This week, Breaking Bad took the audience back to the days of the Wild West. Who would have expected that? And yet, in one of the most ambitious episodes this series has ever had, it creates a near ode to The Great Train Robbery, and actually pulls it off.
Before the big moment in the episode, a few things from last week got some attention. Lydia's death seemed inevitable, but as Jesse continued to attempt to convince Walt and Mike she might be innocent, it finally saved her enough time for the truth to come out. It really was some terrible wiring from the police.
The purpose of this scenes, besides the obvious of keeping the plot going, I felt could be split into two things. One of them was to give us all another reminder that Jesse really doesn't like people to be killed. Naturally, this played a bigger part later on. Despite all the darkness that surrounds Walt and Jesse's life, I think it's important to have someone who actually still feels affected by what is going on. Especially since more and more, Walt is becoming a soulless, money hungry, murderer.
Another key thing I noticed was how Lydia seemed to be a foil to Walt. Clearly both are into some shady shit, and although Lydia acts like she doesn't want part of it. I feel as though it's a front, and she wouldn't change her ways if she could. Anyway, one of he main defences towards everything is that you can't kill her because she has a child at home. She uses her own child to get away with things.
As she pleads this, I wonder what Walt must be thinking. The man who continues to claim that his children are his driving reason. And just to throw in another reason, we can clearly see the difference between the two when one is a nervous wreck and the other calm and reserved.
On the note of new characters that had been introduced this season. This episodes brought to light the fact that Todd may actually be someone important. Oddly enough, I think he may become a rival to Jesse. They both seem to take on the same job of simply being by Walt's side, but Todd has proven to be better than Jesse in many ways.
Todd is merciless, as the last scene in this episode showed. Unlike Jesse, he wouldn't hesitate to take action in a situation. I'm sure the new dark development of a kid being shot will no doubt shake Jesse possibly to the point where he really doesn't want to be part of Walt's crew anymore. Of course when I say that, I'm also taking into consideration where Jesse will be horrified by Todd, only to have Walt probably congratulation him on his quick wit.
Last season, the reason why Jesse ended up trusting Walt once again was because Walt told him that he would never be able to harm a child in any way. As we all know, that was a very big lie, so maybe if Walt were to accept this death, it'll make Jesse realize there was something strange behind the incident with Brock.
Anyway, whether it was intentional or not, the one thing I didn't particularly like about this episode was how it seemed a bit too much like a deja vue on episode one. Once again, the trio needed to pull off an impossible heist with no idea how to do it.
They fought for a while on the subject, until Jesse chimed in with the most genius, yet simple answer, which they naturally used. The only difference in this episode was that the heist was more complex and Lydia got a chance to help, but it just felt a little too similar for me to really be happy about it.
For a good deal of the episode, it was just all fun and games. Although I had a great time watching that, I started to wonder where this series was planning on going, and then it happened. Finally the extremely dark curve-ball this season was lacking was introduced. I'm quite positive that the dead spider-loving kid will no doubt be the catalyst to the rest of the events this series brings!
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