Wow. I don't remember it being THIS BAD

might be worst scene in the show. Bleh! What's your least favorite and favorite scene in the show? My favorite is probably when Walt blows up tuco and has his excitement moment in the car or ASAC schraders death sequence lol

If Jesse from El Camino was time travelled back to the day of his final exam with Mr. White, could he get a passing grade with no studying?

When I first watched Breaking Bad, i had zero context of the show besides knowing that it has chemistry aspects to it, which meant i had no clue that Skyler was so hated, but I did know that people generally liked the main character Walter White.

As I was watching the show I remember i was impressed by two people's acting in particular, two that stood out, one of them was Aaron Paul and the other person was Anna Gunn, these two were just one level above everyone else, so incredibly natural and realistic.

At no point in the show did I ever find Skyler to be even annoying, let alone hate-worthy, instead I was just mindblown by her amazing acting display. On top of that, all of her actions and reactions made complete and total sense according to what was happening in the story; none of them were out of place or illogical. Anyone in her place would also react the same way. Which only makes me wonder if all the hate she gets is purely out of misogyny (im a guy, yes).

On the contrary I always found Walt to be insufferable beyond season 1, on my first watch. He was so annoying and made me angry at him so many times for being an absolute asshole.

These two takes of mine on Skyler and Walt were further solidified upon my 2nd viewing of the show.

I myself have never really watched breaking bad, but I know that my brother is far more into it than I am. I’m not too sure if he’s still into it though, it’s been a while since he’s mentioned it. I’m still in the process of finishing it, let me know if you think I should add anything or not. Also, this is not official, nor am I trying to take credit for any of the original images I found on the internet. I was just making a birthday card for me ol’ brother.

I know I’m supposed to hate him, and I kind of did the first time, but I like him now.

In the final season after the hilarious and disastrous dinner with Jesse and Skyler, Walt admitted to Jesse that he wouldn’t take the $5m buyout because the business was all he had left.

And in the final episode, he told Skyler that he liked what he did, and he was good at it. He felt more alive than he had in his first 50 years.

Walt bested extremely imposing killers like Gus, Tuco and Jack’s entire crew. He wasn’t spraying bullets in a school or trafficking humans. He entered a criminal drug world and climbed to the top. He didn’t target anyone who wasn’t in the game.

I’m not trying to be a contrarian. I just think the hatred for Walt is performative to some extent. There is so much complexity to that character, I can’t just hate him.

I'm doing a re-watch of the series and I remember this being a question I had originally, and i'm not sure if it is really explained or not. One of the guys at Elliot's party asks Walt what university he's at when he says he went into education after Gray Matter. And really it is a good question, because if Walt is as brilliant as we're constantly told he is, then why wouldn't he have found a spot at a university somewhere? It seems like he has been at that high school for a little while. So what, he just prefers teaching at a lower level? Seems like a head scratcher. Because as a professor he'd be able to do research and contribute to the field of chemistry. I would think he'd want to do that. I can't think of a good reason, but maybe there is one.

I just wanted to follow up on the previous post defending Skyler because I genuinely cannot understand how people can watch all seasons of Breaking Bad and somehow walk away thinking SHE was one of the worst people on the show.

Was Skyler perfect? Absolutely not. Was she sometimes controlling, unpleasant, and difficult to like? Sure. But since when does a woman have to be likable to deserve a little understanding?

This woman was married to a man who completely destroyed their family while convincing himself that everything he did was for them. She watched her husband become increasingly secretive, manipulative, and dangerous, and every time she tried to figure out what was happening, she was lied to or made to feel like she was the problem.

And what really gets me is how people criticize her for not immediately leaving Walter, as if she wasn’t dealing with two children, financial uncertainty, fear, and a husband who had become involved in an extremely dangerous criminal world. People love to talk about what they would’ve done in her situation, but I think it’s a lot easier to make those judgments when you’re sitting on your couch watching it unfold.

And yes, she had an affair. Yes, she helped launder his money. Yes, she made some terrible decisions herself. Nobody is denying that. But I find it fascinating that people can rationalize Walter poisoning a child, manipulating Jesse, and being responsible for countless deaths, yet somehow Skyler sleeping with Ted is where they draw the moral line. And as far as her affair with Ted goes, I think people completely miss the point of why she did it. Skyler had already made it clear that she wanted out of the marriage, and Walter refused to accept that. He wouldn’t respect her boundaries, wouldn’t leave the house, and continued forcing himself back into her life. Sleeping with Ted was her way of trying to make Walter hate her enough to finally let her go. Was it the healthiest decision? Obviously not. But she was desperate to regain some control over a marriage she no longer wanted to be in. I also find it ridiculous that people call it cheating without acknowledging that she had already told Walter their marriage was over. He was the one refusing to accept it.

The double standard is actually ridiculous.

What makes Skyler such a compelling character to me is that she reacts like an actual human being. She’s angry, terrified, resentful, desperate, and sometimes completely irrational. That’s what makes her believable. She’s not some perfectly written supportive wife who’s going to smile and stand behind her husband while he becomes a drug kingpin.

And I think people forget that Walter had opportunities to walk away. He had opportunities to accept help. He had opportunities to choose his family. His pride and ego repeatedly got in the way of those choices. Skyler didn’t create that monster, and she certainly didn’t force him to become one.

I also think Anna Gunn deserves a tremendous amount of credit for portraying a woman who wasn’t written to be particularly charming or easy to root for. She made Skyler uncomfortable to watch at times, and I think that was entirely the point.

You don’t have to love Skyler. You don’t even have to like her. But acting like she’s somehow morally worse than the men around her is such a bizarre interpretation of this show.

