I’m kinda short for time today so let’s get right to it, shall we? Here are a few notes I made during last night’s Breaking Bad about characters, scenes, etc. I found interesting for one reason or another.
- Man I’m gonna miss that Pontiac Aztek. Scenes of Walter White, drug kingpin — especially when he was coming unhinged — driving around in that oh-so-bland, middle-American hooptie made me giddy at times. RIP Aztek.
- I think it’s safe to say that by shedding the Aztec and embracing the Heisenberg look during non-business hours that Walt is allowing himself to more fully morph into Heisenberg — it’s like he’s slowly coming out of the closet or something. Walter White has no more f*cks left to give, obviously. He is, for all intents and purposes, Heisenberg now, 24/7.
- Oh was that dubstep playing in the opening scene?! Oh yes it was! Score some cool points for Skrillex. (I can’t believe I just said that.)
- Okay, let’s just go here: Walt is gonna kill Skyler, isn’t he? A few of you have suggested in past discussions that the existence of a cigarette filled with ricin coupled with Skyler’s frequent chain-smoking can mean only one thing: that she will, either accidentally or because of Walt, smoke a cigarette laced with ricin. To me this almost seems too obvious, but it’s becoming more and more apparent that Skyler is going to be a human problem who will get in Walt’s way, and we all know by now that Walt doesn’t care for people who get in his way. With that said, I can also very easily see Skyler plotting to kill Walt out of fear. Either way, sh*t is about to go down, I think.
- “Life is good, Skyler.” — Walter White
- I know a lot of people still find Skyler to be the Betty Draper of Breaking Bad, but I’m finding myself feeling increasingly sympathetic with her, to the point that last night I actually found myself rooting for her to win and Walter to lose. Walter may have gone and jumped the likeability chart for me. I’m just have much more difficulty rooting for him than I did in seasons 1-4. He’s undeniably evil and the qualities that made him redeeming have slowly faded off into the distance.
- On the other hand, regarding Skyler, she does seem to be slowly drifting toward insanity, doesn’t she. I mean, the whole scene with the pool — while beautifully creepy and all — seemed to me as something intended to lay a foundation for her sanity to be called into question later on. Also, WTF was up with Skyler’s eyebrows? Was I the only one who thought something weird was going on? Specifically, that they were hardly there? Did she shave them off? Does her going crazy make her more or less likely to try to kill Walt?
- I’m guessing that Walt and Skyler have no friends outside of Hank and Marie? Because I can’t remember them ever doing anything socially with anyone else. EVER.
- This has to be some sort of symbolic omen, right…
- Meanwhile, I suppose Hank accepting a job transfer can only mean one thing: dumbass Gomie taking over as lead guy investigating the activities of the local meth trade. How long before Hank grows frustrated by Gomie’s impotence and demands to be sent back to chase Heisenberg?
- “He changed his mind about me, Skyler. And so will you.” — Walter White
- LOVED the closing scene showing with the watch on the nightstand. The clock is indeed ticking on Walter White and it’s getting louder and louder. I heard Vince Gilligan say in an interview that the fifth episode of this season is going to blow people’s minds. So buckle your seatbelts for next week, kids.
Your own thoughts and observations are of course welcome in the comments.
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Does anybody see a connection or symbolism of skylar in the pool with the pink bear Walt takes out the pool in the previous season?
Unless things escalate very quickly, I’m thinking that all of the “All hail the king” stuff is really more of Walt’s view of himself. He’s in charge of his little group, but not much else. Yeah, he’s cooking again, but the only people who are really answering to him are Jesse and Saul. Mike isn’t afraid of him and hasn’t admited that Walt is in charge. Walt deffinitely doesn’t have the vast empire that a tag like like “All hail the King” would imply. At this point, I just don’t see Walt ever being as big as Gus.
Ya I don’t think he’s going to get that big, unless they jump the timeline forward after the break in the spring. What the tag “All Hail the King” meant in the off season was just that “He Won” at the end of last season.
I watch the show on iTunes. Is there anywhere online with the scenes from next week? The AMC website shows a boring 2-minute scene with Walt Jr refusing to leave the house. Sounds like there’s a heist/shootout video somewhere, which would be much more interesting.
