More Breaking Bad season 1 ramblings

Episode 4 wasn't quite as strong as the first three for me, but I did love getting a glimpse into Jesse's past. Later on Jesse's parents were more vilified and it seems like most of fandom can't stand them now, but I always liked how in episode 4 you could see both Jesse and his parents PoV. It was such a shock at the time to see how comfortably middle-class and repressed his family was, and I could absolutely understand why Jesse would feel stifled in that environment, while still not condemning his parents as it seemed like they had tried to reach out to him many times in the past and just didn't want to end up in the same old patterns with Jesse. And they obviously did care about Jesse if he was 'practically all they ever talk about', so I've never agreed with the suggestion I've sometimes seen that they couldn't care less about Jesse and focused all their energies on the son who wouldn't turn out to be a disappointment, the little brother said himself to Jesse that it definitely wasn't a case of out of mind, out of sight with their eldest. I couldn't blame them for kicking Jesse out really either as obviously they would suspect him being the one to bring drugs into the house, over his 12 year old (I think?) studious little brother!

And really how disgraceful that Walt and Skyler were talking having to spend 90 thousand for medical care, I really don't know how people cope in America with having to pay thousands of pounds when they're already ill and fighting cancer :/


With Grey Matter in episode 5 Elliot came off as a really nice and genuine guy, and interestingly Walt himself seemed happy smiling and joking with Elliot and Gretchen, so if he really did see them as screwing him over the past he obviously never made Elliot aware of that. And this is the first episode where Walt's protests that he's doing all this for his family hint at it being more about his own ego instead, as he could have very easily accepted Elliot's tactful offer of a place in his company, and paid for the treatment and provided for his family that way instead. It's not like Elliot was just blatantly offering him a cheque out of charity, he was tactful enough to flatter Walt's ego when trying to offer him a job, plus Walt himself claims that he was a part of the company by rights and got cheated out of his share, so surely he should be happy to take the job offer if he secretly thinks of the company as partly down to him anyway? Instead he'd rather go his own way and cook meth with Jesse...

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