Shall we anticpate the AMC series "Breaking Bad"? I think I may.

On the other hand this is a world where people are stupid enough to fall for Skylar's airhead routine.

i was expecting her to bust out a cigarette again, but she let me down

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calls a number of walt

Jeez ever heard of a spoiler alert?!

Actually this dialogue captures Jesse's voice pretty accurately.

lol wait were u reading a jpg of what pretends to be an unreleased script and you didn't expect spoilers?

its just the ways it is

to be continue?

that leaked script thing is like The Internet Justified, 2011

your amazing lets get dennys

shoots mike who dies right a way

dying, the right a way

that was posted on this thread two weeks ago, GOD

did you post "first!" after it was posted?

still holds up imo

I posted it the first time round but y'know, it bears repeating

forreal yo

trying to figure out how to add 'bitch' to my weekday conversations in corporation world

good morning Ted. how are you? listen, no big deal - but you forgot the put covers on those TPS reports... bitch.
anyways, you'll get 'em next time.

Skyler was on some Melanie Griffith/"Working Girl" shit there. No way mere incompetence gets a dude out of a felony charge, though, especially if the investigation had progressed that far already. And there's double no way that just giving Ted the $650K would make the problem go away.

Still not sure of Gus's long game. Or. hell Walt's short game. He's going to end up penniless and dead. Hell, he's already managed to disappear his kids! Seriously, though, who's watching the fucking BABY?

Why did Mike have to liquidate random worker #3? Why couldn't they bury him in the desert or something? Why did he warrant fancy-pants waste disposal?

Anyway, good episode. Ratcheted things even tighter with ruthless efficiency.

Oh, and the reason Jesse is so likable, relatively speaking, is that his learning curve is leaving him smarter, or at least less prone to ignorant self-destruction, whereas Walt's is leaving him dumber and more fatalistic. What are the chances the show leaves Jesse last man standing, back working the streets? At the very least he needs to throw Badger a bone, at least for my sake. The Badger and Skinny Pete show is almost as funny as the Mike and Jesse show.

I hope they all die except holly. And the final season is just her and a string of wacky babysitters.

i love that jesse still refers to walt - after everything they've been through - as "Mr White"

Why did Mike have to liquidate random worker #3? Why couldn't they bury him in the desert or something? Why did he warrant fancy-pants waste disposal?

a body buried in the desert can be found, or uncovered by wind. Mike's a professional.

walt's short game of killing gus is fucking suicidal - gus is the only thing standing between walt and the cartels

Walt doesn't know much about the cartel though. He still doesn't know that two twins showed up with an axe and were in his house about to kill him until Gus called them off.

This looks like a bad move on Gus's part actually, keeping Walt in the dark about it, he'd have Walt's loyalty then. I suppose he's already said he doesn't believe fear to be an effective motivator, but Walt's in a permanent state of fear already.

Actually I'm trying to remember that face-off meeting between Walt and Gus in the last season. Gus didn't actually tell him that the cartel are out for his blood, did he? There was a lot of conjecture on Walt's part that just happened to get near the truth of the power struggle, but not the whole truth? I need to watch that scene again really.

yeah, walt is right to be paranoid, but he's paranoid about the wrong people

i forgot that gus said fear isn't a motivator. the first episode seems like a, shall we say, U-turn on that policy

first ep of this season i mean

Gus probably knows that if he told Walt the whole story then Walt would try to leverage the cartel against him. That is, Walt, ever myopic, would side with the cartel just as a quick survival fix.

Anyway, this show is nothing if not about lack of communication and things left unspoken. Think of the countless secrets everyone's keeping from one another: Hank's secret pursuit of Gus, Walt's numerous schemes/infraction, the whereabouts of Holly/Walt Jr., Ted's tax problems, Marie's purple addiction, Skyler's secret plastic surgery, how a vat of viscous red liquid shipped off in a truck is less conspicuous than a random shot dude buried somewhere deep in the desert ...

I just assume that Holly is with Marie and Walter Jr, being 16 years old, has a life that involves not hanging around with his parents that much.

But, um, Marie works, doesn't she? (This is moot, btw; mystery baby is irrelevant, it just bugs me when shows add children for no good reason and then don't know how to deal with it - sort of like a lot of parents).

kids raise themselves these days.

She'll be dealing meth soon enough.

