Breaking Bad

Foolio

@Mr.:

Still, I feel it's a bit wild to assume he just called the vacuum man going by the trailer, even with the flashforwards as evidence. If anything, I feel there's still something left to happen involving Todd and Lydia and Walt.

But then again, I hardly ever see any speculation (especially mine) come true for this show.

Okay, well I mean he could get a fake ID some other way and haul ass all the way to NJ or wherever he was… but the point is he's getting out of there, and it can't take long.

Spicy Chicken

@Piitan:

! I can see Hank dying, Jesse surviving and Walt being used for a while by Todd's uncle until he goes all out and kills them all. In the end, I can see Walt alone, no family, no friends. Still alive, still with his cancer. But alone and sad and somewhere far from home.

! Isn't it safe to assume he beats cancer again, or at least goes into remission? Judging by his hair growth and how the flashforward shows it's his 52nd birthday. He was 51 in season 5 and he said he had 6 months to live.

Anyway. There's one thing that keeps puzzling me, though

! That scene with Marie and her shrink, the last ep. She mentioned poison to kill Walt. I dont think thiis is going to happen, but after Hank's death she may attempt to Walt's life. I myself highly doubt it, but that scene just keeps playing in my mind. She may still try to kidnap Sky's little child or end up with Walt's money.

i hate marie as it is, i don't want to see her more than i need to. god forbid an expanding role

loneassassin

Advice to live by

Nobodyman

@loneassassin:

http://i.imgur.com/6PD8wSe.gif

Advice to live by

I don't get it .

Louis-1988

@Nobodyman:

I don't get it .

The gif implies that Todd abuses meth when in reality he only cooks it, presumably.

! The joke is that he was an ace shot before started using meth, and now since he's been using he couldn't even tag Hank or Gomez despite emptying his piece and them being wide open for a few seconds before taking cover behind the SUV.

taboo

Louis-1988

@taboo:

http://i.imgur.com/mseUskb.gif

This is gold! xD

MajinArekkusu

@taboo:

http://i.imgur.com/mseUskb.gif

What's left are the trooper helmets photoshopped on all the shooters and it would be perfect, lol.

RuNa

It has been greenlit.

http://www.slashfilm.com/saul-goodman-show-greenlit-will-be-a-breaking-bad-prequel/#more-193899

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I'm guessing people have seen

? I'm surprised at how good it is - they even got the cinematography down perfectly.

Nobodyman

@RuNa:

It has been greenlit.

http://www.slashfilm.com/saul-goodman-show-greenlit-will-be-a-breaking-bad-prequel/#more-193899

Speaking of which…

MetaMario

@RuNa:

It has been greenlit.

http://www.slashfilm.com/saul-goodman-show-greenlit-will-be-a-breaking-bad-prequel/#more-193899

Cool, but I'm not really sure if this is a good oR bad thing. Like, Saul's awesome, but can his character carry a whole show? I am curious to see how he got to know all those shady people (Mike and whatnot), though.

@Print:

I'm guessing people have seen
? I'm surprised at how good it is - they even got the cinematography down perfectly.

Saw that yesterday! Loved Bryan Cranston throwing the pizza.

Foolio

@Print:

I'm guessing people have seen
? I'm surprised at how good it is - they even got the cinematography down perfectly.

Wow that was absolutely hilarious. Also disturbing, when I noticed Gus's company was called "Los Pollos Humanos."

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Watching that parody again, I realise that they even got the show's habit of foreshadowing down with

! the early joke about a guy with no ass.

Louis-1988

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Pochipochi

what the fuck

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walt lying on the phone to exonerate skylar got me teary real bad

Nobodyman

! Holy shit that episode was awesome/intense. Hank dies, Junior finds out the truth, and that phone conversation at the end was just perfect. And of course Walt's apparently "starting over" now in New Hampshire. Guess the last two episodes will show the rest of the flashforward. And I still wonder what his goal and plan is (well, I know he's gotta get back at Todd and Jack and his men).

