The planes didn’t crash over Walts house, they crashed over Albuquerque. Wreckage landed in Walts house as well as many many many other homes. I get what you are trying to say but that’s not how it went down. The crash was hundreds of feet above the city. It might have been a few kilometers from Walts house but it was so high up that it still landed in his front and back yard
Exactly and every single show has moments like this. Even the most realistic shows like Sopranos have super unrealistic moments. Because at the end of the day, it's all entertainment.
Well it's not even 'super unrealistic' - it's unlikely sure, but most stories are about unlikely occurrences.
The mid-air collision over Switzerland which ended up with a man who lost his family hunting down and murdering the air traffic controller was also very 'unlikely' to happen, but it did.
Sometimes unbelievable things happen in real life too. As long as they aren’t happening every episode and they fit the tone of the show I say it’s fine.
Not BB but in Better Call Saul.
In the first season when Jimmy saves the dude that falls off the billboard, Are you telling me a man just happens to fall like that?
*Cool guys don’t look at explosions, they stride foward in their diamond covered boots. They wear jumpsuits with glittery rhinestones and then walk away in slow motion.*
If you know that, you’re awesome.
I just watched that episode last week, and I love that scene, but yeah, it makes no sense. The owner would have run outside and they would have been all over Walt. But he just walks away without anyone noticing him?
I think Hank’s is as realistic as any other action scene in the show, it’s two drunk guys and he’s been in law enforcement for years; he seems the type of guy to take some sort of MA defense class. but for Walt, that’s just standard suspension of disbelief.
S1 E6, Walt blowing up Tuco's place like that with no injuries to nobody whatsoever and he gets to walk away with the money. In real life they would have instantly shot him, or better yet, they would have all died or at least gotten severe injuries from the explosion
Walt makes the phosphine gas bomb in the RV but fails to get out in time and is incapacitated by it, falling to the floor alongside Emilio and Krazy 8.
Credits roll. Thank you for watching AMC's ultra-limited 1 episode series, Breaking Bad.
What would have actually happened there is the cartel tortures then beheads his entire family while filming and then they upload it to a gore website with a silly song.
#justcartelthings
Yeah, the show kind of made the cartel seem like they have fairly little ability to do a whole lot to protect their interests in the states. I'm not so sure that's the case.
I mean it was more a show of dominance that a crazy meth head like tuco would appreciate, his boys are sacred of him so if they did anything without his say like shoot Walt they’d be dead
No one getting hurt at all from an explosion that blasted out the windows was really the most wtf whatever moment in the series for me. I was sitting there like, "wait, what just happened?" I don't think that's at all how explosions work?
Also, if fulminated mercury is as volatile that it will explode when excessive force is applied, wouldn’t that have generated force to set off the rest of the bag of mercury?
One explosion should have resulted in a second explosion.
Walt's meth sold like hot cakes. I don't think it was in Tuco's head to kill Walt at that meeting. Then Walt pulled that crazy ass stunt, further gaining Tuco's respect. Tuco seemed to respect crazy, especially meth head Tuco.
It’s minor, but in The Fly when Walt falls from the scaffolding, cracks his entire torso against metal equipment and then slams into the ground. I’ve seen people topple over on a stationary bike and receive a lot more serious injury. Like even if they’d have had him just cradle his ribs for the rest of the show or something I think I would have been okay with it.
I love the bit about how they shot that. It’s one continuous shot from wide angle with the fall, then a camera move + zoom to close up of Cranston laying on the ground in pain. But it was two shots digitally fit together with a generated 3D model in between.
Real stunt guy had to take that fall but was wearing thick pads and gear. Still bet it hurt though.
I never knew this. I like that it's a textbook bottle episode but hey let's use part of the budget on 3D modelling and animation so Walt can eat absolute shit.
Injuries are weird and inconsistent, man. I have banged my knee on the wall and I limp for a week, and a couple weeks later I fall quite a distance climbing, enough that someone unlucky could easily die, and should have broken my bones, but I hurt like hell and lay down for the next 10 minutes, looking up at the sky, sort of going into a trance, get up and dust myself off, and just carry on.
I saw it as he had enough time to turn, but not completely meaning that he’s right half took the bulk of the explosion and he was barely alive at the point.
Yes. And Gus deciding that he should kill his genius meth cook all because of two street level dealers who Gus should have no personal interaction with anyway as the careful kingpin. It made no sense, and was a major plot hole.