To all you pussies who have turned on Walter just because he’s finally grown some balls and isn’t cowering in fear under his shrewish wife’s pin-roller–how do you reconcile your own attraction, nay obsession with the qualities that made Walt the bad ass you’ve became so enthralled by over the past four seasons, with this new-found disgust for the man simply because he is now embracing those same qualities. Walt called upon this inner beast to protect him and his family and Jesse throughout this show, bombing out one drug dealer’s nest, then later ::spoiler::ing him, getting Jesse to kill ::spoiler:: he clearly considered a friend to save their lives, fuck–arranging to have ::spoiler:: blown up. You can excuse all of this and not just excuse it but sit in orgasmic joy watching Walt kick ass–but now suddenly a line must be drawn in the ethical sand because he poisoned a kid?! The kid seems fine to me, so he was sick for a few days, Walter’s alive. That kid can’t suffer a couple days to save the lives of at least two legendary studs? I’m glad you weren’t in charge of deciding between bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki and engaging in a land war with Japan. Just because Vince Gilligan has made quips about Mr. rogers turning into Scarface doesn’t mean you’re supposed to start hating Walter the closer he gets to that transformation. The vast majority of BB fans have begun acting like there is some correct emotional attachment to Walter as the story progresses and that the purpose of each season is to move Walter a set number of degrees from good to evil. The whole point of this show is that there is no good or evil, that anyone of you could become “evil” incarnate, it’s just a matter of what choices future events present you with. Bottom line: If you popped a boner when Jesse killed ::Spoiler:: at the end of Season 3 or when Walter ::spoiler:: to ::spoiler:: after ::spoler::ing ::spoiler:: then face it, you love this guy when he’s out there fucking shit up and if he had stayed the devoted husband and chem teacher we met in S01E01 none of us would still be watching. Fuck, how many of you hypocrites bagging on season five Walter STILL LOVE MIKE! The cold-blooded killer is still cool but Walter makes 4 cocky statements in 3 episodes and you can no longer abide him? Sympathy for Skyler? That horrendous load? Remember when she took all the money to help out the shithead she was fucking behind Walter’s back. All the risk he took to earn that money for his family and what did he get for it? He got to pay taxes for the meek stooge fucking his bloated festering wife! Skylar is lucky Walt still has any interest in her… Cranston deserves 5 emmys for convincing us his character would desire that beat battle axe. And if any of you have masturbated to the image of Skylar know this: One day we will develop a technology that can read minds, and on that day, we will find you. Live in fear perverts. We’ve already got a final solution to the Skylar wanker problem.
Late to the party here, but I did notice the Skyler’s eyebrows. Many women fill their eyebrows in (with makeup pencils or powder) to give them definition, particularly if their eyebrows are very fine/pale. Apparently Anna Gunn is a natural blonde, and the makeup artist for the show has been filling in her eyebrows up until now. I thought it was a great effect, because I took it as *Skyler* stopped filling in her eyebrows, not the makeup artist, because she’s of course completely losing it. Having very faint brows are a good way of conveying sickliness, as well.
The thing about people having conspiracy theories about the ricin is unless walt specifically puts it in a substance it’s currently inert. If you recall he taped it behind the electric socket cover, so it’d be impossible for Skyler to accidentally smoke it in a cigarette.
Don’t be so hard on her. With the willpower and drive, I think she could figure out how to do that.
I don’t understand this conspiracy shit. Did these dorks pulls this stuff back when they were watching shows like Alf or Seinfeld? Over analyzing every screen shot to try and guess some minute plot detail in a future episode? Hey guys, has this ever worked? All this mental energy spent trying to figure out what is going to happen, have you ever figured a plot point out before it happened? I don’t recall anyone guessing ::spoiler:: was going to go down the way he did at the end of the last season. Just a billion posts about Gus Fring “probably” dying… which by the time the last episode came around was pretty damn obvious. If you guessed the ending of the season wouldnt that fucking ruin it for you? Or are you just trying to impress the rest of us by accurately GUESSING what happens to a fake person on a TV show… I mean don’t get me wrong, That would be fucking amazing. I would totally be your friend and take you out for some beers if you could do that. I’d even help you talk to some girls! I predict some dirty, damp and deep in YOUR future. Just so long as you ruin all my favorite shows for me! TV, film, all storytelling–the magic is in watching the story unfold. Not barfing out every possible outcome every time the storyteller takes a break. I am not spending any time worrying about why Walter was in that diner at the beginning of S05E01. Besides it’s obvious he’s buying that gun for his last stand against Jr in the desert (picture Bad Boys esque showdown with their new cars racing towards each other ((dont leave out slow mo Face/Off doves and pigeons))) after Skylar kills herself after the baby daughter uses a metal fork to pry the ricin out of the electrical socket. Jesse is babysitting and sees past the crispy baby to the ricin and goes after a super secret character you tards don’t even know about yet (I read Variety, I’m practically in the business). Oh and that roomba? Remote controlled…. BY SAUL’S TWIN BROTHER. Twist Alarm! He’s the the good twin!
