Which is exactly what PeacePlease did. His thread should never have been merged.
Are you referring to Marla Gibbs, best known for her roles as the live-in maid, Florence, from The Jeffersons?
She’s the lady in the vacuum cleaner shop wanting a replacement or repair for her old Kirby.
It was a nice little touch and I’m not sure I would have recognized her had she not appeared in the live production of The Jeffersons a few months back.
So I was confused about the lo-jack. Someone here said the cops “activated it”. I could imagine that being true for newer cars (though it makes me a bit uncomfortable if that’s so), but an old car like an El Camino? I had assumed this meant the FBI or someone was already watching Todd but had not fully closed in on the operation yet by the time Walt strafed them with bullets.
I assume when they filmed that, they never had any intention to actually make it part of the show, that it was created to be a teaser.
Lojack can be bought and installed by 3rd parties by the owner. Since at least the 80s.
Okay, but why would someone running a giant multinational meth operation install one that can be accessed by the police?
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Damn. That’s a good question.
Meth heads aren’t exactly bright. He may not have even known the car had it when he bought it. But also, if I remember right, the police can’t activate it without the owners consent…or a warrant. Which I imagine the cops got as soon as they found his corpse and ran his info…
Was Todd a meth head? I had the impression he didn’t use drugs at all.
I never got the impression he was.
As an aside, the actor who played the “cleaner” passed away recently. Rest in peace.
Though oddly his methods of disappearing, already straining credibility in 2010, are unlikely to help anyone remain hidden these days. At least people who are being activly searched for. The powers that be have our biometric info and we keep inputting it into various devices and databases, knowingly and unkowingly…won’t be long before Jessie is caught because his face was caught by a street camera which was linked to a datanbase and which pings the authorities.
I’ll miss Mr. White, but I’m glad for Pinkman’s sake he’s dead. One or two more adventures together and they would have become a live action Rick and Morty show. I’m interested to see where they go with this.
I love Bryan Cranston’s performance, but his appearance was arguable the least interesting part of El Camino.
Kudos to a Aaron Paul. He was phenomenal.
When I watched it, the main part of Walter White’s appearance that I really enjoyed was the surprise of his coming out of the hotel room. We were sort of tricked into thinking this was present day Jesse and boom, out comes Walter White. But listening to the Slate Culture Gabfest, I was persuaded that it was also genius to have Walt seem to be kind of believing in Jesse, but let it slip that he assumed Jesse was a high school dropout even though Walt had been right there when Jesse walked across the stage. :smack:
He was addicted to Star Trek themed online gaming.
*Black Mirror *reference, nice. He was also great in Fargo, Game Night, and FNL back in the day. But how did his face get so puffy? Does he have some kind of condition?
All that soup, his sodium must have been sky high and he was retaining water.
AV Club posted a pretty good recap, and some good commentary:
El Camino gives the Breaking Bad-verse its first redemption story
And why would you install one on an El Camino???
After all that Huell is still in the safe house…
Huh. That was the okayest thing I’ve ever seen.
It was fine, it was entertaining, I enjoyed watching it, but it told a story I didn’t particularly need to see. Breaking Bad finished off perfectly, Jesse’s ending was just fine, what happened to him was pretty much along the lines of what I would’ve imagined happened to him. It just didn’t particularly feel like a story that needed to be told or anything that adds anything to Breaking Bad. But it was still entertaining and I liked watching it, so… okay.
I guess it’s weird to take something that ended on a high note, and then just sort of add two extra episodes that aren’t really necessary and aren’t particularly great on top of that finish. They should’ve either just left it to stand as a finished product, or told some sort of story that you wouldn’t expect. This just felt unnecessary.
I liked it more than you did, but it’s interesting to me that by my count, Vince Gilligan has now essentially written five Breaking Bad finales: “Face Off”, “Ozymandias”, “Granite State”, “Felina”, and now “El Camino”.
Also a great question!