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

that was fine but did wonder why they'd choose to put twisty ties on meth tanks rather than a lock

They were replacing security seals. Which I only know because they use the same thing on semi trailers (see also: Beadie working the docks on The Wire). And which I had a mild issue with because the whole point of them is that once they're broken, they're broken. That's how you know someone's tampered with your cargo. I'm not really aware of an easy way to replace them once they've been removed. But I'm trying to stop examining the faulty logistics of the heist.

And they're also usually coded, so you can't just replace them. But enough!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_fcdP0UVqw

;_;

but who inspects those truck/train seals? somebody who works for the railroad? or the person accepting the shipment? IOW a madrigal person who's in on it.

It's usually the freight carrier, iirc.

maybe the freight carrier could be in on it too why not

this episode has aired a kind of trainspottingness itt that I'm enjoying immensely

Ha ha, I'm not usually that much of a stickler for stuff like this, but there are so many moving parts (literally and figuratively) involved in a heist like this that it seems a little odd that Gilligan & Co. in particular kinda glossed over a lot of the somewhat obvious impediments involved.

dude should know better than to gloss over details involving trains

i mean

I remember reading an article once about men who murder their families before killing themselves. The claim was that their patriarchal ego was so dominant that they saw their family as actual appendages of their selves. So suicide necessitated the death of their families too.

these are called "family annihilators" on an episode of Law & Order by Dr. Olivet at some point

the weird thing is that they didn't gloss over a lot of these details. They specifically showed them! They showed closups of those inspection tags a couple of times when they were taking them off and putting them back on. So maybe Walt, Jesse & Mike are the ones who didn't think things through all the way.

Dean Norris on sunday's episode http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/news/q-a-breaking-bad-star-dean-norris-on-the-many-faces-of-hank-20120813

Maybe he can use Todd to take care of Mike's nine guys?

Yah Todd is obv a ninja, can sneak in and out of jail and cap all nine dudes before anyone notices

I was so mad at Walt for waiting til the last possible nanosecond to call them off the train. Greedy motherfucker.
I think it's fair to say, at this point, that he doesn't particularly value anyone.

Also FUCK YOU MIKE THE METHYLAMINE STOPS FLOWING WHEN I SAY IT STOPS FLOWING

haha

Cooking meth seems like a real pain in the ass. Where did they get the methylamine in the first series? Steal it from his school? At this point it's like trying to make a nuclear bomb.

their first little heist together was breaking into a warehouse to steal a barrel of it

ahh, memories of walt and jesse's first b&e scoring methlamyne or whatever that stuff is. terrible outcome for solitary potential witness was getting locked in a portapotty, hank watched the whole thing on cctv and still didn't spot his bro-in-law, they didn't think to roll the barrel till they were halfway to the car, etc etc oh the carefree early innocent days of breaking bad!

i was as shocked as anyone when todd went all terminator mach2 on the kid but remember, the guy was a professional criminal before he ever met "yes sir" and "no sir", who knows what sordid shit he's got in his past? apparently it involved being a p decent shot with a pistol anyway, that kid was like 70 yards away

also perhaps it involved being able to act all goofy and dumb and gee whiz innocent till POW one single well placed shot in the chest

Last time I ripped a load of methylamine off a freight train it played out exactly like that except without the dead kid bit so fuck you all with your "lack of realism".

they did spend a bit of time doing the setup, jesse was all excited the methy car was gonna stop at 797 yards, 798, 799 oh shit look! it's PERFECT! WOO HOO!

and between ice queen's inside information as dept head in a chemicals company or whatever and walt's obsessive scientist schtick and google, i feel like all that stuff was within the realm of plausibility and stuff. there was even some slack on the hoses in case the methl car wasn't the one exactly on top of the bridge

plus twitchychick could probably come up with spare "inspected" tags - didn't they do this kinda stuff all the time in the wire season 2?

also todd totally left the nannycam on, he just kept the footage himself and has it in a safety deposit box somewhere as insurance for when walt decides to kill him.

also perhaps it involved being able to act all goofy and dumb and gee whiz innocent till POW one single well placed shot in the chest

― messiahwannabe, Wednesday, August 15, 2012 5:12 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i think you're reading into todd a bit. what did he do that was goofy or dumb? he barely did or said anything. you're judging him based on his face.

judging an actor on what they look like? craziness!

what?

Landry always looks like that. Because he's a stone cold killah

Hint: Character actors are often hired not because of any particular ability they have but that they just manage to look like the character indented. That they can act is obv. a bonus.

i'm not saying he wasn't cast to seem guileless, but it's a stretch to say he was acting "goofy" or "dumb." POSSIBLY "gee-whiz".

it's not like his character was doing cartwheels and spilling ice cream all over his shirt and picking his nose or something

"toddddddddd!"

he's not exactly a looker but "indented" is harsh

LOL wow. indented = intended.

His name is Todd, he's played by the Landry guy. I think we were obviously supposed to underestimate him.

Todd totally indented that kid.

but the first thing the character was distinguish himself from the rest of the goons. So really we're meant to think this guy looks unassuming but there's obviously more to him

zakto

This is almost off-topic, but I am wondering just what the hell Mike meant when he said to Lydia, "It's not a gun, it's a pistol. I intend accuracy." First of all, a pistol is a gun, it's just not a revolver. Second of all, AFAIK revolvers are not known for being less accurate than pistols. And thirdly, he was going to shoot her point-blank. So what the hell was he talking about?

i was wondering the same

He wanted Lydia to get the script 100% right and not deviate when she was on the phone to Hank.

OH! Ok, I get it. It was a double entendre. As in, "I intend for you to be as precise in reading this script as I am in being picky about what this kind of gun is called."

He was also asking Lydia to repeat back what he'd told her at the time.

what did the spider mean

why was walt looking at the photo of hank and marie

he was looking at the photo of h & m to cover that he'd just put a bug in the back of the photo frame

spider means business

Tarantulas are not venomous, per se, but they do have irritating fuzz they can shoot at you, and their fangs can still inflict a nasty wound, if the animal is angry enough. But treated gently they crawl right into jars and enjoy riding on mopeds in the desert. Which means ... I don't know, someone else can chip a metaphor out of that block.

the jar is albuquerque
wait
the jar is the dea
and the spider is...walt. meth. walt's hat. jesse. albuquerque

the tarantula is fried eggs and country ham

the spider is a bug and todd is pest control, think abt it