Breaking Bad: Final Season Discussion

• TedSheckler

  

  Pick6;1491189 wrote:That's what I thought too, about him finding out it was Walt that poisoned the kid, but I thought Walt poisioned him with the Lilly of the Valley plant or whatever,not ricin?

  
  He did use Lilly of the Valley. Saul had Huell pickpocket Jesse of the Ricin back then. Jesse suspected that, but Walt was able to convince him that wasn't the case and the Gus has poisoned him.
  
  When Jesse realized that the same thing just happened with the weed, he put 2 and 2 together.
  
  It's a bit of a stretch the Jesse realizes what really happened with Huell lifting his pot, but I guess they had to do it somehow.
• gut

  Walt seems to be more of master "fixer" rather than some elaborate schemer (which really makes the whole ricin thing implausibly and unnecessarily intricate).
  
  Just like with Hank - I don't think Walt planned to use paying for the medical bills (thought he was against it initially, anyway). But now when Hank becomes a problem Walt is able to piece together a fix. (and, by the way, WELL PLAYED Heisenberg).
• gut

  TedSheckler;1491191 wrote: It's a bit of a stretch the Jesse realizes what really happened with Huell lifting his pot, but I guess they had to do it somehow.

  Besides being a stretch, I just thought it was stupid because how does Jesse have this epiphany of Walt manipulating him when A) Brock wasn't poisoned with ricin and B) he and Walt found the vial.
  
  I guess I didn't understand that whole sequence as intended - never really saw the missing ricin cig as so critical to Jesse's manipulation. I guess maybe Jesse had to blame himself so that he would NEED to be at the hospital, creating the opportunity for a divide with Gustavo demanding to keep to the schedule.
• se-alum

  

  Yea, Jesse's epiphany was definitely a stretch, which is why I think it was confusing to a lot of people.
• gut

  You know what else was kind of stupid? The guy wiping blood off his shoe and the papertowel doesn't flush, as if that's supposed to be some sort of potential breadcrumb.
• TedSheckler

  

  I'm sure that will tie in something down the road.
• ZWICK 4 PREZ

  

  gut;1491186 wrote:Ummm, no, that was Jesse realizing Walt poisoned the kid. Although it did seem like a bit of a magical epiphany ("hey, they took my weed...OMG that's how they did it with the ricin cigarette!"). IDK, I thought Jesse knew they took the ricin. I didn't think it went back in the pack after Walt "found" it in the sweeper.
  
  But I don't really like how they made Jesse go all whiny bitch all of a sudden. I get that he has a conscience, but the whiny bitch part is kind of a regression for his character.
  
  And the gasoline thing was pretty ridiculous when we've already seen the house later and I don't believe it was burnt out.

  Oh ok.. I just assumed the way Jesse lit up in his office that that was foreshadowing he was going to smoke the ricin... Either way, like you said.. it's a reach to come to that conclusion.
• wes_mantooth

  

  It may have been a bit of a reach, but I thought this episode was a helluva lot better than last weeks.
• Raw Dawgin' it

  

  gut;1491198 wrote:Besides being a stretch, I just thought it was stupid because how does Jesse have this epiphany of Walt manipulating him when A) Brock wasn't poisoned with ricin and B) he and Walt found the vial.
  
  I guess I didn't understand that whole sequence as intended - never really saw the missing ricin cig as so critical to Jesse's manipulation. I guess maybe Jesse had to blame himself so that he would NEED to be at the hospital, creating the opportunity for a divide with Gustavo demanding to keep to the schedule.

  Walt planted and found a fake vial in jesses vacuum if I remember correctly and jesse doesn't know that it was lilly of the valley right? Didn't he go into the hospital and tell the doctors it was ricin which led to him being investigated?
• Raw Dawgin' it

  

  wes_mantooth;1491240 wrote:It may have been a bit of a reach, but I thought this episode was a helluva lot better than last weeks.

  the confession tape was great.
• ZWICK 4 PREZ

  

  Raw Dawgin' it;1491242 wrote:Walt planted and found a fake vial in jesses vacuum if I remember correctly and jesse doesn't know that it was lilly of the valley right? Didn't he go into the hospital and tell the doctors it was ricin which led to him being investigated?

