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

that was the scene i've been waiting for since i started the show. didnt disappoint imo

I got srs chills. TREAD LIGHTLY

dean norris was amazing in every scene this episode. i love the way that he and cranston keep becoming more similar-looking with every season.

yeah it was so...like, "how/when will Hank confront Walt?" is the q and you sort of instinctively feel like they're going to make you wait and instead the beginning of the confrontation is a fucking fist to the face. really satisfying. and yeah Jesse's demeanor in the living room - the line, what was it exactly - about how mike'd be on ww for killing his guys and ww doesn't really leave stuff hanging - fucking chilly as hell

Is Walt going to teleport Hank's guts into space

that reminded me of http://i.imgur.com/9lWN4oB.jpg

so unrealistic those guys would've been next generation fans

the walt and jesse conversation felt so true to the tail end of shitty relationships that i've known....jesse obviously knows walt's obvious lie is a lie, walt obviously knows that jesse doesn't believe him, but neither party cares enough to do anything about it. so it just lies there.

otm

watched this ep high. think that may have enhanced it.

just Hank's ferocity - here's a guy who's never been anything but polite to Walt, but now that he has tread on his turf, and he knows the truth, he just eviscerates him. the whole "I don't know you. I don't know who I'm talking to".....wow.

or the transition from Walt's meek, softspoken mild-mannered trapeze act quickly giving way to a chilly, violent threat on his final line.

everything exactly where it needed to be
i think the "hey where's my copy of leaves of grass" was a hail mary; think they could've done that better by having hank (stupidly but in a daze) rip the page out from the front and leave walt to find that instead.
also would've liked them to telegraph the returning cancer more in s5.1 in any way except the "IN TEH FUTURE" bumpers
and lastly in minor beefs, i hope they're done with those fucking bumpers; let's just get there in due time.
otherwise though yeah A+++ hank/walt walt/jesse moments and jesse's redistribution of wealth bit is great and is doomed to be a THANKS OBAMA macro by tomorrow

those amazing shots of norris with stringy stubble and these dead furious eyes like shutters of total madness
just the sheer rigor

I actually thought for a second maybe they were using colored contact lenses or something, they were so intense.

and lastly in minor beefs, i hope they're done with those fucking bumpers; let's just get there in due time.

― blinded by aggro (forksclovetofu), Monday, August 12, 2013 4:19 AM (28 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

man they've only done two! there needed to be some kind of refresher, lot of people I've talked to had forgotten about the gun entirely.

like i say, i'm totally cool if they felt that getting the ricin in his hands that way made sense but (having just gone through all the prior seasons) I've had it with the SOON IT WILL ALL MAKE SENSE precursor bumpers from the plane explosion and I hope that device is well and truly done

Maybe hank slips on an orange that rolled out of walt's neighbor's grocery bag and dies

And then she shoots Walt and makes meth. Slippery slopes.

btw #likewhiteonricin feels one part offensive, two parts "poorly formed 'joke'"

omg

you guys

THAT REALLY HAPPENED

DSO GOOD!

i was staring at hank's eyes thinking man those are some legit crocodile eyes

so many times early in the series rooting for walt not to get found out by hank, and now I'm practically on my feet cheering hank on with that sucker punch

fuckin beautiful, this show

what i'm wondering most right now is if Walt is going to tell Skylar that Hank has figured it out.

barn door is open

ah, yes. very good.

garage door is closed. xp

but ya the way this show does the thing of making you forget for a second who walt is exactly... like when he's talking to hank in the garage and you're like, how's he going to try and subtly figure it out... then he just whips out the tracking device and shoves it in his face

did anyone watch that new mark strong show after it

I got a really big kick out of the kids skateboarding in walt's pool

What's with Walt's puke routine mirroring Gus' puke in Mexico?

What are these "moving parts" Lydia speaks of?

Also, Walt is turning into Gus. Sink on while vomiting. Using the towel to vomit. Lydia coming to visit Walt at work just like Walt visited Gus at Pollos Hermanos. Trying to discuss business while they carry on their cover jobs as usual. Taking an interest in low level employees; enemies closer than friends with the DEA delivery guys.

What are these "moving parts" Lydia speaks of?

― "Max's Original Starship" Vol. 3 (sunny successor), Monday, August 12, 2013 5:54 AM (21 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

presumably madrigal is gonna come back in the picture but I don't really see how it will make sense

xp & having a lojack put on his car

presumably madrigal is gonna come back in the picture but I don't really see how it will make sense

― Matt Armstrong, Monday, August 12, 2013 1:24 AM (5 hours ago)

I usually hate predicting in shows like these, but I think I see a way forward here.