BigLuffy559

Incredible episode.

! It took me a minute to realize that Walt knew the police were listening in to that phonecall and he said what he said to cover Skylar's tracks and put the blame solely on him….Still, I can't forgive him for what he did to Jesse. That was ultra harsh.

Nobodyman

@Holy:

walt lying on the phone to exonerate skylar got me teary real bad

Fuck. I totally missed that.

Sakonosolo

I didn't realize that was what he was doing either. I realized he didn't believe his own words though, though I wasn't sure what he was trying to do by saying that stuff.

Pochipochi

@Nobodyman:

Fuck. I totally missed that.

I think that's why he kidnapped Holly too. He had no reason to other than to present himself as the (extra) bad guy, but he may have also just really broken down and wanted to cling to his family. Double sided I guess

labmate

My word. That was ridiculous.

! I thought Hank dying was enough for one episode, but Breakfast Boy finding out, the family breaking apart, and the phone conversation was just too much for me to handle. To New Hampshire we go!

Demonicpoodle

Heartbreaking insane episode.

Sakonosolo

! So from the episode it looks like they're not going to kill Jesse. I expect that Walt is going after Todd and his uncle's group to get revenge. I think he's either going to kill them all and then kill himself or Jesse is going to somehow kill Walt.

Nex 0

I've avoided talking about this show here, because my fanaticism towards it makes that I have for Community look tiny as all get out. But tonight's episode. Oh. Boy.

Instead of posing my thoughts on this episode, I'll just post the poem and an image that shows the brilliance of these writers.

I met a traveler from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal these words appear:
“My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!”
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.

http://imgur.com/kQr4VC4 These writers and directors are the best there are. And it's not even that one image. There are traces of the poem all throughout the episode. It's absolutely phenomenal the way they adapted it.

HaxeyeMihawk

! I think Walt is going kill the aryans (possibly get his other $70m back) and he'll end up saving Jesse then he'll kill himself with the ricin since he's dying anyway and has nothing left to live for.

BroBro

Where can I watch the episode?

Edit: nvm found it

Wow the episode is god damn intense. Like wow.

Foolio

I have no words for that episode right now. Maybe once I've had a chance to digest it… when you build up characters for 5 seasons and then this happens it's just like a bomb of emotion exploding inside you.

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weeps quietly

That one hurt.

MetaMario

My jaw dropped. Just…...goddamn it, Breaking Bad, why do you make me care so much???

! An intense episode, through and through. Once…...sniff Hank gotten offed (thought he would have at least another episode to stick around)....I knew, "this is end, there is literally no turning back now". Gomez was killed too.....both of them were just callously thrown into a hole in the ground. Even when Walt, Walt of all people, tried desperately to save Hank's life and offer Jack ALL of his money. And Hank goes "he made up his mind 10 minutes ago"......goddamn, he KNEW it was the end of him.
! Marie tells Skyler that Walt's in custody, she breaks down......Jack's goons kidnap Jesse.....Walt goes for one final "fuck you" and tells him he watched Jane die. Damn it, damn it! .....agh!
! Nono, everything soared down the slope once Jr. found out. I seriously can't believe they told him. The kid was devastated. But the real hitter was when Walt tried to convince everyone to leave, Skyler pulls a KNIFE on him, they fight…..in a flash, Jr. turns against Walt.
! What happens? Oh Walt kidnaps his daughter-WAIT WHAT
! I think I understand his move here. Jr., Skyler, Marie.....they've all turned against him. Hank's dead. Holly's the only member, untouched and still pure from this whole situation.
! Then Walt goes full-blown Heisenburg and calls Skyler.....the conversation gave me chills, that's how amazing it was. The accumulation of Walt's anger, misery, despair, and fury…..followed by tearing up and dropping his daughter off at the fire station......
! But now we're getting somewhere. Walt goes with Saul's guy, onto the sunset.....he can't go back. Only has one barrel to show for all of his work, and even then, it's bittersweet. I can assume 52 year-old Walt goes back to off Jack and his goons......but there's still time for one last curveball.
! Also I'm curious to see how the Todd-Jesse subplot turns out. How long do they have?
! Just…...ah, a goddamn amazing episode.

