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[Solo]

0/2 between Skysky and Fly Solo....

........?

 

[Solo]

I don't know if I would use the word "neutral" to describe the reaction towards Fly. It's probably the most love/hate episode in the series.

GAF built it up as the absolute worst/best of the series. Then I watched it, and it was a very good episode and a nice meditation on Walt's mental state at that time, but that was it. A fine episode, but the series has had many episodes better than Fly, and many worse than it.

Fly is GAF hyperbole at its worst.

I'm with Solo. I usually watch a couple of episodes before going back in the thread and reading comments. When I watched Fly, I thought it was a solid episode: an excellent entry in a fantastic serial. Great, I wonder what will happen next week.

Only upon entering this thread did I find it was the cause of controversy, and divisiveness.

Bingo.

 

[Spotless Mind]

GAF built it up as the absolute worst/best of the series. Then I watched it, and it was a very good episode and a nice meditation on Walt's mental state at that time, but that was it. A fine episode, but the series has had many episodes better than Fly, and many worse than it.

Fly is GAF hyperbole at its worst.

It's not just GAF. It's the Breaking Bad fanbase at large. The people that hate it REALLY hate it, so i think the people that like or love it feel the need to defend it more fervently. This type of hyperbole happens all the time with pretty much every fanbase, so it doesn't bother me too much.

I'm with you on the episode. It's great imo, but not close to the shows best.

 

[Solo]

I would probably honestly find it very hard to choose a best episode. There is at least one viable candidate from all 5 seasons, which speaks to the consistency of the show.

 

[-Pyromaniac-]

I look down on people who don't like Fly. They just don't get it. I'm currently sneering at them all right now.

 

[BenjaminBirdie]

Yeah knowing it was the last scene of the half season, the second it cut to Hank going to the restroom I immediately knew hew was going to find out, took some of the wind out of the sails of that reveal.

Still love him finding on the shitter though.

And that the first thing we'll hear next "season" is the flush, guaranteed.

SO PERFECT.

 

[Chili]

The Fly was a great episode. While other specific episodes in that season are a little vague and blurry, all melding into one another, I vividly remember The Fly because of it's uniqueness. It was like an episode of The Sopranos in the Breaking Bad world. It was about the core of the show - Walt and Jessie and their relationship (but personal and professional) with one another. Not every episode needs to advance the overall plot. The characters of Walt and Jessie are more than enough alone to carry an episode.

 

[blainethemono]

The Fly was a great episode. While other specific episodes in that season are a little vague and blurry, all melding into one another, I vividly remember The Fly because of it's uniqueness. It was like an episode of The Sopranos in the Breaking Bad world. It was about the core of the show - Walt and Jessie and their relationship (but personal and professional) with one another. Not every episode needs to advance the overall plot. The characters of Walt and Jessie are more than enough alone to carry an episode.

Alan Sepinwall compared it to Pine Barrens in his review of the episode

And it was through that attempt at minimalism and frugality that we got the "Breaking Bad" equivalent of the "Pine Barrens" episode of "The Sopranos." Only this one was, heresy though it may be, better.

Both "Pine Barrens" and "Fly" were black comedies about crooks out of their element (Paulie and Christopher lost in the woods, Walt and Jesse trying to play exterminator), but much as I love "Pine Barrens," it stayed in that minor key. "Fly" started out as slapstick; one critic on Twitter compared it, not inaccurately, to Wile E. Coyote trying to catch the Road Runner, and certainly Walt's fall off the railing was as broad a moment as this show has had. But as Jesse realized the only way to control Walt's obsession with the fly was to play along, it turned into something much darker, and deeper, and tenser, until we got to that riveting scene where Jesse is standing atop the rickety ladder, with his only support coming from a Walt who's barely conscious from sleeping pills, and Walt is talking about Jane, and we wonder...

...will this be the moment Walt finally fesses up about what he did?

 

[TheOMan]

2/2 between Skysky and Fly Solo....