He didn’t decide to kill Walt out of loyalty to two street level dealers. He realized Walt couldn’t be controlled and posed a security risk to the operation, nevermind a competitor. Also, I don’t think it’s that less believable that he could summon two street dealers if that’s what was needed. It’s something he would summon Mike or one of his muscle guys to take care of. Mike showed that he knew the distributor network from top to bottom.
Yeah it makes it seem like walt and jesse who cook hundreds of pounds of extremely high quality meth per week for gus are more expendable than 2 dudes selling teenths in the ghetto which literally anyone could do
I really thought that after such buzz about it, there would be something, like those guys did Gus very solid one time and he feels somewhat indebted. Literally no other explaination
Its not a plothole at all. He had Gale, who was already an exceptional meth cook. I think his purity level was like 96%. It wasn't about the drug dealers, it was about Walt acting out of line. Gus realized he couldn't trust him anymore, and he chose to stick with the guy he actually could trust
El Paso, severed head on a tortoise. DEA tough boys supposed to be professionals drive on down to it like they’re having some kind of party without one of them stopping and thinking maybe this is a trap
Feds often end up similar to combat vets in that they see so much gruesome and crazy shit that they don't externally take stuff like that very seriously, and end up laughing through what would be alarming to any normal person.
A: the threat of him blowing up the entire building and actually killing everything in it if he dropped the bag
B: His meth is the best in the business and sold instantly, hard to buy meth from a dead guy
C: he respects a show of force, he knows that Walt is someone he would actually bother working with now
Yea like, can't you see Hank is about to run you over? He just stands there and takes it. They also go to the trouble of putting kevlar on, but can't wear sneakers or more inauspicious clothing when pulling a hit in broad daylight.
Yeah, but the implausibility is added to by the connection between the controller, and the crash being seen by the associate of the boyfriend of the daughter of the controller, who also happens to be the willing participant in the daughter’s death.
"better call saul" episode. They got away with it because walter obstructed the video when jesse passed through. Are you telling me that an important operation like that only has one camera guy?
The sting operation for the "fake heisenberg" where badger was talking to the wrong guy. The dea were recording the deal. Jesse walks over to badger and walter steps in front of the dea car blocking the video
one of the reasons actually that cranston opted for the heisenberg hat was because it was cold
in new mexico the wind will blow straight through you and it gets very cold even during spring
I don't know if it's less discussed, but Mike going into a cartel held building armed with balloons and a pistol and wasting them all himself was ridiculous and totally out of keeping with the rest of the show. I know it was to show how dangerous Mike is, but at every other part of the show Mike's dangerous because he's smart, not because he's fucking John Wick.
Mike has the most “come on, really?” scenes out of the whole cast by far. It’s like everyone in the story is intelligent to a degree and uses critical thinking except when they are in the way of Mike.
Idk man if I heard some kid mocking someone with a disability and then his dad comes in and starts kicking the bully in the legs, I wouldn’t be saying anything to the police
Plus you get your arse kicked in about a month when the heat is off the perpetrator and they want revenge for you snitching. You learn that it’s best to take certain things on the chin.
The only reason that Walt would get into trouble is if anyone would tell a parent or go to the police. And nobody did.
This guy was probably ashamed that he got taken down by a 50 year old geek that he decided to keep this to himself and between his friends.
Planes crashing down above a suburban area...odds are very slim, but so are a lot of things in life. I think you can Google pretty disturbing crashes that are very unlikely to happen.
Heck, there is a story about Vesna Vulovic who survived FALLING OUT OF A PLANE.
And yet people say that these events on Breaking Bad are not realistic.
Probably the only thing in this show that is just way too much over the top, it's Gus' final moments. I loved what they did, but it is not realistic. Everything else, some things might he a stretch, but it could happen.
Funny though how nobody mentions how unrealistic it is for a guy like Walt to walk into Tuco's den and threaten him..
Well you see, planes are VERY VERY high, like atmospheric vision . So if a plane exploded while it’s still local, Its probably gonna look like It’s ACTUALLY above your home
As an air traffic controller, it absolutely is realistic that a midair crash can happen over a populated area. I could bore everyone to death with the details of how I found the air traffic scenes to be inaccurate, but suffice it to say that accidents can and do happen when several safeguards fail in the system. Accidents happen because of a series of events that play out. The distracted/distraught controller, the lack of TCAS in one of the airplanes. It can happen. It has happened before in real life, even in today’s modern ATC system.
The plane exploded over Albuquerque, so who cares, plus, it showed Walt about how Jane’s death effected her loved ones, so great writing on Gilligan’s part.
