LogFAQs > #940292541

Yeah, the show's been doing good, but it has been a whole lot of meh recently. Character interactions are always nice, but I've been ready for the action to heat up a tad for a while now.

I'm growing more convinced that this series is part of a psychological experiment to see how many scenes of a grown man getting into coughing fits an audience will tolerate. Seems to happen at least once an episode. It's surprisingly tolerable, but always noticed.

I like how they pretty much always have to montage the meth making scenes, since it is probably pretty illegal to give a legit step-by-step. It gets the point across well, and we presume Walt knows what he is doing.

Naturally, since they made exceptional amounts of meth, the situation is such that they are now stranded. Probably gonna lose all or most of the product they made too, because they just can't ever seem to catch a break. Now they gotta depend on Skinny to come through for them, which I would not give high odds on.

It helps that this episode doesn't bounce around between two many plots. This is all about Walt and Jesse. It's prettty much a bottle episode...I've seen this happen on other shows like Star Trek where crew get trapped in a shuttle for a bit. Nothing to stop them from dying but their own ingenuity.

Here the idea seems to be to crank a dodad to get enough juice to zap the battery back to life. It...does not seem to work because the powers that be enjoy watching these guys suffer.

But in their suffering, a ray of hope appears...they're gonna make a battery using the powers of chemistry and luck.

Naturally, it works this time. If Walt had been a physics teacher, the crank would probably have worked >_>

But good news! Walt is dying of cancer less quickly than he might otherwise be! Hooray! Just need to watch out for a bloody cough that could cause him to bleed out and die. And also paper towel dispensers. Those are super deadly too, but thankfully Walt punched one to death at the end of this episode, that was a close call!

Yeah, solid character episode, and they even got to keep all their meth to spur on all kinds of future nonsense.

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