Breaking Bad - WHO is Watching?!

[capt_noonie]

Oh, I've been meaning to ask you guys. Earlier season, when they introduced Hector's nephews. I called them The Twins but I know they were supposed to be cousins. Why were they and a bunch of locals crawling on the dirt in the beginning of the ep? I never got that. Also that must have been really hard crawling across the dirt with those losing pointy toed boots.

[yorkiefan_]

Originally Posted by capt_noonie

Oh, I've been meaning to ask you guys. Earlier season, when they introduced Hector's nephews. I called them The Twins but I know they were supposed to be cousins. Why were they and a bunch of locals crawling on the dirt in the beginning of the ep? I never got that. Also that must have been really hard crawling across the dirt with those losing pointy toed boots.

I think it's a tradition to crawl before making a prayer to Santa Muerte.

[Britster]

Originally Posted by yorkiefan_

I think it's a tradition to crawl before making a prayer to Santa Muerte.

That's what I read too.

[crystalsmom]

Originally Posted by yorkiefan_

So tell me you saw Hank get off the toilet, please!

[yorkiefan_]

Originally Posted by crystalsmom

You knew it was going to be a good episode when you saw Marie wasn't wearing purple.

[gumbysuz]

A couple thoughts...Dexter ending was a HUGE disappointment. Was very worried BB would also fall flat , but it didn't.

Brit.."Felina" is from the song playing as Walt steals the truck to return to NM.
In the song, we learn the guy is headed back to his destiny represented by Felina (in this case, the mess left behind in NM). And, a brilliant anagram for Finale.
And Jesse does become the moral compass of the show.
Walt's greatest punishment comes in the desert, as he is writhing on the ground over his guilt and loss.
His last conversation with Skyler reveals that he came to like what he was doing, mainly because he was good at it. Remember, he "was the danger; the one who knocks".
There will never be another show like BB.

[capt_noonie]

Originally Posted by yorkiefan_

You knew it was going to be a good episode when you saw Marie wasn't wearing purple.

I noticed that too!!! What is the significance of her always in purple?

[yorkiefan_]

Originally Posted by capt_noonie

I noticed that too!!! What is the significance of her always in purple?

Just her favorite color. Have you noticed how bad things happen when there is lots of green? The first scene that comes to mind is the opening scene to the episode Half Measures where they show Wendy's day, and there is green light around as she is smoking her blue sky meth.

Wendy from Breaking Bad :) - YouTube

When you see characters in colors like beige and white they're usually pretty innocent; e.g., Walt early on. When Marie isn't in purple it usually signifies something major happening. Like the yellow she is wearing when Hank reads the book on the toilet; yellow is kind of an opposite color to purple (yellow is red+green, purple is blue+red), and Marie's life is about to be turned upside down now that Hank has found out Walt is Heisenberg from that book he read on the toilet. There's an entire interesting theory on colors in Breaking Bad, but I'd wait until you finish the series so you don't read too many spoilers.

Breaking Bad is just so full of things like that which make it very worth watching again for all the cool things you miss the first time through. Gilligan's creativity is just mind-blowing.

[capt_noonie]

Originally Posted by yorkiefan_

I think it's a tradition to crawl before making a prayer to Santa Muerte.

Oh I didn't know that since I"m not Catholic.

[capt_noonie]

Originally Posted by yorkiefan_

Just her favorite color. Have you noticed how bad things happen when there is lots of green? The first scene that comes to mind is the opening scene to the episode Half Measures where they show Wendy's day, and there is green light around as she is smoking her blue sky meth.

Wendy from Breaking Bad - YouTube

When you see characters in colors like beige and white they're usually pretty innocent; e.g., Walt early on. When Marie isn't in purple it usually signifies something major happening. Like the yellow she is wearing when Hank reads the book on the toilet; yellow is kind of an opposite color to purple (yellow is red+green, purple is blue+red), and Marie's life is about to be turned upside down now that Hank has found out Walt is Heisenberg from that book he read on the toilet. There's an entire interesting theory on colors in Breaking Bad, but I'd wait until you finish the series so you don't read too many spoilers.

Breaking Bad is just so full of things like that which make it very worth watching again for all the cool things you miss the first time through. Gilligan's creativity is just mind-blowing.

I've always noticed Marie is in purple, but only noticed she wasn't in purple when Hank found the book. I noticed bc a lot of her furniture was purple too and it offset her wearing the opposite of purple.

[yorkiefan_]

Originally Posted by capt_noonie

Oh I didn't know that since I"m not Catholic.

I had to look it up lol

[capt_noonie]

Originally Posted by yorkiefan_

I had to look it up lol

Ahh. this is interesting. From wiki:

Santa Muerte (Spanish for Saint Death), is a female folk saint venerated primarily in Mexico and the United States. A personification of death, she is associated with healing, protection, and safe delivery to the afterlife by her devotees.[1] Not sanctioned by the Roman Catholic Church, her cult arose from popular Mexican folk belief, a syncretism between indigenous Mesoamerican and Spanish Catholic beliefs and practices. Since the pre-Columbian era Mexican culture has maintained a certain reverence towards death,[2] which can be seen in the widespread commemoration of the syncretic Day of the Dead.[3] Elements of that celebration include the use of skeletons to remind people of their mortality.[4] The worship is condemned by the Catholic Church in Mexico as invalid, but it is firmly entrenched among Mexico's lower working classes and various elements of society deemed as "outcasts".[5]

[yorkiefan_]

It's funny, I'm studying this cool quantum mechanics class (link: https://class.stanford.edu/courses/E...ngineers/about), and every time they talk about Heisenberg's matrix formulation of quantum mechanics or the Heisenberg uncertainty principle I'm picturing Walt standing at the back of his Cadillac with the M-60 that he bought in the first scene of Season 5 lol.

[capt_noonie]

Every day more and more I wish I had been an engineer.

[yorkiefan_]

So how about Walt's DVD? One of the coldest moments of the series I thought.