His salary barely makes ends meet, a situation not likely to improve once his pregnant wife gives birth, and their teenage son is battling cerebral palsy. Who mike? We will not censor our IRC channel, because it is a great medium for free speech and we support that. Mike dangerously underestimating Todd's uncle Jack and his crew. The cartel only had power in Mexico, that's why they need to send twins or that other sniper, not the US and not (according to the show) US prisons. And he's in his car, two seconds from driving away forever, and this guy is egging him on. [–]WheresMyElephant 1 point2 points3 points 4 years ago (0 children). Now, could they follow your reasoning? Almost none of the darkest predictions about the Breaking Bad finale came true. would they risk going to war with the enigmatic Heisenberg over him? Rendered by PID 27543 on r2-app-0b75c749a5ad6fff3 at 2020-12-24 19:50:27.990097+00:00 running 6abf2be country code: US. Open your System Preferences and click on the desktop icon. DBAA! Walt should have deferred to Mike on most criminal matters, but he never would. They wouldn't have been a problem if Mike was still around. If you are a new viewer, we strongly recommend you finish the series before you post here. Mike's a character, written by Vince Gilligan who has admittedly zero personal experience with criminals. A subreddit for fans and critics of the hit television series Breaking Bad on AMC. It's after Mike was gone that the trouble began. To keep content fresh, reposts and submissions without significant commentary relevant to Breaking Bad may be removed at moderator discretion. and join one of thousands of communities. [–]cakky1 1 point2 points3 points 4 years ago (0 children). [–]WheresMyElephant 3 points4 points5 points 4 years ago (7 children). How the government was hoping we would react (made by me), My boy No-Doze didn't deserve what he got. If Jack really was sore about it, he still may not take action. Basically a career criminal. It's so much easier to send flowers to the funeral and get on with their lives. "Felina" is the series finale of the American drama television series Breaking Bad. Probably the same sort of thing he said when Jack went to murder Walt. Mike was operating against the Juarez cartel for years, the nazis weren't in the same league and wouldn't be in a position to kill everyone in Heisenberg's operation. [src] Jack Welker was the leader of a criminal groupwithwhite supremacist or neo-Nazi ideologies. Pretty hard to fear him at that point. Says right here on wikipedia : The series will be a prequel about Saul's life before he became Walter White's lawyer. Edit: Oh yeah, and he sat in that car with Jesse for a whole day, and only blew his stack a tiny bit. So either the character mistakenly underestimated Todd's uncle Jack, or it was another case of the writer not knowing what comes next (doubtful). [–]TheBlackBear 9 points10 points11 points 4 years ago (0 children). [–]dawgz525 0 points1 point2 points 4 years ago (0 children). Michael Bowen, the actor who played Uncle Jack Welker on the hit AMC original drama, recently talked about the ending of "Breaking Bad." and not (according to the show) US prisons. Get an ad-free experience with special benefits, and directly support Reddit. You’ve now had a few minutes to gather your breath, wipe away the tears and start to process that brutal and poignant series finale of Breaking Bad.Whether your … ", [–]Sin_Researcher[S] -2 points-1 points0 points 4 years ago (7 children). *** Eric is a New York City-based writer who still isn’t sure how he’s allowed to have this much fun for a living and will tell anyone who listens that Gotham City is canonically in New Jersey. [–]Sin_Researcher[S] -1 points0 points1 point 4 years ago (9 children). Walt is obviously a criminal but the audience were on his side, Gus was ruthless but his flashback to his friend gained sympathy. Sure, I can't rule it out. Do not put character death or series finale spoilers in your submission title. I have to say, it seems like we're starting to go in circles. Related: Breaking Bad: Kandy Welding Company Explained Unlike Breaking Bad, which had a broader view of the storyline, El Camino is told almost entirely from Jesse's perspective. Remake. [–]Sin_Researcher[S] 5 points6 points7 points 4 years ago (20 children). I also considered how easily baited Jack was by Walt, but then I suppose Mike was too. Aside from when Mike was personally involved, they were owning Gus on his own turf. But before that, he was just Jack's kid nephew who knew how to burgle. [–][deleted] 6 points7 points8 points 4 years ago (4 children). I couldn't remember exactly when they say the quote. ... Jack, Todd and the Nazis were the final threat to Walt's family and now that they were eliminated and Elliot and Gretchen were going to give Junior 9 million dollars on his 18th birthday Walt was free of his burden. "Granite State" is the fifteenth and the penultimate episode of the fifth season of the American television drama series Breaking Bad, and the 61st and penultimate episode of the series. Discussion: Ozzymandias - the best episode ever. Mike is also a lot more intelligent than Jack. But Walter is dumbstruck when he learns he has terminal cancer. They were instead ready to … Any post or comment linking to a live stream or illegal download site for Breaking Bad might get removed. But Mike (who knows a lot more than I do about how criminals think) seemed to think it'd be fine, and it's not like he could have mistaken a Neo-Nazi militia for a bingo game at the old folks' home. [–]Ubister 2 points3 points4 points 4 years ago (1 child), It's pragmatic to care about what else they are so they won't become a problem later, I think Mike was much more pragmatic than Walt in that sense, [–]WheresMyElephant 26 points27 points28 points 4 years ago (2 children). Thanks to AMC. I know this is a mess, but still pretty cool. [–]aamir_mlk 0 points1 point2 points 4 years ago (1 child). The twins went after Walt personally because