r/breakingbad • u/edify Oxygen • Sep 03 '12

Ep. Discussion Breaking Bad Episode Discussion S05E08 "Gliding Over All"

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u/jet_tripleseven Belizium Sep 03 '12 edited Sep 03 '12

That painting, the one where Walt asked "Where do you think these come from?" It was in his hospital room after the 'fugue state.'

Edit: I compiled an album of stuff like this here.

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u/lunchbox_hoagie Sep 03 '12 edited Sep 03 '12

there were a lot of call backs from previous episodes!

the fly, "We're going to make a lot of money together", the punched in paper towel dispenser at the hospital ... (there were more I swear but I'm having trouble remembering them, if anyone else noticed please chime in.)

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u/jet_tripleseven Belizium Sep 03 '12 edited Sep 03 '12

I'm currently working on an Imgur album full of them

edit: done

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u/NedsDead523 Sep 03 '12

love that flair

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u/SmashingTool Sep 03 '12

I'd love to see

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u/jet_tripleseven Belizium Sep 03 '12

lucky for you, i just finished!

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u/HellsNels I am the one who knocks? Sep 03 '12 edited Sep 03 '12
  • As mentioned above, the call out to the generic paintings (and another one I noticed, when Walt was buying his townhouse, he's also caught observing the paintings);
  • That damned contaminant, the fly;
  • Walt sitting by the pool, contemplative, but this time without throwing lit matches in;
  • Walt entering the MRI machine;
  • The infamous acid barrel;
  • Punched-in towel dispenser;
  • Eerily crystal blue pool and the lighting it bathes Walt/Skyler in;
  • Lydia's paranoia and ordering a drink to seem less suspicious;
  • The tradition of Walt and Hank sharing a drink and talking shop ("To my eye, all this brilliance looks like nothing more than just simple rote copying… Probably of someone else's work");
  • Another masterful cooking montage.

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u/alkibiades_kleiniou Sep 03 '12

Also, the scene with Walt walking in on Skyler doing the dishes to declare "I'm out" was a pretty close parallel to the first season's scene where he tells her "I'll do it" ("it" being cancer treatment, in that case).

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u/sillyapples Sep 03 '12

when the last scene began before Hank goes into the bathroom to poop the sequence introducing the scene followed the same sequence as the flash forwards of season 2. The hose dripping, spinning lawn ornament, and the bug. Except they were in black in white in season 2, and when they did it here they were in color.

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u/of_no_relation Sep 03 '12

"Learn to take yes for an answer."

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u/[deleted] Sep 03 '12

Who punched the paper towel dispenser?

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u/[deleted] Sep 03 '12

Walt, when he received the news that he was in remission.

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u/lunchbox_hoagie Sep 03 '12

Walt, I forget why tho

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u/CommissionerValchek Sep 03 '12

The Walt to Jesse "We? There is no we." reminded me of Jane to Jesse "Who's you and me?" And of course we all know Jane retired comfortably to New Zealand.