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

Is it entirely beyond the realms of possibility that the drug money might end up in that charitable foundation?

i floated this idea last night, but the gf didn't seem think to think Walt would want people who aren't his family getting it, no matter how much it looked like they could take it and didn't want it.

It would've been nice to see his mom/family at some point,

i only just realized this this morning, that we've never seen his or Skylar's parents! i was trying to think if walt had lived his whole life in Arizona, but I had no idea since they've never really done any back story for Walt outside of Grey Mater.

*like the couldn't take the money

I don't really know what the police would normally do with $70m or so in drug money.

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/08/12/130812fa_fact_stillman

walt pretended to visit him mom on an airplane once no

I don't get hiding in a NH cottage without bringing Proust or Trollope.

paypal donations suddenly flooding into the skylord white defense fund website flynn set up

there have been references to a strained relationship between Walt and his mom

the money thing doesn't make any sense - this episode seemed to make it abundantly clear that there's no way to get the money to his family, even if he could get it all back from the nazis. I guess he could get it back from the nazis and then burn it all lol

with the nazis, i'd image it's more the principal than the actual money. $8 or $80mil - doesn't make a difference when you've taken it from the mighty Heisenberg!

this episode seemed to make it abundantly clear that there's no way to get the money to his family, even if he could get it all back from the nazis

as the Whites they couldn't take the money, but what if say the vacuum cleaner man relocated them and they came up with some cover story explaining why their new identities were rich

Skylar and Flynn wouldn't want to do that at this point though, they already refused to run away with Walt

but yeah I think at this point it's more the principle of the thing

the money thing doesn't make any sense - this episode seemed to make it abundantly clear that there's no way to get the money to his family, even if he could get it all back from the nazis

What about Walt's character suggests to you that he will see sense at this point?

Re:parents-- Walt watched his dad die of Huntington's disease when he was young

The answer to why Walt ditched Gretchen on that vacation must be pretty important if they've waited until the last episode to spill it. That used to seem like the central mystery of BB but so much has happened that i kind of forgot they hadn't answered it.

Walt's always been delusional and wrong and prideful but he's never been flat-out nuts - and I guess the circumstances go beyond explaining how he's lost his mind at this point - but it's a little frustrating as a viewer if it ends up with him chasing down things that don't even make any sense

goin' oooout in a blaaze of gloooorry

walt's gonna blow up the nazis and the money and himself and then yell "look on my works ye mighty and despair!!!!" and then there will be some awesome outro music possibly old metallica as he dies

Yeah, I was hoping that the show would wrap up with something a little more subtle and substantial than a balls-out GTA mission. That said, I literally have no idea what's going to happen in this last episode, and I have faith in this creative team, so I'm pretty excited.

like he's right now interested in "if I can't give my family the money then this was ALL FOR NOTHING," I think he's said that phrase "all for nothing" twice? next week is descent into nihilism

"Yeah, we named our company after Walter and me by combining our last names ... but he had nothing to do with the company."

Mm hmm, yeah, that makes perfect sense bud

http://31.media.tumblr.com/1f96c3affd8b7b14c503d0fad33ae191/tumblr_mtl4h8Okcj1qay9wgo1_r1_1280.jpg

is it all about getting recognized for his achievements?

imo this is it--it's never been about doing it for his family as much as it's been about being heralded as a Man Who Did It For His Family, who made good on his promise as a scientist by using it to do something good for his son. it's why he was so insulted by the gray matter ppl's initial offer to help pay for treatment: he's not a Man That Takes Charity, fuck you, he's a Man That Uses His Intellect to Leave a Legacy.

he's just too much of a covert narcissist to admit that doing it for his family is really about being recognized as that guy.

ah man, that rules xp

idg how he gets recognition for any of that at this point, is the thing

like who is going to do the recognizing in that scenario

its almost like this dying psychopath whos had everything he cares about taken from him isnt behaving wholly rationally

Charlie Rose was basically giving Walt credit for the Todd/Jesse blue meth, so he has left a legacy in a sense

Todd getting ribbed about being sweet on Lydia followed by the scene where he's obviously trying to say how well they work together was so ridiculous

idk guys, do you think Todd has a chance, here, it seems like the BB version of "so not gonna happen"

lydias reaction to the meth being blue again was p good, she cant get enough

feel like a lot of the less, let's say "agile," plot mechanisms in this latter half of the season are the result of the writers working backwards. Todd's infatuation with Lydia, for instance, seems like it's a way to engineer a reason for someone to still be cooking the meth. not that it's not believable (as much as anything else in the show), it's just the puzzle pieces falling into place this time around feel a little bit too much like puzzle pieces. perhaps that's the peril of endings.

I feel like Todd is my dead-eyed stand-in now, it's only natural he has these feelings

maybe Todd as the interested viewer trying to be in the story is an angle

I forgot that Lydia has a kid! She is also working to build her family, I guess

Todd is great with kids

particularly dead ones

Hilarious story on the latest Harmontown podcast about Kumail Nanjiani running into Vince Gilligan at the Louvre (about 40 minutes in).

CBS with the dumbest line in any of the wrapups

Following a botched escape, Jesse (Aaron Paul) gets taken to Andrea's house and looks on in horror as Todd unflinchingly shoots her in the back of the head on her front porch. First Jane, and now this? Mr. Pinkman just can't catch a break when it comes to the ladies.

i thought that Jesse may get a happy ending of sorts, but now with TWO "women in refrigerators" he's gotta be a broken man pretty much.

all my grifriends dead *shrugs*

Brock and Flynn's Cereal Adventures

Mr. Pinkman just can't catch a break when it comes to the ladies, amirite, folks?

well that's another one for the relationship blooper reel!

http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2013/09/23/breaking-bad-the-gray-matter-of-charity

andrea's death is very sad - why they do that - make me not want to watch drama anymore- the pain - even though she is only acting

weird disconnect for britishes viewers - the man from the orange cinema ads turning up as skylar's prosecutor

Little known except to a small cadre of industry insiders, the Schwartzes have been scrambling in recent weeks to keep a long-running secret from being revealed.

. . .

Mr. Schwartz, who won a Nobel prize for his scientific research, has parlayed that success into the celebrity spotlight, hobnobbing with A-listers. He was recently given as a gift a Stratocaster guitar autographed by Eric Clapton.

cool story sork

https://twitter.com/Emily1LoveRios

Last Night’s Breaking Bad Featured a Classic College Hockey Game from 1998

ha they were watching espn classic

todd's plaintive "we work good together" was the so not gonna happen moment, no way he's coming back from that

I did lol @ his repeated mangled grammar/misuse of "good"

the funny thing is todd is right tho he and lydia are perfect for each other, how many conservatively comported criminal psychopaths are there out there really