Breaking Bad Season 5 Sunday

[Magus]

It all comes down to this, the final season. Will Walt's house of lies collapse beneath the weight of his deceit, burying him and all he holds dear? Well, probably, but will Jesse be the cause, or will Mike have something to do with it?! Or Hank? Or perhaps...the Ghost of Gale, haunting Walt and driving him insane in his dreams with a banshee wail of karaoke?!!

Anyway, tune in to find out.

Bitches.

Until then, tide yourself over with this edition of Breaking Bad Celebrity Bowling:

[Azisien]

This will be the first television show in 14 years that I tune in for live on a week-by-week basis. Considering I'm only 26, that seems like a pretty big honour. Psyched!

[Magus]

First 90 seconds of Season 5:



I'm surprised it starts immediately after the end of last season. I'd have expected a time-gap of a few months at the least.

[Magus]

Oh, god. This episode. So good. Oh, man. Just. Phenomenal. Man. I gotta go to bed, but holy crap. Man. MAN.

I can honestly say I have enjoyed Breaking Bad more than the Wire at this point. THERE I SAID IT. I SAID THE UNTHINKABLE.

[Red Fighter 1073]

Any insight as to what happened to Ted in that scene? Could barely hear what either of them were saying. I didn't expect that to happen from last season, though I guess I did think that he was out of the picture in Season 5.

Walter seemed to garner at least a little bit of sympathy from me last season, but holy shit, this season he's just ramped up to full-blown... anti-hero? drug lord? Not quite sure how to describe how crazy he seems this season.

[Magus]

Originally Posted by Red Fighter 1073

Any insight as to what happened to Ted in that scene? Could barely hear what either of them were saying. I didn't expect that to happen from last season, though I guess I did think that he was out of the picture in Season 5.

Walter seemed to garner at least a little bit of sympathy from me last season, but holy shit, this season he's just ramped up to full-blown... anti-hero? drug lord? Not quite sure how to describe how crazy he seems this season.

Walter has basically become Gus Fring. Or, almost. He even did his Gus Fring thing there with Saul. He did exactly what Gus did in "Boxcutter", minus the ending. BUT will he be able to follow through on it like Gus was able to? At this point he seems to lack exactly the same impetus that made Gus completely amoral--the loss of the person he loved most in the world. The flash forward tells us either he has been in hiding because he was unable to go far enough, or something along the lines of what happened to Gus' boyfriend happened to him and he's now completed his transformation. In either case he has come back to settle the score. In any case, the final scene of the episode shows us he's completely immersed himself in this myth that he is untouchable and justified. When he says to her, "I accept your apology", even though he had just endangered all their lives for the past year (I think this has all taken place in the span of a year, not sure) and basically been a pretty crappy husband. Even though she cheated on him with Beneke and took his money without his permission, what he's done has been far worse all told. But his arrogance has now reached its absolute apex--he almost came to his senses last year, but because he "won" he now feels he is absolutely untouchable.

As for what happened in that hospital scene Skyler basically went in there to apologize to Beneke about what had happened but realized he was scared out of his wits that she was going to have him killed (due to Saul's henchmen holding him hostage last year, and then him accidentally snapping his neck). What he said was that he would never ever tell anyone ever what had happened, and talked about how he has kids, etc. basically begging for his life because he figures Skyler will have him killed off. Once Skyler realizes that's how he sees the situation, she goes along with it and says, "Good.".

[BloodyMage]

Loved the episode. It was pretty amazing. I agree that Walt has basically become Gus Fring or, at least, thinks of himself as such. However, he lacks the finesse. Gus would never have left that truck in the police barracks. In fact, Gus would never even have been in the van.

[Azisien]

Wicked awesome shit.

[Lumenskir]

So, I just had a flash of insight that I'm pretty sure was handed down from above: Walt is going to plant the ricin cigarette in one of Skyler's cig packs before this half-season is over to ensure she can't disrupt the cook. That's going to be the first step to Hank finally having a Keyser Soze moment and getting on his case. That plus Mike dying (probably a little bit into the second half-season) will lead to Jesse finding out all of the other shit Walt's done, eventually leading to Walt being taken down by some combination of the two + some other third party we haven't met just yet.

I want this to be memorialized here now so I can point to it in the future.

[BloodyMage]

I wondered if Jesse might actually rat Walt out to Hank at some point and supply him with some hard evidence after he finds out what Walt did and after Hank has already started having suspicions.

The cig thing could totally happen though. It might actually twig something with Jesse too if he hears how she died and thinks it was similar to how they planned to kill Gus. But yeah, I can totally see Walt doing that. It would all come together quite nicely.