Breaking Bad Season 3 Running Thread

Arnold, I actually thought of Pine Barrens earlier today when thinking of last night's Breaking Bad. Pine Barrens was my favorite episode of the Sopranos, but it was hilarious and helped advance a tense relationship between Christopher and Paulie. I'm not sure what "Fly" did, other than annoy me for an hour. It felt entirely disconnected from this season and what has been going on. They could have convinced me that Walt is going crazy or becoming paranoid in less time.

Last night's episode was more comparable to that idiotic "Johnny Cakes" episode.

 

Yeah. Fifteen minutes of the show were sort of worth it to see Walt go into confessional mode, but he's done that before. Last year's episode where they were stuck in the desert was much the same as this one.

 

I understand when a network show has episodes like this. They have to come up with 22 or 23 episodes every year. But Breaking Bad has 13 episodes and no real timeline to create them.

Give me three or four years of fantastic television rather than trying to spread the plotline over eight or nine years. I'm afraid that AMC, just starting to come into its own with BB and Mad Men, will pressure Breaking Bad to stretch itself thin...like Lost, The West Wing, The Sopranos did.

And yeah, I think Jane was the fly. But my DVR was fast forwarding through much of the episode until he spilled his guts to Jesse. Once that happened, there was tension building. Will he tell Jesse about coming to his apartment or not? Before that, they aimed for the ceiling and came up short.

But this show gets a pass from me on this one. Just don't do it again.

 

Yeah Sunday's episode sucked. But there were a few good moments.

By the way, if you were a crystal meth cooker, dealer, whatever, would you be driving around a freakin' Pontiac Aztec? Come on. I'd have like a 2006 Silver Camry or like a middle of the road Taurus.

 

OK, I guess I'm the only one around these parts that enjoyed this episode. No, it didn't advance the plot much. But it was a hell of a lot of fun. The first 20 or 30 minutes chasing the fly were almost like a Warner Bros. cartoon.
The one thing I didn't like was the misleading trailer. It was edited to make it seem like there was a serious, deadly problem with the meth they were going to have to solve. Instead we got the Walt and Jesse slapstick hour.

Is there no new episode this Sunday? Whenever they do the trailer that says "only three new episodes left!" that's what it usually means.

 

I finally found it on the AMC site. Says it airs tonight...I'm actually kind of surprised with a holiday weekend.

 

Now Jesse knows who killed Combo.
And Gus' advice "Never make the same mistake twice," I wonder if it means he's on to what Jesse is doing.

 

Why do I get the feeling Tomas is more than just a lookout/lackey for the neighborhood gang?

 

I actually feel bad for Skylar. She has no fucking clue what she's involving herself in.

 

Because we know he killed Combo?

 

I missed season 1 and even though that didn't matter in this case, I still always feel like I'm just one step behind in some of the twists and turns.

When Jesse met this new woman -- I'm blanking on the name -- and then he met her son, did anybody else make some kind of immediate connection back to another kid and to Combo being killed? Or was there nothing to make that connection until she mentioned it? If that makes sense.

 

I don't think it was until she told Jesse about Tomas killing somebody.