Maple at least did clock that, but it's such a shame they missed out on such a moving scene because they hate Walt SO much. And yeah, he deserves it, but missing out on the acting Bryan Cranston is doing because of the character he portrays makes me sad. They just kept talking over his lines and not really taking in what was being said. Other than that, I really enjoyed the rest of the review.
I'm pretty sure not a single person was surprised that they wouldn't be able to pick up on that fact because of how emotional they are with their hatred for Walt. It's so old and tiring yet they keep at it.
@@nathanlindahl8336 Imagine being blind with rage and associating that with women lmao. It's a good thing men don't do that. Men have learned to turn off their emotions so they don't experience any pain ever! I mean, other than all the societal issues so many men face for not knowing how to process emotions properly. And you know, other than the pain that still happens regardless because emotions are part of being human and not a gender thing. But other than all of that, yeah it's definitely because they're women.
Unfortunate that they missed that he did that on purpose. I hate Walt too but he does care for his family. He just had f-ed up way of showing it. I love this episode the acting is fantastic.
Yes, seemed to be a bit too emotional to be able to catch that. I kind of think they made the scene gradually more obvious until the point where he's saying "Hank crossed me" and you can see him broken up, appearance not matching his words & tone. It was a gradual reveal. Missing all of it is kind of something else.
@@tjm6983 yep, i've noticed that most folks who miss the real nature of the call were simply too wracked by the intense emotions this episode evokes. Thankfully, Saul and Walt clear things up in the next episode.
I remember seeing this when it was on air and there were a lot of people that didn't catch it as well. I did but was deep into the show and knew his character.
Walt blames Jesse for betraying him and getting Hank killed. In his mind, if Jesse just took his money and fucked off with the vacuum guy, the brother in law he loved would still be alive
I sympathize a tiny bit because Jesse originally wanted to get revenge on his own, and lockup was essentially a death sentence. But Jesse had a personal code against cooperating with the authorities, and he broke it. (Although, Hank was a rogue agent and arguably a criminal at that point, too.)
It wouldn’t be out of character for Walt to say any of that normally though so I get why people miss it. Walt literally just gave Jesse up to Nazis to be tortured and killed and then told him that he watched his girlfriend die in front of him.
Hindsight is 20/20 on that scene tbh. With everything that happened and was happening, especially with what he did with Jesse earlier. It was totally believable he was just psycho crashing out and didn’t know what he was saying until the moment he saw Holly in the car. At least for me on the first watch. The show created an anxiety that could absolutely throw me through a loop. Second watch through it was clearer. But that first one I was kinda like them ‘wtf are you doing you crazy fuck’ Masterpiece of an episode
@@davismorgan99 IMO it's extremely out of character. His entire reason for becoming a drug kingpin was to support his family. Yes pride became part of it but it wouldn't make sense for him to suddenly hate his family
Vince Gilligan went on record and said that despite everything that happened over the course of the series, Walt telling Jessie about Jane's death was the most evil thing he ever did. EVERY other misdeed was for the sake of self-preservation or profit. This was the one thing Walt ever did because he simply wanted to inflict pain.
I have to disagree with Vince on that one. Poisoning a child is the worst thing Walt did. Also killing Mike wasn't for self preservation or profit. It was out of spite.
@@havok6280 Even poisoning Brock he did because it was the only way to save his own life. It was an evil thing to do, to be sure, but at least it was pragmatic, and he didn't use enough to kill him. But this was the only thing he did out of pure malice.
To me, Jane's death was the trolley problem. If he never visited, she still would have died anyways. His non-action changed nothing and only made him a witness to what happened. It was like the ASAC said to Hank regarding Gus: "You can't arrest someone because they didn't make a phone call." Same thing applies here. And besides that, she threatened him with blackmail. Walter said it out of spite because that is his relationship with Jesse, but this also happened in the same episode where he gave Skyler and alibi. Despite therapy, Jesse probably still blamed himself for his role in Jane's death and Walter stepped up and assumed all the blame for everyone's problems
@@KyleBaran90I always thought that too. But someone said that when he was in the room he bumped her body into a position where she would more likely choke to death. Idk I haven’t gone back to watch it since I heard that info.
@@marvymarv959 Oh actually, you're right. It's the episode where Walt has to get the $1.2m of product for Gus. He's shaking Jesse trying to rouse him out of his high and in doing so, does disturb Jane such that she rolls over. So yeah, it is Walter's fault, but it wouldn't have happened if Jesse wasn't high. It's like he said after rehab, it's nobody's fault per se, it just happened from a result of everyone's decisions
Being intelligent and being moral are two very different things. He is a horrible person who does horrible things and he is actually a literal genius. It’s both.
Whatever one thinks of Walt, Skyler gives the game away when she starts playing along and says sorry. You can see on her face that she realizes what Walt is doing, and she follows his lead.
Not surprised that they didn’t catch what walter was actually trying to do in that phone call. He was basically taking the fall for everything so that skylar wouldn’t be suspected by the police.
I hope you guys know that walt knows the police are listening to his phone call and purposely made it sound like Skyler had no knowledge of his crimes !!
its always very telling when a reactor doesnt pick up on that phone call scene with walt. its a gauge for just how dissociated they are with his character.
I agree. Still, there was some half truths in their like not getting the appreciation of Skylar he thought he deserved. Skylar had him emasculated when the series started.
@@aliforoughi92 they must've saw that some people still didn't get it in test screenings since they got Saul to really drive the point home saying it buys Skyler time...
@@LouSassol69er Yeah had to have which is why I usually had exposition and beating people over the head with reinforcing ideas but I feel like this series did it in the right spots such as sauls little comment in the next ep.
Here's the explanation for the phone call. It's obvious these two wouldn't get it at first due to the Walter hate[ I don't blame them, I was fooled too]: Basically, Walt was trying to save Skylar from a police investigation into their money laundering operation by making it look like he coerced her into doing it. He knew the police were on the line and made sure they would only focus on him. How do we know he's lying to them? In s4, Walter completely disagreed with Skylar laundering his money and didn't even want her to be involved. The car wash was all her idea, and she even had help from one of Saul's guys to buy it. Again, I don't expect them to get it all on the first watch because so much happens in this episode, and it takes a lot of time to process the information through an emotional Rollercoaster that is ozymandias. I know this episode is about Walt facing consequences, but I also felt characters like Skylar and Jesse face consequences for their choices. Jesse could have left New Mexico and Walter behind but chose revenge, and now he is a slave for the neo-nazis forced to cook meth again. Skylar chose to launder Walter's drug money even though Walter already had Saul Goodman to do it. She still insisted on doing it, and now she's in the middle of a police investigation, and luckily, Walter was able to save her at the last minute with the phone call.
Don't forget Hank, trying to personally solve the case on his own before he has to face the music. If he had turned over everything he knew to the DEA, a handful of rednecks in a couple of pickup trucks would never have been able to spring Walt or wipe out the investigation team.
@@F26_RAIDER i actually don't think if they EVER made it clear that it was Gus who ordered the murder of Tomas. The show kept it kinda vague whether Gus ordered his murder or not. And if Gus is to be believed... His dealers acted without his consent, and he intended to deal with them. If you ask me? Makes NO SENSE for Gus to tell them to off a child. Gus is all about keeping things secret and hidden. Why would he order a murder of a child that is sure to bring in unwanted attention? I think that it is FAR more likely that the two dealers felt slighted and got angry that they were called to the principal's office and offed Tomas just to say "fuck you" to Jesse (he DID attempt to kill the two dealers, after all). Walt DOES use this vagueness to his advantage to ACTUALLY poison Brock (non-lethally, sure) and manipulate Jesse into siding against Gus. It was a BRILLIANT move, but a TERRIBLE thing to do (poison a child).
a lot of people miss the point of the scene on the first watch. these girls aren’t dumb or “yapping” just because it didn’t click right away. and walt sparing skyler a prison sentence isn’t supposed to be a redeeming quality for walter. give it a rest, will you?
@@havok6280 pretty obvious why she didn’t turn him in when she first found out. she makes her reasoning extremely clear. at several points throughout the show. but sure, blame skyler for not turning him in, instead of taking a deep look at walter’s wrong-doings.
Every idiot here predictably acting as if the purpose of the phone call was blindingly obvious. Even if you got it the first time (and many of you liars here didn't), there are plenty of other similarly "obvious" things you missed in TV shows. Yall are just insufferable with this shit.