Piitan

As for now I can only say one thing:
my
fucking
god

TLC

Episode was pretty incredible though if I had to critique something major

! Am I the only one who didn't feel anything when Hank died? Mostly because it was so inevitable, it's not even a matter of seeing it coming, they pretty much announced last episode he was done. I felt much more towards him when they dragged his body and threw him into the hole like a piece of meat. Because I was not expecting that. I get why they cut the episodes the way they did but I question whether if his death would have had more impact if they did it last episode where there was still the emotional momentum opposed to being prepared a week in advance for it. Just a penny for your thoughts.

Everything else was fantastic.

Taggerung

! Walt has come a long way. This episode was superb. It was just gut punch after gut punch. Hank goes out the best he can. Marie acts like Marie which is to say a total bitch and completes the fall. Fuck Jesse, i hope he's stuck making meth forever. Walt is shitty but Jesse fucked up so many times, he was not worth the effort. And that last call Walt makes to set Skyler free. His lies have come so far. The moment when he see's Walt junior and Skyler on the fllor and he goes "my family." That was one of the top episodes of the series.
! Also Todd? First class psychopath? Maybe the most quietly sinister unmoral character we have seen. He's like Tuco without the insanity.
! Someone get that baby an emmy.

MajinArekkusu

Wow, I can say this episode, for me at least, was the best episode of the whole series so far. I was on the edge of my seat the whole time, all the scenes were great. Perfect episode. So are we gonna see the flashworward next week, or are they gonna start there in the last episode?

Nex 0

I'm sure this has been mentioned somewhere in this thread, but did you all know Charles Baker, AKA Skinny Pete, voiced Braham in Funimation's dub of One-Piece? I just heard about it in passing, as some Sony peeps are on the lot today, and one of them is a One-Piece fan, so he just dropped that knowledge on me when he saw the background image on my phone.

I couldn't believe it, but, sure enough, IMDB confirmed it. Crazy huh?

Spicy Chicken

Wow this is the one time where my predictions came sort of true with this show.

! Totally knew Hank would die, but who didn't see that coming? It's just sad to see him go. Also, I knew we'd get the identity thing at the end of this episode, along with drama before it. What's curious to me is how Todd saves Jesse just to cook basically as a slave. Probably gonna be a lot of consequences to that later. Awesome episode. I thought something would happen when they were wrestling with the knife, but thank god nothing did. That'd be too crazy.
! Forgot to mention the last phone call. So sad. You can tell it hurt Walter to say every word. A good move by him, I'm glad Skyler understood it.
! On to the futureeeeeee!!!

MetaMario

@Nex:

I'm sure this has been mentioned somewhere in this thread, but did you all know Charles Baker, AKA Skinny Pete, voiced Braham in Funimation's dub of One-Piece?

I didn't know that!

Haha, now I'll be rewatching Skypiea and picturing him as Braham talks.

taboo

! it really hit me hard to see them being dragged across the desert
! like wow, i love these guys and i know they have to die, but left to rot out in this hole? it hurt
! im in the group that thinks jesse kind of deserved this a little bit. walt deserves this too, but his family doesn't and i think this is why it hurt me more to watch them all fall apart

Demonicpoodle

Really just felt like posting a gut reaction last night. Didn't feel like adding much details. So I'll try to scrape together some neat stuff from this episode that I've seen posted around the web. The director for this episode (Rian Johnson) is brilliant. Please don't view these spoilers if you haven't watched the show; some massive likely foreshadowing with visual cues.

