What's the most unrealistic plot convenience or oversight in Breaking Bad?

For the longest time his crew is basically a handful of not so tough tweakers. And everyone just lets them take over both production and distribution.

Mike kicking the shit out of people half his age

For some reason this always pissed me off the most. I get wanting to show that he's cool but I feel like there are effective ways to do that without needing him to be a physical threat

Oh, also, no, a few grams of mercury fulminate would not blow a hole in a brick wall and set off car alarms in the parking lot.

Before the show even starts I think the idea that Walt ends up teaching high school instead of college is absurd. It would unironically be easier for him to become a college professor

Mike kicking the shit out of people half his age

he's there for boomers to self-insert

Hank not breaking into the RV and catching Walt (Vince even admitted he wrote himself into a corner)

the magnet laptop shenanigans

Jane's dad even being let into work as an air trafficker like the day after his daughter died

There are more but Breaking Bad is basically a live action cartoon so whatever.

The idea that Walter was able to cook meth cleaner than local manufacturers with labs like this is so absurd that he might as well have invented a cure for cancer while he was at it

the magnet laptop shenanigans

This one isn't completely implausible

That "I've known good crooks and horrible priests" speech felt like it was made to be shared on every childless uncle's Facebook page

not to mention that a few days earlier Walt went on the meth lab bust with Hank and asked to see the lab equipment there

Walt didn't have his PhD. He got his BS, did a startup, then ditched it after a bad breakup.

Fair, but teaching? Why not just work at Pfizer or something, you don't need an extra two years of school for that

when doing your job requires basic logic

hank saw walt as an impotent blah blah
ANYWAYS when he finally put it together while he was sitting on the toilet and it showed his face in the last frame I truly wish there had just been a 'plop' then fade to black (I think I stole that from an anon on here but I can't stop thinking it)

Walt perfectly throwing a pizza onto the roof of his house. Even Bryan Cranston didn't think that would happen.

As the show goes on to make clear, he's very, very bad at being a subordinate. For all we know he did try to find work in industry but never got a career to stick because of his pathologic personality. He ended up teaching highschool not because it was all he could do, but all he was willing to do: sit at the head of a group of retards that he could bully and snear at. Even his love of chemistry is just a hobby and subordinate to the thrill of outsmarting people.

It's the top comment on the video of that scene on YouTube, I think everyone was expecting it lol

-The idea that a chemistry teacher could make higher quality meth with stolen highschool glassware and cooking equipment than the fucking cartels could make with functionally unlimited resources and access to quality precursors just because he knows a lot about organic chemistry (Victor was 100% correct, it is literally just cooking, you don't need to be a scientist)

It really was the perfect reddit show wasn't it. it was all built around a mystical, magical, totally delusional belief in 'science.'

If the Grey Matter couple were so rich, you'd think they'd have better security for their house for Walt to be able to break in.

the part where a literal plane fucking explodes with walt watching it

Also if you have a monopoly on meth distribution would you really want to put up with a shithead like walt just so you could sell a slightly higher grade of product to people who would just as soon be huffing glue?

Not to mention, they wouldn't let him walk out of there.

Gus has a fixation on quality and purity. That said this was mostly established in BCS

In Better Call Saul Mike was apparently so badass he beat up two guys with a gun who were going to escort the drug dealer.

The most unrealstic thing I saw was that convoluted plan Mike did to get cocaine on the truck for the border patrol to search the truck and find the drug stash. He could have just gotten close and planted the drugs or even just called Border patrol and make his tip sound credible.

Did you even watch the show? Literally every single one is addressed

hank overlooking the missing lab equipment

The janitor was blamed for it.

hank overlooking the fact that walter is a desperate genius with clear motive

Hank isn't a mind reader, he just saw walt as a his pussy brother in law.

hank overlooking the fact that jesse is walter's former pupil

It's the first thing he mentioned to Walt when Jesse was arrested.

hank overlooking the fact that "heisenberg" is a homage to another scientist

hank overlooking the fact that heisenberg is an old bald white man

He thought it was Gale.

hank overlooking walter's increase in wealth

Explained by gambling winnings.

hank overlooking walter's reluctance to investigate gus fring

Everyone around Hank was reluctant to investigate Gus.

hank overlooking W.W. until proof was shoved right under his nose

Walt Whitman. It's explained in the same episode.

Soipranostrannies not sending their best.

(Victor was 100% correct, it is literally just cooking, you don't need to be a scientist)

go ahead bake a perfect soufflé and post it with timestamp let's see how tough you are nigga

>Jane's dad even being let into work as an air trafficker like the day after his daughter died

Why was he blamed for the crash? Shouldn't the pilots know better than to fly into each other?

Explained by gambling winnings

This form of money laundering is older than Hank.

That this was a realistic plan. How many times in your life have you seen a house completed tented? Not to mention constantly wheeling in the equipment, someone is going to know something is up. The very first time they did it Todd said he disabled a nanny cam. It was only 2008 but it was a matter of time before they would miss a camera.

