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

Jeff Daniels beat Cranston to the Lead Actor in a Drama Emmy? FFS.

Walt should have given a few speeches about the Tea Party

michelle maclaren lost too, but i guess fincher was a gimme

Weird to see Walt surrounded by snow after five seasons of baking Albuquerque landscapes, especially after the desert scenes of the last couple of episodes. He's out in the cold in every sense, I guess.

I just had to smile when I saw that the disappearer guy was Robert Forster

fuck me, guys.

― HOOS it because...of steen???? (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver),

name, location?

I don't see how Walt gets out of the state/gets to NM without encountering law enforcement esp. after alerting them to where he is/what he looks like.

the whole calling the cops thing was a calculated gambit to focus attention on NH, he wants a head start traveling to the last place they expect to see him, NM, prolly half the ppl working his case are en route to NH now

rural places do tend to have a one road in / one road out layout tho, this is a suspen of disbe situation we got here

partly an xp to LG

a what

but this is the classic batshit walt zig instead of zag stuff that kept his opponents off guard

Solid Slate recap

Or Salon. Whatever.

ugh don't compare BB to it's a wonderful life, just don't

nice catch on the hank scotch thing tho

I thought it was funny that even the school calls Walt Jr "Flynn" now, and then I realized that even though he's been using that nickname since S1, he's probably going by Flynn full-time now because he doesn't want to go by Walt Jr anymore. I was glad there were no scenes of Flynn being taunted by other schoolkids cuz I thought that was coming.

was hoping they'd show him running a numbers game out of the lunch room and ruthlessly outsmarting his adversaries in the locker rooms

Wonder what's going to come out of that last phone call. Obviously the authorities already know where Walt was, but have to wonder if the Feds are going to try and contact Flynn to see what happened during that conversation. Can't really keep it a secret, p sure the principal and his teacher know he isn't calling his aunt an asshole.

jesse pretty much has to get to kill todd next week

Todd kills literally everybody. Spinoff show "Todd" debuts after Low Winter Sun

this is a suspen of disbe situation

key post

Agreed about Andrea's death being the most brutal thus far (mostly because all . I had to talk my girlfriend down last week (she was strongly Team Hank) and tell her that it was probably all about taking one last hardcore trip down Bleak Boulevard to show the ultimate cost of Walt's path, and that the last two episodes would probably be lacking much in the way of brutality towards sympathetic characters. Oops.

It occurred to me last night (while I was half-asleep, so it's a half-formed theory at best but seems to have a whiff of truth to it) that the "badness" in this show can be seen as a terminal cancer metaphor. It crept slowly and almost imperceptibly into the lives of those affected, and things have been bleak at points prior to this, and there have been periods of remission when things were seemingly okay and stretches where it seemed like everyone could fight fate, but now everything has metastasized and it doesn't seem like it could possibly end well. I guess I was hoping that the end would be a little more fun than bleak, but I really can't fault Gilligan & Co. for going the route that they have.

the ending got me really pumped, with the album cut of the breaking bad theme playing. robert forester was cool to see, and i liked that they didnt get cutesy with his character - alright i'll stay for an hour, if you give me 10 grand. yes, i'm going to steal all your money when you die. walt slowly wasting away in the cabin and going mad from isolation was pretty brutal

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Oops redux. That should've read (mostly because all I can picture is what Brock will have to confront when he wakes up).

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

― tell it to my arse (jim in glasgow), Monday, September 23, 2013 3:36 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

new hampshire, god

was v close to where i live btw

Todd's weird mix of sociopathy and eagerness-to-please really came out in this episode, such a great character.

Loved the Grey Matter thing coming back as well, a reminder that Walt's insane hubris ultimately comes from professional frustration. Any sense of right and wrong just completely trashed by being made to look like an insignificant chemist on national TV.

Obviously Walt now knows Jesse is still alive and can't cope with the prospect of Jesse potentially getting rich and becoming the kingpin off his formula. Obviously he doesn't know Jesse's being kept as a meth slave.

Jesse presumably has no idea where Walt is or what's been happening to him, for all he knows Walt directly ordered Andrea's death. So there's a load of false assumptions there that will fuel whatever happens when they come face to face.

That said, before Walt does anything else he's probably going to turn up and try and offer Skylar a suitcase full of money.

One thing I didn't get though, how the hell did the Nazis get into Skylar's house in the first place? Surely it would have been crawling with DEA?

they showed that one unmarked car sitting in front of the house, but they were apparently terrible at their jobs.

ya they just went through the back yard or w/e, the dea cant crawl all over it all the time

the ending got me really pumped, with the album cut of the breaking bad theme playing

Guess Jesse's epic "Bitch!" will be in the finale.

he cooks 100% pure meth unselfconsciously high fives todd and screams yeah bitch, todd kills brock

http://i.imgur.com/GxaK6qI.jpg

ok I get that he's supposed to be Krillin, but...

idg why everybody is flipping shit abt the end-title music?

like i recognized it but idk

it was badass.

it was cool but it played out a little weird too--like it was Walt's superhero music. "he's back!" i suppose it's intended as more foreboding but that music is basically a pavlovian pleasure generator for us addicts.

Felt like a western with the Morricone character theme starting to rise

The title theme hasn't appeared as incidental music to date. Sounded to me like a clear telegraph of "hey you thought Walter had broken all the bad but there is still some bad to break"

Loved the Grey Matter thing coming back as well, a reminder that Walt's insane hubris ultimately comes from professional frustration.

was v close to where i live btw

me too - where do you live?

Seeing that NH landscape got me psyched for this winter. I'm going to build a cabin!

And host meth lord refugees.

Walt's hubris and animosity toward his ex-girlfriend and ex-business partner are huge. He's had this chip on his shoulder about their success and his relative lack thereof, probably part of what spurned his motivation to build an empire, and them discounting his contributions really brought out the rage.

The glass of whiskey untouched on the bar was a good end note

no half measures

Robert Forster = A+

not so into the media narrative/Charlie Rose thing. I was wrong and they did go there but the suspension-of-disbelief stuff is coming pretty fast and furious now.

suspect we're in for a "say hello to my little friend" finale

also glad Saul got out alive (apparently)

me too - where do you live?

― Chantal Anchorman (admrl), Monday, September 23, 2013 11:36 AM (19 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

near st johnsbury

Seemed like Charlie Rose was really overselling/overacting. How the fuck hard is it for him to just be Charlie fucking Rose?

The "how's he holding up?" "look for yourself" dialogue leading to the tv showing Walt raging around a room by himself was great

i don't think it's ever been explicit but it's pretty clear the Gray Matters blow-up was due to a love triangle of some sort, right?

i think walt just left and then the other two got together after he was gone iirc