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

Dr. Frank Frank

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lol Shakey you're earnestly claiming "I called all this stuff but I didn't do so on the thread about the show in which I participate actively"?

these were predictions expressed to my wife while we watched the show - I waited til we were all caught up to get on this thread. that's just how it is. sorry I can't subject my claims to rigorous ILX scientific analysis

I was not on this thread at all until last week in case you were wondering

all right well you're here now and this is yr call

Walt hatches plan to whack Mike's 9 dudes on the inside. things go wrong. Hank inches closer to discovering Walt, finds some random piece of evidence from Mike's murder or the kid's disappearance that could potentially lead him to Walt. Lydia probably gets murdered.

Plan to whack 9 dudes has been telegraphed since the list was introduced by Lydia, no surprise there. "Hank inches closer to discovering Walt" is the theme of the last two seasons. Mike goes missing, who Hank was investigating, and Hank takes notice? The hell you say. And then Lydia, a minor character with almost no substance, dies? all right then

I know right? So unpredictable!

i predict that show about crime will feature crimes, and i have been right 100% of the time

underrated shakeymo predictions I have pwned

Maybe we should let Shakey watch and we just let him tell us what's going to happen. It would save a lot of time, guys

Walt trying to kill Jesse...please, he's kinda already tried that a couple times, I'm waiting for the big one when Walt kills Skyler.

? when has walt tried to kill Jesse

flynn catches walt and todd up to their elbows in meth todd caps him

I don't think it was ever explained? probably so that it can be explained this season & Jesse finds out

― seriously, THIS GUY (daria-g), Wednesday, August 29, 2012 5:23 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

makes sense

― chicago rap twitter luminary (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, August 29, 2012 5:24 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

no way, 'my' prediction is that this is going to be the show's pine barrens russian

lol i just saw that episode again the other day... "he killed 16 czechoslovakians! the guy was an interior decorator!"

His house looked like shit!

My god the dialogue between Chris and Paulie in that episode brings tears to my eyes just thinking about it.

Walt killing Jesse. Really.

Flynn is Keyser Soze.

My god the dialogue between Chris and Paulie in that episode brings tears to my eyes just thinking about it.

― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Wednesday, August 29, 2012 7:17 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the entire series is just so rich with that stuff, it's almost hard to pick standout lines when everything, even the off the cuff dialogue, is so amazingly entertaining

Jesse's a total liability to Walt now - Jesse is in a position to rat him out, blackmail him, undermine him, etc. in so many ways. And his desertion of Walt is a personal blow to Walt's ego and self-image. tbf s1ocki is right that Walt is the more unstable one - altho this only makes it even more likely that Walt will kill him imho.

I dunno, it makes sense on a narrative level. but maybe it's too obvious for this show, the Sopranos parallel is pretty clear.

Chris and Jesse are two different characters w two different histories leading to two different fates. Feel like the other shoe has to drop on Walt w/r/t him letting jesses girl die in S2.

Walt's not as far gone psycho as many think IMO.

what the plane crash wasn't a big enough shoe for you

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Like maybe he'd pragmatically kill some hoods w whom he has no relaysh but Jesse? Idk.

Sorry I meant shoe personally fitted for Walt but Jesse.

By jesse

Chris and Jessie are two different characters but the similarities are pretty clear (just like the similarities between Skyler and Carmela) - both have a history of being unreliable fuckups with substance abuse problems and daddy issues, both are bound to their respective father figures by their complicity in murder/gruesome crimes that no one else knows about, both have suffered repeatedly at the hands of their respective father figures' tempers, egos, and hubris, both eventually became liabilities/threats to their father figures. Even speaking in broad strokes that's some pretty close parallels.

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oh and Walt killed Jesse's girlfriend, Tony whacked Adrianna, etc

i'm sure glad i just got around to watching the fifth season of The Sopranos last week!

oops sorry

I guess I should stop listing stuff cuz I thought of some more lol

Jesse should just disappear

how much money does Jesse have, anyway? He should have more than enough to just get out right now. No reason for him to stay.

Walt's not gonna let him get out

how much money does Jesse have, anyway? He should have more than enough to just get out right now.

he's bankrolled the gang's entire activity so far this year, thta's going to have put a dent in

I thought they paid him back for that in the first big money split

he could always sell his speakers

or his house!

I thought they paid him back for that in the first big money split

but then he had to pay for the train heist afterwards

Like maybe he'd pragmatically kill some hoods w whom he has no relaysh but Jesse? Idk.

― omar little, Wednesday, August 29, 2012 7:29 PM (1 hour ago)

but the entire arc of the series is walt's descent into total psychopathy, with every go around he proves that other people are just means to his ends, with increasingly horrific results. at the beginning of last season I would've said he'd do anything to kill gus, but he'd never poison a kid who was practically jesse's stepchild. and if the intent is for walt to become scarface, the sidekicks did not fare well for either hawks or de palma.

I'm not saying jesse is doomed, but I don't think it's off the table either.

or his house!

Pssh, in this economy?

but the entire arc of the series is walt's descent into total psychopathy, with every go around he proves that other people are just means to his ends, with increasingly horrific results. at the beginning of last season I would've said he'd do anything to kill gus, but he'd never poison a kid who was practically jesse's stepchild. and if the intent is for walt to become scarface, the sidekicks did not fare well for either hawks or de palma.

I'm not saying jesse is doomed, but I don't think it's off the table either.

― vincent black shadow giallo (Edward III), Thursday, August 30, 2012 2:04 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it's a lovely irony that the De Palma Scarface was ruined because he refused to kill innocent kids.

It seems like, in the classical tragedy tradition, Walt has to die. But I think Jesse won't - he will probably end up with nothing, starting a new life, but not dead. Not De Niro at the end of Casino, more like sad music at the end of the Incredible Hulk TV show. He should probably be the one to kill Walt (fulfilling his oedipal duty as Walt's surrogate son).

Problem is, that all seems kind of obvious. Depends on the degree to which the writers feel the need to surprise us.

Perhaps neither will die - maybe one or both of them will end up arrested/imprisoned. That would be more of a humiliation for Walt - he's not unused to the idea of death, but being judged? He wouldn't like that. Of course, showing any courtroom stuff would be out of character for the show.

This series is in two 8 ep parts, yeah? If so, I presume there will be a cliffhanger at the end of the next ep, probably a character death (or in the case of the main two, possible death (like Cooper at the end of season 1 of Twin Peaks).

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not to be the pedantic plot complainer from lagoon's otm description of ilx tv threads butttt

as much as i liked this episode the one thing that struck me as lame was how EASY it was for hank to break through. all of them have the same lawyer, and none of them will flip, we suspect they're getting paid off, lets tail the lawyer, hey look, hes putting money into deposit boxes

~everything crumbles~

idk i could have used a lil more intrigue or something

every breaking bad thread has been non-stop speculation about how walt will die, i so hope he doesnt just to fuck with you guys

BTW, in this most recent episode, there's a surveillance photo that Hank squints at. It looks like Mike waiting in the diner, alone, but there's something that catches his eye. Is it .... Lydia? Did anyone else notice?

the stills were posted here monday

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

i dont think the point of that scene was him figuring anything out, it was just supposed to show him being distracted by that case

My god it's a glass of milk.

is it? or is it... something else

Hank already knows Mike and Lydia worked together tho...? don't see what would be the big revelation there.