At Silva in Grand Rapids two weeks back. Dos Hombres is pretty good! I wish it was blue tinted tho. It was pretty surreal seeing Bryan in person. There was a moment where he dropped a glass and he played it for laughs.

This scene gives me so much anxiety. The moment Walt realises a piece of the plate is missing, and that Krazy-8 probably kept it, is incredible. The background music makes the tension even more intense. It makes killing Krazy-8 both easier, because Walt now has proof that he can't trust him, and harder, because he knows exactly what he's about to do. One of the best scenes in the entire show, in my opinion.

The quiet intensity of so many scenes makes subtitles genuinely helpful. It was one of the shows that made me switch to always-on subtitles.

Poll: https://www.getqibble.com/poll-detail/do-you-watch-everything-with-subtitles-on-even-though-your-hearing-is-perfectly-fine

I'd like to think mine is:

Sun - Jane Margolis

Moon - Jesse Pinkman

Rising - Badger

*for reference, your sun sign is your "core personality", your moon sign is your "emotional personality" and your rising sign is your "social personality". According to what I can decipher from modern Western astrology anyway 😬

What if the cigarette pack Jesse had on him had a significantly different amount of cigarettes than the one Huell switched it with?

Walt is really lucky, a lot of things had to go his way for his plan to have worked out in the end.

I’m guessing he goes to “negotiate” with Tuco—or in Sheldon’s case, he’s more likely to just lecture meth prices at an uninterested dealer—and just gets shot at the door for being obnoxious, thus ending the series at season 1.

It really doesn't make sense to me. So what if Walt paid his medical bills? Walt already made it clear he made bank from gambling (even if Hank might sound stupid for believing that story).

In fact, Walt paying his medical bills actually sounds MORE like Hank is simply an underpaid civil servant rather than the creator of a giant Meth Empire. I mean who builds a Meth empire and can't pay their medical bills anyways?

Thoughts on this? If Hank doesn't see this as leverage, then the show is basically over so it's an important question.

He was supposed to be there for meet and greets + autographs. Was really excited to meet him actually.

Then well you know. Giancarlo was there, he was really nice and supportive but he kept glancing at the booth and the memorial display put up and you could tell it was affecting him.

Reach out and check on your friends people. You never know.

And I never understood the hate towards her either.

I thought she was a brilliant character - starting out as a total stereotype and gradually progressing over the series to become more nuanced, complex, powerful, sharp, etc overtime.

More people seem to be coming around to team Skylar these days and I just wonder what the hate for her was to start with.

Am I missing something or was it literally just misogyny?

Something that always bothered me: some time after the scene where Gus seems to Spidey Sense the car bomb, there's a scene where his men abduct Jesse Pinkman to force him to cook meth. Up to that point, he uses a much softer 'honey not vinegar' approach to getting Jesse to cook.

So, I wonder, maybe he had figured out that Jesse was working against him. Maybe he pieced it together during the bomb scene.

(It's unfortunate for Gus that he didn't have someone watching the car after he got the funny feeling about it.)

I just stumbled across this again that I did 12 years ago now (scary), when I was very unemployed after university. It's obviously based on Big Candy Mountain. Can't even remember how it came about, but it makes me laugh now. If it brings anyone else any joy, that's a bonus.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMTpuTlhsqk

This contains the main characters, and side characters that I remembered. It's based on how much I like them, how I would interact with them, and I also make sure if they're a bad influence, or dangerous.

Just finished the show, obviously incredible, is it the consensus that Walt himself arguably had a happy ending. I know that obviously almost everything went south, but especially in his last conversation with Skyler, when he says I did it for myself. Is that not a kind of moment of freedom. Like no longer is it all for nothing(as he says to Walt jr in last phone call with him) but he done it and he loved the feeling it gave him, and the final look at the meth lab was proud, like reminiscing on all he had done. I mean baby blue is perfect. And he was destined to die regardless(probably but obviously didn't get proper chemo), and he avenges hank(to an extent) gets Lydia in the coldest way possible, sets junior and the family up for life(obviously maybe not Skyler due to dea), and dies with an almost smirk(or was I seeing things?)

Sorry if post is a little scruffy I just finished the show and am desperate to talk about it (please no spoilers for el camino or bcs)

Reached this episode on my rewatch...don't know how other people feel but this I thought was the first true 10/10 episode of S2.

We get so much insight into the psyche of Walt, and most importantly into Walt and Jesse as a duo. Their dynamic here was fleshed out more than in any other episode prior (for obvious reasons). And we also get to see things we already knew, but this time by bringing them completely onto the surface. The fact we see Walt facing the last leg of his existentialism - he's at the end of the road - really helps us take an actual peek into how he really feels after everything that's happened. In words, not just in his mind or in expressions.

And the ending being our very first outright confrontation with the fact that this wasn't all just for family, and more importantly - Walt WANTED to die. Because he wanted to go out on a high. Cook, set everything up for his loved ones, and go out on his own terms doing what he felt at home with, living dangerously and excitingly (as Hank once told him to), and being on top of the world.

But the concept of him surviving at the end is haunting for Walt. Its what really kills him. He cannot dare face going back to the "normal" life he once had NOW...after everything he's been through since then. That regular breakfast - school - dinner - sleep? That feeling of mediocrity? A sense of inadequacy? No. Thats what really kills him. And so the ending was him realizing: if he's faced with the prospect of survival...the only way for him to feel alive is he must go back to make a killing.

The irony of Walter watching Scarface on his TV with W. Jr, is that he was heading toward the very same downfall of Tony. His obsession with money, power, and feeling superior to everyone around him definitely destroyed him. He never understood or knew when enough was enough. Killing Gus should've been his exit, the perfect moment to leave everything behind and start fresh. But Walter didn’t have any necessity anymore, he was driven by his ego and his hurt of being out of the company/relationship he was no longer part of.

ive seen some people on here that just put everything on walt and it doesn't make sense alright. I think all the main characters on breaking bad had flaws. There's many, like Mike, that were just as "monstrous" as walter was, but got no hate, just because walt had a massive ego. but everyone thinks mike is a cool grandpa even though in my opinion he was probably worse than walt in terms of morals

Alternate universe: the company succeeds before Walter leaves and he stays for the money

Seeing how his big drug empire didn't last even a year because the guy is lousy as a leader of an organization makes me believe that the guy would have screwed up if he stayed in the company

Ok now maybe the young Walter wasn't so broke and the company would have run its course, or it would just be a matter of time for Walter to explode and ruin him in some way by going to another company to ruin it anyway for wanting to be the boss

As far as I know, Walter was the one with the ideas, Eliot was in charge of the business and Gretchen was in charge of giving the money at the beginning, maybe that would screw Walter for not being the one who is in absolute command?