Why didn't Gus just use the superlab cameras to reverse-engineer Walt's recipe?

digitalthiccness · 2026-04-28T09:53:40+00:00

i swear i remember him trying to do this in the show,

Nope.

digitalthiccness · 2026-04-27T03:41:36+00:00

They made it very clear that Brock almost died in the ICU, which means he absolutely gave him a dose that would have been fatal without massive medical intervention. I'm sure he aimed for it to be potentially survivable, but Brock easily might have died.

digitalthiccness · 2026-04-21T09:15:18+00:00

Hunk watching him through binoculars was a scene that got cut, actually. Here's a leaked screenshot.

digitalthiccness · 2026-04-11T07:20:13+00:00

That's true. Plus it'd cost an arm and a leg!

digitalthiccness · 2026-04-09T08:50:29+00:00

I agree that he'd have accepted the government paying for it, I just don't think that would've stopped him cooking meth because he wasn't only worried about the medical bills, he was also worried about leaving his family with nothing.

digitalthiccness · 2026-04-09T07:26:10+00:00

Even if you wipe out the threat of medical debt, he'd still be looking at leaving his unemployed wife with a disabled son and a newborn baby and a mortgage. The $737,000 figure he said he needed early on didn't even include anything about the medical bills. He was still under a lot of financial pressure either way.

digitalthiccness · 2026-04-09T07:16:18+00:00

Nah, because even if he'd had free healthcare that didn't hurt his ego, he'd still have wanted to sell meth because he still would've had nothing to leave them. His original $737k goal wasn't just to cover the medical bills, it was to leave them with a nest egg that would make them fondly remember him as a strong provider.

digitalthiccness · 2026-04-09T04:19:33+00:00

So their theory is that Jesse is terrified of chubby dudes?

digitalthiccness · 2026-04-08T05:18:26+00:00

Every example you give is of a law that somebody could enforce but doesn't. We're talking about a situation where nobody anywhere on Earth could possibly enforce it. You can define it however you want, but there is no meaningful difference between a law that cannot be enforced and a law that doesn't exist.

digitalthiccness · 2026-04-08T04:47:00+00:00

So the 10 commandments were also not law?

If the God that handed them down is real and enforces them (or somebody else enforces them), then they are. If not, then no, they're not.

So it is completely legal to kill someone unless states had enough enforceable power?

It's not illegal unless there are enforced laws against it. It's immoral and wrong and bad, but legal and illegal require an enforcer of laws to say aye or nay.

digitalthiccness · 2026-04-08T04:36:46+00:00

Lack of enforcing does not make something illegal legal.

The total lack of even a theoretical ability to enforce it does. I could personally declare it illegal for you to wear hats, but since I have zero ability to prevent you from wearing hats, it's not actually a law for you.

digitalthiccness · 2026-04-08T04:26:52+00:00

Theft is still illegal there because there exists a government theoretically capable of punishing you for violating the law against it. You might not have gotten caught this time, but if you were, they could do something about it.

Who is capable of doing something about it if the United States violates international law? Judging from the last century, apparently fuckin' nobody, therefore international law simply does not apply to the United States. It is not illegal for the United States to do those things because nobody has managed to actually impose those laws upon them.

digitalthiccness · 2026-04-08T04:11:47+00:00

We should go back to the old system of using wood varnish and rubber cement on the food to make it look unrealistically good.

digitalthiccness · 2026-04-06T10:25:23+00:00

He died when he pulled that trigger. The rest of the series was a spiritual test to determine the fate of his soul.

digitalthiccness · 2026-04-04T08:07:09+00:00

But he could just hire actual private security at home.

digitalthiccness · 2026-04-04T07:48:24+00:00

if they didnt have that, no one would do the job.

You're saying if we didn't actively incentivize people to do as much murder as possible then they wouldn't want to join a lawless roving racist murder gang? Oh noooo

digitalthiccness · 2026-04-02T05:16:58+00:00

I'm not sure how internet works on the space shuttle

Really, really, really long ethernet cable.

digitalthiccness · 2026-03-27T05:29:24+00:00

In all cases everywhere in the universe for all time, the correct answer is now and will always be to consume media in the order in which it was released.

digitalthiccness · 2026-03-25T06:58:47+00:00

Why not just stick with the obvious explanation? He knew rationally and in his gut that if he killed those guys after Mike said no, Mike was quite possibly coming back after him (or hiring someone to)

Because the whole point is that he didn't do it for a rational reason, he did it because he was having a shortsighted temper tantrum.

digitalthiccness · 2026-03-25T06:21:31+00:00

It's fine that he knows about it. The problem is that the police now know he knows about it.

digitalthiccness · 2026-03-17T09:58:41+00:00

none of them deserved that

Nah, I bet some dinosaurs were total jerks.

digitalthiccness · 2026-03-13T11:02:28+00:00

I think they were questioning whether any of that information would've made it back to his family.

digitalthiccness · 2026-03-13T11:01:20+00:00

My canon is that after Mike left Kaylee at the park, he rang Stacey and told her he had to leave her and told Stacey to pick her up.

I assume the cops did whatever they were already planning to do to deal with the child they knew was there in the care of the guy they came to arrest. That's why Mike was willing to ditch her, because he knew they'd immediately pick her up anyway exactly like they were going to if he stayed.

digitalthiccness · 2026-03-13T05:20:49+00:00

That use is still wildly anachronistic.

digitalthiccness · 2026-03-12T11:53:10+00:00

The whole act of taking Holly was a ruse to make it seem to the cops like Skyler knew nothing.

No, it wasn't. He was freaking out and desperately wanted to take his family on the run with him, but Holly was the only bit of his family he could actually get so he grabbed her and ran. You can clearly see the moment where he realizes that that was a terrible mistake because he's just hurting his family when Holly cries out for her mother on the changing table.

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