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

Yeah, and the person upthread who said Walt now resembles a meth head is otm. Skyler's house was the one place in the show that was predictably a safe haven (even with Gus's hard men hanging round out the front).

Pretty convinced that the season will end w/ Walt saving Hank's ass and "allying himself" (but not really) w/ the DEA for protection. At least, that's the most plausible way out for him I can come up with.

That would be a mad setup for the final series. Wow.

holding out hope for "everybody dies"

Probably been mentioned itt but I did wonder whether the DEA's very solidly in cahoots with Fring, and that that's the reason Hank can't get his case up.

Just wanted to point out that it was totally an allusion to a coffin there at the end. What walt felt or forshadowing.

no way, there's no money in coffins and you don't put them underneath a house

good point

hes running because he wants to retain the ability to blackmail her, if he can stop the check & call the police then ... he would succeed?

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the heavies reaction to ted bolting and his subsequent death was lolz all around

haha the explanation to saul was extra lol

Man that ending was so Lynch that I expected Skyler to start clawing at her face with her right hand.

I think I was watching a different episode from many people on this thread. I thought that episode was a complete tease and tremendously frustrating, the ending in particular. And I do love this show but it has started to annoy me. That said, I enjoyed last week a lot so hopefully there will be good things to come.

The biggest wtf was Walt's panicked visit to Saul being played for (admittedly dark) laughs when it could have actually been genuinely tense. I did not understand that at all.

btw totally glad ted is dead, found his scenes nearly unbearable even by the uncomfortable standards of this show

I thought that episode was a complete tease and tremendously frustrating, the ending in particular.

whaaaaaat, this whole year has been a tease from start to finish

lol'd so hard at dead ted

trying to blackmail skylar while simultaneously woundedly denying that hes trying to blackmail skylar is so completely w/in ted's character that it seems hard to read any other way idk

i dont really care who dies or w/e i just want to know what happens next

as if jesse's life isn't hard enough he has to play sonic 2006 as well

Can I just say that the scene with Gus telling a tied-up Walt what the fuck was going on was a piece of directoral and cinematographic brilliance? But in the most beautiful, simple, craftsmanlike way.

When you shoot in the west/southwest desert on a day like that, where, if you get the polarizer just right, the sky is a deep blue and the clouds are these gorgeous, imaginary-looking things, the one problem is that there's no real way to predict when a cloud will pass over your main action. You just hope that you get everything in the same light, because the difference between cloud and full sun is so stark that it's impossible to cut between one and the other. To have spent at least 30 minutes in a situation where a minute costs thousands of dollars, just so you have a master shot where the cloud comes in and leaves again...

The level of planning, forethought, and expertise that goes into assuring that that scene is not only saved from being reshot or jury-rigged in editing, but that it actually adds something to the vocabulary of cinematography on TV, is something that I aspire to, at my very best, every day I get my hands on a camera.

better yet

...

holy shit

Thing is, Ted was being blundering and fucking moronically stupid and self-destructive in EXACTLY the same way as Walt in this episode. Like, you KNOW it's game over. You are completely fucked. You are going to jail, or you are being driven out into the desert by a psychopathic drug dealer with a bag over your head. And then at the very last minute, you're offered a precious lifeline you'd previously have given everything for. And you throw it back in their face, you're stupid enough to believe that against all logic, you can take everything back. Then you realise you're really really fucked, and you try to run away. And you fuck it up. And then you're REALLY fucked.

Nice touch on the writers' part, I thought.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrGc9-UwCXg

thankfully ted's death is now on youtube lmao

WHERE IS THE GIF?

i dunno, but:

http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lrua8glh2k1qhtqtjo1_250.gif

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the godfather oranges mean that he's dead

Seriously if they can't tell a dead man when they see one then Saul has hired the most inept heavies in the world.

Man that ending was so Lynch that I expected Skyler to start clawing at her face with her right hand.

Yes! Totally!

Was there music at the end? Because it read as so Lynch to me that I've superimposed creepy Lynch music over my memory of the last scene.

There was creepy Lynch air vent drone, I thought. Or buzzing ants.

I did appreciate that even under duress Walt was completely shifty around Saul. "They're going to kill my family!" Well, no, Walt, only if you don't take the generous lifeline and leave Jesse and the operation alone. But of course he can't do that, because Walt thinks the "operation" is his.

Odds on Marie, not Hank, getting killed this season are high. Which would further motivate Walt to help Hank and/or the DEA, though I don't want them to twist Walt into something remotely sympathetic, because he's not. Walt is one of the all-time biggest assholes.

The death of Marie would also bring the babysitting crisis into the foreground. LOL at Hank telling Walt he has his hands full these days "with the car wash." But of course not with THE NEWBORN BABY, or the CANCER, or the special needs son who one of these days is going to have to start shopping for COLLEGE. But yeah, that car wash.