I love these ladies and these reactions, but I knew their hatred of Walt would block them from reading the Walt call correctly, lol. Baby Holly btw, who’s like 30 now lol, the shot in the fire truck is the best baby acting I’ve ever seen. Heartbreaking. Edit: regards to replies, sigh. Really people? Lol
Let's not overlook that Walt was willing to give up his 80 million for Hanks life. Showing that he loves & cares about something more than his money... family
Their hate for Walt blinds them to what is actually happening on screen. They can see Walt begging Jack to spare Hank, sobbing as he says horribles things to Skyler and it never occurs to them that he doesn’t believe half of what he’s saying about his family and is saying those things to clear Skyler of any suspicion because he knows the police is there. It’s actually entertaining to watch. 😂
It’s not about being a Walt fan or Walt hater. It’s about comprehending what is happening. Walt is a terrible person but he isn’t pure evil. The entire show is about moral ambiguity and watching people miss that by painting characters as black or white is frustrating.
I'm surprised how many reactors hate Walt, 'cause I never felt that way when I was watching it for the first time. Of course I knew how fckd up were the things he did, but my experience was so different. Maybe because I was a teenager, I dont know Who thinks the same?
I'm genuinely flabbergasted that they couldn't tell that he was trying to clear her with that phone call, that he knew the cops were listening and was clearly lying from the start when he said he did it all by himself and that she begged him to stop, etc. And I'm also shocked that they couldn't understand why a man's instinct would be to grab his baby and go after his wife just attacked him and his other kid just lied to the police about it... and immediately after making that ridiculous outburst of a response, to call HIM a sociopath, after making the most sociopathic take ever recorded in screaming 'WHY WOULD YOU" regarding him taking his daughter in that scenario.
Well that's what you get with today's millennial, woke, ignorant fools. A sharp decline in critical thinking and common sense sprinkled with highly emotional outbursts.
@@pencil6965 No, I understand... I'm just shocked and flabbergasted that two people can simultaneously be that completely oblivious to another person's emotional state and motivations. I would have bet that you'd need to go through many thousands of pairs of people to find two who were both so very incapable of empathy when watching that scene together, so that aspect is extremely surprising. They beat the odds. :)
@@pencil6965 (continued) ... but seriously, anyone with an ounce of empathy realizes that Walt still thinks he's the good guy when they arrive at the house... he believes that he is protecting his family and saving them by getting them to pack and leave. He thinks he's being rational... so when Skylar slashes him, he believes that she is being irrational and emotional... and then when he gets the knife away from her to stop the violence, Junior tackles HIM and then outright lies to the police about who attacked whom, who grabbed the knife, etc, so Walt immediately perceives Junior as ALSO being irrational and making uninformed and emotional bad decisions... ... so now he knows he has to leave immediately because the cops were called, but two of the three people he wants to "save" are actively stopping him from saving them... so he acts to "save" the only member of the family that's left for him to save, because he loves his family and still thinks that he's the good guy. It's only after driving and having time to think, then hearing Holly say "mama" that he realizes that he can't bring his family with him now, because the cops are involved and it will all have already come out from Junior, and that it would be far more good for the rest of the family, far more protective and "saving" them if he gets Holly back to Skylar instead of with him on the run as he dies of cancer... and that he must also save them by clearing Skylar, and he knows that the cops will have arrived by now and will be recording all calls because it's a kidnapping situation, so he calls and gives the fake speech, then drops Holly off, because those two things are the best and only options he has left to protect and help his family. I would think that most people innately understand most of that when watching that part of the show... but two out of two reactors didn't infer any of it that day... and that surprises and saddens me. Also surprising is that apparently a lot of people don't know the laws about dropping off babies at firehouses. I thought that was universally-known stuff, but apparently it ain't nearly as ubiquitous as I had reckoned.
Yep way too much word salad for this morning, not reading all that. you seem oblivious but trying REALLY hard to intellectualize empathy as a way to demonstrate you’re not a sociopath. I suggest you check other reactors and spew your shock on their channels too, you’ll learn they weren’t the first reactors to miss it and won’t be the last. Calm down buddy it’s not that deep
I get why the girls dislike Walt. Enough reason to. But I feel they go way too easy on Jesse. Jesse made his own decisions as an adult and most of them were quite poor. Even if he knew those choices were wrong. In the end Jesse came out to be a rat which costed Hank's life. I don't think Jesse deserves any sympathy just like Walt doesn't.
Are we really calling out Jesse for being a "rat"? What is this, high school? lol Jesse did the responsible thing and turned to the law to expose a GIANT criminal. Exposing awful criminals by being a "rat" or snitching on them... is a GOOD thing. He wanted to see him go down for personal reasons (the poisoning of Brock and 2yrs of emotional manipulation), sure... But he wanted to see Walt go down. Hank CHOSE to partner up with him. He, a rational, thinking adult, made that choice for himself. I don't think that it is honest to blame Jesse for Hank dying here. It is a giant, unfortunate mess. Walt thought that Jesse worked alone, but he didn't anticipate Hank working with him. He had already made the call, too late. Walt, to his credit, GENUINELY tried to get Jack to not come.
@@Al-ji4gd Jesse is fully responsible for his own actions. Many times he got advised to choose differently, even by Walt. Never did Jesse listen. Every time Jesse didn't listen he got eratic and screwed everything over. A lot of situations that got out of hand was by his doing. He also shot Gale in cold blood point-blanc. So don't fool yourself that Jesse is an innocent here. So yes, Jesse is equally criminal as Walt is. No doubt about that.
@@SidPhoenix2211 Jesse shot Gale point blanc in cold blood. He cooked meth and sold it. How is he innocent? He's just a low life as Walt is, if you want to go that route. So many times Jesse caused major issues and dangerous situations while being advised to act differently. Jesse made a lot of bad choices while he knew better. Jesse is responsible for his own choices and behavior. Him deciding to work with the authorities shows what weak and pathetic character Jesse has. Not even man enough to clean up his own mess. Rat is a rat. If you're a criminal and you rat, then you're whole life becomes a lie.
@@RickMeathead Again, you're being dishonest. No sane person puts them on the same level. Yes, Jesse is responsible, but Jesse is not as bad ad Walt morally, ethically, or in any other way. Most of the bad things Jesse experiences are directly as a result of Walt, just like everyone else. In fact, the only reason Jesse even shot Gale is because Walt wanted him to. Walt is the true cancer, something that infects or even kills the people around him. He compromised Skyler, Jesse, Hank, everyone. These people were flawed, yes, but none of them were downright evil like Walt was.
the scene where flynn pulls walt off of skyler and puts himself in front of her always makes me tear up. he just learned A FEW MINUTES AGO who his dad actually is, and he immediately gets on skylers side, protects his mom, and even tells the police that his dad pulled the knife in order not to incriminate her.
Except none of that makes sense. She clearly attacked walt who merely defended himself. And as soon as he gets the knife away, that's when the kid attacks? Not cool.
Understand that Walt blamed Jesse for Hanks death. Which is why he gave him up to be killed and when that was put off he needed to say something that would hurt Jesse. Doesn’t mean he hates Jesse or betrayed him. Just showing a vengeful moment.
He gave up Jesse because he blamed Jesse for Hank's death. If Jesse just wasn't so emotionally weak (as per usual), took his money, and didn't snitch, then none of them would've been out there and Hank wouldn't have been shot. JUST LIKE if Jesse hadn't tried to kill Gus' dealers, Walt wouldn't have had to kill them instead, and their relationship with Gus wouldn't have been ruined. JUST LIKE if Jesse hadn't been bored and greedy while working for Gus, he wouldn't have been skimming from their batches or bothered trying to find the street price for their product and learned that Gus' dealers were the ones to get Brock's uncle to kill Combo. As much as you guys may hate to admit it time and time again, Jesse's actions have resulted in both him and Walt going from bad to worse situations, and up until this moment Walt has always forgiven him for it.
😅Guys you hadn't got the last phone callpart(walt does to skyler) ,He confessed everthing on purpose to save skyler(he already knew there house was under police surveillance)
You're not supposed to like Walt he is a villain a really good one at that, watching him go "bad" and fail is what the writers wanted. Now... what really is going to piss many people off is that i really didn't like Jesse it was his fault (MANY TIMES) that things went south fast because he's so stupid and emotional. He also had several chances to leave this world and didnt so if he shared the same fate has Walt would be also a viable (and fitting) end for him.
