I’m sure whatever Todd did can’t be that bad. Jesse is just a cry baby about everything.
not sure how they wanna cover all this madness in another hour…
but either way BB has to be the best tv show ever. honestly can’t think of a better one.
This episode was also the first one where I realized that Todd looks more like Randy Travis than he does Matt Damon. 
Man fuck todd. Dude needs to get slaughtered by jesse but walt will probably do the job.
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the ending moment when the theme song started playing was good. I was expecting walt to blow up when flynn told him to go die.
Sheeeeeit.
First off: Robert Forster! I was just thinking the other day that I hadn’t seen him in anything in a while and was thinking about looking him up to see what he’s done lately, and here he is. I feel like I did this with my mind.
And, hell, we were just talking about Principal Carmen the other day, and here she is too. If only Jane were still around, even in flashback form, we’d have the full lineup of the lovely ladies of Breaking Bad.
The weird thing about Todd is, he’s a scary shell of a human being, but he’s also the least prideful of any of the people on the show. He’s the only one who not only doesn’t mind being used, but seems to thrive that way. He’s the perfect criminal, because he’ll never be undone by the failings that undid so many of the other criminals on the show.
Fucking Todd, creeping up with that ninja hand, picking a piece of lint off Lydia’s back or whatever he was doing without her noticing. Fucking Todd, bringing Jesse ice cream–not quite a game of D&D, but I consider my prediction right in spirit. Fucking Todd, learning to drink tea for reasons that I want to deny in order to maintain sweet Lydia’s honor, at least in my own mind. Fucking Todd, capping Andrea with about as much malice as a drive-thru cashier telling you they’re out of pickles. Fucking Todd.
And you know what? A few days back, I said that the only time I ever felt contempt for Skyler was early on, when Walt was plainly up to something and she just refused to acknowledge it… just accepting everything with that dull, naive smile. That lasted just a couple episodes back in season 1. Now Andrea’s taken up those traits at the worst time. When someone you’ve never met in your life shows up at your door, claims to know your shady drug dealer ex-boyfriend, and is obviously trying to lure you out of your house, why the fuck do you so much as take the chain off the door? Guh. Poor girl. Wasn’t even born with the sense that God gave to Pedoviejo.
Walt’s first trip out to that gate was pure delusion, and stopping in his tracks was the smartest thing he’s done in a long time. It’s interesting to gauge all his following actions in light of that. He’s shown the capacity to sober up, put down the “Walter White can do anything” ball (or maybe the “Heisenberg can do anything” black hat), and admit to his own limitations. We find out later that his pride is still easily tweaked, so what do we make of this new, less delusional Walt who’s still obviously every bit as angry as he’s always been?
Gus was always right about him: Walt’s not a careful man. But maybe he’s a careful man now… insofar as a man can be careful when he’s on a war path. I think this is finally Walt as he always was, no masks, gloves off: a brilliant but angry man who wanted nothing more than to strike out at a world that has denied him recognition for his incredible intellect. And no longer in denial about that fact. No illusions, no family or Jesse to serve as his morality pets, nowhere to go but up.
As long as I’m musing on Walt, is he the ultimate neocon douchebag? I don’t know how much thought people have given to Walter White’s politics thus far, but he has a Romneyesque propensity for clawing his way over other people to get what he wants and the audacity to believe, right up to the most absurd extreme, that he did all of it himself, for himself and his own. Not so much as the slightest consideration for the lives he’s ruined in the process, even if he understands in some abstract way that those lives include the lives of the family members he’s so concerned about protecting.
Now we know why the house is in the condition that it’s in during the “52” timeline. It’s not a big leap from tourist destination to meth head mecca.
Flynn may hate his dad’s guts, but he’s still traveling under the name White.
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Aw, look, they really do love each other![/details]
By the way, Gretchen and Elliot, does the point of this umbrella feel like ricin to you?
Todd better die in the finale.
The next 6 days are going to be hellish.
Uncle Jack is an outright scummy pos, but damn proud of it. That is what makes him a great side character.
Walt Jr is a teenager. So him lashing out irrationally. Dealing with the death of an uncle his dad killed. He isn’t an adult thinking things clearly.
Lewis is probably a hater and would have went out and bought a new Vita and a bunch of games with that cash. They need a scene back at the strip club, a pair of crutches lie up against a booth, camera pans upwards to reveal Flynn and Lewis living it up with dad’s dirty cash.
LOL I just like hating on the most obscure character on the show that we have never seen. Have they ever shown Lewis?
Also, I hope Skinny Pete and Badger help Jesse get free. :tup:
So glass half full or half empty?
Todd’s actor deserves some recognition for this role. He hasn’t been on the show nearly as long as the others, but he’s been quietly stealing the show and become such a memorable character in such a short amount of time. That home invasion scene was amazing.
That said, hope that creepy fuck gets what’s coming to him tho
What is creepy is the dude is polite
Should have just shut up and ate his icecream…
Brock got a raw deal in this show. To wake up next morning to see your mom lying dead on the ground as a indirect result of what the same guy who poisoned you did (assuming Brock ever finds out what Walt did that is). That’s a harsh reality to awake to
But they pretty much set up the final Jesse/Todd confrontation, Jesse deserves his revenge if nothing else
Yeah it’s a shame we don’t get to see Todd develop more.
Yeah. It’s just like how Chris Partlow in The Wire is reasonably well-spoken and professional in his hits. It makes him that much more horrifying than if he was just some hothead.
Most adults wouldn’t handle it like the cool, calculating, rational character that very few people are actually like in real life.
I swear, it’s like people want their fictional characters to be contrived and mechanical.
she does, brah. you know it. they look ok in heels- just when she wears flipflops you can see it. i ain’t hating though. if she had dem puppies, i’d let her kick me in the face erreday. stick her toes in my nose and errethang.
and i don’t get why you all are hating on what Grey Matter did. ever heard of damage control? besides the bad publicity from WW’s actions, meth heads are probably breaking into their warehouses looking for the blue now. it’d be like Apple getting co-founded by John McAfee and then all of a sudden everybody finds out that McAfee had a functioning Belizean harem; killed his neighbor over an argument about barking dogs; and was synthesizing drugs to start his own empire. THAT SHIT (minus the Apple connections) HAPPENED (allegedly)!
I just couldn’t get into this episode. It felt way too rushed to even care. The the scene with Jesse and Todd towards the end was the only time I felt even remotely invested.
I love the irony that Walt was ready to walk himself in for the sake of Skyler but the one thing that set him down that path (lets be honest, it wasn’t just the cancer as there was a way out) just happened to come on T.V.
Walt’s resentment of Elliot and Gretchin’s success runs deeper than anything else he feels.