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

also why did he need to have that meeting w/hank if hed already lost his trail

btw i saw an ep of the mentalist last night where hank played a cop

i think maybe the lazy handcuffing was suposed to demonstrate mikes habitual underestimation of walt, which will eventually kill him

also why did he need to have that meeting w/hank if hed already lost his trail

I thought the point was that Mike WAS still being tailed all the time and the temporary restraining order bought him 24 hours with no tail (but once that 24 hours is over they will be trying to nail him twice as hard)

^yeah, i believe that was what happened, so he could have that time to do the deal and settle all his accounts before leaving town

when this series ends, i am requesting a wrap up where we make a list of all the inaccurate prognostication across all BB threads

I thought the point was that Mike WAS still being tailed all the time and the temporary restraining order bought him 24 hours with no tail (but once that 24 hours is over they will be trying to nail him twice as hard)

― dmr, Monday, August 20, 2012 12:55 PM (19 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

naw he was at meth hq so that means he had lost his tail, unless he had to go home or something theres no way the cops wouldve found him

when this series ends, i am requesting a wrap up where we make a list of all the inaccurate prognostication across all BB threads

― "Batshit crazy," the foam clog tycoon said. (forksclovetofu), Monday, August 20, 2012 1:14 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark

that would be v entertaining, yes

xp well considering he was planning on doing a deal that involved presumably carting a thousand gallons of methylamine behind his car, he probably decided he was better safe than sorry.

so, on the innacurate prognostication front, i guess walt is going to try to get into business with mike's contacts?

i boldly predict hes going to pretend to go into business w/mikes contacts and then kill them

Whatever ultimately happens to the dudes from Phoenix, Walt's looking to expand his territory and he's likely to pull it off. That's my prognosticaysh.

incidentally and PERHAPS SLIGHTLY *SPOILERY*, the last episode of this half-season is called 'gliding over all', and there's a walt whitman poem called 'gliding o'er all'. read it at your peril.

& next weeks is called 'say my name'
listen 2 the destinys child song @ ur own risk

GASP

also why did he need to have that meeting w/hank if hed already lost his trail

I assume you can't re-schedule with the DEA very easily

omg that dinner scene. Jesse had me laughing harder than anything in a long time. Where's the gifs?

the part about the beans was hilarious

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m92f30loWw1qk4fe1o2_500.gif

like the way mike's contact was called DECLAN

i need a gif of him drinking the water

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m92dziWL2D1qmvbmuo1_400.gif

haha yes

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m92f30loWw1qk4fe1o1_500.gif

ok I've had my fun with the gifs

lmao

he's gulping like little kids drink milk

I watched an ep of Malcolm in the Middle yesterday and it's bizarrely prescient - Hal/Walt convinces his wife to steal a $10,000 cheque from Malcolm and instead of using it to fix the pipes in the house (PIPES! Didn't Walt go fixing the pipes or the floor in an early ep?) he wants to buy a boat. Little Dewey gets drawn into the scheme and says 'I vote we vote!' a la Jesse last week.

what was jesse's look about when walt was whistling?

'how can you be so inhuman?'?

Of late, Jesse winds up playing the role of confused/anxious kid caught in the middle of every interpersonal dynamic he's drawn into.

So I have a feeling that his arc is going to be about him finally getting some agency over the forces around him.

well he's not really the bad guy. and it took awhile for him to get there but our allegiances as an audience are intended now to be more with jesse than walt

i still kind of find if funny how Walt used to refer to Mike as the psychopath. times change!

what was jesse's look about when walt was whistling?

'how can you be so inhuman?'?

― skrill xx (cozen), Monday, August 20, 2012 3:54 PM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah he just saw how full of shit walt was saying he hasnt slept and is all torn up over the dead kid

Yeah when Walt said that he was awake all night I was like 'pfft, no you weren't' and then I realised, no, he actually probably wasn't and how did that happen?

Just watched this - oh, such a good episode. I now think there is no chance Mike is surviving this series. Also, it's perhaps the first ep with Walt being in serious (internal) danger - previously he's been saved by his ability to cook (even if Jesse can do it himself): but now his partners want to leave all he is is an obstacle. I can't think of any way in which everyone wouldn't have been better off if Mike had killed him rather than sellotaping him to a radiator.

[incidentally and PERHAPS SLIGHTLY *SPOILERY*, the last episode of this half-season is called 'gliding over all', and there's a walt whitman poem called 'gliding o'er all'. read it at your peril.

― 4'33" (dubstep remix) (Merdeyeux), Monday, August 20, 2012 12:28 PM (25 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

isnt this the poem hank read walt from gale's notebook?

I can't think of any way in which everyone wouldn't have been better off if Mike had killed him rather than sellotaping him to a radiator.

Well, except for Walter. And uh Vince Gilligan and HBO and AMC and you and me and everybody else

don't be dense, you know what he meant

x-post Well, yes.

Off topic - Walt's circular logic is becoming increasingly obvious. He tells Jesse during the best dinner ever that he has nothing except the business, while of course the reason he has nothing else is because of the business.

Still - for the Empire!

it would have been sort of an asshole-y thing to say - but after that Pinkman could have pointed out Walt's family situation and said "look, this is ruining your family. you need to get out."
"yo."

walt is well past reasoning with tho

true.

Frequently during (and before, and in other parts of the episode) the dinner scene, Jesse seemed to pass beyond 'awkwaaaard' into terrified. Though there's always been a strong element of fear in their relationship, I felt it was a really strong theme this episode.

sensational

i was thinking about the legacy costs.. can't remember how much the potential stoolies get every month but with another 9 years to go i can't imagine mike would have much left over from 5 mil? possible motivation for agreeing to whatever walt has up his sleeve (well, that and the fact that only walt knows where the methylamine is - though the look on mike's face suggested he would have had little problem doing what was necessary for walt to spill the beans)

the opening scene was probably the first time i've felt truly unsettled by the show. i know it's had its moments before, a friend told me she stopped watching after a season or two cos it was too dark, but the dismantling of the bike and the body etc, it was just very emotionally real and unlike how death usually is on tv.

yeah

it is almost at the point that i was asking how they're being allowed to make such hard-hitting stuff. i mean dissolving a kid in a barrel of acid ffs.

I was curious whether they would differentiate in how they treat drug trade death and civilian death, but there was literally no difference.

brilliant music in that scene

avclub review points out that there are a bunch of imitations mentioned in the episode: Miracle Whip for mayo, kelp for cavier, fake pictures of frozen lasagna vs. the actual thing.

fake methylamine?