Why Twitter is useful: someoene asked Vince Gilligan whose idea the fantastic Ozymandias promo for Breaking Bad had been, and he replied:
Shelley's "Ozymandias" came up a lot this season, as my writers and I are nerds who never see the sun... However, the idea of cutting the poem into a promo was the idea of the brilliant director Rian Johnson.
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(I think the only thing that's missing as far as male gangster fantasies are concerned is Walt getting beautiful women into bed. Instead, the only time he makes a pass at another woman - and this to pay back Skyler for the Ted thing - he's terribly clumsy and gets rejected, and otherwise he seems to be solely interested in his wife. The horrible emasculating monster he needs to get away from.)
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Well, I've always said the reason they never did an "other woman" story with Walt is because Jesse has always functioned in the rival love interest role. Jesse is the one who has shared in all Gangster!Walt's adventures and Jesse is the only person aside from Walt's family who Walt will go out of his way to protect. I guess it feeds Walt's heroic ego that Jesse is someone who needs rescuing much more so than Skyler really does. So while Walt is solely interested in his wife as a sexual partner, I'd argue that Walt may have developed a stronger emotional attachment to Jesse, simply because Jesse has been his partner through his exciting criminal life while Skyler has been his partner through his dreary domestic life.
Of course, Skyler and Jesse are now equally abused by Walt's possessive love for them and both terrified of what Walt has become. Considering that Skyler and Jesse have become so similar in this sense (two once willing accomplices who are now horrified and desperate to get away from Walt) I find it strange that so many fans who hate Skyler also love Jesse. But like I said, maybe that just comes down to the gangster fantasy - fans prefer the moll to the wife, even if the moll is a man.
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Jesse and Skyler: I so appreciated the scenes between them in the first half of s5 and hope there will be more in the second, because the parallels (and contrasts, too, of course) are fascinating. And it may turn out another of Walt's self-sabotaging actions that he decided to punish them for their "disloyalty" by forcing them to have dinner with him at the same time. Because now they're not abstract concepts to each other anymore but have started to see each other as people. Oh, and btw, that entire sequence was priceless, but Walt going into his "the children aren't here - she sent them away" spiel, probably expecting Jesse to react like Hank, and Jesse's simple but heartfelt "THANK GOD" still cracks me up.
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