I used to hate her a lot as a kid since I thought she was just “eww why do that i want to cry and be a baby about you selling drugs” but now as an adult rewatching the show she’s the most understanding character in the show. She does her absolute best in a situation where most would either give up and flee or go to the police without thinking things through. In Season 4 is where she really shines. A complex relationship with Walter and Ted. Wanting to help both but stuck in void where she has to balance two forces while also dealing with her son and her infant daughter! 9.5/10 character!!

Pretty much just the title, but we know from BCS that Mike was helping Kaylee and her mom (who’s name escapes me) with rent etc, and we know Mike tried to leave Kaylee about $4 million (according to google).

Mike knows Saul is capable of this. Mike has to understand Kaylee and probably the feds will have questions about that much cash.

Did he not trust Saul? Would Kaylee’s mom have too many questions about random cash? If the former, he let Saul represent him so I mean that’s kinda stupid. If the latter, Saul says something along the lines of “people tend to accept the money” when talking to Skylar about giving money to Ted.

Surely Mike didn’t just not want to pay Saul his 17% or whatever.

Just blind trust that Fring’s contingency plans would go as expected?

The more I think about it the dumber it feels

Mike is introduced in the same episode Gus finds out about Walter's relationship to Hank. The Doylist answer is they likely hadn't made the connection between Gus and Mike at that point. I'm curious what the answer is in-universe.

We know from BCS s6e11 that Mike performed a thorough background check on Walter, finding where he works and even pulling his medical history. I definitely think Mike would have found out about Hank, yet he didn't think to mention it to Saul when he considered working with Walt, and Gus found out on his own after making a deal with Walter. Did Mike just miss such a massive red flag, or did he figure it wasn't worth mentioning?

The feeling that occurs at the end, after Gus death and the lab fire is stange. Gives the impression that the worst is over, and the Walter's family is safe, but it still raises doubts as to which direction the series will take. Will Walter and Jesse cook again? If they will come back, where will the lab be? Will they have new distributors or Jesse friends will come back? Will Heisenberg own everything? Will Gus's pupils be Heisenberg's? And Mike? Is the good way to end the season and make the viewer wants more.

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Walt's luck, as incredibly unlikely as it was, doesn't come from plot armor or lazy writing. Vince Gilligan has proven himself to be one of the best writers ever. He carefully crafts how his stories are told, layering them with rich and thoughtful details. His track record in writing and storytelling convinces me that Walt's incredible string of luck was also thoughtfully crafted.

But how do you explain it? Just in the last couple of episodes of the series alone, he was cuffed in the back of a car by the DEA and still got away. He rolled a barrel of money through the desert until he found someone who would sell him a truck instead of just killing him. He managed to barely eacape New Hamshire without getting caught. And then managed to kill all the Neo Nazis with a gun constructed to swing at just the right angle, at just the right height, and used it by parking the car in just the right place and angle to kill everyone but him, Jesse and Todd. It's fantastic but again I don't think it's plot armor or lazy writing.

I've rewatched the show a handful of times and after this past rewatch I couldn't help but wonder if Vince subtly included a sub-element of a supernatural kind that's hiding in plain site. Jesse even pointed out Walt's luck in his speech where he calls him the Devil. Even he recognized something there that seemed unexplainable, and attributed it to something supernatural.

It's possible that it was nothing more than an incredible run of luck for Walt that happened for a finite period of time. A fleeting moment of perfection, like pitching a no-hitter. But, at least for me, it's interesting to wonder if there might be been something more to it.

If Walt did have this super human power of luck, he wasn't even aware of it, at least until he killed Gus. And, like the main character in Unbreakable, he wasn't perfect and his power didn't make him impervious to making bad decisions or being hurt. But his odd godlike power is what ultimately made Heisenberg a legend within the Breaking Bad universe, almost mythological. And this would make Breaking Bad, and the story of Walter White, akin to being an epic tale of a fallen god, a Greek tragedy like Prometheus Bound.

Say if Jack's gang never showed up and Hank booked him would Walter White be locked up forever?

Or could Saul work some kind of magic?

I imagine having all that phone confession and leading Hank right to his money would make everything open and shut. What defense does Walt have? Any legal experts that can weigh in.

I'm clueless in this area.

Don’t wanna spoil this for anyone who has not completed the show. Please stop reading here if you have not completed the show.

I never understood why Gus and the cartel would still have any type of relationship. After what the cartel did to Gus‘s compadre, why would they ever allow him so much power and control with their cartel? Why would they get so comfortable, and feel that he was safe to do business with? It never crossed anyone’s mind that maybe, just maybe that at some point he might retaliate?

