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

lol I thought the season was over at the explosion

i saw the "gus walking out and straightening his tie" coming, did not see ZOMBIE GUS coming at all

Walt = Joker
Gus = 2 Face
Skyler = that proto-Harley Quinn from the first movie who ruined her face
Marie = Riddler

the scene btwn jesse & walt on the rooftop was some bullshit but so was a lot of this

still looking fwd 2 hank vs walt: always crashing in the same car thunderdome 4 16 eps

everything was ok up to zombie gus

can we list loose ends?

mike
saul
the receptionist who wants $25K
oh yeah, and the dea investigation

lol p sure walt paid the secretary offscreen

lol you guys, the episode was called "Face Off" nudge nudge wink wink

RMDE

but did he carry all that money out the window when he escaped the dea home invasion?! doubt it.

i can't believe the last shot was lilies of the valley. don't they grow in everyone's front yard? i thought everyone knew what lilies of the valley are -- these bozos have never used crabtree & evelyn products or

He just carried $25K out, enough to pay Saul's secretary -- it was sticking out of his pocket.

ah ok, i didn't see that

realistically mike as player out to avenge gus doesn't work for me but I can see them doing that

the receptionist only wanted money in exchange for a phone number

I personally am not so into hank v. walt 'n' jesse...feel like the show is kinda hedging bets about just what an asshole walt is, trying to have it both ways.

fantastic season finale though.

dea home invasion

uh the dea doesn't try to kill you, that was a hit squad

Saul is a-ok, the receptionist/assistant/secretary/wage slave was paid off, and the dea investigation is going to find the remains of a 'sploded lab showing that Gus was really a kingpin.

Now, the only REAL loose end is the fact that the mexican cartel was scared to kill Gus, and that he has this odd connection to a German company. Who are they?

Could kinda see Mike trying to put together a smaller meth operation from the ashes of Gus's, forcing Walt/Jesse to cook. It wouldn't sustain a 16 episode S5, but it would get the ball rolling.

xp hmm, forgot about the German co. I thought that was all Gus, though.

ok, all of that makes sense
i liked the receptionist btw

Mike is not a direct criminal or boss. he is a cleaner and hired detective dude. Basically the ultra version of a crooked cop.

Now, the only REAL loose end is the fact that the mexican cartel was scared to kill Gus, and that he has this odd connection to a German company. Who are they?

― ( ) (mh), Monday, October 10, 2011 3:29 AM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark

yeah this is not Lost

I can't see Mike wanting to take over anything -- he seems to prefer being an employee and not assuming too much personal responsibility and/or power and/or simply "doing what he's told". Easier to sleep at night, I guess? I wonder how he's faring in the tent...

So does this mean Walt & Jesse are out of the meth trade? Seeing as they destroyed the superlab, can't see how they can continue to keep up the high rate of production/take over Gus' business... so I'm not sure where the show can go, really? o_O

I'm sad about gus :(

yeah i'm gonna miss gus too. there was no way he was leaving this ep alive though.

i'll miss gus because he added a lot of tension -- without the pressure of mr. fastidious, the only pressure is the law and that's pretty zzzz

I am hoping for Gus flashbacks next season to explain his background

I liked the Morricone-isms in the score before Gus's death.

So does this mean Walt & Jesse are out of the meth trade? Seeing as they destroyed the superlab, can't see how they can continue to keep up the high rate of production/take over Gus' business... so I'm not sure where the show can go, really? o_O

― Tyler the Creator Knows White People (The Brainwasher), Monday, October 10, 2011 3:40 AM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark

i'm wondering if in hindsight they would've axed fring knowing they have only 16 episodes left. b/c a rise-and-fall-walt-as-meth-kingpin storyline over that episode span seems difficult.

Walt is going to end up alive, broken and humble, happy to have his family and a car wash and not much money. Might even be a cancer scare.

walt needs 2 get 2 gus's house, restaurant, etc 4 everything incriminating him asap

*revs up the yaris*

Gus could be an angel/god. Or at least the terminator.

― Jeff, Thursday, October 6, 2011 9:43 AM (3 days ago) Bookmark

prescient!

http://images.dailytech.com/nimage/10374_terminator_face.jpg

I'm sad about gus :(

I won't miss him personally. But I'm pretty torn up about how wrong I was.

speaking of Gus divulging things, it seems like visiting Tio Hector to boast about killing his family might not be a great idea

― I DIED, Monday, September 26, 2011 4:24 PM (2 weeks ago)

Next prediction: 16 episodes of Walt and Skylar clashing over management direction at the carwash

So is Brock going to recover and say "hey, Walt gave me some berries"?

Surely any of us can guess what will happen next.

I liked the Morricone-isms in the score before Gus's death.

I totally noticed that, too, once you pointed it out. :)

But yeah, it was a deft touch.

I do think him leaving the room and straightening his tie before dying was putting too fine a point on it, though.

Funny, but... really now.

HOWEVER: The makeup and/or CG thqt went into that shot was fan-frickin-tastic. The way you can see the muscles at the back of the eyesocket twitch as he looks around for the last time.

HOWEVER: The song they picked to close this season is nowhere near as good as the song they picked to close the first episode of this season. That song -- "Truth" by Alexander Ebert -- has been in my head ever since. This one slightly annoyed me, and I don't care much to know who it's by.

The first song is so obviously Morricone-inspired... well, here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtPK0gRdFgI

I'd have loved if they'd closed the season with the same song.

Wait... that's Amy Winehouse, isn't it. Ok, well. Shit.

Parallels: the shot of Jesse and Walt shaking hands, but the shot split in two by a pillar in the parking garage, and the shot of Gus and Don Don Eladio shaking hands right before Gus poisoned him, split in two by a tree.

Hector, the man with virtually no control over anything, is given the power to kill Gus. Lost for words.

So what we're left with is a Walt who is (ostensibly) going back to a normal life, but who is now so ruthless that he'll endanger a baby.

Any chance Walt and Jesse were being watched on the roof of that building?

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.aoltv.com/media/2011/10/breaking-bad-hector.jpg.jpg

I felt a little cheated by the writers that the season-ending reveal was predicated on actions that were not shown to the audience.

they showed the gun rouletting onto the plant, they showed Walt changing his mind, they showed Huell boosting Jesse's cigs.

i want a gif of this btw

old lady "hi, hello" re: walt is the fucking funniest thing

― johnny crunch, Sunday, October 9, 2011 10:46 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I liked the bomb magnet getting stuck on the elevator door

that old lady is coming back, you know it -- she saw walt! what, is he gonna kill her too?

The bomb-in-hospital scene was hilarious for the bit of slapstick with the elevator door and the fact that even Jesse was like "you brought a BOMB into a HOSPITAL?!?"

yeah that part was good (the jesse part)
he was really good this episode, made lots of jesse faces