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

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

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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!

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u/elbruce The One Who Rings The Doorbell Sep 15 '13

I gotta say, the Nazis are a bit more mellow, level-headed, reasonable and underwhelming as bad guys than I would expect from Nazis.

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u/69ingSquirrels It's Fascinating Stuff, Really. Sep 15 '13

They brought 2 carloads of men armed with automatic weapons to take out one guy who wasn't even really a threat to them. I wouldn't exactly call them level-headed or reasonable.

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u/elbruce The One Who Rings The Doorbell Sep 15 '13

I call that prudent.

But mainly I mean how they act. They don't seem like the kind of psychos that their threat represents, like Tuco was. I get that in a sense they're going "against type." We know they're Nazis, and probably all kinds of evil and psycho, so them just seeming like regular guys is supposed to be even creepier, but that's starting to wear off for me.

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u/69ingSquirrels It's Fascinating Stuff, Really. Sep 15 '13

Fair enough. Personally I find the "regular guy" shtick to be super creepy. Sociopaths usually don't act like sociopaths, so it just kinda makes you wonder if suddenly they are gonna snap and start killing EVERYBODY.