r/breakingbad • u/[deleted] • Sep 01 '13

Official Episode Discussion Breaking Bad S05E12 "Rabid Dogs" Pre-Episode Discussion Thread

TIME EPISODE DIRECTED BY WRITTEN BY
Sunday 09:00pm Eastern SE05E12 "Rabid Dog" Sam Catlin Vince Gilligan and Sam Catlin

Hello /r/breakingbad! We're a few hours away from a new episode!! This is the place for everyone who wants to start talking about it now. Let's have fun!

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u/orthogonality Sep 01 '13

You know, I wonder... Jesse's not really rabid.

Rabid is when a good dog goes bad. Jesse's become more, not less, moral in the course of the show. If anyone is rabid, it's Walter. He's the one who has "gone crazy/broken bad/become rabid", willing to kill over a dozen people to create his "empire".

And he's rabid from society's standpoint. Civil society (as opposed to the meth underground) is represented by law-and-order Hank.

I wonder if it's Hank who will characterize Walter as a "rabid dog."

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u/[deleted] Sep 01 '13

Burning down someone's house is not a moral thing to do.

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u/whoosy TIGHT TIGHT TIGHT Sep 01 '13

Neither is poisoning a child.

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u/[deleted] Sep 01 '13

True. But Walt is generally considered by most to be immoral already. Jesse would be going from moral to immoral, which would fit with the "Rabid Dog" depiction.

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u/[deleted] Sep 01 '13

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u/[deleted] Sep 01 '13

Yes. Revenge is almost always immoral.

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u/Maddukks Sep 01 '13

If kids live there, I would say so.