Breaking Bad

[GwynLovesMilk]

Jesse wiping the bong off his table was pricelessly cute.

Yooo dat ending

[Jozhear]

Shit just got real. Now we have to wait. For a year.

But…

end of episode

Spoiler

That was quite stupid, plot wise. Almost felt like an ass-pull. Why would Walt have a book from Gale with that passage in his bathroom? He couldn’t at least have torn out the page? All the stuff he did to make sure Gale’s murder didn’t lead back to him, along with all the stuff he’s done just recently to secure his “throne”, and he didn’t get rid of THAT?

[details=Spoiler]probably because walt whitman =~= walter white. I bet it’s something that appeases Walt, something that IIRC in the first two or three episodes of this season you see him grab and admire with smug satisfaction. Ask the walt from 5 episodes ago why he didn’t get rid of it. He clearly thinks there’s something amusing about it. Probably Gale…

It’s crazy that, of all items, that’s what’s coming back to get him. Obviously you know that that isn’t conclusive proof against Walt but now Hank has the bug. As persistent as he was with the Fring case he’ll be with his suspicions about Walt. He just can’t be open about it. You know that even if Hank nabs Walt he’ll lose his job, as was the case with Hank and Gomez’s previous boss. “Right under my nose…”[/details]

Great finale.

[Raz0r]

You know how it’ll unravel? Hank is just going to try to find out how Walter came into that money. He said he won it at a casino and he’ll have to have some tax form to prove it. Of course there isn’t one. Begin the unraveling.

Bam, you be boned bitch!

[Jozhear]

[details=Spoiler]Also, anyone think Walt had hiscancer relapse this episode?

And G.B. What’s Gretchen’s last name?[/details]

[Raz0r]

That stands for Gale Boetticher. He’s the one who gave that to Walt.

[goodm0urning]

My reaction to tonight’s episode in brief:

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[Jozhear]

Yeah I know that.

I had a theory that Walt could throw Hank off his scent by saying it was from Gretchen initially. She’s the only other G i can think of. maybe her last name was a B.

Just looked it up, her name is G.S. Maybe her maiden name though?

edit: actually what am i saying, it’s not like hank is going to come out and ask him.

Forget I said anything lol. Just something that popped in my head after I watched the ep.

[goodm0urning]

Some notes:

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Sorry. Had to do it again.

• Walt’s cancer is back. I’m fairly sure of it. The reasons are three. 1. Walt going in for his screening, apropos of nothing else in the episode. Narrative storytelling abhors a superfluous detail, so it has to be significant. 2. The callback shot of the paper towel dispenser that Walt beat the hell out of when he discovered that he was in remission. 3. [The fly on the desk lamp.

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• Even for this show and its famous montages of criminal activity set to jaunty music, the prison stabbing sequence was stunningly violent. That’s Walt now: casually capable of things that would have been unthinkable a year back in the show’s timeline.

• Walt’s criminal activity grows from small-time cooks in a camper to an international, multimillion dollar operation at which he is at the very top. The whole time, after multiple chances of quitting and not doing it, after Hank has multiple chances to catch him and gets dusted every time, it’s when Walt FINALLY starts to hang it all up, when things FINALLY start to look like they might return to a pre-cancer life of domestic tranquility, that Hank gets directly clued into Walt’s true nature. The irony here is stacked as tall, wide, and deep as Walt’s crazy money pile.

• Wouldn’t it be hilarious if the next episode, after almost a year of hiatus, begins with Hank still sitting on the crapper with a look of shock on his face?[/details]

[nothing]

I think Hank will confront Walt, ultimately he won’t go to the DEA with it. How bad is it going to make Hank that Walt’s been under his nose this whole time and he was clueless? Then add in the fact that Hank doesn’t know that Walt financed his recovery with drug money? It’d be career suicide.

If anything, I can see Gomez getting hype about the case and trying to push it harder, and Hank trying to keep in him the dark about Walt to protect his own reputation.

I need something else to watch now. Suggestions?

[Shaft_Agent]

Why is Lydia so sexy when she’s feeling confident? It wasn’t her damn calves I’ll tell you that much.

ohhhhhh, but i think it was…

http://www.superb-villains.com/images/bb/ll17132.gif

sexily sliding that bag of sin to her Science Daddy- how dare you say that, FurryCurry?

how dare you? :mad:

and don’t tempt fate by angering me. Spaz Lydia is still best Lydia. you could talk her into anything if you act like you were gonna kill her first.

“umm… you want to eat… my ass? umm…i th-think that uhh…d-do you think that would be s-sexy?”

2013 we in there :badboy:

I need something else to watch now. Suggestions?

watch The Shadow Line. Breaking Bad is cool because it’s such a long show you can have this roller coaster ride of ups and downs. The Shadow Line is only 7 episodes which makes it like jumping off a building. you’re just screaming SHHHHHHHHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT the whole time. then you die.

