First glimpse of Jesse's "potential"

He also learned alot from Mr. White in those early cooks. He didn't seem too enthusiastic at the time, but when he later cooked with Badger, you could see all that he retained...boiling flasks, foggy meth, etc. He "applied himself" alot more the second time around with Walt...not so much, duting his Chemistry class.

I saw that the other day but thought he was rooted to the spot in fear....

Marlon, Claudia & Dimby the cats 1989-2010. Clio the cat, July 1997 - 1 May 2016.

I also think "My name is Skylar White, yo. My husband is Walter White, yo." was one of the funniest lines of the series.

That's funny... I took notice of that scene when watching the series a second time too. We think of Jesse and his motor mouth at times, but he kept his cool (for whatever reasons) and didn't run his mouth.

It is interesting to see the dichotomy of Jesse: his weaknesses snd his potentials and how both evolved over time. Jesse had some great ideas at times--sometimes was the one to be pensive when others were "going off"--but it's generally his mistakes (that are generally governed by pure emotion) we remember, as they had big consequences. And while he had some fantastic ideas, he didn't work alone in achieving them, so people (especially non-Jesse fans) tend to not focus on them.

But Jesse's potential grew into coming up some fantastic ideas; making a battery to get Walt and him out of the desert when death was coming, the magnet idea for the laptop, the train heist without killing the employees on the train. With just those three, Jesse's role in bringing the plan to fruition became more instrumental. So to see little nuggets of his potential early on is interesting, especially when they can be masked by his continual mistakes.