Shall we anticipate the FIFTH SEASON of the AMC series "Breaking Bad"? I think I may.

Even by Walt's standards he's being pretty fucking complacent about his wife cracking up.

Weird that at this stage Walt's the liability and Jesse seems to be the level-headed one.

xp I think also being responsible for Ted being in traction is maybe kinda messing her up too.

loved the apple chomp of victory

i was meaning to ask even before this ep though, does everyone fully buy skyler's wigging out to this extent cos i don't really

like yes she is naive but not that she couldnt have forseen something like that happening, maybe not walt actually doing it but the eventuality of it. and given she's been shown to secretly love the power would she really have this much regard for loss of life if it's that of a drug kingpin who was out to kill her family?

not saying walt hasnt been gross since then but i do feel for him somewhat

― r|t|c, Tuesday, July 31, 2012 5:17 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i buy that the cumulative effect of all this trauma would be to drive her off the rails

i mean it's driven walt off the rails in a different way

True. What kind of crazy person watches Scarface with an infant?

xxp, yeah, he was Takeshi Kaga'ing the hell up, it was nice

re: Skyler - I think up until recently she's been able to convince herself that as with Walt's original justification, they were being practical about their larceny, but blowing up a nursing home + the Ted thing was just waaaaaay too far for her, i could see moving from abstract money laundering to crippling her ex-lover and murder would push her over the edge

seeing an ex-lover crippled and terrified because of something u did is p fucked up

after the first couple times tho its not so bad

Hilariously that's basically what Walt tells her.

I buy Skyler's wigging out because she's wigging out about Walt being a murdering, creepy, "I forgive you," let me paw at you in bed while you're clearly not interested in even talking to me, terrifying person to be married to. Oh who just moves back in. Basically Skyler is terrified of Walt and powerless to escape him.

a big part of it is guilt at her willing involvement in this whole sordid mess

i feel like they're setting it up for something 2 have her wigging out 2 this extent. im w/ r|t|c, i think they have her too shell shocked & not even able to function anymore idk

walt's cover story to marie in this was super classic A+ assholery, too

skyler could flip is what im thinking

turn states

rat walt out

She'd have to be very sure that she'd be able to do that without turning herself in and leaving Walter Jr heartbroken and baby Holly without a mother though. Wouldn't bet against her taking both kids and as much money as possible and running though.

shed just make a deal, get no time

I don't think prison time is her biggest concern.

did someone say it was

I buy Skyler's wigging out because she's wigging out about Walt being a murdering, creepy, "I forgive you," let me paw at you in bed while you're clearly not interested in even talking to me, terrifying person to be married to. Oh who just moves back in. Basically Skyler is terrified of Walt and powerless to escape him.

― ms. cookie (carl agatha), Tuesday, July 31, 2012 9:45 AM (42 minutes ago) Bookmark

this is how i see it too

Incidentally has Brock seen or encountered Walt before? The kid looked pretty fucking suspicious and nervous when Walt was alone with him, but we were never shown the actual poisoning scene so I dunno.

I thought in the premiere it was laid out that Saul had it carried out via proxy (which is a HUGE loose end that's probably gonna come out badly). Brock has probably seen Walt one of the various times he's been at Jesse's house, since they were basically living there since about halfway through S4?

what saul did was get the ricin cigarette from jesse, don't think he had anything to do with brock

Seemed like Walt and Andrea were being introduced for the first time.

I thought the only time they got exposed to walt was when he showed up on their doorstep last season when jesse was freezing walt out and was shutting the door in his face

oh yeah, you guys are right

did someone say it was
--lag∞n

Actually yeah in the post right above yours.

not really

It's not her biggest concern, relative to being terrifed of the sociopath and murderer she's married to, but it's hardly a trifling concern either.

Also Marie is clearly about to go back and tell Hank that Skylar is having a mental breakdown. If Skylar were to go to him and say "Walt is running a massive meth operation" he just flat out wouldn't believe her and would piss himself laughing. For an episode or two at least.

As lag∞n pointed out though, esp. if she was the one turning Walt in, it's hard to imagine her going to jail. I think her biggest concerns are psychological and financial (if she turns Walt in all their assets are likely to be seized.)

She doesn't necessarily know she wouldn't go to jail. So yeah it's psychological.

Also y'know she's scared shitless of him.

And by psychological I mean that she's having difficulty wrapping her head around the idea that her husband and the father of her children is the murderous head of criminal enterprise which she is now completely dependent upon financially.

I'm not so sure she's scared of him as much as she is repelled by him (and by extension herself).

I think Skyler is sharp enough to figure out how not to go to jail over this.

also if she turned walt in she would be humiliated and her life/marriage exposed as being completely debased

but she looks like she may be nearing the point where itd be worth it

Yeah definitely looks like that, don't it.

Really curious how exactly Walt poisoned Brock now.

The only person who can really help her out is Saul, and he looks like he's reaching that point himself.

Also lol @ Mike and Hywel yesterday.

ha yes

what if she wants to turn state's evs and walt finds out and decides he has to kill her, how fucked would that be

Really curious how exactly Walt poisoned Brock now.

This remains the show's most aggravatingly-unanswered plot point in recent memory. It kinda prevented the end of last season (awesome as it was) from hanging together for me, if only because it seemed a little logistically sketchy in a show where the details are usually meticulously laid out. Hopefully, it'll eventually be addressed.

I watched S2E1 last night. It was fun to watch Walt make ricin, knowing what we know now.

i realized i had been w/o really thinking abt it imagining walt in disguise offering brock candy

How much you wanna bet it turns out that the Heisenberg hat has magical mind-clouding abilities

up until the premier of this season, I had thought that it had been an accident, but considering the ominous looks, i was obviously wrong about that

wait waht

I'm ok with never finding out how he poisoned Brock. We don't need a flashback for everything.