Walt offers an 80 million bribe to spare hank who wanted nothing more than to ruin walt. Jesse nearly burns down his house and walt refuses to kill him and insists on talking to him Skylar gives all his money to her affair partner and walt doesn't have her wacked. Oh walt is such a monster, just awful.
OMG Yessss! Finally someone I can talk to! It always annoys me how everyone is eager to point to Walt’s mistakes but not Jesse’s. Yes, some of the problems in the show Walt created for himself because of his ego, but soooo many others Jesse created because of his impulsiveness and outright just being stupid af. If Walt just didn’t intervene when Jesse was about to have a shoot out with Gus’s dealers, none of this would’ve happened in the first place. Jesse’s fate is horrible but it pisses me off when people blame Walter for it, when actually Jesse did all of it to himself. Just stupid desicion after another.
@@jugogogo6419 If Walt had never become involved in Jesse's live, Jesse would not have suffered multiple heart-breaks of losing girlfriends, sharing responsibility for numerous deaths (Gale, two planes, Drew Sharp, Mike, Tomas, Victor) and experienced multiple beatings, plus a lot of hairy encounters with Gus's goons and the cartel. You know why none of that would have happened to him? BECAUSE Crazy 8 and Emilio *would have killed him* in the first episode. When Walt reconnected with Jesse, it was after seeing Jesse escape the scene of a DEA bust of Emilio, with whom Jesse was cooking. Crazy 8 tipped off the DEA to the cook, and then when Emilio got out of jail early, Crazy 8 blamed Jesse for the tipoff, which was plausible, because he was getting laid instead of working, and so evaded the Feds. The only reason they did not kill Jesse for revenge was the high quality meth he had on his person, so they forced him to lead them to the source of this new product, and Walt killed them both, and not the last people he would kill for Jesse's benefit. Whatever bad stuff happens to Jesse as a result of his relationship with Walt is chicken scratch, because *every day Jesse lives* from Episode 2 through Season 5 is a gift from Walt.
I love Jesse, and I hate Walter, but Jesse HAD THE OPTION OF LEAVING ALBERQUERQUE AND HE CHOSE TO GET BACK AT WALT WHICH LEAD TO HANKS DEATH. Don't act like Jesse is some innocent child. He was an adult who made a stupid decision. Walter is a piece of shit, I agree, but Jesse, CHOSE NOT TO GO WITH THE STING OPERATION, THREATENED WALTER'S FAMILY WHICH LEAD TO HIM CALLING TODD'S GANG.
What these girls don't even realize is that Walter knew the police were there. His son called 911 while Walt was still home. A child had been kidnapped. He knew they were listening and he protected the family. On purpose.
The crazy thing about this show is that you spend the majority of it rooting for Walt, up through the end of season 4 at least, and then by the time this episode rolls around, you realize you've been rooting for pure evil. Walt truly is a despicable man, but damn if Cranston doesn't nail the role.
Ive watched a lot of reactors like you guys watching struggle to understand why people like Walter. Its not because we think hes misunderstood. Its because hes a well written character/villian. Stop trying to find a reason to like him like hes actually a good guy. You seem upset at him instead of amazed at his genius and maliciousness like you were expecting him to do a good deed.
Ngl anyone in that world would of killed Jesse after speaking to the DEA That’s like the worst thing you can do is be a criminal then run for legal help when it doesn’t go your way… I can understand why they think like that, my advice, don’t get into that world if you can’t handle it
All y’all commenting about them not getting it/being haters need to watch the discussion video they posted right after this. They get into the nuances, including the phone call. Of course they were emotional while watching, it’s an insanely emotional episode!
People need to chill about them not clocking the purpose of the call. There's a reason it's explicitly explained in the next episode; the showrunners knew some viewers, maybe even the majority, would have missed it.
It is funny to compare Walt's reaction here when Hank is going to be killed by Jack (and previously, when Gus is threatening to kill Hank) to Hank and Marie's "sucks to be you" reactions to Walt's cancer diagnosis in season 1.
It is wild that they missed the point of that phone call. And duuuuuuuude, the acting?!?! Ya'll were telling Marie to not cry not cry not cry....but it was Walt who HAD to keep it together. He had to keep up the persona so that Skyler would be seen as innocent. But he wanted to bawl just as hard as Marie for Hank. How the eff Bryan Cranston pulled that scene off, I'll never understand that level of acting genius. And the fact that he immediately dropped her off at the fire station. It was all a ruse to help his family.
Half the comments here are complaining that they didn't understand the phone call. Guys, like TWO THIRDS of reactors miss that. And Maple came pretty close to getting it anyway!
You two need to stop picking on Walt! At this point it's bullying! Walt never hurt anyone and just wanted to be friends with everybody. Stop being mean😭
nah, no one ever question how 2 DEA gys got cooked so easily. Hank without a gun?-lemme put twins in the hospital or worse. Hank with the gun and a armed partner - I can't fight and shoot at all
"everyone understands except for Walter" like it's not even possible for walt to show desperation without being judged as being ignorant, why so much blind hate, it creates a very narrow view of what's going on.
How is anyone surprised he wanted Jessie dead after the ultimate betrayal? Walt cared for jessie & put himself and his career multiple times at risk to help or save Jessies life only to be brought down by Jessies multiple failures / emotional outbursts. Jessie caused so many of the problems in their co-op venture, Jessie is no better than Walt , they are both in the "game" , both are Murders , drug dealers, only difference is Walt like he said in his speech he accepted the "cost" of what they did & wouldn't lay down or curl up in a ball about it.
The hate for Walt is so forced and over the top 🙄 its fine to hate hik but so much so that you cant tell he gave up jessie and hurt him with his line about jane is cause he clearly feels its Jessie's fault which it kinda is in how it played out, also the call is so obv about clearing skylar from any implication in wrong doing despite how when things went wrong she instantly turned on him when she was happy to go along and even contributed for example the car wash, the stuff with ted etc...
A lot of reactors don't understand the meaning of the call at the end. I know others in the comments have stated it but he was doing it to make sure he was the only one the police were going to go after.
I get not liking Walt, but you guys should learn to control your emotions a bit, because you ascribe to outright malice things that have other meanings. Jesse's betrayal put Hank and Gomez in the position to where they got killed. That's Walt's perspective. That's why he "sold him out" and why he hurt him by telling him about Jane. You don't have to like Walt, but there's a lot of dimension being ignored because of pure hatred.
The baby saying "Momma" was because she saw her mother off camera. It wasn't scripted or planned, but it ended up making the scene tantamount more impactful and heartbreaking.
One of the most underrated cuts from this episode was cutting to Todd wiping his nose JUST after Walt breaks down. There's a split second where I always think - oh, Todd felt that one-- oh no he's the sickest mf on this show.
The scene where Walt sees Walter Jr. defends his mother and call the police I think might be the first time that he gets a mirror held up to himself, his twisted value system, justification of his vile behaviour, and just the fact that his family is scared of him. Brings me to tears, especially because of RJ Mittes performance as Junior.
Over 400 comments and 97% of them are about not understanding the point of the call. Hey, commenters #3 through 395, you really drove the point home guys!
it's basically the lynchpin of the whole episode and one of the single most important character moments in the entire show. i would argue that if you didn't get what he's doing, you don't really get walt's character and by extension the show itself, which doesn't make for good reaction content!
Exactly what I always thought. All of these people started out to make money. Gus, Eladio, Hector, Walt...... the list goes on. At some point, the money aspect becomes secondary. Power and greed take over. When do they actually slow down and enjoy life? Never!
Hank realizing Walt was willing to give up 80 million to keep him alive was cool. Hank should have said he was the plug for the Meth and the insider to Walt’s operation, he might still be alive. The episode of episodes. Phenomenal acting, writing and production.
In all seriousness though, it was a pleasure watching these reactions with yall Diegesis! Excited for these final three episodes. And cant wait for the Better Call Saul and El Camino reactions ❤️
why is everyone in this comment section mentioning the phone call when theyre one of the few reaction channels ever that caught on that walt was doing it on purpose lmao youre not supposed to immediately get it at the very start of the call til like she says, "that clears her"
My favorite bit is that after all the lies Walt has told to his family, its the one time he's honest with them (telling them he tried to save Hank) that irrevocably severs their relationship.
