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

And when people come by the counter—the crew and whatnot—I see them grabbing a little piece of skin. That means I’ve not only done a good job of acting, I’ve done a good job as one of the world’s best chefs. Ha ha!”

this could be done up in a really gruesome way
"Haha!"

HOLY SHIT U GUYS

walt won

"Walt, did you have anything to do with this?"

zombie gus was great f what any yall say

man i had to go off twitter last night cause i started seeing all this OMGGGGG FUUUUCKs

kudos to whoever it was called walt poisoning brock w/teh plant

zombie gus was great f what any yall say

yeah it's just a real shame he didn't have a catchphrase he could have delivered to the camera just before he dropped, something like "here I go again!" or "thaaaaat's my life!"

feel like every time someones all that was a lil too ott or wow this show has really jumped the shark hasnt it im like have you been watching this show

And the first of four parts:

http://www.avclub.com/articles/vince-gilligan-walks-us-through-season-four-of-bre,63013/

this wasn't that great to me. somehow they managed to make the mega season finale Gus death episode feel anti-climactic.

the actual bomb scene was pretty excellent though.

The actual explosion shot from the hallway was fantastic, the door blowing out across the hall. Whatever effects person they have doing detonations/demolitions has to have that at the top of their highlight reel.

i really liked the image of the spreading of fire across the floor -- the whole laundry scene was really well done, with the warning bells and all, and the matching yellow rags for fingerprints

it's not "too ott" or "jumping the shark" dude it's that just because something is ott a lot doesn't mean every ott move works. like, I like notes in music. that doesn't mean every note ever played is good

what do you know, walt was the one who knocks after all
btw, i'd kind of prefer it if the series was over now!

I liked the touch where Walt dropped the gun. My first thought was that he should wipe it down, but then it became evident he was going to TORCH ALL THE THINGS

walt was in full gangster mode there capping those two guys like nbd 'we have work to do' - no way he can walk away from that high

Haha yeah after "I WON" there's no way in the world Walt is going to be satisfied with working in a fucking car wash for the rest of his life.

On the other hand, there is DEFINITELY no way that Hank is going to let this one go now. With a witness next door who saw Walt hanging around outside as well. He's not going to get that car wash life even if he wants it.

I was kinda dreading opening this thread for fear of it being full of soulcrushing haters but really this episode was awesome. Like they actually outlurided themselves yet again.

Also my gf is out tonight and this means I get to watch the episode all over again knowing full well that Zombie Gus is coming and anticipating the reaction.

I also loved Walt getting a proper dressing down from Saul's secretary.

delurking just to say that this episode was a start-to-finish MASTERPIECE, i could not be happier with every single beat (especially after last week) and

F
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also, the next person to speculate on how walt will "end up" gets a http://youtu.be/LDbR-yW8Pf0

when zombie gus was revealed i literally HOWLED WITH JOY

Hector having his interpreter repeatedly diss Hank

every little moment was golden - the bag getting stuck in the elevator door... walt leaving the office through the broken glass awkwardly instead of opening it...

haha yeah i lold at that

i am so impressed. also really fuckin impressed @ fellow ilxors spotting that plant camera move

and having it like be the most important moment in the season

when everyone was talking about that upthread i was totally rolling my eyes like jeez guys stop overthinking this shit

delurking just to say that this episode was a start-to-finish MASTERPIECE, i could not be happier with every single beat (especially after last week) and

F
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― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Monday, October 10, 2011 7:00 PM (32 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I was very pleased with this. Rip Gus.

hector's look of unmitigated hatred was too intense

WHERE'S MIKE

chill on a beach in mexico with a margie

walter is fuuuuuuuuuucked up, in this episode alone he

- took a bomb into a hospital & nursing home
- convinced an old man to kill himself
- used an old lady to sweep his house for hitmen
- killed his boss & two associates
- poisoned a child

In fairness he poisoned the child in the last episode. He's not THAT bad.

I hope the good people of Albuquerqe have some other place to get good fried chicken.

imo he gave Hector the opportunity to do something nasty that his old self would have done, one last time. That and an honorable death.

hector's look of unmitigated hatred was too intense

It always was, though. He doesn't have enough control of his face to properly judge the intensity of face he makes. That's the whole idea.

xp I agree -- Walter did right by Hector, if by no one else. Which is telling, to say the least.

he was so sweet to that old man

The old man had nothing left to live for. Gus gave him his only reason to stay alive, and Walt gave him a fantastic reason to die. Spite goes a long, long way.

Mark Margolis (who played Hector "Tio" Salamanca) does such a variety of character parts. I thought it was great when he was supposed to be a Mexican cartel guy on this show -- I've seen him play Jewish and Italian parts!

It's all about having giant bags under your eyes at all times, I think. Or at least, that's a critical element.

http://www.hitfix.com/blogs/whats-alan-watching/posts/interview-breaking-bad-creator-vince-gilligan-post-mortems-season-4

I want to get into the mechanics of the plan that Walt hatched. A big deal is made in the previous episode about the chain of custody of the ricin cigarette. What happened to it?

I think Jesse had the right idea. I think it was lifted off him by Huell. When he comes to Walt in the previous episode, and Walt asks how on earth would he could have done it, and Jesse says, "The big man mountain security guard of Saul's just had to see me, and he pats me down. You got him to get it off of me." So having done that, he could've just flushed it in the toilet, because as we find out, the child wasn't poisoned with ricin, he was poisoned with something else.

And Walt was somehow able to get access to Brock, to give him the berries.

Yeah. That part's probably the trickiest part. I can't remember the specifics, but we worked it out in the writer's room. He technically had enough hours to do it. How he found his way over there unseen is probably a little improbable, perhaps, but not impossible, is the way we figured it.

used an old lady to sweep his house for hitmen

This part made me very very nervous.

re: lily plant, i saw it as gus' henchman placed it there, to endanger walt's fam.. eliminating any doubt that (poisoning brock) wasn't gus' move. So walt orchestrated the poisoning to get jesse on his side?

i saw it as gus' henchman placed it there, to endanger walt's fam

Nobody past the age of toddler would eat stuff off a houseplant. It stretches credulity a little bit to think that Brock might. (S5, episode 1: "Brock, why'd you eat the berries off that plant?" "I didn't!" "Hmmm...")

So walt orchestrated the poisoning to get jesse on his side?

yes

Krysten Ritter, who played Jesse's dead girlfriend Jane, played a character named Lilly on another tv show. COINCIDENCE?

yes

Hank's DEA pals better give him some kind of medal or promotion or at least buy him a beer or something

well at least he can stop staring at those laundry pics now

Yeah, that's kind of funny. Hank still doing his diligent detective work on power usage etc. and then the place just blows up