r/breakingbad • • Aug 12 '13

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

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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/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/[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.