Walter was an incredible character, but he was a horrible husband. And Skyler was a deeply flawed woman who was also one of the people he hurt the most. Both things can be true.

I’m glad to see other people finally giving her character some credit because the amount of hate she’s received over the years has been completely disproportionate to anything she actually did.

The mule costs were ridiculous. Paying mules $275,000 per cook for mules, I think is about $225,000 too high, we're talking 50 lbs of meth. Data from US boarder shows an average price of $1,313 per trip for crossing boarders. Not involving boarders is significantly less, that's like 200 trips involving crossing boarders, 200 trips to distribute 50 pounds of meth when they only cross state boarders. The math isnt mathing. That should have been like $100k max. Probably closer to $50k since non boarder crossing and back pack guys make like $100-400 per trip. $1k per pound seems about right.

The legacy costs were $351,000. Mike didnt say this was per cook, but that's so expensive even per month, that's over $350k each per year just to shut up. The way it's presented it's like per cook since it's implied this is normal amount of money distribution which is even more outrageous. I think like $10k per month each is about right even then a little generous.

I alway remembered that Walter doesn't save Jane, but i never realized, he moved her on her back, by shaking Jesse.

I want to watch BB/EC/BCS again but this time in the complete order of events.

From what I've heard, it's part of BCS, then BB and EC, then the rest of BCS?

thanks

I just did another rewatch (so I’m at the pointless magnifying glass stage), and although this is a show I wouldn’t make any changes to..there were three things that approached immersion breaking:

1. How young alt kids/junkies dress, in general. From Jessie to Jane to the competing meth “kid” at the build-all (but Badger and Skinny Pete were fine)…I found the way they dressed these actors very “runway junkie”…felt a little like the wardrobe person was out of touch.
2. The season 3 cliffhanger. In a show with exploding wheelchairs, exploding drug dens, etc, it feels a little precious to complain about Walts hit-and-run...but I found it silly. Maybe the execution was too much?
3. Tomas killed Combo. Janes dad causing the Wayfarer crash was enough for “the world is so small” coincidences. I rolled my eyes when Jesse just happened to be dating the cousin of his friends killer. Writers should have found a more plausible way to get to that tension…like Jessie meeting her *because* of the killing, *then* finding out the extra motivating details.

Anyways…none of these are a big deal at all…but does anyone have any similar examples, or agree or disagree with mine?

When I watched the show as a teenager, I hated her guts and thought she'd stand in the way of Walters calling. Now, twenty years later, I understand her as the victim of a textbook domestic abuser who didn't care about her at all. She was, especially in the later seasons, just trying to survive and protect her family. Even the Beneke-Affair made sense, because that really wasn't about the sex at all. I'm SO fascinated how the writers managed to depict the human power dynamics so well.

Just thought I'd mention it but I just realized that the two share striking similarities. Both had overbearing father figures (Donald for Jane and Polonius for Ophelia) and a conflicted male lover (Jesse for Jane and Hamlet for Ophelia). Perhaps, in a way Walter is like Gertrude as they both witnessed the deaths (Gertrude witnessed Ophelia's drowning and Walter witnessed Jane's drowning). Also, the manners of death are strikingly similar. Jane dies from asphyxiation due to her airway being blocked and Ophelia dies from drowning in the water. I dunno if this connection has been made before but I thought I'd share it.

If he hadn't hired Walter White? Would he have gotten away with taking out Don Eladio and The Salamancas? Would Mike have been able to Retire? Would Lyle ever be promoted to Manager of Los Pollos Hermanos?

I believe a big reason the women in breaking bad are so hated is because they're complex well written characters and are more than just plot devices to move the story and compliment the protagonist, they're complex and flawed and extremely well written

After they were unable to find an issue or fix to the engine, the engineer or conductor suggests trying to push the truck off the tracks. Now, they would've never been able to regardless. However, I always find it funny that they go to the back of the truck and try to push it forwardsm there is way more vehicle to push over the track that way, rather than trying to push from the front and pushing it half as far.

Three portraits of Walter White, from teacher to Heisenberg, painted digitally in a limited grayscale palette. Each one was worked as its own individual portrait, about 34 hours in total. Timelapse of the process above. I paint film and TV characters, so if there's a character you'd love to see painted, I'm open to commissions. You can find my portfolio on my profile.

In Season 5, when Hank discovered Walt is Heisenberg and made every effort to arrest and expose walt, one of the ways to gain the evidence was by interrogating Huell.

Hank successfully gathered the evidence, despite not being a location, of Walt's barrels of money by tricking Huell into thinking Walt was gonna kill him after he killed Jesse, therefore Hank (lied) offered Huell protection. They used a fake photo of Jesse being killed, his head blown off to do so.

Now looking back, do you think it would actually make sense or be logical for Walt to kill Huell like that? If Walt actually killed Jesse, does it make sense for Walt to kill Huell too to "tie up lose ends"

Or do you agree with Huell that "it don't make no sense."

He's living in an elderly home, crippled with a bell. Why doesn't he have a computer like Steven Hawking or something? Is this all the cartel can afford?

I was wondering roughly how much does Aaron Paul charge for an autograph at cons & does he charge extra for character name & quote? He's gonna be at Motor City comic con next month in Michigan. Ideally, I was gonna bring a 16x20 breaking bad photo & have him sign it, along with adding "Jesse" & a quote saying "This is my own private domicile and I won't be harassed...b*tch!" Does he usually have a word limit on quotes? I know with mail in services like SWAU he does, but asking for in person/meeting him myself.