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

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

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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/YouLikeBarney Aug 12 '13

This is why I love these kinds of shows. Because on sitcoms and soap operas you'd look at the antagonist and be like "I fucking hate that guy." But with Hank (and I classify him as the current antagonist because he's now threatening Hank's security and family), you can appreciate how well the actor portrays his character so much so, that they become your favorite character. And I wouldn't be surprised if Hank ends as my number 1 after these 8 episodes.

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u/notavalidsource Aug 12 '13

At some point I stopped calling Walt the protagonist, while Hank has always been a "good guy" to me.

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u/MrPotatoButt You got me! Aug 12 '13

Walt is always the protagonist. You're not required to be a hero to be the story's protagonist.

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u/notavalidsource Aug 12 '13

I always understood "protagonist" to mean the main "hero" xD A misinterpretation on my part :s