>Walt willingly shows up to their compound (the fuck is up
>with this compound by the way?), BOOM, they got him. Yet for
>no reason whatsoever they go along with this unnecessary ruse
>of a 'business meeting', stand in their proper places, bring
>out Jesse to defend some sense of honor that in my mind wasn't
>all that firmly established beforehand... Look, I loved this
>ep, but not every element of it is gonna be a 10/10. And
>that's not to say I could've written it any better, sheeeit.
>
>I hear you about the nazis being a "dark force" but the
>flipside of that coin is that their lack of screen time and
>character development left them feeling a little flat. They
>had a function – I don't think it was so much to show Walt the
>grimy side of the game, I think he'd learned that already and
>from more interesting teachers – I think this crew served as a
>means to an end, basically allowing the writers to wrap things
>up the way they did.
>


I just finished watching the show and Uncle Jack caring enough about Walt to delay killing him did seem a bit odd. The other instance of Jack showing some inkling of caring for Walt was him of course leaving him with the barrel of $11 million. But like you said, Breaking Bad didn't get them enough screen time to show why Uncle Jack would care enough about Walt to spare him the barrel or care enough about his opinion to delay the shooting.