Breaking Bad

[PaloAltoCougar]

I may have missed an earlier link, but this interview with Vince Gilligan is interesting and includes the following:

VG: I think these last three episodes, not to overstate it, and you could say this about the last eight, but with these last three in particular you need to install a seat belt on your sofa, you need to wear a crash helmet and a diaper. [laughs] I tell ya, this next episode (entitled “Ozymandias”), I think for my money, is the best episode we ever had had or ever will have. It was written by Moira Walley-Beckett and directed by Rian Johnson.

I think people are going to have trouble breathing after this thing airs. It’s tremendous and it’s a great, great hour of television and I’m as proud as I can be of the two episodes that air after that one and both of them are a hell of a wild ride, too. I couldn’t be more proud of these final eight episodes or these last three episodes. I think they’re going to leave us with some sleepless nights.

I'm fine if Ozymandias proves to be the zenith in this series, but it sounds like the final two won't be much of a dropoff. What a great ride.

[ewth8tr]

So what's Marie going to do? She's not done in this story yet, and based on what we've seen out of her in the last few weeks it's not out of question that she'll try and exact some revenge. But how? There's a hell of lot of duct tape in there (and some dice?); what's she planning? Take Skyler, Holly and Flynn hostage to force Walt out into the open? I could see her completely losing her shit.

I wouldn't be surprised at all if Marie was the one that trashed the house.

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[SteelBlue]

Maybe he does save Jesse. Maybe Jesse is all the family he has left to save.

This is my gut feeling. But I don't think either of them make it out alive.

[Jeff Lebowski]

I wouldn't be surprised at all if Marie was the one that trashed the house.

No way.

Seems like the simplest and most obvious answer is that something happens to the family and vandals destroy the abandoned house. Are there any clues as to why it would be something other than this?

[Pheidippides]

This is my gut feeling. But I don't think either of them make it out alive.

I sure hope Jesse does. Jesse isn't morally culpable like Walt is. Yes, he killed Gail, but it was out of loyalty (and Stockholm syndrome?) that he did so. Yes, he sold meth to his rehab group. Yes, he did any number of other things. But he wasn't evil or an opportunist, not like Walt, and he wanted to get out. I was screaming at him to get in the Vacuum Van (was that only three episodes ago?) and go to Alaska. But now he's chained up like Ol' Yeller. Does he get put down too?

[Commando]

That's the next great pair of plot arcs. Jesse's servitude and Walt protecting his family or coming back Scarface style. I think Todd has Jesse without the notice or permission of the Aryans, and that creates a tension/vulnerability. He wants to take the throne as Captain Cook but needs Jesse's help. There are a thousand different ways Jesse could get out. This is gonna be great.

[Jeff Lebowski]

That's the next great pair of plot arcs. Jesse's servitude and Walt protecting his family or coming back Scarface style. I think Todd has Jesse without the notice or permission of the Aryans, and that creates a tension/vulnerability. He wants to take the throne as Captain Cook but needs Jesse's help. There are a thousand different ways Jesse could get out. This is gonna be great.

Not a chance. You think none of those folks ever visit the lab?

[MarkGrace]

Why Breaking Bad is the greatest tv show ever and why that matters.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/allenstj...-that-matters/

Good article, and something I've been thinking about, which is that Breaking Bad is elevating itself even above what it was for the first four seasons with such a strong and focused ending.

[jay santos]

There's no way Todd could be acting alone with using Jesse to cook could he? Why didn't he tell his uncles that's why he wanted him back at the ranch?

bump after seeing Commando's post. I don't know the answer, but I'm curious why he was secretive initially about his reason for wanting Jesse.

[Pheidippides]

Just rewatched the episode:

1. The phone call with Skylar at the end was Walt giving Skylar cover. 100% positive. "Toe the line" "What do you know about it anyway?" Etc.
2. The dog that crosses at the end of the episode - Gail was the Problem Dog, Jessie was the Rabid Dog, now Walt is the Stray Dog.
3. How do you not give Emmys to everybody associated with this show?

[jay santos]

Just rewatched the episode:

[*]The phone call with Skylar at the end was Walt giving Skylar cover. 100% positive. "Toe the line" "What do you know about it anyway?" Etc.
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This is 100% clear. What I'm not so sure about is if Skylar recognized it and responded in kind.

[CardiacCoug]

No way.

Seems like the simplest and most obvious answer is that something happens to the family and vandals destroy the abandoned house. Are there any clues as to why it would be something other than this?

Heisenberg is written on the wall of the house. So if it's vandals then it would have to be public or common knowledge that he was the drug dealer known as Heisenberg.

[Jeff Lebowski]

Heisenberg is written on the wall of the house. So if it's vandals then it would have to be public or common knowledge that he was the drug dealer known as Heisenberg.

Which, of course, should be plastered all over the ABQ news in short order.

[scottie]

Heisenberg is written on the wall of the house. So if it's vandals then it would have to be public or common knowledge that he was the drug dealer known as Heisenberg.

Which, of course, should be plastered all over the ABQ news in short order.

When Walt goes back to their boarded up house at the beginning of season 5B, I think he had to use a crowbar to get inside after he climbs through the fence. I wonder if there was any point to showing that--breaking into his house--to indicate that it probably wasn't some random kids who painted "Heisenberg" on the wall.

[Jeff Lebowski]

When Walt goes back to their boarded up house at the beginning of season 5B, I think he had to use a crowbar to get inside after he climbs through the fence. I wonder if there was any point to showing that--breaking into his house--to indicate that it probably wasn't some random kids who painted "Heisenberg" on the wall.

Not following you. How would that matter? What other kind of kids could it be?