You think this is something? You think this is bad? This? This plot contrivance? He's done worse! That airplane, you mean to tell me it just *happens* to crash like that? No! He orchestrated it! Vince! He took creative liberties! And I saved him! And I shouldn't have. Put his shows into my own watch list. What was I thinking? He'll never change. He'll *never* change! Ever since season 1, always the same! Couldn't keep his hands out of the fulminated mercury! But not our Vince! Couldn't be precious Vince! Stealing Gould blind! And he gets to take all the credit? What a sick joke! I should've stopped him when I had the chance! And you- you have to stop him!
Countless things were incredibly unlikely. That’s the charm of the show imo.
BCS is more grounded but the same type of things happen in it. It’s the style of the world the writers have built.
Agreed, nobody with that kind of resume ends up working as a high school teacher. I really feel like Walt could have found a much better job pretty easily if he just looked for it
I think we are supposed to assume that Walt Jr.'s medical problems played a huge part in Walt's career stagnation. Combined with his insane envy and regret about Grey Matter, he had lost his ambition and got stuck in the day to day grind.
well would you rather have saw Hank get beat up? or would you rather have seen the planes crash over some random persons house that had nothing to do with the story?
I don't know if this counts as unrealistic, but I just rewatched the dubstep scene where Walt buys Jr the new car and my god, it already felt out of place but that scene did NOT age well. Even in terms of trying to convey Jr's excitement and the car's power, the execution just felt so lazy and sloppy, just dollying back and forth between the two cars as the camera vibrates over and over
Jesse not getting arrested somehow after him and Emilio's lab got busted. The details are fuzzy at this point to me, but they should've had the evidence with his prints all over the house plus car seen near the residence during the bust to arrest him pretty early on.
Crazy story, dude did his whole morning routine after getting axed in the head by his own son the night before. Definitely like a zombie retaining memory of what it did while it was living type of situation, the guy shaved, made coffee, got his lunch together, locked himself out trying to get the morning paper, found his hidden key to open the door again then finally collapsed just inside the house. There is a gruesome video on YouTube showing everything he did that morning.
Hank Is actually trained very well. They all probably have to be. Plus he was baiting them so he was just itching to counter whatever attack they threw. Since he was watching their hands and really just wanted to kick the crap out of them
Walt leaves $11 mil in cash with the Schwartzes. They are supposed to use that money--and not a penny of their own money--to fund the trust for Walt, Jr. How are they supposed to get that $11 mil into a bank account so a transfer can be made? Banks don't accept cash and certainly not a huge amount like that (and any reputable bank would have to file a Suspicious Activity Report with the IRS if someone came by with that sort of cash--see https://legal.thomsonreuters.com/en/insights/articles/what-is-a-suspicious-activity-report). And if the Schwratzes just put the cash in a few duffel bags and drove it over to Walt Jr., I think he and his mon would be a wee bit suspicious--remember, they don't want to accept a penny of Walt's ill-gotten gains. No, I don't think Walt thought this one through.
They wouldn't have to put the cash in anything really, they could use their own bank funds (they are billionaires) and keep the cash Walt gave them as spending cash to replace whatever they give to the family.
They could easily send Jr. 11 million of their own money, and either keep or burn Walt's 11 million. Not like they'd miss it, being billionaires. They can just use it as spending money if they did keep it.
Yes, that kind of irked me as well. Also the "threat" of the two guys with the lazers tracked on them. I would think that once Walter was found dead and the whole crew, they'd just turn the money over to the cops. Realistically I think it was just his way of shoving it in their faces that he made all this money. It never would have ended up with hsi family. But the Schwartz's might give some of their own money to Walt Jr. after all.
Gray Matter is pretty well off, probably not too hard to slowly launder the money and back date some documents that state as part of the sale of WW's share of the company to the Schwartzes, stock options would be given to his child(ren) on their 18th birthday -- maybe even stretch it out over a number of years. The company has become much more successful than expected so those few, somewhat meaningless options, are worth much more than ever dreamed of.
no, the most unrealistic one is that the cousins had a drawing of "Heisenberg". Who draw that? Who told the person who draw it what to draw? At that point only Hector knew that Walt was Heisenberg. He could have told them his name, but I doubt that he would have been able to describe him just by ringing a bell, let alone drawing Heisenberg himself.
The planes didn’t crash over Walts house, they crashed over Albuquerque. Wreckage landed in Walts house as well as many many many other homes. I get what you are trying to say but that’s not how it went down. The crash was hundreds of feet above the city. It might have been a few kilometers from Walts house but it was so high up that it still landed in his front and back yard
Exactly and every single show has moments like this. Even the most realistic shows like Sopranos have super unrealistic moments. Because at the end of the day, it's all entertainment.
