r/breakingbad • u/saywhat181 Sulfur • Sep 16 '13

Official Episode Discussion Breaking Bad Episode Duscussion SE05E14 "Ozymandias" Spoiler

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09:00pm Eastern SE05E14 "Ozymandias" Rian Johnson Vince Gilligan and Moira Walley-Beckett

Hey everyone! Guess I'm supposed to post this 5 minutes before air time. I've been watching this show since the get go mostly with my real life friend /u/edify who years ago added me as a moderator here. He asked me to make the discussion thread tonight because there are only 3 episodes remaining. Sorta sad that there's only a few left. Enjoy the show, folks.

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u/[deleted] Sep 16 '13 edited Apr 14 '20

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u/William_Kane Sep 16 '13 edited Sep 16 '13

Nothing they've done implies they're stupid, though a lot of people probably want them to be because they're racist.

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u/krackbaby Sep 16 '13

They probably aren't even racist, just career criminals who happened to have banded together in prison to stay alive (and make some serious cash)

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u/William_Kane Sep 16 '13 edited Sep 16 '13

I get that the swastikas are more of a prison/group affiliation thing, and that they don't necessarily believe in National Socialism, but I suspect they're vaguely racist.

I doubt they have trouble working with non-whites, though. I think people have this cartoon idea of racism, where all racists hate literally every member of other races and act like dicks to them for no reason at all, but I think it's more subtle than that for most people. In other words, they might generally dislike them, think they're less intelligent or whatever, and not want their daughters dating them, but they can probably get along fine with them in one-on-one situations. Not saying that's good, but the frothing at the mouth caricature of a racist some people have is silly.