So does anyone know how exactly how many bodies Walt and Jesse have disposed of using barrels of acid? I’m just curious. It’s got to be up around 5 or 6, right? They’re like, old hands at this sort of thing at this point. Good skills to have, I guess.
ANYWAY…
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.
- Last night’s episode was a weird one for me in that in its totality I wasn’t really blown away by it, but two of the scenes contained within were probably two of my favorites in the show’s history. (Last night’s episode was filled with what I thought were pretty good scenes, but they just didn’t seem to fit together well for some reason. Does that make sense?) I’m talking about the dinner scene with Walt, Skyler and Jesse — which I’ll get to in a bit — and the opening scene where the gang is shown disposing of any and all traces of that kid Todd killed. I watched that scene with wide eyes that, I’ll admit, began to fill with tears near the end when the kid’s hand is shown. Sh*t got to me, man. It was moving. Just so well done — shot and scored near perfectly. And then there was the “shit happens, huh?” moment that nearly made me stand and cheer Jesse…
- Jesse wanted no part of that dead kid cleanup job, obviously. And I can’t figure out if Todd — who naturally drives an El Camino — is stone cold ice or just f*cking dumb. Perhaps a little bit of both? I mean, he kept the tarantula in a jar the kid he shot was carrying as a keepsake? Nothing like taking a fingerprint-laden piece of evidence from a murder scene home with you, not to mention one containing something that can kill you!
- Gomie tailing Mike is laughable. Of course Mike knew he was being followed — Gomie is a jackass.
- Normally scenes that feature Skyler and Marie talking make me want to leave the room to go take a dump, but the one from last night kind of had me on the edge of my seat. I really thought that Skyler might break once she became aware of the fact that Walt had previously thrown her under the bus re: her affair with Ted.
- “Jesse, you asked me if I was in the meth business or the money business. Neither. I’m in the empire business.” — Walter White
- Goddamn just when you think Walt couldn’t be more of a soulless bastard he goes and whistles a little ditty while putting on his meth-cooking gear immediately after seeing a news report about the dead kid. Run, Jesse — run far, far away as fast as you can.
- “Breaking Bad…not available on Dish.” Hahaha…nice dig, AMC.
- So this goes without saying, but Jesse, Skyler and Walt all having dinner was so very entertaining, no? If I didn’t know any better I’d swear that the scene was written by Louis C.K. — it was that funny and awkward. But I do have one issue with it: Jesse reverting back to the idiot Jesse mode we used to see early on in the series, but not much of late. The Jesse of present, you may recall, has been the clear-headed mastermind of not one but two diabolical criminal plots. Him reverting back to the Jesse of “Yeah, science!” days struck me as a little bit of a stretch. With that said, I thought Aaron Paul was great and I truly laughed my ass off watching the scene.
- Vince Gilligan spoke to Vulture to offer some insight into the dinner scene.
The idea for the awkward meal came together when the writers decided it was time for Skyler and Jesse to reunite; they met for the first time exactly fifty episodes ago when Skyler confronted Jesse, thinking he had been selling weed to her ailing husband. (“I had to be reminded they had met!” Gilligan admitted.) “We wanted worlds to collide, characters who didn’t really belong together being forced to spend time with each other by the monstrous behavior of Walter White,” he said. “You could see the gears turning in Walt’s head, couldn’t you? When he says, ‘Hey, why don’t we have dinner together?’, he clearly just wants to torture the two people who in his mind have betrayed him. It’s nasty, nasty stuff. Totally childish.”
- Shoutout to the deli counter at Albertson’s. I wonder how much they paid for that stellar bit of product placement?
- I’d been wondering what happened to Saul, as we hadn’t seen him in a few weeks, but it was good to have him back last night, even if he still seems like he’s lost some of his mojo. Moar Saul Goodman, PLEEZ!
- Walter White was obviously MacGyver in a past life. Also, he obviously has a high threshold for pain.
- There’s one thing that struck me as flawed in the “retirement” plans that were tossed around last night: I’m pretty sure Todd will want a share of the profits from the sale of the chemical stash, and I’m pretty sure his “prison connections” might have a say in it as well. Todd was, after all, an integral part of the heist. I’m sure he will want to win too, Walt.
Your own thoughts and observations are of course welcome in the comments.
