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

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

also he could either be in witness protection or just on the lam

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

― lag∞n, Monday, August 12, 2013 11:44 AM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark

i was assuming it was something like the remnants of the mexican gang being all "we know who you are"

ya exactly

yeah i'd assumed witness protection last year but now i think on the lam is way more likely. 'we know who you are' makes alot of sense though. could be the law takes him down, could be madrigal, could be the mexican cartel. insane amount of story left to tell, episodes are gonna get dense.

also in those opening scenes i was kind of hoping we'd see a high-angle shot of the house with a rotting pizza still on top of the garage

(unless i'm forgetting a scene where he takes it down)

through the whole eps I was like this is a whole bunch of set-up, not a lot of payoff, then the garage scene oof

Did anyone watch Low Winter Sun after?
I got overwhelmed by it trying so hard in the first five minutes, I turned it off - but then I felt like maybe I should have just stuck with it in case it turns out to be good.
Felt like the screenwriter took that Billy wilder "grab 'em by the throat and never let 'em go" adage a little too seriously.

xxposts haha s1ocki I was hoping the same thing!!

i thought it was a bit ridiculous

so many ppl glaring at each other

so many ppl acting super guilty in front of each other

so much "flawed violent male hero" shit, just felt like it was made because that's what ppl want tehse days

(low winter sun)

I don't mind Mark Strong as the occasional bad guy in a movie but i'm not really clamoring for him to carry a show

yeah beyond the bookends it was kinda standard premiere stuff, check in w/ everybody and let the audience know where everybody is right now. though i'm glad that things are relatively out in the open there was a part of me that was looking forward to knowing and watching hank build his case while walt went on w/ his life smugly thinking he'd gotten away w/ everything. also (really just stupid nitpicking now) but if hank had wanted to confirm that that was gale's handwriting but not tip walt off he could've just snapped a picture w/ his phone and left the book there. it's not like the book as a piece of evidence is that super vital.

I watched it until the 1st commercial so I could see the "scenes from next week's BB" bit, which had zero payoff, so I'm not bothering with it anymore.

I like how Hank can't go after Walt without making himself look like a total idiot in the process

wild guesses here but if it turns out I'm right buy me a cola or something: walt eventually gets caught by hank, he rolls over and helps them get the guys behind gus, DEA gives him witness protection flyout to NH, walt can't run from his sins, bad stuff happens, he returns to NM to settle score w/ big gun, something something walt bitch more breakfast

― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Monday, July 16, 2012 12:53 AM (1 year ago)

rolling BB lol predictions but I guess walt ain't rolling over and between madrigal, the cartel, and hank he's got a lot of enemies to choose from

todd is def gonna play a roll tho, guy's got the aw shucks greenness of jesse and the ice water of walt in his veins, and he knows enough to sink everybody at this point