Madrigal takes one or all of Walt's family, says "cook or the kid gets it." Walt goes to Hank -- "I can give you the big guys, just help me try to save Holly's (or whoever's) life," and Hank goes for it, can't believe he's working with the monster, etc. Everybody but Jesse and maybe Hank dies, we all say "dang" and have cake and ice cream after the 8th hour.

can we sub Grand Marnier for the cake

What are these "moving parts" Lydia speaks of?

― "Max's Original Starship" Vol. 3 (sunny successor), Monday, August 12, 2013 1:54 AM (5 hours ago)

thought this was funny cause the expression is usually metaphorical but the operation literally has a lot of moving parts (in the equipment used to produce meth) and more moving parts (assuming lydia's inherited the model of remote meth lab). and I guess the traffic-style metaphor for the drug trade works too.

Sure, I'll put that on the order. I'll be having cake and prosecco. xp

I guess I should've rewatched s5.1, can't remember exactly how lydia ended up with the operation. I remember mike, kid on bike, exterminators, walt whitman, fin.

did anyone watch that new mark strong show after it

― socki (s1ocki), Monday, August 12, 2013 1:33 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark

i watched some of it but i wasnt really paying attention. seemed like a pile of cop show cliches, unfortch

lydia was always a major fring contact w/ distribution (whether fring was his own 'boss' or working for madrigal is still somewhat unresolved but the relationship was very close, los pollos hermanos is a madrigal subsidiary), haven't seen 5.1 since it aired but mike i believe was aware of relationship while walt obv had no idea and assumed role and then assumed he could easily hand it off to some schmuck off the street and just walk away. it's possible gale could've maintained walt's qc, esp w/ a ridiculously nice lab in a fixed location and yknow a background in chemistry, and it's possible jesse could've w/ the much longer and more intensive training, the personal sense of pride in his product that would make him a workaholic, and the certain degree of actual talent for this (good luck though on him being able to understand what exactly is wrong if some reason the product starts to suffer and there's no clear reason why) - but just some random criminal? it's not really too surprising their quality went down, that there's nobody there to enforce what the meth cooking version of gmp is, that if anything the opposite might be happening w/ someone there looking to cut corners esp in cases where they don't understand why those corners are there in the first place. so what you'd need to fix this would be someone w/ a strong chemistry background who's also got a strong background of being a real ballbuster w/ lab management. you'd need walter white.

btw #likewhiteonricin feels one part offensive, two parts "poorly formed 'joke'"

for real! i left this episode feeling at least 25% more slimy about watching this show, and that's not really a good thing imo
i want everything to end poorly and grimly and with no "satisfying" resolution.

just some random criminal

the opening credits listed Jesse Plemons, so I guess the new cook is Todd and that will be of some significance at some point?

He seemed like a very conscientious student of the Heisenberg Method. I wonder if Madrigal was sandbagging, claiming poor results to try to draw Walter back in.

The timeline kind of messed me up in this episode. I guess I assumed the gap between 'I'M OUT' and the OMG-BBQ in 5.08 was a day or so when it must have been 3 weeks or so later with an outta remission notice somewhere in between?

pplains
Posted: August 12, 2013, 5:56:54 AM
Also, Walt is turning into Gus. Sink on while vomiting. Using the towel to vomit. Lydia coming to visit Walt at work just like Walt visited Gus at Pollos Hermanos. Trying to discuss business while they carry on their cover jobs as usual. Taking an interest in low level employees; enemies closer than friends with the DEA delivery guys.

ya good call

trying to put together what we know from those flash forward scenes - walt not doing chemo cause he has hair likely cause hes terminal seeing how bad he looks - judging from the reaction of his neighbor his criminality is public knowledge - the people he has issues with are street types based on how they defaced his house and there are more than one of them cause of he got that huge gun that is meant for killing multiple dudes

xpost omg nice catch pplains! that's sorta blowing my mind now that I see it

147 kirks

law enforcement's been thru that house thoroughly also. i don't really see the graffiti as an indication he has an issue w/ street thugs, guy's a legend and house was abandoned so it makes sense it was tagged and known as heisenberg's house. definite strong parallels w/ gus (even when he was first talking to hank in the garage i was getting that vibe), again though walt can't help himself and his arrogance and rage make him act more stupidly and rash that gus ever would've. no way gus would've straight up confronted hank like that. he might've gone over there to confirm the situation or get a read on it but he wouldn't have rubbed hank's face in it, he would've just killed him at some point. he's a dea agent w/ health problems, there are plenty of ways and reasons he could die that wouldn't automatically trigger a 'he was on to something w/ that closed case in the garage'. the only time where gus acted w/ the rage and arrogance and rashness that walt routinely deploys on a routine basis was w/ hector (for obv personal reasons).

was thinking the graffiti was done by those who drove Walt into hiding but ya it could've just been kids