It was an incident in Season One:

Well, truth be told, she also smoked while pregnant. That's another awful thing she did. If relykS has a history of not taking care of herself and her unborn child, it's possible she smoked/drank/did drugs while pregnant with Walter Jr. which could have led to his cerebral palsy.

She's left the baby in the car on a few occasions and uses her for personal gain (baby is crying, let me into walter's apartment!)

She is just awful.

The Marie is a kleptomaniac was the low point of this series for me.

Who the hell watches porn if they can't "take care of things"?

So glad we only gotten a VERY limited dose of Walter Jr. thus far.

Skylr looks freaking hot in that promo shot, but I know I'm in the minority on that.

My favorite part was Hank asking Marie to unpack and inspect each "mineral" before accepting the delivery.

Am I alone in thinking that after taking a whole year off, the episodes should be better than this?

Aside from Gus's moment with the razor, this has been rather meh.

I don't like Jesse's subplot, and they've turned Hank into such an asshole that it doesn't even make sense.

No. You're not alone. Almost every scene thus far this season has seemed excruciatingly drawn out IMO.

When Jessie threw the money, all the addicts were acting like zombies and looked like they were feeding on the guy passed out on the floor.

Seeing as zombies were a focus of a conversation in last weeks episode, I looked at it as a wink to last weeks episode.

I find when people correct spelling on the Internet, it's a big annoying waste of time.

And.....

If someone tells me "to go fuck myself" on the Internet, I would not take that as a personal attack, seeing as the Internet is where most people go to...... in order to fuck themselves.

I originally thought Hank was being an asshole to Marie to push her away. The, "I'm a worthless cripple and you deserve better. I'll be a dick so you leave me and have a happy life." But after this week's episode...I think he's just a ****.

$chilar is a wench. She's flipping out about Walt buying the champagne because they are supposed to have no money. Oh yeah? Then how the fuck are you buying an $800,000 car wash? That's not more of a red flag for people?

Eh. I don't think it's any worse than it's been historically, but I'm not one of those who think this is the best thing TV has ever seen. I like the show and will watch it until it's end, but it's never been "the best thing on TV".

agreed. I think people are spoiled in that the last 4 episodes or so of the previous season were all crazy tense.

This is just a small breather - I'm sure things will heat up soon. The writers do know what they're doing here

Hank got scared in El Paso, just became outright yellow not to go back, all of which were seriously new things for him and created a crisis. Now he's been shot all to hell, just barely surviving with the luck of one round laying in the parking lot.

His wife has been a neurotic thorn in his side the whole show, including being a thief while he's in law enforcement, and now making him call in favors and face humiliation in the LE community to save her pathetic ass.

If, after facing your own cowardice, getting shot all to hell and nearly dying, laying incapacitated in a bed and helpless to stew over it all, and your weirdo fucking wife can't even suck it up for a few months and not go get arrested doing fairly psycho things, you get a 6 month pass in my book.

But he is being a pouted up ass.

Skyylrr is the least likeable character on the show. She's been a self involved, domineering, self concerned, self obsessed, reactionary bitch from the start. All over the internet most everyone must be a misogynist because the opinions on her are fairly uniform.

I can understand Hank acting the way he is. I don't think he was being an ass to push her away. I think he's just obviously still feeling like shit about his situation, and she probably gets sort of smothering in her kindness and trying to wait on him all the time, and he doesn't want her to have so much pity for him.

He's always been an egotistical and authoritative guy, and can't be that way to others now that he's bed-ridden, so Marie is just the easy (only possible) target.

I think the champaign thing was just a slightly cliched scene to establish that Skylur is becoming street smart and is going to have a larger hand in the empire. She reminds me of Catherine zeta jones character in traffic.

Also don't get all the hatred for her, although it certainly doesn't bother me.

For everyone commenting on the $800K, in the previews for the next episode it seems like they are going to explain it there. I'd at least give them the chance to explain it when it happens before getting all crazy about it.

Skyler is a hot, real, MILF. There, I said it.

This season hasn't been as good as the previous one. We don't have this external big bad guy(s), like in the previous seasons. It's just Walt vs Gus, and yeah, Gus is a real bad motherfucker, but he's a subtle one. So we are seeing Walt doing dumb things, like trying to go to Gus house to kill him. Then Hank, then Skyler trying to buy the carwash... yeah, not really exciting. Maybe the best part has been seeing Jesse.

I still think that there's a point in the season where all hell will break loose and we wouldn't be able to wait until the next episode. So far, when the episode ends I just say, ok, let's wait for the next one.

BTW:

http://iotacons.blogspot.com/2011/07...-iotacons.html

And one of the first comments: "this is awesome i recognized every single character god i loathe Skylar"

Awesome find, Raul3! He's also added more (bottom row).

In case someone wants to guess:


Victor is hilarious.

Last I recall Season 2 and especially Season 3 also started out with slow builds.

Looks like we might get a 2 season pickup soon...

I hope they don't stretch out their story for two seasons just to satisfy one of the networks. It's too bad that AMC is pushing them to wrap up the final season in 6-8 episodes rather than the length that the show has run the past few seasons.

FX Approached about Breaking Bad

I was a little disappointed to see that the whole 'mineral/rock' shit didn't go anywhere. However, I'm interested to find out what Hank will find in the notebook that will spark his ass back to becoming a man again.

Why do you think it won't go anywhere? I have no doubt there will be a correlation. They're feeding Hank all the pieces to the puzzle. He just hasn't put them together yet.

So the lowpoint was in season one? It came up during that point as well. Marie stealing is nothing new...

Also, I think Hank is being dick because he's just miserable at the moment. He probably feels like a coward after Texas, he lost the promotion, lost his cool, lost his job, got shot the hell up, he can't really walk or anything very well, he has to crap into a bed pan with Marie's help, and he hasn't really had anything to keep his attention except minerals and crappy television... Not to say that Marie deserves any of the crap he dishes out, it's just a rough place to be in.

As for Skyrim, I think she gets a lot of undeserved hate. Yeah, she can be kind of annoying and a know-it-all at times, but I think her intentions are good for the most part.