I like the idea of Walt's initial decision to cook meth in order provide for his family before he dies from cancer ultimately leading to Walt beating his cancer and living while his family perishes because of his actions which can all be traced back to the decision to cook meth. Seems like a perfect twisted ending.
If he already knew there was Ricin in his old house, why would he bother making more? It'd be easier to just stop by and pick it up his old batch. It's not like he encountered any problems while recovering it. If we knew he still had Ricin at the house and we saw him making more, we'd be asking "why doesn't he just go get the stuff he made before" instead.
Glad they did not do the TRADITIONAL - have Walt Jr get strung out on Meth Thing too direct and over simple solution Rocket River
Storylines not pursued: The first part of that top card — “Suitcase rolling over sand, Walt, blooded, walks alone in the desert” — probably refers to the moments after Gus confronts Walt in the desert in “Crawl Space” to warn him that Hank will need to be killed, and that it was only a matter of time before Jesse teams up with Gus, which prompted Walt to go to Saul and take up Saul’s offer to go into hiding. What could be in the suitcase? I have no idea. But the second card — “Walt pays off man w/scar who took Brock. Mastermind Walt!” — suggests that at some point Vince Gilligan and the writers had planned something more obvious in regard to Brock, that Walt would’ve hired someone to abduct Brock and pin the blame on Gus. The direction that Gilligan chose to take, however, was not only more interesting, but more challenging to the audience. We didn’t know whether Gus or Walt was behind the poisoning of Brock, and in fact, didn’t know for sure until the very end of the season when we saw the Lily of the Valley plant in Walt’s backyard. That is, in fact, why we love Breaking Bad so much: Gilligan put us in the same position as Jesse, not knowing who was behind Brock’s poisoning, and while an earlier idea made it obvious by showing Walt paying off the abductor, Gilligan chose to go with the more subtle shot of the Lily of the Valley plant, and let us draw the connection ourselves. Read more: http://www.uproxx.com/tv/2013/08/breaking-bad-writers-room-photos/2/#ixzz2dNaLlVmK
So last season there was a scene where we learned why it was that Gus Fring hated the nursing home dude so much. In that scene the cartel leader told Fring the reason he didn't kill him is because "I know who you are" or something to that effect. That always gave me the impression that Gus had some history in Chile that would eventually prove important on the show. Unless I missed it, that was never explained. I know it would be really late to introduce a totally new faction on this show, but I halfway wonder if the machine gun might be for some other drug cartel or powerful family members of Gus' from Chile.
There have been a couple times these past two seasons where I thought he was going to get forceful with her again like he did when he first started cooking...but it never happened. It would be pretty horrible to watch Walt essentially rape his wife.
And what thrills me as a writer to no end is that, with all the technology available where this could all be done on computers, the creative process for one of the great shows of all time involves index cards and corkboards:
well ya but she's been on board with everything, i assume, ever since walt got out of the biz. he's in family man mode again...and even though scary walt is obvs still semi dormant......idk, seems like living in the same house it would happen. /thethingsithinkabout
It makes sense. It's big and everyone can see it. You can pull stuff off and put stuff on. Rearrange things. Same reasons NFL teams use magnets (yeah b****) and white boards during the draft. Sometimes the simplest solutions are better.
That reminds me, what is up with that scene were Walt forces himself on Skylar whos wearing a green face mask during season 1 or 2? I always thought that was odd...
It was weird in parts, but the dialogue at the end was great. When Walt tells Jesse about how he met Jane's father the night of her death. Then Walt tells Jesse he's sorry about Jane, but Jesse doesn't realize what he's saying. Good stuff.
