In the cold open to this episode, we see Jesse and Jane's trip to the Georgia O'Keefe museum in Santa Fe, and we get the origins of the lipstick stained cigarette butt in Jesse's ash tray. It's all very sentimental and a very sweet moment, and totally heartbreaking when contrasted with the Jesse at that moment.
My problem with it is that, in Breaking Bad's own canon, it could never have happened.
The first time the museum is brought up is in "Four Days Out" (S2E09), but Jesse has to bail on the plans to go because he's been called into the desert by Walt to cook.
The next time the museum is brought up is in "Mandala" (S2E11), and this time Jesse brings up the idea of going but Jane is only interested in smoking meth now that she fell off the wagon. After this point all of her and Jesse's actions are pretty much accounted for-- they hang out and get high together pretty much constantly until Jane dies. I don't have a lot of faith that these two junkies would clean up their act for an afternoon, Jesse would stop being sad over Combo's death and his own guilt in it, and drive an hour both ways to Santa Fe.
For a show with such an attention to detail and timeline I've always been struck by the fact that this was overlooked.
Submitted July 05, 2019 at 08:57PM by ArchStanton27 https://ift.tt/2xvLmYr
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