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Breaking Bad - Season 5 interim thread - the series concludes Summer 2013 on AMC

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Am I crazy?
 
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Black Mamba

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Chichikov said:
Nah, minerals are awesome.
But seriously, I find Hank's scene entertaining and Skylar's mostly boring, that's all there is to it. Breaking Bad does good cops and robber routines and amazing meth cooking montages, but I think it's pretty weak in family drama.
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I think it's the opposite, his family drama is strong because it's much more real and like real life than some fantasized BS will usually get.

The Skyler stuff being boring is so odd to me. I mean, should she have been all "fuck yeah, I'm on this train I'll be awesome co-pilot to my drug lord husband" or what?

I've been doing a re-watch leading up to this season and I like Skyler even more on re-watch as a character.

Personally, I think Skyler is disliked because she is the only character that emasculates Walt continually, especially in a non-violent matter. Walt topples everyone from his carwash employer, Mike, Gus, Tuco, Crazy 8, controls Jesse, and to date has gotten around Hank. Only Skyler he can't "solve" and people hate that.

Some of her scenes with Walt are just a great as anything Walt does without her. Man, I just got through the scene where she eviscerated Walt by saying "Someone has to protect this family from the man who protects this family."

The show would be much much worse without Skyler's character to be on the other side of Walt's. That balance is necessary.
 
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this has probably been asked a dozen times but will 5.1 be on netflix before 5.2 airs?

i need to finish my rewatch and i aint lookin to pay $40 for 8 episodes
 
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Hindle

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Have they confirmed the return of Skinny Pete and Badger for this? Come on, they need to bring them back for one last gag.
 
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Cornballer

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brianjones said:
this has probably been asked a dozen times but will 5.1 be on netflix before 5.2 airs?

i need to finish my rewatch and i aint lookin to pay $40 for 8 episodes
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I haven't seen anything that indicates Netflix will have it up before the premiere, but note that AMC is going to do a marathon the day of the premiere if you want to watch it then.
 
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Date and content of the Mythbusters Breaking Bad Special:
August 12, 2013:

Things get volatile when the MythBusters meet creator Vince Gilligan and star Aaron Paul to check the chemistry behind the hit TV show "Breaking Bad." The team recreates two iconic, acidic scenes to see if the science truly holds up, melts down, or blows.
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brianjones said:
this has probably been asked a dozen times but will 5.1 be on netflix before 5.2 airs?

i need to finish my rewatch and i aint lookin to pay $40 for 8 episodes
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Since the Netflix/AMC deal, as far as I'm aware, all their shows have had the previous seasons on Netflix (U.S.) available for streaming prior to the new season starting, but Hell on Wheels premiers the 10th and obviously BB is the 11th and there is no sign of the previous seasons for those shows.

That said, I think Season 5 of Mad Men showed up about two weeks prior to Season 6 airing, so if it's coming, I'd assume it'll be within the next few days.
 
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Cornballer said:
The Breaking Bad panel from TCA will start up shortly.

Live blogs:
- Tim Goodman @ THR
- Sepinwall
- Maureen Ryan
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Highlights from the panel:
Sepinwall said:
A critic suggests that perhaps Gilligan hasn't quite turned Mr. Chips into Scarface, because he had all these elements boiling under the surface all along. Gilligan acknowledges that it's not that accurate a phrase on either end, because Mr. Chips was much more beloved by his students than Walt was, though he did that to make Walt more sympathetic in the pilot. The longer he did the show, the more he subscribed to the idea that circumstance didn't so much change Walt as reveal who he really was.

Cranston actually liked playing Walt as a teacher, because it was the only place outside "the muck and mire" of the criminal world where Walt had passion and excelled. Suggests Walt "could've been Mr. Chips 20 years ago, but now he's not. His emotions were callused over by the depression. Receiving this news of his imminent demise allowed that volcano of emotions to erupt. When it did, he wasn't accustomed to where to put his emotions, and it just spewed over everyone. And it got messy."

