Hi Kate. Good to see you back again :) I always appreciated your detailed review of the last episode and your way of analysing. If you think about the intro, we saw the fly whilst hearing Skyler singing the lullaby on the baby monitor. That's the moment Walt wishes that he'd lived up until and no longer. He is haunted by what's happened since then but feels unable to change it. Since then: he let Jane die, there was the plane crash, Skyler found out, had an affair and tried to divorce him, Jane's dad tried to kill himself, the twins shot Hank, and Gus has pressed him in to an open-ended contract & demonstrated that he's not someone to be messed with. That, to me, is what the fly embodies. We saw at the beginning of this episode, before he started to figure out about the skimming, that he was struggling to sleep & I think that + the skimming meant the fly sort of tipped him over the edge into obsession. Walt knows that he spoke with a man at a bar who told him to not give up on family. Taking this man's advice, he, considering Jesse family, goes back and allows the daughter of the man to whom he spoke to die. Walt knows that connection. I can't imagine what that would do to someone's psyche. I really hope you are enjoying the show and are able to finish it. Would you be interested in watching Better Call Saul, the Breaking Bad spinoff after? I think you may enjoy it even more. It's such a well written show. :)
Thank you Max and thank you so much for the comment/analysis! I enjoy this show because it is fun to watch, but I also know there is so much more going on than I can understand in just one watch through! I get so much more from the comments and rewatching while editing and I appreciate that so much! I am watching the season 3 finale today and hoping to move through the series more quickly now that I have editing help. I definitely plan on watching Better Call Saul too! Thank you again! ☺️
Hi Kate. Good to see you back again :)
I always appreciated your detailed review of the last episode and your way of analysing.
If you think about the intro, we saw the fly whilst hearing Skyler singing the lullaby on the baby monitor. That's the moment Walt wishes that he'd lived up until and no longer.
He is haunted by what's happened since then but feels unable to change it.
Since then: he let Jane die, there was the plane crash, Skyler found out, had an affair and tried to divorce him, Jane's dad tried to kill himself, the twins shot Hank, and Gus has pressed him in to an open-ended contract & demonstrated that he's not someone to be messed with.
That, to me, is what the fly embodies.
We saw at the beginning of this episode, before he started to figure out about the skimming, that he was struggling to sleep & I think that + the skimming meant the fly sort of tipped him over the edge into obsession.
Walt knows that he spoke with a man at a bar who told him to not give up on family. Taking this man's advice, he, considering Jesse family, goes back and allows the daughter of the man to whom he spoke to die.
Walt knows that connection. I can't imagine what that would do to someone's psyche.
I really hope you are enjoying the show and are able to finish it.
Would you be interested in watching Better Call Saul, the Breaking Bad spinoff after? I think you may enjoy it even more. It's such a well written show.
:)
Thank you Max and thank you so much for the comment/analysis!
I enjoy this show because it is fun to watch, but I also know there is so much more going on than I can understand in just one watch through!
I get so much more from the comments and rewatching while editing and I appreciate that so much!
I am watching the season 3 finale today and hoping to move through the series more quickly now that I have editing help. I definitely plan on watching Better Call Saul too!
Thank you again! ☺️
This is a very symbolic episode or i guess i should say metaphoric episode
Yes, I'm very appreciative of the comments I'm getting because this was a deep episode that I definitely didn't catch everything upon first watch
Very Kafkaesque