Why was Walt obsessed with the fly?
Why was Walt obsessed with the fly?
Xavier Davis
Anthony Rogers
boooooo
Josiah Lopez
>inb4 contrarians and tryhards claiming this was the best episode ever
Gavin Turner
filler
Andrew Howard
Gandalf told him it was important
Cameron Flores
Rian Johnson is a hack
Charles Scott
The budget was running out and they didn't want to do a clip show episode
John Cooper
It was contaminating the lab.
James Diaz
Because the flu represents Rian’s obsession with onions.
Hudson Stewart
Why did his brother in law call himself Aysaque?
I thought his name was hank?
Nicholas Nelson
Nigga hates flies man what more do you want?
Nicholas Hill
Walt has autism
Jaxon Hill
It was in his territory.
Daniel Watson
It's filler, but it's also a commentary on impossible goals and Walt's perfectionism and need for power driving him to ruin. It also highlights the moments when we assume the most insignificant of tasks are the ones that hold real value, despite it usually being the opposite. Walt should be dying of cancer and making peace with his family, ultimately a better ending than he got, but instead the drugs, jessie and the fly. They had to stall for time and did it well, surprisingly. I don't think even the show writers expected it to work out like that.
Kayden Hall
It represented the lack of control he had over his own life
Chase Evans
Because it could have ruined his product did you even pay attention you dumb niggerface
Matthew Cook
the fly represented a fly and walt represented a piece of shit, walt knew this so he wanted to get rid of it
Brayden Lopez
it was an epic cultural reference
Ryan Walker
His nickname was A-sack, referring to him having big balls.
Joseph Garcia
it was god
Leo Roberts
>sleep deprived and obsessive
did he try the meth?
Daniel Sanchez
It was never about the fly it was about being in control.
Grayson Cox
It depends on what you think The Fly primarily represented.
Walt was doing yield calculations that he (accurately) suspected would suggest Jesse was stealing product. That's when the eponymous Fly landed.
The Fly is Walt's conscience. Small, buzzing, an annoyance to Walt, hard to stomp out despite his best efforts. Per Walt, it is a "contamination," it "has no place in the lab."
Flies congregate around carrion, and Walt knows there is something in him dying, and he hates to be reminded of it. He wants to be like Gus, but this thing won't stop buzzing in his ear.
What is this fly doing? He is trying to stop it from interrupting his work that will show Jesse is stealing. If Jesse is stealing, Walt should report it to Gus, and they will kill Jesse. Walt knows that this is the crime-boss thing to do, but he just can't: his conscience is preventing him. He has all but ruined Jesse's life, he has some responsibility for Jane's death. To throw him to the wolves now, after doing so much wrong to him, is just Too Much, even for Heisenberg.
Jesse finally quiets Walt's conscience with his speech about how it's no one's fault that Jane died, that Jesse and Jane would have died, that Walt's actions are not without some morally worthwhile component in them. (As Jesse is making this speech, he kills the fly, and Walt falls asleep.)
But at home, the fly is still on the ceiling. His conscience is still keeping him up at night. He still has an obligation to Jesse to somehow make up for all he's done to him.
Then two episodes later...
Tyler Martinez
The Fly is the episode that made me restart watching BB after quitting during season 2. I don’t see why people hate it but it could be because of the specific way I watched it.
Evan Adams
His real name was Isaac Schrader
Oliver Sanders
>times when shows jumped the shark
Lincoln Bennett
The fly was unironically God.
Easton Davis
yeah dude fuck this episode. Not enough murders or explosions
Joseph Rogers