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

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

so walt was putting a bug in an office and the kid was putting a bug in a jar interesting

the jar is hank & marie's and the spider is walt jr

you mean flynn

the tarantula is sawyer

you mean emo mcgee

surprising lack of characters with hair on this show. I'm not seeing any direct tarantula analogue

TRAPPED
BY A CHILD
DEADLY

it is a very hairless show. maybe in that flash-forward in the first episode walt had killed the spider and glued its hair to his head and face?

you guys

WE ARE THE SPIDER

do u see

the tarantula is fried eggs and country ham

― these albatrosses have no fear of man (La Lechera), Wednesday, August 15, 2012 2:08 PM (43 minutes ago)

lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nmxRGD2CLU&feature=player_embedded

too soon!

WAU!

that "yeah bitch" video was great

Watching this episode again, I timed the end of it. The kid, the wave, the reaction shots, the killing: 45 seconds. Talk about precision. They changed the whole season in 45 seconds.

Jesse and Walt pull off a caper but it ends up making things worse for them? Yeah holy shit neevr seen that before.

It's kind of the overall theme of the show, and stuff.

nah man they changed the whole season

lol sic i know right

I feel like most of their capers have been huge successes with not much blowback?

Well, their other big caper this season ultimately (and pretty much only) resulted in Mike taking a much larger percentage of their haul, which is a pretty serious source of friction. The train heist will probably wind up roughly the same way (a success that ultimately isn't worth the cost of said success).

My assumption is that it will not prove difficult for them to dispose of a dead body and a motorcycle.

Well, their other big caper this season ultimately (and pretty much only) resulted in Mike taking a much larger percentage of their haul, which is a pretty serious source of friction. The train heist will probably wind up roughly the same way (a success that ultimately isn't worth the cost of said success).

― Old Lunch, Thursday, August 16, 2012 6:43 PM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

no, their other caper forced Mike to stay in the business.

I mean yeah they could be off on their own without having to pay the prison dudes a cut, but without Mike they'd be using Badger to be their main dealer or something.

if only...

I'm really wondering what direction they will go in for the conclusion: leave Walt penniless and broken but reunited (unhappily) with his family, or leave him successful and victorious with everyone else in his life gone or dead.

it must end badly

he will die. Gilligan has pretty much said so

No satisfaction there. Once again, may I point out "The Shield" as the perfect punishment for hubris.

if they continue with the traditional blunt Breaking Bad foreshadowing, he's gonna go down in a hail of bullets Scarface-style

He's also said they're not letting him off the hook easily, so I expect some kind of colossal humiliation and awakening to just quite how horrible a person he's become.

steady there, I haven't finished The Shield yet

Ha, I keep reading things like "This is like what happened in Season 2 of The Wire" and I'm all SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP I CAN'T HEAR YOU.

http://i.imgur.com/TMhRo.gif

useful gif

I mean yeah they could be off on their own without having to pay the prison dudes a cut, but without Mike they'd be using Badger to be their main dealer or something.

The "success" which resulted in the retention of Mike's services is what's commonly referred to as a short-term gain. I think once we've seen the long-term consequences of choosing to not just chillax with Badger on a low-key tip, it's going to look like anything but a win.

i think it might end badly for them yeah

I think Mike is doomed, but I can imagine a scenario where Walt's arrogance gets the best of him. I wouldn't be shocked if he takes out MIke at the end of this mini season, leaving next mini season for everything to fall apart.

I have a feeling that this last leg of Breaking Bad will serve as a really useful object lesson whenever I start to arrogantly balk at my own life's "two steps back" equivalent of Walt's refusal to start cooking with pseudephedrine again.

The "success" which resulted in the retention of Mike's services is what's commonly referred to as a short-term gain. I think once we've seen the long-term consequences of choosing to not just chillax with Badger on a low-key tip, it's going to look like anything but a win.

― Old Lunch, Thursday, August 16, 2012 7:27 PM (36 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

hey man, we're building an empire here