Maxpuff, aparently until next year. I just realized what this show and writing really relate's to. Its a Dr. Jeckyl and Mr. Hyde story. Dur!!! Vince you are a good one.
Tweeds

Ah, tweeds...but don't you realize, Vince is a good Poker player! He plays his cards very well and keeps us begging for more of his writings...he entices little by little until you are hooked into his game.

I would also like to hear which episodes Walt has directed ...does anyone know?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0903747/episodes

Nice swing tweeders1, but you missed. The story of Dr. Jeckyl and Mr. Hyde was a social commentary against substance abuse and was intended to illustrate how people's behavior deteriorated when affected by alcohol, opium, cocaine, and the stuff hidden in patent medicines. That's the Dr. Jeckyl part. Doctors and pharmacists who were supposed to heal people were selling them "medicine" that was destructive. London was rife with it at the time the book was written. Breaking Bad is much more nuanced because Walt doesn't do the meth he cooks. Except for his one joint of marijuana, he's not a user, although him hooking up with a user (Jesse) would complete the Mr. Hyde part. It's still a decent comparison. I take back my first comment. It's not a miss but more like a bunt down the third base line and you made it to first. SAFE!

But since you opened this door, I've got a scenario to run past you (let you have some payback now). Remember when Walt pretended to go off for the weekend to a Navajo sweat lodge but cooked meth instead?

What if he goes to a peyote ceremony in Season 3? I did this back in the 1970's after reading Carlos Castenada's books on Don Juan and how a shaman becomes a Man of Knowledge. Mescalito is not like any other hallucinogen. LSD is completely empty and I hate it. PCP turns you into an animal and I hate it. There's no there there. Just bullsh!t. But Mescalito shows you something about yourself. That's all you bring to the peyote circle and the firebird in the center, so that's all you get. Something about yourself is revealed to yourself. What you do with it is up to you. Mesalito doesn't save your soul, or make you "clear" (Scientology), or Seal you into paradise (Mormons). He just reveals you to you. What kind of a trip could Vince Gilligan take Walt on if he did show up and drink the peyote soup? What would Vince show us about Walt if we caught glimpses of his hallucinations? How does Walt see himself in the face of Mescalito? Would Walt realize the evil growing in himself? Would it be the same as the cancer in his own mind? If so, would he change it or embrace it? After all, he's killed two people, watched three others die, ruined his marriage and made himself an outlaw, and he likes the thrills. Lots of good greasy guilt right there!

WalkerColt, I don't know if it will be a peyote ceremony that does it, but I do think you're on target with your last several sentences here.

I think one of the big themes of Season 3 will be Walt realizing and trying to come to grips with "the evil growing in himself," as you put it. As II've mentioned before, I keep coming back to what I think was one of the most important moments this season - when after getting his improved diagnosis from his doctor, Walt punches the paper towel dispenser in the bathroom. When he thought he was dying, he could justify his meth cooking and all his other bad deeds by telling himself he HAD to do it for his family. But once his health situation improves, he realizes he has no real excuse to do these things anymore other than the fact that he seems to LIKE it.

As Tweeds said, it's sort of a Jeckyll vs. Hyde.
Walt vs. Heisenberg. Good vs. evil?

Well Walkercolt, I spose that when I read the Dr. J and MC Hyde story I was so young and thinking more about a molecular tranformation through a particular thing that Dr. J was chemically devoloping. Dr. J was such a good man in those Victorian time's and being a doctor couldn't experiment on anyone else but himself. He thought that through that stuff that he'd made he could save the world through gene transformation. Stopping cancer, bone deterioration, addictions and other things. I do believe at the time the book was written there were scientists who knew that genes' existed but couldn't prove it. So they concocted lots of things. Also as for Carlos, I got through one of his books. It was an interesting experience reading wise. I didn't believe a word of it personally, but there was nothing provable. As for Peyote, I did them once, threw up my guts and tripped away. Did I actually turn into a dog, I don't know, but I do remember the next day I was pretty much hair free.
No slime and a warm Miller 48 to sip the next day. Though one of "My friends" who had tripped with me noticed that my silver with garnet ring had disapeared from our house along with other bits of jewelry of mine. Bummer.

Rockmama, that's why I think the Walt character needs to step to one side and let Skyler/Marie/Carmen come out as challengers to the storyline. He's in a limbo just as Jesse is in limbo. Both have lost their women. Both have lost their reasons for cooking meth. Both are adrift in their lives. It's time to let the women come out of the background and let us see their part in this play. Let them pry open the secrets of these relationships and even complicate them based on their own flaws and passions. Women are just as wicked as men and they can take a fall and hit bottom just as hard. It's the drama, baby! It's all good stuff.

Tweeders, I am so sorry you had to trip with people with no respect. If you ever kill a thief, just make sure I'm on the jury. I'll hang that jury before I let them hang you. I promise.

Happy blogging to you both. I've got a fight brewing with Linda. Dreading that! - WalkerColt

LOL....hey Walkercolt...I thought we were "discussing" issues..there is No fight here with this lady...just a difference of opinions..right? LOL