It sounded like a jacked up thx sound.

There was a weird sorta hearbeat noise that turned into a drone

I did appreciate that even under duress Walt was completely shifty around Saul. "They're going to kill my family!" Well, no, Walt, only if you don't take the generous lifeline and leave Jesse and the operation alone. But of course he can't do that, because Walt thinks the "operation" is his.

It's more because they're going to kill his brother in law. No matter how debased his morality his, Walt isn't going to allow that to happen if he can prevent it.

I can definitely see Marie dying, good call. Gus too maybe, or at least a nice long coma that gives them a bit of breathing space.

I think Gus has definitely underestimated Jesse, or overvalued his loyalty. Look how happy his homelife suddenly seemed. No way is he going to agree to cook for the dude who ordered the murder or Walt's entire family, including a baby. His main loyalty is to Mike, not Gus, we saw that in the scene with the doctors, and he's still carrying that ricin around him...

I did appreciate that even under duress Walt was completely shifty around Saul. "They're going to kill my family!" Well, no, Walt, only if you don't take the generous lifeline and leave Jesse and the operation alone.

TBF, he has to leave Jesse and the operation alone and let Gus kill Hank. Gus explicitly threatened to murder the family if Walt interfered with Gus's plans for Hank.

I was thinking about the people I would hate to see die on this show, and kind of surprisingly, Marie was high on that list. I will be really bummed out if Marie dies. I'm fond of her neuroses and her purple.

I would be least sad if Skylar died. I hate to say it, but I could do without having to look at Anna Gunn's weird mask of a face anymore.

"I thought that episode was a complete tease and tremendously frustrating, the ending in particular."

Uh Gus tells what he is going to do, Ted dies, Walt realizes he's fucked, I'd say there is a fair amount of reveal in this EP.

yup, and an amazing setup for the final two episodes

"I did appreciate that even under duress Walt was completely shifty around Saul."

He wasn't shifty so much as he's losing his mind. And as Jenny points out the lifeline is only good if he let's Hank die which Walt clearly isn't prepared to do.

But now Walt has fucked with Gus's plan to kill Hank, no? Gus is smart enough to understand who gave the feds a heads up. So minus escape with different identities ... unless Walt can convince Jesse to pay for his escape ...

Oh yeah, that would make sense. Jesse would do it, too.

The biggest wtf was Walt's panicked visit to Saul being played for (admittedly dark) laughs when it could have actually been genuinely tense. I did not understand that at all.

Not to pick on you admrl or imply that your reaction isn't genuine, but I thought it was incredibly tense. Saul trying and failing to do his usual breezy routine in the face of Walt's crisis, and seeing Saul actually become desperately worried, was petrifying

"But now Walt has fucked with Gus's plan to kill Hank, no?"

Imagine that's part of why Walt is laughing in his crawl space.

Gus doesn't explicitly say to Walt that he's going to kill Hank. He only said he was going to deal with it, which of course could mean killing Hank but that also allows the writers some leeway with where to go. For example, Gus informing Hank that Walt has been working for him behind his back and use that to try and blackmail him into his services to keep the DEA off or staying away altogether.

maybe gus ends up in the care home in a wheechair next to thingy but with a kazoo instead of a bell

Alternative is that Walt goes on the "Dirty Harry" warpath but I think that could be ridiculous. We still don't know how Mike will fit into the story, either.

Mike is going to enjoy his vacay in Mexico.

Seriously if they can't tell a dead man when they see one then Saul has hired the most inept heavies in the world.

...and?

No way is he going to agree to cook for the dude who ordered the murder or Walt's entire family, including a baby.

Gus hasn't actually done this, he just said it to put the frighteners into a Walt who was too damn dumb to take the opportunity to protect them

I would be least sad if Skylar died. I hate to say it, but I could do without having to look at Anna Gunn's weird mask of a face anymore.

yeah, the blackmail scene was horrible to watch bcz of her stiff unmoving face and shiny dolly eyes

holding out hope for "everybody dies"

shakey tyler

:( Her eyes were weird and hard to look at. I said as much to Jeff and then I felt bad because I've been so adamantly pro-Skyler from the beginning.

I very much doubt that Gus wouldn't follow through on that threat if provoked.

If you search Google for "Anna Gunn" the first three autocorrect suggestions are "plastic surgery," "pregnancy," and "weight gain." :( :( :(

I very much doubt that Gus wouldn't follow through on that threat if provoked.

oh for sure, but he hasn't actually put an order out, and I don't think he wants to. (though it doesn't matter whether he does or not.) he was using it to end-run around Walt's "ha ha Jesse told you not to kill me, I can tell! it's all about me! me me me!"

Yeah that was probably the stupidest thing Walt's ever done. Like, it genuinely didn't occur to him that Gus could endanger his family, because he hadn't thought about it for one second.

cos he's gone mental