Breaking Bad returns this weekend

Originally Posted By Dabob2

Forgetful Dalmatians.

 

Originally Posted By DDMAN26

Well I guess they answered the timeline question.

 

Originally Posted By Dabob2

Yeah, and I think it's a (minor) flaw. Too much compressed into one year for me. All that stuff with Tuco, and then the cousins, and then Fring... all within one year?

 

Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan

At least I know my hearing isn't going. But yeah, that's a LOT of stuff in one year, one of the very rare clunker moments of this show.

We now know where the bacon thing came from, and that Walt survives until age 52 at least (celebrating his birthday alone at a Denny's somewhere.)

While there were no gun battles or anything last night, I thought Skyler's line about waiting for the cancer to come back was brutal. Any hope for the two of them somehow riding off into the sunset together happily ever after is off the table now.

Hank has gone from kind of a cartoony character to the one to watch over the run of this series. And he'll have to figure prominently into any grand finale.

 

Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan

And manipulating Walt is a creepy, creepy guy. From buying Walt Jr. muscle cars to placing his order with Skyler for cake and a party, he's turning a little more rotten each week.

I thought it was a great moment when he checked himself out in the car's reflection before going into the house, clearly expecting a huge surprise party.

 

Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan

And with only 4 more episodes left before another year-long break (that sucks, AMC!!!), I wonder if it will end with a cliffhanger or just sort of go into a holding pattern until the final 8.

 

Originally Posted By Dabob2

" I thought Skyler's line about waiting for the cancer to come back was brutal."

No kidding. When she said that, Jerry and I just kind of looked at each other and said " ouch."

 

Originally Posted By SuperDry

Tick, tick, tick!

 

Originally Posted By DDMAN26

So while I was up in Northern Wisconsin I still got to watch last weeks episode.

And the last half of the show I was cheering for them to get the hoses on. Uh oh there's a guy who's going to help move the truck. Now the train is moving get off get off!!! Jessie just stay still. Yeah they did it. And then the kid from the beginning of the episode shows up and Todd shoots him dead. And the oh yeah they're criminals moment really popped up and kicked you in the guts.

And I was wondering if Todd was an undercover cop, well that put this to rest.

 

Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan

>>I was wondering if Todd was an undercover cop, well that put this to rest.<<

I hadn't even thought about that, but yep, he's no cop now, that's for sure.

I though Walt bugging Hank's office was pretty strange, his fingerprints are all over it, as well as the photo. At some point the bug will be found, even if by the IT guy. And in order to be alone to install the bug, he had to know that Hank would leave him alone in his office to "collect himself." Seemed a stretch to me.

Usually the writers seem to be more clever than that, so it was a bit of a letdown to have something that contrived.

All that said, the whole train heist was incredibly exciting and the ending was shocking and leave us with a classic "Well, NOW what are they going to do??" Breaking Bad cliffhanger.

 

Originally Posted By Dabob2

"And in order to be alone to install the bug, he had to know that Hank would leave him alone in his office to "collect himself."

This part of it I bought. Walt knows Hank, and knows he doesn't handle emotional displays very well, especially from other men. The fingerprints part bugged me more. Why not just show Walt putting on a glove real quick?

 

Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan

Maybe Walt thinks that he'd go back in a few days and get all the bug stuff out of there before anyone caught on. I dunno, usually I don't have to suspend disbelief on this show all that much, but this seemed like a little too contrived.

 

Originally Posted By DDMAN26

Anyone see this story?

<a href="http://blog.al.com/tuscaloosa/2012/08/man_named_walter_white_wanted.html" target="_blank">http://blog.al.com/tuscaloosa/...ted.html</a>

 

Originally Posted By DDMAN26

A little bit of a breather episode this week, after last week it needed that.

But how uncomfortable/great was that dinner scene? I was squirming the whole time.

 

Originally Posted By Dabob2

So what do you think? Does Walt tell Jesse about Mike? Or just let Jesse think that Mike skipped town as planned.

And if the latter (which I'd think more likely), how does Jesse find out? And how does he react when he does?

Jesse seems to be finally waking up to Walt, and if he discovers one more lie...

 

Originally Posted By DDMAN26

Well you could see at the start of the episode Walt was in control or at least he thought he was. By the end you could see the panicked look on his face. By telling Jesse Mike skipped town Walt could in his mind think he's getting back some control.

 

Originally Posted By Dabob2

Next week is the last this season (and no, I'm not considering this season 5a and 5b; if there's a year between them, it's two seasons).

What I wonder is if this last episode takes us up to where episode 1 began (in that diner far from Albuquerque, with Walter one year older), or if it's going to take all NEXT season to get there.

It's a lot to cram into one episode (a year!), so although I thought when the season began it would be the former, I'm now leaning towards the latter.

And who's chasing Walter a year from now? Is it the Phoenix guys? Hank? Both? Someone as yet unintroduced?

Random thought: how devastating would it be if Walt Jr./Flynn gets more and more depressed and rebellious and Walt sees him at some point strung out on the Heisenberg blue?

 

Originally Posted By DDMAN26

That last point, would you care if I used that on another message board where I've discussed Breaking Bad? I think it's the one thing that could really devastate Walt.

 

Originally Posted By Dabob2

Be my guest. The other thing that occurred to me, since they've sort of been making a point about Flynn driving too fast, is maybe he does meth and then drives.

It just seems to me that something bad is going to happen to Walt's family as a result of his work at some point.

 

Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan

>>Random thought: how devastating would it be if Walt Jr./Flynn gets more and more depressed and rebellious and Walt sees him at some point strung out on the Heisenberg blue?<<

Wow, I hadn't thought about that possibility. Walt has been very separated from the actual meth users for the most part (aside from Jesse). That might be the perfect comeuppance to Walt.

There was an episode I think back at season 1 where Jesse was held hostage by a couple of meth users. It was a truly freaky episode. So your scenario would instantly force him to see exactly what his "pure" product is doing to people in a truly shocking way.