It amazes me how so many people don't pick up on the fact that walt acted that way to clear his family. Like did yall seriously think his entire personality had changed over the course the a day.
@@brownsey1 No, his intentions are different between Walt and Jesse. He saved Walt out of respect, but saved Jesse to cook. But he also saved Jesse to get the information they needed to grab those video tapes. If they didn't, they all would have been in jail. Todd is a psychopathic killer, but he is also incredibly smart. If you remember the first time they met him, he "disabled a nanny cam" in the first house they tented. Again, he's brilliant - just really flawed as a human being.
@@BennyBlancoNL Walt was good to him, and even saved him after he shot Drew Sharp. Jesse wanted to kill / fire him. He saved Walt out of respect, and made sure they left him a barrel. But he saved Jesse for 2 reasons.... he needed to get those video tapes out of Hank's house, and he wanted him to cook. Todd is a psychopathic killer, but he's also brilliant. He's the main reason they all didn't end up in prison.
lets be fair, most people don't get the nuances of the "phone call" on the first watch. this episode is such an emotional roller coaster anyway! The linked discussion is really thorough and well though out-- I highly recommend it!
in a Behind the scenes video, where tyler runs after walt in the street.. it did a number on the actress, they had to shoot the scene a couple times the director had to comfort her
Finally! I’ve been waiting throughout your entire run of this show to see your reactions to one of the best TV episodes ever made! It truly is a masterpiece!
Walter is not an idiot. He knew full well that the feds were hearing the convo, he wanted to make things easier for Skyler and Walter Jr, blaming only himself for everything.
I really rarely use the term masterpiece for something, which is so often used by so many people. But in this case I have no doubt at all. Ozymandias is a masterpiece and the best episode in the history of television. The level of scriptwriting, directing and, above all, acting in this episode reached an absolute level, impossible to achieve by most series creators. This episode grabs you by the throat and doesn't let go until the last scene. You're sitting on the edge of your seat, afraid to even blink so as not to miss anything you see on the screen, and that's where the magic of television in its purest form happens.
Why is everyone saying they missed purpose of the call? Most of the people who miss it don't even realize he's painting Skyler as an unwilling hostage, they obviously did. So why? Because they are still seething at Walter? That's par for the course since season 2.
Look at Maple how politely receives tissues from Arianna even she is not in mood for crying at 13:11. Or maybe something simple in her mind :) It just looks very cute right? Btw 19:44 the worst thing for most people is their family pushes them like this. It's absolutely devastating
The title of the episode: Ozymandias The poem talk about the collapse of a king's collapsed empire that is only survived by ruins strewn in a desolate desert. It's all over, but only the faint memory of the King's name remains. This lines up with the collapse of Walt's empire, but his name "Heisenberg" becoming a sort of legend in the city/country (as we saw it spray painted inside the White house in episode 8). Also: the poem talks about the half-sunk head of a giant statue lying on the sand. That inspired the shot of Walt collapsing on the sand, his face sideways. The director, Ruan Johnson, and the special effects crew worked together to create a lil mechanism of dirt-covered plates that would collapse on cue as Cranston's face hit the ground. It all sorta harkened back to the imagery of the poem.
Its not entirely surprising to miss that call not being what it seems but I recommend you two watch it on your own time knowing whats going on. Just cause its really good.
Long Form Discussion Here: ruclips.net/video/sYCxGBxwyLM/видео.html
Walt spoke to Skylar like that because he knew the police were monitoring the call. He did it to clear her
Maple at least did clock that, but it's such a shame they missed out on such a moving scene because they hate Walt SO much.
And yeah, he deserves it, but missing out on the acting Bryan Cranston is doing because of the character he portrays makes me sad. They just kept talking over his lines and not really taking in what was being said.
Other than that, I really enjoyed the rest of the review.
I'm pretty sure not a single person was surprised that they wouldn't be able to pick up on that fact because of how emotional they are with their hatred for Walt. It's so old and tiring yet they keep at it.
@@vcraine exactly why I didnt watch the rest of their reactions only this one, the previous episode, and 1X1
don't bother
Ur not speaking to high iq people here
Why do so many people not understand the point of the phone call?
They’re women. They’re emotional first, think second.
@@nathanlindahl8336except Skyler is shown to understand it immediately. Truly you are a fool lmao
@@pencil6965You mean the woman written by a man? Not the best example there dude 😂
@@nathancollins1715a woman wrote this episode, you absolute dolt
@@nathanlindahl8336 Imagine being blind with rage and associating that with women lmao. It's a good thing men don't do that. Men have learned to turn off their emotions so they don't experience any pain ever! I mean, other than all the societal issues so many men face for not knowing how to process emotions properly. And you know, other than the pain that still happens regardless because emotions are part of being human and not a gender thing. But other than all of that, yeah it's definitely because they're women.
Unfortunate that they missed that he did that on purpose. I hate Walt too but he does care for his family. He just had f-ed up way of showing it. I love this episode the acting is fantastic.
Yes, seemed to be a bit too emotional to be able to catch that. I kind of think they made the scene gradually more obvious until the point where he's saying "Hank crossed me" and you can see him broken up, appearance not matching his words & tone. It was a gradual reveal. Missing all of it is kind of something else.
Yeah , their blind hate for Walt seems to make them miss quite a lot of stuff. It’s entertaining but also creates a lot of face palm moments. 😂
@@tjm6983 yep, i've noticed that most folks who miss the real nature of the call were simply too wracked by the intense emotions this episode evokes. Thankfully, Saul and Walt clear things up in the next episode.
Ah, nothing new. Most of "let's-watchers" miss that. Not all people are brilliant huh
I remember seeing this when it was on air and there were a lot of people that didn't catch it as well. I did but was deep into the show and knew his character.
Walt blames Jesse for betraying him and getting Hank killed. In his mind, if Jesse just took his money and fucked off with the vacuum guy, the brother in law he loved would still be alive
...and its true. Everyone would have been better off if Jesse just started his new life as a millionaire. Including Brock.
@@DrD0000Mbut also true, is this was ultimately a culmination of Walt’s choices.
@@DrD0000MOr if Jesse had just worn the wire for the sting.
Walt in that moment blamed Jesse for Hank dying because he was a rat.
Yeah they missed that too. In Walt's mind, Hank would still be alive if it weren't for Jesse.
I sympathize a tiny bit because Jesse originally wanted to get revenge on his own, and lockup was essentially a death sentence. But Jesse had a personal code against cooperating with the authorities, and he broke it. (Although, Hank was a rogue agent and arguably a criminal at that point, too.)
"What kind of man talks to the DEA? No man. No man at all" - Gustavo Fring
@@williamshelton4318 not to mention his personal code but also his extreme rivalry with Hank from the rest of the show.
I swear you walt dickriders will bend over backwards to defend him 💀
Phone call was on purpose guys
It's so funny that this is missed by a lot of folks.
I am not shocked that this is one of the reactor channels that missed that! 😅
It wouldn’t be out of character for Walt to say any of that normally though so I get why people miss it. Walt literally just gave Jesse up to Nazis to be tortured and killed and then told him that he watched his girlfriend die in front of him.
Hindsight is 20/20 on that scene tbh. With everything that happened and was happening, especially with what he did with Jesse earlier. It was totally believable he was just psycho crashing out and didn’t know what he was saying until the moment he saw Holly in the car. At least for me on the first watch. The show created an anxiety that could absolutely throw me through a loop. Second watch through it was clearer. But that first one I was kinda like them ‘wtf are you doing you crazy fuck’
Masterpiece of an episode
@@davismorgan99 IMO it's extremely out of character. His entire reason for becoming a drug kingpin was to support his family. Yes pride became part of it but it wouldn't make sense for him to suddenly hate his family
Vince Gilligan went on record and said that despite everything that happened over the course of the series, Walt telling Jessie about Jane's death was the most evil thing he ever did. EVERY other misdeed was for the sake of self-preservation or profit. This was the one thing Walt ever did because he simply wanted to inflict pain.
I have to disagree with Vince on that one. Poisoning a child is the worst thing Walt did.
Also killing Mike wasn't for self preservation or profit. It was out of spite.
@@havok6280 Even poisoning Brock he did because it was the only way to save his own life. It was an evil thing to do, to be sure, but at least it was pragmatic, and he didn't use enough to kill him. But this was the only thing he did out of pure malice.
