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

aw jesse used to be so fun luvin and innocent

yeah rewatching is worth it just for HUGE retroactive jesse love in effect, poor happy-go-lucky meth dealer

also this

http://static.tvtome.com/images/genie_images/news_hub/uploaded/thekaitlingnews137608472128/Pinkman.gif

he's just a BABY

i'd guess the charlie rose bit is him interviewing someone close to walt after it's uncovered he's heisenberg and he's on the lam. seems pretty clear from beginning of the second half of this season it's common knowledge who he was (spray painting on the wall with his name, house condemned). i could see walter flipping channels in some beat up hotel and coming to Marie/Skyler/etc. being interviewed about what it was like not knowing someone dear to them was secretly cooking meth/building a drug empire/was what he did for his family worth it/etc.

It could be a Charlie Rose bit about something unrelated to what's happening, but which causes an effect on something i.e. a TV report about the lottery links the idea of the lottery to the coordinates or something. Unlikely (not thought out idea), just wanted to point out that it didn't have to be anything specific about the case. And I don't know who Charlie Rose is...

jesse badger & pete get blazed and all watch the charlie rose brain series

I mean it's good but it's all forward motion, doesn't feel like there's a lot of subtlety or subtexts to be teased out by repeated viewings, it's pretty narrow in its scope.

― what's up ugly girls? (Shakey Mo Collier)

Doesn't have the thematic subtleties of say the Sopranos, but the virtuosity of the narrative construction is just as if not more impressive second time round. I plan to watch the whole thing through again in about five years.

yeah I watched the back half of S2 and most of S3 recently and there were a lot of things I picked up on the second time around. knowing where things are going provides an added dimension, you can better admire the scenery when you're not getting whipped around by the breakneck turns of fortune.

i am just butting in here & can't get at the answers behind the most recent Click here toload thing right now, so sorry if I am syndicating last night's insta-responses, but can I just say I thought it was neat how greedily the writers played with cliched foreboding language in hank's dialogue catching walt & calling marie, just life zero restraint, each line another dagger, even It Might Be Awhile Til I'm Home, just how playful it is to roll this out verbatim to an audience so tense

maybe it'll turn out to be accurate. hank gets home, but it's going to be a while. some kind of long, drawn out standoff/hostage situation type thing. that might make national news.

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

Nooooooooooooooooo

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i'm guessing you really hated "fly"

or maybe they'll take out good will squinting

Catching up on this thread but just had to say: lol.

i'm gonna be so mad, btw, if this Charlie Rose thing actually pans out at all

because that is the most boring spoiler ever

maybe one way or another everyone who's in this shootout basically disappears, which i suppose could wind up as a national story - but the only people who could give any information about what was going on to lead to this are: marie, skyler and saul

saul would totally go on all the tv shows

if Charlie Rose turns out to be the head of Madrigal I will never doubt Vince Gilligan again

^^^

this

I bet Huell is sitting in the safe house just watching Charlie Rose

man, watching that behind the scenes makes me really sad I couldn't hack it in the production world. making moving pictures in the desert is so fuckin' fun.

clearly Charlie Rose plays Saul's brother, is incidental to the plot, and only serves to set up his recurring character in the spin-off.

i think there is a crazy mustache theme going on...

http://davewatchingstuff.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/amazing-moustache.png?w=470&h=256

http://cdn.uproxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/breaking-bad-mustache.jpg

I don't know why anyone thinks they have enough knowledge of Huell's character to confidently say he wouldn't crack in that situation. Saul isn't hiring bodyguards for their brains and we haven't seen Huell in any situation when he hasn't been pretty much the fat clown.

The only thing I'm not quite buying is why Walt would have ordered a hit on Jesse in the first place, he's obviously a liability for him but Walt is arrogant enough to still believe in his powers of persuasion here. Walt bottling the hit makes a lot more sense obviously and I'm prepared to forgive them when it sets up a cliffhanger like that.

Walt fucked up SO many times in this episode. If only he'd noticed that Jesse was calling him "Walt" and not "Mr White" on the phone, he'd have known something was up.

From the moment Hank called Marie I'm sure everyone in the world knew what was about to happen and I genuinely expected to see him gunned down by the end of the episode.

