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cletepurcel posted:I feel having a literal Western flashback would have cheapened the show's great modern Western element. Still, probably would have worked better than the plane crash. Are people not fans of the plane crash? It's definitely an unrealistic event but I thought it worked fine in context, and that the episode lead-ins were appropriately surreal and disturbing. It was a fine if blunt way of getting across the message that whatever Walt's self delusions, producing gobs of meth really does effect the world outside of him in a profoundly horrible way (shocking!).
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tbp posted:They do explain why. Gus was a general under Pinochet. Gus as a general? Buh?
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Gus seems way too young/jittery in the first flashback to his meeting with Eladio to have ever held a senior military position. I figured (along with most everyone else, I assume) that he had strong criminal connections back home, but that was it.
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Todd never struck me as a full on psychopath, although perhaps I don't have a full enough understanding of what that means outside of typical movie parlance. He shows something approaching genuine affection for Lydia, he didn't seem to take any special pleasure out of killing; when he tells Walt and Jesse that he killed the kid because he thought he had to, he genuinely seems to believe it, which is frightening in its own way. His murder of Andrea also seemed purely utilitarian, and he does choose both to reward Jesse with ice cream and to let him sleep without the tarp. Not to say that he isn't hosed in the head, but my impression was that he was either dim or somewhere on the low end of the autistic spectrum, and the rest was the mental damage that comes from being raised by a bunch of deranged nazis in a life of crime. He seemed a deliberate counterpart to Jesse: the boyish demeanor without the nice middle class upbringing. On the other hand, you could interpret his kindly behavior towards the imprisoned Jesse as a symptom of obsessively controlling behavior, which (I believe) is supposed to be a classic symptom of psychopathy, so there's that.
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Count Chocula posted:" His murder of Andrea also seemed purely utilitarian" I'm not sure how you interpreted that as supporting the murder of an innocent character, but don't let that stop you from smugging out. e: Although I have no problem with Skyler as a character, it's not that hard to see why people might dislike her without necessarily being women haters. As noted, she's ultimately a hypocrite, although I think most of us are inclined to be generally sympathetic to her position at the end of the series. She cheats on Walt, and since we're more inclined by default to support Walt (as the main character) that's liable to color opinions as well, even if a little adultery is small potatoes compared to what he's getting up to. Personally I was totally won over to her when she finally loses it at Bennecke for being a self righteous moron. Fuligin fucked around with this message at 22:36 on Nov 13, 2013 |
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