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

Tuco's office is still the best

xp i agree, was on the edge of my seat

have i mentioned how i like this season's much faster pacing? especially compared to the first half of S4

wow... messed up.

― Nhex

seriously.. just tuned in to the last fifteen minutes. Wonder if TODD will be subject to WAINGRO-an consequences, like in heat. the repercussions will be interesting

That was maybe the most oblique cold open they've had. Despite having zero idea how it was gonna fit into the larger narrative, the talk of the train heist hearkened back to the horn that sounded at the beginning of the episode and I just knew something dreadful was going to go down with that kid. Subtle and masterfully done.

they've been setting us up for 5 years, with those cold opens that were flash forwards so much farther in the future.

even though the caper episodes get me eventually and I get all adrenalized about 'em they are p eyeroll inducing. the ending is almost like a punishment - like, ok, you put up with the thing that would never have happened, here's the reality you think you want from the episode, innocent kid's dead, you happy now mr anti-caper-episode

yeah, it's the old hitchcock switcheroo of "well you wanted the bad guy to win, now deal with the ramifications"

the chrysler 300 commercial narrator sounds like gruff bob odenkirk, pitched down a tad. i guess it's not him, but i keep hearin' it. Nice heat ref by Hank

perfect ep, easily best of s5 so far

OK, not perfect - someone remind me why Skyler just doesn't go State's Witness and get a nice immunity deal?

Another GTA mission.

so i'm confused. there were 5 people involved w/ the heist but the spider the kid caught had only 8 legs. unless bill burr doesn't count

obv Pinkman has to kill the guy now. also not smart turning your crime scene into an even worse crime scene.

The only thing that bothered me a little about this episode is that they didn't really establish why the train dudes couldn't see/hear the caper as it was underway. I mean, I get that it must've been taking place pretty far back on the train, but they weren't being at all sneaky about anything.

Dang, Landry is cold blooded.

Why does everyone call him Landry. His name is Todd

Trains in this situation, short-term stoppage, leave their engines running, so it makes sense that the crew wouldn't have heard. I guess VG and this episode's director made the choice not to have train engine noise up at the truck breakdown area because it would have been hard to record dialogue and get a good sound mix maybe, but I wish they'd found a workaround -- it would have ramped up the scene's tension even more.

I liked this episode a lot, especially right after it was pulled off and they're all like YEAH chest bump we high on adrenaline bitch and then androgynous tarantula kid pulls up. That was the whoa part even before the O_O ending ending.

WmC your screen name is hot fire and I want you to hear that

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this episode was the best.

(xpost) When they measured the distance they're about 800 feet back from the engine - it didn't bother me so much that they weren't noticed by the crew. It did seem too contrived that the methylamine car would fall exactly in that location when the engine stopped at the crossing, as they would have to know the car's position in the train before the manifest was done and it's a big assumption to figure on the train stopping just a few feet shy of the crossing. But hey, all in service of a good caper, although it would be great if they ended up accidentally getting 1000 gallons of vinegar or something.

and it turns out vinegar meth is 100x more crazy than the blue stuff.

loved in-a-suit desk-job Hank letting his hair grow in more, like "welp I guess I'm gonna look 'grown-up' now, not 'tough'"

so the crime part of breaking bad is now Walt and Mike bickering while Jesse finally interrupts with a brilliant idea. Maybe it will all come together and seem right at the end but I think I would have been happier with Mike coming back for 501 only with maybe a few cryptic warnings and Walt, Jesse and Saul figuring out how to reestablish.

the closing ten minutes was i think the tensest the show's been, alongside when hank was trying to get to walt and jesse in the rv. despite the unlikeliness of it i was sure jesse was getting squished.

i'm guessing that the crime team dynamic will be changing a little now, don't think that mike would be one for letting walt almost killing jesse and todd slide, and jesse and todd may not be too pleased when they find out about it either. also, todd is a psycho.

did seem sort of unlikely that JEsse would bust out two mind blowing plans one after the other.

http://i.imgur.com/noHEb.png

I can buy it. Fear of going to a dark(er) place kicked his higher brain functions into gear. I don't think Jesse would ever admit as much to himself, but he's not stupid.

Also, yes: you get creative in the service of trying to make mommy and daddy stop shouting at each other.

lol

Just listening to the BTCE Bryan Cranston interview:

BC: "We promised from the beginning we are going to take a character and change him from a good guy to a bad guy. That's what we promised. And we also promised he only has 2 years to live"

I guess this puts to rest my feeling that Walt was somehow coming out of this alive.

Readjusted end of series Dead or Alive predictions:

Walt - Dead. Probably Jesse's doing.
Skyler - Dead. Not sure but doubt it will be Walt himself. Maybe someone walt paid?
Jesse - Alive and prob out of the biz
Mike - Dead
Hank - Alive
Marie - Alive
Walt Jr - Alive
Holly - Alive and raised a Schrader
Saul - Not sure yet but prob alive

oh Gomie - Dead

Things will really get awkward I bet when Landry shoots Brock.

RAISED A SCHRADER

*awkward*

everyone stares at their shoes, slightly embarrassed, as Brock's brains slide off the wall. Mike sing songs "Awwwwkward".

Maybe Brock and Lydia's kid will hook up in the future and make meth out of soybeans.

Hope Gomie doesn't die, but frankly I'm surprised he's survived even this long as both the well-meaning if unimportant cop sidekick AND as a minority character on this show

I hear he's going to retire in two weeks and sail the world with his wife.

too old for this shit, iirc

:O

god dammit landry

yeah this was another san andreas mission episode

"What's the matter, Hank, that desk job get you soft? You've never seen a man's butt sewn to the back of an armadi ––– KABOOM.

at the cold open when the kid was looking around in the dunes, I thought he had found hank's head strapped to the back of a tortoise

I always wonder if Hank knows more than he's letting on about what Walt has been up to for the past year.

I also thought, no way a moving freight train can see a guy waving at them on the tracks and stop in time to avoid hitting whatever they're waving about.

They might be able to see the truck though.

But it seemed like they were coming around a turn that was blocked by some trees, so it would've been even harder.

if hank knew something about walt, walt would have been busted already. Gus is gone and people are getting killed, there'd be no reason to wait it out.

I'm starting to think Hank is never going to find out about Walt's secret life via investigative means. He'll get close, but it just seems too pat from a dramatic standpoint. After all of his hard work, he'll probably discover Heisenberg's identity from Marie or something.