I know many people on here are very sympathetic towards ‘poor’ Jesse (i was too), but is anyone else thinking Jesse might actually be in on this and is actually aware of Walt trying to manipulate him etc? I mean, the convo b/w Mike and Jesse regarding murdering Lydia seemed so staged, i actually think they’re hatching a plot AGAINST Walt. Far fetched maybe, but i wouldnt put it past Gilligan!
Hank: “Hey-oh, pool party!”
Marie: “Is she ok? Should someone get her out of the water?!”
Hank: JESUS CHRIST MARIE ITS MINERAL WATER!”
The site has dedicated a lot of time to Walt Jr always being around for breakfast and this episode featured Sky putting some of Walt’s food on Junior’s plate. Maybe a ricin mishap at the breakfast table is being set up? I though the floss scene was interesting about Sky possibly hanging herself, maybe after she accidentally poisons her kid?
Also, the red and white line of the floss and the finger looked mighty similar the the red and white of Walt’s bleeding head with shaving cream
While watching, did anyone else think that Skylar had literally gone off the deep end. The symbolism during the pool scene was crazy!
character – how they die
Walter Jr – car accident due to physical handicap
Holly – Andrea Yates
Skyler – Slyvia Plath
Marie – strangled by Walter, made to seem like Hank did it
Lydia – bullet to the head via Jesse
Mike – bleeds out after getting shot in the stomach during the heist
Walter – Jesse shoves the ricin down his throat
Jesse and Saul live. Jesse gets his last bit of money from Saul, clears his accounts; has Brock and whatshername waiting in the car.
“Are you sure you don’t want to do this anymore? Me and you we’d make a good team!”
Last line of the show – “I’m out … bitch.”
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Oh Hank lives, too. And Gomie, even though he is literally wrong about everything.
Also, before the battle between Walt and Sklyer, I was anticipating a Goodfellas moment later this season with Skyler point a gun at Walt, and Walt manipulating his way out of it.
you mean like the previous season’s jesse – walt moment?
Great episode. Only nitpick: since the title of the ep was 51, I expected it to be more about Walt trying to get 51% of the business.
The ingredients are there for some incredibly GoT-esque episodes.
is WG a den of Skyler apologists as well? Yes Walt is an asshole and a psychopath, but she cheated on Walt with Ted, then just gave Ted a bunch of Walt’s money!
She cheated on him after months and months of emotional abandon, lies, drugs (can’t remember if she knew he was making it or just smoking weed at the time) and generally being a terrible husband.
As for the money it was either give it to Ted or her and Walter spend a long, long time in jail. This was also at a time when Walt was raking in cash so it seemed more expendable than it actually was.
This is total speculation, but there’s something about what we’ve seen so far that makes this conclusion seem plausible. It’s so chilling that I had to share it. Everyone keeps talking about the ricin. Obviously it’s going to come back into play or else they wouldn’t have spent so much time showing Walter finding it again and hiding it. I am speculating that Skyler somehow finds the ricin and realizes it is poison of some time, and tries to poison Walt with it in his breakfast or something. However, Walt will then lovingly feed a little of his poisoned food to Holly, their baby, and she will die. Then all hell will break loose.
Just to clarify, I meant to type “Skyler find the ricin and realizes it is poison of some TYPE.” Also, if it wasn’t clear, Walt would unknowingly feed poisoned foot to Holly. Of course he would have no idea his Cheerios or eggs or whatever were poisoned.
I’m glad you cleared up the part about the poisoned foot.
Seriously, that’s an intriguing idea. Sounds like the eleven-dimensional chess that Vince Gilligan likes to play.
Yeah, I give up. I cannot type today.
Yeh, but that’s definitley my favorite typo of the day.
So if….Walt White got Cancer in season 1 right after his 50th birthday party. 4 seasons, 4 episodes later and he has his 51st birthday. The first scene of season 5 was his 52nd birthday in the diner (where he tipped the hundred). Are the next 10 episodes going to cover a whole year of Walt’s life to get back to the S5E1 beginning? Am I missing something or does the timeline seem screwy?
