![]() ![]() The Marie-Skyler-Junior moment was painful to watch. ![]() In any case, throwing Jesse to the wolves was almost the worst moment in the career of Heisenberg…before he steals Holly…but more on that in a minute. Perhaps for a minute when he was grieving, but even then, were those crocodile tears so that he wouldn’t get wasted by the aryan nation? Interesting possibilities. He pleaded for Hank’s life because he could have saved his family from the grief and horror of the his death and thus the illusion that everything could turn out ok so I don’t even think he was Walt then. There was no way that the Jane story was not going to come out before the end but WOW, who was expecting Walt to throw it in Jesse’s face right there? Ever since coming out from behind the rock, he was 100% Heisenberg and as ruthless as we have ever seen him. I know we need a motive for Walt to come back with the M-60 that was already shown in the flash forwards, but was it realistic? Maybe “family” is the one blindspot to the amorality of the neo-nazis? Or perhaps, why not, I mean what is $11M when you have $69 more, right? In any case, and jumping forward to what happens to Jesse, why would Todd EVER need to cook again when he had his share of the loot – about $9M I am guessing? I guess that’s why psychos do right? And wow, that was such a Theon Greyjoy moment there in the lab. Plus, he didn’t hesitate for a second in killing Hank. Now, the one funny bit was why would Uncle Jack EVER leave Walt with anything at all? I mean, OK, so he has respect for Todd’s admiration of Walt, but that was $11M he was leaving behind. He got in another classic line “smartest guy I ever know but too stupid to see he made up his mind ten minutes ago” that really sums up Walt’s quirky myopic genius to a “t”. I agree with most of what I have read and listened to today in that Hank’s death was perfectly in character for both Hank Schrader and for Breaking Bad. And thanks to GeekTyrant, this catch: Walt’s pants from the teaser were actually in the desert as he walked by rolling the barrel of money. ![]() Not to mention the stupendously beautiful camera work out in the desert. But it was brilliant filmmaking to contrast these two situations that are about 14-16 months apart. It was kind of sad to see how great that he and Jesse got along way back then. The way he was only half paying attention to Skyler’s suggestion of “Holly” as a name because he was revelling in the success of his carwash lie was so telling of how the rest of the 59 episodes since then have gone. Walt’s first lie to Skyler was fascinating and totally in character. As analyzed by the Afterbuzztv podcast, I agree that the fade-in and fade-out of the RV and Uncles cars served to show the horror of the drug trade and a fatalistic view of the futility of the war on drugs as never really eradicating the cancer but rather just erasing the signs which show up later anyway. I loved how we opened on a flashback rather than immediately in the shootout. OK, enough gushing and on with some analysis. How the manage to compress this episodes and yet they do NOT feel rushed at all is simply magic. And yet it all fit seamlessly into the 47 minutes they were allowed. Like the Talking Good podcasters said on their instacast today, it was like three episodes. In this episode, we have the death of one principal character and his side-kick (no offense Gomey!), the captivity and torture of the other protagonist, and the crushing revelation of Walt’s criminality to his son. The brilliance of this show is how any number of conclusions can be reached, an infinite number of outcomes can be imagined, but Vince and the writers will always surprise us and make us think. If E13 was a hand grenade, this episode was C4. I cannot stop rolling this episode around in my head and looking at all the angles. ![]()
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