Todd is so creepy lol
[details=Spoiler]Walt was side-winded by the picture of what he thought was his money. He also had no idea Jesse was working with Hank (and gave him the benefit of the doubt by denying him being a rat to Todd’s uncle.)
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The Aryans need Walt to teach Todd how to perfect his cooks. Walt called in a frenzy, regardless of telling them to back down they probably smelled something fishy and came to protect him (for their own gain).
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I understand WHY they are doing it. don’t get me wrong. But like I said, Walt cares about family. Them killing his brother in law (if it happens that is) in the process of killing Jesse is bound to piss Walt off. There’s no way Walt’s going to be cool with cooking again (especially since he wasn’t trying to get back in the game in the first place) for the Aryans should things go down like I think they will
[details=Spoiler]I totally agree. If they do end up getting Hank (hard to imagine how they wouldn’t unless Walt somehow intervenes) perhaps it’s too much for Skyler to handle, despite her suggesting Walt take care of Jesse, I can’t imagine she’d be cool with Hank getting it in the process. Walt seems pretty lone-wolf in the flash-forwards…considering the pace of these recent episodes, they have a lot to cram into just three more to tie everything up in a “satisfying” way (to the story at least).
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more of Walt ending up being their meth slave, he probly will cook meth until he is almost dead, I guess in some point he escapes, buys the weapon, and decides to take revenge, even if he dies in the process
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Walt says he has barely any time to live, but the flash-forwards are a year later and he has a full head of hair meaning he is no longer going through chemo. IF Hank, Gomez, and Jesse are out of the picture, the Aryans (and Lydia) are the last remaining ties to Walt’s life as Heisenberg, perhaps he just decides to clean house to finally have a chance at a normal life…but that doesn’t explain his condemned house, or his neighbor shitting a brick when she spots him.
I’'m with the other guy tho. At this point, I’m more concerned with how they will wrap all this up in only 3 episodes, not to say the writers can’t pull it off tho. Still, seems like alot of material to cover in so little time
Todd, like a few characters on this show, used to be so shitty. I’m glad they found a way to build his characterization, even if he’s interesting in a cerebral way rather than on a more emotional level. He seems like such a contradiction–an eager-to-please manchild who’s as amoral and brutal as can be. But it works.
Man, this episode had so much good stuff. Everything starting with that last scene in the car wash has this deranged Goodfellas intensity to it. I won’t even bother to name individual elements. We know what they are.
And then that plateau, that moment of tranquility when it looks like they got him. Everything from point A to point B there is just perfectly modulated to let you know that there is no fucking way this arrest is happening peacefully. That moment when Hank reads Walt his rights is something we might have expected would be in the last episode, way back when we were innocent and the show was just getting started.
It might be the relationships and the intrigue that sticks with you well after the episode is over, but it’s shit like this where the filmmakers show their best chops that make it such a damn pleasure to watch in the moment–the shooting and the cutting when characters goad each other into doing things they’d never do and multiple self-interested parties collide.
And how cool is Gomie with that shotgun? Poor guy. If two people on his side of the SUV are dead by the end of the shootout, it’ll be him and Jesse. And if one person dies… well, you know.
Everything’s different now. Jesse goads and manipulates Walt. Walt obey’s Hank’s orders without protest. Walt calls in the big guns, only to be powerless to stop them once they arrive.
Hell, I don’t even mind that it’s a cliffhanger ending. What happened in the desert is too big to be contained in one episode. This is no longer a series that has room for a big setpiece, then the comedown, then the fallout–no more Hank vs. the twins, no more Jesse vs. the corner dealers, no more of any of that. This, I think, is Breaking Bad building its final steam.
We don’t agree on alot, but you were completely on point goodm0urning. EPIC post.
Any predictions for the last 3?
I do, but I’ll be cagey about them. My guess is as good as anybody’s as far as the specifics go, and besides, I’d rather allow the show to unfold without too much of an expectation of what should happen.
So, cagey prediction number one: I think people expecting the Czech mobsters to become big players in the final episodes are off-base. I can see the mob being involved insofar as they have Lydia as their representative, but we’re not going to see much of Czech-anything within the actual show. They’ll be like Madrigal Elektromotive: yeah, they’re important, but we mostly see the secondary effects of their existence–the fingerprints, rather than the hand. Breaking Bad’s too economical to be introducing a bunch of new characters and new locations, especially not now.
