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

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.

my wrong thinking: in a stroke of irony, it turns out that brock was accidentally poisoned, but because the source was something in walt's garden, jesse will eventually put two and two together and accuse walt of doing it intentionally, and it will mirror the demise of junkie jane.

I have a feeling it could be a really interesting story tho!

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the important fact is that he did it, not how. matt armstrong otm.

right.

yeah i think it's safe to assume that saul has tight-lipped goons who can get stuff done.

like cripple ted.

that was an accident

saul's g∞ns

walt likes to do his dirty work himself ime

Yeah, don't thing he'd entrust something like that to anyone.

weren't his movements severely constrained at several points? he might not have had a choice?

iirc walt had all day to run around while jesse was doing the cook, he kicked in saul's glas door and bribed the secretary with $$ he had to get from his house where gus' hitmen were hanging out

after jesse got off work he had 5 increasingly frantic messages from saul to come see him (so saul could get the ricin cigarette ASAP)

still hoping for a badger spinoff

I dunno, unless someone can scrape together a satisfying two-beat explanation of how Walt managed to poison a stranger's kid on the sly (what, did he steal an ice cream truck and cram the juniper berries in Brock's Choco Taco?), it's a pretty glaring plot point and it bothers me. I'd probably let it slide on a lesser show but the lack of explanation feels uncharacteristically sloppy here. I'm not asking for an episode devoted to it, but a brief flashback to the act would be nice.

it doesnt bother me really. the berries on the plant are supposed to be enticing for kids to eat, brock's kinda chunky, they probably just put a potted plant where he could see it and he started snackin.

I think it's only sloppy if they never explain it.

I feel like they already explained it, even if it seems implausible. Having a scene where they show exactly how it went down is unlikely to move the current narrative forward. It would just be fan service at this point.

it happened man. let's all just deal

"I feel like they already explained it, even if it seems implausible."

I don't think they explained exactly how Brock was poisoned.

he ordered the berries as a topping on a pizza from a place that doesn't slice their slices

then he threw the pizza into the distance, the berries flew off the pizza and into that kids mouth somehow I dont really know how they got from the pizza to the kid I hope they explain it

The smoke monster did it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOBGwS4Aot4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqaoL6Phf5k&feature=related

now that walt's transformation into evil incarnate is complete, he's the least interesting character

also seems like cranston is on auto-pilot, letting the scripts do all the work

ya he's terrible in this show

turn the berries into a serum, inject it into a caprisun, bingobango you got yourself a sick Brock

I know, right

xp

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lo_P2QDXrwI&feature=player_embedded

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7r7pcqXGlU&feature=player_embedded

What is that? Is it pretending to be real?

It's from a documentary about Coffeemate.

lol

I can't quite figure it out, but it looks like a forgotten TV series from the early '80s? Don't get if it's supposed to seem real or not.

click though to utube and all will be known

"Crisis Counselor" is a mix between a fictionalized Jerry Springer-esque talk show scenario and televised intervention. In this clip from an episode entitled, "Bisexual Husband," which originally aired in 1982, Cranston plays a bisexual man named Sam who goes to a "family crisis counselor" to try to save his marriage after admitting to having an affair with a male lover.

it seems to me that a big thing for walt now is for people to believe in him, to take his word as gospel, to have faith in him. with saul, with mike, with sky - with each of them - he has had moments where he is essentially saying "how do you know this will work? because i say so" with the implied but unsaid "now shut the fuck up because your doubts are undermining my fragile ego"

if we're going to get into predictions i wouldn't be surprised to see some sort of confrontation with one or all of these people that hinges on walt's word not being good enough, or, more typically, walt's suspicion that one of them thinks his word is not good enough

"Crisis Counselor" and "Bisexual Husband" both sound like the name of Prince b-sides.

I think the 'because I say so' attitude quite interesting- as a scientist and someone who cares/cared about analysing in detail the best methods for everything he does, it's unlikely that previously he'd ever have settled for 'because I say so' as a reason for doing anything. It shows how much he prizes power vs careful logic now, I guess. Also maybe he's fed up of trying to explain things to idiots cf that time he and Jesse were stuck in the desert in the crystal ship

no, i thought the same thing - walt usually LOVES explaining in detail exactly why he's right