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

"i don't get it, why wouldn't this guy just use google? totally implausible someone would continue to act this way imo"

that implies a significant change in character, imo

He's been through quite a few things which would, you know, change your character.

Jesse Pinkman: Dude this isn't even seven grand alright, my guy wants eighty-five.
Walter H. White: This is all the money I have in the world. You're a drug dealer... negotiate.
Jesse Pinkman: Y-Y-You are not how I remember you from class, I mean like not at all.
Walter H. White: I gotta go.
Jesse Pinkman: Wait wait hold on. Tell me why you are doing this... seriously.
Walter H. White: Why do you do it?
Jesse Pinkman: Money... mainly.
Walter H. White: There you go.
Jesse Pinkman: Nah come on... man, some straight like you giant stick up his ass all of a sudden at age what 60 he's just going to break bad.
Walter H. White: Fifty.
Jesse Pinkman: It's weird is all okay it... it doesn't compute. Listen if you've gone crazy or something. I mean if you've if-if-if you've gone crazy or depressed I'm... I'm just saying that that's something I need to know about. Okay, I mean that that affects me.
Walter H. White: I am... awake.
Jesse Pinkman: What?
Walter H. White: Buy the RV. We start tomorrow.

walter white being labelled 'meticulous' is like buzz lightyear insisting he could fly when woody pointed out he was merely 'falling with style'.

he's meticulous with the one thing he knows about (chemistry) and wrongly things he can generalize his expertise to other things. which is a self-awareness blind spot lots of people, maybe everybody, have to some extent

*thinks

survivor bias plus years of resentment

Walt's not a chemist now, he's a crime boss.

If you don't believe me, just ask him!

pp's eternal master bathroom question answered by the man himself @ 13:13 but then Gilligan totally confuses it about 20 seconds later

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugLkMf6r7rM

i kinda wish that was just conan & odenkirk

Not available in my country >:(
what did it say?

hank's a cylon

Fracking bad

cranston got a BRBA tattoo!

saul spinoff is REAL

how did they answer questions for a whole hour and never mention gus??

probably cuz he wasnt there. skylar didnt come up either!

Mike wandering off to get a beer is hysterical

so the last episodes don't start airing until august! i assumed it'd be early summer.

huh, yeah i thought it'd be right after mad men ends. what's in that gap?

Ah, I'm willing to let them take their time. They're under enormous pressure not to fuck up.

dean norris is gonna be in that mini series they're doing of under the dome, perfect for the role if it's who i think it is. betsy brandt's gonna be on that michael j fox show. anna gunn's filming something that definitely sounds like a pilot. cranston and paul are focusing on movies it looks like.

I've been thinking about the season 5 opener.

One reason Walt might have a fake ID with his real birthday on it would be if he's in a witness protection program.

That's a really interesting theory. If this is the case I assume it would be Hank's doing. So Walt is coming back with an ak47 for.....JESSE??

huh, yeah i thought it'd be right after mad men ends. what's in that gap?

― balls, Thursday, April 18, 2013 12:03 AM (4 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

my guess is hell on wheels

so I watch this show for the first time tomorrow!

it's superfun soto, don't judge until you're done w/ second season imo.

One reason Walt might have a fake ID with his real birthday on it would be if he's in a witness protection program.

― abanana, Friday, April 19, 2013 2:17 AM (4 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This explanation is too simple for me; I hope it's more complicated and horrible than that.

That's a really interesting theory. If this is the case I assume it would be Hank's doing. So Walt is coming back with an ak47 for.....JESSE??

― (from a bottle you dicks) (sunny successor), Friday, April 19, 2013 2:14 PM (4 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it's not an AK47, it's an M60. A way more mass murder-y gun.

your in for a treat alf

i think i'd assumed w/ that flash forward and then moreso now as a way out of this w/ hank that walt's in witness protection but that whoever he gave up found him and killed his family hence he's back in new mexico loaded for bear

i love u guys but august cannot come soon enough

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSUK4WgQ3vk

nice

so I just started Season Three! Walt got arrested.

yeah, he just spends the next two seasons in jail, don't know why everyone's so gung ho about this show.

that s4 episode where jesse visits him in his cell is brilliant

HELLFIRE RAINED DOWN ON MY HOUSE!!!!

He had a point

I finished the flashback episode last night. Steven Bauer's Mexican Spanish is more convincing than Gus' Chilean Spanish.

This Vince Gilligan interview was discussed in the other thread, but I thought this quote was pretty interesting, when it comes to season 5 ending predictions:

Having binge-watched, I have to ask: What can you tell me about the ending of Breaking Bad?
In my mind, the ending is a victory for Walt. You might see the episode and say, “What the fuck was he talking about?” But it’s a somewhat happy ending, in my estimation.

To me, this seems to imply Walt will die while saving Jesse (or, alternatively, his family members). Who Walt is saving him from are probably the Phoenix drug dealers, since the scene where Walt bragged to them about Jesse's meth cooking abilities felt kinda significant, though I guess it could be the Mexican cartel too. This would also explain the season 5 intro with the machine gun, and if it's Jesse he's saving, that would neatly tie with the whole idea of Walt being his surrogate dad.

This sort of scenario is pretty much the only way I can imagine the ending being a "victory for Walt". There's no way they can rehabilitate him anymore... I guess they could also come up with some sort of ironic happy ending, where Walt actually manages to get rid of all his problems and settles for a nice family life with all his money, but he's shown to be morally dead inside. But that sort of ending seems less likely, now that Hank's on Walt's case. They'd have to kill Hank, and I don't think they'll do it, since he's the most sympathetic character in the whole series.

bloodbath incoming imo.

They'd have to kill Hank, and I don't think they'll do it, since he's the most sympathetic character in the whole series.

Come on, they totally would. In fact I'd bet they will.

I don't think Gilligan would call it a "happy ending" if Hank dies... And it seems that despite being somewhat transgressive for a mainstream TV series, BB still follows the basic rules of a morality play: the guilty will be punished, and the innocent will survive. So I'd say Jr. and Hank (and the baby, of course) are the only ones who are certain not to die, everyone else is a possibile death. (Though Jesse will probably survive too, his redemption arc are pretty evident, and killing him wouldn't fit to that.)

Oh yeah, Saul will obviously survive too because of the spinoff, but that's a different thing.

In my mind, the ending is a victory for Walt. You might see the episode and say, “What the fuck was he talking about?” But it’s a somewhat happy ending, in my estimation.

does this not hint to you it might not mean a traditional "happy ending"

BB still follows the basic rules of a morality play: the guilty will be punished, and the innocent will survive

this is inaccurate too, really. plenty of innocents are punished in breaking bad. plus you know, it is about a meth dealer.

otm, 'happy' could be that the meth ring ends and all the meth dealers die (and walt's guilt is absolved because he is dead but his kids are fine)

it's futile even trying to read into a comment like that