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Breaking Bad - Season 5 episode 13 and 14 (Patreon)

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2023-04-18 15:43:02
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Full link episode 13: https://youtu.be/o9wc1R20wqI

Full link episode 14: https://youtu.be/svrfJJ2CEm4

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Tyler Foster

Oh boy...I've always waited for the YT edits but this one might be an exception!

Slaizio

Ozymandias is the best episode in TV history. Cant wait to watch it again with you Mary.

shaneth138

Such a great surprise today! Yeah these two episodes are bananas. I felt like I lost a family member for like 3 days after seeing Hank die for the first time. The acting by Skyler in this episode was incredible and heart shattering. Also, I know you already binged the rest and might have already figured this out while watching the last few episodes, but Walt was acting like that on the phone on purpose so Skyler can get off from any possible charges. He knew the cops would be there listening and he made it clear to them that she was a victim scared for her life and not his partner in crime. Thats why he broke down into tears while he was doing it. It destroyed him to talk like that to her. Obviously the dude is a complete monster but just some important context.

Mr. Avatar
>>106635192

I had to go tell my wife your reaction to not understanding that Walt was trying to protect Skyler on that phone call while the cops are listening because I suspect your being pregnant makes you more sensitive to that baby being protected at all costs and missing the subtlety of the call.

Dan

As shaneth138 said above, Walt was putting on a performance for the cops in order to save Skyler. A lot of reactors miss that because this episode has SO MUCH to deal with, that people are often too discombobulated to pick up on the cues. But I would highly recommend going back and re-watching that scene just for the sheer acting ability of Anna and Bryan. With the added context, the scene will make more sense, and you'll see how good the performances are. When Walt pauses and waits for Skyler's response, he's trying to figure out if she's understanding what he's doing, because he's trying to communicate with her in code while the police are listening. When she says, "You're right", it's her confirmation back to him and you can see his relief (otherwise he'd have to drop the charade and she'd be back in danger with the police). So, with her confirmation, he goes back into the rest of his performance. And it pains him to talk ill of Hank, so he's crying while acting like a villain. Fantastic job by everyone. As to why Walt told Jesse about Jane, it's because he blames Jesse for Hank's death. He broke the cardinal rule of crime, "Don't talk to the police". Jesse ratted him out, and it resulted in Hank's death. Obviously I don't agree with Walt, but that's Walt's perspective because he can't accept accountability and his own role in these events. So he turns the knife in Jesse as punishment. And you can see how deflated and defeated Jesse is as he's dragged away. Hank's death would have been a scene in the finale of any other show, but this is Breaking Bad... where there's 15 other *worse* things they've gotta show you before they're done with Ozymandias, lol.

julesjordan

Walt knew the cops were listening on the phone call, thus, he was acting, telling them that he built his meth empire alone. By doing so, he was hoping to disassociate Skyler from any implication that she might somehow be involved. Like many others have said, Ozymandias is considered to be the greatest episode of television ever broadcast. Can’t wait for the series finale!

Irrelevant

Ozymandias is considered to be the greatest episode in television history.

Don Mayhem

When you started reacting to Breaking Bad, these two episodes were some of the episodes came to mind. There are also episodes of Better Cal Saul that are coming to mind also. The actor who played Hank, he wanted his character killed off more sooner in season 5 so he can be in the pilot for some comedy show, but luckily he stayed mainly out of respect for the show's creators and their vision of how the story ends. And also he was still under contract. Also I think Jesse was originally planned to die in the first season or somewhere in the earlier seasons, but again luckily, they kept him on. I first saw Aaron Paul in a straight To TV movie on MTV called "Wasted." It had to do with these young teens either buying stuff like TVs or other things with checks that didn't have money on them or something like that. I haven't seen it since it came out on tv. Aaron was also on Punk'd. He was getting interviewed by Ryan Pinkston, who was in Spy Kids 3D and Bad Santa. Ryan is calling him a hobo and Aaron's girlfriend at the time who later became his wife is standing up for him. lol For some reason I didn't care to watch Breaking Bad at first. I don't remember why. I also, at the time, didn't like that Aaron Paul was going to be on the show because at the time, you had movie actors ad tv actors. Movie actors that were too good for television shows and tv actors that were only good for tv, but of course, there have been actors who broke that mole and times have changed since. How time has flown by so fast. We're at the beginning of the series and now, it's coming to the end.

