In a way, this is like the first episode of the REAL Breaking Bad;
The first few episodes, the show was still trying to find it's feet- Walt was far more submissive, and brow-beaten than the Walt we know, who maintained a life as a suburban father, but at his core, he's a fiercely proud, ego-driven man who'll go to extremes to keep the upper hand; Virtually the total opposite of the meek, early-episodes-Walt. And at the start of season 1, Jesse was more of a comedic, 'Bill and Ted'-esque stoner side-character, who the writers intended to kill off, before the end of the season, very different to the three dimensional, central character he'd eventually become.
But in 'Crazy Handful of Nothin', we finally see the first appearance of 'Heisenberg'; arguably "the real Walt", and the driving force of Breaking Bad. And by now, Jesse has mostly lost his cartoonish quality of the first few episodes, and after the interactions with his parents and shielding his younger brother from drugs, last episode, and ending up hospitalized now, he's growing into a fleshed-out, sympathetic character... as well as a victim of Walt's hubris and ambition...
The first few episodes, the show was still trying to find it's feet- Walt was far more submissive, and brow-beaten than the Walt we know, who maintained a life as a suburban father, but at his core, he's a fiercely proud, ego-driven man who'll go to extremes to keep the upper hand; Virtually the total opposite of the meek, early-episodes-Walt. And at the start of season 1, Jesse was more of a comedic, 'Bill and Ted'-esque stoner side-character, who the writers intended to kill off, before the end of the season, very different to the three dimensional, central character he'd eventually become.
But in 'Crazy Handful of Nothin', we finally see the first appearance of 'Heisenberg'; arguably "the real Walt", and the driving force of Breaking Bad. And by now, Jesse has mostly lost his cartoonish quality of the first few episodes, and after the interactions with his parents and shielding his younger brother from drugs, last episode, and ending up hospitalized now, he's growing into a fleshed-out, sympathetic character... as well as a victim of Walt's hubris and ambition...