Why didn't he just use the CCTV footage from the lab and have one of his goons follow Walts recipe? Then he wouldn't need Jesse or Walt?
>meth heads care about a 0.5% difference in purityMost unbelievable part of the show.
>>222323742>character is South American ("sudaca") and in the drug trade>actor is mixed blackWhy the fuck did they make him Chilean (country outside of the main drug corridors with almost no blacks) and not Colombian? Did they just confuse Latin American countries that start with C?
In real life he would never be able to compete with Mexican meth. It's high quality and dirt cheap. No one is going to switch from that to weird looking blue meth lol
>>222323792Brown is brown
>>222323781It’s about yield, if you can sell 99.1% of the material you started with vs 70% it’s a huge difference
>>222323781I think they try to explain it away with Gus being particular about things, but it doesn't make sense in reality. An 8 million dollar lab with staff and supplies to increase the price by how much? How much money does the average meth addict even have?
>>222323792The actor is Italian so they should’ve made him Argie
>>222323742>62 episodes>Not a single attractive woman in any of them>About 9 bald main charactersThis is a mans show, and I love it.
>>222323742That was never the point he needed a chemist to handle the lab in case something went wrong, or he needed to buy new equipment, to know what needed maintenance, etc.Even that idiot fucktard Jesse knew the recipe. Gus knew he needed a pro to manage his lab.
>>222323902Point was that the place was untraceable and you didn't depend on tweakers producing your shit.
>>222323792Probably to explain away his "Spanish." Because he could barely speak it, let alone do a Chilean accent. This was the case with all the spanish speakers in the show anyway. Don Eladio sounded like he was going to blow a gasket while trying to get a sentence out.
>>222323931* this is a homosexual man's showFTFY
>>222323742dumb nigger this was literally spelled out in the show when viktor tried to mimic his recipe
>>222323935>Hey gus the big vacuum things has broken down, let's order a new one using the instruction manual and invoice Gail literally keeps in the lab.Solved.
>>222323781Like Walt, Gus’ pride was his downfall. He wanted to have the best regardless of what implications it had for the business. Running an extremely profitable meth cartel wasn’t enough, he would have been kept awake each night by the thought that there was someone out there doing it better.
>>222323781customers were rich connoisseurs not typical broke ass meth heads dildoface
>>222323742>Has built-in radar to detect bombs under his carKino
>>222323742>Why didn't he just use the CCTV footage from the lab and have one of his goons follow Walts recipe? Then he wouldn't need Jesse or Walt?because cooking, is art yo.
>>222324049Then how come this didn't apply to his chicken restaurant? I think KFC are actually mentioned in the show as being superior.
>>222323978Out of all the actors that tried speaking in spanish, Steven Bauer was the best by far. Born in Cuba, and spent part of his childhood there. If you want true butchery of the spanish language go listen to Raymond Cruz in his X-Files episode. Everyone in that one is awful except for Ruben Blades.
>>222323996Oh yeah? Wanna make out, FAGGOT?
>>222324128The guy sounded americuban, he was playing a mexican drug lord. They even tried to make Danny Trejo speak Spanish, which the man simply can't do.Only one I remember sounding natural was the guy from Better Call Saul, but that's a different show.
the chemistry involved isn't like baking a cake where you strictly follow a recipe it's more dynamic than that where changing one part has knock on effects that affect all the other ingredients and timings. You need a turbo autist like Walt to know when you need to heat this solution for just a few more seconds than normal because the dilution is slightly off or whatever etc.
>nooooo this show is so inaccurate and is racist against latinxes, the actors speaking beanerese say taco burrito chimichanga when they’re supposed to say enchilada taki churroWho fucking cares
I always assumed the higher the quality, the more he could charge wholesalers and the more room to “step on” it or dilute it if the dealers are so inclined.
>>222323892>>222324370Wait am I retarded? I thought the entire batch had a 70% rating instead of 99.1%. Is it actually 70% and 99.1% are usable and the rest goes in the trash?
