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

if they just recorded the call theyd have walt admitting to murder and wouldnt have even needed to go to the desert and get killed

i dont think they couldve tracked the cell on their own they mustve just followed him

so why DID the nazis turn up anyway? just because they didn't want walt out of their grasp?

They needed him for a cook, and Walt suddenly and frantically telling them the deal's off may have made them think that some other team snagged Walt.

they believed he was in trouble imo

you cant just act all weird and uncall a bunch of murderous psychos

It was pure TV though. You knew they'd show up and do some Ark of the Covenant destruction.

yeah I think Nazis just showed up because "why not? we've got our guns out and we want walt alive" though firing a million rounds into the car he's in seems pretty dumb if that's the case. But then, they are really dumb and violent so pretty much makes sense.

the whole cell phone tracking thing was a definitely dodgy - aren't you only able to track to the nearest cell tower, not exact gps? and would there even be a nearby cell tower in the middle of the desert? I don't know - maybe

but agree a lot of this stuff didn't bother me much during the show itself - I'll accept they're going to have to take some short-cuts to get the full arc in this season and it's fun when they really ratchet things up, as they've done in the final 3 episodes in the past

I think they're going to give Walt some measure of redemption.

also yeah - Cranston's physical performance is telegraphing this I think, the (slightly, beautifully imo) exaggerated awkwardness when he's crouching down in the car and cringing, the easing-back of swaggering Heisenberg into bumbling, cancer-stricken Walt. I think we're going to be reminded that there was a high school teacher who was fucked up inside the guy we now know, but who was a dad with decent fatherly impulses that are inextricably bound up with narcissism etc but which are still in there.

basically he needs to stop wearing the Heisenberg hat to return to normal

maybe the ayrans dont really mind if walt is dies tho

don't get me wrong w/ the cell question, I'm totally fine suspending disbelief. Didn't bother me that he buried those drums.

well, we have to believe that Walt's blue meth recipe is as ultra-special as the formula for Coke.

is his stuff the kind you learn from teaching basic chemistry for years? Couldn't the Gestapo kidnap another nebbishy chem teacher?

im sure theyd like to have him cook for them but pretty much everyone who deals w walt comes to the conclusion that hes really not worth it

xposts

yeah, dying loser walt is definitely back... it's really worth going back to re-watch the pilot episode from the first season if you're really into the show now - i think they've been echoing it a lot in recent episodes

i mean hes acting all weird they go and check it out and hes been arrested and now they have to kill cops

( Alfred, there'a a whole origin storyline, referenced when his ex showed up; he was a chemistry whiz who left his original enterprise, because his partners wouldn't bow down)
They must have been following Walt for a while, to get there so quickly. But--unless they were waiting near the carwash--may have had some tracking equipment--taken from HQ or local spy shop. not hard to find those in the citay nowadays. Anyway, I was thinking a couple of reasons whul Walt despairs as soon as he sees them: he figures they may well have recorded his freak-out, maybe co-ordinates too, and could have emailed this stuff (counter to the "confession" video). Even if they didn't, which would fit this ep's whole heat-of-the-moment theme, where nobody's capable of chess moves, apparently; still, Hank has informed THE LADY In PURPLE OMG

I doubt that it will come down to Walt trying to save Jesse, not after he's gone far enough to put out a hit on him.

yah they couldve thrown a tracking device on his car right before calling him

xpost x2, regardless of all that, he's caught. There's nowhere to run or hide.

basically he needs to stop wearing the Heisenberg hat to return to normal

xpost although they still wouldn't have proof. But he realizes that he lead them to the money.

Alfred, there'a a whole origin storyline, referenced when his ex showed up; he was a chemistry whiz who left his original enterprise, because his partners wouldn't bow down)

I know but you'd think Germans would look at this guy's uh CV since 2008 and realize he's more trouble than he's worth.

next week's epi ("ozymandias") is directed by rian johnson

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4TA4QCxq3U

really cool behind-the-scenes clip about the making of the shootout scene (no spoilers that i can tell)

in terms of just straight up technical direction, this sequence was completely flawless

A bit worried that it'll come down more to bang-bang than character, but no ending could ruin this show.

walt is on a spaceship to mars; he wakes up

The final shot is of the entire cast, who break the fourth wall and say "Scene!" in unison.

i really enjoyed junior grinning at saul

The final shot is of the entire cast, who break the fourth wall and say "Scene!" in unison.

― Shart Week (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, September 9, 2013 10:54 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

camera zooms out into a wide crane shot -- it is being directed by the kid from rushmore

uh-oh just remembered that when Charlie Rose interviewed Gilligan, he mentioned that he (Rose, not Gilligan) was in an upcoming ep. Gilligan didn't like/deny this.

if the last episode closes on a montage with the Flaming Lips "Do You Realize?" playing I do think that would invalidate all the good work the show had previously done

yeah, Walt Jr being starstruck seeing Saul was funny. ABQ must be really low on celebrities.

ozymandias is an hr long c rose roundtable discussing the works of shelley prob xxp

Phil Collins head singing "Something In The Air Tonight" while having turtle race w Walt, Jesse and Assad heads.

walt is drowning but phil will not lend a hand

"don't drink and drive but if you do, call me" is a pretty awesome thing for a lawyer with a smashed up face to tell a teenager

the internet sez charlie rose is in the penultimate ep -- id guess somehow the cartels, etc have become huge news

it also sez rose isnt necessarily playing himself but cmon

Hopefully the epic "Bitch!" Aaron Paul talked about is directed at Charlie Rose.

Charlie Rose gets his car washed at A1, and Junior's all "You're that guy from the TEE-VEE!"

i really want a gif of Todd in the shooting

I laughed out loud at how bored and awkward he looked

lol @ episode ending on actual gunfire exchange rather than standard tense guys-pointing-guns-at-each-other (a trope I have come to loathe)

http://cdn.uproxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/dammit-todd.gif

see also
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=1SkB2UV3Ohg#t=28

"yeah whatever guns big woop can I go play xbox now"

He looks like he's picking up something gross, like dog poop.

he has the expression of a man milking a cow.

I don't think they had GPS tracking on his phone, all they mentioned was a wire (many xposts)

well they've got him on record confessing to at least four murders so Walt is fucked and we can assume somehow he gets out of the shootout and goes on the lam/new identity etc. seems unlikely that anybody is actually going to die in the shootout, I would expect some weird parity is achieved - Nazis grab Walt, Hank/Gomie/Jesse get away.

in terms of just straight up technical direction, this sequence was completely flawless

― scream blahula scream (govern yourself accordingly), Monday, September 9, 2013 10:39 AM (1 hour ago)

I dunno, I really liked the eps, hearkened back to the zany pace of earlier seasons when walt was flying by the seat of his pants, but the gunfight was kinda ridic. I'm no firearms expert but a guy with a pistol standing behind a truck going against a bunch of dudes w/ machine guns... seems like that battle is not going to rage for very long.