Heres the thing. If I would have discovered this show a few months from now and was plowing through these I would have loved this episode. It was a great look into the characters. There was no plot development, just character development, and if I could simply move onto the next episode to satisfy my plot development thirst, all would be good.

It's just so frustrating to wait an entire week and not move forward with the plot when I've been anticipating it and now know I have to wait another week. However, after this season is over if people go back and watch it all the way through, I think they will enjoy this episode much more.

There is no real plot right now. Somethings gotta happen big soon

I think this episode will contribute alot to the last few episodes.

This episode showed that for all his bravado and his mistakes, Jesse is still capable of showing that he does care about Walt. I think he see's Walt as a father figure, and he does care alot about him and they showed this in how he put him to sleep, tucked him and turned the lights off.

However the end line showed us that while Walt cares about Jesse, he won't be able to protect him if Gus finds out about his skimming. For Jesse, Walt is still hugely important for him, while to Walt the business is more important.

I am not just saying this to be contrarian or hifalutin thought I am sure people will ascribe those qualities to me. This was a beautiful episode of TV and one of the top two episodes of the season thus far. Earlier itt I posted that I don't know how Cranston could give a performance better than Jon Hamm did in "The Gypsy and The Hobo", but he came really ****ing close in this episode. Aaron Paul gave another incredible performance and this episode was an incredibly tense, stirring, beautiful standalone episode that shows a lot about the characters, eventhough ostensibly nothing happens.

I think that this is just because Gus is a very powerful man and because of this Walt would be unable to do anything stop him from harming Jesse. And if he did try to step in, he would not only put himself but also his family into harm's way.

I really liked this episode as well. If people would read the thread we had a preview by a guy on twitter saying this is BB's "Pine Barrens" episode.

I did fall asleep halfway through but that was after grinding 12 hours straight.

I love it when television makes me yell out to myself. Two scenes when Walt fell off the balcony and hit the machine and landed on the floor was scary in a "oh ****!" kinda way, and when Jesse finally kills the fly and it gets all slow dramatic was hilarious.

I liked it.

Its got skills yo

I didn't care for the episode. The first half basically up until the opossum monologue lost my interest. I don't need explosions and high body counts to be entertained, but ffs that was a slow half-hour.

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I think this is pretty accurate

i agree with some of this and disagree with some of this. i felt like it should have been all these things but it was just lacking a little something.

comparing it to pine barrens is interesting and somewhat unfair. it does, however, make me think that jesse is just not as good a character as pauly or christopher (or aaron paul not as good an actor as either). for me, at least, there was just that little something lacking that should have kept my eyes glued to the screen. im not sure what it was but it kept me from feeling like it was a great episode and rather just something i enjoyed.

I thought it was a good episode, great to see a two-hander between Walt and Jesse, so much has been going on this series that it was a nice time to take a break and concentrate on those two. And no sign of Szkilahr to annoy me.

Does anyone else think that Walts cancer might have spread to his brain like Jesse's aunt? After hunting the fly all day and being insane about it, he sees and hears another fly when he's in bed at the end? Thats what Jesse was talkin about in his monologue, which didn't seem to have any other point.

There was a fly on the fire alarm above his head at the end. It was really corny.

The zoom in on Jesse scrubbing in the beginning stands out as particularly terrible.

Agree with the general theme of this episode being boring. I see why this was compared to Pine Barrens, but it was about 1/10th as good. A big part of that is that Paulie and Christopher for an hour is a more entertaining combo than Jesse and Walt.

This episode was definitely aiming high, but it missed the mark.

be careful i got ripped to shreds by some people for saying Aaron Paul is over rated lol

I don't think this is as good as Pine Barrens, but Pine Barrens is arguably the best episode of TV ever. Aaron Paul/Jessee is not as good an actor/character as Michael Imperoli/Christopher, but again he is one of the best tv characters of all time. Aaron Paul is very good in this episode and has delivered some really good monologues the past couple weeks; the box building in rehab and the opossum one in this episode.

Agreed

lol this is exactly what I thought you'd think of it

Agree about this. The acting in the episode was phenomenal, but that wasn't enough to make me enjoy the episode. The director was trying too hard for an artsy episode and it ended up boring the **** out of me.

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I thought this episode was kind of BS until they very end when Walt warned Jesse about the skimming. At that point the episode turned brilliant. Walt is swimming in shark infested waters but I'm now convinced he might be smart enough to reach the shore.

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the last episode was a bit of a snoozer but obv something big is going to happen soon, defenitly to jesse.