The thing with the letters plays into the dynamic a lot, too, though. Michael has had a relationship with his son, and it's Bitch!Babymama's fault that Walt has not had a relationship with his father. Michael had been thinking of him, and sending him bits of his life all that time (and can you imagine the pain of not ever hearing back from him, not once in nine years?) and up until the day he went to get him, didn't know that Walt hadn't been getting those glimpses as he grew up.

Bitch!Babymama

I want to see more about why she did what she did. Was she just that selfish or was there something else going on?

I want to see more about why she did what she did. Was she just that selfish or was there something else going on?

Well, considering I just flashed on the notion that the reason she saved Michael's cards was in case he ever made it as an artist so she'd have something of his work to sell, I'm leaning towards the former, but that's just me.

True. But it's going to take a lot of "why" to make me think it's a good thing to keep the letters of his father from your son.

I want to see more about why she did what she did. Was she just that selfish or was there something else going on?

I think she considered her relationship with Michael over, and did everything she could to sever it completely. Ergo, Walt's relationship with Michael was also now over.

I agree with all who have mentioned the Bryan-Walt "relationship"/takeover as a factor for the instinctual discomfort (pre-knives) of Walt with Locke.

The episode was set up so beautifully. A lot of satisfying emotional payoff from previous episodes. This is how I like my TV.

I want to see more about why she did what she did. Was she just that selfish or was there something else going on?

I'd guess her feeling was that Walt now had a mom and a dad and bringing a third party into the relationship would just confuse him. I.e. 'this is not an open adoption'. I still think she was a bitch, since she was completely heedless of anyone else's best interests in setting up her perfect life. "I'll move to Amsterdam and won't lift a finger to help sustain Michael and Walt's relationship; I'll emotionally blackmail Brian into adopting Walt even though he doesn't want him, because that way everything will be tidier; I'll not share his biological father's letters with Walt because then I'd have to explain... "

I still think she was a bitch, since she was completely heedless of anyone else's best interests in setting up her perfect life. "I'll move to Amsterdam and won't lift a finger to help sustain Michael and Walt's relationship; I'll emotionally blackmail Brian into adopting Walt even though he doesn't want him, because that way everything will be tidier; I'll not share his biological father's letters with Walt because then I'd have to explain...

Actually, I'm glad she died, because if anyone ever deserved to die, it was her.

Anyone else think that her death wasn't necessarily a natural thing? That envelope that Brian gave Michael reminded me too much of the envelope that the psychic gave Claire with her airplane info to make me think that it's all a coincidence.

I did remember really liking the Mercutio, especially since he's probably my favorite character in the play.

P-C is me. HP's Mercutio was definitely the highlight of the film. (Which could be considered faint praise, depending on one's opinion of it. I personally thought it was okay, but can't stand the really fast low-attention-span friendly cuts near the beginning of the movie. If the whole movie had been like that, I would have hated it.)

I love the film. Note that I'm not saying it's a great film (possibly even a good one), but for whatever reason, I do love it so.