To me, Jane's death was the trolley problem. If he never visited, she still would have died anyways. His non-action changed nothing and only made him a witness to what happened. It was like the ASAC said to Hank regarding Gus: "You can't arrest someone because they didn't make a phone call." Same thing applies here. And besides that, she threatened him with blackmail.
Walter said it out of spite because that is his relationship with Jesse, but this also happened in the same episode where he gave Skyler and alibi. Despite therapy, Jesse probably still blamed himself for his role in Jane's death and Walter stepped up and assumed all the blame for everyone's problems
@@KyleBaran90I always thought that too. But someone said that when he was in the room he bumped her body into a position where she would more likely choke to death. Idk I haven’t gone back to watch it since I heard that info.
@@marvymarv959 Oh actually, you're right. It's the episode where Walt has to get the $1.2m of product for Gus. He's shaking Jesse trying to rouse him out of his high and in doing so, does disturb Jane such that she rolls over.
So yeah, it is Walter's fault, but it wouldn't have happened if Jesse wasn't high. It's like he said after rehab, it's nobody's fault per se, it just happened from a result of everyone's decisions
Are you serious? did they not realise Walt deliberately gave Skylar the alibi? They really think Walt ia a bumbling fool!!😂😂😂
Nah, he's a genius for ruining everyone's life including his own, he's Einstein lol.
Being intelligent and being moral are two very different things. He is a horrible person who does horrible things and he is actually a literal genius. It’s both.
@@Al-ji4gdBut he's a genius though, some geniuses ruined their lives in real life too, stop being unreasonable
@@Al-ji4gdclown
Whatever one thinks of Walt, Skyler gives the game away when she starts playing along and says sorry. You can see on her face that she realizes what Walt is doing, and she follows his lead.
Not surprised that they didn’t catch what walter was actually trying to do in that phone call. He was basically taking the fall for everything so that skylar wouldn’t be suspected by the police.
she literally said "that clears her"
they understood it
YALL are not understanding that they eventually caught on
@@xn9tj But they didn’t even catch that walter did it on purpose 💀
@@DanielGonzalez-xu1hi I didn't catch it on my first viewing either. That's why they included the dialogue between Saul and Walt in Granite State
@@xn9tj bro don't talk its just makes you look stupid
@@xn9tjnah they have to give a detailed plot synopsis or they didn't get it. Even though they clearly get it
I hope you guys know that walt knows the police are listening to his phone call and purposely made it sound like Skyler had no knowledge of his crimes !!
Well, more like she knew but was forced into complying.
Definitely not. Not one bit.
its always very telling when a reactor doesnt pick up on that phone call scene with walt. its a gauge for just how dissociated they are with his character.
Father issues you think?
@@planetofthegames2843Why exactly that pfp? Father issues you think?
I swear everyone is stupid but me
This is such an incel comment.
@@samgradyfilmyou unironically using that term is just hilarious
How is it possible to not realise the phonecall is a bit of theatre for the police on the line?
blows my mind how often people miss this. like from the first sentence it's obvious what Walt was trying to do and Skyler understood too.
I agree.
Still, there was some half truths in their like not getting the appreciation of Skylar he thought he deserved. Skylar had him emasculated when the series started.
@@aliforoughi92 they must've saw that some people still didn't get it in test screenings since they got Saul to really drive the point home saying it buys Skyler time...
@@RickMeathead yeah definitely, just all the maniacal crazy man talk about being crossed and plans for the popo
@@LouSassol69er Yeah had to have which is why I usually had exposition and beating people over the head with reinforcing ideas but I feel like this series did it in the right spots such as sauls little comment in the next ep.
This is the turning point of the show,where Hank and Steve turn into minerals 😂
This is the 87th time I've seen someone in the comments say this is the turning point in the show 😂
Ten years of the exact same joke
This is where Hank became mineral.
It's funny that these girls analyze more (and better) the purple surrounding Marie, than any other deep scene lol
I think one of them have adhd
@@NH-hq7ly if they had ADHD they would have been more likely to pick up on the phone call scene LUL
@@Cityofruin everyone has ADHD these days
They hate Walt and love Marie’s fashion choices more than they even pay attention to the story
@@trobertwfake arguments of big pharma just to keep dumb people on "sponsored" drugs.
The woman at the counter @12:10 is the writer of the episode, Moira Walley-Beckett. She, of course, won an Emmy for writing this episode.
You beat my comment by 3 weeks! I knew she wrote it, but didn’t pick her out until about the third viewing of the episode, and after the Emmy win!
Here's the explanation for the phone call. It's obvious these two wouldn't get it at first due to the Walter hate[ I don't blame them, I was fooled too]:
Basically, Walt was trying to save Skylar from a police investigation into their money laundering operation by making it look like he coerced her into doing it. He knew the police were on the line and made sure they would only focus on him. How do we know he's lying to them? In s4, Walter completely disagreed with Skylar laundering his money and didn't even want her to be involved. The car wash was all her idea, and she even had help from one of Saul's guys to buy it. Again, I don't expect them to get it all on the first watch because so much happens in this episode, and it takes a lot of time to process the information through an emotional Rollercoaster that is ozymandias.
I know this episode is about Walt facing consequences, but I also felt characters like Skylar and Jesse face consequences for their choices.
Jesse could have left New Mexico and Walter behind but chose revenge, and now he is a slave for the neo-nazis forced to cook meth again.
Skylar chose to launder Walter's drug money even though Walter already had Saul Goodman to do it. She still insisted on doing it, and now she's in the middle of a police investigation, and luckily, Walter was able to save her at the last minute with the phone call.
Don't forget Hank, trying to personally solve the case on his own before he has to face the music. If he had turned over everything he knew to the DEA, a handful of rednecks in a couple of pickup trucks would never have been able to spring Walt or wipe out the investigation team.
Gus: I will kill your infant daughter.
Them: OMG Daddy Gus!
Walt: I watched Jane die. Could’ve helped. Didn’t.
Them: I can never like you…
One is a threat. The other is an action.
@@IHMadeThis actually it’s an inaction. But you think Gus wouldn’t do it? He’s killed kids before.
@@F26_RAIDER i actually don't think if they EVER made it clear that it was Gus who ordered the murder of Tomas. The show kept it kinda vague whether Gus ordered his murder or not. And if Gus is to be believed... His dealers acted without his consent, and he intended to deal with them. If you ask me? Makes NO SENSE for Gus to tell them to off a child. Gus is all about keeping things secret and hidden. Why would he order a murder of a child that is sure to bring in unwanted attention? I think that it is FAR more likely that the two dealers felt slighted and got angry that they were called to the principal's office and offed Tomas just to say "fuck you" to Jesse (he DID attempt to kill the two dealers, after all).
Walt DOES use this vagueness to his advantage to ACTUALLY poison Brock (non-lethally, sure) and manipulate Jesse into siding against Gus. It was a BRILLIANT move, but a TERRIBLE thing to do (poison a child).
Lol the pathetic loser returns for another reaction to simp for Walt like the b*tch he is.
@@IHMadeThisL take they're totally biased they forgot it's a show and we Walter's not a good guy like that's the whole show lol
Walt just spared Skyler a prison sentence, and they're still yapping and not catching any clues
a prison sentence that she would never have to worry about if it weren’t for walter but okay
a lot of people miss the point of the scene on the first watch. these girls aren’t dumb or “yapping” just because it didn’t click right away. and walt sparing skyler a prison sentence isn’t supposed to be a redeeming quality for walter. give it a rest, will you?
@@prestowitchor if she turned him in as soon as she found out...
@@havok6280 pretty obvious why she didn’t turn him in when she first found out. she makes her reasoning extremely clear. at several points throughout the show. but sure, blame skyler for not turning him in, instead of taking a deep look at walter’s wrong-doings.
22:30 there you go clown
Ozymandias is a poem that was written by Percy Shelley. Percy Shelley was married to Mary Shelley, the author of Frankenstein.
That's your opinion
Smart move, whoever's idea it was to make them watch the teaser first.
They watch the teaser in this video?
@@Xhappybara yes at 0:01 you can watch it
Are you blind ? @@Xhappybara
@@iCortex1 They typed that before the video premiered
I still get chills
how are so many reactors oblivious to the fact that the call was on purpose😂
I know🤦🏻♂️😂. I've watched a few different channels totally miss that. It's so obvious, as well🤷🏻♂️
@@Chris_34Vince gilligan himself said he wasn’t sure if people would get it
The general populace under the age of 30 is incredibly moronic.
