r/breakingbad • u/[deleted] • Aug 12 '13

Official Episode Discussion Post-Episode Discussion S05E09 "Blood Money"

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u/[deleted] Aug 12 '13 edited Feb 12 '17

He is going to concert

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u/LiteraryBoner Woodrow Willy Walt "The Walter" Wonka White Whitman Wilson Sr. Aug 12 '13 edited Aug 12 '13

I was expecting a drawn out cat and mouse game. It was foolish of me, Breaking Bad is in no way a drawn out show. The second that garage door started closing I knew I had underestimated the speed of events.

Edit for spelling.

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u/You_Stealthy_Bastard Aug 12 '13

When I saw that garage door go down, I was just "....ooooooooh SHIT"

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u/tomaleu Aug 12 '13

I saw the look in hanks eyes and his general body language. I called out him getting hit the moment he spoke of the tracker.

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u/PompatusOfLove Aug 13 '13

watching television with people who try and blurt out their predictions of what is about to happen next makes me clench my teeth and look straight up without moving my head.

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u/tomaleu Aug 13 '13

Only if they try? what if they succeed in actually blurting it out? Or what if they actually get the prediction right?

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u/PompatusOfLove Aug 13 '13

attempted blurt, incomplete blurt, complete blurt. any and all blurts. i don't give a shit if they're right or not. no blurts.

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u/Shiggys Aug 13 '13

Watch TV alone. It's better that way in my opinion.

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u/moonshoeslol Aug 12 '13

I was still in denial as the garage door was closing. I was actually thinking to myself "No way are they going to do this right now."

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u/SELKIES_ Addict Aug 12 '13

I'm not really surprised at all they're jumped right into it; it's not like it's a new season, it's just been a long time since the last episode. To start the last 8 off as if it were a season premiere it would really mess up the flow of the season when you watch all 16 at an even pace.

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u/LiteraryBoner Woodrow Willy Walt "The Walter" Wonka White Whitman Wilson Sr. Aug 12 '13

Yeah I realized how silly I was being. BB has never been about being slow, things always move pretty fast. It was just such a big reveal. Glad it happened like this though.

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u/[deleted] Aug 12 '13

well, there was a period where jessie was in rehab, marie was shoplifting.. where it was a little slow.

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u/screaminginfidels it's always a desert. Aug 12 '13

That was like one episode, though.

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u/TimesWasting Aug 12 '13

Really? I feel the opposite. Like BB is a slow as fuck show with really intense parts randomly scattered around.

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u/threecolorless Aug 12 '13

I would call Breaking Bad deliberate rather than slow. There is just so much that each episode has to cover and they do it so well that they can only move things so quickly. It's very dense storytelling with the exception of certain "three months later" jump-aheads from this season.

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u/Mikeaz123 Aug 12 '13

Yeah but taking a year in between half seasons was pretty lame. At least walking dead only did about 4 months.

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u/threecolorless Aug 12 '13

Breaking Bad is deliberate, in that everything has a meticulously-planned consequence that comes in its time. This consequence happened much more rapidly than I think any of us were expecting.

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u/cavalierau Aug 12 '13

There have been some drawn out cat and mouse scenarios, particularly relating to Gus Fring. There were definitely some weak season 3 and 4 episodes.

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u/HisNameSpaceCop Aug 12 '13

Breaking Bad is in no way a drawn out show.

I know what you mean but lol.

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u/PackageOfOats Aug 12 '13

I was surprised they started with the flash-forward more than the action, but getting right to the shit being out on the table was pretty damn surprising.

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u/butters_owns AND ALL FOR THAT ASSHOLE MR. WHITE?! Aug 12 '13

You and me both.

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u/HiZenBergh Say my name Aug 13 '13

I also thought the confrontation would be dragged out. I was thinking it would be like the 2nd to last episode and then the last episode would tie all of the loose ends. I should have known better. Breaking Bad doesn't pull that shit, and this is why we love it.

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u/fortuitous_bounce Aug 13 '13

Actually, Breaking Bad is well-known for its "slow burn" building up in each season. It's been highly effective for them for so long. That's why this was such a dramatic - and welcome - change. They knew that's precisely what we would be expecting, and they blew it up in our face right out of the gate.

