Breaking Bad

**Jer** · 08-13-2012, 06:56 PM

Mike's got a conscience. I'm pretty sure Mike will have something to say about it.Mike is a pro and most pros have a line they will not cross and on the other side of that line are children. I wouldn't be surprised if Mike shoots Matt Damon in the face at the beginning of next week's episode and dumps him in the hole they made for the methylamine. There's no reason not to do it - right now the new guy is just a big liability. The only thing he's got going for him is he damn sure isn't a cop or informer, but who really wants to work with a guy like that?

**Rasputin** · 08-14-2012, 02:38 AM

Originally Posted by Jer

That's when I started thinking he wasn't going to get killed. Way too obvious.

The last few seconds negated the whole episode: they went through all that hassle so they wouldn't have to kill two innocent guys, then a random kid ends up getting shot in the head. I've heard people criticize BB bacause they claim that it glorifies crime to a certain degree, but I think this season (or two seasons) a lot of bills will come due. That had to really nail Jesse right in the mind. Gail, Brock, the kid that got iced by the rivals - I don't see him putting up with the senseless murder of innocent kids very much longer.

BB certainly glorifies the drug world, while contrasting the attraction with the horror which is the cost of the glory.

**Dantheman** · 08-14-2012, 08:52 AM

Best episode so far this season, hands down. Definitely a brutal ending though. I'll be surprised if Tod doesn't get iced in the first 30 seconds next week. I wonder if that really was just some random kid or if there will be a larger connection. Also, I hate to sound cold blooded, but if the kid had half a bran he would have high tailed out of there the second he saw those guys.

I wouldn't say that the kid getting killed completely negates the hassle of doing the robbery that way. If they had killed the crew it would have been an obvious robbery and brought down a lot of heat. Now no one has any idea they boosted the methylamine.

**oftpiste** · 08-14-2012, 01:01 PM

I love the show completely, but I found myself wondering if the last episode wasn't a bit of a shark-jumper.

doughboyshredder · 08-14-2012, 10:18 PM

Originally Posted by oftpiste

I love the show completely, but I found myself wondering if the last episode wasn't a bit of a shark-jumper.

Really? I thought it was amazing.

**Tunco** · 08-14-2012, 10:52 PM

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.

**Jer** · 08-15-2012, 08:10 AM

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.

**Soups** · 08-15-2012, 09:33 AM

Originally Posted by oftpiste

I love the show completely, but I found myself wondering if the last episode wasn't a bit of a shark-jumper.

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.

**TahoeJ** · 08-15-2012, 12:19 PM

I thought this last episode was freakin' amazing. I can't believe someone would connect it with the show jumping the shark. At all.

**NoPostholio** · 08-15-2012, 04:50 PM

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.

**vinzclortho** · 08-17-2012, 06:44 AM

Originally Posted by NoPostholio

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.

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.

**Jer** · 08-17-2012, 07:57 AM

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

Jesse's still on the loose!!

**NoPostholio** · 08-17-2012, 06:09 PM

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.

**lobstahmeatwad** · 08-17-2012, 10:57 PM

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!"

**Rasputin** · 08-18-2012, 03:05 AM

Originally Posted by lobstahmeatwad

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.

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?

**Jer** · 08-18-2012, 07:15 AM

Originally Posted by Rasputin

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.

You just didn't have enough faith in The Fonz. The Fonz can do anything.

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.

**Jer** · 08-20-2012, 10:42 AM

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.

**Obstruction** · 08-21-2012, 07:54 AM

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.

**Dantheman** · 08-21-2012, 09:32 AM

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.

**funkendrenchman** · 08-21-2012, 10:06 AM

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.

**TahoeJ** · 08-21-2012, 11:06 AM

New theory... Todd ends up killing Walt.

**Dantheman** · 08-21-2012, 02:10 PM

Originally Posted by Dantheman

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.

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!

**Jer** · 08-22-2012, 06:43 AM

Originally Posted by funkendrenchman

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.

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.

If Walt goes in with the guys who want the methylamine won't that kinda shoot his dream of total control in the ass?

**jaja111** · 08-22-2012, 07:10 AM

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.

**Jer** · 08-22-2012, 10:12 AM

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?