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I absolutely can’t stand Anna Gunn’s character Skylar! I mean why is she suddenly so uptight and self-righteous? She’s the one who cheated on Walt and had sex with her boss, then gave that man all of Walt’s money. Please, somebody take her as a hostage in order to get to Walt and then kill her in the process! I would also settle for Marie too.
seriously? I can’t believe how many people don;t see things from her persepective. Yes she has made bad decisions and gotten into sticky situations. She doesn;t know how to deal with what she has gotten herself into. Walt is holding her hostage right now
Had to put the whole episode on hold until last night, which meant I couldn’t read this until today.
Q. Any idea what tune Walt was whistling? Just wondering. You know it’ll have significance to Gilligan.
I was not fully blown away but then i wrote it off to having to watch it on delay. But then I come here and it turns out I was not alone, so there’s that.
I figured when Mike said he wanted out and then those guys show up that these were going to be Walt’s future business partners. I’m just not sure how Jessie gets roped into continuing.
Curel, but I was hoping Skylar would tell Marie too much so that then Walt would have to kill her and make an example.
So next is the fabled episode 7? Coolness.
*Cruel
I want to see Flynn smoke meth. That could be the greatest spinoff ever.
a couple of moments that always stuck with me from past episodes/seasons:
#1. season 2/episode 13 ‘abq’ 41:46 mark – “then i called your mother…” -skylar. where’s walter white’s mother in all of this, since she found out her only son has cancer? is she ever going to appear? you would think a phone call would at least suffice after sklyar contacts her, let alone visiting her son. maybe her character shows up in the final 8 episodes somehow?
#2. season 4/episode 8 ‘hermanos’ 3:30 mark – walter white’s conversation with the other patient while he’s waiting for his x-rays/scans. the younger patient is nervous & scared about how to approach his bout with cancer, while walter tells him that ‘every life comes with a death sentence’ & ‘who’s in charge? me!’. walter seems more confident in his fight against cancer at that point, but then there’s a hard jump cut in the editing & we then see walter in the lab, looking white as a ghost, like he’s just received some terrible news regarding his scans. later in the episode, 17:43 mark, walter jr asks him about the results of his scans. walter, giving the same facial expression that he was making while in the lab after the cut in the editing, tells him that he’s still in remission. walter appears to be lying in the same style/manner he would always display earlier in the series, before sklyar new he was cooking meth.
i think that walter’s mother will come into play somehow in the second half of the season. and it will be revealed that his cancer never stayed in remission, as foreshadowed by the season 5/episode 1 ‘live free or die’ intro of him coughing and taking meds. walts ‘death sentence’ is fast approaching and he knows it. thats why he continues to take huge risks, because he aware his time is almost over.
Except we’ve clearly seen him a full year later in the opening scene of the season. Cancer can;t be that bad if he’s buying a machine gun on his 52nd birthday.
everyone dies. Saul takes in Holly. Wacky spinoff. perfection.
“Nothing like taking a fingerprint-laden piece of evidence from a murder scene home with you, not to mention one containing something that can kill you!” Tarantula’s are not deadly to humans, worst case you could have a allergic reaction that may kill you, but very unlikely. Many people even keep them as pets.
I bet one would fuck up a newborn, though. Just sayin….
Two things:
1. I think jessie will make the connection about walt’s involvement with brock’s death later down the series (maybe soon enough). That moment when he paused and heard Walt whistling while suiting up would spark the idea that Walt doesn’t care in Jessie’s mind. Also, Jessie might think about that quote that Walt said before about Gus poisoning the kid “Who do you know has history with killing kids?” That might resurface as Walt is writing his own history about not caring about a kid’s death. Jessie may not die in this series, however we have seen him turning into his own type of “thinking man”, and he will figure out Walt’s true nature and involvement in brock’s death. This will turn him against Walt indefinitely. That is part of the reason he is alone.
2. Think about the three plans they have had so far this season. The first, Walt almost fucked it up (magnets), but they got away. Second, Walt almost fucked it up (train) and in turn they KILLED A KID. A bigger mishap. What do you think will happen with the third? A bigger mishap, I can’t say, but probably one that leaves Walt escaping just by a hair and obviously all alone, hence him in the diner by himself later on. (There is only two episodes left).
