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

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Let alone how he would even find out the location of the secret Nazi desert base.

I don't think it's ever been established that the base is secret...? Didn't Walt visit there when he was hiring the Nazis to kill Jesse?

Did he write down the GPS location for the secret base, too? I assume it's off the beaten path, way down Survivalist Compound Row.

Been thinking again about the Grey Matter thing and why Walt would have been pushed out of it. Like if he was forced out then it might work as the 'creation of the monster' moment but if he tried to force out the Schwarz guy and fuckede it up then it suggests the Heisenberg tendency was always there.

here's hoping jesse's bitch of all bitchs gets used on todd

They fade to black before Jesse shoots, so hard to say if Gale was shot in the back of the head or not - but it looks like it from the next episode when the cops are in his apartment.

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is Huell ok?

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could not sleep after this one. I keep telling sunny, I can't wait until this show is finally over.

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I haven't been watching this on live television so I feel like y'all are doing the lord's work by making sure I get all these Low Winter Sun references

hoping for an ultrableak finale including todd to kill jesse

replete w/"bitch" kiss-off

xp nobody cares about Low Winter Sun

that's the only reference you need to know

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ahhahah

a+

This may have been discussed before, but did Cranston do the actual rollerskating in that clip?

I do have to commend AMC for resisting tagging promo stuff on to their iTunes downloads. FX has not resisted it and any time I watch Sons of Anarchy I end up with a FX logo montage and a teaser for one of their other shows

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Did you do all the skating in Malcolm or did you have a stunt double?

I did most of it. There were just two parts that I didn’t do, which is when I left my feet. There was a cartwheel and a handstand, which I did not do, but everything else I did. It was fun we had a week and a half to learn the routine and start skating. It’s fantastic what you can do with practice.

I am so happy he has moved to the forefront of American actors. He's awesome.

the nazis quoting Woody Allen

i feel like agitating for precise rather than general poetic symmetry in figuring out how gale was shot is kinda beyond. i don't think we have to imagine a writing room discussion in which they envisaged a collective audience gasp as, purposefully circulating from his already peak position in front of andrea, todd rounded her to stand behind her!, an eerie and literal inversion of jesse's memorably frontal killing of gale seasons earlier!. it is already a cool metaphor without us having to make it perfect. him being behind just kinda fit with todd's terrifying & skewed politeness & his nothing personal line.

also we all know that the thing the writers are really invested in, & the area in which they blow off steam to compensate for their restraint elsewhere, is making ambient dialogue and activity around scene segues weirdly relevant. he's a monster/chess pieces being knocked over/something this week maybe about jesse's dungeon or something, i forget.

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Currently playing LBJ onstage in Boston. xpost

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xxp finale of todd thinking hes a chicken, nazis need the eggs

Has anyone seen Cold Comes the Night?

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Is the water warm enough?

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yeah - gale definitely shot in the face. never mind
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but agree with schlump - doesn't need to be a perfect parallel to resonate

The thought of Brock coming down and finding his mother dead on the doorstep is pretty horrible.

Starting to think the ricin cigarette is for Lydia, they made a point of showing she takes sweetener in her tea in the last episode.

Sounds about right.

I reckon he may've gone and grabbed the ricin with no specific use in mind for it though. Never know when a phial of ricin might come in handy.

Lydia: What are you going to do, kill me?
Walt: No (takes a sip of tea). You're already dead.

Walt: Antidote.
Lydia: To what?
Walt: [matter-of-factly] The poison you just drank.
[laughs aloud]

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Hahaha

I also suspect that Todd is going to be all "Hey Mr White" and let him drive right into the compound.

maybe one day holly, brock and lydia's kid will all get together and have a big laugh about it all

and then have a mexican standoff as full grown adults should

re: gale's headwound, not to be all CSI about it or anything but bullets often make little holes going in and big ones coming out

yeah not to put too fine a point on it but bullet-to-front-of-head and bullet-to-back-of-head seems pretty straightforward "shoe is on the other foot now" to me

there's about a gazillion ways they could've killed andrea, answering a nighttime knock on yr door and getting popped out of the blue without provocation is similar enough for a show that obv trades in patterns and mirroring (e.g. walt absorbing his victim's traits).

granted gale was involved in a criminal enterprise but his childlike naivete made him at least appear to be an innocent among the rest of the underworldlings... this convo actually reminding me how disturbing gale's death was at the time, in part because two souls were lost in the transaction - gale physically and jesse morally. that's its own form of doubling, and it just occurred to me that andrea's death also has two victims, herself and brock. I guess we should count jesse as victim there but I kinda feel like the guy died inside a long time ago and is just a shambling shell at this point. or maybe he is we in this context - the helpless watcher(s) left behind to make sense of an irreversible violence. hall of mirrors.

the gale/andrea situations aren't perfect mirror images of each other - if they were it would be facile and not very interesting to contemplate imo - but the echoes call attention to jesse's killing of gale, an event that even at the time felt to me like a pivot point on which this whole sad story would turn, or maybe just the moment which came closest to reaching a dostoevskian level of engagement with the material. the whole series is almost a nonstop exercise in finding out how much innocence its players can lose, no matter where they fall on a moral continuum.

stevia ricin is an interesting red herring

I know right

this show has made me so sensitive to false telegraphing

By the way, who the fuck has milk with camomile?

what motivation does walt have for killing Lydia idgi

if he talks to Skylar he'll have motivation

I'm thinking the ricin will be used either for walt, or not at all, and I'm leaning towards the latter. that includes any uncle tio type slapstick like walt poisoning lydia at the same time todd busts in to propose marriage, knocking over her teamug in the process, the clumsy oaf

xxp she's still profiting off of his product