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It's not just a simple recipe, guy. How are you not getting this? And why is it a fricking hang up? Walt, like every cook who really understands the way things react to each other and understands why they do things a certain way, could make adjustments where adjustments needed to be made. In theory, recipes are designed to get you the same product every time, but in practice, even with a detailed, thorough recipe, there are changes, small differences that occur. Walt can account for these because he's a chemist. Jesse cannot because he's not.

This is very fricking simple and I feel like now you're just trying to argue for the sake of argument rather than actually trying to change anyone's mind.

I'm certainly not arguing for the sake of arguing. I'm arguing because there's nothing in the series to suggest the bolded above was ever necessary. There was no indication that there was any aspect of that process that required quick-thinking professional judgment. And I've never cooked meth myself so the depiction of the process over the 60+ episodes is what I'm going off of.

We obviously just disagree on this point. It happens.

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All of your "beefs" with the show are so insignificant as to be borderline trollish. King George's issue with Jr's reaction (or lack thereof), Freauxzen's suggestion of an issue with Marie's rather pointless kleptomania storyline, those are legitimate. Walter being a better "cook" than Jesse is not. It was explained numerous times in the show and has been thoroughly beaten to death by the posters in this thread.

Now you sound like the guy from the first page who said I was being "inflammatory". In this context, I have no idea what that means. I just got done watching this series and so I posted a few things I was thinking about as it was going on. How that could be considered 'trolling' is beyond me.

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Posted on 7/8/15 at 3:53 pm to SystemsGo

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I'm arguing because there's nothing in the series to suggest the bolded above was ever necessary. There was no indication that there was any aspect of that process that required quick-thinking professional judgment

What... the frick. Are you serious right now? Nothing in the series suggested that cooking meth is a complicated chemical process that requires a talented chemist to make adjustments for? A major premise of the show is that Walt is the best at cooking meth because he is a genius chemist. They even get into how Walt was on board to be a multi-millionaire, how another brilliant chemist (Gale) idolized him, how other chemists tried to duplicate the process but couldn't, and how Jesse, despite knowing the recipe and having been under Walt's tutelage, couldn't replicate the purity precisely because it isn't just a recipe.

Jesus tap-dancing Christ you have to be trolling now. If you aren't, you are the most thickheaded, imbecilic poster on this board.

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Now you sound like the guy from the first page who said I was being "inflammatory". In this context, I have no idea what that means. I just got done watching this series and so I posted a few things I was thinking about as it was going on. How that could be considered 'trolling' is beyond me.

I said, "All of your 'beefs' with the show are so insignificant as to be borderline trollish." In other words, it appears you are trying to find stupid shite to sling at the show but have no real substance behind it and are trying to rile up the others on this board for no purpose other than to rile them up. This appears to be true given your complete inability to see where and/or your willful ignorance as to your argument that Jesse's inability to cook as pure a meth as Walt is a "problem" with the show isn't actually a problem and has been explained time and time again both in this thread and on the show itself.