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If there's one thing X-men first class taught me, it's that your own lifelong home can be your secret hideout, even if you don't wear a mask and operate under your actual name.

Really, the most amazing thing about this is that they still exist in the first place. You had 2 songs anybody ever heard of 20-30 years ago, and BOTH of them were covers? Who is going to that concert?

Burn

This group is The Emperor's New Clothes of music. Hipsters were too afraid to admit it was a pile of bullishit once it had been deemed cool.

If it were SNL, Esposito would play Fring as someone doing a bad imitation of Fring. Guest actors who play their "real" roles on that show never seem to understand that playing it straight is much funnier than hamming it up and winking at the audience. Patrick Stewart as Picard and Val Kilmer as Iceman come to mind.
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Everybody keeps talking abput the poisoning as if Brock had to eat berries, as opposed to berries mashed up in ice cream or whatever. The " how" on that is a lot easier than the "who".
I still think Walt and Saul somehow conceiving and executing this plan in that time frame is just complete bullshit. As is Huell

I'm not sure what Chilean connections would be required to traffic coke. If you're in Chile, you went waaay too far south.

Or the Penis mightier.

Nobody but Hank needs to give a shit about territory anymore.
Well, unless Walt were so stupid as to try to take over Gus' role as kingpin of all kingpins.
But that would never happen, would it?

Well there had better be some serious flashbacks. Eladio's "I know who you are" is the basis for EVERYTHING that happened in the next 20 years. Fring's life was completely about recreating that moment at Eladio's pool, except with the roles reversed. It all hinged on the fact that they knew Fring's secret, and didn't

@JT-

Cigarette smokers will have to answer this for me: Throughout the day, do you not have a good idea of how many cigarettes are left in the pack you're carrying? So if someone replaced them with another pack, would you not notice?

I didn't think Walt was behind the poisoning, but not because he wasn't capable of it. It just seemed (and was) an extremely convoluted plan. But yeah, wrong about that.
However, I did raise the possibility that Hector would team up with Walt to kill Gus.

Tyrus kills Dumbledore

If Gus hadn't fallen right there, I would have assumed that Eladio's "I know who you really are" referred to Gus' being from Krypton, which would also explain why the snipers didn't even try to shoot him, and how his X-ray vision saw the car bomb. Vince Gilligan got everyone to watch a sci-fi show without knowing it.

We really ought to have heard the opening lines to "Pour Some Sugar On Me"

I think a lot of us had two seconds of "Oh, for fuck's sake" when Gus walked out of the room, especially after the wizard made him not get into the car last week. But god damn.

Since Jane's death has been mentioned here a few times as if it were morally equivalent to Brock's poisoning, I'm going to object. Jane was NOT innocent. Does everyone forget that she was blackmailing Walt? Plus, he didn't kill her, she killed herself…he just didn't stop it. If future me came back and told me that a

Is it supposed to be an inside joke of the show when people refer to Hector as "Tio Salamanca"? I know Sopranos referenced an "Uncle Zio" a few times.

The idea that Walt poisoned the kid requires some pretty convoluted logic that really doesn't make much sense. There are so many ways that could go, few of them resulting in what we saw. Maybe he could have just killed another air traffic controller's kid and hope a plane crashes into Pollos.