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Breaking Bad's Most Shocking Moment? (Spoilers abound) (1 Viewer)

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  • Half of Gus Fring's face is blown off

    Votes: 11 4.5%

  • Ten men die in the jailhouse-slaughter montage

    Votes: 2 0.8%

  • "WW" - Hank figures out that Walt is Heisenberg

    Votes: 9 3.7%

  • Gus slices Victor's throat with a box cutter

    Votes: 32 13.0%

  • Todd guns down a young boy so there will be no witnesses

    Votes: 48 19.5%

  • Walt kills Mike

    Votes: 2 0.8%

  • Jesse kills Gale

    Votes: 8 3.3%

  • The big "Lily of the Valley" reveal that Walt poisoned Brock

    Votes: 18 7.3%

  • Walt aids Jesse by running over drug dealers in the Aztek

    Votes: 38 15.4%

  • Walt watches Jane die

    Votes: 27 11.0%

  • Tortuga's decapitated head is on a tortoise, then explodes

    Votes: 6 2.4%

  • Hank takes out the cousins; is partially paralyzed in the process

    Votes: 1 0.4%

  • Hank is killed in the desert

    Votes: 27 11.0%

  • Gus poisons the cartel

    Votes: 15 6.1%

  • M60 machine gun wipes out White supremacists in the finale

    Votes: 2 0.8%
  • Total voters
    246
It wasn't the most shocking, but when Walt killed Eight Ball I remember saying to myself, "man, this is a dark show"

 
bostonfred said:
Hank figuring it out was a Kaiser Soze moment. It was by far the most memorable dump in television history. It was the biggest and most obviously necessary turning point in the show, yet you still didn't see it coming. And if it hadn't happened, everyone would have been better off.
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Agreed. Prior to that my one criticism of the show was that as savvy as Hank was, how could he never make the connection to Walt even if he wanted to have that blindspot on some level?

 
I have to cast my vote for other and vote for, Scotty beaming out Chekovs guts.

 
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Officer Pete Malloy said:
I voted Todd shooting the kid because it was totally unexpected. A big part of it is that we had no idea that Todd was such a wacko up until then.
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Yep :hifive:

Also when we learn that Walt didn't go to work on a Friday for like 12 years.

 
For me it was the baby in the firetruck. They never explained why they showed a baby in a firetruck, not to mention firemen aren't likely to bring their kids to work in the first place.

 
Raider Nation said:
I was shocked when Saul recocnized Walt's cough.
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File that desert scene as unexpected, but not in the usual Breaking Bad way.

Which also made it so awesome. That scene cemented Saul as one of the best characters on the show.

ETA:

"Give me a dollar."

The confusion on Walt and Jessie's faces was priceless. :lmao:

 
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Somewhat shocking, but not deserving to be on this list:

The fact that Skinny Pete lives until the end. If anything I thought health problems would do him in.

 
bostonfred said:
Hank figuring it out was a Kaiser Soze moment. It was by far the most memorable dump in television history. It was the biggest and most obviously necessary turning point in the show, yet you still didn't see it coming. And if it hadn't happened, everyone would have been better off.
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Didn't see it coming? I don't follow... We were all waiting for Hank to finally catch on and the consensus at the time was he had to at some point.

I loved the moment but Kaiser Soze was a surprise to the character and the audience.

 
Just for ####s and giggles, where does the most shocking moment from Walking Dead (whatever moment that is) rank on this list?

 
The General said:
The feeling I had when the Nazis pulled into the desert area where Hank and Walt were was like a punch in the gut.
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I'm pretty sure that episode was the most intense, entertaining, white-knuckle hour of television I've ever witnessed. I was exhausted at the end of it.

Voted for Lily of the Valley though, as even though it had been foreshadowed, up until that point it seemed as if Walt had a chance for redemption. After that, you just knew he was off the rails and nothing could possibly end well.

 
lakerstan said:
God, I miss this show...

Every item listed would individually put most other shows to shame.
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I just started it and finished it in the last 2.5 months. I'm almost depressed now that it's over. I miss it like it was a huge part of my life. I guess 2 or 3 episodes almost every day will do that. Such a great show.

 
Homer J Simpson said:
lakerstan said:
God, I miss this show...

Every item listed would individually put most other shows to shame.
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:goodposting:

Ten prisoners in four different prisons being murdered in a two-minute timeframe is one of the options and IT HAS ZERO VOTES!!!
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That scene was haunting and stayed with me for days, showing the total lack of regard Walt showed for human life. That said, the show was building to it for weeks, so not "shocking" per se.

 
Voted "Walt watches Jane die". It might actually be the most memorable scene in the series to me. Everything Walt did was so calculated. Nearly every move he made he had time to justify in his own mind what he was doing. It was "for his family". While his acts were heinous at least we knew why he was doing what we was doing.

Jane was different. We got to watch Walt make a split second decision whether someone lived or died. I think most people's instincts would make them save the person in danger (especially given that all he had to do was turn her on her side). In that moment we saw who Walt truly was. For me, that was when he broke bad.

 
bostonfred said:
Hank figuring it out was a Kaiser Soze moment. It was by far the most memorable dump in television history. It was the biggest and most obviously necessary turning point in the show, yet you still didn't see it coming. And if it hadn't happened, everyone would have been better off.
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I voted this too, but it was really close.

