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

What exactly do they imagine is going to happen? The window of their lives is closing and is almost shut and they need to grab their shit and dive for the gap like NOW.

Preserving his home life has been a fixation of Walt's throughout every season, no matter how insane everything gets. From Walt's perspective the window of his life has been apparently closing several times over and he's kept it more or less together. Obviously this is different this time but it's all part of the same arrogance and I think that illusion will only finally be shattered when Walter Jr finds out what's been going on.

That's probably the thing that will finally break Skyler as well, which is presumably been why the writers still haven't got round to that scene.

What would happen to the real ricin if it caught fire in jesse's arson attack? We know it doesn't as Walt goes back to get it. But presumably it could poison everyone?

c'mon guys huell obv swiped jesse's gasoline and left him w/ water

jesse abt to light walts house on fire stops thinks no wait i have a better idea drains pool and shreds

Where is the baby!?!?!?!

Baby's presumably with Skyler at the car wash or else in daycare or something, where working families usually offload their infant kids.

I dunno, you'd think after what went down with Marie they'd keep a close eye on her. Maybe they have a nanny cam?

final image is going to be of the money still buried in the desert, a coyote sniffing round

Btw, the Walt hug was absolutely genius as acted and filmed. It's impossible to tell whether it was honest or still more manipulation, let alone whether Jesse recognized it as the latter but appreciated/needed it all the same.

If it weren't in the total middle of nowhere I'd guess the final image would be a "condos coming soon" sign planted near the money.

or a bizarrely unexpected rail expansion

Or a bunch of baby Huells gathering on the spot and lying on their backs where the money is, not entirely aware why they're doing what they're doing.

Or a post apocalyptic nuclear winter future where someone discovers the worthless money and burns it for fuel.

Or a post-apocalyptic nuclear winter future world where someone discovers the money and uses it to buy meth.

i really hope holly doesn't reappear SUDDENLY and TRAGICALLY

negligent Skyler had left Holly home, house is burned down, Aaron Paul has to somehow up his anguished face game even more.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/38/Th%C3%ADch_Qu%E1%BA%A3ng_%C4%90%E1%BB%A9c_self-immolation.jpg/300px-Th%C3%ADch_Qu%E1%BA%A3ng_%C4%90%E1%BB%A9c_self-immolation.jpg

I like how Saul has kept Huell around long after the threat of being taken down by Fring stooges has passed. Then again he is working with Walt and Jesse.

idk, he has the cash to have a bodyguard, might as well

huell is fun to have around

The parlor tricks that dude must know.

Hope the spinoff is essentially a buddy show about Saul and Huell.

what a brilliant episode.

don't worry, not a real spoiler
http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/videos/breaking-bad-star-dean-norris-gives-away-ending-20130827

my gf's thoughts: what if nobody dies?!

http://www.null-entropy.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/tumblr_lrx0llC7tF1r280xco1_400.jpg

They're almost all pretty much dead inside already.

http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/636264ec55/dean-norris-spoils-breaking-bad

Norris does an excellent Gilligan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mVq_4BA5DQ

I just laugh-coughed onto my computer

bwahaha

omg

HA!!!

I went in expecting more Miley and got...awesome!

rad.

Maybe it will end like The Shield--Walt gets an out of some kind, but has to go back in, locked 'n' loaded (sure does look healthy as ever in the flash-forwards---maybe he doesn't really have cancer, or not like he did, but some lesser, related condition---did they ever say what kind of cancer it was?)

Lung cancer. Interestingly, he hasn't coughed once since his cancer came back (but they did show him at chemo).

An IV drip, anyway.

If it's really chemo, he doesn't seem to react to it, not the way a lot people do. The one bout of nausea I've seen lately was at dinner.

yeah walt's such an unreliable narrator and they've shown so little evidence beyond his testimony that i'm more than a bit skeptical

i mean, first few seasons had so many talks with doctor, this one zero.

What would be the point of faking the cancer though? Even if he somehow gets Hank to agree to stop chasing Heisenberg and let him die in peace, well, at some point Hank is gonna notice he didn't die after all, so the chase is back on.

Also, wasn't scene the with the IV drip shown before Walt even found out that Hank knows he's Heisenberg? I.e. before he would have had any reason to fake the cancer?

it was! but other than that, everything we know about the situation comes from the mouth of walter white. it's possible he's telling the truth, and the writers decided there was no need for the kind of "walter gets news" doctor scenes we used to see all the time. but all we really KNOW is that he was on IV recently.

that's true, we don't know if the cancer is actually back

however i think he looks like shit in the flash-forwards, aged, gaunt. his shirt even has nasty yellow stains around the neck like he hasn't even bothered washing his clothes in weeks. something pretty terrible has happened.

actually yea he DID throw up in the toilet so i guess he actually is going through treatment

He looks like shit but he doesn't look like he's been on chemo.

They're intentionally muddying the water wrt the cancer thing, but we already know (or at least I think we know) that he's going to last longer than the six months he told Hank. It's going to keep Walter Jr away from Hank and Marie at least in the very short term, he thinks it'll get him more leverage than Hank. I'm sure Saul knows a guy who could fake Walt's death as well, although probably not a cancer death.

He's also just been digging a hole in the desert all night which is hardly going to do his breathing any good even if he's otherwise fine.

For narrative purposes, the cancer being back would probably trap him though, you can't go on the run if you need life-saving treatment at home.

It wouldn't matter if he was too far gone, or had given up.

Like, full head of hair, no chemo tiredness, but dead within the month because he's just given up.