Breaking Bad: The Final 8 - (premieres 8/11/13)

[VTPack919]

Re: Breaking Bad: The Final 8 - (premieres 8/11/13)

Well I think that's got to be one of the

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most underwhelming episodes of the season. Exactly how did Hank and Gomez evade that barrage of bullets? Did they somehow pickup superpowers as they crossed into the desert?

Also, is Huell really that gullible? He's worked for a crooked lawyer for years, who's been in business with meth sellers and he flinches as soon as he sees a fabricated picture of Jesse with his brains blown out.

Even though it's more credible for Walt to mess up (as he does on a regular basis but somehow still maintains the reputation of being smart), it's still bizarre in this episode. For him to fall for Jesse's fake picture of a barrel of cash is insane. He doesn't even think about it maybe being a trap. He just reacts and gets into his classic Walt panic. Heisenberg is a fraud. He's no Gus, nowhere near him. Gus would never fall for this crap, but then again Gus didn't try to become a drug kingpin in a few months.

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While I disagree with the episode being underwhelming. I certainly felt the same way as you about Huell.

[Kriech23]

Re: Breaking Bad: The Final 8 - (premieres 8/11/13)

Well I think that's got to be one of the

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most underwhelming episodes of the season. Exactly how did Hank and Gomez evade that barrage of bullets? Did they somehow pickup superpowers as they crossed into the desert?

Also, is Huell really that gullible? He's worked for a crooked lawyer for years, who's been in business with meth sellers and he flinches as soon as he sees a fabricated picture of Jesse with his brains blown out.

Even though it's more credible for Walt to mess up (as he does on a regular basis but somehow still maintains the reputation of being smart), it's still bizarre in this episode. For him to fall for Jesse's fake picture of a barrel of cash is insane. He doesn't even think about it maybe being a trap. He just reacts and gets into his classic Walt panic. Heisenberg is a fraud. He's no Gus, nowhere near him. Gus would never fall for this crap, but then again Gus didn't try to become a drug kingpin in a few months.

Pretty much my thoughts on this episode.

[shugknight]

Re: Breaking Bad: The Final 8 - (premieres 8/11/13)

Well I think that's got to be one of the

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most underwhelming episodes of the season. Exactly how did Hank and Gomez evade that barrage of bullets? Did they somehow pickup superpowers as they crossed into the desert?

Also, is Huell really that gullible? He's worked for a crooked lawyer for years, who's been in business with meth sellers and he flinches as soon as he sees a fabricated picture of Jesse with his brains blown out.

Even though it's more credible for Walt to mess up (as he does on a regular basis but somehow still maintains the reputation of being smart), it's still bizarre in this episode. For him to fall for Jesse's fake picture of a barrel of cash is insane. He doesn't even think about it maybe being a trap. He just reacts and gets into his classic Walt panic. Heisenberg is a fraud. He's no Gus, nowhere near him. Gus would never fall for this crap, but then again Gus didn't try to become a drug kingpin in a few months.

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1. I've been reading that this is what has been bugging most of the fans about last night's episode. But honestly, as realistic as you'd like the show to be, would you really want to see 2 shots fired and then have both Hank and Gomez killed? Of course not, you want it drawn out to create drama. Which is what it did. It puts the question of "Did they get killed?" into the scenario. If Uncle Jack came out of the truck, fired 2 shots, and you see Hank and Gomez on the floor.. all hell would break loose on the internet about how anti-climatic it was. I feel that the final shot did it's job. It put questions in our head as to what happened to Hank and Gomez, but at the same time it added suspense that there is a small possibility that they lived.

2. Why are you guys making Huell to be this amazing body guard with the intelligence of James Bond? This is the same guy that was caught sleeping during the job, wanted to sleep on a pile of money, and you can tell he was only hired as a bodyguard for his large size. And to correct you, Huell has only worked for Saul for a few months. Saul hired him when Mike wanted to break his legs to find Jessie. He's not smart enough to realized that the DEA is setting him up. And I'm pretty sure he's dumb/smart enough to believe that Mr. White can and will do anything to anybody that he doesn't trust. Also, I don't think Huell knows that Walt is a meth cook. Correct me if I'm wrong, but the only thing Huell knows about Mr. White is that he has 7 barrels of money.

3. I think it's pretty understandable that Walt would panic about his money and not think twice that Jessie is working with the DEA. Walt doesn't know that Jessie was found by Hank before he started the fire. Walt thinks Jessie is just running around planning on a way to take him down. So when Jessie calls him and explains to him in detail what he "knows" and sends the picture of money in a barrel, I don't think Walt would stop himself and inspect the picture to make sure that it's his barrel of money. I mean how many people do you know buries barrels of money in the middle of the dessert?

You guys are being too analytical about this episode.

[NYJets]

Re: Breaking Bad: The Final 8 - (premieres 8/11/13)

With the shooting, yea it was probably unrealistic for it too go on so long without anyone being hit, but I think the imagery was more important than the realism. Walt always had no problem putting people he cared about in harm's way because he always believed he was smart enough to keep them safe. This scene was his punishment, so they showed him stuck in the car, helpless to do anything as his brother in law gets killed. And not killed in a quick way with little suffering like he kept insisting on for Jesse, but in a long drawn out process. So as long as the actual result of the shootout doesn't end up being unrealistic than I don't have a problem with it.

[dsallupinyaarea]

Re: Breaking Bad: The Final 8 - (premieres 8/11/13)

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Hang and Gomez have to be dead. The show would lose a bit of credibility if they're able to survive a hail of machine gun fire, outnumbered with a handgun and a shotgun.

I've really grown to dislike Jesse's character this year.

[The 24th Letter]

Re: Breaking Bad: The Final 8 - (premieres 8/11/13)

Am I imagining things? or did Gomez get hit?

[VTPack919]

Re: Breaking Bad: The Final 8 - (premieres 8/11/13)

Am I imagining things? or did Gomez get hit?

I thought I saw that too.

[USF11]

Re: Breaking Bad: The Final 8 - (premieres 8/11/13)

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Yeah Walt somehow gets out of this with the money....assumes a new identity after Marie exposes everything once hank gets killed. Then needs to come back for some reason....what's gonna be interesting is how that account for the time lapse and what is Jessie's fate.

Seems to me Jessie would just want to die rather then cook meth for the aryans

[goh]

Re: Breaking Bad: The Final 8 - (premieres 8/11/13)

Seems relevant for some reason...

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[Psyblast]

Re: Breaking Bad: The Final 8 - (premieres 8/11/13)

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I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed:
And on the pedestal these words appear:
"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.

-- "Ozymandias"

[Psyblast]

Re: Breaking Bad: The Final 8 - (premieres 8/11/13)

We should've listened to Aaron Paul back in January.

https://twitter.com/aaronpaul_8/status/295219732464934912

[mikenoob]

Re: Breaking Bad: The Final 8 - (premieres 8/11/13)

Bringing back the Walt/Gus topic earlier

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[Psyblast]

Re: Breaking Bad: The Final 8 - (premieres 8/11/13)

Bringing back the Walt/Gus topic earlier

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I thought that looked familiar......couldn't put my finger on it, for some reason.

[LakerFan56]

Re: Breaking Bad: The Final 8 - (premieres 8/11/13)

Am I imagining things? or did Gomez get hit?

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I had to share. lol

[GiantYankee]

Re: Breaking Bad: The Final 8 - (premieres 8/11/13)

That was one of the best episodes of any show that I have watched in my life. Wow.