>>222324089He cares less since it's not his 'real' operation
>>222324476Yeah, although in fairness the 70% is Declan’s cree, I mixed it up with Gale who was doing 96% so it’s much closer. Still at the industrial scale Gus deals with, 96% vs 99.1% is millions of dollars left on the table
i could fuck with a bucket of los pollos hermanos rn ong
What does los pollos taste like why didnt he franchise more and expand nation wide
>>222324089Because there's no way to objectively measure "the best" chicken.
>>222324737
>>222324642Why doesn't Dr Walt "Heisenberg" Science just make 100% pure meth then?
>>222324036>big vacuum thingYou just proved why Gus needed an actual professional
>>222324886Didn’t have that dawg in him
>>222324463Exactly. Your consumer base only needs - expects, really - a certain amount of drug per dose to get high without ODing. So while greed is a part of it, there also needs to be some amount of "fluff" in the same way that ice cream needs air. The higher initial purity, the more the entire distribution chain thrives (but moreso Gus personally, since he's both reducing costs and outproducing the Salamancas).(note that in BCS Lalo talks about competitors stuff being "stepped on " - probably laced with fent or something, though they don't say this explicitly - versus the regular strictly volume based "cut" their product has.)
>>222324380they mention this too, walt and Jesse are not just cooks or scientists, they're process engineers - what tolerances are acceptable for heat/ingredient weight/reaction time, what if your suppliers change, what kind of maintenance schedule do you need to keep the lab from burning down, etc.
>>222323781>>222324049Gus had a sexual complex / soft spot for nerdy men, and Gale was able to Daddy Please his way into getting Walt brought onboard
Jesse I'm in remission
>>222323781I don’t think it was explicitly stated, but I thought the main purpose of his meth operation was to secure an audience with Don Eladio, get his guard down, and then kill him.
>>222323742It's like wine making. There are too many variables to distill the process down to a simple recipe. An expert is needed to handle the subtle adjustments.
>>222324886take a quantitative chemistry course sometime or just watch NileBlue transform shit back and forth to see the yields.
>>222323781Almost like it's fiction and they need a force to drive the plot
>>222324380This is true and its probably why Walt had so much respect for Jesse in the end, he really did admire his genius and applied himself
>>222323742>have one of his goons follow Walts recipeHave you even watched the show?
>>222324036>Just keep using things in the meth lab until it breaks, then we'll buy a new oneWhen things break in a meth lab things have a potential to fucking explode.
>>222324688>why didn’t he franchise it Thinner margins
96% (what Gale could make) vs 99% (Walt) is inconsequential. You won't notice 3% more or less when taking a dose. Also meth isn't hard to synth he could have easily found 1,000 people in NM alone capable of making the same shit.>>222324058not true at all. Also pretty much every end user we met the entire series was a normal meth head.
>>222323781It's about being the best of the best of the bestSir
>>222328225also to add the scene of Jesse throwing out all that meth in the desert because it wasn't good enough was completely retardedeven if he wasn't happy with it he could have dissolved it in any number of solvents and recrystalized it to remove some additional impurities.
Oddly enough I watched that clip last night on same channel
>>222323742Sure. Next just watch the CCTV footage from an operating theater and have one of the goons be a heart surgeon. Dumbass.
>>222328243with honors
>Why did this television show make things up for dramatic effect? It should just be exactly like real life. Why is this television show not real life?Autism itt
>>222323892This is made up head canon because it fixes the glaring retardation. Everything in the show was about it being so much better, better high etc. they start by easily selling out because it's so good. Then Tuco takes one sniff and somehow knows it's like way better and it hits like a mule compared to the other stuff. Then Walt, the genius chemist, sells it to Gus because the purity is higher and Gale even tells Guss the gulf between him and Walt is so huge because that small percentage is such a big deal. In short, Breaking Bad is really fucking stupid I someone ways.
>>222323781The purer it is the better it sells, simple as. Gale said as much, you get a pure product with Gus you don't anything more or less
>>222323781Jesse literally says this in the fly episode>we make poison for people who don’t care