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Stu Richardson (whom the cast calls "British Stu") has filmed the Blu Ray bonus features for several seasons, and for the complete series box set, Gilligan says "He has really outdone himself and put together a two-hour documentary about the show." He's not entirely sure if it'll just be on Blu Ray or on DVD, too.

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A critic asks about audience reaction to the complicity of Skyler versus Jesse, and how the audience is so sympathetic for him and not for her. Paul finds it odd: "Jesse is a drug dealer. He's a murderer. But for some reason you really care for him and want to protect him. And with Skyler, when I watch it, I feel for her so much. She just obviously wants to protect her family. But I think the audience is really rooting for the bad guy, so Skyler inevitably ends up being the bad guy to the audience." Gunn reiterates some of the points from Comic-Con, that people are so sympathetic to Walt at the start, and Skyler is the person who stands in the way of Walt the most consistently. Gus and other villains come in and out of things, "but she was the one who most consistently said, 'You can't just do these things and not have consequences.' And therefore she became a villain to people who really identified with Walt and were rooting for him."

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Has the amount of recapping done about this show affected Gilligan's creative process? Gilligan spends "a lot of time on the internet looking up useless crap," but he doesn't Google anything about the show, "out of a very neurotic sense of self-protection. I know that it would be a rabbit hole that I would disappear down." He's grateful for the support of the fans and the critics, "but I've found that our best way forward in crafting the show is to keep our writers room... like a sequestered jury room. There was seven of us sitting around telling stories to ourselves." He would sometimes hear second-hand what was being said on the internet. He was really nervous coming up with the end of the series. "So with that in mind, how do you satisfy everybody? The more you listen to everyone, I find the more fractured your thinking becomes. Along the way, I felt the best way to come up with something that most people would like was to satisfy ourselves."

He is very proud of the finale and can't wait for people to see it. "I am very cautious in my estimation in general of how people will respond to things. I hope I am not wildly wrong in my estimate that most people are going to dig the ending."

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What's going on with the "Better Call Saul" spin-off? Gilligan holds up a magazine issue with Odenkirk on the cover as Saul. "It is my fervent wish that there be a Saul Goodman spin-off," Gilligan says. He and Saul's creator, Peter Gould, have been working on the idea. "It's for powers bigger than me to figure out if it can come to fruition, but I would very much like it to be the case. We're working toward that." Odenkirk loves everything Gilligan just said. "I would love to do it, I'd do it in a second, because if Vince wrote it, it's going to be awesome. Other than that, for me, the spinoff was just having been on the show. Everything good that's already come for me being on this is all I'd never need to be happy."
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Spoilers and review context from Goodman:
Tim Goodman @ THR said:
I'm sure the cast won't be giving out any spoilers. Nor will I. But it's essential that you know where the Final 8 pick up: Right were the Last of the 8th left off: Hank on the toilet, putting the "W.W." inscription in "Leaves of Grass" into context, realizing Heisenberg is, in fact, Walt. This episode, like the episode the kicked off this 5th season, begins with a flash forward. OK, you're all set now.

My review will be out soon. One thing that I will try to do is set up where its legacy is. Currently: One of the two or three best shows ever. And I don't think anything in the last 8 eps will change that.
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Much more info via the links.
 
