keithvanhorn said
ocMcCoy said:keithvanhorn said:
i thought it was a horrible episode, up until the last scene, when it became entertaining but unbelievable. How did he know ALL of them would drink the Tequila, let alone any of them?
Because Gus has shown himself throughout as being meticulous in everything he does, as well as having a startling ability for staying a step ahead of his adversaries.
Skylar has always been a drain on the show, but this distraction with her former employer's IRS debts is boring and an annoying sub-plot that nobody cares about.
Skylar's been great this season. She seemed to genuinely believe she could redeem Walt until she saw how much money was involved. And now she's realised the wider implications of her involvement in Ted's tax fraud, it's dawned on her exactly what's at risk.
Gus is meticulous but that doesn't make him clairvoyant.
You don't have to explain to me why Skylar is worried about Ted's tax fraud. That has nothing to do with my point; which is that it's a boring sub-plot. Nobody is tuning into Breaking Bad to find out how the whole Ted situation works out, or at least I hope not.
Maybe I should have put it another way; Gus has hitherto shown a remarkable ability to predict what his adversaries are likely to do, and apart from the odd isolated instance, such as Walt interfering with his plan to whack Jesse at the end of season 3, he's usually right. In other words, he knows his enemy. The only thing about the tequila incident that could have seemed out of character for Gus was its audaciousness. But even that was justifiable in the context of how the story is developing; Gus' business is under threat, so he has to take a significant risk to try and protect it. The "Terminator shit" scene in the preceding episode showed that he has the balls to go all-in if necessary.
I agree that nobody's tuning in to see how the whole Ted situation works out, but if you can't see why this sudden development may be hugely significant to the outcome of the whole thing (the possibility of Skylar, and by extension Walt, becoming involved in an IRS investigation, along with the implications that has for the both of them) I can only assume - and there's no way of saying this without seeming patronising - you're not too familiar with the way in which TV drama sometimes works. I mean, it's pretty obvious, really. It wasn't the piles of dead bodies that led to Al Capone being convicted, after all.
