--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb <no_reply@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, azgrey <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > > > Yup. The "inexplainable season opener flashforward" > > > is now a well-known device on BB. The teddy bear in > > > the pool, which made no sense at all until the last > > > episode of the season, etc. I suspect we won't know > > > fersure why Walt is investing in such heavy iron > > > until the last of these 16 episodes. And that it'll > > > be a real trip getting there. > > > > Word. > > > > I'm down for any direction the writers wanna take it, > > but my intuition tells me that we are going to find out > > why the Cartel gave young Gustavo a pass when they killed > > and bled out his chemist partner in the swimming pool. > > It just feels like we are going to learn who it is in Chile > > that Juan Bolsa with the Juarez did not wish to offend. > > I suspect you're right. I hadn't thought about the > "progression" thing from small crook (small fish) > to big crook (big fish), with Walt becoming more > and more of a predator as he breaks badder, but > it really works as a theme. So he's bound to meet > and have to deal with even bigger fish than Gus.
[ For those who have not watched the series but plan to someday, be warned: HERE BE SPOILERS ] Wow. I hadn't seen the second episode when I wrote the above. T'would seem you were right about the German connection, and about the "bigger fish" who will enter the picture now that "middle-sized fish" Gus Fring is out of it. I've opined in the past that Walt has never *really* "broken bad," in that he's always struck me as being in self-denial of how bad he'd become. That is now a thing of the past. He's BAD, and he knows it. It isn't just "I am the one who knocks" posturing for his wife. He is one badass motherfucker. I really loved Lydia. It's such a wonderful play on the New Agey side of New Mexico and on the multifaceted nature of villains that one of the big players in the international drug trade tries to order camomile tea with soy milk and stevia in a diner where they don't know what she's talking about, and is forced to settle for hot water with lemon, all while passing a list with eleven names on it over the table and asking the person she's passing it to to kill all eleven. I'm seeing an eventual showdown not only between Walt and the international big fish who ran Gus, but between him and Hank. It's previewed and hinted at in the scene in which Hank's DEA boss is saying goodbye, having had to throw himself under the bus in the wake of having hob-nobbed with Gus, who was posing as a "police supporter." He laments, "I had him out to my house...Fourth of July...cooked out in the back yard...my son shucked the corn, my daughter cooked the potatoes...Fring brought sea bass. Every time I grill it now I make a little foil pouch, just like he showed me. The whole night we were laughing, telling stories, drinking wine. And he's somebody else completely. Right in front of me. Right under my nose." And the camera then shows us Hank's face, for seven or eight seconds, which is an eternity in TV editing time these days, and allows us to pre-imagine what that face is going to look like when he finds out about Walt.
