I still find the Walt/Brock thing a little troublesome logistically, and a huge gamble on Walt's part. Also, like I said before, the idea of concealing that much of the story is fairly new. But this show has built up a lot of cred, so I'm not that worried about it. Sending the neighbor over was a nice way to break the ice on that. Walt is straight up using innocent people now. Not to mention risking lives at the nursing home.
cpebbles wrote: Then I think back to Gus's men coming out of Walt's back yard where the plant is, and it occurs to me that they are probably reporting to Mike, not to Gus. So Mike figures out what Walt did and contacts Jesse, who goes to probe Walt for information by dropping the lily of the valley info on him. If this is really the case and Jesse knows or suspects Walt poisoned the kid (Still a stupid plot twist if you ask me), I'm impressed at the restraint shown in not having that as the cliffhanger ending.
Didn't Saul say those were feds in Walt's house. Doesn't make a whole lof of sense now that I think about it, but I'm pretty sure he said that.
Did the effects crew from “The Walking Dead” help out with the scene where Gus meets his demise?
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Indeed we did have great help from the prosthetic effects folks at “The Walking Dead,” and I want to give a shout-out to Greg Nicotero and Howard Berger, and KNB EFX, those two gentlemen and their company, because their shop did that effect. And then that was augmented by the visual effects work of a guy named Bill Pulaski and his crew, who digitally married a three-dimensional sculpture that KNB EFX created with the reality of the film scene. So you can actually see into and through Gus’s head in that final reveal. It’s a combination of great makeup and great visual effects. And it took months to do.
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Months?
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Really, months. That one shot where the explosion happens, and then you dolly in on Gus, is actually two shots: the explosion happened in one take, and then the shot revealing Gus – it took me 19 takes to get it right. But we did use Take 19. That was no fault of the actors. That was me being a little persnickety as a director. The big, bravura part of the effect is obviously Gus’s face, what’s left of it, but to me it’s just as amazing how the visual effects guys married the two shots together so that there’s literally no seam between. There’s smoke, but you don’t see the cut in between. It’s just amazing what they’re capable of doing these days.
By the way, how excruciating were those scenes with the nurse and the letter board?
What about the closing shot of the episode, the poisonous plant growing ominously in Walt’s backyard. Is it meant to suggest the possibility that he might have poisoned Brock, or is it meant to say he definitely did it?
Apparently he also broke an agreed upon embargo - posted the interview before the episode hit.
I still find the Walt/Brock thing a little troublesome logistically, and a huge gamble on Walt's part. Also, like I said before, the idea of concealing that much of the story is fairly new. But this show has built up a lot of cred, so I'm not that worried about it.
Yeah, that still bugs me as well. How does Walt ensure that Brock eats these berries anyway? Will he be implicated by Brock when he comes to? If Walt stole the ricin cigarette, why didn't he just use that for the poisoning? And most importantly, it still seems like a huge longshot that he could count on Jessie to assume Walt did it (which really makes no sense), to react to the event by coming over to shoot Walt, and to be ready to be turned against Gus instead. But yeah, the show has built up plenty of cred, so I guess I'm not too bothered by it.
/Hate spoiler tags, but I suppose I'll use them anyway.
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Did anyone else hear some deep breathing in the parking garage? I'm guessing that was Mike spying (and who may have tipped off Gus in the first place), but that's just a guess.
Yes, there is definitely heavy breathing. Someone is watching that conversation.
If Walt stole the ricin cigarette, why didn't he just use that for the poisoning?
Presumably because one is deadly whereas the other is not. He couldn't give a full deadly dose but he knew that he could give one that would cast doubt (without murdering anyone).
