Posted on 09/10/2013 11:21:52 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Its a modern sopranos
The "good" DEA character is Gomez, who is clearly intended to be a foil: Hank as he should have been. And I'm betting Gomie is dead...
It never did.
Because it’s a great show. Not pretty, but then again, neither is life.
I meant for people who are looking for it.
I took it as - she’s his employer, she’s dissatisfied with his product, and he’s trying to do better - or possibly “hey, if I can get her to like me, maybe she’ll be ok with 76%” - hahaha
Vince Gilligan did the underwear thing on purpose. It’s supposed to be symbolic of his having given up at a certain stage of emotional/moral development.
i didn’t think it was strange. i see it as the todd/lydia pair becoming stronger than the todd/walt pair. don’t think lydia won’t exploit this if need be.
i think this eventually comes into play in walt’s demise. sh1t happens, says todd. he dealt with mike. he was’going to deal with jesse. if walt’s’not cooking and lydia wants a loose end gone, well, nothing personal mr white...
i agree.
It looked like Gomey might have gotten shot. I agree that he is one of the few good guys on the show. The other one is Walt Jr.
My latest predictions:
Todd will kill Jesse.
Skylar will kill someone, probably Lydia
Marie will try to poison someone.
Walt will kill Jack, Todd and several of their henchmen.
Hank will die.
THAT’S the succinct description I have trying to pull together in my head. THANK YOU!! Walt really lost me when
he turned on Gus. He had the perfect set-up to just cook,
and not have to deal with moving the merchandise. But he
still wasn’t content. Right now, I want to see Walt suffer.
But I could change my mind, based on where things go, I guess. What a show. I also resisted watching it till this year.
Yes indeed. Though I think it’s easier to relate to the characters in BB than in Sopranos.
also, about not wasting anythng on screen....
watch out for something to happen with the remote-controlled car’by hank’s neighbor kid. that thing’s been on twice, once run over’by marie, the next time at walt/hank’s’fight. remote controlled kaboom.
I’ll admit I erred in saying he’s of the “highest” moral character but Hank has always been shown to be lawful. His obsession at some points in the show cause him to teeter close to falling apart and becoming a bad guy but he never goes beyond breaking like Walt did. At best, he’s a warning against obsession but he’s still a “good” character.
His greatest failings IIRC are towards Jessie. He has no concern for him but he isn’t allowing himself to cross the line and lie/kill/disgrace himself. He could easily just kill Walt secretly and leave him in the desert but even Walt know Hank isn’t a dirty cop.
Might start a trend.
you’d be surprised too if you saw a dead guy.
goes back to this gunfight, he is somehow able’to fake his death, with help or left for dead but isn’t.
That’s the only way I can see the show ending. They can’t let him get away with it, and Walt going to jail would be anticlimactic. The best way for them to end it is for Walt to die, probably in the course of trying to save someone else. That way, they can partially redeem the character, but he still pays some consequences.
So, yes, Walt did have this side of him within; but, it took something bad happening to him (terminal cancer) to bring out the worst. And, the worst was brought out because he had "good intentions" (the road to hell, anybody). He wanted, as Jesse said, to leave something for his "people". He had even figured out exactly how much he would need, and that was his goal, in the beginning.
And, that is when the Devil intervened to take those "good intentions" and produce a horrifying result.
So, yes, we all contain the possibility of such evil deeds; but, he did begin as a very bland kind-of character. High school teacher, lives in the suburbs, nice wife, nice kid (with some problems), exteneded family. Normal life, doing everything he is supposed to do, take care of his family, work hard at his job --- and, it was all for naught. He was dying, he snapped. As you say, harsh and stressful circumstances.
So, perhaps he was not a "good" person, because he has shown what was inside; or, perhaps he was just ordinary and circumstances brought out that very bad person that can live in all of us.
this is the brilliance and the realness of the show. it shows allthe people, that under different types of stress, the inherent weaknesses of their own humanity comes’through.
we all have weaknesses and all have different lines, and when stressed do things not in our normal moral scope, and also as you get used to doing them, those lines move. rationalization, 2nd greatest human drive.
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