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

it comes as no surprise to me that the really powerful stuff was in the third to last and fourth to last episodes. all they needed to do was make an ending that felt appropriate and i think it was a success on that front.

I really think it's more fanboy/nerdish that he wears those shirts and not straight promotional. Like if it wasn't the Breaking Bad finale aftershow he'd probably have had on a Star Wars shirt or something.

I'm afraid this does not make me less disappointed but it's his life and he can wear/do whatever he wants.

the hollywood forever/"talking bad" thing is weird but having a party when you wrap a production is standard practice regardless of how serious the project was, they just decided to invite fans and put it on tv

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/inside-breaking-bads-hollywood-cemetery-638889

they do sell all this stuff at Best Buy now (los pollos hermanos aprons, vamanos pest patches, etc)

xp that is pretty cool that they used it to raise money for Kind Campaign

so had Walt been to the nazi compound/clubhouse before the finale?

i thought he had but couldn't remember the exact circumstance

I like that for all the talk of Chekhov's ricin, no one noticed Chekhov's key fob, which was somewhat conspicuous. (Though maybe they did - I have a vague memory of someone in here saying something about it being odd that the car Walt got would have those kind of electronic locks?)

I think Walt was at Nazi Funtime World when he was arranging to have Jesse killed?

nussbaum's review makes me realize how many orphans (or semi-orphans) are left at the end, even jesse, sorta.

xxxp

i was under the assumption that he'd only been there blindfolded

of course when he arrives it sort of looks like they'd been expecting him, you could assume he'd talked to todd and asked to meet with his uncle to talk about meth 3.0 etc

otoh it doesnt really matter-- it fits with the way the vulture piece linked upthread points out that he's like a ghost in this episode, just appearing in every scene, zero attention paid to the mechanics of how he got there

I heart you Internet:

Walt just put regular unleaded into a diesel Volvo.

the ghost who knocks

I think Walt was at Nazi Funtime World when he was arranging to have Jesse killed?

― opie dead eyed piece of shit (Merdeyeux), Monday, September 30, 2013 10:52 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah this is what i was thinking of

when god is in a machine u can put any gas in it u want

I don't understand why the Talking ______ shitshows would make anyone feel anything about the shows themselves when they're purely a function of AMC trying to keep eyes glued to the TV and probably more of a necessary evil (see: press junkets et al) than something the casts/creators would really care to involve themselves with.

Wasn't he there when they were arranging the hit on Mike's guys? xxp

yeah so weird that guys who just finished the greatest and most appreciated artistic achievement of their careers would want to have fun and celebrate

he met them in a hotel room for the previous hit xp

so does anyone think Jesse is gonna get caught by the feds? Unless the feds have reason to think he's buried in the desert, he's a missing person. Marie knows about him.

wasn't Walt at the compound when he arranged for the hits on the 9 inmates? can't remember.

oh wow @ volvo continuity

has anybody gotten as ridiculous as the Dark Knight/Iron Man 3 geeks got?

"THERE'S NO WAY BATMAN WAS SIX MILES AWAY WHEN THAT BOMB EXPLODED!"

hey people can party all they want
like i said, i'm not the intended audience, so i turned it off

p sure they met in a hotel room for the 9 inmates.

of course when he arrives it sort of looks like they'd been expecting him, you could assume he'd talked to todd and asked to meet with his uncle to talk about meth 3.0 etc

this seems plausible. and i could very well be forgetting another time he was there. the blindfold is totally slipping my mind.

Can't wait for the next suggest ban thread:

http://i.imgur.com/XrRdht7.gif

anyway, not a real criticism or anything. but you'd certainly want some familiarity with your surroundings before you roll up on some guys with a remote controlled automatic weapon

they were definitely expecting him, Todd set up the meeting. I can't remember if he had been there before or not.

yeah, Todd set it up to assassinate him, at Lydia's behest (which is why she called).

maybe Todd gave detailed GPS directions and said "yo you should see this door we have at the compound man, it's built to withstand bullets from a .45, hoping to upgrade so it can withstand machine gun fire".

lol

At the beginning the car keys in the sunshield seems to be a conscious reminder that this is a TV show so suspend disbelief at some of the more outlandish leaps of logic.

― JLB Credit (Jack BS), Monday, September 30, 2013 7:05 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ha as i was watching the show i thought to myself ilx is gonna be suspicious of the keys in the car, and i just wanted to say that i live not far from where that scene took place and my keys are in my car as we speak

I've seen two places where that's happened: Last night's Breaking Bad and Terminator 2. Never IRL.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BVYWWp5CMAAF2J_.jpg:large

yeah so weird that guys who just finished the greatest and most appreciated artistic achievement of their careers would want to have fun and celebrate

― ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Monday, September 30, 2013 10:57 AM (29 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ha yeah they seem like theyve had a blast making it altogether, and its silly to want them to take it all serious, theyre behind the scenes making the sausage, its differnt back there

Far cry from the Cheers get-together following their finale.

I've seen two places where that's happened: Last night's Breaking Bad and Terminator 2. Never IRL.

― pplains, Monday, September 30, 2013 11:20 AM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

well u prob dont steal a lot of cars, read an article recently that the vast majority of car thefts come from keys left in cars, anyway just wanted to report that leaving yr keys in yr car is common practice around here

not that in the context of the show it wasnt a bit fantastical, he prays to god and the keys drop down, but also it could happen

http://i.imgur.com/SF07q6F.jpg

lol

I'm talking about up in the visor. I know folks in the country who leave them in the ignition or on the dash.

But first time I saw that scene in T2 and John O'Conner says yo robot, check up here, they're always in the visor, I was all NO THEY'RE NOT.

At least my Sunday nights will be free for my other interesting and fulfilling hobbies.

http://i.imgur.com/VCv9TxS.gif

if i visited the town i grew up in central Illinois right now, i guarantee i could find 15-20 cars with the keys in it within about half an hour. that was one of the easier to believe parts of the episode. and, yeah, many of them would be pickup trucks with keys on the visor.

my mechanic left my keys in the visor a lil while ago when i had to pick it up after hours

Well ok then.

Also kudos to you all for not having keychains loaded down with 25 keys and a dreamcatcher.

they're always up in the visor IN FILMS. Otherwise triumph-over-disaster protagonists would always have to come from the kind of background where hotwiring a car is common knowledge.

xpost

The entire sequence with Walt casually following Gretchen and Elliot, coercing their cooperation, and pulling up to pick up Badger and Skiny Pete (!) was one of the best tying-things-up things I've seen

i was kinda disappointed that Walt didn't hand them an already opened Southpaw 40 and say "Guys, I should have done this sooner, but...pour one out for Combo"

a dreamcatcher attached to my keys would be v annoying.

xposts

he literally prays to god for a machine and then the keys fall from above, this isnt that difficult to grasp ppl

I can second lag∞n's evidence, I had to move my friend's car in Vermont and he'd left the keys in it

in South Florida we have goddamn bars on our windows.