well, 1st, i know this will annoy/irritate a few (hi amelia!) but i look at it like this, this show strives to produce the highest quality tele they can, even using literary giants like shakespeare and homer as inspirations.
and they succeed at that.
at the same time, i think their attempting to do that allows for people like us who are quite familiar with the show and even study the show, read about it and also engage in dialogue about the show to critique the show at the same high level.
that said, the bothersome thing about this show was the overall character actions and comments and such. for me, after 7 years of character development, i was surprised but what several of the characters did in this episode and i think even the actors were surprised by their characters in this episode and that showed up in their performances.
for instance, lydia the timid drug kingpin makes no sense. timidity is not a drug kingpin and not even how her character has acted up until this episode and a bit in the previous one.
the huell confession. there is no way in hell an attorney's body guard is not going to lawyer up, huell has more street smarts than that and that also to applies to his caving after seeing the fake brains blown-out pic. a street smart thug like huell has seen brains blown out and also had his fair-share of run-ins with the cops and would not have caved like that over that pic. moreover, ww owns a car wash yet dropped the van off with huell after burying the money for huell to wash? no.
ww's visit to andrea. why was that scene even in this episode? ww's plan didn't work, the scene was akwardly shot. perhaps it's going to be used in an upcoming episode but it seems contrived and useless in this episode.
the jesse picture text and phone call to ww. there is no way the walt i have come to know and loath over 7 years totally fell for that fake photo and phone call. here's why.
walt had jesse over a barrel with the previous phone call placed to jesse by andrea. if jesse had called walt and told him he's burning 10k every minute ww would have said i am on my way to pick up brock from school you fuckface, so if you burn 1 fucking dollar of my money, brock will be drinking a ricin laced sippie cup in about 4 fucking minutes.
stopping at the exact location of the money. putting myself in walt's shoes i would have been driving up to the exact location and not seen jack shit, i would have kept driving and not stopped there, there was zero need to stop at the exact spot.
the surrender. ok, this is big for me. seriously. what. the. fuck. was. that. ? walt surrendering by being dominated by his brother inlaw in front of jesse is not at all in line with his character. at all. not only that but there was simply no reason to have him dominated like that when it would have been more appropriate and make much more sense to have him be arrested in defiance, tony montana style, i will be out of prison in 15 minutes and you will be working in el paso tomorrow shrader.
the jesse loogie. jesse is a conflicted meth head psycho killer who just found out walt tried to poison brock. that person does not spit in handcuffed walt's face, that person walks up to walt and coldcocks the mother fucker.
wall of firepower. todd's uncle is turning up to be a worthy adversary to walt and it appears he *might* be who the guy is that takes out walt, which would bother me a lot, but that's another thread. anyhoo, dude had 6 guns on shrader. at least 2 were auto, 1 shotgun and 3 semi. i've shot 10s of thousands of rounds of ammo through handguns up to a .50 cal once, i am not worth a shit of a shot but even i could have wasted shrader if i had that amount of time to scope him in like how that scene played out.
a cliff hanger ending? shame on you vince gilligan, that's cheesy 1980's dynasty ending stuff, you are better than that.
