Did Gus always intended to kill Walt once Gale learned enough from him...

Did Gus always intended to kill Walt once Gale learned enough from him? Or just once Walt started to piss him off and cause problems for him did he decide to do this?

Only when Gail was introduced.

Well never know, theres a chance he would have just let him live since even after walt and gale worked together for the first time Gus never really stressed that he learn walts technique asap, it was only during the whole jesse that he told gale to do that.

I think if Walt would have kept just punching the clock and pumping out the blue meth everything would have been fine. But it's a TV show, not a lot of dramatic tension in that.

Gale was such a fedora lord holy shit.

I'm surprise he didn't have a Jap brand katana in his place.

Gus was a professional and I think we see that through his relationship with Mike.

Gus only became a threat when Walt became one.

If walt spills the beans the money he earned for his family becomes the property of the us government, he has an obvious reason not to snitch, and he's going to die anyways. Gus would have had no reason to kill him.

The writing during the part of the show where Gus starts to become the antagonist is really the most sloppy in the entire series. Him holding this grudge, and wanting to murder who was in all likelyhood the best meth cook in the world, for something that is ultimately, practically of incredibly low risk to him, goes against everything his character was built up into being at that point, it was nonsense. The entire conflict between them was easily the most immersion breaking part of the series.

I always thought Gus wasn't gonna kill Walt. Even when he tells him "I'll kill your whole family", and Walt runs home to gtfo I thought it was just Gus saying "you're fired so please stop".

Gus was a good guy who was gonna let Walt live, but Walt just wanted to kill him to become the boss

Gale was there so he could take over for Walt but only once he died of cancer and not because Gus planned to kill him

Walt became more trouble than he was worth because of his close association with a fuckup like Jesse and his impulsiveness. Gus saw that he meant more to Walt than the business so it makes sense that he would get Gale to learn his technique and kill him, Gus was already skeptical of walts methods before Gale essentially forced him to hire him anyway.

When Gus killed his own henchman with the box cutter his character was pretty much completely ruined

I already forgot why did Gus get pissed at Walt?

Also op, I dont think that would have happened, Gus explicitly says at 1 part to one of the mexican gangbangers that he has a huge respect for Walt and that's the reason why they're not dead. Gus genuinely saw Walt as a friend

Jesse tried to shoot down those 2 vatos who was using a kid for drug runs but Walt ran them over to save Jesse from getting shot down.

Why did Gus do that anyway? The scene itself is Kino, but after when I was thinking about it, it really made no sense.

Making Gus out to be a ruthless psychopath but with that frightening calm cool demeanor representing a challenge for Walt. I didn't buy the character from the getgo, could have made him more like a Scarface. Walt was the glue for everything.

Wasn't it because people saw his face when he found Gale's dead body or something?

put scare in walt and jesse to do his bidding and because he was pissed they killed Gale and forced him to use them

This and he flew too close to the sun, he tried cooking meth by himself trying to show gus that he could be 'the guy'.

fedora lord? gale?

dude was just geeky as fuck not "fedora". you'd never see a fedora lord karaoke to major tom.
or them singing the whole of crapa pelada and having a good time.
or preparing vegan meals for themselves.

I was just rewatching this episode and I laughed when Mike pulled his gun on Gus after he slit Victor's throat.

When you become a drug kingpin, try to let an employee - in this case, an ambitious employee with nothing to lose - cross you just once and you'll see what happens. Gus knew Walter was problem (and he was right)

He was gonna kill Hank though

I'm pretty sure sure Gus just wanted Gale to memorize Walt's method so that he could keep selling the blue meth after Walt died of cancer, and Walt took this the wrong way and thought Gus was planning to kill him.

This. I like Breaking Bad but 99% of the conflict in the series is caused by Walter unnecessarily escalating situations and Jesse doing stupid shit.

I don't think he originally intended to Kill Walt and replace him with Gail, but by the time Gail was brought on, he was brought on as insurance in case if they had to remove Walt and/or Jesse. They needed someone who could produce the same formula.

Gus is a very smooth operator that does not appreciate a lot of random unpredictable variables. Both Walt and Jesse were showing a lot more volatility and that's for business.

Gus particularly doesn't like any type of behavior that might draw attention to his enterprise. He runs things exactly opposite as a cartel would.

t. Badass druglord

???
In 3rd season finale It was pretty clear Mike was gonna kill Walter

He was pissed that his henchman tried to cook without consulting him. Also as an example for the rest.

Yeah, but Walt's pride (aka the reason he fucks everything up) is a big part of the show

Those last 3 episodes was one of the best television I've seen in my life. All that story built up for a defining moment.

It's been a while but I remember it as Walter mostly finding ways to subdue an increasingly fucked situation, not really making it worse. His name became well known among fucking kingpins and cartels, and his brother in law was a DEA agent, that's naturally bound to bring trouble whether Walt handled everything perfectly or not. He actually did handle it pretty good all things considered.

My take on it was that Gus had a very high stake in the whole operation with the amount he sunk into the lab and the quota of drug that has to be met weekly for the whole venture meant, and when Victor decided to try and cook, making sub-par product, that jeopardized the flow of the whole operation, as well as the fact that Gus was already on a hair trigger when Walt and Jesse offed Gale. So Gus was just like: "You're a risk to my business, you picked the wrong day to do this, and you know too much"

Gus didn't intend to kill Walt from the beginning since he knew pretty early on that Walt had cancer and would eventually succumb to it.

because shitty shows rely on sudden outbursts of ostentatious violence to fool the audience into thinking they are watching something good, and more importantly to keep them coming back for more

>Gus was a good guy
Come on nigger.

Although I do think that Jesse convinced him not to kill Walt, if only because he wouldn't have worked for him otherwise.

>know that the person making the finest product has terminal cancer
>dont have someone you trust to takeover in the certain eventuality
hmm yeah Gus is so wrong guys!

But he initially was happy with the product Gale put out on his own. Gale was the only one that really cared that Walt's stuff was like a .1 of a percent better.