It could easily be a flash forward, an epilogue of some kind to end the season… It doesn’t seem to be jumping too far from the time line as of now, we still are taking it a couple days at a time.
I want to see a bushy top Walt utilize that assault rifle, I hope it comes to that.
Wesley’ I’m totally with you. I think something big has to happen to take Ud forward a year to Walt’s Denny’s gun deal. Maybe in prison for a few months and we are seeing a man trying to get his empire back? Or maybe hospitalized in a coma, which would explain his scraggly look
While I kind of assumed what Kasrith did, that it was an epilogue of sorts, part of me now wonders if we’re just being played with. Walt changed his identity and his name, but he’s kept his birthday? Maybe that’s a red herring, purposefully misleading us about just how much time has passed.
I will say the 52 in bacon seems too personal to just be a ruse, but keeping the birthday still seems a bit off. Maybe it’s just something that needs to be accepted for the sake of storytelling.
Ya I think the bacon is key, would he do it on some random day just to .. get a free breakfast? It seems more of a personal thing, that he ends up doing himself because he has lost everyone else.
I am trying to think of what the fly could mean. Fly in the ointment, imminent problems, or something along the lines of this:
“ancient Christian lore depicts the fly as a symbol of impurity and a temptation to diverge from the path of righteousness. Phoenician myth associates Beelzebub as the ‘Lord of Flies’ in which the insect represents corruption and putridness. This association is why the fly is featured on some renditions of the Devil card in the Tarot, because it represents base impulses, and uncleanliness in many areas of the human collective consciousness.”
There was the fly poster behind walt in their new digs, there was the fly on the barrel they were going to grab, the whole fly episode directed by the same guy which was driving walt insane then at the end of that one seeing a fly on the light of the smoke detector. The fly means something, its hinting at something and its driving me nuts.
The director of this episode is Rian Johnson (seriously, watch Brick). His only other BB episode: The Fly
I watched thinking they were setting the stage for Walter Jr. to get into a car accident and die, leading to Skylar committing suicide. He was driving a red car, which has been associated with death all series, too.
Walt Jr. talking about his speeding really freaked me out
I am so tired of hearing about the ricin cigarette.It’s a VIAL of ricin hidden in a cigarette.If you smoked that cigarette nothing is going to happen.If your a cig smoker your gonna ask yourself what is that glass tube in this cigarette i,m smoking!! come on people,stay on task.Who is Walt (Heisenberg) going to USE that M-60 machine gun on?
THANK YOU for pointing out the ricin thing. Everyone keeps trying to point to this as a conclusion, but smoking it isn’t viable. Perhaps she does come across the vial? I forget what actually happened to the cigarette.
The cig was retrieved by/given to Walt after Saul had the switch take place. The vial was taken out by Walt and plugged into the electrical outlet in his bedroom.
He could still use the powder in a cig to off someone in the show, we def haven’t seen the last of it
It’s pretty obvious you’re gonna know if there is a glass tube in your cigarette. I think the writer meant sprinkling the ricin into the tobacco.
I doubt that is what Walt would do though. It seems like he would stage a suicide instead since he would have Hank and Marie to backup that theory with the police.
IT wasn’t meant to be smoked. It was supposed to be sprinkled into a drink or food plate kinda like they tried on Tucco.
Also, isn’t the vial no longer in the cigarette? I seem to remember him taking the cigarette and breaking it over the toilet and taking the vial out.
Some speculative thoughts:
In the previews Walt Jr. is getting a lot of focus and in this episode they talked a lot about his car. In fact the last line between him and Walt were Walt telling him to drive safely, and Jr. responding “Never.” Is it out of the realm of possibility Jr. getting in a car crash starts the unraveling of Walter White? Everything he’s done has worked so far, so him being responsible for his sons injury or death could shake the King.
Walt is going to strangle Skyler. The floss on her thumb and her mentioning bruising of the neck is some serious foreshadowing in my books.
Finally, is Lydia wearing a wire? “What’s his name … What’s his last name?” We know she can’t be trusted. Also Walt may end up killing her too. When Mike and Jesse were arguing over that, Walt was playing with a loose thread, something he may consider Lydia.
Seriously doubt the wire, she knows all of this and never identified Jesse so its just some random dude saying Mike’s name..
