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Adam12

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Kirun_sl said:
I had more issue with how quickly Hank showed, than I did with how quick the Nazis did.
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I figured they were following him almost as soon as the phone call started and they got the trace in.

One thing left out of the bitching and groaning so far: this Nazi crew took out the entire Arizona crew in a matter of seconds, and in their own territory. Fucking terrible scene.
 
Tarrant

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Deathwing_sl said:
That's not his point. Hank's entire motivation is make sure Walt goes to jail. All he's really doing is ensuring Walt gets a mistrial.
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This, my point wasn't commenting on how one possible ending (which wont happen) was being given away that it wouldn't happen. My point was the main drive behind a main character is compleatly stupid and being handeled incorrectly.

Hank: "I can't take this to the DEA because it'll look bad for me and Walt will probably get off....so let me do all these things that that will not only ensure Walt gets off scott free but will only back up his story that I was gunning for him and trying to eliminate him."

It's stupid.
 
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Just watched it and I was more upset with the Huell manipulation scene than the gunfight. It was ridiculous that they opened fire and nobody was hurt (yet), but I thought it was more ridiculous that a whole bunch of made up stories about fake cellphone conversations and fake pictures of dead Jesse and fake cellphone tracking leads to a full confession. The fake money barrel wasn't as bad since you could imagine that Walt enters panic mode and stops thinking things through, but the series of events was definitely more contrived than usual. Still, this is the same show that had Crazy 8 wandering a suburban street after being poisoned and Walt just happens to drive by and pick him up without anyone noticing. And the same show that had a truck with a magnet destroying an evidence locker without them being caught, a train robbery, an air traffic controller suiciding some commercial airliners over a main character's house, and a high school chemistry teacher entering the drug business and outsmarting everyone repeatedly even though there have been insane drug lords pointing guns at him for the last year. The characters are just so interesting that I can accept some of the eyeroll moments. In fact, if there weren't eyeroll moments, it wouldn't be as fun to watch. A truly 'realistic' story simply wouldn't have so many close calls and a chemistry teacher that has more preparedness than Batman. Still probably one of my top 10 favorite shows ever and I can't complain because it hasn't become ludicrous the way Dexter has, for example.

I predict Gomez is dead (90% sure) and Hank either dies in the shootout or shortly thereafter (75%). We have 3-4 episodes left, right? I think Walt's family is toast once he starts butting heads with the Nazis, and the big gun he picks up on his 52nd birthday is for his Scarface ending against the new drug empire after he has disappeared for the last year via Saul's guy. Then again, the show loves to strongly hint towards something and then pull something else out of left field so maybe the more likely scenario is that Todd is actually an alien wearing human skin and Walt is buying a gun to fight the alien invasion that is trying to steal his meth recipe for their intergalactic drug empire.
 
Chukzombi

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Ya know, people throwing the entire episode or even the show under the bus because one gunfight ran 10 seconds longer than it should have is what i find amazing. The A-Team ran 5 seasons and each episode had about 2 gunfights per show. So probably say 200 gunfights during its run and how many deaths resulted in all that? Yeah. No kills ever from this crack team of ex military. So does that mean its a terrible show?
 
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I was honeslty hoping when Hank hump up the phone with his wife he would turn around and Gomie would have had his gun trained on him and all along he was a plant from another cartel or Walt paid him off. Woulda been cooler that that stupid gun fight imo.
 
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Maester Chuk_sl said:
Ya know, people throwing the entire episode or even the show under the bus because one gunfight ran 10 seconds longer than it should have is what i find amazing. The A-Team ran 5 seasons and each episode had about 2 gunfights per show. So probably say 200 gunfights during its run and how many deaths resulted in all that? Yeah. No kills ever from this crack team of ex military. So does that mean its a terrible show?
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Gun fight was awful but that's not my main gripe with the episode, I already said why it and most of this season are suffering from.
 
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I was clenching the armrest of my couch while Hank was speaking with his wife. They were building it so crazy, "I got him baby", "Oh I am so relieved", "by the way, I love you", BAHHHHHHH. I was expecting a 'bullet from nowhere to take him out at any second. I fully expected the nazi's to show up as there wasn't a 'good' way out for Walt without them popping in. I was kind of off put by the lack of aiming, but whatever.
 
