Breaking Bad 4.1
Speechless with admiration once again for Vince Gilligan. How the hell does he do it? Every time you think he's taken this baby as far as it can go - WHAM. Punches you right in the face.
Gale is/was/always will be brilliant, and deaded? only more so. What a wonderful device - and OMG the lab scene with Gus. His fate could so easily have been completely meaningless, but instead we have this great big wonderful child, forever shining with love at his lovely poison playground. Ooooh wonderful.
And Gus, Gus, wonderful Gus; what sheer balltearing presence! Mesmerising. If this man "loses" at any point it will be a tragedy. He deserves to triumph.
Saul. Nhahah. Small things, small minds, yada... but who couldn't laugh at that first shot :)
Still hate Skyler with a passion - please can somebody kill her off? preferably slowly, with something she has to breathe in - but okay. One has to admire her innate talent for baseline nasty manipulation.
Jesse destroyed and made anew - truly tempered, now, perhaps; Jesse's ultimate reaction to Gus and his actions... not what he says, afterwards, but that look, right into Gus' eyes. ohhh boy do I want to see where this goes. The wee boy's growin' up, and Gus' shoes might be just the destination. Not literally, obviously, but on a spiritual and personal level... somehow, some way, maybe... oh I do hope so. Ohhhhhhhh yes.
Walt-the-powerful stripped, unlikeable, such a terribly little man, his persistence in the face of fear no longer remotely admirable. I'd been somewhat surprised at (e.g.) Sepinwall's growing insistence on how, well, evil he is - even on a rewatch of s3, in which he approaches the pale at great speed - but by Christ he really is becoming so very empty, isn't he? All that wonderful empowered Man one cheered for - stay out of my territory, all his chances, all his growth - thrown away. What has he become? This, only this, and frankly I do not think he can truly ever be Heisenberg (as understood in "Over") again, not truly, not in his soul. Fantastic. (May Jesse become the Walt who could have been? oh, if only...)
Chronic W/J shipper like me: well satisfied with Walt in the lab, and Jesse's beautiful distancing after all the horror. The more angst the better, BITCH.
And Hank. Oh Christ, Hank. What a perfectly judged, thoroughly horrifying little scene. And expertly placed in the episode - a real balance-tipper. All the more distressing for its refusal to understate or sugar-coat, and a beautiful lead-in to the rest of the ep in tone and tension.
In short: YES. Well done that man.
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Gale is/was/always will be brilliant, and deaded? only more so. What a wonderful device - and OMG the lab scene with Gus. His fate could so easily have been completely meaningless, but instead we have this great big wonderful child, forever shining with love at his lovely poison playground. Ooooh wonderful.
And Gus, Gus, wonderful Gus; what sheer balltearing presence! Mesmerising. If this man "loses" at any point it will be a tragedy. He deserves to triumph.
Saul. Nhahah. Small things, small minds, yada... but who couldn't laugh at that first shot :)
Still hate Skyler with a passion - please can somebody kill her off? preferably slowly, with something she has to breathe in - but okay. One has to admire her innate talent for baseline nasty manipulation.
Jesse destroyed and made anew - truly tempered, now, perhaps; Jesse's ultimate reaction to Gus and his actions... not what he says, afterwards, but that look, right into Gus' eyes. ohhh boy do I want to see where this goes. The wee boy's growin' up, and Gus' shoes might be just the destination. Not literally, obviously, but on a spiritual and personal level... somehow, some way, maybe... oh I do hope so. Ohhhhhhhh yes.
Walt-the-powerful stripped, unlikeable, such a terribly little man, his persistence in the face of fear no longer remotely admirable. I'd been somewhat surprised at (e.g.) Sepinwall's growing insistence on how, well, evil he is - even on a rewatch of s3, in which he approaches the pale at great speed - but by Christ he really is becoming so very empty, isn't he? All that wonderful empowered Man one cheered for - stay out of my territory, all his chances, all his growth - thrown away. What has he become? This, only this, and frankly I do not think he can truly ever be Heisenberg (as understood in "Over") again, not truly, not in his soul. Fantastic. (May Jesse become the Walt who could have been? oh, if only...)
Chronic W/J shipper like me: well satisfied with Walt in the lab, and Jesse's beautiful distancing after all the horror. The more angst the better, BITCH.
And Hank. Oh Christ, Hank. What a perfectly judged, thoroughly horrifying little scene. And expertly placed in the episode - a real balance-tipper. All the more distressing for its refusal to understate or sugar-coat, and a beautiful lead-in to the rest of the ep in tone and tension.
In short: YES. Well done that man.
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