Television Breaking Bad

Sorry Cider but can you actually explain to me how she would be missing an arsehole? I can't quite grab the concept and need many people to explain this to me.

#doinganahealai
 
I'm glad I didn't get all the shit that Nahealai got when I asked how he put the ricin in the sachet...
 
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I was away for the week without internet access other than on my phone so I only saw it last night. Loved every minute. And a really good way of finishing the series.
 
nahealai said:
So the real question I've asked - and one which I've had only slight issue with - still cannot be answered and we're told to "use our imaginations".

A task that was described to me by umpteen posters as being terribly "simple" to execute ("He's an evil genius, blah, blah, blah") still hasn't be properly explained a full day later.

Great.
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Because it didn't need to be. The fact that it has to be explained is what everyone's finding hilarious. The fact that you've found it so hard to understand doesn't make it any less simple, in fact it probably increases your simpleness.

nahealai said:
(Granted, the Lydia one was spelled out in black and white, but how he managed to get the ricin in the sachet and ensure that she chose the exact same sachet wasn't.)
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People have mainly covered this but seriously it's not hard.

1. Sit at table
2. Take Stevia from your table into the bathroom.
3. Make a slight tear, insert ricin, pritt stick it closed.
4. Swap Stevia packet with one at Lydia's normal table a few minutes before she comes in.

We all made the same or similar assumption without having to discuss it. It didn't need to be spelled out in black and white.
 
Scrumpet said:
How are you still not getting this part?
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Yeah, that is a bit strange. One of the recurring themes of Lydia's meetings with Walt along with meeting at the same table, at the same precise time on the same day each week was the fact that there was always only one packet of Stevia at the table and she would have to ask the waiter for another. That's what I thought was clever about the way it was done.

I'd been working my way through the early seasons of Breaking Bad as the new episodes were coming out and I have to say these supposed plot-holes from Season 5 are a bit of a stretch, for me. Hank finding the book in the en suite did feel organic because that was the only bathroom in the house, you saw him unpacking the Walt Whitman book when he moved himself back in and it's entirely reasonable for him to have a book from his favourite author in the bathroom under a pile of magazines. It's hardly a huge leap to think someone would have a look around and check the reading material while they're on the john.

I'd forgotten Walt brought the ricin when he first met Lydia in the coffee shop too. Things did tie together nicely on that. Most of all I'd forgotten how good Dead Freight was. Lovely mix of tension and dark humour in both the train heist and the meal with Jesse, Walt and Skyler, and the kid's death at the end was still tragic. Aaron Paul's acting really adds emotional resonance even when the suddenness factor is taken out of it.

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Dead Freight is a cracking episode aye.

Don't think the awkward meal was that one though.

I think I'll leave a big gap before rewatching the show personally. I'm lucky enough to have not seen The Wire so I just started that last night. Shame I've had a few spoilers already though.
 
You had me wondering there for a second but this seems to suggest it was. Pretty sure it was the scene directly before the heist. Easily one of the best episodes.

I thought about doing the same but I've decided I'm still saving The Wire for a rainy day.
 
You never actually see Lydia drink the drink she pours Stevia in, how are we supposed to believe that she actually did?

I can't believe you all missed such a massive plot hole, are we really supposed to believe people drink things off camera?

Ruined the episode for me now I've seen that.
 
FAO anyone interested: I've been in touch with a hypnotherapist who claims that she can implant the memory in my mind of seeing Walter White take a scalpel to the sugar sachet and funnel the ricin into it before gluing it and switching it with the one on Lydia's table. The therapy shall take place over three weekly, hour long sessions at a cost of £135 a session; it's a small price to pay in order to close this gaping plot hole in my mind and thus unspoil for me what would have otherwise been a great show. PM me for details if you're interested.

If you still cannot stand living in the knowledge of all nahealai's damning plot holes and cannot afford the sessions needed to have them all spelt out for you in your memory then the same hypnotherapist can offer a seven week intensive course costing £750 which will cause you to forget you ever saw Breaking Bad and give you a subconscious aversion to ever being tempted to watch it again in future. Personally I find this a somewhat extreme measure but I can nevertheless fully understand if some of you believe there to be no other options.
 
Brwned said:
You had me wondering there for a second but this seems to suggest it was. Pretty sure it was the scene directly before the heist. Easily one of the best episodes.

I thought about doing the same but I've decided I'm still saving The Wire for a rainy day.
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Nah that's wrong. Episode after.
 
I have rewatched it till mid of season 4, just great to see everything again knowing the ending, specially the exchanges between Hank and Walt.
 
Makes you shiver watching that. The first two versions were brilliant but that's just perfect.
 
Just started watching it on Sunday. Half way through season 2.
The robbery scene with the barrel was hilarious. Getting really into it.

Does Skylar ever improve? Or is she always a bit of a cnut?
 
I prefer the video that uses the music played when Gus walks out of the car and to hector.
 
amolbhatia100 said:
Yeah it shouldn't have ended with the Saul bit. Is out of place at the end.
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esmufc14 said:
The ending felt a bit rushed on that video, and the Saul bit is definitely out of place. Still a great vid mind.
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Nothing to do with the Saul bit, it just completely omits his death, or any of the ending bar Jesse driving away and ends as if it's a trailer for the last episode.
 
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