Thick McRunFast

Walt is very out-of-character in this episode. I can't for the life of me come up with a decent explanation as to why he would disagree with Jesse's take on their pay. I'm not sure it's really in Jesse to be upset about it, but it just strikes me as completely against everything Walter has built himself up to be, to…

I feel like Gus Fring, a man who has quietly run meth distribution for the cartel for seemingly many years, and done so without even a hint of suspicion, would have never, ever betrayed his instincts about Walt and brought him on to run the manufacturing for his empire. Even with the minimal characterization we have…

Nothing Gus does makes any sense, I'm afraid. Any idiot could see that Walter was simply not worth wasting time on, not when Gus had a cook on hand (Gale) ready to make a product close to as good as Walt's, and who was also far more trustworthy and easy to control.

Man, I'm so hungry. Only had two steaks, didn't get to finish my orange. All the frozen yogurt places are closed. The sidewalk kinda looks like ice cream if you squint hard enough.

So does the whole thing take place in Mexico, with the cross-border characters being American? And if so, did they get Turtle from Entourage to be the Tortuga character?

I'm typing this on a wall-mounted keyboard. It must be THE FUTURE!!

Neither of you came to my bridal feast. Wtf?

Um, what? At this point in the series, it is clear that Walt's excuse that he did it for his family is a completely transparent lie. He could have gotten the money through completely legal means by taking Gretchen & Elliot's offer of a cush job with a large salary and good benefits. He chose to get the money by…

The plane crash comes close to ruining the entire season. They could have made the point so much more elegantly than by a plane crash. Even worse, they have to go out of their way in the Season 3 opener to try to help explain how one ATC mistake could cause two commercial airliners to crash into one another.

Bullshit. Not the grade, but the analysis of Walter's actions (or rather, inaction) as it pertains to Jane. Walter didn't do it for Jesse, he did it to protect himself. Walter doesn't need Jesse because he's a particularly good meth cook (though it turns out he actually is), or because he contributes anything of…

Maybe Walt figures he's got cancer already, so a little gasoline isn't going to do anything to him that isn't already done.

Good point, when you're going out into the desert to cook $1.2 mil worth of methamphetamine, you can probably afford to pop into the Verizon store for a spare cell phone battery. And the picnic cooler full of water rather than 10 or 12 gallon jugs of drinking water seems like a very odd and inconvenient choice. Not…

So, 5 years later and re-watching, and I have to point out . . . .

Awful, yet hilarious, comment.

I'm not Czar, but what she told you was bullshit. No doctor anywhere would advise a woman to continue smoking during pregnancy. That's something smokers made up so that the rest of us don't feel guilty enabling their habit.

Second time watching the series, and I realized - Walt's psychiatrist in the hospital is The Mayor from season 3 of Buffy! If only they did a shout-out, like by having Walt tell the psychiatrist he's five-by-five.

I think the hate is mostly due to the fact that the core audience for this show is males age 18-34. They see Skylar's behavior in holding Walt back as her being bitchy, not realizing that a wife has every right to ask for her husband to be present for her, physically and emotionally, and to get angry when he's not. …

Unless, of course, the old guy shits himself or something in response. Then it would be kind of awesome.

I think that just about everyone can relate to Lisa in this episode, and making her so broadly relatable while making it feel true to her character is a remarkable feat. I imagine just about everyone feels isolated and alone at some point in their lives, and I think most people can relate to feeling that they have to…