TrumanBurbank
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I like the character Declan. Seems pretty badass.
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Breaking Bad - Season 5, Part 1 - Sundays on AMC
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faceless007
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It's crazy how many inspired things have happened on the show that were just happenstance. Fring wasn't originally going to be as big a player but they liked Giancarlo so much they wrote him to be the big bad. Tuco was supposed to last longer but the actor had to go back to The Closer. The original plan for season 1 after episode 8 was much different and according to Gilligan, very rushed and not very good, but the writers' strike allowed them to ditch it and spend more time coming up with what we got.
Heisenberg
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That wouldn't make sense since he considered it necessary to tell Jesse and Walt that he was out as soon as he realized he was being tailed.
The other post makes more sense and I must have not remembered that scene.
StopMakingSense
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Wasn't Jesse supposed to just be in the first couple episodes, as well?
No, Mike says that he was being tailed for weeks when he tells Walt. But he says that they are going hardcore on his ass now with more tails, and that it's not safe anymore.
BocoDragon
or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Realize This Assgrab is Delicious
Yeah you can tell the writers are making it officially okay for everyone to hate him... so they can bring him down in the end, and have us all be ok with it.
I found him really sympathetic for nearly the entire series, but things like him whistling in the episode last night? That's almost cartoon villain territory. Nothing in the early seasons would have ever signaled his immorality in such a sharp way. (obviously the season 4 finale is a similar warning bell).
Still love how he was that dude in Beverly Hills Cop:
Holy crap! It's amazing how actors pop up in 'old' movies who I only now recognise from their later work. The same thing happened with Mark Christopher Lawrence in Terminator 2, though I only really knew the actor from Chuck.
Back to BB, I've been doing weekly reviews / analyses of the show if anyone's interested at my blog if anyone's interested, here's a link to the one covering 'Buyout'. Thought the episode was more interesting for what it prepared for the future than the content of the episode itself tbh, which retraced a lot of ground already covered this season. That said, there were some wonderful standout scenes, like the disturbing and stunningly shot pre-credits sequence and the dinner scene between Walt, Skylar and Jesse, whose dinner conversation (and guilty drinking) was fantastically awkward. So disappointed the series is going on a year-long break in only two episodes' time.
TrumanBurbank
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Haha, I love how hyped he always is about his own show.
GremlinFool
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Your gross misinterpretation of the show is nothing short of awe-inspiring.
Originally, he was the guy that Tuco kills to end Season 1, but Aaron Paul is choice, yo, and they kept him.
Yeah, it was kind of goofy to be honest, but also very creepy.
I guess they need to establish him as the absolute evil, for everyone catching up (since there seems to be still people thinking he's good, deep down) and they don't have many episodes left to do it and wrap it up.
Just a tiny shame he doesn't end every tweet with '...bitch!', because that's a word he'll be hearing the rest of his life. Fantastic comedic performance from him at the dinner table, I assume someone's made .gifs of him guiltily munching his beans and glugging down that glass of water.
StopMakingSense
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Oh, heh, I always forget how short Season 1 was.
Kelley Dixon, ACE, sociopath. Lol.
water_wendi
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Great episode. Dinner scene was fantastic.
That's the point.
Is Los Pollos Hermanos shut down in the BB universe? That would be a shitload of innocent employees to lay off.
Why would Skyler or Flynn start doing meth? They don't even smoke pot. Gilligan would've had to plant a seed by now if they were going that route.
Some of the speculation in here is lunacy.
That said, the idea that
, but my memory of him before this season is a bit fuzzy so maybe it wouldn't make any sense.
Some of the speculation in here is lunacy.
That said, the idea that
Hanks partner could be a mole of some sort doesn't seem so far-fetched given how his role on the show
faceless007
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I think it's still being run by Madrigal. Are they the full owners of LPH?
They were taking the sign down at the Madrigal headquarters.
faceless007
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Ah that's right. I guess they're dissolving the subsidiary.
I doubt we'll get it at this point but I am curious to know more about how the LPH/Madrigal relationship worked and how it started. Did Gus come to them or vice versa? Did he always plan to sell the company?
Spectral Glider
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He is, which is why I'm on Team Mike. This season has been awesome, much better than I'd ever thought it would be with Gus gone. The spider jar may come back into play, but I'm putting more money on Walt's watch being a bigger factor in tipping off Hank. Speaking of Hank, I like him more as a pounding the pavement guy than a captain stuck at the desk guy.
People have been discussing this over the last few pages.
Only because it drives the plot forward.
The girly men that are rooting for Skylar.
Not rootimg for him, but love watching him.
Spectral Glider
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Last night was the first time I wanted to see Walt's escape attempt fail. In the beginning, I liked that he was an average joe thumbing his nose at society and no longer being the nice guy who gets trampled on. And I would admire his intelligence and perseverance, but now he's just a dick head.
TrumanBurbank
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Yup, Team Jesse/Mike here.
Just the getting into something illegal and then going deeper and deeper and craving more power. Getting in over your head. Drug cartels. Etc.
Cornballer
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- Quick parody video: Jesse Pinkman at the dinner table, Seinfeld-style (youtube)
EDIT: Sony made them take it down. I'll see if I can track down another copy somewhere.
EDIT2: Apparently it's back up now.
EDIT: Sony made them take it down. I'll see if I can track down another copy somewhere.
EDIT2: Apparently it's back up now.
Commander William Adama
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ThanksVision
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I don't understand how anyone could root for Walt at this point. For the first four seasons of the show, he was a man doing what he believed he had to do at the time to provide for AND protect his family. Now that he's completely power-hungry, he has been dehumanized to the point that he is extremely unlikable. He doesn't care who he hurts, whether it's a child or even his own wife.
that's probably exactly it. we rooted for him for 4 seasons and now we're trying to justify that.
honestly I really don't know...i want to root for him but at the same time I don't. I kind of feel like this sudden cartoonishly evil walt was a little too sudden but I kind of get it. No one like gus to keep him grounded.
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