Jesse, Tod and Whaterver her name is with the chemical connections will be running the show by the end of the season, Mike and Walt...dead.
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Jesse, Tod and Whaterver her name is with the chemical connections will be running the show by the end of the season, Mike and Walt...dead.
No way will Jesse want to be anywhere near or in any way associated with Tod. Sure Tod made the smart decision to kill the kid, but most non-psychotic humans wouldn't do that regardless of what a sound decision it is.
And I don't see how the last episode was a shark-jumper at all. Each season make the preceeding season look pretty tame b y comparison, this season is no different. Shit will go down this season that will make Gus's box cutter look like a reassuring pat on the back. Best show evar.
The show will never jump the shark. They wrote the entire show from beginning to end and however many episodes came out of it, that was the show. It's gonna suck when it's over.Quote:
Originally Posted by oftpiste
I thought this last episode was freakin' amazing. I can't believe someone would connect it with the show jumping the shark. At all.
I agree that it was one of the best - after third time watching it I finally caught that the dump truck driver was Saul's guy that went to shake down Ted....I thought he was one of the insect dudes.
That's ballsy Bill Burr! dude is f'n hilarious, his stand-up routine kills.Quote:
Originally Posted by NoPostholio
Dyin for the next episode!! Does Mike just kill Matt Damon?? Might as well just dig a bigger ditch, right??
I thought they built the tension really well with that train heist. That was great directing. Got to love a good heist movie/show.
From the previews for next week, the DEA is following Mike....the net is closing! Also looks like Skylar is going to tell her sister at least something about Walter. then Walter will have to kill Skylar, then the show can end. It's not a show about Walter or Jessie's charater arcs or making meth...it's just a good wholesome show about Walter killing his wife.
Jesse's still on the loose!!Quote:
Real-life Walter White sought on meth charge
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) — A man who shares the same name with television's most noted meth dealer is wanted by authorities in Alabama for allegedly violating his probation for a past meth conviction.
The Tuscaloosa News reported Thursday (http://bit.ly/MB9TQi ) that 55-year-old Walter White was placed on probation after a 2008 conviction for making methamphetamine. The Tuscaloosa County Sheriff's Office recently placed White on its most-wanted list after his arrest on similar charges in Bibb County this year.
On TV, Walter White has so far evaded capture. The character played by Bryan Cranston in AMC's "Breaking Bad" is a high school chemistry teacher who turns to cooking meth to help support his family after he's diagnosed with terminal lung cancer.
The show is in its fifth and final season. Cranston has won three consecutive Emmys
I can't say they won't off Todd, but in watching it again I really noticed for the first time Jesse hammering the point home to him that NOBODY could ever know about the heist. My guess is that the kid (through Hank's work) is the key to the "empire" falling. This show has set the bar high and would need a tremendously epic failure second half of final season to not be among some of the best tv ever.
This is my most favorite tv show ever. have been freaking for the new season but up until last episode I was under enthused.
So it was fonzy that jumped an actual shark eh? weird.
"hes got nice form!"
When I was in fourth grade, I had a Fonz poster on the wall, it was the best show on TV, I watched it every week, until years later, when he jumped the shark: I can recall thinking, "That's stupid, he's never water skied before, and now he jumping a shark, yeah, right." I might have said those exact words to my brother, as I was disgusted, and prone to commenting to any person present, or to the TV, couch, or any other object in the room.Quote:
Originally Posted by lobstahmeatwad
Breaking Bad hasn't got there yet.
I loved the train heist until the kid got capped, ouch. But there's the rub. Todd seemed like a likeable character until then, and now he's the horror; this show tears at you, and surprises you, because everything is plausible, if not actual. You feel like it could be real even though you know it isn't, or is it?
