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I don't like the whole walt as a gambler story line...it seems too far fetched to me

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well yeah, but it's not as far fetched as, you know, the truth.

Worst episode ever?

i agree

Waste of an episode.

meh, i'm sure there is some sort of symbolism there with the fly, i never was good at figuring that stuff out though.

I did think Walt was going to spill the beans about Jane when Jesse was up on the ladder.

It also gave insight on where Walt's mind is.

I guess the writers got really drunk before their episode due date. And they figured that they could hand the director a script where the two main characters keep chasing after a fly. Plus, label it as 'symbolism'.

Boooo on last night's episode. It had "filler" all over it.

wow. I really liked last night's episode. I though it was great. Also interesting to see that this episode was directed by wunderkind Rian Johnson (Brick, the Brothers Bloom).

worst episode in the series, but was still somewhat entertained.

I really enjoyed it as well. Love the scenes with Walt and Jesse... reminded me of the "4 Days Out" episode last season when they were out cooking in the desert.

Sepinwall referred to this as a "bottle episode" meaning that it was a low cost episode designed to make up for budget spent on previous episodes or coming ones. His review, as always, was pretty good... but I also enjoyed him pulling the curtain back and giving a bit of the business behind it..

http://www.hitfix.com/blogs/2009-1-13-monkeys-as-critics/posts/recap-breaking-bad-fly?m=k

did anyone notice the fly just crawling around one of the vat's that walt was leaning on as he was rambling and about to slip into his sleeping pill coma?

Sbisa, that was a great read. For those who thought that was in some way a 'bad' episode, you should give it a read.

I agree completely:

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"Fly" is going to frustrate a lot of "Breaking Bad" fans, I fear, because it doesn't basically nothing to advance the plot the season has been building up until this point, outside of a few small scenes and lines. It's a curio, an episode that doesn't really bother with momentum so much as it does just spending time with two characters we've come to know well over the last three seasons. But in its use of symbolism, the subtext of its language, and the way it plays the two guys off of each other, it suggests something like one of the very best plays, one that you go to and recall always as both an intellectually and emotionally stimulating evening. There have been more exciting episodes of "Breaking Bad" this season. There have been more consistent episodes. But I don't know if there's been a better one.

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It wasn't my favorite, but I didn't hate it.

I was watching last night and had a decent amount to drink. At one point I'm thinking to myself "wow, this is a really long first scene" and thinking I'm about 10 minutes in, I look and I'm 26 minutes in. At that point (yes, I was slow) I realized the whole show would be just them.

Hopefully this episode means big budget finale and isn't make up for episodes we've seen.

you have to admit the episode does show exactly how the relationship between jesse and walt has changed, and yet still the same from the beginning.

and that Walt does not over look the minor details of the opeation... from the fly, to calling out Jesse for the missing product and keeping tabs on the minute numbers with his calculations.

This does not bode well for Jesse.

GDMF Time Warner redid their menus and my DVR ditched recording BB. It was a complete accident I got home, saw it wasn't recorded, and caught the one at 10. I saw the last few seconds of the one at 9, unintentionally, and wondered what the hell the fly was for. I see that it was a character moment between Walt and Jesse, but that really couldn't have been condensed a bit?

Is it wrong that I laughed my ass off when Walt ragdolled off the vat onto the floor. Or that from now on I'm gonna cut wood with el axo.

pretty sure 'ragdolled off the vat' is the phrase Eazy-E used to describe getting drunk.

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Stay with me here... Jesse rambled on about a possum that only his sick mom could hear - then she got cancer and died. Could it be that from the last scene that Walt is having the cancer return, he can only hear the fly and he is not in remission? Plot twist? Or am I thinking too much?

Nope.

It was his aunt, and that was forshadowing, imo.

i think your right...

he is starting to get tired of doing the day in and day out of cooking. Now that he is getting sick again maybe he will be fearless in trying to take over because he has Nothing to lose.

Caught up on the DVR when I came home today.

It felt like something of a filler episode, that tried to show us something about Walt's inner character. I think the pressures of everything are coming down on him, and he's starting to crack at the edges. He gets caught up making bad decisions, and every once in a while steps back and evaluates himself and experiences anguish or distress. Him getting "high" led to him talking a lot more about his inner self than otherwise. I think that getting "high" sort of let him let loose on some of his more private thoughts and feelings.

But anyhow, over all I found the whole episode somewhat lame, and too far drawn out on the whole bit with the fly, though I guess not every episode can be greatness.

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Stay with me here... Jesse rambled on about a possum that only his sick mom could hear - then she got cancer and died. Could it be that from the last scene that Walt is having the cancer return, he can only hear the fly and he is not in remission? Plot twist? Or am I thinking too much?

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? Didn't Jesse hear/see the fly? And kill it even? How do you get that only Walt is the one that can hear it?

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Could it be that from the last scene that Walt is having the cancer return, he can only hear the fly and he is not in remission?

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The last scene where Walt couldn't sleep and was starting at the red light on the smoke detector and the fly got on it.

Wow, I thought it was a fantastic episode.

I thought it was eh. For a show that's this well done they drew out the main points for far too long. There was some interesting things going on but nothing new.

I don't read Sepinwall for his Breaking Bad stuff but I do find it kind of funny he holds this episode up as maybe the best of the season after somewhat complaining about the Lost finale and it's lack of answers (he didn't hate it, but had tons of questions about it).

Sepinwal is a guy that wanted answers to his questions.

Good article on the actor who plays Saul: http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-05-26/breaking-bads-scene-stealing-dirtbag/?cid=sexybeast:mainpromo4

Spoilers in that?

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Sepinwal is a guy that wanted answers to his questions.

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I understood that from his Lost review, but imo that contradicts him saying this previous episode that filled in no holes to the story was possibly the best of a damn good season.

It's a different show. The biggest difference is it wasn't a finale. He doesn't always need plot advancing episodes, and if you read his work, that's fine with him.

Sepinwal was so worried about the damn outrigger scene that he couldn't get past it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtZpo89mmJo

The one point I believe this episode was all about?

The cancer is back.

maybe I'm the only one, but I can definitely see Walt buying a lasertag place

The opening sequence didn't actually happen right? Back in season 2 when Jane wanted to go to the museum, Jesse had to go cook instead. Then the next time we saw them was the night Jane died, like the next day. So what's the deal with that?