[Manx]

Ted is dumb. Really dumb.

[pherai]

id lick lydia’s butthole

[details=Spoiler]Big props to BB for making the biggest shocker scene out of Hank taking a dump

edit: the walt pop in on jesse scene was very tense! considering that jesse fears walt in addition to the big ending, i think were in for a brutal last 8 episodes[/details]

[RECESSIONTIME]

After I watched that ending I was like

NO. NOT LIKE THIS. NOT LIKE THIS. OH GAWD.
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…and that’s pretty much what it feels like to get raped.

[your_boy_al]

welp

[details=Spoiler]Along with the reasons goodm0urning listed, his cancer is definitely back. you see him just “in Jesse’s neighborhood” after he firmly told him there is no me and you, to give him his 5 million, which isn’t something he’d do normally under any other circumstance, given his ego/megalomania.

Besides that, he starts to tear up a little after he meets skylar in the kitchen to tell her he’s out. Sure, Walt’s been known to shed crocodile tears before, but as well as Skylar knows him she’d have called him on his bullshit. Back before [S]walt took her hostage[/S] she insisted on laundering his money, she was definitely aware he was out doing something way worse than gambling or whatever.[/details]

[Krusiv]

Spoiler

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[FurryCurry]

ohhhhhh, but i think it was…

http://www.superb-villains.com/images/bb/ll17132.gif

sexily sliding that bag of sin to her Science Daddy- how dare you say that, FurryCurry?

how dare you? :mad:

and don’t tempt fate by angering me. Spaz Lydia is still best Lydia. you could talk her into anything if you act like you were gonna kill her first.

“umm… you want to eat… my ass? umm…i th-think that uhh…d-do you think that would be s-sexy?”

2013 we in there :badboy:

I remembered this right as I finished typing. I tried to pretend it wasn’t the legs. That little irish cupcake.

[Don_Barracuda]

Oh they missed the perfect opportunity for Hank to let one rip at that very moment

I don’t understand why Walt kept that page in the book, I would understand if this happened more recently because he did turn into a egomaniac, but old Walt was so careful.

Good spot on Walt’s remission.

That was a ridiculously large pile of money :eek:

[Riot_Guard]

Forced his hands, my ass. The position he found himself in with Gus was the result of a loooooong chain of events which he set into motion and kept going every step of the way.

Walt goes to destroy the RV and doesn’t tell Jesse, because in that moment, in Walt’s capricious view of Jesse, Jesse was just a peon who didn’t need or deserve to know anything. And that is, indeed, how Walt treats Jesse, except when he’s either feeling emotionally needy (treats him like a son) or he needs him to do something (lavishes him with praise, guarantees equal partnership, etc.). Conclusion: Walt fucked up.

Jesse, lacking the vital information, shows up to the lot where the RV is kept, understandably upset. Walt’s solution for getting out of this situation is specifically designed to keep himself anonymous. Jesse’s ongoing safety doesn’t even cross his mind. Conclusion: Walt fucked up.

Walt has his laboratory gig with Gale, which is a cozy situation. As Mike accurately observes later, they had a good thing going. But Walt can’t stand Gale. Walt can’t stand anybody who can get on his level. Walt needs somebody he can be superior to. Walt wanted to get rid of Gale even before it became necessary to appease Jesse’s rage against Hank, so sacking Gale and bringing Jesse into the superlab operation (with yet another manipulative and empty promise of equal partnership) was satisfying two megalomaniacal urges with one stone. Conclusion: Walt doubly fucked up.

You remember that differently than me because he wanted Gale out to get Jesse in the door.

After the fiasco with Jesse and the corner dealers, Gus understandably comes to view Walt as an unstable element. If not for Walt’s hypocritical belief that he could do no wrong, he would absolutely agree with Gus. After all, Walt respects (or professes to respect) Gus’s professionalism. And a professional operation does not tolerate unstable elements. All of Walt’s stupidity, neuroses, self-aggrandizement, contempt for others… if it weren’t for those things, his life would never have been in danger. He could have continued to be the best meth cook in the best meth operation in the country.

But Walt can’t just be the cook. He has to be the chef. Pretty much every problem he’s had ever since his cancer was removed has stemmed directly from that. And that includes blustering his way into an untenable situation in which his solution was to [S]clean up an annoying detail[/S] kill a man.

[SNAAAAKE]

That was a ridiculously large pile of money :eek:

I just want some of dem stackz:eek:

[tataki]

HE CAN’T DO SHIT ABOUT IT!

Spoiler

All this fiasco happening right under Frank’s nose means his career as a cop is finished when this is published. He’ll lose a family and a career in a single moment. He’ll probably end up cooperating with Walt trying to cover it up and take care of loose ends, at least after the initial shock.