Every idiot here predictably acting as if the purpose of the phone call was blindingly obvious. Even if you got it the first time (and many of you liars here didn't), there are plenty of other similarly "obvious" things you missed in TV shows. Yall are just insufferable with this shit.
We know bro here didn't get jt either until he read a paragraph under the video on youtube
I love these ladies and these reactions, but I knew their hatred of Walt would block them from reading the Walt call correctly, lol.
Baby Holly btw, who’s like 30 now lol, the shot in the fire truck is the best baby acting I’ve ever seen. Heartbreaking.
Edit: regards to replies, sigh. Really people? Lol
30?
30?!?!? I think you need to redo that math lol
bro she's like maybe 12 or 13
flew right over their heads as usual
ngl commenting plebs under every video is far more embarrassing than missing the point of the call
@@yt.byliam nah being white knight is worse (still time to delete this)
@@Shhtick white knight the type of shit incels say lmao
22:30
Let's not overlook that Walt was willing to give up his 80 million for Hanks life. Showing that he loves & cares about something more than his money... family
Their hate for Walt blinds them to what is actually happening on screen. They can see Walt begging Jack to spare Hank, sobbing as he says horribles things to Skyler and it never occurs to them that he doesn’t believe half of what he’s saying about his family and is saying those things to clear Skyler of any suspicion because he knows the police is there. It’s actually entertaining to watch. 😂
Glad you enjoyed it. I found it physically painful lol
Knew they would talk over the phone call. Wasn't disappointed. I don't think I've ever seen someone so incompetent at comprehending subtlety.
Why don't you cry about it some more? Are you a Walt fan by any chance? lol
What a condescending weirdo you are
@@Al-ji4gd Didn't see any crying. Maybe you just heard your inner voice? don't cry so much oh you baaaaabyyy.
Oh I've seen some even more dull reactioners in this scene.
But these are definetely there.
It’s not about being a Walt fan or Walt hater. It’s about comprehending what is happening. Walt is a terrible person but he isn’t pure evil. The entire show is about moral ambiguity and watching people miss that by painting characters as black or white is frustrating.
Lmfao the Walt hate is so strong Arianna couldn’t see the game plan with that call
Lmao, I called it from season 3 that they will not understand the phone call scene 😂
Best move he could make and saved his family and their blinders are still on
The worst BB reactors I've ever seen.
@@kevinmulligans67273 Saved his family from what, pray tell?
This is why I don't recommend stuff to people. More often than not they are too ignorant to appreciate it.
Today in another episode of "Completely misunderstanding Walt's phone call"...
I'm surprised how many reactors hate Walt, 'cause I never felt that way when I was watching it for the first time.
Of course I knew how fckd up were the things he did, but my experience was so different. Maybe because I was a teenager, I dont know
Who thinks the same?
I'm genuinely flabbergasted that they couldn't tell that he was trying to clear her with that phone call, that he knew the cops were listening and was clearly lying from the start when he said he did it all by himself and that she begged him to stop, etc. And I'm also shocked that they couldn't understand why a man's instinct would be to grab his baby and go after his wife just attacked him and his other kid just lied to the police about it... and immediately after making that ridiculous outburst of a response, to call HIM a sociopath, after making the most sociopathic take ever recorded in screaming 'WHY WOULD YOU" regarding him taking his daughter in that scenario.
Well that's what you get with today's millennial, woke, ignorant fools. A sharp decline in critical thinking and common sense sprinkled with highly emotional outbursts.
You can’t understand because you might just be a sociopath yourself :)
@@pencil6965 No, I understand... I'm just shocked and flabbergasted that two people can simultaneously be that completely oblivious to another person's emotional state and motivations. I would have bet that you'd need to go through many thousands of pairs of people to find two who were both so very incapable of empathy when watching that scene together, so that aspect is extremely surprising. They beat the odds. :)
@@pencil6965 (continued)
... but seriously, anyone with an ounce of empathy realizes that Walt still thinks he's the good guy when they arrive at the house... he believes that he is protecting his family and saving them by getting them to pack and leave. He thinks he's being rational... so when Skylar slashes him, he believes that she is being irrational and emotional... and then when he gets the knife away from her to stop the violence, Junior tackles HIM and then outright lies to the police about who attacked whom, who grabbed the knife, etc, so Walt immediately perceives Junior as ALSO being irrational and making uninformed and emotional bad decisions...
... so now he knows he has to leave immediately because the cops were called, but two of the three people he wants to "save" are actively stopping him from saving them... so he acts to "save" the only member of the family that's left for him to save, because he loves his family and still thinks that he's the good guy. It's only after driving and having time to think, then hearing Holly say "mama" that he realizes that he can't bring his family with him now, because the cops are involved and it will all have already come out from Junior, and that it would be far more good for the rest of the family, far more protective and "saving" them if he gets Holly back to Skylar instead of with him on the run as he dies of cancer... and that he must also save them by clearing Skylar, and he knows that the cops will have arrived by now and will be recording all calls because it's a kidnapping situation, so he calls and gives the fake speech, then drops Holly off, because those two things are the best and only options he has left to protect and help his family.
I would think that most people innately understand most of that when watching that part of the show... but two out of two reactors didn't infer any of it that day... and that surprises and saddens me. Also surprising is that apparently a lot of people don't know the laws about dropping off babies at firehouses. I thought that was universally-known stuff, but apparently it ain't nearly as ubiquitous as I had reckoned.
Yep way too much word salad for this morning, not reading all that.
you seem oblivious but trying REALLY hard to intellectualize empathy as a way to demonstrate you’re not a sociopath. I suggest you check other reactors and spew your shock on their channels too, you’ll learn they weren’t the first reactors to miss it and won’t be the last. Calm down buddy it’s not that deep
I get why the girls dislike Walt. Enough reason to.
But I feel they go way too easy on Jesse. Jesse made his own decisions as an adult and most of them were quite poor. Even if he knew those choices were wrong. In the end Jesse came out to be a rat which costed Hank's life. I don't think Jesse deserves any sympathy just like Walt doesn't.
Trying to put Jesse on the same level as Walt is dishonest and deep down you know this.
Are we really calling out Jesse for being a "rat"? What is this, high school? lol
Jesse did the responsible thing and turned to the law to expose a GIANT criminal. Exposing awful criminals by being a "rat" or snitching on them... is a GOOD thing. He wanted to see him go down for personal reasons (the poisoning of Brock and 2yrs of emotional manipulation), sure... But he wanted to see Walt go down. Hank CHOSE to partner up with him. He, a rational, thinking adult, made that choice for himself.
I don't think that it is honest to blame Jesse for Hank dying here. It is a giant, unfortunate mess. Walt thought that Jesse worked alone, but he didn't anticipate Hank working with him. He had already made the call, too late. Walt, to his credit, GENUINELY tried to get Jack to not come.
@@Al-ji4gd Jesse is fully responsible for his own actions. Many times he got advised to choose differently, even by Walt. Never did Jesse listen.
Every time Jesse didn't listen he got eratic and screwed everything over. A lot of situations that got out of hand was by his doing. He also shot Gale in cold blood point-blanc. So don't fool yourself that Jesse is an innocent here.
So yes, Jesse is equally criminal as Walt is. No doubt about that.
@@SidPhoenix2211 Jesse shot Gale point blanc in cold blood. He cooked meth and sold it. How is he innocent? He's just a low life as Walt is, if you want to go that route. So many times Jesse caused major issues and dangerous situations while being advised to act differently. Jesse made a lot of bad choices while he knew better.
Jesse is responsible for his own choices and behavior. Him deciding to work with the authorities shows what weak and pathetic character Jesse has. Not even man enough to clean up his own mess.
Rat is a rat. If you're a criminal and you rat, then you're whole life becomes a lie.
@@RickMeathead Again, you're being dishonest. No sane person puts them on the same level. Yes, Jesse is responsible, but Jesse is not as bad ad Walt morally, ethically, or in any other way. Most of the bad things Jesse experiences are directly as a result of Walt, just like everyone else. In fact, the only reason Jesse even shot Gale is because Walt wanted him to. Walt is the true cancer, something that infects or even kills the people around him. He compromised Skyler, Jesse, Hank, everyone. These people were flawed, yes, but none of them were downright evil like Walt was.
the scene where flynn pulls walt off of skyler and puts himself in front of her always makes me tear up. he just learned A FEW MINUTES AGO who his dad actually is, and he immediately gets on skylers side, protects his mom, and even tells the police that his dad pulled the knife in order not to incriminate her.
