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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxY3tG7E43E

i don't want to ride the nerd train to details town

― omar little, Monday, August 27, 2012 4:35 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

lol

when he was behind the tree he turned around and saw cops coming from the other direction (ie from behind him) so yeah idgi

the other cops were also in front of him and the airport car was a different colour

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A+ use of Monkees track.

YES.

― Bobby-fil-A (WmC), Monday, August 27, 2012 7:43 AM (12 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This.

Ellingon, too.

less calculated mastermind, more 'i have a gun and im furious with this guy'

seemed like some part of walt was planning to shoot mike from the get-go. driven by saul's warning that mike would roll on them if he got nabbed, plus the possibility that walt realized the only reason mike wasn't already in DEA custody was total chance. he took the gun out of the holster for a reason.

preparing myself for next weeks cold open with walt n todd painstakingly dismantling mike's car

― vincent black shadow giallo (Edward III), Monday, August 27, 2012 11:14 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

imo, walt was planning to threaten mike with the gun to get the names. but he couldn't bring himself. but mike made him mad and he did something crazy

Walt is a horrible person!

"Goin' Down" was a brilliant choice!

Okay bye!

I feel bad that Mike's dying emotion was yet more irritation with Walt.

Yeah. The Curb Your Enthusiasm music on blackout would have worked even better with this episode, something tremendously comic about how thoroughly Walt fucks everything up

I'm addicted to this show, but I'm only on season 1!!!

stay out of this thread you fool!

:-/

it's for your own good my man

ok. I'm very excited though!

I still haven't gone back to watch seasons 2 & 3. Maybe over the winter.

I feel bad that Mike's dying emotion was yet more irritation with Walt.

― Matt DC, Tuesday, August 28, 2012 7:44 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it was so perfect... walt finally annoyed him to death

This episode was another personal milestone in that it's the first time in awhile that I actually watched through my fingers. It was the crying scene in Hank's office. I couldn't take it. I was sure it would end up not working but miraculously it all went according to plan and Walt even overheard the crucial info about the lawyer.

If this was any other show people would be bitching so hard about the convenience of that.

it all works according to a tried and true dramatic principle though. it's ok for your protagonist to benefit from convenient strokes of good luck if it only ends up plunging them deeper into conflict. i.e. the impossibly smooth train heist that ends in child murder.

train heist reminded me so much of the Wild Bunch

which was really just another example of how this show trots out action movie cliches/conventions more than I'd like tbh

Srsly Mike's death was rivalled only by Omar Little's in terms of finding a senseless, stupid and consciously underwhelming way to kill off an amazing character you expected to go down defiantly in a hail of bullets. Being shot by Walt in a fit of pique because he can't take a truth bomb is so ignominious.

Fatal flaw theory, I get the feeling that Walt's most significant and self-destructive act of this episode was not killing Mike, but standing in front of a complete fucking stranger of a drug boss and crowing "I'm the man who killed Gus Fring". We're going to look back on that as a moment of supreme hubristic idiocy.

mike was pretty amusing at times but hardly an amazing character.

I think it's Jonathan banks who made that role really work, a pretty cool character made all the more memorable.

oh well i guess i don't have to watch the wire now.

walt crowing about killing gus did seem like a terrible idea. telling your new boss that you blew up your last one may not be the best way to earn his trust.

Mike's eyerolls in the background behind Walt's "Say my name" standoff were so otm. Like, "THIS is your fucking plan? Great idea, asshole."

hardly his boss, but yeah bad idea

walt basically needs to grow a moustache so they can have him twirl it

i don't think it was just walt not being able to take a truth bomb that was the problem, though - he'd also have felt that by not giving him the 9 names mike was leaving him to have everything collapse around him. hence regretting it once he remembered that mike not telling him wasn't actually that big a deal. i think as a trigger point for walt it more or less made sense.

It was also that Walt's put it out there that Gus wasn't killed by a mostly defunct/dead Mexican drug cartel after all. Presumably only he, Mike, Skyler and Jesse knew about it, now he's gone and told some dude who will have many reasons and opportunities to develop a grudge against Walt.

showboating is always a bad tactical move

The names weren't the catalyst. and using it as an apology after was kind of bullshit too, instead of saying 'I shouldn't have lost my temper'...he's already grasping for the names as his excuse, to make THAT why he pulled the trigger and not his stupid ego. It was Mike telling him that HE fucked it up for everyone. That he's not a genius, that he's an idiot and once again Mike gets to act like he's smarter than Walt and Walt is just not fucking having it. Especially with a gun in his pocket. I mean, I think he took the gun knowing that he might have to threaten Mike to get the names but I think it was Walt's ego that pulled the trigger, plain and simple.

If the names were really the catalyst he'd have threatened Mike properly.

What did Walt say to Mike after Walt said "Everybody wins" that convinced Mike to not shoot Walt and drive into the desert to the drug meet? It doesn't make sense to me that Mike would go for the plan as it actually went down.

yup xxp

It doesn't make sense to me that Mike would go for the plan as it actually went down

He didn't have much choice except to go for the plan, Walt had already hidden the methylamine

What did Walt say to Mike after Walt said "Everybody wins" that convinced Mike to not shoot Walt and drive into the desert to the drug meet?

$5 million dollars

It's like Walt's the precocious 5 year old at the grownups party and Mike's all OKAY FINE PUT ON YOUR DAMN SHOW NOW THAT YOU'VE GOT OUR ATTENTION

Mike's eyerolls in the background behind Walt's "Say my name" standoff were so otm. Like, "THIS is your fucking plan? Great idea, asshole."

Yeah, immediately after the cold open, I was all like, "If only Walt was as legendary IRL as he is in his mind." And then I had a moment where I was all like, "Well, things do seem to unaccountably going his way." But sure enough, by episode's end, Walt did plenty to justify Mike's incredulous eyerolls.

*gets shot* *rolls eyes justifiably*

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this ep was dumb

The only level on which I still sympathize with Walt is in the way that his mind formulates plans. He's super-adaptable and great at thinking on his feet but there's absolutely no nuance or deep strategy in terms of his long-term planning, which leads to shit always falling apart and constant maneuvering around unanticipated obstacles. It's a pretty accurate depiction of how poorly I'd function in a life of crime.

agree this episode was pretty snoozy/predictable. only real lol was Walt insisting to Jesse that nobody else was going to have to die and then immediately killing another dude and putting 9 more guys on his deathlist.

snoozy?

I got lol'd at by Mr Veg for shouting at the tv when Walt shot Mike

Where did Mike get that gun that Walt took out of his hand at the end. If he had a gun all along why did he need the one that should have been in the bag?

yeah I didn't get that either

seems unlikely that he'd let Walt get the drop on him if he had a gun

he had a gun w/him, he didnt need the other one it was just in his go bag

idg why these things are at all hard to understand, too busy snoozing perhaps

this episode was great imho, the final scene was powerful, and ilx tv threads are the worst thing on the internet