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

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

Todd's just like all the Mormon missionaries in my local library: the soul(s) of discreet persistence.

Didn't Oz constantly kill v major characters like at any point during a given episode and in v uneventful ways?

Some shows do that, but given we have, what three episodes left? Four? Two? They have to be judicious with their offing of major characters.

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

Oh, that's all. I thought he meant business.

yeah how many episodes are left?

3, wtf, pacing so wacky! Shit going down so fast!

Didn't Oz constantly kill v major characters like at any point during a given episode and in v uneventful ways?

Oh yes, and it's one if the best things about oz

otm

also: hot naked dudes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZX_6_R1NsoQ

omg lol I totally completely forgot abt "tits"

it's been so long since season 5 actually began I had to dig hard to find the opening scene with his 52nd birthday. Obviously he gets away at some point and lives for at least another 6 months or something after all of this; chronologically, is the scene at his house from the first part of season 5 1/2 the most 'recent' thing?

Yeah, he has the gun in the trunk, so he made it from wherever the diner was on his birthday to his old house.

I wondered if it was some kind of potential future at first but nope, that looks pretty legit.

He's got the horn-rimmed glasses in the flashforward. Are we to presume he never gets his wire-frames back after they fell off in the car?

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?

You may remember all the way back to the most recent episode, Walt phones them and says there are three people.

What do people reckon was the deal with the Nazis asking for ID? Just a ruse to get the drop on Hank/Gomie and shoot them? I'm not really thinking they'd all just roll over once they see they're really DEA.

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.

People keep saying this, but I'm not sure if it really applies to BB, as far as I can tell it has been following the conventions of tragedy/tragicomedy pretty neatly. Or if you think BB has defied the conventions of character death, can you tell me how exactly has it done that? For example, when it comes to the timing of characters dying, every "big" death (Krazy-8, Tuco, Gale, Gus) has happened towards the end of an episode, as its climax. I do agree conventions have been defied when it comes to smaller things (such as Hank not getting shot immediately after his phone call to Marie), but with major storytelling tropes, BB is still fairly conventional.

u guys hank and gomie are pretty obviously gonna be dead c'mon

Whether he dies or not, Hank's chances of returning as expected with Walt arrested are basically zero. So Marie will be freaking out, straight to the car wash or to the actual DEA but either way that's the absolute end for Walt's family.

well, the end is obv going to happen, but not sure marie would go to the carwash.

Yeah she'll probably go to the police first.

Maybe not right away though. Hank said he'd be awhile.

She'll be making his favourite dinner and booking them a round-the-world cruise.

Stealing him something special for later.