Breaking Bad: S5, Episode 8 (Gliding Over All) - Patreon Version
Added 2025-01-01 17:00:12 +0000 UTC
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Oh wow, all of that went right over our heads this episode!
Chandra
2025-01-09 01:08:04 +0000 UTCThis episode is one of my personal favorites from season 5- it has a lot of callbacks while advancing the story significantly. It's titled Gliding Over All for a few reasons, the episode glides over a good amount of time- 3 months I believe. Obviously the fly and fly poster from the opening scene. Hank gliding over Walter being his Heisenberg up until now and "gliding" is mentioned in the Walt Whitman poem. Hank's summer job of marking specific trees in a certain grid, crews coming later and finding the trees and cutting them down is a simile for Walt using Jack's crew to take out those 10 guys in jail. I love Walt's realization in this episode of enough is enough. Walt looking at the mangled towel dispenser thinking how far he's come since 4 Days Out specifically, to bringing up the RV at Jesse's- reminiscing on the "good old days". You can see Walt still looks at him as a son. Jr. playing peekaboo with Holly at Hank and Marie's is a callback to the Peekaboo episode 0206. Holly even has orange on for the red head kid from the episode. There's a black beetle (another symbol of innocence) in the White resident's backyard in that final scene, also a callback to the opening scene of Peekaboo. Holly is wearing pink in that scene, also symbolism for innocence from the teddy bear in season 2. The leaking garden hose from the opening shot in 0201... so many callbacks leading up to one of the biggest moments the audience has been waiting for for almost the entire show- Hank finally finding out Walt's his Heisenberg. The painting from the hospital in 0203 is in this episode but this particular one looks a lot more weathered. A clever way of saying even though Walt is out of the game, he's already departed- tainted and there's no going back to a "normal life" with his family. The man in the painting is departing from his family while gliding over the Blue water. Walt mimicked Gus and Mike after each of their deaths. "Learn to take 'yes' for an answer" is what Mike told Walt in the past as well as Walt starting to have his drinks on the rocks as a nod to Mike after he killed him. Lydia's line: "We're going to make a lot of money together" is Tuco's line to Walt from season 1.
Justin
2025-01-08 23:59:38 +0000 UTCBetter than Breaking Bad?? Damn... I need to finally watch that too lol. I keep meaning to. I thought it might be decent, but it's better? I will have to see for myself haha.
Draethius
2025-01-04 18:11:50 +0000 UTCWell.. there is the Better Call Saul prequel - which some people including myself think is better than Breaking Bad. A little bit slower build up so some people unfortunately wrote it off as slow, but gets to same kinda awesomeness of tension as BrBa S4-S5 :D
lemmy
2025-01-04 13:40:55 +0000 UTCOoo neat, thank you!!
Chandra
2025-01-04 00:00:21 +0000 UTCCharlie Chaplin's "The Gold Rush" was the one that sparked this in my head. I'll be honest, the rest of this did not just "come to mind" ;) "The Big Parade" was a war movie and the biggest movie of the year, though looks like there's some work to figure out which version you might be able to get ahold of. There's the Lon Chaney version of "The Phantom of the Opera", and "The Lost World" which is a monster/dinosaur movie based on the Sir Arthur Conon Doyle book. Looking through a list of movies from that year, those are the ones I recognized immediately.
Kenton Kruger
2025-01-03 23:59:04 +0000 UTCHahaha agreed! We'll have to pick something just as good for the next series when this one is over
Chandra
2025-01-03 23:37:13 +0000 UTCOh! Do any specific ones come to mind?
Chandra
2025-01-03 23:35:56 +0000 UTCHahaha we just couldn't believe our eyes!
Chandra
2025-01-03 23:35:20 +0000 UTCHaha we want to so bad, but waiting one week is really nothing compared to what you probably had to wait when it first came out!
Chandra
2025-01-03 23:35:01 +0000 UTCHaha are you kidding!? I love learning stuff like that!
Chandra
2025-01-03 23:33:14 +0000 UTCWhooooa, you pointed out so many neat things here that we never caught on to! The whole Walt taking on characteristics of people he's killed thing is super interesting. And the fly symbolism!!
