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

ha - yeah, there are people who may be smart enough to figure that shit out, but I have faith I am not one of them

i really do miss watching him make meth

shoulda stole the hat dude
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/video/breaking-bad-star-charles-baker-608234

I had a dream that tonight's episode was another bottle episode like that one where the fly got into the meth lab.

please no.

ha! Right in the middle of middle of the tense buildup to the end... here's a lighthearted day-in-the-life of Todd & Lydia.

brio your WHIP is ridiculous right now

WHIP?

damn what terrible shots

yah really

WHIP?

yah WHIP

damn what terrible shots

couple of big stretches this week. Saul's own man just crumples when shown a picture and given the hardened-cop routine? Huell has been around, I don't think he just starts to blab because he saw blood second-hand. Still though great stuff imo. Especially Saul at the car wash.

oh also as I keep trying to tell you none of the shots hit because this is all just a dream in the mind of a child

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"The triangulation of crossfire. That's the key. That's the key."

the walt speeding out to the desert site seemed not really well done, weird voiceover-sounding orders on jesses end of the call

^^ yes, it was very bush-league stuff. The acting was really bad on Aaron Paul's side of the call as well.

I half expected us to see a mustache he'd glued on his face for the purpose of twirling

Tough to buy a lot of this. Saul was great though.

was walt not clear on the phone call that he wanted them to shoot people and not a SUV

yeah some weak elements for sure, straining credibility - i think they're feeling the pinch of running out of time here... Huell crumbling in 30 seconds felt really weak, and Walt confessing to a bunch of murders on a cell phone - bith felt like real standard TV show cop show shit. but still had some great stuff - the fake money in the barrel was a great move, and walt and gomie strutting around before the nazis arrived was really painful.

not predictions really - but some possibly relevant plot points:
jesse looks like he's about to escape, hank and gomie sure look like they're gonna die die,.
nazis look like they want to grab walt to force him to make meth.
jesse knows where the money is, so he can still hurt walt.
but he has no allies, and the nazis will be out to get him.
no way to get to walt except through skylar and walt jr.
the cops have huell, who tells them jesse's dead.
cops also presumably will have jesse's confession via marie, possibly hank's fake confession too.
walt can escape from the nazis using chemistry - but can't go home, and will be on the run from nazis and cops and jesse.
final showdown is walt vs. jesse as it must be.

speeding to the desert was too over the top, everything feels rushed

i think we're in for more rushed action though - feels like there's still a lot of ground to cover between where we're at now and the flash-forward. is the final episode 2 hours?

best scene was Todd being ultra creepy with Lydia

still hard to believe that dude was Landry. Good actor.

still hard to believe that dude was Landry. Good actor.

Was gonna say that he had a very LANCE moment when the cook was being inspected, all mumbly.

I thought he was great in The Master too

walt gives up jesse to the nazis to cook for them/spare his life. walt escapes to wherever (NH presumably, family remaining in tow?). goes back to new mexico to free him in nazi firefight/ricinfest.

Better yet, Walt saves Hank's like by offering to cook.

That's right, I think he survives. I think we were lead to think he won't, because that goddamn phone call with Marie (when he shoulda been calling back-up) was pretty much the last conversation you have with somebody right before one of them is going to die and that would be pretty typical television, but he didn't die by the end of the episode and I'm thinking next week isn't going to start with "oh yeah, Hank's dead".

Gomez on the other hand...

But yeah, that phone call. Definitely an artistic decision that I didn't love, "let's make it like they're both there", but kinda disconcerting and annoying. They could've had the voice of jesse through the phone but mixed higher to be clearly audible, but they chose not too.

She blinded me with SCIENCE

Hank would presumably be in deep deep shit if Gomie died while on some off-the-books jaunt with him.

I don't know why you guys are hating but I think I may be too viscerally invested in this show to be a stickler for the details any more. (Though I did wonder about Walt casually confessing to everything in a phone call.)

it wasn't that casual, he was pretty amped up realizing he was gonna lose it all if Jesse had actually found the money

well ya. In general we shouldn't really be expecting Walt to be thinking things through.

I bought huell giving it up when seeing Jesse supposedly deado. How many times has he seen Saul break so fast and do or say whatever Walt wanted? They told him the catalyst was the poisoning which only he and Jesse knew about besides Walt and Saul who are, in hanks story, out to get him, having gotten Jesse already. I think it was a decent job. What did you want to see? An hour of huell grilling?

I actually didn't mind Walt speeding through the desert being a little over the top. It needed to be that way, imo. I'm now 99% Gomie and Hank are goners. My guess is Jesse will live because Walt will intervene and tell the nazis he'll only cook for them if them if they don't kill him.

Jesse's brains on the floor was a nice, gross BB touch

I knew from the tone of the phone call to Marie, Hank was either going to be dead or seriously injured in the next few minutes. It mirrored the pre-"one minute" shoot out with the cousin brothers.

Just calling to say everything is okay!

Also, nice touch with the To'hajiilee picture in the hotel room last week.

I don't like that the producers seem to want us to believe Walt cares that much about the money. It hasn't been about the money for him ever since they could afford to buy a car wash.

as crazy as the theory of Jesse stealing the Heisenberg notoriety was, the theorizers were right that that's really where Walt "lives"

The money was always part of Walt's self-justification for what he was doing! It's the closest thing to a physical manifestation of his "accomplishments" that he has.

the justification was that he needed money to support his family, which now owns a (presumably successful?) business. As he said, he was in the "empire business," paying for Walt's college education was the furthest thing from his mind by the point he was blowing up drug lords.

*Walt Jr.'s

the car wash is used to launder the meth money.

Exactly. I don't get how caring about the money he "earned" is somehow contradictory to his prideful nature.

the car wash is used to launder the meth money.

― 6 Tuesdays on every Tuesday. This is called dumpy pants. (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, September 9, 2013 7:08 AM (34 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

and it's also worth a lot of money in itself, geez

huell's "they killed jesse...and then they're gonna kill me! oh my GAAAAAAAAAAA" and walt's "that's right, it was me!" scene were atypically loud and pulp-familiar for this show, but i didn't not buy that the brains were effective and that walt would be clouded by moneyfear and the desire to chastise jesse for the 953rd time.

I don't like that the producers seem to want us to believe Walt cares that much about the money. It hasn't been about the money for him ever since they could afford to buy a car wash.

― Matt Armstrong, Monday, September 9, 2013 2:02 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

as crazy as the theory of Jesse stealing the Heisenberg notoriety was, the theorizers were right that that's really where Walt "lives"

― Matt Armstrong, Monday, September 9, 2013 2:04 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i agree w/ this but at least think it's a better catalyst than using his baby or walt jr; the best plan was still hanks initial one that jesse freaked out on

Agreed with a lot of the criticisms of it being rushed in retrospect, but damn if I wasn't 100% drawn in last night. When Breaking Bad gets up to that energy level, it's insanely tense, probably because so much of the time the energy level isn't that high.

All last week I was sure the whole show was leading to Jesse sacrificing himself to bring down Walt - now I'm thinking Walt will ultimately die to save Jesse. I think they're going to give Walt some measure of redemption.

walt gives up jesse to the nazis to cook for them/spare his life. walt escapes to wherever (NH presumably, family remaining in tow?). goes back to new mexico to free him in nazi firefight/ricinfest.

― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Monday, 9 September 2013 00:46 (9 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink