To break bad - when someone has taken a turn off the path of the straight and narrow, when they've gone wrong.
This is the story of Walter White, an overqualified high school chemistry teacher and struggling family man turned meth cooking drug dealer.
Why, you ask?
Because Walt has cancer—lung cancer—and only a short while left to live before he leaves his family with nothing.
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This is the best show on television right now, and we are about to see how it all ends.
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Yep, I believe this thread was the one that spoiled The Shield for me. It was still great to watch, but yeah. Mark those spoilers for other shows, folks.
The cliffhanger is going to be a bad one, isn't it?
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I thought that too, but
It will be odd, because basically every episode has been a week. Somehow they have to cover 52 in at most 9 episodes
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On the potential for Hank knowing, there have been a lot of moments this season with Hank staring off into the distance, like he's playing some vast conspiracy out, to the point where even if they don't use it, there's the potential for them to pull a "Hank has known all season" card. Personally, I think it somehow clicked when he was standing in the burnt out lab. He's just got that look on his face when the old ASAC is talking about how Gus and he were friends.
I don't think Hank knows. If he did it would be trivial to tail Walt. Also, do you really think Hank could keep his cool if he knew Walt was associating with Pinkman.
BECAUSE. It's all part of his PLAN.
In any given episode you'll have fisheye/flyeye shots, bird's eye shots, wide landscapes, worm's-eye shots, under water shots, shots through floors/tables, the Crawl Space shot, etc. BrBa tends to use camera angles to accent moods and themes, not so much to convey plot points.
One of the reasons I had some doubts, especially considering how long it spent on that angle. It didn't necessarily seem like the shot was long enough to establish that it was
I'd normally agree, but on re-watch
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Next, after Hank leaves the room, the very first shot is this closeup of Walt getting the picture frame bug out:
After that, it jumps to a wide-angle shot, roughly from the center of Hank's desk, looking up (45-ish degrees. Not an angle that would make any sense for a surveillance camera). That shot ends like this (it never pans):
Next, we get a dog's eye view, on level with Walt crawling under the desk to remove the final bug. Also no panning, and no wide angle:
Finally, we've got one more shot. This one is a bog-standard waist-up shot of Walt admiring the bug:
This is actually the only shot that pans or rotates, but it clearly follows Walt's gaze towards the bank surveillance photo board. A technique the show uses all the time (most notably when Walt spins the gun and we get a slight nod towards the lily of the valley):
So yeah, my verdict: nothing to see here. I think we're grasping at straws.
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J/k
There's literally
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It looks unlike other obvious surveillance camera shots, and it does NOT pan. It's steady, aside from a tiny bit of camera wobble from the camera operator. It looks to me like it's just a wide angle shot to highlight the awkward "yeeeah.... Wellllllp...." moment between Hank and Walt and to better frame Gomez's entrance into the room that interrupts them.
I see what you're getting at, but I still think it's unlikely. Beyond all else, Walt would notice a security camera in the corner of the room like that in such an obvious spot.
He would have been detected placing the bug in the first place if there was
So there wasn't
I agree that it's unlikely, and I'm almost positive it won't pay off, but it still seems like a weirdly deliberate choice for a camera angle.
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Walt has been doing both sides of the business for virtually his whole career. The only time where he had no input into the business end was when he worked in the super lab.
No, he hasn't. Jesse did the heavy lifting for the distribution then it was Tucco then Gus. Walt has never been that involved in that aspect, he's devoted primarily to manufacturing, reprisals against rivals/enemies and covering up stuff from the DEA.
He never handled the day to day, but he made all the deals that involved him and Jesse, and he more or less controlled Jesse when he was the "kingpin.". Basically, he never really honored a deal to be out of the business end, except with Fring.
Yeah...sorry that was me. And I hate spoilers. Just wasn't thinking. I still feel horrible about that. Probably because I believe in objective morality
Yeah it struck me as endgame
Still curious as what happens - he was much calmer, sweet to the waitress. Mentioned a science museum. Like his old self.
Yes I'm worried for holly. Some site pointed out pink in the show is associated with death. There's the bunny rabbit from the plane and some others I can't remember. And holly is always always swaddled in pink
No problem. I really don't hatehatehate spoilers as much as most people, so it didn't bother me all that much.
I was thinking the same thing about Walt. While he didn't seem "calm" exactly to me, he did seem a bit nicer. Kind of pensive, and regretful. I think it's a good indication that shit has gone very south for Walt personally (death of a child?) rather than just professionally. Typically when business goes bad, Walt is much angrier.
More like you believe in promoting a world where people don't spoil things so that things you have no seen are not spoiled, because you value not having things spoiled more than having the freedom to talk about things without using spoiler tags
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