Aaaaaaand fixed.

 

[Solo]

S2 is the only one I can't instantly think of an episode that made my pants explode with a thunderous boner.

S1 - Crazy Handful Of Nothin'
S2 - ?
S3 - Half Measures
S4 - Crawl Space
S5 - Dead Freight

(there are more than one for each season, but I just chose the one for each that had the greatest effect).

EDIT: Phoenix may be it for S2.

 

[dave is ok]

S2 is the only one I can't instantly think of an episode that made my pants explode with a thunderous boner.

S1 - Crazy Handful Of Nothin'
S2 - ?
S3 - Half Measures
S4 - Crawl Space
S5 - Dead Freight

(there are more than one for each season, but I just chose the one for each that had the greatest effect).

EDIT: Phoenix may be it for S2.

Every episode in S2 made my pants explode with a thunderous boner.

Grilled, Peekabo, Down, Better Call Saul, Phoenix, etc.

 

[mernst23]

+1 for Fly being the worst episode of the series.

I think Half Measures is the best

 

[Ciastek3214]

Which scene is this from?

 

[Chili]

Alan Sepinwall compared it to Pine Barrens in his review of the episode

That's a pretty good comparison. Pine Barrens is one of my favourite episodes of anything ever!

 

[ezekial45]

Which scene is this from?

It sounds like it's from Face Off, when Walter is getting the money from the crawl space after getting Gus' men to leave the house.

 

[Ciastek3214]

It sounds like it's from Face Off, when Walter is getting the money from the crawl space after getting Gus' men to leave the house.

Nope.

 

[kehs]

........?

The most important BB issues. You're 0 for 2.

 

[jonezer4]

Which scene is this from?

The fact that it's called "Searching For Jesse" makes me wonder if it's at some point when Jesse goes to work with Mike and Walt is worried that they have killed him.

 

[Ciastek3214]

The fact that it's called "Searching For Jesse" makes me wonder if it's at some point when Jesse goes to work with Mike and Walt is worried that they have killed him.

I figured that out, which episode though?

 

[kehs]

I figured that out, which episode though?

Shotgun.

 

[Vlad]

I figured that out, which episode though?

It could be from "Shotgun" if that's the case, during the scene where Walt's driving the Aztec to Los Pollos to try and get Jesse's whereabouts from Gus (also when he made the "I love you" call to Skyler).

 

[Ciastek3214]

Nope again.

 

[Stet]

Half Measures is a great episode, but Fly is better.

 

[blahblah...blah]

I just thought of something: what if Walt tells Hank that the book was from Gretchen? Remember, her last name is Black!

 

[dave is ok]

I just thought of something: what if Walt tells Hank that the book was from Gretchen? Remember, her last name is Black!

Oh you tricksy motherfucker

 

[Stet]

I just thought of something: what if Walt tells Hank that the book was from Gretchen? Remember, her last name is Black!

Let's talk about this in detail for the next fifteen pages!!

 

[Solo]

I just thought of something: what if Walt tells Hank that the book was from Gretchen? Remember, her last name is Black!

Handwriting analysis would kill this.

 

[dave is ok]

Handwriting analysis would kill this.

Also that Gretchen's name isn't Black and Hank already knows that Gale has another favorite W.W.

But if you look at what you quoted, he was just jokes.

 

[Ciastek3214]

Come on guys, you can find a scene where one track plays in 54 episode show? For shame.

 

[blahblah...blah]

Also, did anyone notice that Mike was going to shoot Jesse when they fled form the Cartel villa in season 4? (Sorry, I swear I'll stop now!)

 

[dave is ok]

Also, did anyone notice that Mike was going to shoot Jesse when they fled form the Cartel villa in season 4? (Sorry, I swear I'll stop now!)

Hanks cane pointed at Gus and Merkel. I think they are in cahoots - and Gomie is a cartel mole.

 

[Solo]

I'll be curious to see how Hank handles this. The book doesn't directly finger Walt as Heisenberg, but its the best thing he's found so far.

