What's in a name?
Aug. 27th, 2012 02:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chaniBreaking Bad usually provides brillant and shocking penultimate episodes. "Say My Name" was great but not that shocking, not the way "Phoenix" or "Half-Measures" were.
A longer review will come later, as I'm sure there's a lot to ponder and analyse but here are my first reactions à chaud.
A longer review will come later, as I'm sure there's a lot to ponder and analyse but here are my first reactions à chaud.
Instead of a shocking episode we got something more subtle. It ended "quietly". I called Mike's death weeks ago and I think I wasn't the only one waiting for it to happen, but I didn't expect it to happen that way, in a beautiful place. It was almost poetic, as the scenery was just gorgeous (that shot of the two cars and the men meeting up beneath the trees!), like an oasis in the desert. A nice send-off for the character!
Walt had many reasons to kill Mike, especially since he had become a liability with the flipped lawyer giving him to the DEA, but and Mike gave Walt what he needed to pull the trigger – that is emotions –, when insulting him, but deep down Walt wanted Mike dead and took the pistol in the bag to use it. The look in his eyes when he watched Mike and Jesse shake hands, and later when Jesse voluntereed to help Mike? Pure jealousy!
But Walt, why did you have to tell the bad (other) bad guys that there were actually two cooks?! The second he said it I was "Nooooooooooooooo!!!!!!"
I know that Walt was playing the pride card to keep Jesse, but he gave way too much info to his rivals. Now they know that they can cook the best product without Heisenberg if they get their hands on Jesse. I fear for him...
In my heart of hearts I now firmly believe that the machine gun from the flashforward will serve to save Jesse.
Walt had many reasons to kill Mike, especially since he had become a liability with the flipped lawyer giving him to the DEA, but and Mike gave Walt what he needed to pull the trigger – that is emotions –, when insulting him, but deep down Walt wanted Mike dead and took the pistol in the bag to use it. The look in his eyes when he watched Mike and Jesse shake hands, and later when Jesse voluntereed to help Mike? Pure jealousy!
But Walt, why did you have to tell the bad (other) bad guys that there were actually two cooks?! The second he said it I was "Nooooooooooooooo!!!!!!"
I know that Walt was playing the pride card to keep Jesse, but he gave way too much info to his rivals. Now they know that they can cook the best product without Heisenberg if they get their hands on Jesse. I fear for him...
In my heart of hearts I now firmly believe that the machine gun from the flashforward will serve to save Jesse.