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

Pretty sure Jesse gets it, he's just past caring.

Caring whether he gets caught or not, I mean.

Went back and watched the pilot episode last night, and it stands up really well. REALLY well. So much stuff set-up in that first 55 minutes that's being echoed in this latest episode, Walt's relationships with everyone. He was always a fucking dick.

― they all are afflicted with a sickness of existence (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, August 28, 2013 9:30 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah i attempted to rewatch the first season and what struck me is how dark the whole thing is and i couldnt do it, but the first time through i was so pulled along by the plot that it didnt really bother me

well hes taking pills too

a middle-aged man taking pills is even weaker proof that he's being totally honest about his cancer diagnosis than the IV drip

Speaking of superhuman feats, could he have a little stash of his own meth? Or some of the pills are his own compound?
After Hank tried to get her to co-operate, she was the one who told Walt to hold fast, not the other way around, because they don't really know anything, don't have evidence (she doesn't know about Gale's handwriting in Walt's Leaves of Grass, and even if she did, might point out that Hank hasn't showed it to a graphologist [and maybe wouldn't dare, so far]). So as long as the money's not around, hey.

http://dangerousminds.net/comments/sonic_meth_sonic_youth_meets_breaking_bad_tee-shirt

a middle-aged man taking pills is even weaker proof that he's being totally honest about his cancer diagnosis than the IV drip

I think the bout of nausea was intended to show us that he is in fact undergoing treatment for a recurrence of his cancer.

yeah i find this whole theory a lil left field

this is like when people thought jesse didnt really kill gale because it cut away before he pulled the trigger

it's not even a "theory," it's an observation.

i'm not placing bets on How It Will End, i'm noting that no one has confirmed Walter's story

has the show ever used that type of slight of hand before, seems like when they show you something theyre just showing it to you

has the show ever had walter tell the audience how his cancer is going rather than a doctor?

no but it shows you all sorts of things all the time it doesnt have to just be cancer

The moment at which the show's central character finds out he's probably going to die is a pretty fucking important moment. The writers have clearly intentionally withheld that scene for a reason. This doesn't mean that Walt is lying about his cancer but they definitely want us to entertain that as a possibility.

exactly. but if some people don't want to consider that this change in info presentation might be intentional, that's fine with me.

disagree

I think the bout of nausea was intended to show us that he is in fact undergoing treatment for a recurrence of his cancer.

this kind of thing rears its head now and again, like, it's tv! of course he actually has cancer if they have him on an iv drip. they could prob do something more subtle than that and it'd still mean he definitely had cancer. it's not a "twist" if they just shamelessly mislead you, it just is dumb storytelling.

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This doesn't mean that Walt is lying about his cancer but they definitely want us to entertain that as a possibility.

so why is he on an iv drip then? he lied to the doctors too?

tho i guess the stuffed animal/plane crash intros were misleading but they were kinda their own thing outside the normal presentation of the show

there's also the fact that early on those scenes were designed to make us feel sympathetic to walter, see the odds he was up against. Now he's the one giving information, and scaring people in flash-forwards. he's the aggressor not the victim.

yeah maybe idk just seems like it would be a major shift in the way the show works and also pretty cheap

definitely in on the guess that by the time we get to the end the cancer is full blown and he's just stopped giving a damn

it would take a wild explanation of him being on the drip.

surely it's more likely he recovers from cancer or beats this latest bout and yay he gets to live a life where everyone he knows is dead.

i'm not even playing the "i think this will happen/that will happen" thing, just noting the angles, what doors are being left open

he dies of cancer while saving his family... by destroying them, my guess

the truth all along was that his family had cancer, and not him.

You never actually see them NOT having cancer, with any certainty

The only reason Walt would cross the country to buy heavy firepower from Jim Beaver and then drive back to NM and make Carol drop her groceries is
1. save his family
2. avenge his family

So they're either dead (all or some) or being held hostage by Lydia/Madrigal/Nazis as leverage to get him to cook again.

That's HIBIDTAE.

i would so rather learn walt's been less that straight about his cancer lately than find out the end is Walter saving a tied-up Walt Jr from evil nazis

he bought the big gun in NM, drove down from NH, presumably where he was hiding out

yeah i dont mean necessarily saving his family from being kidnaped or w/e, it could be more abstract than that

he creates a super strain of cancer to destroy both the nazis and his family, having previously invented a cure for regular cancer to save himself.

he is v smart

that's why he went back for the cig of death

he's going to smoke it at the nazis, blow smoke their way, say "secondhand, bitches" and they'll all fall down while jesse unties walt jr and skylar from the pole they were tied to

"feeling a little... PASSIVE aggressive?" as they all die screaming

it's basically like the end of raiders of the lost ark

"i know a great mexican place nearby... let's all go have some rici'n' beans"

then saul shows up with four horses. Guess Skylar will have to ride with Walter. YEE-HA!

it'd be nice if it had a final scene with jesse and this song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upJxt64uRWg

walter and jesse die in the penultimate episode, last episode is just a backdoor pilot for Saul's Fair

That was the working title. They settled on Saul in the Family.

That's Saul, Folks

Saul and Huell get all cash, move to the coast, and open up a creperie in Saulty Dogs

#1 seller is a dessert crepe with blue rock candy on top

It's called the "hey, doesn't this crepe look like it has crystal meth on it?"

creperie has a secret menu -- order the "pinkman" & get (1) delicious crepe w/ chili powder

Crystal Blue Huellsasion

he hands out ricin cigarettes to a bunch of people he needs to kill. all light up and inhale, including walter. he then abruptly rises to go to the bathroom and kneels before the toilet, exhaling smoke into the bowl. the ghost of gus fring enters through the shower wall. "walter," he says, placing his spirit hand on his former accomplice's shoulder. "it doesn't work with smoke."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiyDvysp1do

this, but with walt and walt jr