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

omg I saw Dean Norris in real life last night. He suddenly appeared in the midst of a cheering mob of hipsters in the smoking area of the club in Dublin I was in. Was too embarrassed to muscle my way in for a photo but it provided a great topic of conversation for the rest of the night

scheming with the lasers was great because you went from 'oh he's found a way to help his family i guess he still cares about things to' 'oh that's right he's just a horrible manipulative ball of resentment'

hehe, yup

Love how he demanded them back. Just like Saul said, scientists love lasers.

curious as to what episodes people would nominate for a BB hall of fame. like there are some obvious contenders already mentioned ITT, but always find it fascinating which people's favs are.

Start a poll!

Season 3 and 4 finales are amazing. Season 4 opener. Hank and twins ep is amazing. Walt blows up building ep. 5.14 pretty incredible from last season. I mostly remember amazing scenes not so much entire episodes.

xpost lol nah we got wayyyyy too many BB threads as is, plus more than 50 eps.

I really loved the episode from 5A where Skyler basically says she's going to wait for Walt's cancer to come back. That was ice cold.

Season 2 finale was really gripping too, the aforementioned "Salud". Really loved the penultimate season 4 episode, possibly even more than that season's finale. I like the fact that BB didn't resort to storing up all of its big moments for the last few episodes each season, too.

4 days out was amazing

whichever episode it was that ended with Walt laughing manically on his back in the crawl space under the house (oh - i think the ep might have been called "crawl space"); will always be my favourite.

totally, that's the one I was referring to upthread. the moment when Gus threatens Walter is epic.

ya - something about the way he says "infant daughter" is so chilling.

Gus's diction was probably the best part of his character overall, his overenunciation of every word.

I liked how Esposito made his accent more pronounced when he wanted to sound more menacing.

Many of my favourites mentioned there, "Crawlspace", "Ozymandias", "Fly". I tend not to have favourite individual eps as much as 2-4 episode mini-arcs.

yeah that's true - and when I watched Seasons 1-4, they had already aired, so I always watched them in little blocks like that. It was the main problem I had with watching BB in real time.

ep with meth-heads and the vending machine.

'i am the one who knocks'

fly (sorry, i liked it).

gus slitting the dude's throat.

ep where walt kills krazy-8.

jesse at the NA meeting.

ep where jane bonds with jesse.

the Krazy-8 episode seems even better in retrospect, the earlier side of criminal Walt, where he won't do whatever is necessary to protect himself because he still has a conscience. The moment where he's piecing the broken plate together and realizing there's a shard missing and his anguish at knowing he has to kill is great.

God, Norwich omnishambles

Wrong thread, again. Zing touch's fault!

in this post-BB world all I have to talk about is how I keep mistaking Philip Sherburne for Bryan Cranston on Twitter.

Def gonna be tempted to start over once 5.2 is on netflix

to think if Walt had never been distracted by boobs in the window, he might never have seen Jesse escape

Just got done watching tonight's. The dual funeral scenes were a little hamfisted, though I liked the shot of Jesse and Brock eating ice cream.

i was really pulling for walt jr, nice to see him get those college acceptance letters

Bogdan as Skyler's new love interest is an odd one, think she's trying to weasel her way back into the carwash game?

Huell's closing dance to Dire Strait's 'Walk of Life' was inspired

best scene by far was Marie killing Walt with the pillow after they revived him.

Anybody else tear up a little at seeing Holly dressed head to toe in blue?

I sure hope Badger's restaurant remains a subplot for awhile.

I think my problem with this episode is that it was just a little bit farfetched, even for Breaking Bad? Now I will admit that I don't practice medicine, but I would wager a guess that a comically large syringe labeled "Reanimation Goo" would not actually succeed in reviving a human being?

And then after all of that buildup, Marie just offs him anyway? I just feel so let down after last week. And don't even get me started on the extremely misguided cameo by Darrell Waltrip...or the decision to have him on skis for the entirety of his scene.

I will say though, the reveal that Walt actually killed a fake Ermentraut was expertly done.

so obvious. all you had to do was look at the ears!

put me in the "this one was def walt's dream" camp.

or the decision to have him on skis for the entirety of his scene.

Yeah, but ski pole-cam shot kinda redeemed it

Huell's closing dance to Dire Strait's 'Walk of Life' was inspired

This is beautiful.

Door opens. DEA AGENT sticks head into room, sees HUELL seated on couch.
DEA AGENT
Hey, man. Forgot to tell you. You're safe. You're free to go at any time.
Camera pans to HUELL's face. Lone teardrop streams down cheek.
HUELL
Really?
[happy-sounding synth organ begins playing in background]

lol at Jim DeRo saying "Baby Blue" was too lightweight of a song to end BB on. He'd have preferred "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue"

Them version of course?

No he said dylan

Surprised he didn't argue strenuously for why whatever Flaming Lips song has the word "blue" in it should have been shoehorned into the scene -- a scene that also suffered from not being authentically psychedelic.

that dylan song is shite. im so glad they didnt go there. i mean, my god.

I just heard a convincing argument that the opening scene with Walt receiving the keys from God was not meant to make us think that this was fantasy or delusion, but that Walt was working the 12 steps throughout the episode--and that was the "recognizing a higher power that can give strength" step.

― I got the glares, the mutterings, the snarls (President Keyes), Saturday, October 5, 2013 6:02 AM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is an interesting idea and given some weight by the NA key ring. Walt is praying to get home and keys drop down with a keychain that says 'Just for today'. Its kind of brilliant.

should've played "for you blue" by the beatles.

and had him die with a krystal burger in his mouth.

would have used Blue Man Group.

this is an interesting idea and given some weight by the NA key ring. Walt is praying to get home and keys drop down with a keychain that says 'Just for today'. Its kind of brilliant.

also, didn't Jesse originally tell us about his woodworking safe place at a NA meeting?

would have used this (xpost):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxXSUyc3BAU

PK yes!!

xp Keyes, good point

put me in the "this one was def walt's dream" camp.

― Clay, Monday, October 7, 2013 1:53 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

holy moly, just checking back in this thread for laffs and this is what people are saying with a straight face now?