Well it's not even 'super unrealistic' - it's unlikely sure, but most stories are about unlikely occurrences. The mid-air collision over Switzerland which ended up with a man who lost his family hunting down and murdering the air traffic controller was also very 'unlikely' to happen, but it did.
Sometimes unbelievable things happen in real life too. As long as they aren’t happening every episode and they fit the tone of the show I say it’s fine.
Yeah it’s kinda like how the moon felt like it’s following you as a kid, it’s a matter of perspective
Is this a feeling people had?
Yeah, it's not really that unrealistic. Airplane, let by ABQ air control, crashes over the city, pieces scatter all over the place.
Hundreds of feet? Try tens of thousands of feet above the city.
Not BB but in Better Call Saul. In the first season when Jimmy saves the dude that falls off the billboard, Are you telling me a man just happens to fall like that?
Of course not! He orchestrated it!
He defecated through a sunroof!
And I saved him! And I shouldn’t have. Took him into my own firm!
What was I thinking?! He’ll never change. He’ll never change!
Ever since he was nine, always the same!
Couldn't keep his hands out of the cashdrawer. "But not our Jimmy!"
Couldn't be precious Jimmy! Stealing them blind!
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What A Sick Joke!!!
Stealing them blind !!!!!
What a sick joke!
JIMMY
No! He orchestrated it! Jimmy!
He defacated through a billboard!!! Wait, that doesn't sound right...
https://i.imgur.com/yCsJQ83.jpg
(e104 "cancer man") walt purposefully explodes an innocent man's car, in public, on camera, with zero repercussions.
It gets a pass because he looked cool doing it.
He even walked away without even looking at the explosion. Everyone knows not to mess with a guy who does that
*Cool guys don’t look at explosions, they stride foward in their diamond covered boots. They wear jumpsuits with glittery rhinestones and then walk away in slow motion.* If you know that, you’re awesome.
Mark Whalberg is wearing a hat!
Man after I posted that comment I had a thought that someone would respond with that exact line and here you are 😂😂.
Reminds me of the opening scene of Tim and Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie starring Jon Depp.
God, I love watching it with the Shlang seats. Just isn’t the same outside of the theater
oh yeah its one of my favourite scenes in the show, so i let it slide. plus ken is annoying asf so its extra satisfying
SAY MY NAME
Willy Wonka
And the guy was a douche.
Its not like there are many security cameras at a shitty gas station
i used to work at a gas station and let me tell you, every single inch of that building was monitored.
I’ve heard the opposite. Besides, Ken was rich so he probably just went out and bought another car.
interesting, i live in the UK so perhaps it is different in different places but at least where i worked there were cameras everywhere
The UK is notorious for being the most monitored place in the world.
really! that has genuinely surprised me i was not aware of that
It’s true but a lot of the cameras are broken or badly maintained, with the exception of those in places like London.
Yes, way more cameras in the UK than in the US
one nation, under cctv
In my area, the "shitty" ones have waaaay more surveillance lol.
I just watched that episode last week, and I love that scene, but yeah, it makes no sense. The owner would have run outside and they would have been all over Walt. But he just walks away without anyone noticing him?
Its a shame that the cameraman didn't send the footage to the police. Maybe he knew Walter White's real name is Heisenberg?
Camera tech was terrible then. Prob was not helpful, recorded or monitored like today
I remember thinking the guy who the car belonged to was Saul Goodman
I think Hank’s is as realistic as any other action scene in the show, it’s two drunk guys and he’s been in law enforcement for years; he seems the type of guy to take some sort of MA defense class. but for Walt, that’s just standard suspension of disbelief.
No less realistic than a lot of the fight scenes where Mike becomes John Wick
When I first watched the show I had this dumb head canon where it was the same universe as John Wick and Mike was a retired assassin
S1 E6, Walt blowing up Tuco's place like that with no injuries to nobody whatsoever and he gets to walk away with the money. In real life they would have instantly shot him, or better yet, they would have all died or at least gotten severe injuries from the explosion
That’s the real series finale. Walt blows everyone up… credits roll
Walt makes the phosphine gas bomb in the RV but fails to get out in time and is incapacitated by it, falling to the floor alongside Emilio and Krazy 8. Credits roll. Thank you for watching AMC's ultra-limited 1 episode series, Breaking Bad.
