It's starting to get stupid now and appears to be headed for a disappointing conclusion.
With a barrel full of money are those accomodations the best the disappearance maven can provide for Walt? What Walt needs is a few hundred dollars worth of theatrical makeup and a modestly comfortable apartment to hole up in right smack in the middle of a crowded working class neighborhood in New York City -- where nobody pays attention to strangers and where Osama bin Laden could have lived without being noticed. Seriously.
What the disappearance maven really should be able to provide is a conveniently immediate alternate identity, not just a barren, remote cabin with next to nothing to pass the time. Couldn't he provide some entertaining diversions to keep Walt occupied and reasonably comfortable for a few months? And are we expected to believe the idea of just disposing of Walt and walking away with that barrel of money hasn't occurred to him?
And what is Walt up to now? It's getting weak. The last few episodes have drifted between highly improbable and utterly fantastic. It could have been much better if the writers were not so preoccupied with presenting two opposing sides of Walt's personality. I can't come to terms with his concern for the killing of that evil bastard, Hank, who is the cause of all his misery and who was eagerly predisposed to destroying his family -- just so he could make a big arrest. That character is true to the model of Victor Hugo's Javert and his demise was far too merciful.
You are wrong again.
Money can not always buy connections. Walt has run out of connections. All he's got left is his money. How ironic.
The difference between good fiction and bad fiction is the factor of credibility, which has been the strength of this series -- until now. Beginning with the wholly incredible "gunfight" this long series of well crafted fiction is devolving into poorly conceived fantasy, acceptable only to hyper-romantic spinsters and men who simply don't get out much.
A far more realistic scenario would be the
Disappearance Maven renting a suitable apartment in New York City under a fake name, paying three months rent in advance, and Walt moving in -- not with a barrel but with some strong cardboard boxes. That would be a much better place to hide than a remote New Hampshire cabin, which is vulnerable to hunters, hikers, and curious local police. Walt would have physical comfort, cable tv, and by using a wig and beard he could order in foods and an occasional outcall hooker if he chose to.
Wouldn't that be more credible and interesting fiction? Or don't you think the best place to hide is in a crowd?
Not everyone is a homicidal maniac. In fact, most people are not. It's not unrealistic that the guy hiding him would not kill him.
It's not unrealistic but it is extremely improbable. While this fellow might not be a homicidal maniac he is an outlaw who takes extreme risks for money. Here is an opportunity to walk away with a barrel full of money and all he has to do is dispose of an unpleasant guy who talks down to him and could turn out to be a problem. While he's not a homicidal maniac he also is not a model of Christian morality.
But I can accept that he's simply not inclined to dispose of Walt and let it go at that.
Walt doesn't view Hank the same way you do. It's his brother-in-law who he has known and cared about for 20 years.
Hank is an egomaniacal authoritarian brute who is likable only to slavishly masochistic freaks like his kleptomaniacal wife and his submissively Chauvinistic partner, Gomez. Walt is the diametic opposite of those personalities and there never has been the slightest indication that he especially likes Hank. All I've ever seen is Hank as the guy who is married to Walt's wife's sister and who Walt is dragged off to visit now and then.
More recently, Hank is the guy who has immensely benefited from Walt and Skyler's generosity but wholly ignores that fact while diligently endeavoring to destroy Walt and Skyler's lives, not to mention those of their children. Yet Walt is shown to be grievously offended by seeing that miserable beast executed.
Meanwhile, Todd's uncle, the head Nazi, who logically was expected to put Walt in the same hole with Hank and Gomez, demonstrated what may be described as an amazingly good-natured gesture of spontaneous decency by allowing Walt to live and get away with a barrel of money. But Walt hates that fellow and is determined to kill him.
He loves the man who wanted to destroy his family but he hates the man who spared his life. Actually he has no logical reason for either emotional disposition, which are factors that serve to further complicate what already is a confusing approach to the conclusion of an otherwise entertaining and well crafted tale.
I hope they don't intend to spring a
Sopranos-type ending on us.
...thats my 'suppose' for the last 2 episodes...