  Jesse knew b/c the detectives let him go when it wasn't ricin.
• Fab4Runner

  

  I think everyone is trying really hard to read something into every little detail, and trying even harder to guess what is going to happen. I am the opposite. I remember most of the details of the previous seasons, but I am not going to drive myself crazy trying to figure out what every single thing means. I don't care that Jesse's epiphany seemed "weak"...to me, it served it's purpose. I am just going to sit back and enjoy the remaining episodes. I don't need or want to try to guess how it ends.
• Manhattan Buckeye

  "Walt planted and found a fake vial in jesses vacuum if I remember correctly"
  
  Most likely, but he did it (season 5) after Jesse was told Brock suffered from exposure to Lily of the Valley (season 4). I enjoyed the episode but as many people mentioned, that epiphany was a bit hard to swallow, and seemed like a plot device to get them against each other again. I even read somewhere that Gilligan's initial idea wasn't this, they just decided to go this route when they were told the series would be extended beyond season 4.
• TedSheckler

  

  Dean Norris (Hank) spoils the Breaking Bad ending.
  
  http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/636264ec55/dean-norris-spoils-breaking-bad
• ptown_trojans_1

  

  Raw Dawgin' it;1491243 wrote:the confession tape was great.

  That was just awesome. And Hank and Maria's face were just great.
  
  It was a great episode overall. Loving the end of the series.
• gut

  ptown_trojans_1;1491425 wrote:That was just awesome. And Hank and Maria's face were just great.
  
  It was a great episode overall. Loving the end of the series.

  Gotta admit, probably should have seen that coming but I didn't. I thought when Walt made the tape he was about to fake his death or go on the run.
  
  Hank's reaction was classic too. We're all blown away by everything in that video, but I think all Hank heard was "$177k?!?" But Walt really did a great job of laying it all out for Hank why he had a lot more to worry about than just losing his job.
• gut

  I still think Walt's undoing is that skinhead gang. They set that up, too, with Todd claiming he can do the cook.
• Manhattan Buckeye

  Yes the confession tape was pure genius.
  
  It is genius that one of the few things Walt said that was true (or at least partially true) re paying Hank's medical bill is the piece that destroys Hank's "lack of case" unless they go down with him.
• wes_mantooth

  

  Raw Dawgin' it;1491243 wrote:the confession tape was great.

  
  Yeah...it didn't matter what else happened....that made it an awesome episode
• I Wear Pants

  I didn't think Jesse realizing what happened was a stretch. He had initially thought Walt was the one who did it and thought he took the ricin from him before Walt convinced him it was Gus. When he realized that Huell took his weed he very well could have realized that he could have taken the cigarettes too and then put it together.
• Manhattan Buckeye

  It is still completely convoluted. Plus, why did he scream at Saul that the ricin was used to hurt Brock when he knew it didn't? Seemed like very sloppy writing.
  
  And the set-up wasn't that great. So a guy that is going to take Jesse away for $125,000 cash gives a crap that he has a (very small) bag of weed on him, that Saul cares enough that he tells Huell (in the 4 seconds he is offscreen) where the bag is (and we can see Huell take it), not knowing whether Jesse has another bag in his back pocket? What is Saul's motivation? If this guy is that dangerous just have Huell take it from Jesse physically.
  
  It wouldn't be the first contrived plot point in the show's history - Mike's willing to put his guys in danger to try to make Jesse feel like a hero was contrived. But this was much more so, like trying to connect dots that even the viewer has trouble connecting, yet Jesse does so in 3 seconds?
  
  I still enjoyed the episode. But, yeah, it was a huge, huge stretch for him to figure it out so quickly.
• Manhattan Buckeye

  New episode this evening, title is "Rabid Dog." Who is the rabid dog and will someone die?
  
  BTW the more I think about I really hate the lottery ticket thing. We all know it will get lost or destroyed and although we know Walt screws up a lot, there are dozens of ways to have evidenced the coordinates than putting it on an easily destroyed piece of paper in plain view on the refrigerator.
• GOONx19

  

  
• gut

  Manhattan Buckeye;1494215 wrote:New episode this evening, title is "Rabid Dog." Who is the rabid dog and will someone die?

  Obviously Jesse is a rabid dog. And what do you do with rabid dogs?
  
  Or it may be quite literal just to keep us guessing. But there are, what - 3 or 4 shows left counting tonight? However Walt going back for the ricin makes me think Jesse is in it until the end (although Hank smokes cigars).
• Laley23

  

  5 counting tonight. We have only had 3...right???