Yes, by manipulating them and keeping them as hostages.
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Yes, by manipulating them and keeping them as hostages.
Angry Fork
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Most of the really pro-Walt posts are just for the sake of riling up the pro-Skylar people. It's just a fun back and forth gaf meme within the thread since the Skylar hate has been around since the very beginning. Nobody would really go on these melt downs in real life amongst strangers.
It's similar to South Korea vs. Best Korea imo. Obviously North Korean leadership inflicts absolute misery on it's people but people keep referring it to best korea just as a run on joke. Referring to Walt as a boss who just does his thing while Skylar is a whiney bitch is a run on joke to keep the game going. Maybe there are people in here who legitimately feel that way but I have more faith in gaf members than that (I did think she was an annoying whiner in Season 1/2 though).
He was willing to do that, he moved out after all, but she wouldn't let him see their children.
At this point, it'll be kind of strange of somebody doesn't end up getting dosed with ricin before the show's over. It's been a running thing since the beginning of S2, and so far, every plan to use ricin has ended up being derailed.
First, we had Tuco's ricin burrito, then we had the Jesse's attempt to kill Gus' dealers by slipping them ricin-laced burgers via Wendy, then we finally have the still-in-play vial that's currently in the outlet.
Of course, something that's always bugged me is how exactly Jesse got his hands on ricin for his attempt to kill the two dealers. I doubt they would have kept any around from when they were trying to kill Tuco with it, and Jesse most likely doesn't know how to make the stuff himself, unless he managed to do it from memory after watching Walt do it.
Isn't that what Skylar did in yesterday's episode?
TrumanBurbank
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Nope. It's just lame. Trolls should stay on IMDb.
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Angry Fork
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No fun allowed.
You don't need to take it so serious it's a TV show if people want to troll who cares. You're acting like Skylar is a relative of you or something.
Please, Break down my chronic retardation symptoms Dr. Dickless
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smokeymicpot
Beat EviLore at pool.
Skyler did the right thing though Walter honestly blew up a retirement home and before that brought a bomb to a hospital. Her sending the kids away is the smartest thing she can possibly do since she is now stuck in this situation.
Hm, Brock you mean? Not sure what you mean
hahahahaha oh my god
Dr. Dickless
dude, that's gonna be my rap name if I ever become a hip hop star in an alternate universe
One doesn't need to break it down. It's so self-evident that it literally rendered even me incapable of the motivation to do it. Merely reading it does the same thing as me deconstructing your post.
I can do it, everyone knows I can, but you don't want me to do it. It'll just end with us all laughing at you endlessly (more than even now) and you getting angrier and angrier
actually that sounds fucking entertaining, maybe I will!
Angry Fork
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I think Walt is likely to kill Skylar before ever thinking about doing anything to his kids though so things will become very interesting.
I can't believe they broke this season up into 2 and we have to wait a year for the next I don't understand that. It's going to enrage me so much.
smokeymicpot
Beat EviLore at pool.
Walt will probably kill her with a ricin smoke. Walt just likes to harm other peoples kids.
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Can't wait to see the look on some your faces when Skyler starts dealing the meth herself on street corners "because she has no choice". Then Walt runs to New Hampshire because she grows out of control, more than she is now.
Total bitch move taking over Walts territory.
I'm actually not angry at all, keep on pretending to be clever though.
Nice avatar by the way....
out0v0rder
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wow skyler is such a drag. should have let her stay in the pool.
C'mon, at no point during any season of 24 was Jack as flawed of a character as Walt is on this show right now. Torturing terrorists to acquire information and going against gov't orders in order to prevent mass murder is the very definition of justifiable. Walt deciding to keep the train going, despite being free of cancer and any outside threat to his family's well being is not at all justifiable in any fashion.
"Everything Walt does is to protect himself and his loved ones" is exactly how Walt rationalizes the fact that he's an egomaniacal cretin.
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Fixing Good.
Well, Jack at the end of the last season, was pretty much off the gravy train. He did some ugly stuff (though most of them had it coming). But he didn't poison a kid. Well, not really
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I WISH someone was willing to poison a child in order to repair our friendship. That's how you know when you have a true friend.
Souless_PJ
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She was lucky that Hank and Marie were there as witnesses. Heisenberg would have left her there like a baws.
Don't think she'll be as lucky the next time.
