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[leesha79]

Because even Breaking Bad isn't perfect! And neither am I, and was unable to think of a suitable phrase to adorn the name of this post. Any ideas?

• In the pilot, the camera pans briefly to a closet stuffed full of baby supplies, and we see a box of Pampers Baby Dry brand diapers in amongst the loot. Of course in "Seven Thirty Seven", Walt frantically races to a now set-up nursery and rips into a box of generic low-end "Dry n'Tidy" store brand diapers to use as a place to keep the cash and the gun. We only see two boxes of the Dry n'Tidy diapers and the Pampers are nowhere to be seen. Doubtful Skylar would set up a nursery and not put the expensive Pampers brand in there to use and instead only have the generic.

• One more thing about Skylar and the baby: I found it pretty unrealistic that pushing-40 Skylar would shed the baby weight so fast, she was thin with a flat stomach a couple of weeks after Holly's birth. I know young women often lose all the baby weight effortlessly, but Skylar's maternal age indicates to me that her metabolism would be slower and she wouldn't be rocking a flat stomach and form-fitting jeans a couple weeks after giving birth.

• Also, in a more general sense, Walt should have lost ALL his hair during the chemo. I helped my aunt through hers and she lost every scrap of hair on her body, right down to the eyelashes, and her nails split and fell off down to the quick. The nurse who helped my aunt through her treatments said that pretty much everyone loses all the hair and many lose the nails.

Edited by leesha79, Dec 28, 2010 @ 11:02 AM.

[Kel Varnsen]

We only see two boxes of the Dry n'Tidy diapers and the Pampers are nowhere to be seen. Doubtful Skylar would set up a nursery and not put the expensive Pampers brand in there to use and instead only have the generic.

The good diapers could have been a baby shower present, and then Walt and Skylar could have decided to save money and buy the store brand diapers.

[Eegah]

I figured that Walt was going to lose all his hair soon anyway, and decided to just get it over with.

[LReeses]

Not sure if this is a continuity error or not, but how is Hank related to Skyler and Walt? I've heard both of them call Hank their brother-in-law, and I've heard Hank call Skyler his sister-in-law (in 2.12 when Skyler goes to feed the baby he says "it's my sister-in-law's breast). Whose actual brother is he?

[ReadIshmael]

Neither. Hank's married to Marie, who's Skyler's sister.

[GinaRomantica]

Leesha79, chemo is not one drug but hundreds of drugs given in different combinations. Some cause hair loss and some don't. Some cause eyelash and eyebrow loss but not hair loss. Lung cancer is treated with different drugs than colon cancer etc. This show is so carefully researched that I am sure the side effects of Walt's treatment are accurate.

[smitchell1s]

• One more thing about Skylar and the baby: I found it pretty unrealistic that pushing-40 Skylar would shed the baby weight so fast, she was thin with a flat stomach a couple of weeks after Holly's birth. I know young women often lose all the baby weight effortlessly, but Skylar's maternal age indicates to me that her metabolism would be slower and she wouldn't be rocking a flat stomach and form-fitting jeans a couple weeks after giving birth.

she looks more like she would after a birth this past season than she did earlier on. i don't know if this was intentional or if Anna just gained some pounds, but it's definitely noticeable

Edited by smitchell1s, Oct 16, 2011 @ 7:59 PM.

[Tim Thomason]

Walt was beginning to lose his hair (it was spotty), and then decided to shave it off. He apparently went into remission before the worst hair-loss (eyebrows, nails) would've occurred. We still see him actively shaving his head, so his current look is unrelated to the cancer.

Hanks' "brother-in-law" status is very, very loose where Walt is concerned. Hank doesn't seem to have any family, and possibly is unable to have children, so he has a close relationship with his sister-in-law's family (in addition to his workaholic lifestyle).

[warwick]

Minor nitpick:

In the end of season two, Hank gave a presentation to his fellow agents and mentioned that the "blue sky" had disappeared from New Mexico, but was appearing elsewhere around the Southwest. "Almost as if somebody wised up and stopped shitting where they eat," he theorized. Hank maintained that Heisenberg is still at large and still in town.

But if "blue sky" was no longer distributed in New Mexico, why were the two dealers who were working for Gus (the ones who had Combo killed and Walt later ran over) selling it in ABQ?