You just didn't have enough faith in The Fonz. The Fonz can do anything.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rasputin
I'm really hoping Todd doesn't get taken out next episode. Up until the last couple seconds he was a helpful puppy-dog. Remember when he sheepishly told Walt that there was a baby monitor in the house? I love how he smiled and waved at the kid right before he shot him in the head. I'm not saying it's cool he shot the kid, but wow - what a psycho. Tuco was an out of control wildman, Gus was pretty cold and calculated, but Todd now seems to be Anton Chigurh with a pleasant personality.
I also like how Jesse is increasingly providing the brains this season.
OK - so now Todd's back to "just want to help" mode. I found it odd that he referred to the methylamine hiest as a "mission".
I think with the direction BB is going it's going to turn into nobody trusting anybody else. Not that they do now, but I think it's going to go to a whole new level. I also now think Jesse's going to end up dead.
I'll have to check the DVR tonight but I believe that Saul called Gomez "Fonzie" in the most recent episode. Coincidence? I think not.
Todd is a confirmed psycho. He very much appeared to be looking at the tarantula like a trophy.
Where did they get all the hydrofluoric this time? Surely concentrated HF is controlled substance? The "Shit, we have a body to deal with, I'll grab the acid and a barrel" schtick is getting a bit tired.
I have a hard time believing that cord would have kept arcing that long with popping a breaker, but that was a pretty hardcore escape nonetheless.
Walter's meglomania has reached dizzying heights.
You knew Mike's dead drop was a fake, and it was still awesome.
So Walt's plan is to keep cooking, use Todd's prison uncle's connections to distribute the meth, and pay off Mike and Jesse with the profits? Seems like the most obvious explanation but I have certainly been wrong before.
The cliffhanger at the mid-season break is going to be massive.
All those years doing this stuff and Mike didn't think to tie up BOTH of Walt's hands with something more than a ziptie???? Come on.
New theory... Todd ends up killing Walt.
Just watched the sneak peek for next week. Looks like Walt may be making a play to become the new cook for the guys who wanted to buy the methylamine. Solid!Quote:
Originally Posted by Dantheman
Thing is, those zip cuffs usually come in pairs. Meaning they are one unit - you can't separate them into singles (although I wasn't watching real close - maybe he used the other cuff too attach to the radiator?). But even with just a single - yeah. Mike's always got his bases covered, it would have taken 1/2 second to restrain both hands.Quote:
Originally Posted by funkendrenchman
If Walt goes in with the guys who want the methylamine won't that kinda shoot his dream of total control in the ass?
Don't get me wrong. I am a huge fan of the show, maybe even believing it to be in the best tv I have ever watched. However, "I'm in the EMPIRE business."?
I can get over the fact that their building seems to have no panel box, among hundreds (albeit fewer than most shows) of impossibilities made convenient to the story line at the sake of the show believing I'm stupid and easily fooled, but WTF? It's not jumping the shark by any means, but that moment was some stumbling cheezey bad writing. Maybe "Legacy business" would have been better. We didn't need Walter's hubris shoved that far down our throats. I think everyone clearly has the picture of Walt's dizzying heights of power lust.
If BB were 100% realistic it would still be an interesting show, but nowhere near what it is now. All in all, they keep it pretty real. I can't complain. Plus - it's always fun to pick out the mistakes and unbelieveable stuff.
Can anybody name a single action movie in the past two decades that was 100% believeable?
Yeah, but the total control he currently has is an illusion anyway. Without Mike's connections for distribution he has nothing. He could justify it to himself somehow, he may be even better at cognitive dissonance than he is at cooking meth. I could be way off too, the clip was just them driving up to what looked like the same guys way out in the desert somewhere again followed by Mike saying, "Your move Walter." I figure it has to be the same guys.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jer
City of God since we're talking drugs. But I still get your point.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jer
That dinner scene was awesome.
this, loved the look on Jesse's face after Skyler dropped the affair thingQuote:
Originally Posted by Tuckerman
I thought it was hat tip to tarantino...Quote:
Originally Posted by Obstruction
Hmmm....didn't expect Mike to retire like that.
definitely not.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rasputin
the look on Walter's face when he shot Mike was kind of shocking. He's spent so much time being a hardass drug makin' bad guy that to see him actually look vulnerable for the first time in many many episodes caught me off guard.
