Posted on 09/02/2013 10:50:34 AM PDT by RetSignman
I have a couple of questions about Breaking Bad.
Thanks for the link, I think that explains things as good as it can be explained.
Obviously, I’m going to have to pay more attention to dialogue and action which are not completely obvious.
The female of the human species is the more lethal when things get existential.
She has a real dark side and is a better criminal than Walt.
Hey, Uncle Leo also went bad, in “The Outlaw Josey Wales”.
Yep, but Jesse is PO’d because he finally figured out that Walt used him and poisoned Brock, the little boy.
I’m still trying to figure out how Jerry’s dentist could go so wrong.
Last night on Talking Bad, Skylar said that Gilligan (writer/producer) made it very clear that he did not want Skylar to be a victim. He wants her to be “Mrs. Heisenberg”.
Walt and Jessie made the ricin in season 1 and spiked some meth with it to kill Tuco. The plan didn’t work as it made the meth smell bad and when Jessie tried to explain why (chili powder) Tuco wouldn’t snort the meth since he hated chili powder.
Walt didn’t poison the kid with ricin.
He used oleander. His intention wasn’t necessarily murder. The conclusion of season finale closed on an oleander plant in Walt’s possession.
Brock did not die and was not poisoned with ricin but with "Lily of the Valley."
Covering my ears; we’re only up to the 3rd season!
you missed too much to answer all that
watch and you’ll see
everything is interconnected
Good point, but it was Lily of the Valley, not Oleander. The Ricin cigarette was meant for Gus, but Jesse thought it poisoned the kid? Also, the kid didn’t die, but I can’t remember what happened to the girl and the child, I think Jesse gave them money to disappear?
I must be so stupid because I think that Walt isn’t pure evil! Last night, he was going to explain to Jesse why he had to poison Brock, right? That guy Jesse thought was a killer was just a daddy dude at the mall right? Help me out here!
“I must be so stupid because I think that Walt isn’t pure evil!”
Ah, and that’s the hook. That’s what I liked about The Shield, The Wire, and Rogue. You get to know the characters and then the lines become blurred about what is right and what is wrong. Do the ends justify the means? The way these producers bring out the moral dilemmas is brilliant.
Not long after, Brock, the young son of the woman Jesse was living with, fell mysteriously ill. Jesse abandoned a meth cook in progress, putting him in peril of being killed by Fring.
Jesse soon realized that the capsule of ricin Walt gave him was missing from his cigarette pack and thought Brock might have accidentally consumed it, thus putting the boy's life in jeopardy.
Walt though convinced Jesse that Fring was responsible for Brock's illness as a warning to Jesse. This helped Walt convince Jesse that Fring had to be killed, which Walter did using a bomb. Walt also feared that Jesse might consolidate his relationship with Fring, making Walt disposable as a meth cook.
In the most recent episode, Jesse realized that he did not misplace the ricin capsule but that Walt had Saul's bodyguard, Huell, lift his pack of cigarettes in order to take the ricin capsule. Jesse thus realizes that he was played by Saul and Walt in order to help pit him and Fring against each other.
The true dimensions of Walt's cleverness and wickedness is also now better recognized by the viewers. We realize that Walt did in fact poison Brock, not with ricin, but with an extract from Lily of the Valley, a popular but highly toxic ornamental plant that was identified by Brock's doctors as the cause of his poisoning.
Walt no doubt carefully calibrated the dose and selected that toxin because children are known to sometimes eat the red berries of Lily of the Field, thus providing a ready explanation for Brock's poisoning.
Moreover, in order to cover his tracks, Walter planted the missing capsule of ricin in Jesse's Roomba vacuum cleaner, then pretended to discover and dispose of it in Jesse's presence. In truth, Walt kept the capsule of ricin against a need to use it some day. In retrieving the capsule, Walt obviously intends to poison someone.
Like Jesse, the Breaking Bad audience is now forced to reevaluate his prior conduct and recognize that he is far more clever and sinister than he seemed.
You are clearly an anti-dentite.
he genuinely’does care abut jesse. it’s showing a person who is capable of awful things is capable of love and care for others. loyalty to someone. jesse did save him, and walt also saved jesse before. it’ real all the stuff they went thru. while walt needs him gone, trying to get out of town, it would have also at the same time been good for jesse to get out of town and start fresh somewhere else.
no,they told him it wasn’t ricin.
there’s no cure for ricin poisoning. kid would have died.
the popularity of series based on drug dealers and serial killers does not bode well for our civilization. When people go see a movie like “Saw” and laugh, they show their true natures.
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