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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.
(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.
(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.
(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.
(5) But, wait for it, the white power murder meth crew are totally reasonable, so Walt still has $11 million.
(6) And Holly can talk now and ask for her mother.
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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Politely disagree...
1. Hank under the most stressful conditions, i,e. life or death, is very calm - the opposite of his self in a sense, and that was demonstrated previously in the shoot out he was in. That sort of calm under duress is not unusual. Think of him like a soldier that has to be close to the action because he thrives on that - the "peace and calm" of his day to day job and life is what stresses him out and he doesn't feel "normal" unless he is back at the center of danger. This has been well depicted throughout the series imo.
2. Junior just was told his dad was a meth dealing killer. He is completely confused. He even stays out on the edge of the fight, helpless and immobile, until he sees Walt getting the upper hand and about to kill his mom, then and only then did he jump in, forced to take a side, and in defense of his mother's life. Only that level of extreme showed him "the truth" necessary to act and take a side.
3. Skyler doesn't cave until she thinks Walt is busted and headed for jail. At that point, it is over for her and she has to do whatever she can because at that point obviously she can't hide or make any excuses - in her mind an inevitable truth is about to become known to her son. She is not "caving" so much as she is "saving" which is true to her character 100%.
4. One of Walt's greatest tricks is always making people think they have beaten him. Enough said. I would agree about burying everything in one place but he had to memorize those coordinates, doing that for six spots would be tough unless he had special mnemonic skills.
5. The Nazi had the foresight to realize that they needed Walt still. Much easier to keep him on the payroll if he doesn't take everything. And Walt did pretty much give it away just moments before.
6.. Kid is well over a year old, that is not unusual since "ma" is a first word for kids in many different languages.
The barrel rolling actually was sort of funny Sisyphean motif and metaphor and I thought it played well. The "boulder" of his cash had rolled back down the hill and he was rolling it back up in a sense.
Anyway, that is my opinion on the matter...
