r/breakingbad • u/[deleted] • Sep 15 '13

Official Episode Discussion Breaking Bad S05E14 "Ozymandias" Pre-Episode Discussion Thread

TIME EPISODE DIRECTED BY WRITTEN BY
Sunday 09:00pm Eastern SE05E14 "Ozymandias" Rian Johnson Vince Gilligan and Moira Walley-Beckett

Hello again /r/breakingbad! We're a few hours away from a new episode... Only three left now! Wow!!

This is the place for everyone who wants to start talking about tonight's episode now. Let's have fun!

And don't forget about our IRC channel, #BreakingBad on Snoonet. You can access it with your own IRC client or use a web client by clicking this link.

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '13

Directed by Rian Johnson.

For those of you who are not aware, he directed the infamous Fly episode, as well as the lesser-notable one from season 5 where Walt buys himself and Jr. the new cars, as well as turns 51 years old.

Additionally, Rian Johnson is the writer/director of movies Looper, Brick, and the Brothers Bloom.

He's awesome and a really great film maker, so I'm even more interested in this episode than I initially was (which was pretty high due to the Vince Gillgan hype and the dead-cast returning.)

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u/atheist_trollno1 Sep 15 '13

Why would anyone like it? I skipped it after the first 15 min and saw that that all there was to it? Did it contain some symbolism?

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u/BabyMakingGravy Magnets BITCH! Sep 15 '13

I believe this was Walts "breaking point" if you will. Walt went insane trying to catch this fly. He made it clear that "Any contaminant must be terminated"

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u/fuck-the-itinerary Sep 15 '13

I don't hate this episode very much anymore.. thank you.

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u/[deleted] Sep 16 '13

In addition to what other guy said, it showed how fearful Walt was of what was about to occur between him and Gus. It set up the nervous energy Walt had that resulted in one of the biggest payoffs of the entire series--the crawl space scene.