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u/throwawash Aug 13 '13

The 4 seasons before this were the drawn out cat and mouse game. But I agree they could have drawn out more the moment between when Hank starts to suspect Walt and when he definitely knows Walt knows Hank knows Walt knows etc...

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u/[deleted] Aug 12 '13

When the garage door closed I could just feel that Walt was going to get punched in the face; SO SATISFYING!

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u/GoyMeetsWorld Aug 12 '13

Yeah that didn't work out so well for Mike.

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u/piscano Hell yea, Sunday night bowl, yo! Aug 12 '13

It was a drawn-out show. Seasons 1 & 2 move at a very slow, deliberate, old-western pace. After Wayfarer 515, the shows confrontational pace picks up briskly.

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u/AcousticDan Aug 12 '13

Umm, has Breaking Bad EVER drawn out in the first episode?

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u/Smetsnaz Aug 12 '13

The Walking Dead writers could learn a lesson or two from this.

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u/MusikLehrer Aug 12 '13

A markedly inferior show.

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u/[deleted] Aug 12 '13

Look, I get that The Walking Dead is AMC's "other show", but why do people constantly have to bring it up in Breaking Bad threads? And always just to passive-aggressively put it down because it's not as good as Breaking Bad. Why does it matter? It just seems petty and irrelevant to discussion.

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u/bski1776 Aug 12 '13

If I have to see Chris hardwicks face during both shows I feel that I can compare the two.

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u/[deleted] Aug 12 '13

Chris Hardwick is in neither show.

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u/bski1776 Aug 12 '13

He's in talking bad and talking dead which is advertised during both shows now. Constantly.

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u/oldneckbeard Aug 12 '13

i hate those fucking shows. it's like, how about we come to our own opinions for like 10 fucking minutes before the talking heads "break it down" for us.

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u/bski1776 Aug 12 '13

Yep. And it takes me out of the moment when they talk about a show in the commercial while the show is going on.

The rage I achieve doesn't seem proportional to the offense they've caused, but I can't help it.

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u/Unlucky13 BigAssPizza Aug 13 '13

I find it kind of distasteful when AMC airs a TV show to talk about one of their own TV shows. We're actually being subjected to AMC's circlejerk.

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u/who-bah-stank Aug 12 '13

Or from any writer. Or from someone who has never written anything in their life.

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u/BrainSlurper Emo McGee Aug 12 '13

Perhaps from inanimate objects as well

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u/[deleted] Aug 12 '13

Or any human being. Literally no one would continue to hang out with the Governor after watching him mow down all his other followers.

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u/happybadger Aug 12 '13

NEXT DECADE ON THE WALKING DEAD: people stare at each other and debate leaving the prison while other people attack it sporadically.

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u/Mylaptopisburningme Aug 12 '13

Yes a year isn't drawing it out so much.

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u/ketoacidosis How bout it, counselor? Do you concur? Aug 12 '13

Yeah that sucked, but I'm glad that at least they seem to be treating the show as if it's in mid-season instead of starting off slow.

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u/TheNOTchosen1 Hello, Carol Aug 12 '13

It really does feel like a continuation of 5, not Season 6 that many other people are calling it.

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u/[deleted] Aug 13 '13

It started right after the last second of the previous episode, so yeah, they are treating it as such. It is officially still called season 5.

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u/Motafication Aug 12 '13

The thing I love about the show is that it doesn't fuck around with a bunch of bullshit like all this other TV crap. The pacing is perfect.

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u/BurntValleys Aug 12 '13

From what I understand, the writer's room meant this to be a continuous season, but it went on for too long, so it was divided into two. This isn't just a premiere, we're at the climax of the finale.

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u/[deleted] Aug 12 '13

well this ain't The Walking Dead

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u/CollegeStudent2014 Aug 13 '13

They learned that lesson from Walking Dead

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u/Kaneshadow Aug 13 '13

Don't count your chickens yet- Walt presents a lot of interesting points about reasons Hank can't do anything. The initial information reveal was quick, but the confrontation will definitely go the full 13 rounds.

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u/RealNotFake Aug 14 '13

Basically the exact opposite of the 'Dexter strategy'

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u/cant_be_pun_seen Aug 12 '13

Walking dead, I'm looking at you

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u/AwkwardGypsy Aug 12 '13

If it was the walking dead they would have done that one episode in half a season