Except none of that makes sense. She clearly attacked walt who merely defended himself. And as soon as he gets the knife away, that's when the kid attacks? Not cool.
@@cpob2013 you processed this scene in a way i didnt think a single real person actually could. i am actually kind of impressed.
Understand that Walt blamed Jesse for Hanks death. Which is why he gave him up to be killed and when that was put off he needed to say something that would hurt Jesse. Doesn’t mean he hates Jesse or betrayed him. Just showing a vengeful moment.
She is just so, so exhausting...
He gave up Jesse because he blamed Jesse for Hank's death. If Jesse just wasn't so emotionally weak (as per usual), took his money, and didn't snitch, then none of them would've been out there and Hank wouldn't have been shot. JUST LIKE if Jesse hadn't tried to kill Gus' dealers, Walt wouldn't have had to kill them instead, and their relationship with Gus wouldn't have been ruined. JUST LIKE if Jesse hadn't been bored and greedy while working for Gus, he wouldn't have been skimming from their batches or bothered trying to find the street price for their product and learned that Gus' dealers were the ones to get Brock's uncle to kill Combo.
As much as you guys may hate to admit it time and time again, Jesse's actions have resulted in both him and Walt going from bad to worse situations, and up until this moment Walt has always forgiven him for it.
😅Guys you hadn't got the last phone callpart(walt does to skyler) ,He confessed everthing on purpose to save skyler(he already knew there house was under police surveillance)
The phone call was planned by Walt to be able to not incriminate Skyler into the whole buisness. He knew cops were listening.
You're not supposed to like Walt he is a villain a really good one at that, watching him go "bad" and fail is what the writers wanted.
Now... what really is going to piss many people off is that i really didn't like Jesse it was his fault (MANY TIMES) that things went south fast because he's so stupid and emotional. He also had several chances to leave this world and didnt so if he shared the same fate has Walt would be also a viable (and fitting) end for him.
Walt offers an 80 million bribe to spare hank who wanted nothing more than to ruin walt.
Jesse nearly burns down his house and walt refuses to kill him and insists on talking to him
Skylar gives all his money to her affair partner and walt doesn't have her wacked.
Oh walt is such a monster, just awful.
OMG Yessss! Finally someone I can talk to! It always annoys me how everyone is eager to point to Walt’s mistakes but not Jesse’s. Yes, some of the problems in the show Walt created for himself because of his ego, but soooo many others Jesse created because of his impulsiveness and outright just being stupid af. If Walt just didn’t intervene when Jesse was about to have a shoot out with Gus’s dealers, none of this would’ve happened in the first place. Jesse’s fate is horrible but it pisses me off when people blame Walter for it, when actually Jesse did all of it to himself. Just stupid desicion after another.
@@jugogogo6419 If Walt had never become involved in Jesse's live, Jesse would not have suffered multiple heart-breaks of losing girlfriends, sharing responsibility for numerous deaths (Gale, two planes, Drew Sharp, Mike, Tomas, Victor) and experienced multiple beatings, plus a lot of hairy encounters with Gus's goons and the cartel.
You know why none of that would have happened to him? BECAUSE Crazy 8 and Emilio *would have killed him* in the first episode. When Walt reconnected with Jesse, it was after seeing Jesse escape the scene of a DEA bust of Emilio, with whom Jesse was cooking. Crazy 8 tipped off the DEA to the cook, and then when Emilio got out of jail early, Crazy 8 blamed Jesse for the tipoff, which was plausible, because he was getting laid instead of working, and so evaded the Feds. The only reason they did not kill Jesse for revenge was the high quality meth he had on his person, so they forced him to lead them to the source of this new product, and Walt killed them both, and not the last people he would kill for Jesse's benefit.
Whatever bad stuff happens to Jesse as a result of his relationship with Walt is chicken scratch, because *every day Jesse lives* from Episode 2 through Season 5 is a gift from Walt.
They’re too emotional that things go over their head ?
I love Jesse, and I hate Walter, but Jesse HAD THE OPTION OF LEAVING ALBERQUERQUE AND HE CHOSE TO GET BACK AT WALT WHICH LEAD TO HANKS DEATH. Don't act like Jesse is some innocent child. He was an adult who made a stupid decision. Walter is a piece of shit, I agree, but Jesse, CHOSE NOT TO GO WITH THE STING OPERATION, THREATENED WALTER'S FAMILY WHICH LEAD TO HIM CALLING TODD'S GANG.
What these girls don't even realize is that Walter knew the police were there. His son called 911 while Walt was still home. A child had been kidnapped. He knew they were listening and he protected the family. On purpose.
The crazy thing about this show is that you spend the majority of it rooting for Walt, up through the end of season 4 at least, and then by the time this episode rolls around, you realize you've been rooting for pure evil. Walt truly is a despicable man, but damn if Cranston doesn't nail the role.
Ive watched a lot of reactors like you guys watching struggle to understand why people like Walter. Its not because we think hes misunderstood. Its because hes a well written character/villian. Stop trying to find a reason to like him like hes actually a good guy. You seem upset at him instead of amazed at his genius and maliciousness like you were expecting him to do a good deed.
Ngl anyone in that world would of killed Jesse after speaking to the DEA
That’s like the worst thing you can do is be a criminal then run for legal help when it doesn’t go your way… I can understand why they think like that, my advice, don’t get into that world if you can’t handle it
How do people not understand Walt’s phone call? It’s so freaking obvious.
All y’all commenting about them not getting it/being haters need to watch the discussion video they posted right after this. They get into the nuances, including the phone call. Of course they were emotional while watching, it’s an insanely emotional episode!
The moment where Marie basically gets confirmation that Hank is dead is low-key the most heartbreaking moment in the show for me
It's the second most heartbreaking for me. The most heartbreaking is next episode.
Nah andrea on top
@@Steelburgh oh, yeah. I think I must have suppressed my memory of that one. That definitely takes the top spot 😭
Yep makes me cry each time I see it. I’m kinda surprised not many reactors seem affected by it
People need to chill about them not clocking the purpose of the call. There's a reason it's explicitly explained in the next episode; the showrunners knew some viewers, maybe even the majority, would have missed it.
Which in itself is an indictment on how dumb and ignorant they know people are.
It is funny to compare Walt's reaction here when Hank is going to be killed by Jack (and previously, when Gus is threatening to kill Hank) to Hank and Marie's "sucks to be you" reactions to Walt's cancer diagnosis in season 1.
It is wild that they missed the point of that phone call. And duuuuuuuude, the acting?!?! Ya'll were telling Marie to not cry not cry not cry....but it was Walt who HAD to keep it together. He had to keep up the persona so that Skyler would be seen as innocent. But he wanted to bawl just as hard as Marie for Hank. How the eff Bryan Cranston pulled that scene off, I'll never understand that level of acting genius.
And the fact that he immediately dropped her off at the fire station. It was all a ruse to help his family.
It blows my mind how many people dont realize what Walt is doing with that phone call
Why torturing these girls making them watch tv series of character they so much despise?
Because ther are more characters to root for.
@@FredtheFrisian ritorical question
Half the comments here are complaining that they didn't understand the phone call. Guys, like TWO THIRDS of reactors miss that. And Maple came pretty close to getting it anyway!
You two need to stop picking on Walt! At this point it's bullying! Walt never hurt anyone and just wanted to be friends with everybody. Stop being mean😭
The one episode that was executed to absolute perfection💯
So was Hank
@@Dywrektor nice one
rated 10/10 on imdb
@@JaMaZz77 And very well deserved
nah, no one ever question how 2 DEA gys got cooked so easily.
Hank without a gun?-lemme put twins in the hospital or worse. Hank with the gun and a armed partner - I can't fight and shoot at all
So the baby playing Holly actually didn't have any lines.
That was an unplanned and unscripted momma. Hence Brian's genuine reaction.
Seriously.
The collective tension in all of our stomach’s when they wrestled over the knife.
"everyone understands except for Walter" like it's not even possible for walt to show desperation without being judged as being ignorant, why so much blind hate, it creates a very narrow view of what's going on.
23:51 Why is the baby acting so good tho?
