I rewatched that episode recently too. It's one of my first season favorites.

"Did you just kill a guy with an appetizer?"

Maybe?

Ever since I was lost in Tropes, I've been waiting for Elliot to really be taken down. Like, really been gotten the best of, or at least taken down in a cheaterly fashion. Because it's true, even when he takes a hard beat-down, in the end he wins. And it's sad, but I'm jonesing terribly for a character-torture Elliot smack-down where the stakes are epic-ly high. And there isn't a single fic that cuts it for me.

"These peaches aren't going to poach themselves, Parker!"

My favorite Leverage line, bar none. I don't know why I love it so, but I do. Maybe it's just the dichotomy of the tough guy and the tender peaches.

Not exactly cable, but our local PBS station is running the original Life on Mars starting on April 1 at 10:40. Not sure if other stations are running it as well.

That reminds me that I have unwatched UK LoM DVDs. Duh.

WOuld this be the Breaking Bad thread? We watched the first two episodes last night. That show reminds me so much of the Sopranos when it first started - really messed up main characters, but you are still sort of hoping for them to succeed.

There were so many little things I liked about the story so far. So Jesse has embraced that he is the bad guy and Walt refuses to accept being the bad guy. So far, Jesse seems way more at ease with himself than Walt.

Yes, it should be. (I'm not watching it.)

This is indeed the Breaking Bad thread.

So Jesse has embraced that he is the bad guy and Walt refuses to accept being the bad guy.

Yeah, and, really, Walt has been a worse guy than Jesse. Jesse has seriously fucked up, but Walt has both done worse and admitted it to himself less. And, yet, I am still rooting for him to not get killed by the scary guys with skulls on their toes (DH pointed out that they are reminiscent of the Gentlemen with their silence and the wasy they will sometimes look at each other before they do something. Adds to the scary)

They didn't say a word the entire episode, did they?

The people crawling was super eery to me until I figured out that it was a religious thing (only about two seconds before they showed the chapel).

Yes, I think Jesse is more accepting and Walt probably is the worse guy. Jesse was never a good guy, but it wasn't until he teamed up with Walt that started dealing with dead bodies and stuff.

I think it's interesting that Skylar never asked Walt (although she did ask that boss guy) why? And that Walt made no offer to explain. I would think she would have this powerful internal drive to know what made Walt do this and I would think he would want to explain himself.

I think Walt's broken windshield shows some major denial. I think he believed all those things he was telling the cop (about how he was basically a victim of the crash) and I thought the windshield was a pretty powerful symbol of Walt's divorce from reality.

One last thought - if I remember from last season, the Pollos guy knows that Walt is Hank's BIL. I thought he might be pissed about that but it didn't come up. And apparently he either respects Walt enough, or thinks he's a good enough cooker, that he was willing to just let him walk away from the business. I don't think Tony Soprano would have allowed that.