Chandra
2025-01-03 23:32:26 +0000 UTCIt's sooooo fitting
Chandra
2025-01-03 23:29:38 +0000 UTC11 months!? Omg that would kill me haha
Chandra
2025-01-03 23:29:24 +0000 UTChhhhhh I wanna see the next one lol. Honestly this having to wait is teaching me some discipline. I've been binging way too many reaction videos as of late... it's good to take a step back and wait! lmao. also gives something to look forward to. It's been a fun ride!
Draethius
2025-01-02 02:44:42 +0000 UTCMaybe should wait until a movie posting, but I just had the realization that we're really hitting the point where there are really films of note that turn 100 years old each year going forward. would be nice to see you hit one or two of those each year since that's such a monumental milestone.
Kenton Kruger
2025-01-02 00:59:27 +0000 UTCI loved the reaction during the mass whackings...."OHMYGOD .AHHH....HOLY FLIP!!!" and as cool as Clint Eastwood if he was in a Tarantino flick, with a bit of a smile, the response ...."gotta make sure he's dead":) Also....Crystal Blue Persuasion is an old Tommy James and the Shondells song that I believe was fairly popular in the late 60's or early 70's.
Mantis
2025-01-02 00:49:36 +0000 UTCI've seen what's coming, and it's still hard for me to wait. If you want to rip through the rest of the season to find out what happens (and I think you do), then go for it!
icekaps
2025-01-01 21:56:59 +0000 UTCSorry for my essay :)
Max Hassam
2025-01-01 20:58:46 +0000 UTCDUN DUN DUNNNNN!! The most incidental way possible for Hank to find out ahaha. Walt foisted by a (relatively) innocent man that he had killed to save his own skin. Utter karma. I think Walt kept that book because he genuinely liked Gale and kept the book as a sort of sentimental gesture. In S4 after Gale dies there's a bit where Walt smiles fondly while looking at Gale's coffee-making contraption in the lab. I'm not sure if it was ever mentioned to you guys after the Fly episode, but the fly is meant to symbolise Walt's guilt plaguing him. Then, he felt guilty about Jane, her dad and the airplane crash and even when Jesse got the fly, Walt was still feeling haunted by a fly at the end of that episode. Now, after killing Mike for no reason, the fly returns. To me, it shows that whilst Walt is truly on his villain arc, he isn't a pure psychopath. He acts impulsively but does then feels guilty. He's just better at suppressing it than, for instance, Jesse, who basically stops functioning when he's overcome by guilt. The painting that Walt points out when meeting with Jack's lovely uncle & crew is the same painting that he saw in hospital after faking his fugue state in S2. It's a man being waved off by his wife & children as he rows out to sea. Walt's "learn to take yes for an answer" line is actually part of a recurring theme for Walt: taking on the traits of people he kills. - When Walt kills Krazy-8, he adopts his cutting off the crust when making sandwiches. - Gus drove an old volvo to avoid suspicion. In the flash-forward scene at the beginning of S5, Walt was driving an old volvo. - When Mike and Walt drink at a bar in early S4 Mike has ice, Walt doesn't. In this episode we see that Walt now has ice. - In that same bar scene, Mike says to Walt "you won, Walter. You got the job. Do yourself a favour and learn to take 'yes' for an answer." It's a fascinating character quirk of Walt's & there's more in later episodes. I'd recommend keeping an eye out for them :) The montages in this episode are epic. Crystal Blue Persuasion is a real song. The musical supervisor had been trying to find a way to feature it in the show for ages ahaha. Think it fitted that montage perfectly. To understand what may trigger Walt to have the motivation to get out of the business, appease Skyler, give Jesse his money and get nostalgic with him, it may be worth re-watching the scene that precedes all those unusual Walt behaviours ;) Great reaction, see ya next week :)
Max Hassam
2025-01-01 20:44:16 +0000 UTCI can't believe they sat on the "Crystal Blue Persuasion" song for five seasons.
N.T. Stars
2025-01-01 18:00:11 +0000 UTCAnd it's times like this where I kind of hate you both for not having to wait 11 months to see the next episode like the rest of us did ๐ก lol
MKF1004
2025-01-01 17:04:13 +0000 UTC