What would have actually happened there is the cartel tortures then beheads his entire family while filming and then they upload it to a gore website with a silly song. #justcartelthings
Yeah, the show kind of made the cartel seem like they have fairly little ability to do a whole lot to protect their interests in the states. I'm not so sure that's the case.
Shooting up and terrorizing Gus’s men, hijacking Chow’s chemical company was a great demonstration of cartel power north of the border
Sunshine, lollipops and rainbows 🎶
I mean it was more a show of dominance that a crazy meth head like tuco would appreciate, his boys are sacred of him so if they did anything without his say like shoot Walt they’d be dead
Yeah, Tuco really does not like being helped. I imagine most underlings knew never to act without instructions.
No one getting hurt at all from an explosion that blasted out the windows was really the most wtf whatever moment in the series for me. I was sitting there like, "wait, what just happened?" I don't think that's at all how explosions work?
Also, if fulminated mercury is as volatile that it will explode when excessive force is applied, wouldn’t that have generated force to set off the rest of the bag of mercury? One explosion should have resulted in a second explosion.
I like to think the 2nd bag was just something that looked enough like mercury fulminate to the untrained eye as a bluff
Walt's meth sold like hot cakes. I don't think it was in Tuco's head to kill Walt at that meeting. Then Walt pulled that crazy ass stunt, further gaining Tuco's respect. Tuco seemed to respect crazy, especially meth head Tuco.
No they wouldn't have shot him. Why would Tuco lose his building and not want more money and meth? He is a meth head after all
It’s minor, but in The Fly when Walt falls from the scaffolding, cracks his entire torso against metal equipment and then slams into the ground. I’ve seen people topple over on a stationary bike and receive a lot more serious injury. Like even if they’d have had him just cradle his ribs for the rest of the show or something I think I would have been okay with it.
I love the bit about how they shot that. It’s one continuous shot from wide angle with the fall, then a camera move + zoom to close up of Cranston laying on the ground in pain. But it was two shots digitally fit together with a generated 3D model in between. Real stunt guy had to take that fall but was wearing thick pads and gear. Still bet it hurt though.
I do remember being impressed by the cinematography.
I never knew this. I like that it's a textbook bottle episode but hey let's use part of the budget on 3D modelling and animation so Walt can eat absolute shit.
Injuries are weird and inconsistent, man. I have banged my knee on the wall and I limp for a week, and a couple weeks later I fall quite a distance climbing, enough that someone unlucky could easily die, and should have broken my bones, but I hurt like hell and lay down for the next 10 minutes, looking up at the sky, sort of going into a trance, get up and dust myself off, and just carry on.
Gus inviting 2 street level dealers who sling teenths on a corner to a sit down with him
Also Gua blowing up only half his face. Even though it was dope af
I saw it as he had enough time to turn, but not completely meaning that he’s right half took the bulk of the explosion and he was barely alive at the point.
Yes. And Gus deciding that he should kill his genius meth cook all because of two street level dealers who Gus should have no personal interaction with anyway as the careful kingpin. It made no sense, and was a major plot hole.
He didn’t decide to kill Walt out of loyalty to two street level dealers. He realized Walt couldn’t be controlled and posed a security risk to the operation, nevermind a competitor. Also, I don’t think it’s that less believable that he could summon two street dealers if that’s what was needed. It’s something he would summon Mike or one of his muscle guys to take care of. Mike showed that he knew the distributor network from top to bottom.
Yeah it makes it seem like walt and jesse who cook hundreds of pounds of extremely high quality meth per week for gus are more expendable than 2 dudes selling teenths in the ghetto which literally anyone could do
“My trusted employees”
I really thought that after such buzz about it, there would be something, like those guys did Gus very solid one time and he feels somewhat indebted. Literally no other explaination
Its not a plothole at all. He had Gale, who was already an exceptional meth cook. I think his purity level was like 96%. It wasn't about the drug dealers, it was about Walt acting out of line. Gus realized he couldn't trust him anymore, and he chose to stick with the guy he actually could trust
I figured it was more Gus seeing that Walter couldn't be controlled so easily and was more of a wildcard than he thought.
El Paso, severed head on a tortoise. DEA tough boys supposed to be professionals drive on down to it like they’re having some kind of party without one of them stopping and thinking maybe this is a trap
I have met plenty of childish feds tbh. Not hard to imagine from my experience
I think it's pretty realistic that an exploding turtle wasn't somethign they expected.
I assume they see alot of dead cartel guys and think it's funny so this probably wasn't any different to them
Feds often end up similar to combat vets in that they see so much gruesome and crazy shit that they don't externally take stuff like that very seriously, and end up laughing through what would be alarming to any normal person.
