BB/BCS Who is the smartest out of...

Yeah, you'd have to go with Walt really, master chemist and built an empire, but Chuck might be up there too?

Im ranking them with a combination of Book smarts/street smarts and common sense.

In order

Walt - Is clearly tops. Beyond genius level intellect- Jack of all trades. His complete mastery of chemistry and engineering was at a science fiction level.Master manipulator. Mid level street smarts and common sense that gets affected by his pride.( Idiot gave up hundreds of millions out of some silly pride with a love triangle with Eliot and Gretchen and feels his work was stolen- which I doubt it was.)

Saul- Despite his sleazy, flamboyant appearance and mannerisms — punctuated by his outrageous low-budget TV commercials — Saul is a highly competent lawyer who is able to solve problems and find loopholes in order to protect his clients. They had Emilio Koyama dead to rights and Saul got him off. Seems to knows everything about the law. Possesses the highest amount of common sense and street smarts in the BB universe. Even as a kid he was clever and couldn't easily be fooled.

Gus - Complete master of manipulation and hiding a criminal enterprise in plain sight. Extremely careful person with very high common sense and street smarts. Would have gotten away with it forever if he hadn't given Walter so much trouble.

Chuck- Brilliant lawyer but insane. Great book smarts but lousy street smarts and lacks common sense.

Mike - Tons of streets smarts and expert at tracking,although common sense a little low. He should have killed the men in lockup so they didnt have a chance to rat him out.. Loyal to a fault, which got him killed by Walt.

Kim - Clearly a good ,hardworking lawyer. Seems to have more than a few brain cells but I think we will find out that she is too gullible and has blinders on when it comes to Jimmy. Despite Chuck warning her, I am betting Kim will lose her law licence and it will be Jimmys fault

Jesse obviously - the dumbass was pretty much only good at copying Walts formula.Junkie affected his thought processes. Zero common sense. Cant be reasoned with - even when Walt probably did save BOTH their lives by poisoning brock ( Gus clearly is onay with killing children if he threatened Walts children despite how he acts so Gus was never to be trusted) .Has to be spoon fed. Good street smarts and a fast learner- thats just about it. Being around Walt rubbed off on him - ( e.g.masterminding destroying the laptop with a magnet and the train robbery with the weight of the methlamine - but before Walt he didnt have 2 brain cells to rub together so theres that.

Hank - Isnt that bright. For 2 years Walt cooked right under his nose and he only found out because Gales notes. Good street smarts but poor common sense. He went all Captain Ahab on Walt when he should have left well enough alone.

I can feel your uncertainty before you even got to the end of that sentence!

If you did a biography of him, what would it read?

"Meth peddler and user, his girlfriend OD'd and died on the drugs he bought while he lay beside her. He shot a man in the face from point blank range.  He tried to push drugs onto kids at a rehab clinic!  Chasing down debts, he kept two users and their child hostage while one of the users died.  Disposed of the body of countless victims of his crime, including a young kid who went missing, putting the kid's parents through years of pain"

That's just off the top of my head.  If you read this, anyone with a sound mind would think this is a real scumbag.  It is not like he was even under duress.

I agree Hank should have let it slide with Walt.  There was very little benefit for going after him, especially as Walt had retired.  I mean you could tell by the roll-necks he was sporting, this was not a man who was a threat to society any more.  If my brother in law turned out to be a retired drug kingpin, I'd be like "holy fuck, I didn't know you had it in you, tell me more!".  You don't rat out your own family (unless they are a rapist, paedophile or murdering/torturing innocent civilians).

But still, it was pretty smart of Hank the way he trapped Walt with the barrels, it would have worked too if it weren't for the Nazis.  And I'm sure he showed other glimpses of intelligence, but I have to admit I can't recall any right now.  And don't forget, Jesse was just as stupid going after Walt, he thinks a court was just going to let him off scot free after that taped confession?  I don't think so!