 

[CassSept]

Handwriting analysis would kill this.

It's a joke, people had been reposting this "theory" over and over and over again during the first ~three days or so after broadcast, while it's simply not true at all.

 

[TrumanBurbank]

Which scene is this from?

Haha, I think I heard some of it during the train heist.

 

[Solo]

It's a joke, people had been reposting this "theory" over and over and over again during the first ~three days or so after broadcast, while it's simply not true at all.

Well, I wasn't there in those first three days

*sticks out tongue*

 

[Shanlei91]

I feel like almost every detail in this show contributes to the plot in some way shape or form. Nothing is just there for the sake of existing.

With that said, ricin better be put into one of Hank's special brewed beer bottles.

 

[blahblah...blah]

Ciastek, it's from the end of Crawl Space. 100%.

 

[kehs]

Come on guys, you can find a scene where one track plays in 54 episode show? For shame.

It sounds like it would be from Full Measure when Walt gets Jesse out of the lab.

 

[Ciastek3214]

Ciastek, it's from the end of Crawl Space. 100%.

Nope.

 

[jonezer4]

It's a joke, people had been reposting this "theory" over and over and over again during the first ~three days or so after broadcast, while it's simply not true at all.

Certainly one of the stupidest theories of all time too. "It's a book from Gretchen... that happens to be by Gale's favorite author... and happens to be inscribed to 'my OTHER favorite W.W. ... in Gale's very particular handwriting." Walt's a helluva liar, but not quite that good.

 

[blahblah...blah]

Nope.

Grr, you're right as well! That's this track (which does sound similar in parts).

 

[Ciastek3214]

It sounds like it would be from Full Measure when Walt gets Jesse out of the lab.

Wrong.

 

[mernst23]

Certainly one of the stupidest theories of all time too. "It's a book from Gretchen... that happens to be by Gale's favorite author... and happens to be inscribed to 'my OTHER favorite W.W. ... in Gale's very particular handwriting." Walt's a helluva liar, but not quite that good.

I don't see why it's that outlandish. Don't get me wrong, I think Hank will see through the bullshit either way, but assuming Gretchen's maiden name starts with a B (which we don't know and easily can be written as so), this will be Walt's bullshit excuse at first if confronted about the inscription.

Now the people claiming her last name is"Black" are stupid/not paying attention.

 

[Solo]

I don't see why it's that outlandish. Don't get me wrong, I think Hank will see through the bullshit either way, but assuming Gretchen's maiden name starts with a B (which we don't know and easily can be written as so), this will be Walt's bullshit excuse at first if confronted about the inscription.

I could see Walt bullshitting this as a means to get Hank away while he flees, sure. Based on 5.01, he's definitely on the run. Now, that doesn't necessarily mean on the run from the DEA....

 

[Ciastek3214]

I challenge you all to prove your BB love. What episode is this track from?

 

[rekameohs]

S2 is the only one I can't instantly think of an episode that made my pants explode with a thunderous boner.

S1 - Crazy Handful Of Nothin'
S2 - ?
S3 - Half Measures
S4 - Crawl Space
S5 - Dead Freight

(there are more than one for each season, but I just chose the one for each that had the greatest effect).

EDIT: Phoenix may be it for S2.

For me, the best season 2 ep would be Peekaboo, though saying "thunderous boner" in that one would obviously cause some issues.

 

[Solo]

That's the one with the ATM head smush, no?

 

[rekameohs]

That's the one with the ATM head smush, no?

Yeah, with Jesse helping the junkies' kid.

 

[Cornballer]

Which scene is this from?

Nope.

I figured that out, which episode though?

Nope again.

Come on guys, you can find a scene where one track plays in 54 episode show? For shame.

Nope.

Wrong.

I challenge you all to prove your BB love. What episode is this track from?

Is there any particular reason why this is so important to you?

 

[Solo]

Where are these from, Corny?