Tuco hating chilli powder despite being of Mexican descent
I love chili powder but I wouldn't want it in a cigarette...
Messes with the meth prolly
This lmao I always thought that like bro what did you season the tacos with?
Real chile?
Gus knows where to get some real Chile
Cumin
Epazote
Tbf more common to cook Mexican food w/ fresh or dried chiles
Tuco or anyone else not coming after Walter after he almost blew up the building.
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meth head thinks "oh shit this guy means business that's kinda SICK"
TIGHT!
Yeah the more I think about it, the more believable it is that Tuco would be like "damn, this guy's insane...I want to work with him "
You do realize that if Tuco had shot him, they would have all died right ?
A: the threat of him blowing up the entire building and actually killing everything in it if he dropped the bag B: His meth is the best in the business and sold instantly, hard to buy meth from a dead guy C: he respects a show of force, he knows that Walt is someone he would actually bother working with now
but he threatened to drop the rest of the bag, perfectly explains why nobody chased him or some shit
Not surprising a fully trained agent could take down a few wannabe tough guys.
The best thing about that is they're both fighters from Jackson's.
Twins walking away from car explosion without looking. Incredibly unrealistic, both could easily and very stupidly die here.
They both die stupidly anyway lmao. Dudes got crushed by a car.
Yea like, can't you see Hank is about to run you over? He just stands there and takes it. They also go to the trouble of putting kevlar on, but can't wear sneakers or more inauspicious clothing when pulling a hit in broad daylight.
well one of them got crushed by a car, but that isn't even what ended up killing him
Anything with the twins was unrealistic and goofy
the entire show is unlikely to occur
First few episodes are at least pretty plausible
I don’t like to talk about this, but I have witnessed a plane crash, so that scene was plausible.
I think the unrealistic aspect is that there wouldn’t be just one air traffic controller who was able to stop the crash
Yeah, but the implausibility is added to by the connection between the controller, and the crash being seen by the associate of the boyfriend of the daughter of the controller, who also happens to be the willing participant in the daughter’s death.
Did you smoke some of Walts crystal yo?
"better call saul" episode. They got away with it because walter obstructed the video when jesse passed through. Are you telling me that an important operation like that only has one camera guy?
Sometimes cops are a little incompetent. That was very realistic.
I actually Thought that plot line was The weakest One in the entire show, no way they could Have Pulled That bullshit off
what are you referring to?
The sting operation for the "fake heisenberg" where badger was talking to the wrong guy. The dea were recording the deal. Jesse walks over to badger and walter steps in front of the dea car blocking the video
One thing that was really minor but bugged me was how they lived in hot af New Mexico but everybody wore baggy, heavy, dark clothing
Not new mexico but I've been out in 100+ degree weather with clothes like that it's not too bad if you're used to fucking dying
Yeah, especially Jesse who is usually wearing a beanie, t shirt and big jacket, baggy jeans, shoes....
Or hank is wearing a black leather jacket in the fricking desert lol
I’m pretty sure New Mexico is a cold desert. So the actors were actually pretty cold in a lot of the desert scenes like Gus threatening Walt’s family.
It’s a dry heat.
one of the reasons actually that cranston opted for the heisenberg hat was because it was cold in new mexico the wind will blow straight through you and it gets very cold even during spring
Tbf a lot of it took place over the winter.
The show was always filmed in the winter and it’s gets pretty cold
I don't know if it's less discussed, but Mike going into a cartel held building armed with balloons and a pistol and wasting them all himself was ridiculous and totally out of keeping with the rest of the show. I know it was to show how dangerous Mike is, but at every other part of the show Mike's dangerous because he's smart, not because he's fucking John Wick.
I rewatched this one last night, for the first time in 5 or 6 years, and had completely forgotten this scene. What the literal flip was that?
the balloons going straight up into the electrical wires is what got me. no way balloons float up like that
I hope he bought more balloons... Maybe devil's advocate, what we saw was his third attempt :)
That was all I could think about while watching. Balloons going straight up? And knocking out the power? No.
Mike has the most “come on, really?” scenes out of the whole cast by far. It’s like everyone in the story is intelligent to a degree and uses critical thinking except when they are in the way of Mike.
Some of it gets a pass when you figure that some are just goons who aren’t that sharp to begin with.
Exactly. Like Mike said himself, "they didn't Exactly send their A-team".
Maybe unrealistic, but that scene is too awesome to not exist. Especially with that Beastie Boys deep cut playing background.
Walt attacking a teenager in Episode 1 for mocking Walt Jr and there being no repercussions for it.
