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iannis

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There is such a thing as too much foreshadowing.

When you're taking stills of the bookcase Jesse was looking at and reading plot into the names of books, things have gone full LOST. It's one of the things I like least about his writing. He intentionally encourages that sort of thing to engage the audience but... meh. It's just a matter of personal taste. I get it. It feels like like songs with obnoxious guitar solos in them to me. Even if the solo isn't that bad, did we really need a guitar solo right there? Did it really add anything? Or were you just padding your work and showing off?
 
Tuco

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It's great if all the pieces fit together in the end. As soon as there's discontinuity or unfired chekov's guns the entire thing becomes very unsatisfactory.

Besides, you could probably take a picture of any veteran drug detective's book case and find as much foreshadowing as was in that book case. I wouldn't be surprised if they sent an intern to the prop room to get whatever books they could get and ended up with exactly what was chosen.
 
Talos

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"You know, I feel so lucky that there is such an attention to detail with regards to the show. I feel humbled when I hear a great many of the theories and observations that the fans come up with. I feel undeserving because half the time some of the observations about the show speak to a level of attention to detail that we were never able to give those moments - we get a lot of credit for levels of brilliance that were unintentional at best! At best some of those moments were most likely subconscious or just dumb luck on our part." - Vince Gilligan
 
chaos

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porkchop sandwiches_sl said:
I thought this same thing...I actually thought I had missed a part or something! All this talk about how embarrassing it would be to have Hank admit to Gomez that the drug lord they've been after was his own brother-in-law, then all of a sudden he's just in the living room completely unaffected.
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The impression that I got was that Hank didn't necessarily tell Gomie everything. He told him just enough to get him to come and listen to Jesse, Gomie clearly didn't learn about most of this shit until he heard Jesse say it.
 
chaos

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I figure it can't be that simple as "Walt puts a hit on X" but we'll see. They always have something interesting planned for us.
 
Tarrant

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I don't think so, now that Gomie knows about everything too and that DVD "confession" is floating around out there it could come back to him too easily.
 
Talos

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He's going to take out Walt Jr to let Jesse know he's the only son he needs.
 
Chukzombi

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we dont know that Gomie saw Walt's confession video. i cant imagine hank would let him see it because its too damning for Hank. and if Gomez or any other cop ever does see it, things are going to spiral downward very quickly for Hank
 
chaos

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It isn't damning at all, especially after Gomie hears Pinkman break down the entire Heisenberg operation from its inception to the current day.I would be shocked if he didn't show Gomie the confession.
 
Wombat

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While I admit the season isn't going as I expected (Mostly because I thought the show going "Okay Heisenberg, you can retire. Oh wait, no you can't." would be a narrative cheat, and so far it has been.), the:
Hank and Jesse set trap for Walt.
Todd and family set counter-trap there for Jesse.
Some number of Hank/Skyler/etc. get injured/killed/thrown in jail.
Todd and family betray Walt at the counter-trap and kidnap Jesse to cook, not kill him.
Walt escapes.
Cue time jump.
Walt rolls back into town to seek revenge on those he feels were responsible for the trap/counter-trap mess (which the show will leave ambiguous).
Roll credits.

progression seems reasonable.
 
Cantatus

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chaos_sl said:
The impression that I got was that Hank didn't necessarily tell Gomie everything. He told him just enough to get him to come and listen to Jesse, Gomie clearly didn't learn about most of this shit until he heard Jesse say it.
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That was also the impression I got. Since Hank had Jesse, there was no reason for him to lay all his cards out for Gomie and revealing that he's know about this for a while and has been investigating on his own. He could just approach it as Jesse coming to him to confess. The facts Gomie gets are basically the same regardless of if he knows how long Hank has known about Walt. (Though I don't think it'd be terribly difficult for Gomie to put that together considering Hank having all the Heisenberg files delivered to his house and having Jesse followed.)
 
Enzee

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cabbitcabbit_sl said:
It's obvious that Jesse's plan is to reform Twaughthammer as a jazz band with Hank doing scat. They'll then use their influence from that to become a counselor to Obama and suggest that he use drones to deliver missile strikes all over ABQ.

It's so clear.
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Look, no reason to be a dick. I asked if there was a higher res version, because I can't make out the titles of most of the books. Hell, I'm guessing you recognize some of the books you circled, because I can only read the 'crazy rhythm' title in the ones you highlighted.

If they are easter eggs, they aren't spoilers, just nods to over-enthusiastic fans about the scene in question. If they aren't easter eggs, just coincidental, then nothing is lost anyway. Yes, it might be reading too much into it, but it's fun if it happens to be true that they went to those lengths with the prop department.

From a filmmaker's background, the shot of Jesse and him picking up a completely random 'dutch' book was so odd, awkward and out of place, that it had to have meant something. Whether they wanted the shot to be completely awkward and out of place from anything else to mimic how Jesse was feeling, or it had a underlying meaning, is up to interpretation. Like, the shot and his actions were so unnecessary to the scene, that it was obviously done deliberately.
 
Royal

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supertouch_sl said:
I think Walt is going to put a hit out on Hank.
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He'd have to have Marie killed also. She was way more willing to turn him over to the DEA and let the cards fall where they may and if Hank is dead, then she has absolutely no reason left to not do just that. With Gomie now in the loop, if Hank turns up dead Walt would instantly be the prime suspect. Walt probably isn't aware that Gomie knows though.

Iannis_sl said:
I thought Walt lived on a cul-de-sac. Guess not.
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The cul-de-sac is just down the street from his house (where Skylar left his van once while they were seperated).
 
chaos

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enzie_sl said:
Look, no reason to be a dick. I asked if there was a higher res version, because I can't make out the titles of most of the books. Hell, I'm guessing you recognize some of the books you circled, because I can only read the 'crazy rhythm' title in the ones you highlighted.

If they are easter eggs, they aren't spoilers, just nods to over-enthusiastic fans about the scene in question. If they aren't easter eggs, just coincidental, then nothing is lost anyway. Yes, it might be reading too much into it, but it's fun if it happens to be true that they went to those lengths with the prop department.

From a filmmaker's background, the shot of Jesse and him picking up a completely random 'dutch' book was so odd, awkward and out of place, that it had to have meant something. Whether they wanted the shot to be completely awkward and out of place from anything else to mimic how Jesse was feeling, or it had a underlying meaning, is up to interpretation. Like, the shot and his actions were so unnecessary to the scene, that it was obviously done deliberately.
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The book "Dutch" is about Reagan. IMO it was meant to show how uncomfortable and out of place Jesse was at that moment. Here he is in suburbia in a DEA chief's home as he calmly sets up video equipment and his former partner is mad dogging Jesse, he nervously picks up a book and it happens to be some Reagan biography, it probably is nothing more than that.
 
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