I didn't save a girl having a heroin overdose and her dad happened to be an air traffic controller and I also met him at a bar and he was hungover and sad when he went to his job and accidentally caused a commercial airline collision and that's what happened

It really is a fucking stretch.

do you know what overlooking means nigga
hank was a thick skulled retard and this show should have just been an anime

Walt being able to slip poison into a juice box

You get good at soufflé by practicing it, not by knowing everything there is to know about pastries. Making a proper soufflé is also harder than cooking meth.

You haven't seen the videos of a P51 Mustang crashing into a B17 at an airshow because of a miscommunication

Never seen a house tented in my entire life

like the day after his daughter died

it was a while. he said something like "after a while time off doesn't help anymore implying it was much longer than 'like the day after'

I worked in pest control, we outsourced our termite tentings. Maybe had like 3 a month we sent them to do. It's not that insanely uncommon but now spot treatments are becoming more practical.

walt turned into a master of stealth
able to escape a exit and enter a hospital with no one noticing
able to bypass billionaire home security
able to sneak into an apartment monitored by the FBI

Do retards get pussy? Walt Jr set an expectation for them that I don't believe is real.

they were the first DEI hires

most of those were very reasonable, the real fuck ups were:
-Hank never looks further into how Jesse got his number (clear Walt connection)
-Walt just happens to block his way while trying to catch "Heisenberg"
-Crashing the car when they were driving to the lab

i think one of the core aspects of Hank's characterization is that he thinks less of Walt as a man and simply could not picture him in that light

cancer and how it was no biggie in the end

dumb ass

/ourguy/ talked about this extensively
youtu.be/CYVjM3iwXj8

Mike kicking the shit out of people half his age

This was not too egregious in BB but completely intolerable in BCS

andrea walking outside in the middle of the night cause some random guy told her to

Fast food CEO will jeopordise his entire operation to give customers a .5% increase in quality that not even the best meth sommelier will be able to notice

News reports in the show said 5 weeks. Still very contrived, same as Tomas just so happened to be the kid brother of the single mom Jesse was involved with.

Not really. He has two jobs at the beginning of the show and is a beta submissive little bitch to his boss

he janitor was blamed for it.

That same episode Hank said they found out he was innocent and didn't actually do it. Shut your fucking mouth if you don't have anything to say.

Mike kicking the shit out of people half his age

This was really more of a BCS thing. in BB the only real physical engagement he's in is the the raid on Chao's warehouse where he uses a gun and being clever to wipe people he goes out of his way to call "not the best", and then when Gus poisons Eladio he garrottes the lead cartel hitman.

Unless you count beating up Walt who is a 50 year old pussy with lung cancer and Jimmy who Vince Gilligan wrote with a quarter of the balls that he has in BCS Mike doesn't really physically beat anybody in a fistfight.

Welcome to literally the entirety of America the day after that episode aired.

Gale was literally still setting this up like a week or two before Walt comes to work at it. It's not in use until Walt gets there.

In Hazard Pay, Mike said to Walt

"Just because you killed Jesse's Jane doesn't make you Jesse's Jane "

Mike knows Walt killed Jane.
Why didn't Mike use this information to gain leverage from Walt?
Did Mike tell this information to Jesse?

How the FUCK did he know there was something wrong with the car?

Yeh when he beat up that one black guy and the other ones backed off, it was really goofy. He's not batman

what made it worse was that it was hyped up the entire season

bcs gus

Mike, I need to kill the German engineer to keep the secret

This is a fake house by the way. I've got a secret underground passage.

I've got a body double. This nigga looks just like me, right?

BB gus

I'll hire illegal immigrants to staff the lab.

I'll obviously do business with low-level drug dealers.

I'm familiar with low-level street thugs who kill kids.

Wow, I didn't realize Hector had been seeing Walter.

Jesse spooked him

-The idea that a chemistry teacher could make higher quality meth with stolen highschool glassware and cooking equipment than the fucking cartels could make with functionally unlimited resources and access to quality precursors just because he knows a lot about organic chemistry (Victor was 100% correct, it is literally just cooking, you don't need to be a scientist)

My understanding is meth is easy to figure out if you're a chemist but making the BEST meth is something different. I have no idea about the intricate details but they do show Walt getting obsessive with the purity like telling Jesse his is shit when it was probably fine. I'm assuming no one ever thought to dedicate themselves to something only stupid tweakers smoke because it's just not in most people's interest.

I remember my orgo teacher telling a story about a couple grad students that cooked meth to make some extra cash. Anybody with good knowledge of organic chem theory and lab equipment can do it. But the guys fucked up and made their meth too pure. Cops knew instantly that they had academic training and busted them after honing in on the campus. So I imagine Walt would have been caught almost immediately after starting for being "too good". Really is a testament to how great the show was despite it's many many implausible events detailed itt that it stayed entertaining all the way through the end. At least part of the genius is from the way it straddled that line

terrible time to be doing anything with that many eggs bro

Not to mention there are an additional like 10 people now aware of this operation