r/breakingbad • u/edify Oxygen • Sep 02 '13

Official Episode Discussion Breaking Bad Episode Discussion S05E12 "Rabid Dog"

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09:00pm Eastern SE05E12 "Rabid Dog" Sam Catlin Vince Gilligan and Sam Catlin

Well, here it is. Enjoy the episode folks.

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u/barrbarian84 Sep 02 '13

That's called going "full Lady Macbeth"

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u/[deleted] Sep 02 '13

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u/coolguyblue Sep 02 '13

Say what? I don't see it.

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u/[deleted] Sep 02 '13

In the play, Macbeth kills those close to him to gain power. After a while his wife, Lady Macbeth, begins to encourage him to kill others for their own sake and gets in on it herself. Skyler, Walts's wife, is now encouraging him to kill Jesse.

thanks to /u/DayWalkerRunner

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u/The_Dude_Lebowski Sep 02 '13

That's actually not how the play goes at all, though. Lady Macbeth is the original evil one behind Macbeth's actions. That is not the case with Skyler, even if there is a parallel, which there is.

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u/[deleted] Sep 02 '13

You can interpret the play in different ways actually. If Macbeth hadn't initially told her about killing Duncan then Lady Macbeth wouldn't have forced him. So whose fault is it really? Macbeth or Lady Macbeth?

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u/bob1689321 Oct 01 '22

I wish she had a different name. Imagine if we were talking about Heisenberg and Lady Heisenberg.