it was a family revenge thing. The worst part of it is, who's more careful than Mike? Mike has the cash and connections to hire some backup, but I it's hard to imagine how he can reliably stop this from becoming both messy and expensive, if Jack wanted it that way. Sunday's series finale, "Felina," might have been too tidy for some critics, but it certainly didn't tie up every narrative loose end in the "Breaking Bad" universe. When submitting an image, use a reliable host (Imgur, Minus, Flickr, etc) and link directly to it (URL ends in .png, .jpg, .gif, etc). Yeah, Mike may have had both the connections and the understanding of necessary precautions to ensure that Jack wouldn't become a problem. Why not, it's not much of a risk for an armed gang to go after a cook. [–]canucklehead272 0 points1 point2 points 4 years ago (0 children), If Mike's still around the gang doesn't become a problem. [–]Sin_Researcher[S] -2 points-1 points0 points 4 years ago (1 child). They may have had guns but Walt could outspend them easily. [–]rexcannon 33 points34 points35 points 4 years ago (8 children). [–]ThemeFromTheBottom 15 points16 points17 points 4 years ago (0 children), Well, to be honest, they werent a problem until walt gave them gps coordinates of his stash of 80 fucking million dollars. What's for dinner? He'd essentially be declaring war on the drug kingpin of the SW just as his power is peaking. [–]Sin_Researcher[S] -1 points0 points1 point 4 years ago (11 children). [–]WheresMyElephant 92 points93 points94 points 4 years ago* (22 children). The neo-nazis probably knew Mike had enough connections to waste their group if something happened to him. Somewhere along the line he went from "Walt is a timebomb that I should distance myself from immediately" to "Well I just yelled at Walt and gave him way more truth than he can handle, now would be a good time to turn my back to him for a while". MAC USERS: Select size and then CTRL + click on the image to save to your hard drive. Here you will find discussions and speculations about the show, pictures from the show, AMA's with the cast, and anything else Breaking Bad related. But he finally met his match: the most intolerable prick on planet Earth. Creators: Vince Gilligan & Peter Gould; Stars: Bob Odenkirk, ‎Jonathan Banks, Rhea Seehorn; Season 5 has finished airing. Gus says that eventually Jesse will come around and let him kill Walt. The Nazi's would have had no business with Walt, Mike, and Jessie had Walt not looped them in. At most they know what Todd knows, which isn't much. A logical, sane man would avoid working with them, atleast I would imagine, but it's hard to judge Walts mental state that far into the series. Why would they have to do that? Even the 'good guys' had murky morals (hank, Marie), Jack doesn't seem to have any redeeming qualities, he is designed for the audience to dislike. Breaking Bad Season 5. Let's say Jack decides to send eight guys to burn down the Vamonos Pest office, as phase one of his retaliation. He killed Tuco Salamanca; he inherited whatever's left of Fring's operation; he's selling to a network of dealers across the state and beyond; who knows what else? Maybe we should just agree to disagree? Especially if nephews are murdered by a highly lucrative operation. Mike was operating against the Juarez cartel for years, the nazis weren't in the same league and wouldn't be in a position to kill everyone in Heisenberg's operation. [–]WheresMyElephant 5 points6 points7 points 4 years ago* (8 children). I can maybe imagine Mike winning the fight, but I can't imagine how it happens quietly and harmlessly, guaranteed. I just question the lengths Jack would have went to for Todd making a mistake and getting himself killed by another org. The man was a saint. But Mike was left with little choice in that matter. We take this seriously, violating this policy can result in a ban. Jack and Kenny were the best part of S5, not only more honorable than Walt ("what's with all the greed here? Todd is (in my estimation) not even a member of the gang; no one owes him a thing! Alex Gianopoulos (Location Scout, Breaking Bad), Breaking Bad Staff (Michelle MacLaren, Gordon Smith, Jenn Carroll & Trevor Baker), Thomas Golubić (Music Supervisor, Breaking Bad), Character deaths and any series finale details are spoilers. Breaking Bad Quotes Total quotes: 60 Show Metadata Hide Metadata. In more ways than one, when Walt's involved. Except that most fans didn’t notice. true! [–][deleted] 2 points3 points4 points 4 years ago (2 children). Now Jack is the head of the gang; maybe he's special. Written and directed by Peter Gould , it aired on AMC in the United States and Canada on September 22, 2013. Onder de titel Metástasis werd in Colombia een Spaanstalige remake van Breaking Bad gemaakt. It is the sixteenth episode of season five and the 62nd overall episode of the series. [–]WheresMyElephant 18 points19 points20 points 4 years ago* (19 children). Now if the nephew of someone like Jack got murdered by someone like Spooge? If Todd was killed as a result of him fucking up on a job, the Nazis may just let it go as a cost of the lifestyle, if they knew it was Walt at all. That's probably why we still have neo-nazis in the world and they still cause trouble, despite the ease of outstrategizing them. Mike (who knows a lot more than I do about how criminals think). © 2020 reddit inc. All rights reserved. In stories like this, there's often an unreliable narrator factor, in which the protagonist's worldview and fallible memory skews what the audience sees. Nobody could resist. Walt made them a problem by involving them. But I don't see how that stops it from becoming messy (i.e., lots of blood and potential legal exposure) and expensive (i.e. With "El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie" premiering on Netflix tomorrow, there's never been a better time to brush up on your "Breaking Bad" classics. When does the show say anything about this? 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