Breaking Bad would definitely be a much better show with the addition of ~ 15 min per episode of Skyler and Walt calling around for baby sitters, navigating day care waiting lists, researching nanny share programs, scrambling for car wash coverage because the day care closed early. I have no idea why they don't focus on that more.

The baby isn't there "for no good reason" - one of the reasons Walt panicked in S1 when he thought he was dying of cancer was because his wife was about to have a second child he wouldn't be there to provide for. There's just not much you can do with it now other than have it kidnapped or just turn up occasionally wearing an array of cute little hats.

Yeah baffled by people caring where Holly is. She's either with a nanny or at baby-day-care-share. Who cares? It's not like WHO IS TAKING CARE OF THE BABY NOW is some central plot point.

http://s3.amazonaws.com/data.tumblr.com/tumblr_lrhsh7pmc21qzvqipo1_1280.jpg

Shoot. Here:

http://juliasegal.tumblr.com/post/10190517286

Very worth a click.

x-post It is very important, just wait. In three eps Skyler will look up and exclaim "oh shit, where is the baby!"

Anyway, Walt was already working two jobs, including the car wash, with a special needs kid, before he even found out she was pregnant, no? Regardless, they didn't need to toss a baby into the mix, and certainly the baby was not the deciding impetus for Walt's career change. But unlike Skyler's brief narrative stint as an aspiring novelist - remember that? - or even Marie's shoplifting, it's a lot harder to just forget about a baby. Or apparently not. I'm just amazed a show this mostly tight could be so brazen.

That picture is awesome! They should sell that as a tandem Halloween costume, like the horse where someone is the head and someone else is the ass.

Maybe the baby is with Rose and Bernard, being looked after.

bro no1 cares about the baby bcuz the baby is boring and like jenny points out taking time away from interesting storylines so that we can get a 'realistic' portrayal of the sacrifices and challenges of modern parenthood is moronic

Regardless, they didn't need to toss a baby into the mix

I would bet a lot of parents who have an "accident" feel the same way. And while it may not have been The Deciding Factor for Walt's fateful decision I can tell you first hand that a new kid on the way - or the prospect of a new kid on the way - can make men (and women) get into a pretty freaky and anxious headspace.

Dudes, I really don't care about the baby. No one cares about the baby. I'm just teasing the show by proxy "bcuz the baby is boring and like jenny points out taking time away from interesting story lines," which any idiot writing a show about people cooking crystal meth should have recognized before giving their main protagonist a new baby. That's why adding a new baby is such a standard jumping the shark trope. It's what you do when you've run out of ideas, not when you're just starting out the story. Just a bizarre narrative hiccup in the series.

Though Trace, if the prospect, let alone addition, of a new baby is enough to make regular people go nuts, let alone these people, that's a reason why there should be more baby, not less! "Oh my God, we need to pick up Holly at the dare care yet I'm stuck here with a gun to my head! Oh my God, child protective services will take away my baby if they find out I'm involved in this!" Etc.

I can't believe they gave Walter Jr cerebral palsy as well, there's no relationship to the meth plot whatsoever. How boring and lame.

I mean the prospect of one can really ratchet up feelings of "Oh god what have I done with my life" and "I will never be free again". Exactly the sorts of feelings that might help a desperate man with cancer break bad. So, I dunno, not pointless or shark-jumpy to me at all, more like a reinforcement of the deep psychological weeds Walt felt he needed to thrash his way out of.

The two kids are basically the only thing even remotely connecting Walt to the normal world now. Without them, or if Walter Jr finds out what he's been doing, means there's nothing to stop Walt and Skylar just taking the Saul Goodman nuclear option and disappearing for good. There's a reason they need to be there, but also a reason why they're very much in the background most of the time.

Fully expect Junior to find out at some point, but that's maybe a bomb they'll drop in the final season.

right ok but adding the baby at the start is obv not really 'running out of ideas' or a 'hiccup' it seems clearly part of the original plan which was to make this guys life seems as overwhelmingly stressful and desperate as possible in part so that we can understand/identify with his decision to become a drug dealer. like the baby like walt jr.'s cerebral palsy helps the audience understand just how backed into a corner walt is, and why hes willing to do s.thing like start cooking meth

i mean the baby has p much served its narrative purpose but i think its dumb to get mad at a show like breaking bad for not mentioning a plot thread every single episode once its been introduced or w/e its a p economical in its storytelling. if we need the info well get it, i guess.