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Re: Goddamnit by Mischief Maker 08/18/2011, 10:59am PDT
Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:

The scene between Hank and Walt when they are going through the notebook was incredible.

If anything, I thought that the episode on Sunday was the worst of the season so far, everything else was really fun. And the "bad" episode had lots of Mike, who acts like how my dad would act if he had to put up with all that shit.

It DOES seem like the plot has slowed down a bit, sure.


ICJ


The thing that really pissed me off about last night's episode was when Mike said to Gus, "I know better than to question what your brilliant scheme is." At that moment he stopped being a person and became a plot device. Who in the world says things like that? Especially a guy who just got his ear shot off, his ankle twisted, and his car smashed to hell in the name of some secret plan. "Don't explain your plan to me (and by extension the audience) yet! We still haven't milked the mystery for all the foreshadowing we can squeeze!"

I look at this and I think the plan for this season was just "Hank reads Gayle's notebook and gets dangerously close to the truth" and they knew they couldn't stretch that over a whole season's worth of episodes so they're padding for time. There are good scenes, granted, but they're not telling us anything new. They communicated Walt's inferiority complex perfectly in a single scene when Walt started feeding junior tequila at the party. Why do we now need 3 entire episodes to demonstrate his feelings of impotent frustration?
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    Goddamnit by Mischief Maker 08/14/2011, 9:28pm PDT NEW
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