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

I know BB doesn't conform to Occam's Razor much - but the simplest interpretation of Jesse's threat to "hit you where you really live" seems like he plans to reveal the truth about Walt to Walt Jr.

This works plot-wise too because presumably Jesse has to convince Hank to be in on his plan, and Hank wants to get Walt Jr away from Walt so he would go for this.

I reckon that's what's going to happen too, although I suspect he's going to go direct to Skyler rather than Junior. I can't remember if Jesse and Walter Jr have ever been in the same place at the same time.

Not sure Skyler and Walt Junior have ever been in the same place at the same time. At least not since breakfasts in season two.

for all we know about walt jr he could be running his own meth empire.

Also Todd and the Nazis trying to kill Jesse but going over-the-top with it and causing some tragic blowback for Walt is almost a given, I think.

"Sorry I had to shoot your baby, Mr. White, but she saw everything."

Would Walt Jr wear a wire though? And wouldn't Walt just tell Jr his story about Hank being the meth kingpin?

Also Todd and the Nazis trying to kill Jesse but going over-the-top with it and causing some tragic blowback for Walt is almost a given, I think.

100 per cent. I said already I reckon it's going to be Hank and Marie getting wasted in this showdown, poss Walt Jr too.

I think Junior's sympathies might lie with whoever is straight with him (finally, for once in his life) first.

Walter Junior totally idolises Hank though, he just wouldn't believe that. Also Walt had that weird breakdown in front of him last season, coupled with a shitload of other unexplained weird behaviour.

Someone at work pointed out that Walter Jr was wearing a hoodie like Jesse in the last episode so there could be a case of mistaken identity. I'm pretty sceptical about that given Todd has never seen Jesse being, y'know, obviously disabled, but that would be pretty fucking horrible all round.

what if they mistake the baby for jesse

oh god please lets not have walt holding walt jrs dying body after a tragic kwinkydink and having a "for what is a man profited..." moment

Is Flynn supposed to be kind of hopelessly naive at time or actually kind of dumb? I feel like the writers are kind of lazy sometimes and take the fact that he's disabled means he's somehow an idiot, too

Did Jesse tell Hank about Gale, I wonder?

― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Monday, September 2, 2013 8:37 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i think so, only because hank referred to him as a 'junkie murderer' out on the balcony. murderer would have been a pretty big thing to assume/throw around otherwise.

Is Flynn supposed to be kind of hopelessly naive at time or actually kind of dumb? I feel like the writers are kind of lazy sometimes and take the fact that he's disabled means he's somehow an idiot, too

It took Hank four and a half seasons to work it out and he was obsessively looking.

Yeah, I didn't mean the meth kingpin thing, just his general intelligence. Pretty average teenager, I guess.

oh god please lets not have walt holding walt jrs dying body after a tragic kwinkydink and having a "for what is a man profited..." moment

― da croupier, Tuesday, September 3, 2013 12:29 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark

would be great if the season turned out to be an extended homage to godfather 3

show ends with walt falling out of a chair by a trailer in the desert

i can't really think of too many situations off hand where flynn is being stupid rather than a little green when people play to his vanity - the "Save My Daddy" website, Walt buying him cool cars, flynngate, etc. lots of kids know something's fishy with their parents but don't "figure it out," and this guy's parents are having ish far outside the usual realm.

walt's flashback during the chair collapse would have to breakfast, obvs

be breakfast, damn my lack of proofing

now I'm wondering if my dad was a drug kingpin. sure would explain the '93 lebaron...

nothing explains a '93 lebaron

maybe the twist is walt jr learns the truth but stays loyal to his dad, in keeping with his relationship with his dad so far, and somehow tragically tries to help walt sr

by cooking up his own adorable teenage attempt at meth?

he tries the shake-and-bake method but drops the container and can't get out before it blows up

"I learned it by watching you, dad! I learned it by watching you!"

tries to make ricin, makes rice-a-roni

"hey dad, i know it tastes funny! your friend jesse helped me play the rice-in-cigarette trick on you! dad? dad? DAAAAAAAAAAAAD!!!!"

by cooking up his own adorable teenage attempt at meth?

it turns out to be 99.3% pure. tensions develop.

i'm sure walt jr will survive, word is he'll be the huggy bear on Saul's upcoming nawlins PI show

Least satisfying possible turn: Jesse tells Skyler, who then in turn kills Jesse. Skyler corrupted, Jesse dead, Walt hands to heavens, yelling "noooooooooooo!"

right now my money is on a "noooo!" followed by a "say hello to my little friend!"

Hank will put breakfast on an exploding turtle

so has anyone heard about this "real life" Breaking Bad case? this shit is insane (my bro just sent this to me)

http://www.pe.com/local-news/local-news-headlines/20110917-san-bernardino-professor-pleads-not-guilty-in-meth-case.ece

www.pe.com/local-news/san-bernardino-county/san-bernardino-county-headlines-index/20120821-san-bernardino-breaking-bad-professor-preliminary-hearing-dates-set.ece

http://www.sbsun.com/general-news/20130812/three-defendants-remain-in-cal-state-professors-alleged-drug-case

They've repeatedly shown that Walter Jr is mean to be pretty smart for his age - doing well at school, building that Help Walter White website etc.

hard to gauge since the actor ages in real time and Walt Jr. is just over a year older than he was at the start of the series

and his character has basically no part in the narrative of the show nor any storylines whatsoever.

(Gomie's wearing a wire; will bust those still standing at just the right time. Will know it when he sees it.)

What is the Gomie's full name? If I was a Hispanic dea agent getting called Gomie by some lardass grandstander all the time, I'd pop him in the mouth...

Steven Gomez

uh have you watched the earlier episodes where hank basically calls him a wetback

Yeah come to think of it I have heard Hank call him that...rewatching from the start w/ my wife. I kinda hate Hank and want to see him fall on his tookus bad at this point.

Walt Jr. just seems like such a wimp. When he's not eating breakfast, he's constantly crying and whimpering. He should learn to chill like his sister.

the writers put Hank through a lot of humiliating/humanizing shit, which sort of obscures his racist/fascist alpha male tendencies.

Hey, he was just messing around with Gomie. They're bros.

But yeah, seriously, they knocked this insufferable back-slapping jackass clown down several pegs to get him where he is now.

schraderbrau

Schraderfreude

otm

fwiw just as an aside irl cops are commonly v callous re the safety of their informants, there was a good piece in the new yorker a while ago abt how so many people get murdered injured and otherwise abused in the service of locking their associates up

do you have a link to this please?

sry dateline, but:
http://insidedateline.nbcnews.com/_news/2009/06/19/4374379-making-informants-safety-a-priority-a-dateline-update?lite