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

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Sentry said:
No way. They're still in the process of writing them from what I understand.
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Craziness. So we just finished Season 5 and we're headed to Season 6. Any other distinction is in name only.

Anyway, I'm sure it's been mentioned but Walter leaving the book in the bathroom is much more believable when you remember he has a history of tempting fate once the police trail on him thins out. It's already been established that he's in it for the thrills. Without the chase, he quickly bores. His actions have been too deliberate for him to carelessly leave that book strewn about.
 
ElectricBlue187 said:
Jimmy is dead
, Boardwalk is over.
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Jimmy's death
made me realise just how much I really dislike nearly every major character on that show. And not dislike-because-they're-bad-people, but dislike as in I find them unwatchable.

I don't think I could stand another scene with Nucky or Margaret.

Jimmy had
his issues, but I enjoyed his scenes far more than the rest of them. IMO season 2 was the series finale.
 
Zaph said:
Jimmy's death made me realise just how much I really dislike nearly every major character on that show. And not dislike-because-they're-bad-people, but dislike as in I find them unwatchable.

I don't I could stand another scene with Nucky or Margaret.

Jimmy had his issues, but I enjoyed his scenes far more than the rest of them. IMO season 2 was the series finale.
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again, exactly.
There is no one worth rooting for on that show except Jimmy. Definitely not the "main character" Nucky.
Who gives a shit about Nucky?
Anyhow, back2daBad.
 
Boardwalk Empire is very good, but it's not threatening The Sopranos at the top for me. I'd prefer Mad Men, by quite a bit.

Strangely, on The Sopranos I always thought Terence Winter was a far better writer than Matthew Weiner. But with the shows they both went on to create, it's sort of the opposite for me.

I was definitely disappointed with Robin Green & Mitchell Burgess, though. They were stellar on The Sopranos, then went on to create Blue Bloods... such a formulaic, by-the-numbers network-TV cop-show.

Anyway, was the scene with the Walt in for treatment and the bashed hand-dryer a flashback from Four Days Out? That's what it looked like to me, though it's a while since I've watched Season 2.
 
Breaking Bad had always been a bit "comicky" for me.
It doesnt stop it from being great.

The plane crash scene lead to the genius walt speech at school.

Only thing i missed this season, or the last seasons overall:

Small charakter stories. Like marie is stealing, or flynns problem with bullies.
in s5 Id love to see like a half episode of some ridicolous action going on between flynn and hank, how flynn doenst want to live there etc. It hasnt been more than "I dont want to watch the Heat!"

Its only about walt as the drug kingpin, i liked the stories about the family itself too.

One of my favourite scenes is how walt cries in front of flynn, when hes truly desperate.

edit:

with the mid season finale, i still disliked walt, but couldnt other than feel some respect for him.
I mean he did all this stuff and he really landed on top (kinda) by the "end".

My favourite how Walt would end would be in the hospital (or some drug kingpin hospital like gus had it ;) ) btw, after being shot or something like that. All alone, maybe just some random drug dude like todd being there (family doesnt know where he is)
 
All of you need to watch Rome if you haven't. Fantastic show. Its only real downside is its relative brevity, and some things were given short shrift in the second season as they had to wrap things up.
 
Zeliard said:
All of you need to watch Rome if you haven't. Fantastic show. Its only real downside is its relative brevity, and some things were given short shrift in the second season as they had to wrap things up.
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Rome is fantastic. HBO had a massive writer re-shuffle after the first few episodes of season 1 and it paid off in dividends. The "Thirteen!" moment at the end of S1 was perfect.

I heard the head of HBO said, had they known about the impact of DVD boxset and digital sales at the time, they wouldn't have cancelled it or Carnivale. I'm not sure if this makes their cancellation better or worse to deal with :(
 
Anyone remember this?

Walt Whitman was an awful child molester born in ancient Hong Kong. He is over 3000 years old and remembers the names of the forgotten gods.

Walt Whitman is 90 stories tall and his adventures are legendary. With his blue ox Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman traveled across young America and helped the nation grow into the angry powerhouse it is today. He dropped his mighty axe forming the Grand Canyon; the apple cores he would spit from his mighty mouth planted apple trees all across the country, and the stomp of his mighty boot caused the stock market to crash. He and his friend Huck Finn traveled down the Mississippi River and freed the slaves. Walt Whitman believed the only good Chinaman was a dead Chinaman, so he went to Tiananmen Square to give them all candy. Except instead of candy, he killed them.

