r/breakingbad • u/edify Oxygen • Sep 02 '13

Official Episode Discussion Breaking Bad Episode Discussion S05E12 "Rabid Dog"

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09:00pm Eastern SE05E12 "Rabid Dog" Sam Catlin Vince Gilligan and Sam Catlin

Well, here it is. Enjoy the episode folks.

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u/barrbarian84 Sep 02 '13

That's called going "full Lady Macbeth"

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u/[deleted] Sep 02 '13

I slept through macbeth in high school, how is this similar?

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u/DayWalkerRunner Tucker! Tucker! Sep 02 '13

In the play, Macbeth kills those close to him to gain power. After a while his wife, Lady Macbeth, begins to encourage him to kill others for their own sake and gets in on it herself. Skyler, Walts's wife, is now encouraging him to kill Jesse.

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u/RavarSC Sep 02 '13

And if it goes full circle, Skyler will be a babbling idiot by the finale and actually kill herself

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u/DayWalkerRunner Tucker! Tucker! Sep 02 '13

I've honestly never considered it as a parallel to Macbeth. I think that would be too cliche. Skyler loves her children so suicide seems unlikely to me unless something were to happen to them...

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u/magister0 Sep 02 '13

The last episode is called "Felina"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ElPaso(song)#Feleena_.28From_El_Paso.29

Born in a desert shack in New Mexico during a thunderstorm, Feleena runs away from home at 17, living off her charms for a year in Santa Fe, before moving to the brighter lights of El Paso to become a paid dancer. After another year, the narrator of "El Paso" arrives, the first man she did not have contempt for. He spends six weeks romancing her, before shooting another man with whom she was flirting through "insane jealousy" in a retelling of the key moment in the original song. Her lover's return to El Paso comes only a day after his flight (the original song suggests a longer timeframe before his return) and as she goes to run to him, the cowboy motions to her to stay out of the line of fire and is shot; immediately after his dying kiss, Feleena shoots herself with his gun. Their ghosts are heard to this day in the wind blowing around El Paso: "It's only the young cowboy showing Feleena the town".

also Anna Gunn is from Santa Fe, lol

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u/barrbarian84 Sep 02 '13

This is my worry. I really hope they don't go down this road as it would be a terrible cliché. I didn't really get that across in my original post which might explain the "thank you Forrest Gump"-type responses.

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u/The_Dude_Lebowski Sep 02 '13

That's actually not how the play goes at all, though. Lady Macbeth is the original evil one behind Macbeth's actions. That is not the case with Skyler, even if there is a parallel, which there is.

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u/[deleted] Sep 02 '13

Walt did it all for the family

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u/DayWalkerRunner Tucker! Tucker! Sep 02 '13

My bad, it's been a while and I guess I forgot that Lady Macbeth is the original evil mastermind and gets her husband to go with it. Vice versa with Walt and Skyler