#superlab

[foxssie]

Heisenberg and Jesse playing chess november 2023 an appropriation of 19th century German school painting Mephistopheles and Faust playing chess

[kingoftieland]

Obtained directly from a member of the show’s production team, this super-rare film daily from Ep. 305 of Breaking Bad is the latest addition to my collection! Dated October 5, 2009, this DVD contains unreleased footage from the Season 3 episode “Más” – which features the introduction of the Superlab – that never aired and was never meant to be seen by the public.💽

Dailies are the raw, unedited footage shot during the filmmaking process. The term comes from when movies were all shot on film because at the end of each day, the footage was developed, synced to sound, and printed on in a batch for viewing the next day by the director, selected actors, and film crew members.

[malhare-archive]

Gus just died, my Breaking Bad rewatch is over now, bye 🚶

[riotgrrrlhole]

lalos ghost being offended that he got buried w some NOBODY instead of his nachito even after he went thru ALL THE TROUBLE of finding his rotting carcass and bringing it with him to europe smh (this is not anti laloward this is just specific to this au)

The moment he knew Nachito was dead he drove like a madman to the desert and started looking for the place the twins told him ( I know they don’t know that Lalo is Alive in the series but let’s just pretend they did knew he was alive ) he unburied him and started talking to him , he changed his clothes and put him in a red t shirt and started machinating his revenge against Gus

[otogariado]

i already knew that lalo and howard were gonna be buried under the superlab together, but man, is it super fucked up to see how it happened in full detail

[gemstarb]

Yes! TAKE THEM ALL DOWN!

[drcuriousvii]

Men will literally crash their car to avoid having to discuss things openly

[the-unofficial-village-idiot]

Also the fact that there's an entire ep of everyone being like 'oh no, where's Lalo' and then it cuts to Lalo chatting up a widow in germany

Watching Don Juan call Gus to tell him there's a traitor in their midst like 'so bcs is a comedy'

[gomosmorodina]

i'm sure they'll be best buddies since they are the same type of people haha. they would have the best time working at the superlab together!

[romulusfuckingroy]

breaking bad passes the gay man’s version of the bechdel test because

1. it has two gay male characters (gale boetticher, gustavo fring)

2. who talk to each other (flashback of gale setting up the superlab)

3. about a man (heisenberg)

[rynnthefangirl]

Cute first date idea!!! : get shot and buried together beneath a meth superlab with your corpses nearly holding hands for eternity <3

[lalito-gran-pito]

"This fly... is a major problem for us. It *will* ruin our batch. And we need to destroy it and every trace of it so we can cook. Failing that... we're dead."

100% positive they reverse-engineered this episode to come up with Lalo ending up in the lab

... watching the fly episode...... it hits different after BCS...

[izzythehutt]

I love that Mike's response to learning the laptop that has all the incriminating evidence of him, Walt and Jesse working in a meth superlab is in a police evidence room now is the completely rational, normal way a career criminal would act, i.e. to say "well, we're effed, time to skip town".....but then he's with Walt and Jesse and their response is NO WAIT MIKE THIS IS WHERE WE COME UP WITH A WACKY SCIENCE-BASED SCHEME TO GET OURSELVES OUT OF THIS JAM.

Mike: That is the dumbest shit I've ever heard, I don't want to do that.

Walt: —Okay but consider—micro incendiary device planted in evidence that we have smuggled in—

Jesse: OR A GIANT MAGNET

And then Mike spends the rest of the episode being irritated that he got drawn into their weird codependent bullshit magnet heist, that Walt is ultra smug about it, that Jesse reverts to a excitable teenager when they barely escape the cops catching them. He's even irritated by Walt casually asking Jesse to spot him thousands of dollars. He's always known this relationship was uniquely terrible for all parties involved but never been a true witness to the up-close and personal weirdness of their criminal strategy, which is basically two losers pretending they're a cross between Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and Thelma and Louise.

[el-michoacano]

I propose an AU that's every Breaking Bad scene that takes place in the superlab, but from the POV of Lalo and Howard as they comment like a couple of sportscasters 🖤

[seraphtrevs]

FIC: Sweet Tooth (13/14) PAIRINGS: Walt/Jesse, Lalo/Jesse RATING: E for Explicit - 18+ only WARNINGS: gaslighting, manipulation, canon typical violence, age gap, love triangle SUMMARY: In exchange for his life, Walt agrees to work for Lalo in the superlab, which now belongs to the cartel. Walt's sure that Lalo is plotting against him, but all of his attention seems to be focused on Jesse, for some reason…

This chapter - Lalo reveals all.

[thekimspoblog]

I'm just saying. Gus has killed people for...

Mentioning the existence of the superlab ("Winner")

General insubordination and to intimidate others ("Box Cutter")

One employee murdering another employee who was a child-murderer, even though Gus was probably going to murder the child-murderer anyway ("Full Measure")

I don't think it's insane to suggest that when Kim fled to Florida, Gus was planning to put a hit out on her, and Mike said "Leave her alone; she's not going to talk. She knows we'll kill her ex if she talks".

Other fans have argued that Kim didn't "know too much", but she did tho. Gus was undone by a fast food wrapper in an associate's apartment; it was worth everything to him that the DEA never suspected him, because if they started looking into him it would have all come crashing down. Having a woman who regularly works with law enforcement be out there able to finger him as connected to the Salamancas, seems like an uncharacteristically large risk for Gus to take.

Whether Jimmy feared this, and stayed in ABQ on purpose as collateral because of it, is more of a stretch. But I just don't like interpretations which assume the "She's in The Game now" line amounted to nothing of consequence for Kim.