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

why is the neighbor tripping balls

those were oranges.

man, i'd love to hear that stuff later but i so don't want to be let in behind the curtain mid-show

I'll ask my real q again: how many episodes are left?

5, right?

Yeah we've done 3, so 5 episodes are left -- season is 8 episodes long

7

∞

Ok thanks. For some reason I was under the impression that there were only 5 total and we had seen 3/5. Glad to be wrong! Carry on.

8 last season, 8 this season. You're safe for now :)

Are we counting Todd and Uncle Jack's Christmas special "Dreaming of a White Power Christmas"?

I think I saw that on Jerry springer circa 1994

Guys we had a few coincidences Sunday daytime before 'confessions' aired.
We went to a family members place because they were out of town and we were invited to use their pool. Where had they gone? ALASKA
While swimming in the pool I realized it was fiberglass just like Whites. Like a fiberglass shell tossed in a hole rather than a concrete pool poured into the ground. After we dried off we sat at a table for a while when I realized not 10 ft from us was a potted Lily of the Valley. WOAHS.

why is everyone making such a big deal of this, it's on the INSIDE of the house

― what's up ugly girls? (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, August 28, 2013 10:58 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

a house that presumably will be on fire soon

The recent re-emphasis on the WW/Jesse father/son dynamic; WW's success in retaining his children in his home, first by using the cancer as a persuasion with WW Jr, and then by making the DVD FAO Hank and Marie; and Jesse's pouring of the petrol (in anger at realisation that WW poisoned Jesse's potential "son" Brock) - all of this might combine to mean bad news for WW Jr.

Unless it's to be a WW Jr / Jesse "Home Alone" prank-fest.

Is Carol the same neighbor he used to check his house for bombs or whatev?

Nah, that was an older lady. (IIRC she was played by Vince Gilligan's mom.)

why is everyone making such a big deal of this, it's on the INSIDE of the house

Yeah, a house that is vandalized and overrun by skaters. Anyway, did anyone answer upthread? Was the house in the premiere merely vandalized or post-fire? Is there any sign it was actually burned in the flash-forward season premiere? I can't remember. Regardless, I think if someone spills gas all over your house you pretty much have to get out and close it off anyway.

didnt look burned

the gasoline all over the house comes in the same episode that skylar insists to her sister that her kids are back home because they're safe now

I seem to remember there still being carpeting on the floor when FutureWalt broken in. And no signs of fire damage.

xp

i think maybe a mild spoiler to that point can be found if you look in the guest actors for the next ep

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabid_Dog

hah walt shows up w his gun i guess

maybe he gets caught by walt jr as he kills jesse

hey dad whats going on *confused face*
oh nothing son just giving jesse here a little massage *blood everywhere*

I think the description to the penultimate episode is the most interesting:

Events set in motion long ago move toward a conclusion.

And apparently Gilligan has said (though I can't locate the source for this) that something/someone most viewers have forgotten about will come back before the series is over. I wonder what this could be? A relative of Krazy-8 will try to avenge him? Jane's dad escapes from prison? Ted Beneke decides to talk to the cops?

Those synopses are almost as meaningless as 'Next Week on Mad Men'.

"Things heat up for Walt in unexpected ways."
"Everyone copes with radically changed circumstances in different ways."

ya I looked at those the other day, I think the biggest spoiler they offer is that Walt doesn't die for at least another couple of episodes.

Jane's dad didn't go to prison, he shot himself.

was sent to prison for shooting himself iirc

that move is called the plaxico

I think he shot himself but was never confirmed dead? By jove, we've got it.

Yup:

After Jane dies from an overdose, Donald returns to work as an Air Traffic Controller while still distraught and unwittingly causes a mid-air collision of two airplanes. A pink stuffed animal from the plane crash falls in Walter's pool. Shortly after the incident, Walt hears via his in-car radio that Margolis is rushed to hospital after a self-inflicted gunshot wound; however, Walt turns the radio off before Margolis' fate is revealed.

Would be very interested indeed to see those characters come face-to-face again actually, and it would probably be the catalyst for Jesse finding out about Jane.

the only way he could find out about Jane is if Walt tells him. there's no witnesses and no evidence.

If Jesse was smart enough to put this convoluted ricin thing together, including the poisoning of his girlfriend's son, he's at least paranoid enough to suspect Walt offed his former girlfriend.

Be very lame if the show pulls a "Carlito's Way"* and has Walt shot by some minor character we forgot about.

* I think this how the movie ends.

Isn't that how Sopranos ended? I never watched that show, but I remember people discussing it.

Nah. "Sopranos" ends with a total "it's up to you!" blackout.

Wait, I've got it: everyone shows up to kill Walt at once. Skyler, Jesse, Hank, Jane's dad, Todd, Ted, the Nazi bunch. Everyone. They arrive at the house, guns drawn, fight over who gets to kill Walt and end up killing each other at the same time. Walt walks, whistling the whole way. Then he dies, too. Of cancer.

he's at least paranoid enough to suspect Walt offed his former girlfriend.

this makes zero sense. she died a standard junkie death while Jesse was lying asleep right next to her

"you put that vomit in her mouth!" I mean waht

Maybe she was poisoned! By Walt!

Point being, at this stage I don't think Jesse will be going down the bullet points of the Socratic method to make sure everything adds up. He's pissed.

jesse has only himself to blame, regardless of what walt did or didn't do. iirc she was clean and sober for a year and his junkie ass brought her back to the bottom of the hole she struggled so hard to get out of.

there was a moment when walt's presence flickered back into conversation, though, wasn't there; perhaps it was something mike said?, like he mentioned getting there & noticing whatever it was that betrayed walt's presence - like something about a window that was smashed?, or covered?, i forget - & they let a beat pass to underline the tension, the flicker of possibility that jesse could figure out that something had changed, didn't jive with the story. i don't think all of these things they toy with are going to receive closure, but they for sure left roads open for them to come up again. (sorry that my total lack of recall as to what actually happened undermines this reasoning btw, i am going off sense memory here).

Regardless, I think if someone spills gas all over your house you pretty much have to get out and close it off anyway.

we don't actually know that that was gasoline, we can't smell it - could be anything, really

^^^ not a serious post btw

if they're gonna resolve any unresolved thing I would hope it's the stuff about Gus discussed ad nauseam upthread

jesse has only himself to blame, regardless of what walt did or didn't do

He's been blaming himself for it for ages now.

Pretty sure that standing there fully capable of saving his girlfriend's life and not doing it would entitle Jesse to be a bit homicidal. Whether he actually murdered her or not is irrelevant.

there was a moment when walt's presence flickered back into conversation, though, wasn't there;

are you thinking of the Fly episode, where Walt is all drugged up and almost tells him?

we don't actually know that that was gasoline, we can't smell it - could be anything, really

― combination hair (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned),

Probably chemo medicine.

jesse so glad that walt evidently retrieved the ricin cigarette so that it could be disposed of safely, drove to walt's almost recklessly to clean his carpet as a display of gratitude

are you thinking of the Fly episode, where Walt is all drugged up and almost tells him?

― festival culture (Jordan), Thursday, August 29, 2013 1:09 PM (32 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

no (though, actually, maybe); sorry, i'll cruise around and read some episode recaps or something, i shouldn't contribute without actually remembering; i just seem to recall it coming up