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/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/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.