Eric Wall
>>106635192

It's such an emotionally draining episode that I think some people get to that phone scene and they're sort of mentally overwhelmed and miss the subtext. It's also a complex scene because Walt is playing up the "I'm a monster" angle for the police even though he's almost completely broken. So for those fully in "Walt is a monster" mode, it can be easy to miss that this is actually a moment where "Heisenberg" is a sort of lifeless rubber mask Walter is putting on for the purpose fooling the police. In most meaningful ways, Heisenberg died in the desert with Hank.

james repka

This is it: the episode where everything boils over and the consequences come raining down too fast for anyone to handle. Somewhere, Huell is still sitting in that motel room, too afraid to move. When Walt falls to the ground after Hank is shot, you commented on the ground cracking open and the dust flying out. That was set up to happen. Rian Johnson, the director of this episode, got that image in his head when he read the script. So special effects rigged up a patch of ground with packets of dust hooked up to a small plunger and covered it with some fitted flakes of dried clay. When Walt's head hit the ground someone hit the plunger and pushed the dust out while the soil flakes collapsed. Later, when Walt is rolling his barrel of money through the desert like a dung beetle, there is a quick-or-you'll-miss-it glimpse of his pants lying in the desert -- remember the pants that flew off the RV in the opening scene of episode 1? Since this was Hank Schraeder's final episode, it's worth honoring the great Dean Norris' brilliant work in this show. In the pilot his character came off as just a bully who was more interested in making fun of Walt (at his own birthday party). But as the show continued he was able to show more sides to the character, from his PTSD to his pure love for Marie, to his (sometimes obsessive) doggedness in hunting down Heisenberg, his own WW (white whale). Kudos also for Rian Johnson, director of this episode (5-13) as well as Fifty-One (5-04) for which he was a DGA award, and Fly (3-10) a contender for a spot as one of the five best episodes of the series. (Ed: and afterward, the movies The Last Jedi, Knives Out, Glass Onion, and the TV Show Poker Face.)

Dan
>>106635192

@Eric That's a great way to put it, the rubber mask of Heisenberg. Yeah, it's always been ironic to me that people often think he's at his most monstrous here when he's actually being the most humane he's been in a looong time. But it also doesn't help that his exaggerated persona isn't wildly off from the real thing. He really did harbor resentments over being unappreciated, and Skyler really did oppose his descent into crime (back in 3x1, when she discovered he wasn't selling weed or heroin, she had to rush out before she vomited). Walt mockingly quotes her as saying, "It's immoral, it's illegal", but those were considerations when she decided to fuck Ted Beneke. Perhaps if he'd led off with the mocking tone and exaggerated Skyler's vulnerable state a little more, people would have picked up on it more. But then maybe people would have also felt insulted with the overstating of things. Either way, I'm not mad at it. The scene really works for me, at least.

Dan
>>106743797

You had my up-vote until the last paragraph haha. Rian is a great director, but I'm glad he wasn't the writer for Breaking Bad's 3x10, 5x4, or 5x14... as he was with those movies you listed. Just my opinion.

james repka
>>106743797

Thanks for your input. BB's writers created frameworks that make it easy for a director to look good, but Johnson's episodes were always visually brilliant as well (I'm also a big fan of Michelle McLaren). As to his writing, as they say, opinions are like noses. The Knives Out films have earned him dozens of nominations for writing, along with those he received for Brick, Looper, and yes, The Last Jedi. SW fans didn't like the movie, certainly, but while I'm not obsessed with Star Wars I've seen all of the movies. The only great ones IMHO are the original, Empire, and Rogue One. The Prequels were crap, Force Awakens was pretty much a recap of Star Wars and RotJ, and Rise was worse than the prequels. TLJ stands out as an attempt to save a once-fresh franchise from being pecked to death by folks trying to squeeze more cash from it. Once again, I appreciate your taking the time just to read my shit and opine on it. I do respect your opinion as well...