So do we think the DEA seized Mike's safe deposit box he was keeping for his granddaughter? I'm assuming they did.
Todd is an interesting enigma wrapped in a puzzle wrapped in a vest. He seems kind of dumb, a bit of a psycho obviously... but he's connected. Almost like Tommy in Goodfellas.
I expected him to retire like that, just not now.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rasputin
Todd does appear kinda dumb, but I think that's really just a manifestation of his complete and total psychosis. I truely believe he is going to end up being the superfreak of all superfreaks. Tuco was a methhead maddog, Gus was a businessman seeking revenge, Mike was a pro looking to provide for his granddaughter. Todd doesn't have any motive for anything - he doesn't need one. He's psychotic.
Wow, what an episode.....that episode alone prob secures another emmy for BC - looks like some future locking of horns for Jessie and Todd, who Walt will groom like a lapdog. Is this this season the end of the series?
I bet they use Todd's connections in prison to try and wipe out the 9 loose ends from Mike's gang. Was kinda shocked Mike went out like that, sucked I wanted him to get away.
Kind of. It's a short Season 5 only one episode left. "Season 6" starts back up in late winter after a short break with another 8 episodes and that's it.Quote:
Originally Posted by NoPostholio
I really hope they off Skylar. She's the only one left who's got it out for Walt and could tip off the DEA, I bet she dies in the mid season finale.
Kinda had a feeling Mike was going to die, once the DEA nabbed him he was going to talk or get killed off. It wouldn't be very dramatic if he got out and kept his mouth shut.
I disagree on Todd. Todd is just a kid who wants to fit in. The spider in the jar was just like the kid at the beginning of that show. Mission - want to belong to the unit like in the army. Walt is like a father figure. Todd will end up doing anything at Walts command. Totally amoral. Just like walt has become.
Agreed on Bryan Cranston being amazing with his reaction after shooting Mike. Few actors could have pulled off the conflicted mix of emotions like that.
Did anybody else notice the weird camera angle when Gomez walked in on Hank and Walt in Hank's office? Almost like it was from the viewpoint of a surveillance camera. I would think a smart fella, if he were involved in any sort of nefarious activity in or within 50 yards of any building, would automatically assume that he was on camera.
Then again it may very well have been creative cameraplay on the part of the director. Like Anton Chigurh waiting behind the door at the crimescene when he wasn't actually waiting behind the door. It's gonna suck when this all ends....
Mind blown if that comes into play. Went back and watched and it was a very security camera-esqe angle. Although if it does it's got to come in the next episode. Could be the season break cliff hanger?Quote:
Originally Posted by Jer
It was a weird angle, but I'll be surprised if that's the case. It seems like they would have touched on that when they first planted the bug. I'm hoping Hank finally makes the Walt-Heisenberg connection some other way.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jer
Mike's death scene was simply beautiful. Is that the start of Walt recognizing the monster he's become?
Todd's going to be the instrument of Walt's undoing. (He's got a little chubby psycho Matt Damon thing going on.)Quote:
Originally Posted by DougW
Of course Walt is going to crash and burn because of his own hubris. I was surprised to see his character develop as such a classic tragic hero. Someone's been reading his Shakespeare.
I can't freaking wait for Hank to make the Walt connection. I really hope he pieces it together slowly instead of instantly figuring it out.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dantheman
That could be , maybe as Todd is so easy to maniplulate Walt will make a careless mistake thnking Todd isn't that smart but Todd will just be smart enough.Quote:
Originally Posted by Obstruction
Walt's undoing will be in the middle of a firefight where Hank kills him without knowing who he killed. When he finds out that he killed Walt, he won't know why. The show will end showing Hank's confused and terrified face, with Walt dead next to him.Quote:
Originally Posted by funkendrenchman