Reply With QuoteYup, I recognized the junkyard guy as both those dudes, but I made the Seinfeld connection first. He's the one that George accused of stealing his box of raisins.
That whole scene (the 2nd magnet scene) was pretty freaking awesome.
-Wasn't he also on Friends, as the crazy neighbor guy who stole their monkey?Originally Posted by Sander 001
-I don't know what you mean here. What duty? To a dead man? I suppose he (Gus) could be considered a friend, sure, but I don't really see it as a "duty" over an "emotion" either way
-Jesse has always channeled too much Jesse, not sure why this is suddenly an issue for some folks. I thought it was a little obnoxious in Season 3 and 4, to be honest. I think it's fine, it's just the way Jesse is.
-Yes, magnets are actually fucking amazing.
Yup, I recognized the junkyard guy as both those dudes, but I made the Seinfeld connection first. He's the one that George accused of stealing his box of raisins.
That whole scene (the 2nd magnet scene) was pretty freaking awesome.
Yes, the monkey perp!
I think of Mike as a cleaner/triggerman who is very professional. He gets the job done with minimum fuss and drama. I just thought him getting upset over spilt milk was ill suited for his character.
edit: LOL the raisins, I forgot about that. We don't get comedy like that anymore[do we?].
I viewed it not as Mike getting sentimental/dramatic, but rather his anger being the result of having to shift his mindset from "I am employed by a ridiculously rich and powerful and above all else wise and cautious man who'll never be found out by the police... life is great!" to "I am employed by a not-so-rich-or-powerful Dr. Batshit Explodeypants who just set off a bomb in a nursing home and now wants me to help EMP an entire PD's fleet of computers".
I don't care how pro you are... you're probably gonna want to let go of some bullets at that point. Luckily Walt and Jesse thought of the camera footage, because I can't imagine what else they could have done to convince Mike from lowering his gun.
But Walt just ruined Mike's very professional gig. If he's going to get upset or emotional about something, this seems like pretty good motivation. Throughout his varying degrees of indifference/amusement/frustration/annoyance with the actions of Walt and Jesse, he has remained very much on Gus's "side" of things. Not through any greater affection for Gus as a person, but because Gus was also very professional, and from Mike's perspective, there was never much Gus did to Walt or Jesse that they didn't bring upon themselves from being "unprofessional".
This makes sense as about the only thing that really could make Mike so upset.
When Jesse was originally going on about magnets in the background of the conversation, I thought he meant using an EMP bomb, and sneaking that into the evidence room when Mike shot down Walkter's idea of sneaking an incendiary in.
Was pretty happy in the direction the episode took.
I thought he meant literally pulling the computer out of the police station with a magnet- through the wall, intact.
I kind of want Saul's job.
This.
Season 4 question: Why is his wife heavier/fat all of a sudden? Was she pregnant in real life or is that a plot development?
Stress eating.
Good episode. Things are looking up for ol' Walt, though he'd better not get too comfortable or complacent.
How much of that was told in flashback, though? Everything after the trunk reveal?
He's like a boring, suburban, middle-class Michael Corleone at this point.
The very beginning of the episode was a flash-forward, probably to the penultimate episode of the season.
I really thought they'd use an EMP to get the laptop. I didn't expect the huge-ass magnet.
Yeah, I was expecting an EMP, too.
Incidentally, I have lost a computer to what I suspect was a naturally-occurring EMP before, if there is such a thing. Lightning strike nearby blew out the UART chip on my Dell system, disabled my camcorder (which was running on battery) for an hour, opened the garage door, and turned my television on.
I think the emp bomb idea is just shit hard to shoot for tv in any interesting way. At least as compared to magnetmobile.
The flash forward opening takes place on Walt's 52nd birthday (assumedly, unless he was lying about it for some weird reason, which seems unlikely).
The rest of the episode takes place starting after Gus' death, at which point in the BB timeline we still haven't reached Walt's 51st birthday yet (i.e. a year hasn't passed in BB time since the pilot.) So the flash forward is a little over a year in the future from the series "present".
One thing I liked about the flash forward is that we have no idea where it'll fit in the overall scheme of episodes. We could get an episode or two this summer from that moment forward, or it could provide a convenient split point for the 2012 and 2013 half-seasons, or for all we know, it could be part of the series' ultimate finish (although I doubt it).
I didn't really get all that wrapped up in the season 2 flash forward teasers (I just caught up over the past month, so I never thought Walt and Jesse would die), but when it was all done I thought what they did with the episode titles was pretty trippy (the four episodes with the flash forwards were titled "Seven Thirty Seven" "Down" "Over" "ABQ"). Who knows how this flash forward will factor into the overall arc, but I trust they're going to deliver another great season.
Nah, I knew they were somehow talking about exposing the hard drive to a powerful magnet, but I thought they were going to try to get something into evidence that had such a magnet. Good thing SSD tech isn't further along or the magnet idea wouldn't have worked for them.
Are SSD drives impervious to magnets? If so, I didn't know that. I remember using magnets to erase casette tapes when I was a kid!
I think I read that somewhere about SSD drives.
That's must be why they had the magnet break the glass in Gus's. You can't use a computer with a broken screen!
The only reason regular drives are affected by magnets is they use a magnetic field and ... uh, iron filament or something (I forget the details) to store data, and an outside magnetic field ruins that.
An SSD is immune because data is transferred electrically instead of magnetically.
I'm sure Hank will angrily explain to someone that the drive got nuked by the magnet in the next episode. Another lead goes cold! But then he'll mention the Grand Cayman bank account numbers that will put him along the trail that will lead directly to the endgame because Hank is a motherfucking unkillable detective savant.
Yeah, same here. I figured they were going to create a crime where an item needed to be put into evidence storage after and they would somehow rig a powerful magnet inside it. That or Walt was going to use his brother in law to grab it or get close to it with a magnet planted on him or something. The way they did it was way more awesome, though. I was really surprised part of their plan was to drive away with the magnet truck. I would have just planned to crank it to max and run/drive away with Mike like they ended up having to do anyway.
My thoughts went down the same lines - get something into the evidence room and remotely activate it. The trick is it would have to be damn close because it couldn't have anywhere near the same power without weighing a ton and being opened up in case it was a bomb. What they came up with was great.
It's was especially nice because the junk yard has figured into a few previous episodes.
Yeah, the junkyard and the desert are recurring characters.
One possible play that occurred to me: Hank realizes the laptop / hard drive was the target, but since the criminals can't know for sure that they were successful, Hank bluffs and lets it leak that the hard drive wasn't wiped, hoping it might either lure the criminals back out or cause unrest among them.
Agreed. Something like that. Hank saw the camera, so he's not going to let this go.
Could anyone make out what was uncovered behind Gus's cracked photograph in the evidence chamber? If I remember from previous seasons, Gus's true identity is somewhat of an open issue.
It looked like bank account information.
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