’s done flies in the face of rational thought. In the very first episode, he empties his bank account and gives the money to a former student (and meth manufacturer / drug addict) with the intention of purchasing a vehicle that can function as a rolling meth lab. In fact, the show goes through great pains to show that Walt is an irrational, emotionally-driven person who’s guided more by his gargantuan ego than anything that could be described as reasonable or circumspect thought.
Even Walt’s quasi-rational moments, like stripping to his underwear to prevent toxic by-products from accreting on his clothing when he’s cooking a batch, making a ‘pro’ or ‘con’ list to help decide whether Krazy-8 should be murdered, are rendered laughably absurd under anything more than a superficial inspection.
Could you point toward any examples of Walt’s rational side?
I’m reminded of the post in the WEEDS thread where someone mentioned that Nancy was never a housewife, she was always the bugshit crazy drug underworld groupie.
Walt was never the guy we see in the pilot, that was a mask he had worn his whole life until death was staring him in the face. Heisenberg is the true personality you could say.
Everything’s relative. We’re dealing with TV-logic, and in that sense, I believe he was rational within the “career path” he’s chosen. Clearing out his bank account is rational in the sense that it will help achieve his goal of making significantly more money, which it does. I felt that the portion I pointed out stood on contrast to his other choices which seemed relatively logical within the context they were presented.
Listen, some things break one’s immersion while it doesn’t phase others. Hell, it didn’t even bother me at the time, but in hindsight, it seemed like a very forced plot-point much more so than other logic violations the show may have had early on. We’ll have to agree to disagree since I really don’t feel discussing this anymore will add anything beyond what’s been discussed.
If you want to talk about things that strain one’s suspension of disbelief, how about those two tweekers physically unbolting and carting home an ATM machine. And they had done it not once, but six times!
And they failed to open any of the first five but opened the sixth accidentally simply by knocking it over.
Don’t get me wrong, it was one of my favorite episodes, but it really was a stretch.
Indeed. For me, the most unbelievable part was the airline crash, which seemed very contrived and out of the blue by even the show’s standards–and that’s even with the several episode lead-up. Well that, and Gus’s fate, which I still think was even more ridiculous in hindsight, but alas.
One contrivance that made me go :rolleyes: was Walt catching the news item about the death of Jesse’s girlfriend’s little brother. It’s such a cliche that someone happens to turn on the news just as something critical to the plot is being shown. Then you have Walt on the scene just as Jesse is confronting those two dealers.
Great payoff though, as always, which is why I forgive this show when it stretches belief but not others.
Some coincidence is needed to make a story satisfying and cohesive, if Walt was killed in the last episode by some random punk that heard he was loaded and took a chance would anyone be satisfied by that? Sometimes realism is good, sometimes it isn’t.
This show is just so unrealistic, I tell ya… Everything mentioned upthread I can buy, but I can’t believe that pizza didn’t fall apart when Walt threw it on the roof.
(Yes, I know they explained this in season 4 by mentioning the pizza place where “you cut your own pizza”)
I did find that amazingly funny that they bothered with that.
I have further thoughts on this.
I think that, rather than the DEA mistakenly suspecting Hank, what may happen is that Hank will discover what Walt is doing and then Walt will stop him from acting on it by pointing out to him that it will look like he’s been covering for Walt, especially given the string of coincidences I mentioned.
I think that Marie’s kleptomania will also figure into this somehow. They’ve been teasing us with that since the first season but haven’t really gone anywhere with it.
About half the items in your list could play into that. The others are things that Walt probably doesn’t know about.
But the half that works could be darn convincing. Would Hank agree to keep quiet or would he want something?
grude, I think that’d make a great ending – Walt being taken out by some random thug, or a silly accident. I was worried for him when he was installing the tankless water heater. I can see him working on a DIY project and electrocuting himself.
I think he may have no choice but to keep quiet in order to avoid being implicated. I also think that Walt may use something Marie has done to further pressure Hank. There must be some reason they keep reminding us about her kleptomania.
They seemingly brought it back last season in order to be the organic way to get the city cop talking to Hank again which led to Hank getting the information on Gail’s murder.
That might have been the entire reason for bringing the kleptomania back.
The scenario with Hank finding out about Walt but being forced to be quiet about it was what I assumed was going to happen this last season before it started.
The latest season of Breaking Bad received a 100 rating from Metacritic.
Not one critic thought it did not deserve a perfect score.
Without reading the rest of this thread, I say: Hank gets killed because he gets too close, and Marie turns state’s evidence of some sort. The kid continues to eat in most every scene.
Possibly of interest to people here: an interview with Bryan Cranston on the A.V. Club.