but then didn’t have a problem telling his uncle and friends at a cafe. (replying to the post about Todd being told ‘no one can know about the train heist’.
I remember watching a firefight (on the evening news) here in Vancouver- Armed hostage taker, hostage released he enters van provided for getaway. As he walks across the street and gets in the van the cops open up from several directions. At least 30 shots fired. At the end of it he comes out of the van completely unscathed.
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So fast? We only have 3 episodes left, and Walt hasn’t even gone into hiding yet. Even if all the foreshadowing stuff we’ve seen is only for the last episode, that still only leaves us 2 more episodes for Walt to get the hell outta Dodge (keeping with the Western motif).
To the rest of the commentary on the gunfight - I really have to go back and watch it again, because I can’t remember the details well enough. But I do remember thinking “The Aryans hiding behind the doors should know better than that. Those doors aren’t going to protect them”. And I also remember thinking “How is it that these Aryans managed to take out that whole other entire Meth operation, fully of alert, heavily armed thugs, without losing one man, yet they can’t seem to hit 2 guys that are standing out in the open?”
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They clearly have Stormtrooper aim. When attacking guys we don’t know offscreen, “only stormtroopers are this precise”, but when attacking a named character suddenly they forget which end the lasers come out of.
Then again, I’ve always interpreted Obi Wan’s comment as dripping with sarcasm upon subsequent viewings.
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Haha, you may be right!
But, I’m REALLY (naively?) holding out hope that there’s another classic “something we didn’t see happened off screen” moment that we’ll see at the beginning of the next episode.
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A couple of things that have not been theorized so far:
- Somebody might already be shot, but it wasn’t shown yet (heat of the battle, “just a flesh wound” etc.).
- Yes, there was no time for the nazi gang to decide whether to deliberately miss or not - but they could have made a plan in advance or shortly before they were turning up on the scene (“There’s two guys there, probably cops, better force them into hiding” or just “we’ll use Plan B”).
- It is clearly shown that the van with Walt is hit profusely even further back, although only the windows are shattered, no bullets below, possibly we will see Hank and Gomey hide behind Walt as that might be a more effective bullet protection than the motor block.
Can’t embed as a new user, but here is an overview of the scene: http://imgur.com/TDZqvCG
- I find it very plausible that Hank and Gomey made it to safety, just considering the angle alone. Put a clock in the middle of the battlefield with the van at 9, you have the bad guys between 11 and 12, Hank is at 7 and Gomey at 6 - Both have only a step or two to be behind the front of the van. There is actually a shot that is from the perspective of the head nazi - he is behind their van, so about at 12. From his viewpoint, Hank is already directly behind the motor, so just a crouch away from safety, completely hidden for everybody in the smaller car. And, as the shot above shows - in terms of distance, the Hank and Gomey clearly higher lever action.
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