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Dat pizza toss, though… Cranston has a second career as a discus thrower, lol.
Jesse owned the shit outta his parents when he bought the house.
Nah I never got that impression. I felt it was the opposite, he actually liked having somebody smart he could work with, that he could connect with in a way he hadn’t since Grey Matter (and his college days).
It’s perfect because when Jesse comes in and is all wigger, it really illustrates that point well.
The only time he’s annoyed with him is when he tells Gale the wrong info on purpose so he’d mess up a cook, so he had an excuse to bring Jesse in.
I wonder how Skylar feels now after fucking ted, in every sense of the word.
Um, no. Absolutely not. When Gale said that he got his masters x-ray crystalography Walt told him that he could talk about it for hours. Walt even loved Gale’s coffee and how he made it. As soon as he drank it, he told Gale to “call me Walt.” Right after that they went into the music montage with Walt smiling and having a good ol’ time cooking meth, and drinking coffee out of beakers. Do you really think that the point of that sequence was to establish how much Walt DIDN’T like Gale? Walt could barely look Gale in the eye when he said he was letting him go, and couldn’t come up with a good excuse for why he was getting rid of him. He showed that he didn’t like the idea of going from having a qualified assistant to an unqualified partner.
Nawl, Walt was irritated by Gale. They were fine at first, but Walt was clearly getting annoyed after a while by Gale’s obsequiousness and perfectionism. Like any egomaniac, Walt doesn’t feel secure unless he’s around somebody who’s obviously dumber than he is.
Gale was a perfect match for Walt
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Woodchippers don’t believe in just 92%.
I just went back to check the old episodes. He only started to show annoyance after Jessie got his ass whooped and he realized he had to get rid of him. That doesn’t count.
So your hypothesis is that Walt was only getting annoyed for the sole reason that he knew he needed a pretext to get Gale fired.
No hypothesis, just a FACT. Walt only rid of Gale after that whiny little bitch compromised the operation, led Hank to the RV and got his ass kicked by him and started to try to sue him for that and giving him “The GREAT HEISENBERG” and to prevent that Walt had to get rid of the best partner he may had and give his spot to that whiny little rat.
Where’s the “stop smoking crack” button?
Yeah, he only saw Gale 3 times. The first was happy meth cook time. The second was when he saw him after Jessie got beat up, and the third is when he fired him. I find it hard to count the second time because Walt knew at that point he had to bring Jessie back. His annoyance could have been knowing that he had to bring Jessie back, knowing that Hank was in trouble, that he was trying to psych himself into giving himself a reason to fire Gale, something else, or a combination of everything. I don’t know, but I do know that when he saw Gale that second time that’s after Jessie got beat up. The way that the show is written I don’t think they’d have Walt fall in and out of love with the guy in 1 episode like that. That’d be too jarring. It makes more sense that he really likes the guy, but he has to deal with more shit because of having to bail out Jessie.
I don’t buy it. For one thing, this is a show in which people do things for several reasons, most of which have a (quite often unexamined) self-serving component. Recall the recent phone call to Skyler–yes, there js a strategic function, but there’s still genuine venom in what he’s saying. He picks a way to serve his ends that also exposes an underlying feeling he has. For another thing, I don’t buy it from Cranston’s performance. He doesn’t play it as a man who has a goal to accomplish. There’s real irritation in the way he reacts to Gale’s overeager Johnny-on-the-spot moments.
I’m not saying there was no strategic impetus, mind you. But I most definitely count it as Walt chafing in the presence of another chemist who isn’t an obvious inferior.
He’s Sherlock, but instead of Watson, there’s another Sherlock. Of course he’d grow to dislike him.
I just realized something: this marathon is the first time this whole season I’ve seen as many Breaking Bad commercials as Low Winter Sun commercials.
I think you need to rewatch that stretch of episodes.
He brings Jesse in to keep an eye on him – he didn’t want him getting caught and turning him in – and to protect hank, who was going to lose his job if Jesse didn’t drop the charges.
He would much rather have had Gale as an assistant, which makes it all the more cold blooded that he had him killed to protect his own life.
Like, this isn’t even confusing or reading into things, this is literally how the show was meant to play out. Walt loved working with Gale.
I’ve seen the stretch of episodes several times already, and I particularly recall how much the filmmaking emphasized those little moments in which Walt would tell Gale to do something and Gale would proudly, almost smugly tell him that it had already been done. That little element is in the show for a reason, and it isn’t to demonstrate that Walt loved Gale.
And even ignoring that bit of evidence, it is well-characterized by now that Walt wants nothing more than to be the boss and that his pride is easily threatened. Does anybody seriously think that if Jesse and his face hadn’t been a factor, Walt and Gale–someone damn near his equal–were going to cook happily ever after?
On a completely different note, Dave Porter (dude behind BB’s music, original and borrowed) has been knocking it out of the park this season. There’s the obvious kudos with Granite State, but there’s also stuff like the theme right before the shootout in To’ hajilee. That’s the main reason I watch the shootout now.