Breaking Bad -- "Confessions" -- 8/25/13
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Re: Breaking Bad -- "Confessions" -- 8/25/13
Obviously, but it's more about appearances at the time. If he starts driving a $100,000 car, people would start asking questions. Nobody would think twice about insurance paying for his treatments (Hank didn't even question it). And if it gets to a point where he's being investigated, his poor brother-in-law paying out of pocket isn't really any kind of decent cover.
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When Hank discovered about Walt, he knew his career was over. Now he knows that if he's not careful he can go to jail for a long time.
In other words, he needs to thread lightly
In other words, he needs to thread lightly
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Re: Breaking Bad -- "Confessions" -- 8/25/13
Appearances at the time would no longer matter. This confession comes out and everything will be investigated. After Hank and the most annoying character in the series watch the disc, Hank finds out that she took the $$ to pay for his treatment and insurance wasn't used. It is a very big deal.
The only reason they threw that in there is because it's the one true thing that completely destroys Hank's career.
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I just remembered about the Tortuga episode. Hank is relocated to El Paso, and then the DEA informant that he just met, and he hated, is killed.
And when his head is found, with some explosives attached, Hank survives despite being one of the first at the scene.
We know what really happened, but I'm sure the DEA won't see it the same way.
And when his head is found, with some explosives attached, Hank survives despite being one of the first at the scene.
We know what really happened, but I'm sure the DEA won't see it the same way.
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Re: Breaking Bad -- "Confessions" -- 8/25/13
My take on the medical bill payment is that it really does not matter why if Hank were a drug kingpin why would he make Walt pay it....I just figured that the obvious part is Hank did not have the money and the bills were all payed in full....just another problem in Hank trying to get out of this lie that Walt was about to lay on him. Too many incidentals....
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Re: Breaking Bad -- "Confessions" -- 8/25/13
Hell, at this point even Hank's infatuation with "minerals" would come under suspicion!
This is truly Walt's greatest move yet.
This is truly Walt's greatest move yet.
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Re: Breaking Bad -- "Confessions" -- 8/25/13
I wonder if Hank's blog still gets updated:
"Gee the weirdest thing happened. My brother-in-law, the one I talked about? Turns out he's Heisenberg. What a wacky Sunday evening."
Guess not, now that the show is in serious mode:
http://blogs.amctv.com/breaking-bad/hanks-blog/
"Gee the weirdest thing happened. My brother-in-law, the one I talked about? Turns out he's Heisenberg. What a wacky Sunday evening."
Guess not, now that the show is in serious mode:
http://blogs.amctv.com/breaking-bad/hanks-blog/
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Re: Breaking Bad -- "Confessions" -- 8/25/13
2) Those previews were clearly of the "Mad Men" type where they took footage and soundbites from past episodes to create that teaser.
This isn't in a spoiler tag to calm anybody who saw the above.
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Re: Breaking Bad -- "Confessions" -- 8/25/13
Thank you, I puposely turn it before the preview came on. I'm not usually so picky but this show and this last season I want to see each fresh.
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Re: Breaking Bad -- "Confessions" -- 8/25/13
While I was trying to figure things out last night/re-trace the ricin and explain all this to my wife, I first had the following thought...
Not only did Huell lift the pot from Jesse, but he also planted the cigarettes. Saul knew this would set Jesse off and turn him against Walt. If Jesse were able to kill Walt, Saul would have all the money to himself. How? Saul provided Walt with the van that he took to the desert to bury the money. Saul is very familiar with tracking devices. Did Walt ever check to see if there was a tracking device on the van? I don't recall.
Only later did I realize that Huell did not plant the cigarettes, it seems they were in Jesse's pocket all along. But even so, could Saul still be playing Jesse against Walt and could he know where the money is buried. Again, Saul is familiar with tracking devices, this was referenced as recently as last night's episode in the desert.
So, simply a wild, random hypothesis while piecing things together in the midst of all the drama. Not sure if it's too far out or not and Saul would have to be one helluva performer to pull it off, but food for thought.