[Robespierre]

What about Jesse and Jane's visit to the Georgia O'Keefe museum? Jesse blows it off so he can go cook in the desert with Walt in Four Days Out, and soon thereafter he and Jane are doing drugs first thing as they wake up and Jesse tries to coax Jane out of the house with the promise of the museum. In the later flashback, however, it very much seemed to be a time before Jane had fallen off the wagon, and I don't think there was time in the plot for them to go after her relapse. The LA Times suggested the flashback was Jesse's fantasy, though the presence of Jane's lipstick-stained cigarette butt in the ashtray seems to suggest otherwise.

[thatguy01]

But if "blue sky" was no longer distributed in New Mexico, why were the two dealers who were working for Gus (the ones who had Combo killed and Walt later ran over) selling it in ABQ?

At the end of S2, Gus had only made one large purchase from Walt. Generally, it wouldn't have been in Gus' distribution system til S3.

[AuntiePam]

Continuity or nitpick? Not sure, but in S3 the file folder that was supposed to have divorce papers in it was obviously empty. You could see daylight through it. How hard is it to put some papers in a file?

[shapeshifter]

I'd bet dollars to donuts that this is the shortest nitpick and continuity type thread for any show anywhere any time. Clearly the show has a lot more going for it than continuity, but I'd also bet that show runners paying attention to the details of cannon is a requirement for a show to be great. Or maybe it's just that they inhabit the lives of their characters.
The show having a predetermined conclusion is no doubt a contributing factor to both it's excellence and it's continuity.

[clancy25]

I'd bet dollars to donuts that this is the shortest nitpick and continuity type thread for any show anywhere any time.

Maybe- it could be a combination of things like people doing their "nitpicking" in other threads, etc. And in general, some threads on nitpicking can be artificially inflated by well... subjective nitpicking. :)

Anyway, here's my contribution- the shootout between Hank and the cartel twins in season 3 was an awesome scene but did leave me with some questions. The cell phone warning (from presumably Gus) was incredibly precise, right down to the one minute warning- I couldn't really see Gus going along for the ride and sitting in the car as the twins went on the attack. I can't see Gus wanting to be much more involved than giving the ok and avoiding any other connection with shooting a DEA agent. So again, it makes the whole phone warning look like a bit of a stretch.

On a related note, I'm not sure why an unarmed Hank sat in his car frantically looking around the parking lot instead of just driving the hell out of there!

[warwick]

The cell phone warning (from presumably Gus) was incredibly precise, right down to the one minute warning- I couldn't really see Gus going along for the ride and sitting in the car as the twins went on the attack.

Mike gave the warning call. I believe it was mentioned in one of the official podcasts.

[Xbones]

You were right Warwick, it was mentioned that it was Mike.

Gotta love the pod-cast, lots of info.

[neplusultra]

Minor nitpick:

In the end of season two, Hank gave a presentation to his fellow agents and mentioned that the "blue sky" had disappeared from New Mexico, but was appearing elsewhere around the Southwest. "Almost as if somebody wised up and stopped shitting where they eat," he theorized. Hank maintained that Heisenberg is still at large and still in town.

But if "blue sky" was no longer distributed in New Mexico, why were the two dealers who were working for Gus (the ones who had Combo killed and Walt later ran over) selling it in ABQ?

This is exactly the gripe I came to this thread to air. I think it's more than a minor nitpick, although maybe not a major flub. Call it a moderate continuity error. One thing that is unfortunate about it is that it undermines the idea of Gus being so careful. (Similarly, I don't understand why Tomas was killed, although that's not really a nitpick. Nor is it a continuity error.)

At the end of S2, Gus had only made one large purchase from Walt. Generally, it wouldn't have been in Gus' distribution system til S3.

No...because it was being found in all those other surrounding states, so it was in his distribution system.

On a related note, I'm not sure why an unarmed Hank sat in his car frantically looking around the parking lot instead of just driving the hell out of there!

I never thought about that, but it is a great point!

[thehunter]

Re: Skylar shedding the weight fast. I don't recall a lot of mention of 'time' through that phase; so, I doubt the show was supposed to take place day-by-day, so it may have only seemed as though she lost it quickly.