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

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

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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 ^^

holly scene almost as affecting as him saying goodbye to his beloved meth lab.

the lovingly touching the meth gear was lol was half-expecting him to cook ... one... final ... batch

Yeah I was waiting for him to cook it up too but the sirens came instead.

he loves his daughter like he loves cooking meth

loved how that scene suggests that his love for cooking was indeed sincere.

just got corrupted by big business interests and all.

I love how comfortable Walt was the whole episode. Just embraced who he was and went around all dead man walking while he handled his business.

I was half expecting Walt to pull out some freshly-cooked blue & torch it up right there when he was walking through the lab at he end.

holly scene almost as affecting as him saying goodbye to his beloved meth lab.

― ryan, Monday, September 30, 2013 12:36 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lawl

loved how that scene suggests that his love for cooking was indeed sincere.

― ryan, Monday, September 30, 2013 11:39 AM (2 minutes ago)

Tying this up with the "I liked it...I was good at it...I felt alive" scene with Skyler was great. Finally, no more self-delusion and bullshit rationalization.

yeah it was a very ~peaceful~ finale (M60 notwithstanding), which was a nice counterpoint to the 'shit is about to go down' anticipation of the flashforward & build-up

just read nussbaum's critical new yorker review - genuinely appreciative of her calling out the tidiness and the possibility of it all being a dream, as it made me realize how much I liked it. It WAS tidy, and fitting with the show's pretense that Walt is "really good at this," "the devil," etc. But there was still that sliver of ambiguity - we didn't see a montage of walt jr receiving a check from the nerdlingers, of holly scampering, jesse and brock at the park, etc, etc, etc. Walt's dead, he can't know whether it all worked out, and neither can we. We can debate whether it was worth it, whether he really pulled it off, but he made a DAMN good go of it. Ending with him FAILING, dying in that car, dying without closing all these doors, would have put a "cautionary tale"/"crime doesn't pay" shroud over the whole show. Instead of going for that blunt refusal to give Walt a happy ending, they gave us a really haunted "happy ending."

there was something about that machine gun rigging bit ... doesn't Clint do something like that in one of those Leone movies?

we didn't see a montage

oh man was so glad they didn't do this. I hate those "let's recap everything!" montages (yes, that goes for the Wire)

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