Lydia’s a piece of work, it’s kind of funny how Hank said a woman like her would never survive in the business yet she’s behind so much stuff.
The fact the whole Czech Republic thing was her idea which she brought to Gus in the first place makes me think there is a lot more to her than we’re led to believe. She’s possibly the most dangerous person in the show even though she seems so vulnerable.
Ok, I noticed something that I wouldn’t be surprised is a hint/easter egg. Also, my predictions.
[details=Spoiler]In the scene in the fire station, right before Walt puts holly in the fire truck, they’re playing chess.
The (white) King starts off in the corner, getting beaten pretty badly against (wait for it) 6 black pieces.
But the king could still make a move. With 2 pawns (possibly Flynt and Holly) and a white horse (Skylar) so I’m thinking that Skylar might have a role in his revenge plot maybe? Or help him one last time before he does what he does.
It’s in my opinion that Walt is going to get revenge on the Nazis and use the Ricin to commit suicide at the end, but that’s just what I think. He realizes that he can’t go back to his family after what’s her face (Hank’s widow) exposes the Heisenburg thing to the world, so he ends up getting revenge for hank and killing himself at the end while leaving the rest of the money (or the 80 mill in general if he gets it back, though that might not be plausible) for his family I’m not completely sure he’s going to end up using the gun to beat them either. Cause, thinking realistically (or as realistic as one could get with this show) it would be suicide for Walt to play “their game” and try to beat them in a shootout. Walt’s only advantage over them is he’s smarter than all of them. I have a feeling he comes up with some sort of plan to bait them into a situation where they’d be walking into a trap (maybe setting up that chick that’s their connect to the Czechs) and maybe beating them with an explosion or something. Cause it wouldn’t be realistic to see Walt beat them with guns, cause Hank and Gomez are actually trained with firearms and they lost to them.
As for who spraypaints Heisenburg on the house, there’s no question it’s cause of Hank’s widow. No doubt in my mind. I don’t know how the house gets torn up like that, but I’m 1000% sure she’s gonna be the one to blow the lid off the situation. Walt’s phone call protected his family, so when they get exposed kids tag up the house like Walt’s an urban legend. [/details]
Now if I’m wrong, then more power to the writers cause to me that seems like the most plausible ending.
It’s obvious to me that the Aryans and most likely lydia are all going to get what’s coming to them. Jesse will get rescued, Walt will die. The question is whether his family will get their “inheritance.” This was the entire point of going into the meth business.
I’m guessing Skyler, Walter Jr., Holly, and Marie end up in witness protection. It’s not like once the Aryans eat lead, the problems just stop. They’ve got friends, the friends have friends, and so on. More grist for the “Walter himself is cancer” metaphor.
From where he is now to where he started I can’t do anything else but root for the guy out of sympathy. Everything that he did, was for the cause of protecting and ensuring the stability of his family after he died, which I respect. Even though this season clearly portrayed him as a tyrannical monster, his resolve was always to keep his family taken care of. But now his family is gone, so what does he have? Absolutely nothing, and that is why I feel for the character. I share the same kind of sympathy towards Denzel Washington’s character in American Gangster. I believe that Walt turned evil out of necessity, not because he was innately villainous. Product of his environment, and so I understand what he is going through and I root that his end is brought on peacefully. But…chances are he is going to meet his end some other way, I can’t begin to comprehend Vince’s mind.
And I don’t like Skylar because AMC shows is known for making their female lead characters unlikable. To me, at least.
^yeah exactly. All this immoral acts were done as a defense to ensure his family’s survival. In a broken system where doing everything legally pays so pitifully I’d argue it’s justifiable to do whatever it takes.
I understand goodmourning-types that don’t care for results. It’s all about doing everything “right” and making sure everyone else is doing things according to some consensus morality without a care about being wiped out. These types tend to die quietly without achieving much.
Or you could be a goodm0urning type and realize that making money for his family may have motivated him in the beginning, but was soon buried under a massive complex of other reasons that are far more self-serving. The show’s actually pretty damn clear about this, almost ham-handed on occasion. Just because he defaults back to his original reasoning after he’s already thoroughly fucked everything up doesn’t return him to the status he was at in the beginning.
Furthermore, there is a difference between sympathizing with a corrupt character and hoping for that character’s success in corrupt endeavors. You can understand and maybe even care for someone whose circumstances put them in a hard position and led them to make choices that led them into villainy, but that doesn’t mean you’re tolerant of the actions they take as a result. For example, I absolutely sympathize with Travis Bickle, but that doesn’t mean I believe what he ended up doing was in any sense righteous or justified.
Plus, if you want to argue that Walt is worth rooting for because he has a reason for behaving the way he does, why doesn’t Skyler get the same courtesy? Honestly, the only times I ever found Skyler contemptible were those moments early on when she wasn’t onto Walt’s duplicity and naively went along with his transparent excuses. Those moments when she obviously had no idea what he was up to, but had to know he was up to something.
This is circular reasoning, and never mind that Breaking Bad has gone way further out of its way to make Walt the most unlikable character by far.
I feel like people’s reaction to Sklyer’s handling of the situation is a point of cultural polarization. Like a rorschach test. Sort of a hard differentiation between how the stereotypical, sheltered suburban family would handle learning about Dad’s decision to start selling drugs versus an urban, inner city family’s reaction to it.
Suburban family: “Gee golly willakers! Dad is selling the drugs, better turn him in to the appropriate authorities!”
Hood family: “Yo wtf dad?! Make your money and then get out the game mah dude!”
Maybe you’re afraid to say it, but you know what I’m saying.
I think we can all agree that Van Alden’s wife in Boardwalk is more of a “stand-by-your-man” type of woman than Skyler White.