From the novel War and Peace, an average guy sets out to kill Napoleon (Woody Allen parodies it in Love and Death), and it's a ludicrous choice and mission: Walter wanting to shoot Gus right in front of his armed-henchman, including Mike (who provides the only good sequence in a bar)... This doesn't fit a character who'll do anything to stay alive: basically he's desperately seeking a suicide mission...
As for story b... Jesse's partying is really boring, and his otherwise entertaining buddies' dialogue is horrible... mind you, this review is mostly written about when re-watching the series, binging again after so many times... all the Jesse-getting-high-to-forget sequences are just so overly melodramatic, and as great a character as he is, he becomes just pathetically navel-gazing, which, like Walter's drive for Gus, is really not fitting with his character either.
As for story b... Jesse's partying is really boring, and his otherwise entertaining buddies' dialogue is horrible... mind you, this review is mostly written about when re-watching the series, binging again after so many times... all the Jesse-getting-high-to-forget sequences are just so overly melodramatic, and as great a character as he is, he becomes just pathetically navel-gazing, which, like Walter's drive for Gus, is really not fitting with his character either.