3. Expect fake big blue. Idk, how, but expect it.
Brock didn’t die.
I am really looking forward to Hank finding out that Walt is Heisenberg. I know it won’t be until next year, but that is going to be great.
I’ve read a bunch of good predictions here, and I just wanted to say I think the ricin capsule will come back into play- since we saw he put it behind the wall outlet cover. If Holly were older and crawling and could almost see her finding that capsule somehow. But I do think someone is going to die as a result from it, and it could be that Walt knows exactly when he’s going to use it, and at this point you don’t know if he would kill Skyler or not. I want to know if Jesse is going to find out about Brock or not. I also wondered if Walt letting his gf choke on her vomit would ever come back around but it looks like it’s not. Remember that fucked with Jesse for a bit. Walt has pretty much took a shit on Jesse in this entire series. I can’t help but want Jesse to exact his revenge on Walt somehow towards the end. I think Flynn dying is an interesting theory too, since they made it a point to mention him driving that car all over the place.
Part of me thinks that keeping the Ricin behind the wall socket was a ploy by Vince Gilligan to throw people off track. It obviously shows how devious Walt has become and just his keeping it means he obviously thinks that killing people is something to keep open as an option.
At this point though, it seems like it might be too obvious of a thing.
I liked the episode. My prediction piggie backs on several others…but I see Flynn crashing his car and dying. Skyler now completely looses it, has a REAL mental breakdown….and starts running her mouth. She is so out of her mind that Walt is no longer sure she will be quiet. He slips her the Rycin.
I see the baby surviving. In fact I could see an ending down the line where Walt sees Holly as the only person that hasnt abandoned/betrayed him. Imagine Walter White someone snaking his way through this ordeal, and then going on to raise Holly…with her being none the wiser as to what had actually happened.
An observation. When Jessie calls Walt before the dinner scene, we get a close up of Walt’s Heisenberg hat sitting right beside Holly’s baby monitor. That little girl is dooooomed.
Wasn’t anybody else bothered by Mike using a plastic tie to secure Walt’s ONE hand to the radiator?? Seems like a trap tailor-made for a handy guy like Walt to rise to the occasion & break out of. Mike isn’t that careless. If you tie both his hands at least it limits his range of motion. This seemed particularly weak in a show that his limited foibles… Otherwise great ep.
I expected him to turn on the radiator and burn his hand or something but have it melt through the plastic.
I had this conversation with my dad and we figured that it shows how little respect Mike has for Walt. He doesn;t know all the crazy shit walt has pulled in the past to get out of situations and sees him as a nerdy scientist not a bad ass Jesse James
Just watched the episode and again and noticed that right when Walt tells Jesse that his wife you waiting for him to die, a clock starts ticking and continues for the rest of the scene.
“You’re a time bomb tick ticking away”
nice observation. ill have to go back and give it another listen too
I find in many episodes (at least) this season, when Walt is at home you can hear a clock in the background.
Yeah, this was the first time that I noticed how deliberate it was though. They go the whole meal without hearing it, then as soon as Walt starts talking about his wife waiting for the cancer to come back there’s the ticking.
Nevermind, clock ticks during the entire dinner. I just didn’t notice it because I’m an idiot.
Well played
I can’t remember if someone has already made this prediction, but I’m sure I’m not the first: Flynn is going to overdose on the blue meth. He is no longer supervised. His family is going to shit. He is devolving without us, as the veiwer, even seeing it since he is now basically on his own.
Oh man…I like this prediction. I could see it happening. I could also see him crashing his car while high on meth.
This is a good prediction – but we’ve never seen Jr. with any sort of friends his age, have we? How would be come across the meth? Badger? Skinny Pete maybe?
also, was there an explanation as to why everyone switched to calling Jr. “Flynn?” I remember this from a few seasons ago, but I didnt catch the point at which this came back?
Someone in the comments correct me if I’m wrong, but I think Flynn is the name he goes by when he is pissed with his family and distancing himself from his father. I think Skyler started back with the Flynn references this season b/c she is trying to distance Jr. from his father. Either way, I think the more distance that comes between Flynn and his family, the more of a chance that he starts going down the wrong path. Honestly, in the scene a few weeks ago where Walt had to knock on Flynn’s door and tell him to leave to appease Skyler, I thought Flynn was going to be in there hiding drugs of some kind. That’s when it dawned on me: the most innocent (aside from the baby) character is the one that gets hooked on Walt’s meth. We shall see.