Jesse is obviously the person in the best position here given he's in the car and not handcuffed, and we know Walt gets away. Otherwise holy shit.

apologies if this has already been floated - but the Nazis could capture Jessie and force him to cook (he'll give them the blue tint they want)

yeah i feel like they're going to have a meth slave at the end of this, not sure why it wouldn't be walt though, i guess it depends who escapes.

It's probably more likely to be Walt given that he's handcuffed in the car. They'd have to kill both Hank and Gomie for that to happen and having Hank gunned down by a load of Nazi dudes would feel like a cheap end for the character.

yeah jesse is significantly less handcuffed than walt.

a load of Nazi dudes

you mean Jack and his men. he does have a name.

I apologise for wronging the Nazis.

also it is weird to me that the final level boss fight bad guys of breaking bad are nazis. feel like it's weird that everybody is just like "okay there's nazis now." i mean i know they were there at the end of last season but the sudden nazi prominence seems weird to me!

The final level Boss Fight guy is Walt, the Nazis are just the guys doing his dirty work. Obviously Walt is also the hero at the same time, that's kind of why this show is great.

I apologise for wronging the Nazis.

I had to correct you, who knows what would have happened if I stood by and did nothing.

xpost I don't think anyone mentioned the hilarious conversation about the colours early on. love the way bb never shies away from a gag.

on a more serious note i agree it is a bit weird with the nazis, the show seems to be reluctant to depict them as disgusting hate criminals, or maybe it doesn't have the time, or maybe they are just criminals with swastika tattoos.

I think they're mainly there to illustrate how debased Walt has become in his choice of allies/henchmen, but they may well just be garden variety thugs who also happen to be into white power shit.

yeah i agree, just they don't really illustrate that too effectively because it hasn't had time to flesh them out much. like, i dunno, are neo-nazis generally more psychotic than other criminal gangs? maybe i'm being prejudiced against them.

I think it's just meth = bikers = white guys with dubious politics/tattoos. I guess having a character with a swastika on his neck is a quick way of saying 'these guys are baddies, and probably aren't that smart so you can expect them to fuck up whatever situation we put them in'.

On a different subject - it struck me seeing Walt and Skyler outside the car wash that they now dress exactly like all the guests at that Grey Matter birthday party thing from ages ago.

nice "got myself a new boat, it's called the live forever" moment with marie.

― Wantaway striker (LocalGarda), Monday, 9 September 2013 19:56 (Yesterday) Bookmark

haha is this a reference to something i'm forgetting

loved todd having 'she blinded me with science' as his ringtone. sometimes u gotta have a cheap gag

ah shit, is that what it was? it came in so quickly and then i forgot about it till now.

this is the "new boat" reference. classic.

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

ahhhh

also Jesse
"big ORANGE flames"

― kinder, Monday, 9 September 2013 21:14 (Yesterday) Bookmark

yes!

If Walt doesn't use science to blow some chemical shit up in someone's face in the next three episodes I will be severely disappoitned.

lydia and skyler teaching their sons the importance of brand awareness was cute

i was terrified, but when they started firing 100s of rounds without hitting anything the tension kinda dissipated for me

― i wanna be a gabbneb baby (Hungry4Ass), Monday, 9 September 2013 22:38 (Yesterday) Bookmark

yeah they could have done this a touch better if i'm being picky

credits as walt's glasses were falling off brought the realness back though

i like the way they reserve especially sinister music for the truly sinister scenes, i mean in the context of a show that's fairly dark all the time.

i could kinda see a callback to walt saving jesse from the dealers happening now where jesse, piqued by being called a coward, drives the car into the nazis

maybe that's too ~on the nose~ idk

either that or hank only gets shot in the leg or some bullshit and they all get taken hostage so walt can be chemistry macgyver again

i like the way they reserve especially sinister music for the truly sinister scenes, i mean in the context of a show that's fairly dark all the time.

― Wantaway striker (LocalGarda), Tuesday, September 10, 2013 11:33 AM (23 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the music was fantastic, some of the best in the series

either that or hank only gets shot in the leg or some bullshit and they all get taken hostage so walt can be chemistry macgyver again

― r|t|c, Tuesday, September 10, 2013 11:39 AM (21 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I think this is what's happening unfortunately.

i guess jesse could die in the next ep, as a sort of curveball.