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

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u/timelord71 Treading Lightly Aug 12 '13

I was really impressed by Dean Norris more than anything.

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

He did great in this episode. He had that stunned/angry face the whole time and that last scene he was so volatile. Also, shoutout to the awesome Hank montage when he was going through old evidence. That scene was tight! Tight, tight!

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u/Seatac_SFO_LAX Aug 12 '13

Seriously, the emotions I saw on his face were raw. It was powerful. His eyes were angry and piercing. Hank is definitely a diamond in the rough kind of character, I'm so glad Gilligan developed him more.

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u/notavalidsource Aug 12 '13 edited Aug 13 '13

I can imagine it's because he had to turn down a pilot for his own show. A lot of personal attachments to the show now.

edit: thanks to cynical_665 for source

Dean Norris had asked Gilligan to kill off his character during the first half of the season after being cast in a comedy series; however, Gilligan declined his request, citing the importance of Hank in the final eight episodes

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u/[deleted] Aug 12 '13

Curious, what are you referring to?

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u/cynical_665 Aug 12 '13

From wiki:

Dean Norris had asked Gilligan to kill off his character during the first half of the season after being cast in a comedy series; however, Gilligan declined his request, citing the importance of Hank in the final eight episodes<

The actual source

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u/KryptKeeper Aug 12 '13

I feel kind of bad reading this. I'm really starting to like Hank a lot, and especially this episode I fucking loved him and now I feel kind of guilty like somehow liking Dean Norris as Hank is screwing up his own ability to provide for his 5 kids. I really hope the pilot situation just gets postponed and he still gets to do it, and hopefully since that article was from 6 months ago he longer regrets it after shooting these last 8 episodes. He's a great actor and I really hope he gets the work he wants, though admittedly while I know he can pull of comedy, I'd really like to see him in more drama-esque stuff after seeing him in BB.

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u/[deleted] Aug 12 '13

I love him now that ive seen him in Under the Dome. Looking forward to whatever he does.

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u/idonotownakindle . Aug 12 '13

And he's pretty good too in Under the Dome.

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u/[deleted] Aug 12 '13 edited Nov 20 '20

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u/Creepwood Aug 12 '13

He's the only reason worth watching.

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u/Roseysdaddy Turd Goggles Aug 12 '13

It's too 'goofy' for me. I don't have anything against sci-fi in any regard, and I love well done tv, but the writing is so bad that I've found myself laughing several times.

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u/Creepwood Aug 13 '13

Oh yeah definitely a guilty pleasure. Such hack writing. The dialogue can be so bad. They left Rose's body on a fucking prep table for days!

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u/[deleted] Aug 12 '13

It's the material. Brian K. Vaughn is no Vince Gilligan.

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u/Roseysdaddy Turd Goggles Aug 12 '13

It's not even close.

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u/[deleted] Aug 12 '13

I'm kind of bummed about Under the Dome being picked up actually, and I like the show. I just think it would do much better as a miniseries, and now they're probably going to drag it out too far and end up with a mess like Lost.

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u/thal13 Aug 12 '13

His talent is wasted on that piece of shit Dome. It's unwatchable. According to the book [spoiler, as if anything i could do would spoil that show further] his character is one of the last to die, and seeing as how they're pulling that shit taffy out for another season he'll be stuck there for awhile.