: the most innocent (aside from the baby) character…
She’s not that innocent; she’s been “riding the dog like a horse” just to get Skittles from the E-Trade baby and his crew for months.
We saw flynn with his buddies trying to buy beer back in season 2 or 3. I remember a big fat indian kid….
There was some redhead kid he hung out with in season 2 as well.
How about:
Todd Keeps tarantula, tarantula escapes – bites todd – todd dies – body is found – fingerprints are taken from the tarantula jar, connection is made to Vamonos pest control – Walt gets caught red handed in a tented house?
Totally plausible.
I think the more likely scenario is that Todd gets killed by much more violent, totally fucked up means, and a Gale-esque search of Todd’s home turns up the tarantula jar.
Is that Charlie?
I do like the line of logic, but they’d have to stretch common sense here. What are the likely scenarios that a 10-12 year old child has fingerprints on file?
im no detective, but perhaps when a child is reported missing, authorities gather prints as part of their investigation to find the person?
@Midwest There’s been a push the last few years to fingerprint/dna swab kids in order to indentify missing kids, so it’s possible. Only prob is that tarantula bites aren’t that harmful to people.
@ Stanko You could be right, I guess I always assumed they never could use a copy, because how can you prove a print in that kid’s house is the even really the kid’s? Then again I’m no law talking guy….and call me paranoid, but I’m not too keen on googling detailed missing body / kid fingerprint law on my computer search history…..AGAIN!
Tarantulas are not (deadly) poisonous to humans. If Gilligan goes this route I will be really disappointed in his fact checking.
All your babble about fingerprints makes even more sense if you think about the hand coming out of the dirt as a chekhov’s gun
AND my crazy ex wife once got both my kids fingerprinted at the grocery store one day “just in case they get kidnapped”. Ironic, because now the person I worry about kidnapping them is her.
Tarantula bites aren’t anywhere near venomous enough to kill anything as big as a healthy human. They are just big and scary looking, but mostly harmless.
I mentioned it above, but again my (*sigh*) “Spidey Senses” are telling me that the tarantula could somehow end up biting Holly, maybe not killing her per se- but making her require fast medical treatment at a very inopportune time? If Vince Gilligan has ever read “The Pearl” by John Steinbeck, this could totally go down.
Totally on board with Stanko’s theory on the prints now. Went back and watched opening scene and when Todd got back in his bitching El Camino, noticed they made a very pointed effort to show that he was looking at the tarantulal in the jar by gently holding in his fingers on the top and bottom of the jar….so as not to wipe prints off all the surrounding sides you see.
Todd bites it in Gale-like fashion. Jar taken from scene, kid’s prints and somebody else on the team too?
Children’s fingerprints “disappear” faster then adult fingerprints. After an certain amount of time (about 24 hours) in order to detect the prints different techniques would need to be used. I am not sure if these techniques are available to police yet. If they are they may not use the technique unless they knew a child was involved.
This is not common knowledge. I only know because I knew someone who worked in a lab studying the issue and I read an article about it a while ago. So the writers may not know or care. It is a good thing to know if you are a parent.
Here is an article: [www.bnl.gov]
anyone know what song walt was whistling? curious if it meant anything other than walt don’t care about killing kids. which by the way, that whistling may bring brock poisoning suspicions in play by jesse…does jesse snap and poison holly? oh, the possibilities of this show…
Jesse would never hurt a child. He has limits.
Walt’s had an interesting arc. He went from being a totally sympathetic little bitch and getting punked by asswipes and pieces of shit, like his students, health insurance company, former bosses, Fring, and Tuco and during that he’s had moments of heroism. When those kids at the clothing store were making fun of Jr. he beat the shit out of them, which was awesome made me applaud him. Then in Season 3 he ran over the drug dealers that were going after Jesse saving him, which was probably as heroic as he got in the series. I’d like them try to redeem him in death, much like Vader was. People always said that Vader was a villan, bullshit. He was the fucking hero of the series. He killed The Emperor and saved Luke’s ass when Sidious had Luke dead to rights, fully embracing the light side of the force. It would be nice if Walt did something similar. We now know why Walt needs the Machine Gun, to fight the guys from Phoenix. An interesting dynamic is where Walt chooses between Jesse and Hank, Walt goes down in a blaze of glory to save Jesse and mows down the crew from Phoenix.