Also, this episode sits at a 10 on IMDB right now. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2301451/?licb=0.49324692715890706

! http://imgur.com/a/W1clU
! An imgur album containing interesting shots of portraits when Walt is packing.
! Knives focused on in 5 minute flashback at beginning of episode:
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! "

! "

! Passes his pants from episode 1.
!
! Fun onion article. http://www.theonion.com/articles/breaking-bad-creator-thinking-maybe-next-season-sh,29445/

Kaiolino

I did notice the pants part.

Spicy Chicken

@Demonicpoodle:

Really just felt like posting a gut reaction last night. Didn't feel like adding much details. So I'll try to scrape together some neat stuff from this episode that I've seen posted around the web. The director for this episode (Rian Johnson) is brilliant. Please don't view these spoilers if you haven't watched the show; some massive likely foreshadowing with visual cues.

Also, this episode sits at a 10 on IMDB right now. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2301451/?licb=0.49324692715890706

! http://imgur.com/a/W1clU
! An imgur album containing interesting shots of portraits when Walt is packing.
! Knives focused on in 5 minute flashback at beginning of episode:
! http://i.imgur.com/zMLpcUsh.jpg
! http://i.minus.com/ibpCnMCNVp9zBX.gif
! "
http://i.imgur.com/uNjU8wK.png
! "
http://i.imgur.com/uSwZK4X.png
! Passes his pants from episode 1.
! http://i.imgur.com/Xy1ueN1.jpg
! Fun onion article. http://www.theonion.com/articles/breaking-bad-creator-thinking-maybe-next-season-sh,29445/

Thanks for sharing this cool stuff. I found the white king the most interesting part.

Sakonosolo

After you pointed out the IMDB rating, I looked at the rest of the episodes this season and a few from past seasons. It has by far the most reviews and obviously the highest score. That's pretty cool, the director of this episode should be proud.

Foolio

The chess thing is poetically exaggerated. White is only down by two pawns, so yeah he's probably going to lose but it's not a certainty, and even so the game will play out for quite a while before checkmate. I think the king moving OUT of the corner and toward the action really is the relevant symbolism.

joekido the Second

Well I just finish watching Season one and two and is in progress of watching season three; inculding the last half of season 5 (I like to skip) yet there are things I like to point out

I found Walt's froy into the meth business pretty fast. It would make a lot of since if this season focus on Walt slowly go into business. Like say he founds out he has cancer and spent the rest of the season figuring out what to do and try to find crews to help him cook meth. All of that was done in one episode.
The first season was goofy, but got serious later on. Season 2 was meh, I hope season 3 picks up.
Jesse recovered prerry fast after getting a beating from Tuco
Some people say that the train robbery scene was far-fetched
The show gets complex

labmate

@joekido:

Well I just finish watching Season one and two and is in progress of watching season three; inculding the last half of season 5 (I like to skip) yet there are things I like to point out

I found Walt's froy into the meth business pretty fast. It would make a lot of since if this season focus on Walt slowly go into business. Like say he founds out he has cancer and spent the rest of the season figuring out what to do and try to find crews to help him cook meth. All of that was done in one episode.

The first season was goofy, but got serious later on. Season 2 was meh, I hope season 3 picks up.

Jesse recovered prerry fast after getting a beating from Tuco

Some people say that the train robbery scene was far-fetched

The show gets complex

For the sake of keeping things a better surprise, I'd advise you not to skip. Plus, you won't know what's happening half the time.

Unrequited

"Walter White is a bigger monster than anyone in Westeros"

Martin

taboo

I think the Mountain is the bigger monster imo, in all aspects of the word

MajinArekkusu

@Unrequited:

"Walter White is a bigger monster than anyone in Westeros"

Martin

Uh, NO. With all the things walter did, he still isn't even in the slightest as big a monster as geoffrey or many other characters from westeros^^ lol.

Nex 0

Yeah, and if anything, the end of this latest episodes proves he's far from a monster. #TeamWalt

Taggerung

Umm… far from a monster? No. He's a murdering manipulative drug deal who will do almost anything to get away with his crimes up to and including harming children. I can't believe after 5 season there is even a thing called #TeamWalt