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Cornballer said:
Highlights from the panel:
Spoilers and review context from Goodman:Much more info via the links.
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From your post:

A critic asks about audience reaction to the complicity of Skyler versus Jesse, and how the audience is so sympathetic for him and not for her. Paul finds it odd: "Jesse is a drug dealer. He's a murderer. But for some reason you really care for him and want to protect him. And with Skyler, when I watch it, I feel for her so much. She just obviously wants to protect her family. But I think the audience is really rooting for the bad guy, so Skyler inevitably ends up being the bad guy to the audience." Gunn reiterates some of the points from Comic-Con, that people are so sympathetic to Walt at the start, and Skyler is the person who stands in the way of Walt the most consistently. Gus and other villains come in and out of things, "but she was the one who most consistently said, 'You can't just do these things and not have consequences.' And therefore she became a villain to people who really identified with Walt and were rooting for him."
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What I said earlier today:

Personally, I think Skyler is disliked because she is the only character that emasculates Walt continually, especially in a non-violent matter. Walt topples everyone from his carwash employer, Mike, Gus, Tuco, Crazy 8, controls Jesse, and to date has gotten around Hank. Only Skyler he can't "solve" and people hate that.
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oh snap!
 
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squidyj said:
they already showed a trailer with them testing the fulminated mercury explosion
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The episode has already aired in some places.

Bathtub -
They do a tiny experiment with the same acid used in the show but the results aren't quick enough for their liking so they use a different acid for the actual experiment. It eats through bodies no problem, but doesn't make the bath or floorboards collapse, so they call it BUSTED
Fulminated Mercury -
They tell us that it is extremely sensitive and they even drive the stuff over instead of carrying it incase they trip and it explodes. Yet they call the myth BUSTED because it wouldn't explode when they did their test, but IMO it is CONFIRMED. Walt would be injured badly though.
 
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Watching some Homeland episodes, but I keep pausing to watch parts of the Breaking Bad reruns that are airing.

I'd kind of forgotten how wildly erratic Hank got before the cousins tried to kill him. Just beat the living shit out of Jesse.
 
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...My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
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My hype meter is off the charts :(
 
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Mr Cola said:
Time to reup, just for clarification does this mean after it airs on tv in the US or after it comes to netflix? (ive no idea how netflix works in this regard)
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As far as I'm aware, they'll be hitting Netflix UK a day after they air on American TV. Which is very good news.

I think they've been keeping The Killing (US) updated the same way, on Netflix UK, with new episodes being update weekly with only a one day lag from US TV. I think, anyway. I noticed a message on the description, in full full caps I think, stating it was being updated weekly.
 
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So I need to make this quick and get out of here before spoilers, I just finished season 4(holy shit!!!!!) and was wondering if anyone knows if there will be a season 5.1 marathon before the second part starts as the eps aren't on demand anymore.
 
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The Last Wizard said:
So I need to make this quick and get out of here before spoilers, I just finished season 4(holy shit!!!!!) and was wondering if anyone knows if there will be a season 5.1 marathon before the second part starts as the eps aren't on demand anymore.
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There will be one on AMC, Sunday 11th.
 
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SystemBug said:
Hey guys, I'm working on a fan-poster for the intermission season, I guess its a tradition because I did one last year as well haha.

Here's what it looks like atm - still a work in progress
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I like it!
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New Teaser!
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdDs5ny1BMc&feature=player_detailpage&t=6
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Good stuff and you get props for appropriate use of the drudge siren. We should have a cleaner version of it up sometime soon once AMC gets around to uploading it.
 
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Hindle

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Kinda off topic but I wonder what Vince Gilligan will do next? I just can't see him returning to TV after BB, the show is his magnum opus.

I think he will start directing films instead and that prospect is exciting.
 
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Hindle said:
Kinda off topic but I wonder what Vince Gilligan will do next? I just can't see him returning to TV after BB, the show is his magnum opus.

I think he will start directing films instead and that prospect is exciting.
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I hope he takes a much needed break. After that, it'd be cool to see him do something completely different.
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He's trying to do a Saul spin-off.
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He's helping launch it and won't be the show runner. Doesn't sound like he'd be involved with the day-to-day.
 
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Cornballer said:
I hope he takes a much needed break. After that, it'd be cool to see him do something completely different.
He's helping launch it and won't be the show runner. Doesn't sound like he'd be involved with the day-to-day.
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Aye, Id love to see him make a movie. Imagine what he could do with a big budget.
 
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