I see something like this happeing, too. I just can’t figure if Walt’s going to try to save Hank or Jesse (sorry Mike, Walt Jr., Saul, Skyler, Gomie …).
with all the mentions of fake stuff in this episode (miracle whip etc.), I’m thinking that the blue meth he sells to Phoenix will be fake blue
Does anyone else think that the DEA is in on the meth biz? Seems a little too suspect that JUST as Hank is getting closer to cracking the case, his boss suddenly promotes him and tells him that all cases have to be re-assigned – including Fring.
Stanko?
yes, thats correct.
I thought this before season 4, when Hank was getting close and his boss tried to throw him off the trail…
You’re Heisenberg? You’re damn right I am.
So I guess Walt will be going to war with Mike’s out of town crew.
Maybe eventually, but my guess is that Walter is going to work with them first.
Walt hanging on to the business reminded me of Tony Drake.
MAR… METH FOREVER!
The way things are looking, both might have the same fate.
Chet, you outdid yourself with those GIFs of the dinner. Amazing.
Amen! As soon as that scene as over I was hoping for these GIFs this morning! Thank you!
Did anyone else think it was foreshadowing when Walt says “My kids are gone” to Jesse?
As it is, Dean Norris said last week that there’s a very chilling scene involving Holly, so i wouldnt be surprised to see both Flynn and Holly dead by the 8th episode!
Totally. I think, to Walt, they’ve been gone for a while. He didn’t fight Skyler as hard as I expected him to when she sent them to be with Marie & Hank. He’s gone from doing everything for the family, to doing everything for the money/power — forget the family.
Which brings me back to my original assumption re how its all gonna unfold for Walter at the end.
He will slowly lose each and every single one of his family members (for whom he initially claimed he was doing this whole meth business for) and his cancer will come back and eventually take away his life whilst he rots in prison!
I could be completely wrong but i have a feeling that thats how its gonna end!
He’s not going to prison, dude. He’s going to be on the run — we already know that. We saw that in ep1 of this season. WHO he’s running from, however, will be the real questions/shocker/holy shit moment, I think.
References to Jr’s new car and him always driving it, driving fast, etc have been made since he got the car. Im thinking Jr. car crash/Skyler loses it/Walt tries to stop her from spilling the beans/Holly dies as a result.
or Jr crashes his car with Holly in it?
True, but i’d hate it if it ends ala Scarface where he goes out amidst a blaze of glory! But yes, we do have the very first scene of season 5 where he gets his M60 from the dealer. I suppose he WILL survive after a shoot-out and cancer will ultimately be his downfall!
Stanko, agreed! And remember, the ricin is still in play!
The electric socket and that scene where Walt removes his cuff today could be yet another foreshadowing!
Damn, i neeeed to take a break!
I’m glad that we got to find out how Walt was ousted from Grey Matters, and that it had nothing to do with Gretchen. This was a great Walt background story, for as much as we know Walt, we really do know nothing about him at all.
I was under the impression that it had everything to do with Gretchen, but Walt just didnt want to go into all that with jesse.
Yeah it was all about Gretchen. He didn’t want to go into that detail with Jesse.
She said that Walt packed up and left her after a weekend with her family when they were together in Season 2, but Walt remembers it as Elliot and Gretchen getting together behind his back.
This is probably way off base, and I can’t even remember what they were talking about on the whiteboard in the flashbacks, and it would be rewriting history…
but…
I would find it funny/curious if the patents that Gray Matter made their money off were for meth/amphetamines back when it was legal/in testing and their entire empire was basically built off the blue meth also (obviously moving as the laws changed into other areas, but the initial patents).
Walt and Gretchen were breaking down the chemical structure of the human body in those flashbacks, and they ended up having a small percentage they couldnt account for.
That’s right, proving the soul might exist, etc I guess.
I liked how initially I thought Walt forcing Jesse to stay for dinner was another powerplay over Skylar, but then you were kind of forced to feel bad for Walt because he was illustrating that he really, honestly has nothing left. His kids are gone, his wife wants him to die – he has nothing.