Not only did Huell lift the pot from Jesse, but he also planted the cigarettes. Saul knew this would set Jesse off and turn him against Walt. If Jesse were able to kill Walt, Saul would have all the money to himself. How? Saul provided Walt with the van that he took to the desert to bury the money. Saul is very familiar with tracking devices. Did Walt ever check to see if there was a tracking device on the van? I don't recall.
Only later did I realize that Huell did not plant the cigarettes, it seems they were in Jesse's pocket all along. But even so, could Saul still be playing Jesse against Walt and could he know where the money is buried. Again, Saul is familiar with tracking devices, this was referenced as recently as last night's episode in the desert.
So, simply a wild, random hypothesis while piecing things together in the midst of all the drama. Not sure if it's too far out or not and Saul would have to be one helluva performer to pull it off, but food for thought.
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Re: Breaking Bad -- "Confessions" -- 8/25/13
Jesse's been wallowing and thinking, over-thinking, everything that has happened to him the past couple of months. Brock and the ricin, dirtbike kid, his girlfriend. When he figured that Walt sent Mike to Belize, you can tell this is the kind of stuff he has been mulling over and dwelling on. That scene with the bag of money between him Walter and telling he knows what has happened with Mike said alot about his state of mind. Considering this and his history with Walt and the convenient timing of Fring's death, I can accept it struck him, like a match.
What I felt was stretched and ham-fisted was Saul having a bug up his ass about him smoking a joint and HAVING to make Huell lift it off him. Saul said he didn't know Hoover-man so how would he know if he cared if Jesse had weed? And of course Jesse was going to check for it at some point before getting picked up. That was a very Marie-esque thing of Saul to do.
What I felt was stretched and ham-fisted was Saul having a bug up his ass about him smoking a joint and HAVING to make Huell lift it off him. Saul said he didn't know Hoover-man so how would he know if he cared if Jesse had weed? And of course Jesse was going to check for it at some point before getting picked up. That was a very Marie-esque thing of Saul to do.
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Re: Breaking Bad -- "Confessions" -- 8/25/13
Alan Sepinwall's chronology (spoilered for length):
http://www.hitfix.com/whats-alan-wat...aster-thespian
Spoiler:
http://www.hitfix.com/whats-alan-wat...aster-thespian
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Re: Breaking Bad -- "Confessions" -- 8/25/13
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Re: Breaking Bad -- "Confessions" -- 8/25/13
I really doubt that either Jesse or Walt are going to wind up (confirmed) dead. I'm sure there is just too much pressure on Vince Gilligan to leave the door open for a Breaking Bad movie to allow that to happen. We might see one or both presumed dead, or an ambiguous Sopranos-like ending, but I really don't think we'll be seeing either Jesse's or Walt's corpse in this series.
Having said that, I'm hoping that Gilligan tells the suits to go to hell and delivers an honest no-holds-barred finale. But TV history makes me think otherwise.
Having said that, I'm hoping that Gilligan tells the suits to go to hell and delivers an honest no-holds-barred finale. But TV history makes me think otherwise.
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Re: Breaking Bad -- "Confessions" -- 8/25/13
Cranston was on Colbert and said that it's going to be wrapped up. He said it will not be like The Sopranos (where, of course, Tony got popped in the head).
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Re: Breaking Bad -- "Confessions" -- 8/25/13
If we don't see Todd again does he become the next Heisenberg?
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Re: Breaking Bad -- "Confessions" -- 8/25/13
Yeah I don't know where you're getting that Vince Gilligan is under any sort of pressure to do a movie. AMC and Sony aren't going to be idiots in the home stretch.
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Re: Breaking Bad -- "Confessions" -- 8/25/13
I think this does a good job of the backstory: http://www.reddit.com/r/breakingbad/...meline_to_the/
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Re: Breaking Bad -- "Confessions" -- 8/25/13
A movie? What indication has anyone ever given that such a thing is desired? TV shows rarely make the jump to movies.



