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

Gilligan says in that piece that he thinks that the next episode (6 of 8) is his favorite of the entire series. Given the amount of setup that's gone down, I'm finally expecting payoff.

You never get what you expect with this show. I'm banking on the next episode being a lighthearted bottle episode like the fly one.

U-S-A! U-S-A!

xp everybody runs out of bullets so they're left yelling at each other from behind their cars for 45 minutes.

bottle episode might be payoff!

a lighthearted bottle episode like the fly one

light-hearted??? that episode was intense

theres no way with 3 episodes left they can do a bottle episode. can they?

no way imo

*crossing fingers the final episode will all take place in the darkened room of Walt's mind*

turns out that mild-mannered teacher Walt visited the Black Lodge at some point?

a lighthearted bottle episode like the fly one

light-hearted??? that episode was intense

― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, September 11, 2013 4:23 PM (11 minutes ago)

intensely terrible maybe

kmt

oh man now i'm wondering if this will be some kind of "gunfight? what gunfight?" calm before the storm with walt jr eating breakfast or marie going shopping. could see gilligan being giddy about that.

then come back the sunday after this one with a bullet in hank's head

Thinking about Todd being all calm and polite with the Nazi family reminded me that it looked like he had a tattoo on his right index finger when he was staring at Lydia's lipstick-stained coffee mug. I paused it on the scene but couldn't make out what it was, was curious if it's some sort of polite, understated white pride icon.

Also, why is Brock so terrified of Walt? Is it some "young innocent sees the true monster" type thing, or a vestige of his poisoning?

Brock's always been v quiet. Maybe initially to help emphasise how good with kids Jesse is.

well we never found out exactly how walt poisoned him.

feel like BB's dead g/f is like the Sopranos' missing Russian - that shit is not gonna come back guys, let it go

many xxxp

yeah i agree.

I don't even think it needs to be addressed. Bringing up something that happened seasons ago to give yet more weight to Jesse's belief that Walt is vile and has to be destroyed?

what if the scene ends with people trying to get the money and it's gone

http://www.collegehumor.com/article/6914056/a-day-in-the-life-of-walter-jr

Bringing up something that happened seasons ago to give yet more weight to Jesse's belief that Walt is vile and has to be destroyed?

yr right they would never bring back something from a while back that would give fuel to Jesse's anghttp://images.wikia.com/breakingbad/images/2/2a/Ricin_cigarette.jpg

that point is that, having done that, they don't need to do it again

why do it again
xxxp

plus the ricin cigarette has been consistently kept in the picture ever since he put it together (ie, the first episode of this season, etc.)

aero, i didn't say they wouldn't do it, i said it's not something they need to do.

i like how the formatting made your non-point even more dramatic.

it looked like he had a tattoo on his right index finger

This, probably:
http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.1409162.1374790835!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_635/cranston26f-1-web.jpg

Bottle episode was a joke suggestion, but honestly, this show could have Walt and Jesse and the cops and the nazis yelling at each other in a standoff for 45 minutes and it might even be a great episode!

light-hearted??? that episode was intense

It's probably been too long since I've seen it, I remember the end being heavy but the rest being as silly as this show ever gets.

just looked up todd on wikipedia - apparently "good will squinting" played a young matt damon in All The Pretty Horse

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haha really. I just know him from Friday Night Lights like everyone else.

I love him so much in Friday Night Lights

still totally flummoxed at how hank and gomie didn't call in their position. i guess they didn't want to be caught "off the reservation" so to speak? bad move.

― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, September 11, 2013 11:22 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

they were talking abt calling the reservation police when the aryans showed up

cranston has the same tattoo in the same place

that's cranston's tattoo

there are some *interesting* details about the next episode on its imdb page. It doesn't ruin anything but I'd suggest not looking if you want to remain completely unspoiled

but you're going to have to look now aren't you

Also, why is Brock so terrified of Walt? Is it some "young innocent sees the true monster" type thing, or a vestige of his poisoning?

feel like there was some hint before that walt had administered the poison in person.

ya

personally I hope we never find out, their scenes were so creepy, sometimes it's better off just not knowing exactly what the deal is (see: 75% of Lost)

was there not some thing of brock remembering a "bad man" or some shit? or of walt having paid him a visit? some kind of thing like this but not enough to incriminate walt. i feel like they made you think it was walt with the ricin but then it wasn't ricin poisoning and you thought it wasn't again until the last reveal. i'd have to rewatch to be sure.

i think just logically it was walt

some googling says:

At the 2013 Comic-Con Vince Gilligan explained exactly how he and the writers imagined Walt got the poison to Brock, and it wasn’t, as I had thought, through Saul. Instead they pictured Walt as the “Evil Juice Box Man” going into Brock’s school and giving him a juice box that had juice from the poison berries. And if you’ll look closely at episode 413 “Face Off” (thanks to Greg below for pointing this out), when Walt busts into Saul’s office, Francesca is shredding school schedules. It’s a big spreadsheet of classes and times but there are notes on the side that seem to be one student’s personal schedule, most likely Brock’s. So, kudos to the writers on including that little detail, and again to Greg for noticing that what’s was being shredded. End of update.

don't know wtf greg is but thanks to him.

I preferred Evil Juice Box Man's electric stuff to be honest.

Gilligan says. “The writers would always tell the story of the Evil Juice Box Man. The way we worked it out on our timeline is he had just enough time to do it, but it would’ve been very tricky indeed.” They figured he crushed the poison up, stuck it in a juice box, and got into Brock’s school. “That’s our inner story, the writers and I, for how it happened. It would’ve been very tricky timing, but he was a motivated individual at that point.”

I don't think Brock recognises Walt, he just senses something off about him, but they're obviously keeping it ambiguous

greg is the guy who wrote heisenberg on the white family breakfast nook wall

it says Evil Juice Box Man on the other side of the wall but there wasn't time to show it.

have to keep something for the dvd

had to be done

The writers would always tell the story of the Evil Juice Box Man. The way we worked it out on our timeline is he had just enough time to do it, but it would’ve been very tricky indeed.” They figured he crushed the poison up, stuck it in a juice box, and got into Brock’s school.

tbh this explanation sounds pretty ludicrous