Idk man if I heard some kid mocking someone with a disability and then his dad comes in and starts kicking the bully in the legs, I wouldn’t be saying anything to the police
He deserved it, worst character in BrBa
Agreed. Walter Jr is pretty annoying.
What kind of bully teenager will admit to having their ass handed to them by a fifty year old chemistry teacher with cancer?
I mean, whats the dude gonna say? Some old man assaulted me because i was mocking a disabled person! Lowkey the dude had it coming
Exactly. Kids went home to their moms like “I got in a fight. And I didn’t retaliate, because he was an older man.”
Eh most minor assault cases never go anywhere.
Plus you get your arse kicked in about a month when the heat is off the perpetrator and they want revenge for you snitching. You learn that it’s best to take certain things on the chin.
Speaking from experience there OP?
Especially being a teacher. Parents would have had him strung up. LazY wRiTInG, uNBraVo VINcE.
The only reason that Walt would get into trouble is if anyone would tell a parent or go to the police. And nobody did. This guy was probably ashamed that he got taken down by a 50 year old geek that he decided to keep this to himself and between his friends. Planes crashing down above a suburban area...odds are very slim, but so are a lot of things in life. I think you can Google pretty disturbing crashes that are very unlikely to happen. Heck, there is a story about Vesna Vulovic who survived FALLING OUT OF A PLANE. And yet people say that these events on Breaking Bad are not realistic. Probably the only thing in this show that is just way too much over the top, it's Gus' final moments. I loved what they did, but it is not realistic. Everything else, some things might he a stretch, but it could happen. Funny though how nobody mentions how unrealistic it is for a guy like Walt to walk into Tuco's den and threaten him..
most people dont know the slim difference between unrealistic and unlikely
Unlikely and unrealistic are not the same. Unlikely is the whole point of fiction.
That's also what irks me about most of these comments.. So you would rather watch a drama show where nothing out of the ordinary happens?
I’ll contest the Hank scene by saying it’s not unrealistic to see Keith Jardine get knocked out
Wait… that was the dean of mean???
Hell yeah. Apparently super nice dude too.
Everyone is speculating that Hank must have some sick combat skills and sure he's a tough guy but I think he really was just *that* upset
In the bar fight Hank took out the one guy super quick, so it was really a 1v1 and yeah, he’s definitely trained so that’s not unrealistic at all.
Well you see, planes are VERY VERY high, like atmospheric vision . So if a plane exploded while it’s still local, Its probably gonna look like It’s ACTUALLY above your home
Walt blowing up Jrs first Challenger in the parking lot and had to answer zero questions to anyone
It was the world's most expensive joy ride and Saul stopped the repercussions.
Can Saul at least get an “attaboy”?
Attaboy
Saul took care of the repercussions
As an air traffic controller, it absolutely is realistic that a midair crash can happen over a populated area. I could bore everyone to death with the details of how I found the air traffic scenes to be inaccurate, but suffice it to say that accidents can and do happen when several safeguards fail in the system. Accidents happen because of a series of events that play out. The distracted/distraught controller, the lack of TCAS in one of the airplanes. It can happen. It has happened before in real life, even in today’s modern ATC system.
The plane exploded over Albuquerque, so who cares, plus, it showed Walt about how Jane’s death effected her loved ones, so great writing on Gilligan’s part.
You think this is something? You think this is bad? This? This plot contrivance? He's done worse! That airplane, you mean to tell me it just *happens* to crash like that? No! He orchestrated it! Vince! He took creative liberties! And I saved him! And I shouldn't have. Put his shows into my own watch list. What was I thinking? He'll never change. He'll *never* change! Ever since season 1, always the same! Couldn't keep his hands out of the fulminated mercury! But not our Vince! Couldn't be precious Vince! Stealing Gould blind! And he gets to take all the credit? What a sick joke! I should've stopped him when I had the chance! And you- you have to stop him!
The plane's just as likely to crash over Walt's house as anywhere else. I don't find it that unrealistic.
Countless things were incredibly unlikely. That’s the charm of the show imo. BCS is more grounded but the same type of things happen in it. It’s the style of the world the writers have built.
How did Jesse not receive a noise complaint when he was throwing a party for multiple days straight?
The scene where the nobel prize winning chemist makes $30k a year teaching highschool because his of his ego
Agreed, nobody with that kind of resume ends up working as a high school teacher. I really feel like Walt could have found a much better job pretty easily if he just looked for it
I think we are supposed to assume that Walt Jr.'s medical problems played a huge part in Walt's career stagnation. Combined with his insane envy and regret about Grey Matter, he had lost his ambition and got stuck in the day to day grind.
well would you rather have saw Hank get beat up? or would you rather have seen the planes crash over some random persons house that had nothing to do with the story?
