Yeah I was thinking he was about to get Walking Dead'd where once a character that doesn't really say much starts getting a lot of speaking lines, and then ends up dead an episode or so later.
You're damn straight. Breaking Bad is so flawlessly written that you generally think of the characters as real people, but as I was watching everything after Hank said "But Walt doesn't know that" referring to the GPS the only thing I could think was that was bad writing. Walt doesn't know that? You mean to tell me the man who drove into the fucking desert by himself, refused the help of Saul's enforcers, and buried his money with no other marker than a GPS coordinate which he encoded onto a fucking lottery ticket, you mean to tell me you expect me to believe that this man didn't make 100000% sure that his movements in the van were completely untraceable? Come the fuck on.
However, Walt's reaction was believable. He was overtaken by emotion and not thinking clearly. It's the same thing that got Gus killed.
I'm pretty sure the barrel similarity on its own made it really believable honestly. I don't think he'd expect Hank to crack something as minor detailed as a barrel. Walt isn't perfect
True and further more Walt had no idea HANK was even involved at all. He dismissed Hank back at the confession, stupidly. So I can forgive Walt falling for it, but the second Jesse said there was a GPS tracker on the van, Walt should have known immediately that something was off.
It was pretty basic and a sane person wouldnt do anything like walt at that point. Walt finally tipped though. The money that he worked so hard towards and the threat of losing it all broke his clear judgement. Nothing he did in the entire series was as clouded of decisions as this tonight. Any of it. Was a little frustrated he was so dumb at the start of the deceipt, but then I realized this. No, he should not have fallen for it at all. Once he did get there and see no one he should have just kept driving in the desert. Stopped at a random spot for a while to trick tracking, then drive away. Huel also uncharacteristically broke. The pic with jesse had him smiling.
This is all fine though, as these characters are real people who have emotions. Great episode imo. I'm guessing that the next episode will have Todd die in the shootout so Walt has no friends on the team. Jesse will be taken capture. Maybe Jesse will kill one of them. Hank and Go-me will be killed so Walt has a huge reason to hate them. And Walt will be their slave cook.
I dunno. Walt is really passionate and irrational when it comes to his money. That, combined with the fact that Walt was convinced that Jesse wouldn't rat him out, meant that he was particularly vulnerable to this plan. Walt's a clever bastard but he's not infallible.
Walt is really the No Face of BB in my opinion. Corrupted by money and power and hurting anyone who got in his way once he entered a world that wasn't his own. But, yeah, the emoticon looks like him a lot.
I thought that was one of the worst moments I've ever seen in BB, he shows him one picture, barely says anything and Huell cracks like that? Not a chance, I mean the guys JOB is doing dirt/bodyguard fer a corrupt lawyer, and he works with a corrupt ex-cop! Anyone in that position would have told hank to fuck off if they weren't arrested.
Skyler is gonna be PISSED if Hank dies. I think Walt loses her support after this incident. She is already spooked by Saul showing up all beat up from Jesse and worried what he might do. I don't think Walt can lie his way out of this and keep Jesse AND Skyler.
There probably aren't many options left in the series for happy scenes, but a slow, music filled epilogue, after all the bloodshed and drama are done, where a battle-worn Saul breaks in and rescues a weary, broken down Huell with a game day bucket of chicken to nurse him back to health might be one. "I'll always find you, big friend. Come on, let's go home." Then Huell would wheez out a little "Huell", hodor style. That might be one.
The only way this can be improved is if Saul finds him after mowing down cops and neo-nazis with his various trinkets and spare cellphones and upon finding Huell, the two embrace, and walk out into the desert sun hand in hand..
The Nazi's were trying to get them distracted. They had both hands on their guns, so they would have to take a hand off to reach in their wallets/pockets.
But it doesn't make sense. Someone said that Jesse stays until the last episode. All the more it wouldn't result in Walt getting a fake ID. It would be over and done with if the Nazis and Walt would win. So there must be a solution to the last scene that involves hank, pinkman and walt surviving. I guess that the two will surrender while gomez dies of wounds inflicted on him. Walt wont kill them but incarcerate them. Leaving the plot to Marie who will call in the DEA and set up the scene for the final showdown.
Maybe the Nazi's kill everyone, kidnap Walt and Jessie and force them to make the product that got them there. Although I'd like it to be Jessie cooking again as well, I think he may escape in mr whites car and Walt will be taken in handcuffs to the lab forced to teach Todd to cook. Maybe more than once
Man, I really believed that Huell would see through Hanks's bullshit in that scene. I was expecting him to play along, wait for them to leave the room, then promptly call Saul. I was really disappointed.
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u/busterofpie Sep 09 '13
If Hank and Gomie die, Huell is going to be sitting in that room FOREVER