 
Fly said:
Voted "Walt watches Jane die". It might actually be the most memorable scene in the series to me. Everything Walt did was so calculated. Nearly every move he made he had time to justify in his own mind what he was doing. It was "for his family". While his acts were heinous at least we knew why he was doing what we was doing.

Jane was different. We got to watch Walt make a split second decision whether someone lived or died. I think most people's instincts would make them save the person in danger (especially given that all he had to do was turn her on her side). In that moment we saw who Walt truly was. For me, that was when he broke bad.
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I think he did it to save Jesse. While it was an evil act on many levels of course, I don't think it was self serving.

 
One issue with watching the entire series in a little over a week.

I forget a bunch of moments. I need to rewatch

 
Dr. Octopus said:
Fly said:
Voted "Walt watches Jane die". It might actually be the most memorable scene in the series to me. Everything Walt did was so calculated. Nearly every move he made he had time to justify in his own mind what he was doing. It was "for his family". While his acts were heinous at least we knew why he was doing what we was doing.

Jane was different. We got to watch Walt make a split second decision whether someone lived or died. I think most people's instincts would make them save the person in danger (especially given that all he had to do was turn her on her side). In that moment we saw who Walt truly was. For me, that was when he broke bad.
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I think he did it to save Jesse. While it was an evil act on many levels of course, I don't think it was self serving.
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Didn't he do it because Jane was blackmailing him?

 
Fly said:
Dr. Octopus said:
Fly said:
Voted "Walt watches Jane die". It might actually be the most memorable scene in the series to me. Everything Walt did was so calculated. Nearly every move he made he had time to justify in his own mind what he was doing. It was "for his family". While his acts were heinous at least we knew why he was doing what we was doing.

Jane was different. We got to watch Walt make a split second decision whether someone lived or died. I think most people's instincts would make them save the person in danger (especially given that all he had to do was turn her on her side). In that moment we saw who Walt truly was. For me, that was when he broke bad.
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I think he did it to save Jesse. While it was an evil act on many levels of course, I don't think it was self serving.
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Didn't he do it because Jane was blackmailing him?
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it was jane's blackmail efforts and his loss of "control" over jesse.

 
Fly said:
Voted "Walt watches Jane die". It might actually be the most memorable scene in the series to me. Everything Walt did was so calculated. Nearly every move he made he had time to justify in his own mind what he was doing. It was "for his family". While his acts were heinous at least we knew why he was doing what we was doing.

Jane was different. We got to watch Walt make a split second decision whether someone lived or died. I think most people's instincts would make them save the person in danger (especially given that all he had to do was turn her on her side). In that moment we saw who Walt truly was. For me, that was when he broke bad.
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Well said. That split second saw him nearly save her as he ran around the bed and started to stretch his hands out to save her, but then caught himself, made a quick decision, and simply watched her die. In that respect, it's almost showed that Walt's natural reaction was to not let her die, but once he had a second or two to think about it, he changed his mind.

 
Voted for Todd, but another shocking moment not mentioned was when Hank and Marie plays Walter's video, in which he claims Hank was part of the whole thing. That blew me away.

 
Also, the most bizarre moment of the show (not shocking, just weird) was when Walter watches a video of a dead Gale singing "Major Tom".

 
The correct answer is Todd and the kid but I saw that the M-60 had no love so its one vote is me. It was telegraphed well but still pretty intense and even a little surprising if you were paying attention to everything else that was going on.

 
RUSF18 said:
belljr said:
One issue with watching the entire series in a little over a week.

I forget a bunch of moments. I need to rewatch
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I think I need to know what you define as "a little over a week" before I state how impressed I am.
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so according to the thread .. i started just before Christmas and finished new years day.however I remember I did watch the 8 season 1 episodes in November on a trip.

so I watched season 2 till then end during Christmas break

 
ShaqAttaq said:
Fly said:
Dr. Octopus said:
Fly said:
Voted "Walt watches Jane die". It might actually be the most memorable scene in the series to me. Everything Walt did was so calculated. Nearly every move he made he had time to justify in his own mind what he was doing. It was "for his family". While his acts were heinous at least we knew why he was doing what we was doing.

Jane was different. We got to watch Walt make a split second decision whether someone lived or died. I think most people's instincts would make them save the person in danger (especially given that all he had to do was turn her on her side). In that moment we saw who Walt truly was. For me, that was when he broke bad.
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I think he did it to save Jesse. While it was an evil act on many levels of course, I don't think it was self serving.
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Didn't he do it because Jane was blackmailing him?
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it was jane's blackmail efforts and his loss of "control" over jesse.
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I guess I'm a softie - because I felt he thought that Jesse could only sober up if Jane wasn't in his life - he left the money with Jesse anyway (if I remember correctly), so not sure it was about the blackmail - although I guess the spectre of her spilling his secrets to his family would have always been out there.

 
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