Jesse asked Mike if they were going to kill him and Mike basically said yes. That doesn't mean it will happen though. ...but it looks like he's discovered the main distribution center, so these last few episodes will be very unpredictable.
I can't see Gus as that bad mofo after watching him cry for his partner. He looked totally vulnerable against the cartel, his ass saved by Jesse's best Walt impersonation. He took revenge on the cartel while vomiting and almost killing himself, in a -while clever- plan that made him look a bit pathetic. I sympathize more with him than before and I think he's one tough clever boss nobody can mess with, but to me he kinda lost that bad ass mother fucker aura he used to have. Launder more money... clever, haven't thought of that and I think it could work. About Hank, I've said at least a couple of times in here that Walt vs Hank will be the ultimate showdown of the last season. That conflict has been cooked up since episode 01 and Hank has all that is needed to become the real hero of the series. Close up to Walt's head looking up. We see Jesse arriving. Close up to Walt's head looking down. We see his hand grabbing an onion ring. Close up to Walt's head looking up again. Screen cuts to black. Genious.
His revenge strategy was so much more than that. He took down three dons and their families during his time on this show. Gus Frings is a fucking badass. He cried for his partner because back then, he wasn't a cold, gangster, mother fucker at that time.
Definitely Ted Beneke. The characters in Breaking Bad never learn their lesson and there is no way this narcissistic ass will stop screwing up just because Skyler told him. Perhaps he will try to cut a deal with the IRS by rating on Skyler or something like that - he will cause more trouble and he will pay for it.
I specially liked how he handled things last season, taking down the brothers while involving the DEA so they took care of the Don. That was badass. But the whole Don Eladio affair was far from his best work. He was vulnerable all the time, he had to play the cartel's bitch role for a while and his plan relied on many long shots including Jesse saving his ass at the mex-lab. Even now, his life is on the hands of a guy who only a couple of days ago was convinced to kill him. That wasn't badass. Gutsy, ballsy, yes; but not badass. Overall, I...
We can agree to disagree then... The Chicken Man walked into Don Eladio's home and poisoned himself, the Don and all of his spaggot henchmen. If he refused to take a shot of the liquor, then his plan wouldn't work. To say it's a bitch move to take charcoal tablets and throw up the poison is just plain stupid. Gus screaming to the remaining people at Eladio's house was, in my opinion, bad ass.
Did you notice him sitting stagnant on the sun chair until Don came up to him? It was completely in character, but he didn't want to move around to circulate the poison.
Next season they are going to give us the back story of Gus in Chile. That's when the reversal will take full effect.
Ok, agree on the disagree part. Just one thing, about playing the bitch role I wasn't referring to that part. I meant the fact that he had to agreed on the cartel's terms when he clearly didn't wanted to (in the meeting he hosted with the cartel, it was the other guy the one who looked badass). Also, that he wasn't in control of the situation at all -and more important in badass/bitch terms- he didn't looked in control of the situation. I'd agree that calling him a bitch for that is probably too much, but yeah, at least for me he didn't looked a badass in this particularly ocassion.
Gus had to know that it was eventually going to come to that...the Cartel has more money and more man power. Did that dude look like a badass when Mike the Fixer strangled him with that wire?
Off course not, that'd be silly. But back in the meeting, he did. Gus won, obviously. If winning=badass, then yes, he was badass. But I had a different impression on what badass meant, more towards looking cool, selfconfident, imponent, fearless and fear-inspiring and coming out on top at the end; I didn't see any of that on Gus while facing the cartel, except offcourse, on the coming out on top at the end part. Again, I wouldn't mess up with Gustavo, badass or not. Edited: One correction on my part, he did look badass once, when he walked through the bullets.
