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

it's interesting to me how identical I feel to like when a Dickens novel - or Jack Maggs - is gathering toward its all-ends-tied: a bunch of stuff happens where you go "ok, well, 200 pages earlier no, but since you have to get out of this somehow because it can't go on forever, ok"

looks p. inevitably like Walt arrives at Nazi compound to kill all, gets killed?

I like where they went with this. Dramatic semi-bottle episode before next week's likely explosive finale. Walt finally reaching his endgame, providing the money for his family, only for them to be so repulsed by who he became that his own son won't take it. Him slowly dying alone so that you actually feel some sympathy for him, only to see his typical vain rage return when Elliott and Gretchen twist the screws on him on television.

also lol at Todd dressing up for Lydia's visit.

with his very own cup of chamomile

Because I saw last week's episode for the first time and this one back to back, I will now detox with Season Three of "The Cosby Show."

lol otm. watch the "Theo asks Denise to make him a shirt" one, gonna need an extra potent Cosby for this

they give Jesse ice cream and this is how he repays them?

THE NAME IS HARLEY. HARLEY WEEWAX

ricin for gretchen and elliot?

Imagine the Nazis trying to put one over on Harley.

http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/opGocmi0grE/hqdefault.jpg

looks p. inevitably like Walt arrives at Nazi compound to kill all, gets killed?

I hope not, that would be a lame ending

charlie rose interview mentions the blue meth is still circulating in europe = walt now knows that jesse is alive and still cooking (and clearly not of his own volition, considering how walt left him with the nazis)

now i'm wondering whether walt's motivation wrt jesse is gonna be freeing/redeeming him or finishing the job

Walt and Jesse take lethal hit of blue, kiss, die

he's gonna return to town only to find there's a charity concert going on called "Heis Aid"

walt's ex-partner on Charlie Rose an FBI op to smoke him out

I don't really see how else Jesse gets out? I mean the possibilities are - another escape; nazis busted by cops/feds, all jailed; nazis just plain old kill jesse next week; lydia springs him; todd springs him to make lydia happy

walt ex machina feels like the only play here

oh wait also fulminated mercury trick, which I have a whole ridiculous script about

xxp fuckin slays as a surprise guest with Green Day, drops dead onstage.

it seems that the only things really hanging now are that Lydia wants Skyler dead and Jesse's got Brock's life in his hands.

Walt can do what he wants with his bigass gun, doesn't matter really.

Jesse's going to be holding Skyler's dead body out in the rain in front of Lydia's house, screaming "I DID THIS FOR YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!!!!!"

I didn't really buy Walt's motivation to kill the Nazis (I guess Saul didn't either)

Walt just likes killing.

oh if only he'd discovered GTA before embarking on his whole crimelord thing.

just realized that Andrea's death is the mirror image of Gale's

fuck me, guys.

hm. that didn't come out the way i wanted it to.

"fuck me, that was a rough hour of television"

Matt Armstrong
Posted: September 23, 2013 at 3:01:28 AM
just realized that Andrea's death is the mirror image of Gale's

nice

that was some dark dark shit

so walts gonna kill the nazis then turn himself in cause its the last thing he has to give his family???

I think he's gotta find some way to get the money to them

he starts and even bigger and better charity than the Grey Matter guys.

nice mix of hilarity and utter horror in this one. todd leaning into lydia doing his best pua "we make a good team... me and you". intense opening scene with the jesse dvd revealing to the nazis that todd killed the kid - didn't have a clue how jack would react but then it became obvious: he only cares about his 'boys' (whoever said upthread about jack displaying good leadership by letting jesse live to keep todd happy, great point).

after andrea got dropped we all went ahhhh and then had to pause the commercials to recover

couple of things left hanging for me, what's going to happen to brock after finding his mum dead on the doorstep? i can't see how killing her was meant to encourage jesse to keep working and give up on escaping. was it to show that if he tries again then brock is next? not like brock's future is rosy at the moment, seems counter-productive

also is saul on the run because it became public knowledge that he was walt's lawyer? would have thought he could have covered his tracks better. also need huell closure beyond this: http://youtu.be/oP_4z4IoYHs

I didn't really buy Walt's motivation to kill the Nazis (I guess Saul didn't either)

couple of things left hanging for me, what's going to happen to brock after finding his mum dead on the doorstep? i can't see how killing her was meant to encourage jesse to keep working and give up on escaping. was it to show that if he tries again then brock is next? not like brock's future is rosy at the moment, seems counter-productive

yeah, but keeping them both alive on the nazi compound would be less likely to send jesse going haywire. also unless they took brock with them he's gonna be whisked away to safety by family/police and then the nazis have nothing to keep jesse cooking

they actually told him they'd kill brock next when jesse was freaking out in the car

what's jesse going say, go ahead, kill brock, I dare you to try to find him!

*going to say*

hm yeah, just sayin it was a bit, uh, rash for the ex-con nazi meth gang. feasible though i guess.

what was it that jesse called todd, a 'dead-eyed opie fuck'?

look to merdeyeux's DN for the answer

ugh, the andrea thing bummed me out more than anything that's happened on BB yet. jesse HAS to kill walt now. it's the only ending that will satisfy me.

Robert Forster & Cranston in a cabin playing cards = tv heaven

god this last episode is gonna destroy me, isn't it

poor jesse, poor flynn. i felt for walt but now he's gonna go all REMEMBER MY NAME on the nazis & be a dick til the absolute last moment when you remember you still kinda like him

this fuckin show

I guess I figured vacuum cleaner repair was a term of art

i'm glad they stuck the Robert Forster introduction at the beginning so I could feel like "nice, Robert Forster!" for a bit before settling in for an hour of misery

It's interesting to me how this show that features crime and cops and yet has almost zero incarceration, that is, incarceration as a way of closing a plot thread. Especially since the Night Of Makeshift Knives made it clear that incarceration means nothing in this show. I'd imagine now that all Nazis will die but Lydia will somehow be locked up and yet and yet has that happened to anybody on this show? It's been like brains or nothing

a poll's not gonna cover all the death spreads for next episode

the ricin - is it for Walt's old friends at Grey Matter?

my guess: Lydia goes out Hitler-style, like her Madrigal compatriot in Germany

One way for Jesse to keep Brock alive (and Andrea if he's acted early enough) would be suicide. Don't fancy trying to kill myself with a paperclip but where there's a will...

I was very satisfied by this episode.

I also kinda want to vacation in a cabin in maine.