I thought the same thing – that he was going to rub Skylar’s nose in his business, only to find out by the end of the dinner that it wasn’t just a power-play over Skylar, it was a power-play over Jesse as well. He wanted Jesse to see that all of his goals from the beginning of their venture had been destroyed, and all that he had left was the business itself, and now Jesse wanted to take that away from him, too.
All of which goes to prove that Walter White is the unholy master of manipulation.
Re: Jesse’s reversion to his “gangsta” persona during The Most Awkward Dinner Ever, I think it perfectly fit his character. It’s a crutch for him to lean on, a nervous tic. We don’t see him do it that often anymore because we don’t see a lot of Jesse outside of his business, and now, when it comes to business, Jesse’s more confident. But last night, that dinner situation … shit. Poor Jesse was trying to fill the silence with anything and everything that whirred through his brain, just spitting out a million desperate yos in a fruitless attempt to diffuse the tension. If anything, it reminded me of the way Jesse interacted with his own family (especially his little brother) in season one.
Excellent point.
Exactly, this is Jesse reverting back to times with his parents, I know that’s how I felt when watching this. Say anything to divert the tension from the fighting Mom and Dad.
Plus the hat tip on the green beans “my mom used to do that” and skyler’s shattering of the housewife myth “deli counter at albertsons”. I love this show.
That opening scene was so well done. Showing them carefully dismantling the bike and then just showing the boy’s hand in the dirt and Walt dragging over an empty barrel and knowing what they were going to do next…..nearly ended me. Horrifying.
At first I thought it was weird to have goofy Jesse back but then it hit me that it’s really only been a year and though Jesse’s been through a lot, he was a total loser in JNCO jeans a year ago. So him reverting back seemed natural. I think that’s more real Jesse than criminal mastermind Jesse.
Yeah, Jesse was stuck in the middle of a totally awkward situation so it would be natural for him to try to break the tension, with hilarious results.
“It’s like a scab” was the best line last night. Also, it’s so funny to see Gomie try and act like Hank.
I wasn’t blown away by this episode, but it definitely tied up some loose ends. And Skyler can’t tell Marie a damn thing — she knows she’s in too deep and there’s nothing she can do because she now is just as much to blame as Walt is.
Walt: My kids are gone.
Jesse: Oh thank God.
My wife and I laughed our asses off at the perfect timing of these lines.
I’ve mentioned it here before, but I feel like mentioning it again after Walt’s Grey Matter speech last night. Of all the brilliant things Gilligan does, nothing is more brilliant to me than planting character motivations so early and often that you don’t question them when they seemingly do ludicrous things.
If Walt’s professional and personal life emasculations hadn’t been made so prominent early on in the series I don’t know that I’d be able to buy him not taking the 5MM, but last night I didn’t even question it.
Agreed. When I watched last week’s promo that ended with Walter’s “I’m in the empire business” line, I kind of hated it. It just felt a little too dramatic and too much of a leap to “Scarface” proportions. But once he prefaced it with the fantastically bitter Grey Matter speech, I was totally on board.
This wasn’t the backstory I wanted.
Hopefully we can see some more Gus and his Chilean history (that kept Don Eladio at arms length), some more German connections and Lydia, gawdammit. Let Phoenix be a violent diversion.
Oh, I’m not referring as much to backstory as what motivates these characters to do things that otherwise make no sense. Walt being so determined to build an empire and say no to a quick 5MM pay day would seem ludicrous as it hadn’t been laid out throughout the series how bitter he is over Grey Matter.
Not so much actual story as it’s been there all along and not some convenient new device introduced.
Yes, very autist of me. *slaps forehead*
The fact that he checks Grey Matters’ worth every week … Wow.
Exactly Otto. The dude has got some serious issues and that just shows that these aren’t new characteristics. The ego and the narcissim have always been there, he just hasn’t had an outlet. Now he’s showing his true colors.
Re: Walt’s discussion about Grey Matter, I feel that we finally got insight into why Walt’s been so adamant about restoring the business and cooking meth. Before you didn’t know if he was doing it for the money, for the power/status, etc. but last night finally provided us context. Also, the episode finally provided closure regarding Walt’s falling out with Grey Matter.
