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

hey...what if...Skylar was NEVER MARRIED

taking 7 years to write a book to point out that someone should be more open and communicative is not very open and communicative

??? Who said anything about it taking 7 years?

xpost and was an old, 60 year old alcoholic with a failing liver that concocted her dream life, only to narrate how it would inevitably fall apart due to meth to make her feel better about being all filthy and alone

Ends with Walt yelling, "SKYLAAAAR! You got some 'splaining to do!"

what if Breaking Bad was actually a fantasy written by Roseanne, who had always wished her parents had named her Skyler

The Skyler's The Limit; or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Drugs

Whole series was actually a concept album by Twaughthammer.

Anyway, I didn't say I'd think "Skyler's book" ending would've been particularly good, just that it was my favourite among the various goofy "it was all a dream" scenarios I'd seen on the internet, because at least there was some minor clues supporting it (Skyler's writing career that was mentioned during early season 1, and never referred to after that), and it would explain why in this "dream" Walt keeps failing so often.

taking 7 years to write a book to point out that someone should be more open and communicative is not very open and communicative

??? Who said anything about it taking 7 years?

― Tuomas, Wednesday, October 2, 2013 11:18 AM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

oh like skylar could write this book in real time. please, tuomas.

the whole series happened inside a dollhouse made by a carpenter named Jesse

They only mentioned Twaughthammer during early season 1 too! Never referred to it after that either!

Now I don't know what to think.

Anyway, maybe the book wasn't a message to Walt, maybe Skyler was just pissed off at him, but because Walt had cancer she had to treat him with kid gloves, so she vented all her anger towards Walt into this semi-fictional story, where awful things keep happening to him and it's all his fault.

maybe if skyler was a man she could have been called walt

think about it

I don't buy this writing it for herself theory at all. It was clearly written as a message to Walt.

walt rhymes with fault

i reckon it was the book until about season three or four, then it switched to stuff that was really happening.

Walt rhymes with fault
― conrad, Wednesday, October 2, 2013 11:31 AM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

...'fault' originates from the past principle latin fallere or to deceive.... also originating from the latin fallere, 'fallacy'..... twaughthammer's breakout song was 'Fallacies'.......O...M....G

gr8080 and josh in chicago talking the most sense on this thread, 100 or so posts up. one thing though, sopranos ending was great AND not ambiguous at all (not after reading that billion word analysis of it that i can't find right now anyway)

http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20061120145407/lostpedia/images/7/74/2x09_horse.JPG

I loved the Sopranos ending. What's the argument that it's not ambiguous though?

did this get posted yet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATDbz0v_g3c

xpost initially yeah, but not (for me) after reading this: http://masterofsopranos.wordpress.com/the-sopranos-definitive-explanation-of-the-end/

My favourite theory like this is that all of BB was a book Skyler was wrote after Walt's cancer diagnosis,

Would explain why she was living in a shitty basement at the end.

Should've ended with montage of this backed with "Thank You, Friends" by Big Star

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lol

We all forgot about Ted :(

it would have been terrible but in retrospect jesse's barbaric yawp was a prime opportunity for a tortured biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitch

Poor Ted. If this were the Marvel universe, he would discover Walt's secret plans and rebuild himself as a cyborg, then return as a supervillain bent of revenge called Heisenberg (or Heisenberg II, for the Marvel nerds). Badger and Skinny Pete would be his henchmen. And Walt Jr would be struck by lightning and develop the power to fight him, school and crutches and caring for his poor family by day, foiling Heisenberg, um, the rest of the time.

Zweisenberg

could someone with a subscription post this here or somewhere: http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2004/02/16/040216fa_fact_grann looks fascinating

i would but i don't know how to extract nyer stuff from their weird reader thing

woah weird it let me view it just now w/o logging in... try clicking the link at the bottom?

Is that the Aryan Brotherhood piece?

yes

oh yeah, grady is right, i'm not actually logged in

ah brilliant! would like the text so i could send to kindle but this will do nicely

i can YSI a PDF, gr8080 @ gmail if u need

FWIW, Vince Gilligan refers to them as Nazis, but he's privy to backstory.

xpost, thanks but i'll read online!

this fuckin guy

http://m.hollywoodreporter.com/news/damon-lindelof-breaking-bad-finale-639484

"quite literally broke my heart"

holy shit at that.

the only thing that saves that piece from being a total embarrassment is that it was at least published in a magazine. So you can't say no one cares.

He should have worked on the ending a little more.

I hope Dubya writes (or at least dictates) a piece like that when Obama's 2nd term ends.

aren't you getting tired of hating it?

not exactly

smh @ whoever said that the fact that some critics didnt like or understand this episode just shows that its not good

Case in point:

By the end of the third episode, the series is closer to “Dexter” but only a sliver as entertaining. Creator and executive producer Vince Gilligan has crafted a show that veers into black comedy over the course of the first three episodes, one that is bloody, unpleasant and tedious.

Like Will Ferrell, Cranston is a performer who has a weird fetish for showing off his body and running around in his underwear. “Breaking Bad” displays Cranston in all his flabby, pasty glory. Next week, he even gets a butt shot, which may thrill some but left this viewer wanting to rub vinegar in his eyes...

Coming off of its Golden Globe win for “Mad Men,” AMC anticipates another hit. Somebody’s gotten high on some bad dope. Just say no to “Breaking Bad.”