Another weak and slow episode, with just a few crumbs of excitement. As I've said it several times before - this was always the problem with this series: too much of running in idle. There are always promises of exciting things to come, but far too often you have to wait too long for them. And even when the exciting things do come, there is always a little bit of extra boredom and slowness to water them down.
This episode is especially weak when you consider it is the season opening. Walter is again being weak and clumsy. People who have seen this show before (I haven't, this is my first time watching it) are always talking about Walter becoming this ruthless drug lord. But unless he has a fateful encounter with Gandalf or something similar down the road, I just don't see how they can realistically make him into that from what he is now.
Also, I am still not sold on the need for that ridiculous plane crash subplot that was the result of the even more ridiculous string of coincidences. If they wanted to make the characters feel guilty and miserable, there were enough thing that happened without the crash itself.
As a bonus, we get a nice bunch of stereotypes here - Mexico is yellow, the mysterious killers are almost caricatures: they are so mysterious, they don't speak, they kill kids and pregnant women without batting an eyelash and, of course, they walk away from explosions without looking back. They might have as well worn t-shirts with "too cool for this world" written on them.
This episode is especially weak when you consider it is the season opening. Walter is again being weak and clumsy. People who have seen this show before (I haven't, this is my first time watching it) are always talking about Walter becoming this ruthless drug lord. But unless he has a fateful encounter with Gandalf or something similar down the road, I just don't see how they can realistically make him into that from what he is now.
Also, I am still not sold on the need for that ridiculous plane crash subplot that was the result of the even more ridiculous string of coincidences. If they wanted to make the characters feel guilty and miserable, there were enough thing that happened without the crash itself.
As a bonus, we get a nice bunch of stereotypes here - Mexico is yellow, the mysterious killers are almost caricatures: they are so mysterious, they don't speak, they kill kids and pregnant women without batting an eyelash and, of course, they walk away from explosions without looking back. They might have as well worn t-shirts with "too cool for this world" written on them.