Walt Whitman might seem like a real cool guy but in reality he's a whiny ass pussy. His livejournal, which he doesn;t think anyone knows about is full of whiny goth poetry. His current mood is always "apathetic" and his music is always some obscure punk bank that no one has ever heard of. Some people who pretended to be his friend so they could get access to his "friends only" posts grabbed some poetry and made a book from them called "Ode to ******ry." When they found out that other goth kids would actually read it, they changed the name to "Leaves of Grass" and it sold like gothcakes. Walt Whitman to this day doesn't know they're selling his poems and making a fortune off him. They still don't invite him to any parties though, because no one likes him.

Walt Whitman died a lonely man in Walt Disney Land. He was on the gondola ride and he fell out because he wasn't fastened to the restraint. Thanks to his dumb ass, now none of us can ride it anymore. Thanks a lot Walt Whitman.
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Zeliard said:
All of you need to watch Rome if you haven't. Fantastic show. Its only real downside is its relative brevity, and some things were given short shrift in the second season as they had to wrap things up.
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I consider Rome top tier even with the rushed second season. Top tier for me would be stuff like Rome, Band of Brothers, Deadwood, Sopranos, Carnivale and The Wire

Breaking Bad comes really close but ultimately it doesn't reach the same level as those shows for me
 
I think Jesse is going to have little to no screen time from here on out, I feel like he's the only person that's going to get a Happy ending that was in touch with walt. I kinda feel like todays encounter was their farewell together.
 
BladeoftheImmortal said:
I think Jesse is going to have little to no screen time from here on out, I feel like he's the only person that's going to get a Happy ending that was in touch with walt. I kinda feel like todays encounter was their farewell together.
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I really hope not, he barely had any screen time as it is during the first 8 eps of this season. If anything, Mike was more of a main character than him.
 
blahblah...blah said:
Don't know if this has been posted yet, but for the anti-plane crash crowd, here is the opinion of the location scout from Breaking Bad! (highlighted in blue)

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The plane crash was what really soured me on the show for a long time.
 
BladeoftheImmortal said:
I think Jesse is going to have little to no screen time from here on out, I feel like he's the only person that's going to get a Happy ending that was in touch with walt. I kinda feel like todays encounter was their farewell together.
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I think so too. I see it as he was the only one to get a clean break from Walt. It seemed like he finally saw him for what he really was and he got out. I think him having the gun during their talk showed that he really knew what Walt was capable of.
 
I don't get it.

The plane crash was awesome, and it's not something you really have to think about. If you thought it was a little too convenient, you could just ignore it and focus on everything else in one of the greatest seasons of television ever.
 
Puddles said:
I don't get it.

The plane crash was awesome, and it's not something you really have to think about. If you thought it was a little too convenient, you could just ignore it and focus on everything else in one of the greatest seasons of television ever.
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Season 2 dragged viewers by the nose to think a great disaster will fall on White's household, with bodies in bags suggesting members of the family died. But in the final ep it is revealed it was the plane debris and body remains. Another crappy moment for the show. 'Gotcha! that thing we teased you all the season long? It's nothing that actually pertains to Walt and his family'.

I still didn't quite understand how two planes crashed one into another in broad daylight only because of Jane's father's wrong direction. I figured modern planes have all those bearing and gauges and would alarm the pilots they are about to hit something.
 
blahblah...blah said:
Don't know if this has been posted yet, but for the anti-plane crash crowd, here is the opinion of the location scout from Breaking Bad! (highlighted in blue)

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Plane crash was probably my least favorite moment of the entire show. Might as well have had the plane packed with puppies babies and nuns.

Was more of a laugh out loud moment than anything else.
 
LuchaShaq said:
Plane crash was probably my least favorite moment of the entire show. Might as well have had the plane packed with puppies babies and nuns.

Was more of a laugh out loud moment than anything else.
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The blue ribbon subplot was one of the funniest of the show and still continues with Saul.
 
So my question about all of this then, is if Walt made the deal with the other cartel (the dude from Stargate: Universe) to cook meth for them, how the hell is he doing his own distribution deal overseas and raking in all this cash? They seemed to have.. disappeared over the course of an episode... feels weird that they'd omit that story from the whole 'Walt's 'rollin in the dough' montage.
 
Saty said:
Season 2 dragged viewers by the nose to think a great disaster will fall on White's household, with bodies in bags suggesting members of the family died. But in the final ep it is revealed it was the plane debris and body remains. Another crappy moment for the show. 'Gotcha! that thing we teased you all the season long? It's nothing that actually pertains to Walt and his family'.