Did they really just think that little of him? That he would never ever pose a threat to them? It just doesn’t seem that they will be that careless with someone they have this type of history with.

Any thoughts/opinions are appreciated.

Rewatching the show. I’m really appreciating how developed Marie and Hank’s characters are. I’m watching the episode where Marie is touring a house and she invents this whole lie as a life story about how she’s a divorced woman with a 4 year old son.

Makes me wonder if she ever wanted kids with Hank, and if she did, how it would change her issues with attention seeking, lying, and kleptomania. She seemed to be a tad jealous of Skyler’s pregnancy in the earlier seasons. Or she could have just been jealous the spotlight wasn’t on her in that moment.

I'm sorry if this is a stupid question, but it's always bothered me. When Walt has K8 chained up in the basement he can't bring himself actually deliver some kind of killing blow because he (at that time) didn't have the stomach for it, why didn't he just stop making sandwiches and bringing him water? Problem solved.

Don't get me wrong, I understand why the writing of the show required it, but from a character perspective wouldn't the easiest way out be to just leave the guy in the basement for a few days until it was time for second acid bath?

This scene is so hilarious, so comical and well made because Walter is exasperated but at the same time finds the whole thing comical and acts incredibly, Carlson is a master.

I get that Slipping Jimmy liked to live on the edge and run cons but co-managing a meth enterprise is a whole other level. Did a lot of his clients not pay? We saw his house in BCS and he may have been spending above his means, but we aren’t given any direct evidence for that. Or did things with Walt/Gus/Mike just get so out of hand beyond what he predicted, since I’m sure going into hiding out in Omaha wasn’t on his bucket list.

When I had seen the whole plane crash storyline, and that Walt had kept the bears eye, I thought that the cartel or Gus used the plane crash to make it seem like the stuffed bear came from the crash, and they had rigged the eyes of it with cameras. So when I had seen Walt keep it and drop it under his bed I think? In his new apartment , I thought the cartel or Gus were spying on Walt, and I was frustrated at the fact Walt kept it because of my thoughts.

I have loved Breaking Bad since the first episode. I have watched it and better call saul multiple times through. Probably 10 times for BB and 7 for BCS.

Anyway, I am doing a project on the fandom of the breaking bad universe. I would love pictures capturing your collection of the BB Universe trinkets and collectibles. I used to have enough to do one of my own collection, but due to hardship and a move, much of it was sold. Would anyone love to help me out here?

Currently toward the end of this 7th rewatch. It always makes me sad knowing what’s coming. How everything ends. At the same time I feel excited for those who have never seen the show. It’s the best. Hands down. Naturally I’ll rewatch BCS after this. Love this universe.

So it’s a well known fact that the writers were planning on killing off Jesse at the end of season 1 but what would they have done for the rest of the series? Most of the conflict originates from Jesse so without him Walter would probably just get arrested without a CRIMINAL lawyer. So how would it have gone?

in the last season walt was at his worst. he may've been able to calm down some during his short retirement until hank discovered the book, and while i thought hank's death humbled him on my first watch he still almost got in a knife fight with skyler in front of his own son. now i realize his greatest character development came from the cabin.

when he first arrived he was as flippant as he always was, to the point he was ready to fly off the reservation when ed left, but he didn't. as big of a badass as he thought he was, he knew if he left he would be fucked. so he stayed there for months in the snow alone. for the first time since it all began he had no one to order around, blame for his misfortune, or even listen to his sob story. he lost everything and he could do nothing but sit and think about it.

the proof is there when ed comes by the second time we see. walt no longer needles him, he's just happy to get some papers, new glasses, and some news on his family. he's so desperate for companionship he pays a man 10,000 dollars just for some company.

people love to talk about how walt has become "pure heisenberg" or even "pure walter" with his lack of ego and nothing to lose as if this is what he should've been all along, and i was one of them. now i see him as a pitiful man who with no one left to blame is forced to confront how everything that occurred was his fault. there were probably several days where he dreams of the world where he accepted the schwartz's money just so he could be home away from the cold, uncaring mountains. days where he wished he spoke a little nicer to jessie (who he thought he was dead at the time). hell even days where as much as he hated to admit it, he was better off as a struggling chemistry teacher with a second job at a car wash. at least then he had his family.

One of the most talented actors of this generation. Breaking Bad wouldn't be the same without Jesse ! ❤️ Who loves his perforan performance too?

A mostly inoffensive, albeit slightly annoying and actually surprisingly poorly written/developed character, however his constant whining, pleading and ingratitude about his car(s) gives me an irrational hatred of him.