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

I appreciate the prognostication but don't wanna do it myself as just beginning to think about what could fill that gap between the now and the beardy future fills me with dread. Nasty abusive TV show.

I totally guess with this show because its fun even though im never right.

Yeah, I think one of the show's most impressive achievements is that I can never, ever imagine the specifics of what will happen between the start and end of any given episode, and I'm almost always amazed by how much ground an episode can cover.

i feel like jesse will end up either killing walt or will bring him down somehow because walt repeating 'i NEED you to believe me' seemed like some foreshadowing for sure

http://www.avclub.com/articles/how-breaking-bad-broke-free-of-the-clockworkuniver,101278/

Unpopular belief I share:

(That plane crash, by the way, disappointed many fans at the time but now feels like one of the show’s greatest moments, a clear demarcating line between the smaller-scale domestic drama that was and the borderline religious morality play that followed.)

Unpopular belief I share:

(That plane crash, by the way, disappointed many fans at the time but now feels like one of the show’s greatest moments, a clear demarcating line between the smaller-scale domestic drama that was and the borderline religious morality play that followed.)

I didn't mind the plane crash used as a signifier of BB transitioning from a realistic show to a more fable-like story (though I guess you could argue realism was already left behind when Walt blew up Tuco's office in season 1), but what I didn't like how it was seemingly used as a symbol of all the damage Walt's and Jesse's little drug business had done to the community... When they could've, you know, just devoted an episode or two to showing what meth had done to people they were selling their stuff to. (Kinda like they did in the ATM episode, but with more seriousness and less black comedy.)

I think one of most peculiar aspects of BB, a show that's all about the meth business, is how little time they've devoted to showing its effects on people who are addicted to it. (Okay, they had Jesse using it for a while, but that felt more like an example of prettified "Hollywood addiction".) I wonder if they've avoided the subject so that Walt and Jesse wouldn't lose audience sympathy?

there have been a few episodes with addicts - the NA scenes, and Jesse stuck in the house with the kid, trying to break open the bank machine with those horrible methhead parents

but maybe it hasn't dwelt on tweakers because they are the first, most obvious victims. the show is much more interested in how far and randomly the tendrils of evil can creep - like the dirt-biking kid shot in the desert

How quickly we forget Wendy.

My theory: Walt flees to Czech R to cook meth for Lydia, Hank puts pressure on by seizing property and arresting Skylar using Jesse's testimony. walt returns to US to kill Jesse with ricin

but what is the gigantic machine gun for

shooting cans

Hunting.

i don't think Walt is the fleeing type.

I wonder if they've avoided the subject so that Walt and Jesse wouldn't lose audience sympathy?

I don't think they're worried about Walt losing audience sympathy!

Oh that's the Buzzfeed theory I was trying to avoid? I liked to imagine it was 'Walt imagined Jesse all along' or something
Maybe Walt laces the meth with ricin

never forget

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_50AduGvQAU

When they could've, you know, just devoted an episode or two to showing what meth had done to people they were selling their stuff to. (Kinda like they did in the ATM episode, but with more seriousness and less black comedy.)

That sounds really boring.

Give me a heavy-handed symbolic plane crash any day.

I wonder if they've avoided the subject so that Walt and Jesse wouldn't lose audience sympathy?

I don't think they're worried about Walt losing audience sympathy!

Well, I meant during the earlier seasons, before it'd become obvious he's the villain of the story. Though as crazy as it sounds, I've checked the IMDb Breaking Bad board, and there are still people there who root for Walt, who see him as the hero.

A word of advice: never check the IMDb boards on any TV show, you're just bound to feel depressed.

^ more disturbing than anything on the show but also eh the internet

I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap)
Posted: August 13, 2013, 5:07:08 PM
Give me a heavy-handed symbolic plane crash any day.

otm art etc

Haha that is good advice. I shall heed it. xp to Tuomas

I visited the IMDb board for How I Met Your Mother after the episode where they finally revealed the face of the eponymous Mother, and there where literally dozens of threads where people berated the show for choosing such an "ugly" actor to play her.

http://static.tvfanatic.com/images/gallery/cristin-milioti-as-the-mother.jpg

This is that ugly actor in that show, btw.

what a hag!

I've seen her before.

IN MY NIGHTMARES!!!

ha ha - we might need a mod to change the name of the thread: "Shall we anticipate the FIFTH SEASON of the AMC series "Breaking Bad"? I think I may. WARNING: How I met Your Mother spoilers."

Oh yeah, sorry, I realized that was a spoiler immediately after I'd posted it. Though I kinda hope that no one on ILX has watched that show for 8 years just to see the face of the Mother. Because apparently some folks at IMDb had, and boy were they disappointed!

she actually looks a lot like an ex coworkers of mine.

https://twitter.com/xeni/status/367332806419943425/photo/1

uh okay how about this

http://www.headingfortheexits.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/ExplodingHead.gif

lol I like that theory

Breaking the Bad Waves

xpost - that would be a great moral to the story!

in the final episode Walt wins the nobel prize for developing cancer-curing meth

5. walt starts cooking in the whitehouse

this really is Obama's America

the blue part of the meth acts as an antioxidant. like blueberries.

or tolberries

ahem tulaberries

the show is much more interested in how far and randomly the tendrils of evil can creep

otm. they could have called the entire show "blood money".

otbm.

or like Bad [Dudes] Breaking [the Law]

Are You a Bad Enough Dude to Poison a Little Kid?

Are you smarter than everybody?

well ebay kids dont fuck around do they:

http://img818.imageshack.us/img818/4904/nfh9.jpg

two days!

new meme ecomony

http://imageshack.com/a/img138/3103/0b4c.jpg