PastorOfMuppets
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That's one of the compelling things about this show IMO. Walter White as a main character is someone I cannot sympathize with anymore, which usually means that the show has gone in the shitter, but this one has actually gotten better over the course of its lifecycle. Unlike other movies or TV shows, it's not because he's a bad actor (Bryan Cranston is amazing) or because of shitty writing (the writing is fucking awesome), but because Walter White is just flat out evil. He has slowly transformed from a meek high school teacher into an evil fuck. All of the interactions he has with other characters are either intimidation (Mike, Skylar), emotional manipulation (Jesse) or outright lying to their face (pretty much everyone else). I think the tragic character out of Breaking Bad will actually be Jesse because over the course of the show, we've seen him become estranged from his family, become an unwilling criminal and murderer and has lost two women he's cared about because he has followed Walter White.
A Human Becoming
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Reading this thread is almost as good as watching the show.
Weakest ep so far this season, but still good alone for Anna Gunn's performance.
Weakest ep so far this season, but still good alone for Anna Gunn's performance.
Agreed with everything except for that. Jesse was already making meth before meeting Walt.
Just like Fly was.
rabble rabble
The irony of Fly is that most people hate it, but it's one of the few episodes where Walt shows the least bit of remorse.
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"FLY WAS SO BAD RLIEK
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Jesse was on the quick road to being nowhere but a bum for the rest of his life. Every time he has been close to falling into the abyss whether it's descending into the junky lifestyle, or getting himself killed by trying to fight a battle he can't possibly win against 2 drug dealers, in comes Walter White to rescue him and put him back on the straight and narrow.
out0v0rder
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didnt even get to see wet t-shirt nipples or anything.
fly was bad, skyler's a useless bitch, walt jr. hates breakfast, hank is a double agent for the cartel, marie kills walt which is a shame because the man was a saint, mike falls asleep and drowns in an inch of water, jesse becomes head of the dea, saul is made chief justice of the supreme court, gus never actually sold meth and was an innocent bystander and lydia is the real kingpin of the whole organization.
these are my opinions. i have awful opinions.
these are my opinions. i have awful opinions.
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Don't forget Marie eats Holly.
Cornballer
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- 20+ minutes of Breaking Bad discussion on the Sepinwall/Fienberg podcast this week.
Please don't do this. It gets confusing when people use spoiler tags for things that aren't spoilers. Full rules are in the OP if you need clarification. Thanks.
It's fine and good to have some inside jokes, and occasionally trolling can be amusing. However, at this point the thread is continually derailed by this 'argument'. It's getting tiresome.
and marries skinny pete after he ends up saving the u.s.a. from bin laden's clone.
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Deleted member 81567
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No I won't relax. I'm allowed to get emotionally invested in a show if I really like it. And sometimes awful opinions can reflect morality, even when using the "ITS JUST A SHOW" card.
Kano on the Phone
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Well this thread turned the corner from bad to unreadable. I never thought I could get nostalgic for the days of The Fly when just one in maybe ten posts was completely awful, but it happened.
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To be fair, this thread is filled with 2 kinds of people:
1) People just giving in and joining in on the same argument we've had for years
2) People criticizing that the same argument keeps taking place over and over and it suxx
Until there is a 3 where people actively try to construct a different kind of discussion, I say, carry on!
1) People just giving in and joining in on the same argument we've had for years
2) People criticizing that the same argument keeps taking place over and over and it suxx
Until there is a 3 where people actively try to construct a different kind of discussion, I say, carry on!
Spotless Mind
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While Jesse is an entertaining character, he has always been a dumb, ignorant low-life. Walt blackmailed him into cooking with him, but he was already a willing participant in the drug trade. As weird as it sounds, i think his experiences with Walt have actually molded him into a (slightly) better person. He's much more sympathetic than Walt, but that doesn't really mean much... lol.
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forrealz, it's like one beautiful shot after another
I think the show attempts to portray Jesse as growing into a better person while Walt keeps getting lower and lower, but it's not enough of a correlation to call it a counterpoint. I do think he's taken a lot of what Walt *says* to heart about family and trust and loyalty (while acting on none of it himself), and so may represent something close to what Walt thinks he himself is.
Eh it would be the first time in the entire show she shown even the semblance of courage or hard work. Would be a silly plot twist and not really believable after these past seasons of cowardice and head in the sand greed.
I love Walt jr. I wish he had more to do beyond love breakfast and mustangs.
Spotless Mind
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The cinematography in this episode was amazing, but sometimes all the fancy shots almost felt a bit too much. He doesn't seem to know the meaning of restraint. I don't have a big problem with his directing, but i can understand how others might.
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I will shed man tears if Walt is indeed rocking the M60 to go back for Jesse or something. I don't see how that could happen and make sense but one can hope.
Uno Venova
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Same thing that happened last season, i don't know how people stay here.
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