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

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.

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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.

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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.

Breaking Bad's method of painting itself into a corner and finding the way out was really smart - especially as it echoed the way Walt lived. Gilligan also always talks about how they wrote the show by methodically playing out the results of any action a character takes. Again - that's a lot of what the show is about.

They found a way of working backwards and mapping out possibilities. The flash-forward asked the audience to do the same. The show always invited speculation - but it almost always beat it. There were always surprises. So there was a sense of playfulness - of the writers and audience being almost in competition - that felt really fun and fresh and new to me. And there was an element of showmanship, that this was a tightrope act and they could fail with one false move.

The fact that it could pull all that off while remaining powerful as a traditional drama, not just a big game, was pretty amazing.

"that stevia shit you always put in your tea"

the Elliot/Gretchen laser pointer gif above cracks me up, one of them was so far off and it swings into position, worst professional hitman impersonation

xxxpost in Central Florida if you see a car you like you just scream "I'M TAKING THIS MOTHERFUCKER" and dudes throw their keys at you

I loved about that laser pointer thing that it was so believable that the Schwartzes were so far removed from the underworld that they easily bought the whole hitman setup because they ain't been exposed to shit like that.

feel like the finale *reallly* brought all the spaghetti western/Sergio Leone tropes into sharp focus.

was waiting for post-credits shot of Saul staring balefully out across the North Dakota sunrise from his Cinnabon

I thought it was semi-believable except for the dollar amount

they're going to watch you for the rest of your life for $100k each, sure xp

and that they'd think "west of the Mississippi" is the equivalent of Compton in '88

they're going to watch you for the rest of your life for $100k each, sure xp

― beautifully, unapologetically plastic (mh), Monday, September 30, 2013 11:59 AM (58 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

naw its only the next year

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

I thought they were gonna get wacked if they ever spilled the beans about where the money came from

They went with the happiest ending but it was satisfying enough. Felt a real wrenching that the show was over.

think he just said that if flynn didnt get the money they get hit, tho the hitmen could i guess just set a google alert for if there was a news down the line

no it was that they were gonna get whacked if they didn't hand the money over (xps)

anyway it only has to be believable enough for them to consider it a possiblity

walt told them to set up an irrevocable trust benefiting flynn iirc

point being though that they wouldn't need to be watched "for life," only up until Flynn turned 18 which was like a year away, to see if he got the money or not

eh, n/m

I thought this was a really great finale and eerily beautiful in a lot of ways

walt looking through the glass at flynn was heartbreaking

― cozen, Monday, September 30, 2013 4:27 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Only time I ever teared up watching this show was when he took one last look at Holly while she was napping.

I loved about that laser pointer thing that it was so believable that the Schwartzes were so far removed from the underworld that they easily bought the whole hitman setup because they ain't been exposed to shit like that.

in fairness p much everybody has only been exposed to shit like that in movies or video games or from reading about it on the internet

Only time I ever teared up watching this show was when he took one last look at Holly while she was napping.

yeah that fuckin' GOT me btw. wondered if it was just OH NO I'M A DAD but God damn.

Yeah I have a daughter the same age so probably just dad mode kicking in idk.

parenting stuff in films totally hits me differently/more intensely since I became a father. think that's pretty common

in fairness p much everybody has only been exposed to shit like that in movies or video games or from reading about it on the internet

― combination hair (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Monday, September 30, 2013 12:32 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

nuh uh dude I'm threatened by hit men every other week iirc

as the guy paying for them I can vouch for that ^^