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Well, there's no accounting for taste. Except in this case, where your friend has bad taste.

Her taste is generally very "normal," which is why I was so surprised she thought it was mediocre. I guess it's just the result of small sample size, though, if other women like it.

Is it July yet?

In season 3 there is a lot in Spanish. I don't have subtitles on my downloaded versions...is there any way to know what they are saying in all of the spanish sections?

-I've downloaded the subtitles package but a lot of the spanish parts aren't sub'd (deliberately I think)

If you download the other version (the HD one IIRC), it has subtitles when they are speaking Spanish.

I just got some through g00gle and at the start of ep 7 season 3 there are no subs where they guy is sitting watching his kids play. however i thought there were subs as he goes onto getting one to almost kill the other iirc.

no biggy though

Weird. I definitely remember one of the versions having it because I knew the brother said "Too easy" when he was going to kill Hank. However, in the non-HD version, it's not subtitled. Maybe it's just inconsistent throughout the show? I'm really not sure.

The season 3 DVDs should be coming out soon, guys, so you can wait for that and get all the subtitles you want.

This is the moment I knew Cranston was a lock to pick up his 3rd consecutive Emmy:

man I love that. 1 take too (at least I think I read that somewhere, probably this thread)

I can't wait for s4.

they still haven't announced a date

It was supposed to be July right?

Watching s3 for the 1st time right now, AMC is reshowing 2 episodes per week. Really enjoying it, esp Hank's gunfight episode. Just got through "Fly", so almost caught up. Browsed this thread to see what ppl thought about it. Somehow I just knew someone would bring up "Pine Barrens." Nonetheless, +1 to everything TuT said ITT about "Fly".

ya only 3 more left. pretty surprised just how solid the seasons were.

from re-watching I laughed pretty hard at the poker hand. The board is like xxxAA with everyone calling a bet on the turn, then as the river comes Flynn, Skyler and Marrie fold out of turn, until it gets around to Walt. Hank is trash talking Walt into folding but Walt shoves all in and Hand folds AK lol

I think, at least in part, that most of us who appreciate "Fly" do so because we understand it's necessary for budgetary reasons, not to mention it's nice to have change-of-pace episodes from time to time-- they can't all be the high drama of "Sunset" or the action of "One Minute".

More specifically, 'Fly' pretty much saved money so they could do all that OTT crazy **** in the last few episodes.

WE'RE DOING A BOTTLE EPISODE!!

Yeah, basically bottle episodes mean one of two things; the budget has been massively slashed and the show is on verge of cancellation, or in the case of Breaking Bad and Community, something really awesome is coming up soon to justify saving money in that way.

Watched it last night, "Half Measures". The episode where Walt runs down the 2 drug dealers Jesse was going to have a gun fight with. Wow, just intense and so well acted. The casting on this show is just flat out brilliant. The P.I./hitman/cleaner(Mike?) is awesome and his scene with Walt where he's telling the story from his cop day really sets the tone for the whole episode. And then Walt comes out of nowhere and runs those 2 punks down and shoots the one in the head to finish him was mind blowing.

Can't wait for new season. Damn you AMC for making us wait so long.

ya that episode was awesome.

I'm rewatching the first season, and just as Skylar's statement in the pilot "Walt, the worst thing you can do is shut me out," was a theme for last season I think Hank's statement of "Walt, whatever happens...I hope this goes without saying...WHATEVER happens I want you to know that I will always take care of your family" will be a theme for this coming season.

And I think the first three episodes of Walt keeping his family in the dark about his diagnosis are going to be a microcosm for the show's story arc as a whole. Walt reflexively goes into loner/secrecy mode when faced with adversity and when he does share his plight he bonds with outsiders (crazy eight in the mini arc, Jesse in the main show arc) before he brings his family in. And just as Skyler found out about his cancer before the rest of his family she found out about his meth operation before Marie/Hank/Jr. And if the symmetry holds then Jesse dies, killed by Walt, probably in one of the last episodes of the series.

I don't understand why everyone thinks Walt is going to kill Jesse before the finale. I'm not saying it's impossible, but it completely goes against everything we saw from Fly through the S3 finale. In a weird way, Walt looks at Jesse as a son. If he was ever going to cut ties with Jesse and/or kill him, don't you think he would have just let Gus kill him?

Oh, no question Walt looks at Jesse as family. That was clearly established when Walt met Q at the bar at the end of season 2. "You just don't give up on family," Walt said, and then he drove to Jesse's to try and do what he could for him (with obviously awful results). But I think that the climax of the show is going to come down to Walt choosing between his real family, his blood, and Jesse.

The foreshadowing on this is very strong in episode 3. Crazy 8 says something like "your real problem is upstairs," referring to meth head Jesse. In the same episode Walt writes a pro/con list on whether or not he should kill Crazy 8. The con side consists of stuff like "Murder is wrong," "PTSD (hilarious and typical that Walt would consider that he would suffer from PTSD before he commits the violent act)," "wouldn't be able to live with myself," etc. The pro side consists only of "If I don't he will kill me and my entire family." I think that the show is inevitably driving towards a tragic finish and the tragic finish that is being constantly foreshadowed is Walt killing his surrogate son Jesse to protect his real family.

It's all there in episode 3. Look at the conversation Walt has with Crazy 8 where he bonds with him while drinking beers. What are they talking about? Family, and the connections between their families. Walt bought Jr's crib from 8's father...8 says that he very well could have rang him up. Walt bonded with 8, trusted him and decided to let him go even though he knew there was a real possibility that 8 could kill him and his family. Just as Walt has bonded with Jesse and is currently trusting Jesse while Jesse could completely destroy him and his whole family.

And it is tragic when Walt is confronted with clear evidence that Crazy 8 is in fact planning on destroying him and his family. "Oh god, no, please no, why are you doing this?" Jesse will betray Walt -- as has been threatened numerous times in the past two seasons, a threat that Walt is clearly aware of -- and when faced with that evidence Walt will act.

What else can the ending be? Walt going to prison? Walt dying of natural causes? Walt and Jesse co-kingpins producing pounds of meth a week and happily minting money? No, the show will end in tragedy and the only tragedy that makes sense is Jesse betraying Walt and Walt acting in self-defense and murdering his surrogate son. There is no other tragic ending for the show imo.

I think you're really, really reaching. You're connecting things on your own. There's nothing that shows a specific tie between episode 3 and the inevitable end of the story. Why can't I just say Fly is foreshadowing that Walt and Jesse will never grow apart? Why can't we look at the last 5-6 episodes of S3 and consider them evidence that Walt and Jesse are "unbreakable family" now?

Walt being murdered? Walt and Jesse being murdered? Jesse sacrificing himself for Walt? Walt sacrificing himself for Jesse? Walt sacrificing himself for his family? None of these are realistic, and Walt murdering Jesse (something the writers specifically steered us away from in late S3) is the only option? Why?

Towards the middle of episode 3 the writers steered us away from thinking that Walt would murder Crazy 8. If I am correct that the Walt/Crazy 8 relationship is a microcosm of the Walt/Jesse relationship in the entire series then it would be completely expected for the writers to relax the tension between Walt and Jesse in the middle of the series.

Obviously the writers can take any direction they want but I feel like the direction I am hypothesizing is very strongly foreshadowed.