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People are so upset by the gunfight. I admit I was thinking the same thing, Gomie should be dead at least, but who cares. They had Stormtrooper aim, get over it.
 
chaos

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I'm sure Gomie will be dead. At the very least we KNOW Hank is going to die from that phone call.

Some of the complaints I have seen are pretty dumb. Like saying it is unrealistic that Walt would do something irrational and fly off the handle. Yeah, sure doesn't sound like Walt, having some manic episode where he doesn't think through his actions. Or Huell, yeah he would find it unbelievable that Walt was killing people and choose to risk his life to save Walt and Saul. Huell is hardcore like that, I am sure.
 
Xarpolis

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Just remember that Walt gave a pretty solid confession (including his murders) when he was talking to Jesse. You think Hank wasn't recording that?

We know Walt survives this encounter, but there's going to be a recording of that call somewhere. That likely leads to him leaving the area with that large gun from the premiere.
 
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The last scene of the show will be Huell still sitting there in that motel.

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Tarrant

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Xarpolis_sl said:
Just remember that Walt gave a pretty solid confession (including his murders) when he was talking to Jesse. You think Hank wasn't recording that?

We know Walt survives this encounter, but there's going to be a recording of that call somewhere. That likely leads to him leaving the area with that large gun from the premiere.
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Doesn't matter if he was recording it, it would never be allowed to be used in court anyway.
 
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Xarpolis_sl said:
Just remember that Walt gave a pretty solid confession (including his murders) when he was talking to Jesse. You think Hank wasn't recording that?

We know Walt survives this encounter, but there's going to be a recording of that call somewhere. That likely leads to him leaving the area with that large gun from the premiere.
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That phone call can't be used though. It would be thrown out since it was not legally obtained.

Episode wasn't that great between Huell's immediate confession and the gun fight. Bad writing.
 
Chukzombi

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that phone call may not have even been recorded since it was rolling live. the only recordings he has are the voicemails. and huell, while is a funny character is a terrible bodyguard and an even worse henchman. remember how well his stunt with ted worked out? huell may be a big erudite with the hands of houdini, but he is no kevin costner.
 
chaos

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How do you guys know the recordings wasn't "legally obtained"? Is New mexico a 2 party consent state?
 
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Tarrant_sl said:
I was honeslty hoping when Hank hump up the phone with his wife he would turn around and Gomie would have had his gun trained on him and all along he was a plant from another cartel or Walt paid him off. Woulda been cooler that that stupid gun fight imo.
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that would have been mind blowing awesome, if Gomie turns out to be a Mexican cartel guy, kills Hank and Jessie, and tells Walt that he is now going to cook for the cartel in Mexico or his entire family is dead. Rest of the season is Walt in Mexico being Walt, eventually leading to him escaping into a new identity which triggers the cartel killing his entire family, and Walt returns to try and kill Gomie who took over Hanks job. Could have had the Czech connection be cartel related too, and set up a whole wire season 2 vibe of "the people in the shadows never get caught".

instead we're probably going to get evil nazis. its always nazis
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Gomie being a cartel guy is about the only thing that makes sense, i mean from watch lots of tv, this "investigation" into walt, is just not gonna fly? why would Gomie involve himself in a lose-lose case, he's probably gonna loose his badge/pension, everything for going in with Hank... because of loyalty/friendship? We all know that everything up to this point towards walt can be thrown out? hell the only reason they can arrest walt is for having an unregistered gun that's killed ppl. (that's the same filed off serial gun from the gun guy, pretty sure he's killed at least 3 ppl with it, the 2 drug dealers and 1 guy in the lab, but no bodies) Everything else is he said/she said, there's no authorized wire tapping, hell Hanks biggest witness should be legal immune to him cuz of his ass beating. It's like there's 2 sides, walt, who has a great taped confession plan and Hank... who even with his 15+ years of law enforcement is running the show all CSI:Arizona like..., hell even the gun battle is worse than anything CSI has done. There is really more wrong than right with this second half of the season, which as many said just seems to be written to move the story along. We can probably believe Hank being so blinded by vengeance, but do we have to go back to EMO jessie again?
 
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