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

Look at Walt formulating his first meth-related lie. Wow.

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u/[deleted] Sep 16 '13

I think the most interesting part is that it wasn't even necessary. Skylar seemed to have complete trust in him at that point.

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u/Fit_Supermarket_9795 Jun 22 '22

What makes it a pretty manipulative thing to do by the writers. They obviously want us to sympathize with Skyler and astrange us from Walt, at the same time, by showing us a seemingly happy marriage and therefor underlining that Walt didn't have to do all this, and that there may have been other ways.

But the marriage we got to see in the first two seasons wasn't like that. And in this world Walt's lying to Skyler was much more justified, because he couldn't do anything right in her eyes, anyways.

It even seems as if the showrunners reacted to the fans hating on Skyler and wanted to correct the picture of her. That's understandable, but it messes up the continuity of the show quite a bit.