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

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-Pyromaniac- said:
final episode is gonna end with

DON'T STOP...BELIEVIN!
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There will also be a protracted scene in which Walt Jr. struggles to parallel park.


woodchuck said:
This book is "Leaves of Grass", a poetry book by Walt Whitman. Gale gave it to Walt in Season 3, "Sunset".
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God damn, I think you're the first person here to find that. And I wasted so much time focusing only on the Gale scenes. So Gale was never shown giving Walt the book, but Walt is seen reading the book a couple of scenes after Gale recites The Learned Astronomer to him.

When I first saw that, I guess I figured Walt just went out and got the book himself.
 
Just noticed that the score album is finally available on Amazon MP3. Now to just wait for yet another coupon code to make the rounds before biting.
 
maharg said:
I think just admiration. He seemed to live for nothing other than chemistry, basically, and he found someone who was almost effortlessly better than him at it. He was in awe.
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and it was because of that Gus eventually hired Walt for the lab (Gus was fine with Gale's 96% but Gale wouldn't let it go).
 
I talked to my dad earlier and he mentioned that he watched the episode. He asked me what the last scene with W.W. was about and why it was significant. I asked him if he remembered Gale, and he didn't.

I'm going to put ricin in his coffee one day.
 
Jesus Christ those shanking scenes were brutal to watch. I thought something horrible was going to happen during that last pool-side scene. The identical shots to the season two police scene was a nice way to add tension.

Good season, if not a little meandering and unfocused. There was no real end game nor driving force, just things happening.
 
VegaNine said:
There was an article about how Walt keeps a memento, often a food characteristic, from the deaths he feels responsible for. I can't find the article, which is a shame, because I can't remember all things mentioned. Anyhow:
  • He cuts the crust off his sandwiches, ala Krazy 8.
  • He keeps the eyeball of the bear from the plane crash.
  • He keeps the Leaves of Grass gift from Gale.
  • He affects the demeanor of Gus.
  • He takes his drinks on the rocks, ala Mike.
There was a food item for Tuco and a few others as well. But the most exciting one was a theory:
  • In the season 5 opener, he takes on the maiden name of Skyler and arranges his birthday bacon just the way she did.



Presumably the $5M he owed.
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damn Gaf figured so much shit out, some of the people on here should be detectives for reals
 
Jack Scofield said:
Jesus Christ those shanking scenes were brutal to watch. I thought something horrible was going to happen during that last pool-side scene. The identical shots to the season two police scene was a nice way to add tension.

Good season, if not a little meandering and unfocused. There was no real end game nor driving force, just things happening.
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Well the season is only halfway through, the end game is still to come.
 
Grinchy said:
I talked to my dad earlier and he mentioned that he watched the episode. He asked me what the last scene with W.W. was about and why it was significant. I asked him if he remembered Gale, and he didn't.

I'm going to put ricin in his coffee one day.
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Remember No Half Measures
 
-Pyromaniac- said:
The book doesn't cross any line. The guy has had it forever, he has been through so much shit. The book is the last thing on his mind after 3 months of straight up work grind and whatnot. And then his decision to be out was actually pretty sudden. The book is just what it is. Something he didn't think of. End of story. Walt is capable of fucking up folks, and imo it isn't even a big fuck up (leaving a book in your washroom). He just got screwed bad on it.
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Holy Fuck somebody gets it. That book was given so long ago, and obviously he shouldn't have kept it but, his life has been going at a break-neck pace for months and months and months. He fucked up, and I can't wait for the conclusion. DeusEx Machina? Someone needs to do a bit more research on the term.
 
ari said:
Big ander posts like amirox....don't want to be a snitch but.....
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haha I'm not ami. I think amirox might have banned me before even.
though maybe that was part of my scheme all along

-Pyromaniac- said:
Breaking Bad should definitely win an award for best Shank-Fest And General Murder Montage.
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It can't, they got rid of that Emmy to make room for Best Diarrhea in a Half-Hour Comedy. :( Louie's got it locked.
 
I sincerely wished we could of just gotten the entirety of the 16 episodes. The adjourning of this season really kills the momentum of the biggest revelation that has been made in the series.
 
Paradoxal_Utopia said:
Has any TV show in fucking history made a break of 12 fucking months to finish a fucking season? Serious fucking question.
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Well, for one it's just 10 months.
And an answer to the actual question: hell yeah. Game of Thrones takes about 10 months between seasons, The Sopranos took a ton of time in between seasons, The Wire took almost two years in between seasons 3 and 4, The Walking Dead aired 6 episodes and then broke for 10 months, the list goes on and on. You'll notice these are all cable shows.
 
