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

next episode is where all the crazy Illuminati shit happens

OK will admit a "supercar, bitch!" would be go a long way to making this plot development not a bummer

I think todd is an awesome character, but he also seems ridiculously implausible to me. how did he grow up around all of these nazi meth dudes but end up with the polite, well-mannered demeanor of a mormon farmboy?

sometimes people just don't match their familys or his mom couldve been a nice lady or etc

i imagine he had a terrifying, super strict upbringing

also some sociopaths are just good at masking their true natures beneath a veneer of politeness

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I watched the episode, and I have to say I don't think Hank'll die. It's true that his talk with Marie had all the elements of the type "everything's going to be great, honey" speech movies and TV love to do when they want to make someone's death more tragic, and on top of that there was the shot of the "brains" in the garbage can (couldn't really be any more symbolic than that!), so obviously I thought Hank was gonna die... But then the episode ended before he did, and I don't think it'll happen in the next episode either. If they were gonna kill Hank, it would've been a dramatic moment right at the end of the episode, no way are they gonna start the next one with "oh, and btw, Hank dies". So I guess the speech and the brains were there just to fuck with audience expectations.

Exactly what I said.

I mean, basically the rules for any TV drama are that supporting and minor characters can die in the beginning or middle of the episode, but main character deaths always happen at the end. So, when this episode didn't end with Hank's death, I knew he's gonna survive the shootout, because the next one isn't gonna start with him dying.

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also some sociopaths are just good at masking their true natures beneath a veneer of politeness

^ this

the next one isn't gonna start with him dying.

It would be structurally unorthodox, but I'm definitely not ruling it out.

cold open is hank's head exploding scanners style

this show does not adhere to a lot of conventional TV drama rules, so

Yeah, but it does adhere to that.

well then won't u feel foolish when next week's episode begins with Hank taking bullets to the head and falling backwards while Terror Squad's "Lean Back" plays in the background

lol

Christopher Moltisanti died about 5 minutes into that one Sopranos episode

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yeah, that one that was a couple of episodes before the season finale...

this show does not adhere to a lot of conventional TV drama rules, so

posts that end with an unpunctuated "so" are the goddamn plague, no offense Shakey

is that so

yeah from the sopranos to this shows so many 'conventions' related to with death have been thrown out. I wouldn't base anything on that. please join us here in 2013, Tuomas.

Im concerned Hank wont die but im basing off his not being shot yet and his stance behind the car. Id love it if they went for the melon shot BOOM just when we thought he might survive followed by walt and jesse careening around all 'OH SHIT HES DEAD!! OH SHIT SHIT' for the rest of the episode, obv working hard to make things even worse for themselves.

so many extra letters in that. sorry. split focus of work.

Walt should just give Jesse to the Nazis and make him cook - problem solved!

Yeah I just watched that last scene again and Hank is behind the car with Walt in it. Gomeie's in front of it and pretty exposed but I doubt either of them have got more bullets than the white power dudes.

The other thing that I didn't notice was Jesse reaching to open the door of the car he was in. And the gun Walt dropped is lying somewhere on the ground.

Wait, why do the nazis have so many bullets? They were just supposed to kill Jesse; how is it they're armed for a prolonged firefight?

End of Days, bunker times, etc. But why were there two car loads of them? Only one car was stationed on Brock-watch.

Anyone else notice that these episodes barely feel like neat episodes? It's like they're all one long episode with random breaks in it. I mean, this one just ends. The last few have all seemed like snippets of the same long day or so.

But why were there two car loads of them?

cause walt told them that there were at least 3 guys coming for him

Walt had told them from the site that there was a car with 3 guys in it then he backpeddled telling them not to come. Maybe they took the whole crew because they didnt know for sure?

ahh tracer

Marie's going to show up wearing a bandana, body armor, and armed to the gills. this was a 'drill' they ran, and "I got him" is secret code for "I got the guy I was after but please show up 15 minutes later in case I'm in the middle of a celebration and people come to shoot me"

i watched this ep again and when walt calls off the nazis on the phone it has exactly the same kind of forced, no-info quality that you'd expect someone with a gun pointed at their head to have

"them slavic types are crazy for the blue stuff!

that's what i'm told, anyway"

i liked how jack is a keen enough student of human nature to note that despite walt having just requested a hit on jesse he considers him family, so jack sweetens his offer of cook-for-hit by saying he'll "do it right". nice. it'll be artisanal. a real quality rub-out.

think Gomez gets offed and Hank gets some serious, life threatening injury that puts him in a coma (like silvio in sopranos) or some sort of crippling wound that keeps him from speaking the truth (like hector salamanca).

it'll be artisanal. a real quality rub-out.

ew

not THAT kind of rub-out! sheesh.

Maybe they took the whole crew because they didnt know for sure?

they probably thought it would be a laugh

Hank and Gomie saved by two random dudes walking across the crossfire with a plate-glass window

Jesse was edging toward the steering wheel of Walt's 300, I assume he throws it in reverse and plays some role in interrupting the shootout before everyone gets dead.

wait are Jesse and Walt in the same car? for some reason I thought they were in different cars

would be pretty odd for Walt to not notice Jesse in the passenger seat of his car as he took the cell phone call from him.

lol duh I mean at the end after Walt was cuffed

thought they were in diff cars then too

yeah, Jesse was in Walt's car, Walt in Hank's. Jesse started opening the door but I think that was the last we saw of him? Also the car was perpendicular to Jack & Co. so doing a bit of hit and run would be difficult I think.

The big gun Walt has in his trunk ... is it one of those big Nazi guns?

Also: Nazis sorta libertarian in this, and the New Hampshire state motto is ... live free or die!

hank hit, down
gomie hit, down
gomie probably dead, hank passed out
walt and jesse flee into desert
nazis find hank's credentials, flee
walt and jesse get into it and walt lets it slip, clearly, that he watched Jane die

these are less my guesses than just a thought but in "Fly" (dir. Rian Johnson) White almost confesses to seeing Jane die and that's a loose end that isn't out there in the open yet, and it feels like everything coming out is the deal right now, and that's a huge one

walt and jesse get into it

oh man I wish

lol quit yr shipping

Important sidebar: in this week's Breaking Bad insider podcast, Vince Gilligan refers to Todd as "OPIE HITLER"

i lol'd so hard