Has anyone been watching the webextras? I’ve watched them all so far and they’re pretty cool. We only have twelve episodes left and then something else will have to fill the appointment television void, so it’s nice to get what else we can out of Breaking Bad.
Interesting fact if they do go the ricin cigarette route; ricin can be inactivated by heat at 176 degrees Fahrenheit. The side and middle portion of a lit cigarette averages temperatures of 752F and 1112F respectively. So it would depend on how quickly the ricin was inhaled. If it was packed to the back it’s still possible.
If they ever do a Mythbusters crossover show this would interesting to see.
Yeh, but how will they get a pig carcass to inhale?
Some thoughts:
Did that German company chick share info she shouldn’t have with Jesse? Are they going to be a “thing” this season?
Is Jessie’s gift trustworthy? Has he turned?
Is Skylar’s smoking indicative of some secret knowledge she’s flaunting in Walt’s face?
Lydia,the german chick? Is on Mike’s shit list,somewhere i would not want to be! I give her one more episode…….
Skyler can be as cold blooded as Walt..maybe not as evil…but don’t forget she went up against that IRS agent. Plus Mike and Saul kinda hate Walt now…Skyler could form an alliance with either of them against Walter.
As much as they hate Walter, they love/need the money that he makes them. Also they’d have to get Jesse on their side if they were gonna start some sort of mutiny
Eh, Saul wants out, but Mike needs the money.
Mike is taxing Walt for the 2 mil he cost him…if Mike can get his 2 million back he can retire a happy man.
Saul has a vast amount of resources, specially the vacuum cleaning company that can take him off the grid for a while until walt dies or goes to prison.
And why did Jesse all of a sudden break up with that Chick? Was it to get them to safety while he deals with Walt? Don’t forget that look the kid gave Walt when he came over to Jesse’s for dinner. Jesse should have picked up on that enough to ask the kid what’s up.
To cement Walt as puppetmaster. Jesse hasn’t shown that sort of ambition.
When did Jesse break up with THAT chick,musta missed that one….
I’m still kind of working out the “cigarette as delivery method of death” analogy. I mean he’s survived cancer. Then he gave Pinkman a package of carcinogens with ricin in it. Now Skylar is tokin’ up a storm. I suppose it’s as simple as Walt’s inner darkness swallowing up everyone.
Interesting
I think maybe Skylar is trying to bring on Walt’s cancer faster. Second hand smoke kills man!
Is it just me or during the whole scene where Jesse and Mike are debating killing that one chick and Walt’s just sitting there I couldn’t help but to think that Walt should say:
“Do it or don’t, I got places to be.”
Walt and Skyler did something with Walt’s rich ex once…remember in the first season where he turned down the free medical treatment?
Schwartz’s birthday party, where Walt wore The Worst Jacket of All Time.
The White house has housed two parties that I can think of, Walt’s 50th and the party where he forced Walt, Jr. to drink the tequila and he threw up in the pool.
However, besides Hank and Marie, we haven’t really seen any of these other people again.
The poster with flies on it was a nice touch, too. The director of this episode also directed the episode “Fly.”
Walt cutting his head while shaving is foreshadowing that Heisenburg will get him killed.
Death by Barbasol.
Thats a stretch……..
Anyone else notice that Skylar was ashing her cigarette into a coffee cup that reads “Danger, Entering Area 51″?
I just did after watching it for the second time. The most interesting part is that the cup is angled in a way so that it says, “Danger Entering 5″. As in episode five…the next episode. I think Walt already poisoned Skyler’s cigarettes with the ricin. I think she will be dead by the end of the next episode.
Walt even is sitting in front of that cup watching her smoke and then put her first cig out and light up another.
The watch ticking away at the end of this episode may actually be foreshadowing the little time Sklyer has left to live. Not Walt’s time running out…at least he has more time left than Sklyer.
That sir, is brilliant. I would have never thought “Danger Entering 5(th episode)”
Skylar: “I just have to wait…”
Walt: “Wait for what?”
Skylar: “For the cancer to come back.”
Has to be one of the most cold-blooded things anybody has said on this show. True desperation and hatred there.
agreed… jaw dropping line from Skylar there.
I’m just surprised that with as scared as she is she actually went there to his face.
And the way she said it. “For the cancer to come back, of course. What else?” Like the answer was just so obvious she couldn’t believe Walt didn’t know. She’s been thinking that way for a while.
Best show on television. If you disagree, your opinion is wrong.
At least they both know where they stand now, then. Catch ya on the flip side, Skylar.
After seeing the video foreshadowing Gus’ death with the elevator dings- did anybody else get goosebumps with the episode ending with the watch ticking?
Hells yeah. Definitely gave me the ‘ticking time bomb’ feeling. Almost expected an explosion when the screen went black.
Perhaps Walt saves the ricin for Holly, then pins the death on Skylar.
Walt could claim Skyler has Munchhausen syndrome or something. Interesting angle.
Nah, Walt would never do anything that would directly harm his children. As evil as he is, they are his moral compass.
Hoo boy, that was a doozy. I don’t think I’ve ever been as terrified of Walt than I was in that scene. I really did think he was going to hit her or something. I cheered so loud when she told him she was waiting for the cancer to come back. Anna Gunn was phenomenal in that scene.
And poor Jesse, he gave Walt that watch because he genuinely cares for him and Walt doesn’t see it as anything other than a trophy for his already inflated ego.
Props to Rian Johnson as well, that pool scene was beautiful and the scene in the bedroom was sooo scary and claustrophobic, the way Walt stalked after Skyler. He’s either gonna kill her or she and the kids will get killed in the cross-fire. Either way, I don’t think she’s gonna survive.
Anyone have any idea why Jesse was so against Mike killing ze German girl?
Because he’s the only one in the group with any sort of conscience left. Jesse’s not a total monster, which may or may not work out for him.
Murder is an absolute last resort for Jesse. He’s got a heart, bitch!
Yeah, Jesse’s always been skittish about killing, from when he didn’t want to be the one to off Krazy 8 to the nightmares over offing Gale.
Fucking hippie.
But we’re sure she planted the GPS device right?
Mike says she did. Over the series we’ve come to learn that Mike has super-human suspicion powers.
Mike’s best guess. We really didn’t see what the DEA did in the plant after they took Mike’s fall guy.
Mike seemed pretty sure, which means he may not be watching for the feds when they rob the precursor next week, which goes back to my original statement: Mikes gonna die.
This show has a really good technical director, apparently, as it’s stayed pretty true to real life in the little details. The DEA would not play-doh a damn GPS with the word “Garmin” prominently displayed on the bottom of a barrel. I’m with Mike. German schizo is just looking for a way out and is trying to make them think they’re being watched. The GPS on the bottom of the barrel was purely amateur hour.
I’m so glad I wasn’t the only person who noticed the eyebrows — I was dying!!!
Did anyone else hear a gun cock in the final second when the watch is ticking to 00 and then the screen cut to black? Because I most certainly did.
A couple people at Sepinwall’s said they heard it too.
Just finished rewatching the episode. Totally heard a gun being cocked.
Yup def heard that as well, brilliant details once again from Vince and co
Definitely caught that, nice touch
Came here to ask this. Yup, I totally heard it as well.
I don’t see how she could “accidentally” smoke a ricin cigarette since Walt hid the ricin capsule behind an outlet. Unless I missed something?
Also, the ricin is in a glass tube. The cigarette was just a hiding place. Walt could still use it, but it’s not the easy as handing her a cig and telling her to light up.
More to the point, heat would destroy the ricin, and a fatal dose is pretty big – about a gram. You simply can’t deliver it via cigarette,
It’s not that this wasn’t a great episode. It was. It’s not that I find Skylar unsympathetic. I don’t. Yet I was disappointed with last night’s episode. It’s just that … Four episodes into the final season and the most edge-of-your seat moment revolved around magnets.
I watch Breaking Bad for the masterful storytelling, writing, acting, etc., etc. But I also watch for the “paint themselves into a corner” cliffhangers and HOLY SHIT moments. I have bloodlust, plain and simple. And I just desperately wanted something. to. happen. Not to complain, but … Sigh.
But if Gilligan IS planning to have Walt kill Skyler, which I wasn’t even considering, than this last episode was a brilliant and poignant send off for her character. I just can’t wait for the big kaboom next week, whatever it ends up being.
I’m ready for some murder as well, hopefully next week will be satisfying.
Yeah, I’m willing to be patient. They’re building to something. Sounds like next week could see some dominoes falling.
I also kept thinking after Hank’s “right under my noise” reaction shot, that he seemed like he was in especially Dumb Hank mode last night despite the fact that his brother-in-law came home with two shiny new sports cars and his sister-in-law attempted suicide right in front of him.
Walt made a comment about leases being affordable. Plus Hank is still under the impression that the car wash is doing good business.
