Todd Is a Reflection of Breaking Bad’s Other Characters

Vulture.com ^ | September 10, 2013 | Margaret Lyons

[ItsOurTimeNow]

Yep. He said it himself to Jesse at the beginning of season 5. Partners, not employees. The cut will be smaller, but a larger slice of the pie.

It’s an amazing turnabout. Walt was so bitter over getting out of Gray Matter, losing out on “billions” and being frustrated over having to settle for teaching High School chemistry. Being a brilliant man, knowing he was destined for greater things. But instead of being a big shot doing something good, he ended up being a big shot for something horrible. A parody of himself.

A brilliantly deep character.

[ItsOurTimeNow]

>>It’s supposed to be symbolic of his having given up at a certain stage of emotional/moral development.<<

That’s actually pretty amazing...I didn’t know that.

[Secret Agent Man]

i thought so too but i think he was grimacing at incoming shotgun rounds hitting real close to him, in the dirt or off the truck.

i think gomez and hank are done. the foreshadowing call to marie, i may not be home for awhile, teary love you stuff.

jesse may play against walt, saying he’ll cook for them, help todd, and hey, walt’s money’is out here too.

[FredZarguna]

The other one is Walt Jr.

Unquestionably.

My predictions after yours.

• Todd will kill Jesse.
  Todd will take Jesse hostage and force him to cook.
• Skylar will kill someone, probably Lydia
  She will do something truly wicked -- don't know about Lydia; Skyler's transmogrification to the dark side is nearly complete.
• Marie will try to poison someone.
  Marie will go nuts. Because Hank is dead.
• Walt will kill Jack, Todd and several of their henchmen.
  Walt will try to do that, and as usual will fail epically. He'll also be taken hostage and forced to cook, and somehow will use science to kill everyone except maybe Jesse.
• Hank will die.
  Hank is already dead. So is Gomez.
• Additionally: Saul will die or go to jail.
• Additionally: The plot will be resolved in such a way that Walter Jr. never learns the truth about his parents.
• Additionally: I believe 50/50 that Jesse lives; but either way, things will be OK financially for Brock and his mom.

Disclaimer: If anything's predictable about the show, it's that nothing is predictable.

[LibertarianLiz]

Walt in his tightie-whities;

I'm not sure they can be called tightie whities. They always seem a bit baggy to me.

[Sawdring]

I have been watching the Bridge and it is pretty good. Low Winter Sun has been kind of boring but I’m still watching it for some reason.

[cripplecreek]

Flint and Jackson did get a shoutout on Low winter sun.

The councilwoman threatened that the detective would end up on patrol in Flint and when they were looking for criminals to pin the murder on it turned out that their first choice was doing time in Jackson.

[FredZarguna]

Sorry, but we must agree to disagree: right now he's using Jesse in a way that is thoroughly disgusting in light of the fact that he's said he doesn't care what happens to the "worthless little junkie murderer." Good people don't say or think things like that.

He has also "crossed the line" several times. He committed aggravated criminal battery against Jesse, and against a minor drug dealer in a bar for no reason other than to convince himself he wasn't a coward.

[ItsOurTimeNow]

Right now, there are 4 people that know where Walt’s money is buried.

Given that he uses a bucket load of (presumably) that money to finance a new ID and an M-60, I assume that Hank and Gomez don’t make it out of the desert. If they do, they’re in a coma or somesuch.

I don’t think Jesse dies from the shootout. I think he gets kidnapped and forced to cook by Jack & Co.

Marie leaks the truth about Walt to the media, Skylar and the kids go into hiding (at Walt’s expense through Saul’s contact), Walt disappears separately - gets new ID and gun - and goes to final shootout with Jack & Co. - whether to rescue Jesse or finish the job I can’t decide.

The ricin is for himself - so the cancer doesn’t drag him through the gutter before it kills him.

[Secret Agent Man]

the good intentions is the rationalization i mentioned earlier.

his good intentions gets a lot of people killed and that many more hooked’up on a horrible family-destroying, criminal-enterprise-sustaining drug. gives no care to the junkies hooked’on is good intentions.

it’s why i say i can see someone like walt do this. the one thing lacking in the characters is they are totally secular people, no’religious inklings at all. my own christian morals prevent me from rationalizing his solution away as a potential option for me as a person. for a character like walt however, without seeing inherent value in people he can make choices i couldn’t.

[Secret Agent Man]

he won’t use the ricin on himself, it’s too long. it’s not cyanide.

[Sawdring]

I hate that, too. I hate that I don't like him anymore. I wanted to keep liking him and I wanted him to succeed in providing for his family even if it was due to short-lived criminal activity. It just became more than that to him. That's the part I really hate.

I'm still rooting or Walt and I don't like Pinkman anymore.

[Lazamataz]

Personally, I believe that at the end of the last episode, the Syrian war breaks out, and Marie, then Skyler, then Walt, then Saul are all shown in rapid succession staring blankly at the EMERGENCY BROADCAST SYSTEM transmission that informs the public that nuclear missiles have been detected inbound to the United States from Russia.

(roll credits)

[Secret Agent Man]

you are correct abut hank. the show has shown all the major characters crossing their own lines revealing their inherent personal flaws.

[ItsOurTimeNow]

lol...I hadn’t noticed that.

But I wish they’d stop dressing Holly like a pink teddy bear...that won’t bode well for her.

[Lazamataz]

HEY! Quit watching that vile show!!!

[Secret Agent Man]

i figure marie goes’nuts for a second, loses control and accidentally hurts one of the kids, probably the baby.

[FredZarguna]

Probably for the same reason I am. It's on afterBreaking Bad and there aint much else playing on a Sunday night.

[Sawdring]

It doesn’t promote or glamorize drug use despite the claims. It’s like saying Othello promotes domestic abuse or Hamlet glamorizes violence.

You don't think this is glamorous? Wendy Song!

[ItsOurTimeNow]

Well said.