Yo, yo, YO!
EXTREMELY strong outing for my boy Pinkman, who has been pulled away from a rootless existence as host to a 24/7 meth party and into..... well, it is as yet unclear.
Now what the Monkey thinks is as follows:
1) Gus (also my boy) feels that Walter is an actual/potential antagonist, a loose cannon, and cannot be controlled.
2) Pinkman is a follower and intrinsically weak. He can most definitely be controlled.
3) The cooking needs to go on. Always, it must go on. And when Walter flips out and does some stupid shit and has to be capped by Mike (also, of course, my boy) then what of the LPH Meth empire?
4) So target Pinkman and set him up to eventually replace Walt. Pinkman becomes the new Gale, so to speak. Have Gus Jr. (because that new largely-silent dude obviously is that) begin to be groomed as the lab assistant. Driving the forklift and whatnot.
So this all jibes with what appears to be Gus' plan to draw Pinkman in with some "soft power." Interestingly, this could lead to the sort of dynamic where Walt must relitigate the issue of "kill Gale to protect his own life."
Now why is it that no one thinks of the course of action the Monkey would have taken? Which is to say sit down with Mike and tell him "I have an insurance policy against your perpetrating asses, bitches! More than one! If I disappear or anything happens to my family a letter detailing everything I know about Mike, Gus Fring, Los Pollos Hermanos, and this gigundous zillion-dollar super-lab shows up on the desk of someone with a badge. MULTIPLE letters will show up, in fact. Think you can figure out who will be sending these letters? Bet you can't. At least one of them will come from a very non-obvious source. And try making all this infrastructure go away in time to keep your asses out of jail. Let alone the hundreds of millions of dollars you'll lose"
Seems a better way to protect yourself than shooting Gale, or eventually needing to shoot Jesse. But maybe that's just me.
OH, and here is another thing I wonder. When Pinkman first goes missing why did Walt immediately conclude that Gus was responsible? Because my first thought would have been "SKYLER MUST HAVE EATEN HIM!!!!!!"
Seriously! Anna Gunn, WTF!?!?!?! I just watched some eps from season 1 and safe to say back then she did NOT look like a 200 pound version of Michael Jackson in a blonde wig. WHAT IS UP WITH THE WEIGHT!?!?! WHAT IS UP WITH THE FREAKY PLASTIC-SURGERY FACE!?!?!?!?!?!? SOMETHING LIKE SEVEN MONTHS ONLY ARE SUPPOSED TO HAVE PASSED SINCE S01E01.
Makes no sense on any level. It's like you could see the CHARACTER jamming on the LBS because of all the various stresses she has been under. But getting freaky-ass alien-face plastic surgery on top of that? How does "Skylar White" do that?
She doesn't. This is like S.A.G. malpractice or some shit. Fail to keep yourself in shape and get yourself transformed into something straight out of the menagerie at Neverland Ranch. Vince Gilligan should just have her capped in next week's episode and be done with her crazy ass.