Paradoxal_Utopia said:
Has any TV show in fucking history made a break of 12 fucking months to finish a fucking season? Serious fucking question.
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Sopranos season six started in March 2006, and ended in June 2007.

The Shield's fifth season was split in half and aired a year apart, but FX went the route of calling the back half season six instead.
 
GavinGT said:
Talk about shows with painfully long waits between seasons......


Also, since Gale gave Walt the book in 3x6, it seems pretty weird that he would write such a message in it. "You're my other favorite W.W.!" Huh? They literally just met that very same day.
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He'd heard about Walt through Gus, and since he was also a chemist, having such a pure formula made him a bit of a legend in Gale's eyes before even meeting him.

Either that or deus ex Mary machina Sue

EDIT: I meant call the next season, Season 6. Gotta sell those DVDs!!
 
big ander said:
well it seems like you are arguing that, because "contrived" and "deus ex machina" are not the same thing, despite "contrived" being within the definition of the latter. Walt's plan was convoluted and chancy and risky (fits his MO for the entire series). It working was highly improbable. It was not suddenly solved by a new plot device. Even the lily of the valley had been introduced before

As for the "opinion is from neptune" line you keep regurgitating: it's sort of obtuse and oddly biting, but I think you're trying to say "you all think my opinion is an outlier, but CLEARLY I'm not crazy come on!" However your opinion is factually an outlier. You are the minority. In the sense that majority opinions are from Earth and minority opinions are from Neptune, your opinion is indeed from Neptune. Now, in the sense that your opinion is crazy? You're on Earth, don't worry. Anyone who calls a person holding a different opinion crazy or who asserts that their opinion must be right is incorrect and does not understand opinions. That means that you must also accept that our opinion is valid.
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I've not argued that it's deus ex machina. I implied this in one of my posts.

I don't really understand what the second paragraph is saying.
 
beastmode said:
I've not argued that it's deus ex machina. I implied this in one of my posts.

I don't really understand what the second paragraph is saying.
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Which is funny because I'm still having trouble figuring out what you were saying. You had posted once before that people finding your opinion that Breaking Bad isn't that good to be one from Neptune is "striking". maharg said that, yeah, your opinion technically is from Neptune because it is factually a minority. You seemed to agree with him in response, but then in the post you begged people to respond to you restated the Neptune thing in a sarcastic way, as if to say "well it looks like my opinion on all this is from Neptune" while thinking that it should not be.
So in my response I restated what maharg said: that your opinion is factually an outlier. But I added that your opinion isn't necessarily strange. Just not the norm.
Anyway, I originally put that second paragraph there because I was trying to parse out the meaning behind your repeated use of the "opinion from Neptune" phrase myself, so it's kinda up to you to clarify.
 
Its kind of funny finally entering and looking over the SPOILER thread. The Ted living spoiler was comical.

Cornballer said:
Content Roundup:

Reviews:
- Sepinwall
- Onion A|V Club
- memles at Cultural Learnings
- Zap2It
- Salon.com
- Slate.com
- Maureen Ryan
- Ken Tucker
- LA Times
- Salon.com #2
- Rolling Stone

Other content:
- Making of Episode 508 (youtube)
- Inside Episode 508 (youtube)
- AMC Insider Podcast
- LA Times: Vince Gilligan talks about season ending to 'Breaking Bad'
- Ryan McGee and Maureen Ryan with some discussion of the finale on their podcast this week
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Mad props to Cornballer for the OT and doing these content round-ups this season!
 
big ander said:
Which is funny because I'm still having trouble figuring out what you were saying. You had posted once before that people finding your opinion that Breaking Bad isn't that good to be one from Neptune is "striking". maharg said that, yeah, your opinion technically is from Neptune because it is factually a minority. You seemed to agree with him in response, but then in the post you begged people to respond to you restated the Neptune thing in a sarcastic way, as if to say "well it looks like my opinion on all this is from Neptune" while thinking that it should not be.
So in my response I restated what maharg said: that your opinion is factually an outlier. But I added that your opinion isn't necessarily strange. Just not the norm.
Anyway, I originally put that second paragraph there because I was trying to parse out the meaning behind your repeated use of the "opinion from Neptune" phrase myself, so it's kinda up to you to clarify.
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It means that while it's not a popular view, it's certainly not strange enough to warrant comments like: condescending .gifs, trolling?, no one could possibly have that opinion who isn't out to get ____, etc.

I consider sensible yet unpopular or bad ideas to be from planet Earth. E.g. I don't particularly care for Obama, but the GOP is from planet Neptune.

Hope that cleared up any confusion.
 
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