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Originally Posted by AmeliaG
Some out-of-character behavior:
(1) Hank is totally cool under fire. Even though the rest of the show he has been Captain Panic Attack.
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To me Hank has been both. He panics at some times and at others he is cool under fire. In this case I think he was a man who realized it was over. He was going to die and there was no way out of it. He had accepted his fate.
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(2) Flynn refuses to listen to a word his father says and sees his mother pull a knife, but is suddenly so totally her tool that he lies about it to the police and maybe himself. Even though the rest of the show, he has loved both his parents and always wanted to hear all sides of the story, and been attuned to dishonesty.
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Flynn recently called Walt on his bullshit when he was lying about the gas in the house. Also, when the shit hits the fan in domestic situation many boys will side with and protect their mothers so to me this wasn't too out of character.
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(3) Skyler totally caves to Marie?s humiliating demands immediately. Even though the rest of the show, she has resisted her sister?s attempts to dominate her and always wanted to know everything going on before she acted.
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I have always felt like she has wanted to cave for a long time. She is in so deep and sees no real way out of this and I think the only reason she has gone forward is a fear of Walt and what he might do. She, like Hank, realized that the gig is up and it is time to surrender.
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(4) Walt is on tilt and doing stupid things non-stop, from buying Jesse?s burning the money tale to telling a large group of armed killers that he has $80 million dollars buried near by. Even though the rest of the show, Walt?s character has been suspicious, secretive, and brilliant, yet somehow Walt puts all his remaining cash in 7 barrels in the same place. And blabs about it.
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He has been on tilt for a while and was feeling hopeless. I think he had a sudden realization of what everything he has done really means and he really didn't want to see Hank killed.
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(5) But, wait for it, the white power murder meth crew are totally reasonable, so Walt still has $11 million.
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They want to try to keep Hank at least somewhat happy. They might need him in the future to cook for them.
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And on and on. Pretty much the only characters who are behaving in character are Todd and Marie. Todd is still a rational, hard-working, can-do kind of sociopath and Marie is still a competitive jerk who uses every situation as a way to get one up on those theoretically closest to her.
Not only is the story failing on a story level, but there are long dull stretches where we get to watch something literally as boring as watching a middle-aged guy roll a heavy barrel across a desert in real time.
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We are witnessing the collapse of an empire here and along with it the destruction of a family. People act strangely when that happens so if the characters do something that might be a little out of character for them I can see how that can happen.