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

this was def a setup episode
i groaned loudly when the end credits and dedication came up. Wanted to see Hank/Jessie scene badly!

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xp yup same here

new prediction: series ends with Walt Jr finding a grubby but intact lottery ticket. It's a winner, and he invests his funds starting up a meth superlab.

the huell/bill burr scene a "hey you want more of these guys on a SAUL SPINOFF right?!" scene that was still real enjoyable

more of those guys on TV is OK in my book!

"Fire in the hole" when Declan got offed made me lol

Gah I wanna see Hank & Walt wtf no fair

Marie v Skl'r was crazy, I was afraid there would be baby injury or gunplay or violence of some kind, ugh FUCK so stressful

Team Huell

love huell + bill burr

ya. I quite liked that we got some Huell skills on display with the lock-picking, he can do more than stand around being huge.

I thought the Skyler/Hank diner scene was great. First great Skyler episode maybe? There was one shot in that diner scene where the lighting was amazing. Maybe one of the most unsatisfying endings yet though.

my Twitter feed seems to agree with you that it was an anticlimactic ending but I didn't think so. Maybe the notion of Jesse being the one who spills on Walt rather than Skyler came as more of a surprise to me than it should've.

Yeah, it wasn't the actual situation or writing so much as just how it was presented. The ending just took me by surprise where BB usually seems to end on a stronger beat.

Yeah that was a pretty weak ending in that I'll only devote 60% of my mental energy for the next seven days to obsessing about what happens next sunday.

While it might not have been a "strong" cliffhanger, it was adequate. But fuck do I love how this show throws me a curveball every time I think it's going to somewhere in particular. I'm batting .000 in my predictions so far, but it doesn't stop me from loving it and trying to play along. I've tried every approach too, from "most logical/rational" to "most leftfield" to "that old loose thread/minor character will have a later impact," with no success, yet I'm never dissatisfied by the way things actually play out.

Money in the desert = motivation for a 30 hour drive? The .50 cal machine gun a way to claim/reclaim it?

The Skylab/Marie/Holly scene had me crawling up the back of my seat. SO tense.

And I am in love with Walt's car. That thing is awesomely badass.

the lidia no-looking thing was the best part of this episode. any other show would have made her the ultimate calculating badass

i'm not so sure Pinkman is going to blab.

one thing to steal spoons, but babies?

i like lydia and todds relationship

but she's been in this abusive situation for a long time and i wonder how this is going to be addressed in the future - it was sad but not surprising that when hank started pressuring her immediately to give a statement to the police and take the kids and walk away, she wasn't ready and went right back to walt. i wonder if she will change her mind. lydia doesn't want to look at what happened to declan's guys & skyler really is trying hard not to look at/think about everything walt has actually done

what I liked about this episode was how Skyler reacts to Hank's dehumanizing/depersonalizing of her - she is tired of being treated like someone without agency and she has learned that when people tell you they're acting in your interest, they're usually lying, or at best they're exaggerating their ability to take care of you

feel like there's some cool feminist subtext/s to Skyler's realization that she is on her own and holds all the cards

this one's for sunny. i'm going to work today on getting this done by Christmas.

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what I liked about this episode was how Skyler reacts to Hank's dehumanizing/depersonalizing of her - she is tired of being treated like someone without agency and she has learned that when people tell you they're acting in your interest, they're usually lying, or at best they're exaggerating their ability to take care of you

feel like there's some cool feminist subtext/s to Skyler's realization that she is on her own and holds all the cards

― combination hair (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Monday, August 19, 2013 9:06 AM

otm + otm

lol be srs skylar just kinda freaked out

its funny to have so much money and no way to really spend it

cool feminist subtext to completely losing yr shit whimpering and compulsively calling yr abusive husband

lol owned

i think whatever direction skyler was heading in with hank, and it was not apparent, shifted when he told her the cancer was back. her demeanor changed instantly, she went from frozen to galvanised. but hank, despite all his expressed concern for her and marie and the kids, didn't notice because he was thinking about himself and walt and not about them at all.

it's funny how lydia's constantly freaked out demeanor almost works in her favor because you can basically never know if she's setting you up to be massacred in the desert or not. a perfect liar!

monkey in the banana patch

sees no evil or hears no evil

i remarked to my viewing partner that she seems like Walt's mirror image in some ways--just that the demeanor is different. but i wouldn't underestimate her.

mirror image in that part of her motivation for doing all this is a certain pleasure in "because I can."

cool feminist subtext to completely losing yr shit whimpering and compulsively calling yr abusive husband

― lag∞n, Monday, August 19, 2013 10:22 AM (30 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol owned

― johnny crunch, Monday, August 19, 2013 10:31 AM (21 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ty message borad bros! keep it real!

walt and lidia fall in love

god can you imagine how annoying lydia would be to date

I love her neurotic talk

ty message borad bros! keep it real!

― combination hair (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Monday, August 19, 2013 10:54 AM (26 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

http://i.imgur.com/pkb26GE.jpg

I lvoe to see people acting more neurotic than me - makes me feel so chuffed

i'm not so sure Pinkman is going to blab.

― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Monday, August 19, 2013 6:54 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah I doubt it with the way Hank is approaching everything. He's too desperate.

everyones going to their happy places

feel like maybe Jesse's the one guy Hank might be able to get to because Jesse is also desperate in an I-don't-know-what-to-do way. also Jesse feels guiltier than anybody else so he could be looking to expiate his guilt by getting Walt arrested. but yeah Hank's interrogation techniques kinda telegraph "I don't give a shit what happens to you I just want a win here"

maybe hanks gathered himself a little by the time he talks to jesse

seems like hes gonna chicken out on that conference call no

this could get real bad for hank

GUESS WE'LL FIND OUT NEXT WEEK HUH

DUN DUN

But yeah Jesse has said, what, like six words over the last two episodes? Who knows with that guy.

id be surprised if jesse broke, feel like all of them walt hank jesse skylord and marie are tangled so bad in this web of secrecy, the truth is prob gonna come out in a way with none of them in control or looking good, of course as mentioned this show is usually surprising

it's not so much Hank's approach so much as i'm pretty sure Jesse still hates his crusty ass.

Probably both