I discovered a continuity error that screws with the timeline.

Intro

Hey everyone.

As with most of the people who frequent this subreddit, I enjoy rewatching Breaking Bad. It seems that every time I watch it, I pick up on something new or something that I missed the previous time through.

Today, while browsing the /r/BetterCallSaul, I saw them speaking about a the timeline of BCS. I won't get into that for spoiler reasons, but I noticed a problem with Breaking Bad's timeline.

The Evidence

Okay, so to begin with, we are under the assumption that the timeline for Breaking Bad starts around 2008 and ends about 2 years later. This has been the generally accepted timeline for Breaking Bad since the beginning as this was when the show started.

While rewatching this time through, I noticed a little problem in S05E04.

When Walt buys himeself and Junior new cars, they leave them parked in the driveway and go inside. Skyler comes home and notices the new cars and the camera zooms in on what appears to be a temporary registration tag in the rear window of Walt's car.

I did some searching on the internet and came up with what appears to be a similar document that is a New Mexico DMV Temporary Vehicle Registration plate. It looks like this.

In the aforementioned episode, Skyler notices a similar looking tag. It looks like this.

If you notice, the date of the purchase is right in the middle of the tag. The tag on Walt's car appears to say Aug/12/12. This is almost 3 years later than the generally accepted timeline.

Not to mention, while I am not a car person, in looking at pictures of Dodge Challengers online, it appears that Junior's is from 2012 instead of 2009 as it should be.

What this means

Well, to be quite honest, it probably doesn't actually mean anything because it was likely just a production error. A part of me wants to think that all of Breaking Bad takes place in a later timeline in an alternate reality where touch screen phones and things of that nature do not exist.

In Conclusion

Just a small observation I noticed. I'm going to x-post this to /r/BetterCallSaul as they are discussing timelines currently over there, but as it was more Breaking Bad related, I though I'd make the actual post here.

Submitted January 30, 2018 at 03:57AM by gorg235 http://ift.tt/2ElwCho