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Breaking Bad - Season 5, Part 1 - Sundays on AMC

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What a contrast between this season and last for Skyler. She was back to bossing Walt around, scheming to get the car wash, laundering money, but now she's cowering in the corner of her bedroom.

In a way it's pretty funny.
 
Loved the episode, but I'll will almost certainly be bailing out on this thread for the next week as the Skyler "discussion" gets into full gear.
 
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- Inside Episode 504 (youtube vid)
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The problem with this season is that it's becoming very clear that this is not going to be 2 satisfying 8-episode story arcs, but rather that AMC cut a perfectly good 16-episode arc in half.
 
I hope this guy directs the last episode of the series.
 
BenjaminBirdie said:
Anyone seriously "arguing" against Skyler at this point is genuinely frightening.
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She demonstrates such skyler behaviour. Frankly I'm not a fan.

Jr. makes me laugh and has an obsession with breakfast. Hank is smart and bombastic and funny. Marie is a quirky shit disturber that I find crazy yet amusing, Jesse is young and energetic and funny, Mike is too old for this shit, Walt is insane and badass (face it folks), and Skyler is.....Skyler. And before anyone says HOW CAN SHE BE ANYTHING ELSE IN THIS SITCHHH. She was also such a skyler before any of this. In the first season and second and so on.

I'm thinking about introducing "you're such a skyler" into my daily rotation but I don't think anyone will get it.

I drop bombs.
 
Emerson said:
The problem with this season is that it's becoming very clear that this is not going to be 2 satisfying 8-episode story arcs, but rather that AMC cut a perfectly good 16-episode arc in half.
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Who knows? Things turn on a dime with this show.

These last 4 episodes this year may be another Salud/Crawl Space/End Times/Face Off.
 
I was about done with Skylar's character until that dialog between her and Walt in the bedroom towards the end of the episode. Her moping around and descent into madness, while certainly realistically plausible, doesn't really translate well to narrative IMO. I was literally dreading every scene she was in because they'd become predictable and unbearably awkward to watch, so it was nice to see it all come together in the end.

Hopefully she schemes behind Walt's back, and is largely responsible for his imminent downfall, because I don't think I can handle her if she's just going to mope around dialog-less with a stupid look on her face for entire episodes.
 
Dr Eggman said:
I hope this guy directs the last episode of the series.
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The ending of this show is going to be magnificent.

Season 7 and 8 of Dexter will be hilarious though.


I'm really in awe at the people than can't empathize, let alone see, the domestic abuse/prisoner overture to the Walt / Skysky relationship.
 
Nameless said:
Walt pleads with Skyler to Climb out of his ass.

Scenes like this make it easy to see why Walt would go to great lengths to lie to her. I don't put all the blame on her but she's not exactly the most understanding or respectful person.
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Walt's biggest mistake isn't ditching Skyler back then.

Sky's biggest mistake isn't ditching Walt before using money 3-4 different ways and then acting like killing gus changed anything about that money.
 
Amir0x said:
Man I think that scene will be studied for a long time. What a tense, creepy, horrifyingly genuine moment of domestic abuse, with Walt essentially shadowing over her like a twisted demon screaming over and over about how trapped she is, reveling in it, and Skyler desperately waking to the fact that there is no way out of this nightmare. She's complicit. She must save what she can. The physicality of the scene too, with the way she was essentially shifting herself into corners as he lumbers after her, asserting a form of mental domination that is nothing short of terrifying.

Anna Gunn emmy nod
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Master class directing, writing, and acting for sure. Especially directing.
 
Still can't even believe they put that kind of domestic abuse on TV. I always thought it would be too hard to fictionalize and make compelling, but I guess the drug dealing and murder helps.
 
ZeroRay said:
Who knows? Things turn on a dime with this show.

These last 4 episodes this year may be another Salud/Crawl Space/End Times/Face Off.
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I doubt it. I have a feeling the last 2 episodes will be Hank finding out and Walt fleeing, and perhaps a Mike death.
 
HIGH DEF JEFF said:
In episode 1 Mike was ready to disappear.
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Did you forget about the scene interrogation room scene with Mike, where Hank let him know they found a bank account with his granddaughter's name on it, and how the feds were going to take that money?

I think, the only reason he joined with Jesse and Walt reluctantly to provide for his granddaughter.

Emerson said:
The problem with this season is that it's becoming very clear that this is not going to be 2 satisfying 8-episode story arcs, but rather that AMC cut a perfectly good 16-episode arc in half.
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Last I checked though, they haven't even written part 2 yet or begun filming for it.
 
ZeroRay said:
Who knows? Things turn on a dime with this show.

These last 4 episodes this year may be another Salud/Crawl Space/End Times/Face Off.
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Sure it's possible, but it really doesn't seem likely. If anything the only real story arc I could see getting a conclusion would be Walt/Skyler's relationship. They're certainly focusing the most on that and I wouldn't be at all shocked to see this season ending with her dead one way or another.
 
ReiGun said:
Seriously. I see folk around the net calling Skyler a bitch or whatever, and I just go, "....Seriously?...."
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Has nothing to do with "bitch" it has to do with the worst actor on the show, cowardly, unintelligent, disloyal, greedy when she doesn't see the result's of Walt's actions beyond money but acting like an emo pre teen once she does.


Gus was a psycho but at least I had respect for his intelligence, and the crazy he had to go through with certain things.
 
-Pyromaniac- said:
She demonstrates such skyler behaviour. Frankly I'm not a fan.

Jr. makes me laugh and has an obsession with breakfast. Hank is smart and bombastic and funny. Marie is a quirky shit disturber that I find crazy yet amusing, Jesse is young and energetic and funny, Mike is too old for this shit, Walt is insane and badass (face it folks), and Skyler is.....Skyler. And before anyone says HOW CAN SHE BE ANYTHING ELSE IN THIS SITCHHH. She was also such a skyler before any of this. In the first season and second and so on.

I'm thinking about introducing "you're such a skyler" into my daily rotation but I don't think anyone will get it.

I drop bombs.
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No you don't. You're permanently Walt Mid-S4. You think you can hide behind your bluster being A-#1 Anti-Skyler head of The Expendables but all you're doing is painting a brick wall onto tissue paper and every episode the Mack truck barreling towards it gets closer and closer.

And one Sunday, whether it's this year or the next, there'll be a split second when it's just the Mack logo embossed on that flimsy scrap you call an argument, and then the rest of the truck will come right behind it and rip it shreds.

I don't think that really counts as "bombs" but that's just me.
 
Emerson said:
The problem with this season is that it's becoming very clear that this is not going to be 2 satisfying 8-episode story arcs, but rather that AMC cut a perfectly good 16-episode arc in half.
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The flash forward is ages from now (a year!) in show terms, and I don't think there's any way to get there without a big time skip. It's reasonable to think we may get much closer to the flash forward during the hiatus after a major event in Episode 8.
 
Dr Eggman said:
I doubt it. I have a feeling the last 2 episodes will be Hank finding out and Walt fleeing, and perhaps a Mike death.
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Emerson said:
Sure it's possible, but it really doesn't seem likely. If anything the only real story arc I could see getting a conclusion would be Walt/Skyler's relationship. They're certainly focusing the most on that and I wouldn't be at all shocked to see this season ending with her dead one way or another.
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True, season 4 had 9 episodes of what was basically build up.

But I'm still adamant that we'll have at least 2 major deaths to cap of this half season.
 
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