How is anyone surprised he wanted Jessie dead after the ultimate betrayal? Walt cared for jessie & put himself and his career multiple times at risk to help or save Jessies life only to be brought down by Jessies multiple failures / emotional outbursts. Jessie caused so many of the problems in their co-op venture, Jessie is no better than Walt , they are both in the "game" , both are Murders , drug dealers, only difference is Walt like he said in his speech he accepted the "cost" of what they did & wouldn't lay down or curl up in a ball about it.
That scene in the house hasn’t gotten any easier to watch in 11 years
The hate for Walt is so forced and over the top 🙄 its fine to hate hik but so much so that you cant tell he gave up jessie and hurt him with his line about jane is cause he clearly feels its Jessie's fault which it kinda is in how it played out, also the call is so obv about clearing skylar from any implication in wrong doing despite how when things went wrong she instantly turned on him when she was happy to go along and even contributed for example the car wash, the stuff with ted etc...
A lot of reactors don't understand the meaning of the call at the end. I know others in the comments have stated it but he was doing it to make sure he was the only one the police were going to go after.
I get not liking Walt, but you guys should learn to control your emotions a bit, because you ascribe to outright malice things that have other meanings.
Jesse's betrayal put Hank and Gomez in the position to where they got killed. That's Walt's perspective. That's why he "sold him out" and why he hurt him by telling him about Jane. You don't have to like Walt, but there's a lot of dimension being ignored because of pure hatred.
The baby saying "Momma" was because she saw her mother off camera. It wasn't scripted or planned, but it ended up making the scene tantamount more impactful and heartbreaking.
One of the most underrated cuts from this episode was cutting to Todd wiping his nose JUST after Walt breaks down. There's a split second where I always think - oh, Todd felt that one-- oh no he's the sickest mf on this show.
The scene where Walt sees Walter Jr. defends his mother and call the police I think might be the first time that he gets a mirror held up to himself, his twisted value system, justification of his vile behaviour, and just the fact that his family is scared of him. Brings me to tears, especially because of RJ Mittes performance as Junior.
Of all things Walt finally learned to roll the barrel instead of carrying it
Over 400 comments and 97% of them are about not understanding the point of the call. Hey, commenters #3 through 395, you really drove the point home guys!
it's basically the lynchpin of the whole episode and one of the single most important character moments in the entire show. i would argue that if you didn't get what he's doing, you don't really get walt's character and by extension the show itself, which doesn't make for good reaction content!
@@destructyo757do you do this on every other reaction channel that missed it? Because there are many
Exactly what I always thought. All of these people started out to make money. Gus, Eladio, Hector, Walt...... the list goes on. At some point, the money aspect becomes secondary. Power and greed take over. When do they actually slow down and enjoy life? Never!
Hank realizing Walt was willing to give up 80 million to keep him alive was cool. Hank should have said he was the plug for the Meth and the insider to Walt’s operation, he might still be alive. The episode of episodes. Phenomenal acting, writing and production.
This is really the turning point of the whole show imo
In all seriousness though, it was a pleasure watching these reactions with yall Diegesis! Excited for these final three episodes. And cant wait for the Better Call Saul and El Camino reactions ❤️
The beginning of the end; and what a fall it is..
No, it was Fly.
This is where Walt went 96% Heisenberg.
How can the third from last episode be a turning point? Hahaha.
This is the only episode in all of television to have a perfect score on IMdB. A work of genius expertly written and expertly executed.
Everyone in the comments say they didnt understand the point of the phone call but Maple clocked it and said "Well shes in the clear" basically.
why is everyone in this comment section mentioning the phone call when theyre one of the few reaction channels ever that caught on that walt was doing it on purpose lmao
youre not supposed to immediately get it at the very start of the call til like she says, "that clears her"
Walt learning to roll the barrel is one of those callbacks easy to miss
My favorite bit is that after all the lies Walt has told to his family, its the one time he's honest with them (telling them he tried to save Hank) that irrevocably severs their relationship.
It amazes me how so many people don't pick up on the fact that walt acted that way to clear his family. Like did yall seriously think his entire personality had changed over the course the a day.
only really good reason channels understood why Walt was like that
Maple definitely caught it(even acknowledged it in the editing, "correct")
How ironic is it that TODD saved both Walt, and Jesse, even giving Walter back 10 million. The writing on this show is beyond compare!
Why is it ironic? Jesse and Walter were good to Todd , they never had issues.
He saves Walt. Or saves his money anyway. He doesn't save Jesse. He merely delayed the inevitable because he wanted Jesse to cook.
@@brownsey1 No, his intentions are different between Walt and Jesse. He saved Walt out of respect, but saved Jesse to cook.
But he also saved Jesse to get the information they needed to grab those video tapes. If they didn't, they all would have been in jail.
Todd is a psychopathic killer, but he is also incredibly smart. If you remember the first time they met him, he "disabled a nanny cam" in the first house they tented. Again, he's brilliant - just really flawed as a human being.
@@BennyBlancoNL Walt was good to him, and even saved him after he shot Drew Sharp. Jesse wanted to kill / fire him. He saved Walt out of respect, and made sure they left him a barrel. But he saved Jesse for 2 reasons.... he needed to get those video tapes out of Hank's house, and he wanted him to cook. Todd is a psychopathic killer, but he's also brilliant. He's the main reason they all didn't end up in prison.
@@TampaCEO I was talking about Walter mainly. Jesse is a rat and deserved everything Todd did to him.
Jessie ratted to the DEA. Hank wouldn’t have been dead if it wasn’t for him.
I’ve never seen anyone that didn’t see what Walt was doing with that phone call with his wife and the cops before.
Imagine not understanding the phone call at the end..
I think you missed the point of that phone call.
lets be fair, most people don't get the nuances of the "phone call" on the first watch. this episode is such an emotional roller coaster anyway! The linked discussion is really thorough and well though out-- I highly recommend it!
the dung beetle vibes when walt was rolling his barrel in some 'empire of dirt' type beat felt very intentional. vavo brince
Maple in S3: I love Walt. Im team Walt.
Maple in Ozymandias: They could never make me like you Walt
in a Behind the scenes video, where tyler runs after walt in the street.. it did a number on the actress, they had to shoot the scene a couple times the director had to comfort her
Finally! I’ve been waiting throughout your entire run of this show to see your reactions to one of the best TV episodes ever made!
It truly is a masterpiece!
Ozymandias is the the best hour of television I've ever seen in my life.
Walter is not an idiot. He knew full well that the feds were hearing the convo, he wanted to make things easier for Skyler and Walter Jr, blaming only himself for everything.
I really rarely use the term masterpiece for something, which is so often used by so many people. But in this case I have no doubt at all.
Ozymandias is a masterpiece and the best episode in the history of television. The level of scriptwriting, directing and, above all, acting in this episode reached an absolute level, impossible to achieve by most series creators. This episode grabs you by the throat and doesn't let go until the last scene. You're sitting on the edge of your seat, afraid to even blink so as not to miss anything you see on the screen, and that's where the magic of television in its purest form happens.
Why is everyone saying they missed purpose of the call? Most of the people who miss it don't even realize he's painting Skyler as an unwilling hostage, they obviously did.
So why? Because they are still seething at Walter? That's par for the course since season 2.
Look at Maple how politely receives tissues from Arianna even she is not in mood for crying at 13:11. Or maybe something simple in her mind :) It just looks very cute right?
Btw 19:44 the worst thing for most people is their family pushes them like this. It's absolutely devastating
This episode is the turning point of the show. Where Walt becomes Heisenberg
The title of the episode: Ozymandias
The poem talk about the collapse of a king's collapsed empire that is only survived by ruins strewn in a desolate desert. It's all over, but only the faint memory of the King's name remains. This lines up with the collapse of Walt's empire, but his name "Heisenberg" becoming a sort of legend in the city/country (as we saw it spray painted inside the White house in episode 8).
Also: the poem talks about the half-sunk head of a giant statue lying on the sand. That inspired the shot of Walt collapsing on the sand, his face sideways. The director, Ruan Johnson, and the special effects crew worked together to create a lil mechanism of dirt-covered plates that would collapse on cue as Cranston's face hit the ground. It all sorta harkened back to the imagery of the poem.
Its not entirely surprising to miss that call not being what it seems but I recommend you two watch it on your own time knowing whats going on. Just cause its really good.
7:29 Todd’s computer trying to process concept of feelings (other than for Lydia) or the dust was bothering his allergies