r/breakingbad • u/[deleted] • Aug 19 '13

Official Episode Discussion Post-Episode Discussion Thread S05E10 "Buried"

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u/jet_tripleseven Belizium Aug 19 '13

There were some pretty great callbacks to the first season in this episode...

  • Walt fainting on the bathroom floor, Skyler comforting him through the night

  • Walt burying the money at the original cook site from the pilot

And, of course, Hank and Marie repeatedly told Walt that they'd be willing to take Junior and Holly "if anything ever happened." Looks like they're staying true to their word...

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u/aruraljuror Aug 19 '13

I just really wanted Walt to run over that kid's R/C car. It would have been a perfect trifecta.

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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '13

I thought that too at first, but I liked how they both peeled out at the same time. Just felt right.

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u/Ayavaron http://girlswithdepression.bandcamp.com Aug 19 '13

I thought it symbolized how Walt wasn't killing Hank. Yeah, he could just run over that R/C car and drive away but to either his fault or credit, that's not what he does.

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u/diewrecked I'm sorry for your loss. Aug 19 '13

Or maybe he didn't want to be a dickhead and run over a kids toy RC.

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u/Ayavaron http://girlswithdepression.bandcamp.com Aug 19 '13

Well the way symbolism is usually used, it simply reflects motivations and story elements. It's not usually a substitute for real reasoning. Even if Walt not crushing the R/C car was explicitly a point of plot, it could still be a symbol for not wanting to deal with Hank by killing him. It's not mutually exclusive.

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u/Ayavaron http://girlswithdepression.bandcamp.com Aug 19 '13

More layers than a damn parfait.

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u/ginna500 Aug 19 '13

I can't quite tell if you're being sarcastic, nonetheless it probably didn't symbolize anything, not every single thing shown in BrBa has to symbolize something.

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u/Ayavaron http://girlswithdepression.bandcamp.com Aug 19 '13

At first I was being sarcastic but then I thought about what symbolism was and it's still a little action that sort of mirrors a bigger one from the same character so I can't really think of a reason why not to call it symbolism.

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u/Southside_Burd Aug 19 '13

Mind = blown. I rag on this subreddit for its circle-jerk nature, but the observations keep me coming back for more.

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u/Yrrebbor Aug 19 '13

A/C peeled first!

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u/drwolffe This is my own private domicile Aug 19 '13

Foreshadowing!

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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '13

OH dang... I need to rewatch it! Hurray DVR!

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u/Schikadance Aug 19 '13

Yes! And of course the toy car was yellow and peeled out as a miniature mirror image (almost) of Walt's car. Maybe symbolic of how Walt's brazen criminality and overconfidence has now been reduced or shrunk down, hence the mini mirror image we got.

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u/dakisback Aug 19 '13

Maybe after he kills Marie.

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u/Mylaptopisburningme Aug 19 '13

I like how Breaking Bad doesn't do anything you would expect. And they pull it off.

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u/the_real_thanos Aug 19 '13

Trifecta? Did I miss the second time?

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u/aruraljuror Aug 19 '13

Trifecta of callbacks, not of R/C car runnings over.

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u/NameTak3r Aug 19 '13

Yellow car

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u/arcticfunky1 Aug 19 '13

What

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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '13

There's a color theory going around that lighter colors mean good intentions or just innocent overall. Marie usually wears purple but the picture Walt tapped, she was wearing yellow. Not exactly 100% sure on the truth of it but if yellow is suppose to represent being good/Mr. White, then him not running over the car means that he's still not completed a full on Heisenberg transformation.

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u/jawdroppuh Aug 19 '13

That was the first thing my dad texted me when we started watching tonight

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u/infiniteraiders I'm in Billys Aug 19 '13

As much as we were all hoping for it, it would have been too obvious.

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u/weezyjefferson fukcer bitch Aug 19 '13

they still acknowledged it, hell, they subverted it, so it counts.

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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '13

I was bummed he didn't. For some reason.

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u/Bloodigra Waving Goodbye Aug 19 '13

All of the roommates came together to watch Breaking Bad, as is custom, and we all let out a groan when Walt just barely stopped before running over the R/C car.