I also don’t think there’ll be a Memento-type moment when the present day timeline and the “52” timeline converge or pay each other off or whatever. That’s not to dismiss the importance of the flash-forwards, but I have a sneaking suspicion that they’re not as heavy as they look. I base this on both the amount of unresolved business in the present day timeline (and with just three eps left!) and the fact that Breaking Bad’s cold openings have never been quite what they seem. Future Walt and his beard may very well be onhand as a Tales of the Black Freighter kind of a point/counterpoint to the main timeline, rather than something more literally important.
That said, he does have that gun. And you know what Anton Chekhov said about guns.
My biggest cagey prediction is that whatever happens to anybody else, what happens to Walter Hartwell White is going to be worse. Picture the worst thing you can imagine happening to Hank, Jesse, Skyler, whomever… then try to imagine Walt getting off with a less severe fate. You can’t do it. Not with this show. Maybe in a show with a more nihilistic moral sensibility, like The Wire, but Breaking Bad is a different kind of animal. Walt’s not going to storm the gates, guns blazing, and win the day. He is the bad guy. I don’t know if he’ll be in prison or dead, or if his punishment will be more poetic than that, but he’s in for it.
Hell, maybe his exile into an itinerant, lonely life under an assumed identity is his punishment in ways that haven’t been made clear yet.
I can see Walt being alone, broke as a possibility. Poetic justice for him to lose the very thing he broke bad for in the first place: Family. Walt has for a majority of the series been oblivious to the harm his dual-life causes his friends and family. And by the time reality sets in and he realizes what 's he’s done, it’ll be too late
BUT being that this is Breaking Bad, what I suggested will probably not happen at all. It’ll probably be 1000 times worse than what any of us could come up with
… and somehow Mr. White ends up in a barrel with acid.
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White supremacists? These guys are not Walts BFF. I reckon they’ll kill Gomez and take one or both of the others hostage. Perhaps Jesse will get away but I see them using Jesse as leverage to get Walt cooking for them.
I think calling for the badges was a bait, they reach for their badge, they’re easier to gun down. Probably also to confirm what Jack thought initially, that Jesse was a rat and Walt was just too soft to deal with it himself. Confirmation they were actual cops would have been confirmation about Jesse.
I’m loving the Todd dichotomy. With Lydia he looks as timid as a jr high student asking out his first crush.
I’ve got a feeling Meth Damon isn’t the sharpest tool in the shed and that’s why he can’t get the cook right and Walt knows it.
damn! why cant I give u more LOL’s? I almost cried, LO0l
Hank’s cavern echo voice = dubbed Goku KSJGAKDHLALJAK 
P.S. FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCK :mad:
From last night’s episode I can see this going in this direction:
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- Hank and Gomez die. It causes Marie to lose her mind when he never returns and has her blab to the DEA about Heisenberg. She goes further crazy and goes into the family’s house to spraypaint the word “Heisenberg” on the wall so everyone knows who lived there and what he did to the family.
Meanwhile, Walt is so distraught over what he’s done he refuses to cook for the Nazis/they are going to want more out of him due to them taking out DEA officers. Either way, he’s going to be forced to cook and will refuse. Skylar dies as a result. He runs away, probably leaving his children with Marie and that will be an easy case since his moonlighting activities were brought to light.
He goes back because the Nazis threaten their safety and he has to do something about it, knowing this is going to be his last stand he’ll take the ricin and go apeshit on the white dudes.
- Gomez dies. Hank survives. He loses Walt in the process and realizes he’ll stop at nothing to keep his money. He is forced to explain why they were out in the desert and why Gomez is now dead. He does. He gets fired for keeping it under wraps and may face charges of conspiracy because he cannot disprove any cooperation with Walt on his meth business thanks to that fat medical bill and many failings to find Heisenberg during his tenure at the office.
Marie will lose her shit, and will publicly humiliate Walt forcing him to admit to who he is. But since now a DEA agent is dead he’ll make a deal to sell out the Nazis in exchange for witness protection. Nazis left Jesse alive to have him cook the meth with Todd being his superior now. Jesse reached out and asked Walt for a final favor. That favor is to free him from these guys so he can get away.
Well, so it goes.
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