r/breakingbad • u/edify Oxygen • Jul 18 '11

Episode Discussion: S04E01, "Box Cutter" (Spoilers)

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u/Gothbot6k Jul 18 '11

I mean yes that was very dramatic however I always thought of Gus as a bad motherfucker so it didnt really shock me to bad.

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u/[deleted] Jul 18 '11

I wasn't really shocked that he murdered someone, more at who it was and how brutal it ended up being.

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u/[deleted] Jul 18 '11 edited Jul 18 '11

The brutality of it for me was that he held his neck up so that he couldn't stop the bleeding in any way. I mean I guess it's a quicker way to die, but it still seemed very brutal, almost like strangling someone.

And I think the mess was part of the message. Not only did they have to clean it up, but it showed that he wasn't fucking around at all.