I still didn't quite understand how two planes crashed one into another in broad daylight only because of Jane's father's wrong direction. I figured modern planes have all those bearing and gauges and would alarm the pilots they are about to hit something.
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They kind of tried to explain some of that when Walt was comforting Jesse. He tells him he wasn't responsible for the crash and that there was some type of radar malfunction, and also that the airport was running ancient air traffic control technology or something. He had been researching it for a while, although presumably he was trying to make himself feel better too. Also the fact that they even let Jane's father come back to work so soon. It seemed like a combination of all those things rather than just any one person's fault
 
Saty said:
Another crappy moment for the show.
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Every time you speak you seem to be saying what you dislike about the show. Why do you even watch it?


DrEvil said:
So my question about all of this then, is if Walt made the deal with the other cartel (the dude from Stargate: Universe) to cook meth for them, how the hell is he doing his own distribution deal overseas and raking in all this cash? They seemed to have.. disappeared over the course of an episode... feels weird that they'd omit that story from the whole 'Walt's 'rollin in the dough' montage.
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They didn't, the montage clearly shows bags being exchanged out in the desert. Pretty obvious this is drugs and cash being exchanged with Walt's new distributors. I dare say this is something that'll be fleshed out in the last 8 episodes.
 
DrEvil said:
So my question about all of this then, is if Walt made the deal with the other cartel (the dude from Stargate: Universe) to cook meth for them, how the hell is he doing his own distribution deal overseas and raking in all this cash? They seemed to have.. disappeared over the course of an episode... feels weird that they'd omit that story from the whole 'Walt's 'rollin in the dough' montage.
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They didn't. Todd and Walter are doing deals in the desert during that montage.

Another great touch, Todd has a new Mustang in those shots.

I fucking love this show.
 
I thought the flash forwarding to the plane cleanup was pointless. I guess you were to think they got caught but they did it too many times.

Flash forwards need to be epic like this seasons cold opening.

Other than that I had no issues with it.
 
DrEvil said:
So my question about all of this then, is if Walt made the deal with the other cartel (the dude from Stargate: Universe) to cook meth for them, how the hell is he doing his own distribution deal overseas and raking in all this cash? They seemed to have.. disappeared over the course of an episode... feels weird that they'd omit that story from the whole 'Walt's 'rollin in the dough' montage.
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He does his domestic business with the dude, and international business with the chick.
 
See You Next Wednesday said:
Hank found a book & had the initials of WW & then had a dream or flashback sequence?
How is that supposed to prove Walt is the kingpin?
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Gale's journal (which contained Meth formula) had the exact same/similar note. Hank and Walt were deducing who this W.W. might be and Hank said "Walter White", to which he said "You got me". Of course, it was Walt who told him that W.W. is Walt Whitman.

After reading the book in the washroom mentioning "The other W.W." written by Gale, Hank deduces that:

1. Walter White is W.W. and not Walt Whitman.
2. Walter was in contact with Gale since Gale signed his book.

Regardless, Hank now knows as it's pretty straight forward denial/realization scenario where Hank will spend an episode or two tracing back the steps every time he met Walt and discussed the case with him, place Walt under surveillance, etc.
 
shagg_187 said:
Gale's diary had the exact same/similar note. Hank and Walt were deducing who this W.W. might be and Hank said "Walter White", to which he said "You got me". Of course, it was Walt who told him that W.W. is Walt Whitman.

After reading the book in the washroom mentioning "The other W.W." written by Gale, Hank deduces that:

1. Walter White is W.W. and not Walt Whitman.
2. Walter was in contact with Gale since Gale signed his book.

Regardless, Hank now knows as it's pretty straight forward denial/realization scenario where Hank will spend an episode or two tracing back the steps every time he met Walt and discussed the case with him, place Walt under surveillance, etc.
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SICKEST CLIP SHOW EVARRRRRR
 
mernst23 said:
Walt ricin's up the schraderbrau, hank and flynn drink it and die. Skyler goes nuts, Walt kills her with sharpened dipping sticks; uses M60 to kill Lydia and meth damon and he flees to the Czech republic confirmed.
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Walt will also ricin up Marie's prenatal vitamins for good measure.
 
newjeruse said:
It's excellent, but it would get boring every week. Plus, I love how the show gets right into it instead of shoving a self-indulgent intro down your throat (*cough* Newsroom).
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One of the best trends in TV (aside from getting higher production values and more season-long scripting) is the short intro.

I mean, as much as I loved certain theme songs (X-Files, Buffy, Angel, Xena for instance), by the time these shows hit their 4th or 5th season it would just be less time for actual storytelling.
 
newjeruse said:
It's excellent, but it would get boring every week. Plus, I love how the show gets right into it instead of shoving a self-indulgent intro down your throat (*cough* Newsroom).
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Newsroom's credits make me laugh so hard. They even have the actual character come up when the actor's name appears. It's like it's fucking 1993.
 
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