Perhaps in season 4 we will learn more of how Gus rose to power, as Walt wrestles that power away from him.

that monologue was so sweet

But he is also micro managing and not wholesaleing in the quantities the Greek did from what we know.
He is producing, thats true, but he is also managing on street level, so I guess we cant put him in a category.

ha, i was actually kinda nitting up over seeing that. He had the windshield replaced a while ago. We can assume at least a week ago on show time, probably closer to 2 or 3 weeks, maybe even a month. You can take the tape off your new windshield after a few days.

same. Part of me stopped to think afterward, "wait, was that as stupid as the S2 finale?", but then I went with my initial reaction of, "holy crap that was amazing."

ha, prob true. Klosterman said something similar on a Simmons podcast.. they were talking TV and he said, "my favorite thing about the wire was how real I thought it was. Then season 5 came along and depicted what it's like working at a major newspaper, and I've worked at a major newspaper, and it wasn't that realistic. So it's made me re-think how realistic all the street level stuff is."

fairly interesting.

i considered that, but I got the impression from the meeting that Gus was surprised that kids were even involved. So the dealers weren't too scared to operate on their own and employ the kid.

they're idiot street level dealer thugs. they could have definitely killed the kid without Gus's permission. Hell, they could have just thought that's what he meant when he said "no more kids".

right into walt's pool!

grunch: so this show must be decent?

Very.

It's great.

Until this past episode we had zero reason to believe he was micromanaging though. And weren't you one of the people constantly talking about how his blue meth was everywhere but ABQ, and now you're saying he's been micromanaging in ABQ the whole time?

Also, Gus seems to be pushing more weight than the greek did regarding meth vs heroine. Though the Greek was also into sex trafficking and most likely other things.

Jesus christ learn to multiquote. Guess that's how someone gets 38k posts.

the best was he had to get it replaced 2x

Not so fast, my friend. My guess was that the kid got told he's outta the game, and went postal on the guys, and they had to shoot him. The kid wanted to be in it. He liked it. Or at least he was so manipulated he was ready to kill again to be in it. I just don't see Gus ordering a murder on a kid. He does seem like he has some kind of rules, however twisted they might be.

Also, if he did kill the kid, and jesse found out, that would be two people Jesse lost to Gus. Jesse isn't above getting stupid revenge on Gus, it's not like it would be hard to walk into Pollos and waste his ass, he doesn't have Stringer/Avon security.

way better than decent, better than almost everything else at the current time. Not to hype it so you dont like it but its just so good.

wtf why is the image mirrored?

First point, yes I always said that he didnt sell in ABQ, and I wasnt the first one to be surprised that he did in fact sell in ABQ.
I didnt say that he micro manage before this episode. But since he clearly cared about some street level thugs, I got the impression that he is more involved in street level slinging than I formerly thought.

The greek was a completely different player. He was involved in a lot of illegal activities and didnt care about street level action.

But as I said above, I dont think you can really come to an agreement on this.

The Greek's guys handled Cheese for the car incident. Isn't this comparable to that? Hardly any micromanaging, but when suppliers have a problem he steps in to handle things himself rather than leaving it up to someone else.

I enjoyed the moment where Skylar was reading about money laundering on wikipedia, made me chuckle.

whos skylar

that moaning woman who considers her Walts wife.

Its Skyler?

you probly mean zsqilarh

Apart from the attention to "Run" in that final scene, the thing that stuck out for me was the horrified look on the Hapless Jesse Pinkman's face. There he was, the stone cold killer, probably with the safety on, probably about to fumble his piece. Walt takes care of business, making that the 47th murder or so that Jesse has been on the periphery of, and the look of shock, terror, horror is kind of funny. Jesse thinks he is a murderer and he isn't. Walt thinks he isn't, and is.

Definitely.

Plus the effect of their product, he really pulled that off well. Total shock and disbelief, he even probably thought he was walking into death there, but didn't care because he was at the end of his rope. Probably difficult for him to tell if it was real or not.

Good post.

True. I think they were alluding to this in the scene at the bar where Jesse was telling Walt about his plan. I think Walt's line is "You're not a murderer", before he tries to correct himself and say "We're not murderers", if he really believes that. I think he knows Jesse isn't, which is part of the reason he rushes out to save him.

Also, what's the significance, if any, of the two craziest scenes in the show's history being preceded by meetings at a bar? Walt "never does that", and at this point should probably stop going to bars, only bad can come of it, lol.

It also goes back to the first episode of the season, when Walt says "Who are you?" and Jesse goes "I'm the bad guy." Sorry, Walt, you're the bad guy too.