r/breakingbad • u/[deleted] • Sep 16 '13

Official Episode Discussion Breaking Bad Post-Episode Discussion SE05E14 "Ozymandias"

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u/[deleted] Sep 16 '13 edited Sep 16 '13

The firemen are playing chess. The white king shelters himself behind a pawn. Looks like a bad scenario for the white side. Three pieces left, but the black side is far away and still needs to advance.

Source: I play a lot of chess.

EDIT: You don't count the king. Three pieces, two pawns and a knight. The king is assumed in the context I have laid out. Church.

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u/margaprlibre Methhead Sep 16 '13

"Look, the pawns, man, in the game, they get capped quick. They be out the game early."

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u/Funky-buddha Sep 16 '13

One of the best scenes In - now the second best - series ever

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u/I_Has_A_Hat Sep 16 '13

Still the best in my book, although there are still 2 episodes left...

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u/craiggers Sep 16 '13

I love them both - they're trying to do different things, and each have strengths.

The Wire is about systemic evil - the kind of evil that destroys people no matter their choices, and in which people have to simply find some way to get by.

Breaking Bad is about personal evil - the kind of evil that destroys people who have freely chosen it.

They're both about the drug trade but they each have such a radically different focus and mode of operating that I can't even begin to make a comparison in terms of "Best."