Krysten Ritter’s character Jane. Could have saved her but didn’t to keep Jesse
Lol so we’re in agreement? Because you’re making quite the nuanced analysis, which was my entire point this whole time, that nuanced analysis was lacking.
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Lol you’re getting dunning-krugered hard.
Yeah, I wasn’t joking when I talked about how the Shoplifting Marie subplot was abandoned and why. Gilligan legit thought that was too much for the audience to grasp.
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Jane definitely got up in Walts shit (withheld money or threatened to out him IIRC). Whether she deserved to die or not is another argument but she was in the game for sure.
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This is more I’m talking about, because I assume “keep Jesse” isn’t some good thing and Walt was doing some horrible shit.
Jesse started getting really high all the time, missed the connect with Gus, mainly due to Jane. Walt said that he wasn’t gonna give Jesse his cut until he got clean, or cleaner, because he might go nuts and OD with all that cash. Jane says, aw hell naw, and blackmails Walt to get him to cough up the money. Maybe that doesn’t rise to the level of literally trying to kill him, but it’s way closer than not. And nobody made her threaten a meth manufacturer and dealer, who has a family, with prison.
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It’s so weird because I’ve never seen this happen with any other show or movie. Sure, there are subjective disagreements but not cases of forgetting major plot points. Jane threatened that man with dying in prison, he didn’t let her die 4 TEH LULZ.
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Sheeeit…
It’s a great show, obv, a borderline masterpiece, but goddamn I feel like Gilligan and Co jumped the shark with letting Lalo best a goddamn paramilitary assassin strike team just so he can be more annoying for another season and we get some drama over why Nacho isn’t around in the future. Lalo’s character arc has been over and it feels like some deus ex machina hijinx because Lalo polled well in some focus groups or something.
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Man I gotta rewatch BCS. I felt season 5 fell of a bit. It was really good but not as good as the others.
Honestly ever since Chuck killed himself, the show started to fall off. Still worth watching but not quite as good.
I thought 5 was better than 4 tbh. 4 was glacial.
Season 6 being the final season of BCS makes me think that the end is going to be rushed.
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Extra episodes for the last season IIRC 13 rather than 10.
Yup that’s right. Still feels like there’s so much to explore.
That said, the actors are really showing their age and it does need to end this season. Makeup can only do so much.
Wonder what’ll happen to Saul post BB. Think he’ll get killed?
In addition to this, Walt NEVER needed the money to be able to pay for his cancer treatment. One of the big points of the Gray Matter subplot is that Walt had an out from the very beginning. He could have gotten the best care money could provide and never pay a cent, but his fragile fucked up ego took him from a cancer patient with no worries outside of surviving to putting his family in literal mortal danger because he couldnt stand that he didnt have billions specifically because of that family.
He was selfish, prideful, and dangerously resentful of his family from moment one.
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Fwiw, I think cigarette company executives are vile pieces of shit too, regardless of whether they are just “cooking up a little drugs.”
Their product is dangerous and they know it. Just like Walt. He didnt give a shit. Goodest boy my ass.
Kim’s season 5 is absolutely phenomenal. You should go back and watch specifically for that.
Yes there are quite a few crazy Lalo hijinks, but Kim absolutely murders S5.
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Uh…right. You think his decision was clearly wrong?
I for one wouldn’t take $ from a traitor, but to each their own!
The Grey Matter team weren’t traitors. Walt willfully sold his stake. Nobody forced him to do so.
Just finished watching The Spy on Netflix, staring Borat and based on the true story of an Israeli spy who infiltrated Syria during the 60s. Six-episode mini-series. Short, sweet, and engaging.
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I can dig that; my point is about viewers and critics actions when comparing Walt’s goodness to Jesse or Mike or Gus, the other cigarette company executives (with Hank et al being a separate category). He’s clearly more good than anybody else. Quantifying Walt’s fundamental goodness or badness is more of a small tangential part.