Talk Forum - What You're Saying
Throughout Breaking Bad Season 2, AMCtv.com will award Talk forum commenters quoted in our weekly "What You're Saying" post with prizes like a Breaking Bad baseball hat or a Breaking Bad poster (limit one per person).
Why did Walt pound the towel dispenser in "4 Days Out"? How will his cancer remission affect the trajectory of the show? And can he get back to a "normal" life now? Those were just some of the topics discussed in this week's forums.
• "When Walt looks at himself in the reflection, he sees who he has to be again -- the man we met in the pilot. I think he likes Heisenberg more than he likes Walter White, and the remission of his cancer means that Heisenberg has to go. Or does he?" -- JPinkerton
• "I think Walt is feeling some pains of consciousness. That is why he was beating the towel dispenser. Remember, earlier in the show he was starting to confess all he had been doing wrong -- lying, etc. He did all this stuff to his family and now he is in remission." -- bakersdozen
• "Remission! you knew it would have to happen, how else would this all keep going ...but now what?" -- serenity
• "I politely disagree that the good medical news takes away the driving force of the show. That was the instigator that got the story going. This shows the confidence of the writers that where the show goes from here will be powered by the characters and the story." -- starscm
• "I took Walt's punching of the towel dispenser as an indication of total frustration. He realizes how everything he's been touching has led to setbacks and life-threatening situations. He also knows that blaming Jesse for everything is lame and that he (Walt) is as much to blame for their continuing screw-ups." -- lala10
• "With Walt's tumor in remission, this changes everything. He can still DIE in any of the few episodes, or he makes season 3 very, VERY interesting." -- KennyD
• "My prediction is that Walt is going to try to get out of the meth business, but unfortunately he's in too deep to get out. He's got too many people (mainly Saul and his 'associates') involved. He's gotten himself in way over his head and is going to have a hard time resuming a 'normal' life." -- Tchefuncte Tiger
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Nothing will ever be "normal" again in Walts existence. Considering the lengths he has already gone to he'll never be able live life the way it was. Pandoras box is wide open now...
Nothing will ever be "normal" again in Walts existence. Considering the lengths he has already gone to he'll never be able live life the way it was. Pandoras box is wide open now...
Nothing will ever be "normal" again in Walts existence. Considering the lengths he has already gone to he'll never be able live life the way it was. Pandoras box is wide open now...
Watched for the 2nd time Breaking Bad. An exciting show, good writing, acting, directing. I'm hooked. Means I got to get Cable TV. Well worth the bucks for shows like these.
Who's the actor (DEA) gets his leg blown off?
He wasn't on the last show. Hope you bring him back. Great energy! Kicks the juice up! NellieBen
sorry about the multiples...my bad
I think Walt was taking out his frustrations on that paper dispenser. Looking at his reflection seems to happen periodically in the show, as if he is asking himself, is anything different or changed? He beat that crap out of that thing. Now he has to re-evaluate his situation and make some critical decisions about where he goes from here? Will he be able to go from Breaking Bad, back to an unassuming upstanding law abiding citizen once again, I think he will give it a shot, but will not be able to sit still. Heisenberg/ Walt likes to Juice too much...
Eric: S'alright, not a prob! Happens to the best of us! ;) LMAO!
Congrats to the winners! =)
No "sour grapes" this time...although, I am a bit green, with envy! Bwa ha ha!!!
Walt went off and punched the towel dispenser because his plan was ruined. The plan being that he would take care of his family and die. He wants to die in a sense he isn't scared he has accepted his fate. The possibility of life going back to the way he knew it before he had cancer seems just as scary. Living life as a chemistry teacher untill he can no longer work has lost it's appeal. He wanted to burn out not drag out.
Walt punched the towel dispenser because at the end of "Four Days Out", here he was scolding Jesse the whole time and didn't cut the kid any slack for anything, and what did he do when it came to seeing and misinterpreting the test results?
He listened to a nutty-woman named Marie and he let her convince him that he was dying when it wasn't the case at all. All that panic that he put himself to, all the torture he put on his body and being away from a phone when he could have used it to call his doctor and get the coughing up of blood seen to sooner.
Walt got himself and Jesse stranded out in the middle of nowhere, and it was Heisenberg that had to save them.
Remember when Skyler said to Walt, "I think the Scan results are gonna be good. Perhaps you should prepare for that". Walt clearly was not prepared. His hitting the napkin dispenser in the bathroom was a clear sign of self-loathing. He knows what he has become and it's a one way ticket. There's no going back.