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

Scrapyard Guy was also Friends' neighbor, right?

+ dude playing Kramer on Jerry and George's pilot in Seinfeld

Jesse goes to NA meetings to deal meth to people who are trying to climb up from addiction. These characters' actions & motivations aren't in any way nobler or more justifiable than White's

Walter, now more than ever, is the driving force behind many of the other character's motivations. Especially Jesse! Walter has been poisoning Jesse from day one.

Jesse was a meth dealer before Walter even met him though

Well, "met" is the wrong word since Walt was his teacher, but ...

Jesse was a shitty little punk-ass before Walter met him. Now he's a murderer.

I think I will feel cheated if major characters don't die by the end of this because the escape of death has been such a recurring theme.

hey no threadcop but isnt there usually an understanding with these threads that we don't discuss promos for the following week's episode without huge SPOILER warnings?

another interesting bit in that cold open, waitress asks how far a drive is NH, walt says "30 hours if all you do is stop for gas"

whatever the circumstances, it's another classic walter scheme he's flying by the seat of his pants to execute

― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Sunday, July 15, 2012 7:18 PM (Yesterday)

maybe if he just drove 30 hours without sleeping he has started using meth

Walter, now more than ever, is the driving force behind many of the other character's motivations.

If I may, I'll restate and slightly elaborate on this. One of the key events in this episode was Walter pulling Mike into his web. And the angry, "godDAMNIT you're right" look on Mike's face as he realized that he, too, was stuck. Mike may be a hired killer, but the fact that he's good at what he does, and does it with a sense of dignity and loyalty, gives him a lot of crime drama cred as a likable character. Walter is also good at what he does, but he has no loyalty, and he's only good at one thing. Even as a criminal, he lacks integrity. He'll throw anyone under the bus to save himself. Anyone but Jesse, who he has (arguably) hurt the most.

Whether Walter still has a human being inside of him is one of the great things that this last season has to resolve.

otm

another interesting bit in that cold open, waitress asks how far a drive is NH, walt says "30 hours if all you do is stop for gas"

whatever the circumstances, it's another classic walter scheme he's flying by the seat of his pants to execute

― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Sunday, July 15, 2012 7:18 PM (Yesterday)

maybe if he just drove 30 hours without sleeping he has started using meth

― ♆ (gr8080), Monday, July 16, 2012 9:38 PM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this would be an intersting development!

hey no threadcop but isnt there usually an understanding with these threads that we don't discuss promos for the following week's episode without huge SPOILER warnings?

yeah some people don't like it because not everyone sees the promos (like if you watch on torrents or whatever) but I kinda consider any official "next on" that aired on TV as fair game, personally

this one was actually pretty substantive, I'm used to the hilariously vague Mad Men ones that don't tell you shit

yeah its def a non-issue when talking abt mad men, but for real i go out of my way to not watch them w/ any show. reading like 5 posts about a plot point that doesn't surface until next week's episode is a bummer, guys.

i'm kinda with gr80 on this one, but i guess what can you do

Yeah I always avoid them.

they r on tv u guys u have to watch them sry

legume lol

I avoid the coming attractions too, especially since they're in "the first commercial break of 'Redneck Deputies'" or whatever the hell that was.

It's not like Rockford Files where it plays before the closing credits.

fyi guys its 2012!! i am either watching TV via:

• DVR
• Torrent
• DVD

what if we start two threads, one where you can discuss the next ep preview, the other where it is strictly off-limits

That would be ridiculous.

I don't even read the synopsis on the OnDemand menu.

I was joking

but if you watch it on DVR and you choose NOT to watch the coming attractions you can't really get mad at other ppl for not doing the same and talking about them?

I mean I could give a shit either way it's all kinda ridic

I watched the utube of it itt how can u resist idk

i'm not mad i'm just sayin'

with grady on this, there's been more discussion itt about something that hasn't been in the show yet than what was in the actual episode, ban aero imo

look I already told you what's gonna happen the rest of the season and you're bitching about next week's eps, get a grip

you are getting the thread you deserve

you want it to be one way but it's the other way wait

hmmm yeah aero's been kinda bossy in this thread I say we stage a coup

WHO'S WITH ME

nitpicking, but one thing that bugged me abt the cold open was that Walt showed the waitress his FAKE ID to confirm that it was his birthday. He would not have his actual birthday listed on a phony.

a man can make bacon say "52" any day he pleases.

of the glut of BB-related listicles on the interweb in recent days, the Cranston-on-White version is the most worthwhile prob: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/07/12/bryan-cranston-picks-13-favorite-breaking-bad-moments.html

why was walter white wearing eyeliner

maybe they give him his real birthday on his fake id cause its easier to remember

btw I caught up to this series like most ppl I know by this point so now I am with ya'll but I have to tell you that glancin at old bb threads and seeing really really horrible conjecturing posts about what people think is going to happen is p maddening idk I wasn't really maddened tho, not that madden'd, just like from the point of a casual viewer I was kind of like, wut people think about tv like this?

but maybe I am just kind of scared that now that I am in this thread (itt) I am going to start posting like everyone else

bbbut what would a Breaking Bad be w/o all sorts of misguided conjecture?

er 'Breaking Bad thread'

the show purposefully invites it, its kinda how it works

does not compute

so we would just talk abt stuff that already happened?

i...i...don't understand

btw I caught up to this series like most ppl I know by this point so now I am with ya'll but I have to tell you that glancin at old bb threads and seeing really really horrible conjecturing posts about what people think is going to happen is p maddening idk I wasn't really maddened tho, not that madden'd, just like from the point of a casual viewer I was kind of like, wut people think about tv like this?

yeah but OTOH it's v. hilarious when people are like "OMG it is SO OBVIOUS that Walt is going to chop off his own hand next week, the writing is on the wall even an idiot can see this" and then of course nothing like that happens but because other stuff happens the dumb conjecture just mists away

the thumb conjecture just mits away

I would never tell anyone how to post, don't mind me, just that I looked at like a season 3 or 4 thread after watching the season and was like wut how do people think about tv like this? <--- btw thinking about this now, this is prob because after I watched an ep of this, I was like welp let me watch another

ya its the waiting week to week that drives us to speculate, if you can just find out what happens right away youre gonna

does anyone else text "pollos" to people they know at like 2 in the morning

pollos

idk why people r mad abt speculation being wrong, its the nature of speculation and its just for fun