Breaking Bad

[thom]

This week's outlook on Walt killing his entire family:

FAIR to GOOD.

[Kormod]

I don't know about his ENTIRE family, but I could see Skyler getting offed if she continues to be disobedient. Heisenberg's gotta be Heisenberg.

[nec13]

This week's outlook on Walt killing his entire family:

FAIR to GOOD.

I speculated on this a few pages ago. Now that I've had time to think about it, I can't see him going through with such a thing. I think there's a remote possibility that he could have Skyler killed, but he definitely wouldn't murder his own children. They're not even parties to this really. Skyler, on the other hand, knows WAY too much.

[cavorting with nudists]

I haven't been reading this item because, not having cable, I'm dependent on Netflix for watching the show and thus am just up near the end of Season Four.  Can't read this item because I know you're all talking about Season Five, BUT: I have a desperate situation here:

I am majorly confused about the final minutes of Season Four, Episode 11.  Walt is ready to take his family out of town and assume a new identity, but is shattered to find that his store of cash has been depleted by Skyler's gift to Ted.

Huh? Didn't Skyler give something under 7 hundred G's to Ted? Walt finds some cash in his cellar, but not much, apparently not even enough to give Saul's "Disappear" guy half a million.  I had thought he had MILLIONS AND MILLIONS stored down there (not to mention in the walls of the laundry room)--was I way off?  Seriously, I don't get this.  Can anyone help me out?

[Bryan]

I was a bit thrown by that too, but I think that Hank's medical expenses (and Walt's too), and the purchase of the car wash had eaten into his nest egg.

[Kormod]

You have to remember that, while Walt was making a ton of money every month, he hadn't been manufacturing meth long enough to really amass a fortune. By the end of Season 4, he'd only been at it for about a year (he turns 51 in Season 5). And in addition to all the expenses mentioned earlier, Saul gets a hefty cut from the money Walt makes.

And my memory's kind of hazy, but I seem to remember that part of Walt's agreement with Gus was that Jesse's pay would come out of Walt's earnings (which were about a million dollars a month).

[cavorting with nudists]

Hmm, fair enough.  I guess it's kinda like being Michael Jackson: unimaginable wealth pouring in, but oy, the expenses.

I'd forgotten about buying the car wash, though given Skyler's determination that they not make any show of having money at all, I'd have expected them to go the usual channels and get a business loan rather than pay cash for it.

Come to think of it--she was stunned when she realized how much time it was going to take to launder the money Walt was bringing in, so how did they launder the cash fast enough to buy the car wash?

If I pursue this train of thought I might start coming to the conclusion that a lot of really popular, well made TV shows are, upon examination, infested with plot holes!

[fonpr]

If I pursue this train of thought I might start coming to the conclusion that a lot of really popular, well made TV shows are, upon examination, infested with plot holes!

My experience supports that idea. 

It's true for much more than just really popular, well made TV shows.

[nec13]

I think I've finally come around to Skyler's way of thinking vis a vis Walt. What a miserable SOB that guy is.

[dave from knoxville]

If I pursue this train of thought I might start coming to the conclusion that a lot of really popular, well made TV shows are, upon examination, infested with plot holes!

My experience supports that idea. 

It's true for much more than just really popular, well made TV shows.

Sounds like my month.

[fonpr]

If I pursue this train of thought I might start coming to the conclusion that a lot of really popular, well made TV shows are, upon examination, infested with plot holes!

My experience supports that idea. 

It's true for much more than just really popular, well made TV shows.

Sounds like my month.

Take really large steps, Dave.

[B_Buster]

I thought the bit where Walt was able to predict his brother-in-law's actions in advance so he could bug his office/computer was really dumb. And the climax was like something out of a Bond movie with lots of shots of a time bomb about to go off, but in this instance it was a gauge on a tank.

[dave from knoxville]

I thought the bit where Walt was able to predict his brother-in-law's actions in advance so he could bug his office/computer was really dumb. And the climax was like something out of a Bond movie with lots of shots of a time bomb about to go off, but in this instance it was a gauge on a tank.

I thought it was awesome too!

[B_Buster]

I never knew you were such a big fan of creaky writing and visual cliches, Dave.

[thom]

This week's outlook on Walt killing his entire family:

WEAK TO FAIR.


(And it's not capital-G Good Writing. It's capital-F Fun Writing. And Fun writing is good.)