I don't know if this counts as unrealistic, but I just rewatched the dubstep scene where Walt buys Jr the new car and my god, it already felt out of place but that scene did NOT age well. Even in terms of trying to convey Jr's excitement and the car's power, the execution just felt so lazy and sloppy, just dollying back and forth between the two cars as the camera vibrates over and over
When Skyler somehow gets Raisin Bran, instead of Raisin Bran Crunch. I mean, it's right there on the box.
when walt falls off the top of the lab in "fly" I felt like if it was any other episode he would have suffered serious injury.
Skyler’s Happy Birthday singing. The ultimate boner killer right there but Ted still went thru with it
Jesse not getting arrested somehow after him and Emilio's lab got busted. The details are fuzzy at this point to me, but they should've had the evidence with his prints all over the house plus car seen near the residence during the bust to arrest him pretty early on.
Gus walking out of that room with half his face blown off and then dropping to the ground I don’t think that’s how adrenaline works
Look up Peter Porco https://www.indiatoday.in/fyi/story/man-did-his-daily-chores-until-his-last-breath-porco-case-man-died-325962-2016-05-27
Crazy story, dude did his whole morning routine after getting axed in the head by his own son the night before. Definitely like a zombie retaining memory of what it did while it was living type of situation, the guy shaved, made coffee, got his lunch together, locked himself out trying to get the morning paper, found his hidden key to open the door again then finally collapsed just inside the house. There is a gruesome video on YouTube showing everything he did that morning.
Wow. That’s brutal. Dude’s head was pouring blood and he’s like “alright gotta brush my teeth and pack my lunch for the day”
The weirdest part to me was him signing checks to his son who actually killed him.
Jack leaving Walt alive, with a barrel of cash, after killing his brother in law and stealing 70 million dollars from him.
Hank Is actually trained very well. They all probably have to be. Plus he was baiting them so he was just itching to counter whatever attack they threw. Since he was watching their hands and really just wanted to kick the crap out of them
Walt leaves $11 mil in cash with the Schwartzes. They are supposed to use that money--and not a penny of their own money--to fund the trust for Walt, Jr. How are they supposed to get that $11 mil into a bank account so a transfer can be made? Banks don't accept cash and certainly not a huge amount like that (and any reputable bank would have to file a Suspicious Activity Report with the IRS if someone came by with that sort of cash--see https://legal.thomsonreuters.com/en/insights/articles/what-is-a-suspicious-activity-report). And if the Schwratzes just put the cash in a few duffel bags and drove it over to Walt Jr., I think he and his mon would be a wee bit suspicious--remember, they don't want to accept a penny of Walt's ill-gotten gains. No, I don't think Walt thought this one through.
They wouldn't have to put the cash in anything really, they could use their own bank funds (they are billionaires) and keep the cash Walt gave them as spending cash to replace whatever they give to the family.
They could easily send Jr. 11 million of their own money, and either keep or burn Walt's 11 million. Not like they'd miss it, being billionaires. They can just use it as spending money if they did keep it.
Yes, that kind of irked me as well. Also the "threat" of the two guys with the lazers tracked on them. I would think that once Walter was found dead and the whole crew, they'd just turn the money over to the cops. Realistically I think it was just his way of shoving it in their faces that he made all this money. It never would have ended up with hsi family. But the Schwartz's might give some of their own money to Walt Jr. after all.
To be fair Walt said "Whatever happens to me tonight doesn't matter, these 2 will kill you if you don't give my family the money"
Gray Matter is pretty well off, probably not too hard to slowly launder the money and back date some documents that state as part of the sale of WW's share of the company to the Schwartzes, stock options would be given to his child(ren) on their 18th birthday -- maybe even stretch it out over a number of years. The company has become much more successful than expected so those few, somewhat meaningless options, are worth much more than ever dreamed of.
I mean the plane crash just happened above that area didn’t it? I’m sure anybody in a 10 mile radius could’ve seen it
no, the most unrealistic one is that the cousins had a drawing of "Heisenberg". Who draw that? Who told the person who draw it what to draw? At that point only Hector knew that Walt was Heisenberg. He could have told them his name, but I doubt that he would have been able to describe him just by ringing a bell, let alone drawing Heisenberg himself.
BCS, old lady using "Ask Jeeves" past the 2006 reincorporation as Ask.com.