Yeah, I heard that. But leasing really isn’t that cost efficient, other than the fact that you forfeit a down payment, and that would be a stretch for even a very profitable car wash. My ex-boss (who ran a small advertising agency) and his wife used to lease BMWs and the lady who did the books once let it slip that the leases combined were over two grand per month. I just feel like Hank would be smarter than that.
I like Skyler. A lot. I would love to see her exhibit some power or some crafty decision making. That scene with the IRS agent was gold.
Very good observation.I was expecting more from this episode,This seasons most boring………
Eh, you need to keep in mind that other seasons have started off slow as well. They’re all about building.
Here’s some other symbolism you also probably missed: ratatouille was playing on the tv, which is a show about a rat that cooks. he sold the car for $50. $1 for every year as Walt, he bought the new car as the 1 year birthday as Heisenberg. he left his old life behind for the new one.
Also, the number 51 was on the coffee mug next to skyler when she was smoking. And the final shot of the watch showed the second hand going past 50…51…52….
I could see Skylar getting murdered by ricin. Especially now that Walt has two witnesses that saw her attempt suicide, he could come up with some sort of excuse.
Also, is she smoking now because she’s stressed, or because she’s hoping the second hand smoke will bring Walt’s cancer out of remission?
She used to smoke back in the day, she might be trying to reclaim her old life. But its probably stress.
She blows the smoke right at his face before the “He changed his mind about me” speech. I’m going to say that she’s hoping to bring the cancer out of remission.
I kinda wish everyone would have gone on eating and talking with each other while Skyler attempted to drown herself…then have Anna Gunn narrate the thoughts in Skyler’s head as she drowned “Really? No one is going to jump in here and save me? I just wanted attention, I didn’t want to actually die or I would have done it when no one was here to save me. FINE, FINE I’LL ACTUALLY JUST DROWN THEN. SHUT UP, MARIE”
“Because I can’t remember them ever doing anything socially with anyone else. EVER.”
They used to have Gretchen and Elliot. And that hot Spanish chick from the school (Carmen?). And the party where Walt made Walt Jr drink tequila had a lot of people at it. I think they just got tired of throwing random friends into the background.
I like the symbolism of one loose thread on the Heisenberg Hat, that’s all it takes to break Heisenberg is one loose thread. He has become such a control freak, now that Sky is off the chain so to speak this might sink him.
He is going to poison her with the Ricin. That’s the only way to control the situation. This will connect the dots for Jesse and then the real shit will hit the fan.
Also Walt ditching the Aztec for the new hotness that just happened to be the commercial right after that scene made Walt totally irreconcilably evil in my books.
Gomie in the pink last night. I’m hoping he tails Mike to the precursor robbery in episode 5 and Walt goes all Heisenberg on his ass.
I was thinking Gomie might discover Walt is Heisenberg before being killed.
Yes please.
Dont know if it means anything but Skylar started smoking full flavored cigarettes last night. Last season she was smoking lights iirc.
Welcome to Flavor Country, Skylar.
Am I the only one who thought Archer – Walt Jr mashup when he pulled up in the Charger??
“Thanks Dodge!!!”
Make it happen Chet
Challenger*
I was thinking about adding Pam’s “Ziiiiinnnnnng” to this, but this is also noted.
It’s part of their “who’s on first” routine.
“He was the threat. He was the danger.”
“I thought you were the danger.”
“No, I’m the one who knocks.”
“But wouldn’t that make you the danger? Or are you the mailman?”
“Carl Malone is the Mailman.”
“I thought he played basketball.”
Did anybody notice after Walt got his new ride,Chrysler ran ads with almost the same car.Gonna buy one!
This is why there is no way that Flynn dies in a car wreck while speeding in his new car.
No Thanks Dodge gif??
I think Skylar’s gonna kill the kids. It’s the only way she’ll see that she can protect them from Walt. Then she’ll kill herself to protect Walt from prosecution, but also to hurt him.
holy fuck. that would be awesome.
Anyone who has the first episode of the season still on their DVR: Is Walt wearing the watch in the diner?
I knew I should have saved that ep.
No, he’s not wearing it, at least it cant be seen anyway.
I wondered the EXACT. SAME. THING.
Thought of this exact post when he was came home to Skylar and had it on.
I was with Skyler up until last night’s episode. She was kind of annoying with her crazy act and her poor planning. But all around good episode, I especially liked Mike once again.