Just another illustration of Walt’s twisted view of the world. His ego forces him to think that everyone’s wronged him when things happen as a direct result of his actions.
I didn’t walk away from this episode being blown away, but I think it was the release episode after the tension filled episode from last week. I think I’d get burned out by this show if it was episode after episode of non-stop, edge of your seat viewing, so last night was welcome.
Bingo. I think of The Shield when I think of shows that just kept building and building and everything was just nonstop insanity, and there is no way to have a good ending to that sort of build up.
Vince Gilligan knows that the TV shows are like the button in the hatch on lost. After a couple of hours you have to release the energy to keep it from imploding on itself.
Walt’s not a businessman. HE’S A BUSINESS, MAAAAAN!
let him handle his business, shitsnacks
Every time I see Todd, I just think of that actor as the “cheap TV Matt Damon”
I thought the same damn thing when he said he would kill the kid again if it came to it. And then realized he would be Will Hunting in the remake of Good Will Hunting..
Well, with the way studios have been acting as of late, it’s about time for one of them to go ahead and remake Good Will Hunting.
Not gritty enough for the reboot.
“Good Will Hunting” starring Ricky Hitler.
When I first started watching FNL I said that he must be frustrated because he looks like Matt Damon, only you know he couldn’t parlay that into getting laid because it’s all the bad Matt Damon stuff.
I said it last week, but I’m convinced that, at some point, Todd cooks with Walt. He’s Jesse without the conscience and he’s got prison hookups. His connection to the pest place allows Walt to keep cooking and have a market for his product.
No ones replacing Jesse as long as Walt can keep his grip on him. Jesse said he was retiring and Walt still found a way to reel him back in and keep Jesse on his side.
I agree with John Chimpo. Even though Walt sees a need for people like Todd, the loyalty and control he has on Jesse is too much for Walt to give up.
“Hell yeah i’m stoked for this lasagna!”
Aaron paul wins all the Emmys for that scene alone.
Walt is obviously going to try to expand his business by going in with Mikes guys. We’re talking Blue Sky franchises from coast to coast.
I was getting the feeling that Skyler was ready to tell Marie until she mentioned Ted and all her “sympathetic but not really” comments subsequent. From there I wasn’t sure if it was a “Fuck her I’m not giving her something else to judge me on” or a “Crap, he’s already poisoned them there’s no point”, but either way it seemed like it was the only thing stopping her.
Also, very much on board with sassy white wine Skyler.
Also, Marie made it clear that, despite what she just said, she can’t fucking keep a secret to save her life.
Very much this on the secret front, and also after she seemed ready to open up to Marie, she was rock hard the rest of the episode. I think this is who she is now, just rolling with the punches and being a super bitch at home
Saddens me they may be moving away from Lydia. Also that Mike didn’t go Jackie Treehorn on Gomie. Can’t have everything.
I was praying it would be a blurred out dong doodle.
So are the competitors they new bad guys now? Really no idea what Walt’s plan is going to be, unless he’s got an idea for a new color of meth just in that the guy kept saying he wanted the blue off the street.
Really starting to feel there’s no way Mike makes it out of this half season, was borderline expecting him to turn a gun on himself at a few points in the episode.
I think Walt wants his empire, and he’s going to get it by working for/taking over the other Meth trade. Mike was telling him about how those guys are in Phoenix and there is plenty of room for everyone, but Walt obviously doesn’t see it that way. He KNOWS his product is superior to anything being put out in any market, and they know they can’t compete with his product. I think he is going to offer to be the connect for those guys in Phoenix. Mike and Jesse get bought out as the distribution end of Walt’s business, and Walt gets to grow his empire.
I thought the same thing about Mike. His time is limited I fear. Although it may not be Walt, Todd, etc that does him in. The Phoenix guys didn’t seem all that intimidated or thrilled to be dealing with Mike. I can see Phoenix crew trying to do a hostile take over and Mike becomes collateral damage. That also put Jesse in the cross hairs. AlI they really need is Walt to cook.
I was hoping that Walt Jr. would barge in on that meal. Too bad they weren’t eating breakfast.
It’s Flynn right now, and Flynn would be PISSED
“JUNIOR DOESN’T SHARE FOOD!!!”