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I am looking forward to tonight's BB, but I was quite unimpressed how it ended last season. Long story short:

1. Walt would have NEVER kept anything from Gail. No notebook, pix and especially a book of poetry.

2. When you visit a friends or family members house, how many of you do your business in the MASTER bathroom?! I never have in my life (unless if they had just 1 bathroom). This was just lazy/stupid writing by Gilligan or whomever. And Hank is some "bright DEA agent," apparently not noticing that his brother-in-law is unemployed from teaching, he's a great chemist, there happens this new high powered blue meth in and around town, he bought a car wash(!!!), and he seems to be buying things like crazy. No red flags for Hank?? Really? And I've likely forgotten other clues.** What was "Hank finds out about Walt" option #2 ? Should have gone with that one, it couldn't have been any worse.

** oh yeah, Hank knows that Walt hangs out with a known pot dealer/user
 
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Butch 19 said:
I am looking forward to tonight's BB, but I was quite unimpressed how it ended last season. Long story short:

1. Walt would have NEVER kept anything from Gail. No notebook, pix and especially a book of poetry.

2. When you visit a friends or family members house, how many of you do your business in the MASTER bathroom?! I never have in my life (unless if they had just 1 bathroom). This was just lazy/stupid writing by Gilligan or whomever. And Hank is some "bright DEA agent," apparently not noticing that his brother-in-law is unemployed from teaching, he's a great chemist, there happens this new high powered blue meth in and around town, he bought a car wash(!!!), and he seems to be buying things like crazy. No red flags for Hank?? Really? And I've likely forgotten other clues.** What was "Hank finds out about Walt" option #2 ? Should have gone with that one, it couldn't have been any worse.

** oh yeah, Hank knows that Walt hangs out with a known pot dealer/user
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It was explained away that Walter's trauma from discovering that he has a terminal disease led him to first trying marijuana, and then a secret life as a counting cards blackjack player in the underground gambling world in ABQ. While it certainly seems unfeasible to believe that alibi, they DID at least try to lay that groundwork in an earlier episode, showing Walt/Hank etc having a gambling night at home, and Walter cleaned up on all of them. Supposedly, Walter had been "cured" of his gambling addiction just as soon as he acquired the gambling bug.

That, to me, was probably the laziest excuse for being able to perpetuate the myth that prevented Hank from truly seeing who Walt really is. But for a show with such incredible writing as this show has, it's an incredibly minor quibble, and hasn't prevented me from enjoying the show in any way. And to be fair, as unbelievable as the majority of the overall concept of Hank not seeing Walt's true identity, they are trying to make the exact point that bugs you as it is - Hank is SO CLOSE to Walt, that even some of the most obvious signs are right in front of him, but he either refuses to see them, or blatantly disregards them because he simply can't make the connection that someone he knows so well could ever be capable of such evil.
 
KFIT said:
It was explained away that Walter's trauma from discovering that he has a terminal disease led him to first trying marijuana, and then a secret life as a counting cards blackjack player in the underground gambling world in ABQ. While it certainly seems unfeasible to believe that alibi, they DID at least try to lay that groundwork in an earlier episode, showing Walt/Hank etc having a gambling night at home, and Walter cleaned up on all of them. Supposedly, Walter had been "cured" of his gambling addiction just as soon as he acquired the gambling bug.

That, to me, was probably the laziest excuse for being able to perpetuate the myth that prevented Hank from truly seeing who Walt really is. But for a show with such incredible writing as this show has, it's an incredibly minor quibble, and hasn't prevented me from enjoying the show in any way. And to be fair, as unbelievable as the majority of the overall concept of Hank not seeing Walt's true identity, they are trying to make the exact point that bugs you as it is - Hank is SO CLOSE to Walt, that even some of the most obvious signs are right in front of him, but he either refuses to see them, or blatantly disregards them because he simply can't make the connection that someone he knows so well could ever be capable of such evil.
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mmm ok... but do you drop trou in the master bathroom at your friends or relatives house? or do you just go to the kids bathroom?

and do you have anything incriminating in your house? (if yes, what is it and what is it hiding for you? ... and where is it in your house?)
 
Butch 19 said:
mmm ok... but do you drop trou in the master bathroom at your friends or relatives house? or do you just go to the kids bathroom?

and do you have anything incriminating in your house? (if yes, what is it and what is it hiding for you? ... and where is it in your house?)
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depends on what I ate that day! :)
 
santiclaws said:
Crap, I still have about two or three episodes of Season 2 I haven't watched. jd's proselytizing got me to watch this show and if it wasn't good on its own accord, she'd keep me watching:

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Ummmmm...errrrrrrr, watch those last couple episodes yet Santi?
 
Damn it. Breaking Bad has not lost its touch. I replayed that last "If you don't know who I am, then maybe your best course would be to tread lightly" bit three times.

P.S. Anyone watch that show that they were trying to get us to watch so hard, "Low Winter Sun"? Any good? Looks fairly promising.

P.P.S. So have we had a full on prediction pool? How the show is going to end? Walter White goes into the federal witness protection program and becomes the Dad from "Malcolm in the Middle"?

My prediction about which I feel almost 100% certain - Jesse dies. Mike warned him a bunch of times that it was not going to end well for him. If that ain't foreshadowing, I don't know what is. I mean, he was supposed to die at the end of season one. Better late than never, eh? I think Walt will die as well, but not violently. Cancer will get him. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
 
Walt starts his own Saturday morning kids' science show, and Jesse gets the lead role in the movie, "Need For Speed". As for Hank, he's forced to put a lid on what he knows - or should we say, put it under a dome?? Low Winter Sun was....average. Not bad, but not great. Have an A1 DAY!
 
i, too, thought it was weird that hank went to take a dump in the master bathroom. i didn't really dwell on it though. maybe there's a reason, like the kids' bathroom was a mess or toilet was clogged or they've got to keep it open for junior since he's disabled and it's like one of those specially equipped rooms, but trying to explain something trivial like that in an episode takes away from the story.

awesome opening scene. i liked it when carol stared at him and dropped her bag when he said hi to her. ending scene with hank was great, too.

i get the feeling jesse really doesn't believe what walt said about mike.

i did not watch low winter sun. don't really have time to get into a new series right now. i was bummed though that the previews for the next breaking bad episode were in the first commercial break of low winter sun. i dvr'd BB and not LWS so clearly i didn't get to watch it. ugh.
 
Man what an "etch a sketch"-stud.

I don't want Breaking Bad to be over but I can't wait to see how it all turns out. I really enjoyed Dean Norris' performance as Hank in this episode.
 
Watched Low Winter Sun but not sure what to think about it yet, so I'll give it a few episodes. There were a few times when I questioned the realism of why a person or persons would do a particular thing. I want to like it, and I'll give them credit for jumping right into it rather than slowly setting everything up. My daughter was doing something else so only catching some of it, but she said the B story was more interesting than the A story so she wants to see more of that (the criminals, rather than the cops). She's studying writing and will just tear things apart sometimes, so I'm always happy when she doesn't do that with stuff I watch.
 
Fantastic episode. I loved how they got right into it. No pussyfooting around.

The balls of Walt to go into Hank's home and basically dare him to try to stop Heisenberg. Hank doesn't have the balls to stop Walt and Walt knows that.

It's been established that Hank really is a cowering bitch inside the macho exterior. Think back to him losing it at the site of Tortuga's head on top of the tortoise and the bar fight he got into to prove he's a "bad ass." Ultimately, Hank is terrified of Walt because he knows how powerful, smart and ruthless he(Heisenberg) is and I don't think Hank has it in him to bring Walt down.
 
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