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Breaking Bad - Awaiting the Final Episodes **Spoilers**

I agree that it's a great show and I've been watching it from the beginning, however Mad Men is still best in my eyes.

With the last season I think Walt will become the "bad guy". You can tell he's becoming a bit unstable with the whole empire mentality and still bringing up his college friends who started that company. Based on the first scene in season 4 where walt has hair and facial hair and is carrying the rifle, it seems like he'll be on the run in the next season.
 
spoon man said:
I don't think he will do because he was showing signs of losing control from time to time from S3 on-wards.
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His character does come off as brash and not very forward thinking, but I think he knows what he is up against. I think certainly behind Walt he will go ballistic, but at first he is going to play it cool.

We will know soon enough!
 
Glad I gave in to the hype. I watched all seasons in about 3 weeks lol. This show is insane. Season 5 is by far the best. Can't wait to see the remaining 8 eps
 
sviato said:
walt has hair and facial hair and is carrying the rifle, it seems like he'll be on the run in the next season.
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Describing an M60 machine gun as a "rifle" is a bit of an understatement. And since he's already watched a woman choke to death on her own vomit, and poisoned an 8 year old child - I wonder what he'll do to actually reach the standard of "bad guy."

Being the literary person I am, I wondered - from the start - about Jesse Pinkman's last name.

This is just my theory, but I suspect its a subtle reference to Lydia Pinkham, a woman who rose to great fame and fortune during the 19th century for her herbal "woman's tonic." The science behind Mrs Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is a little dodgy, but not totally unbelievable. One salient fact is that, despite being almost 20% alcohol by volume, Mrs Pinkham's Compound was legally sold over the counter during Prohibition. And it inspired more than a few drinking songs.

In no small part the success of the tonic can be attributed to the fact that the label urged women to write letters to "Mrs Pinkham" - for which they usually received replies. Long after Lydia Pinkham died, these letters were answered by her daughter-in-law Jennie Pinkham.
 
sviato said:
Sorry, I know nothing about guns and was recalling a scene I saw over a year ago
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Sorry.. just busting your balls. (To quote another well-regarded TV show about criminals.)

The M60 in the trunk tells us something, I think.

Because if the DEA is what you are most worried about, thats probably not going to be your weapon of choice. Suggesting - to me at least - that Walt (the recently turned 52 Walt, with a a fresh head of hair and a New Hampshire drivers license) is sitting up nights pondering the best way to repel an assault from an army of cartelistas - rather than a knock on the door from a bunch of Feds.
 
I've liked the show but I feel almost sick about watching more of it.

There's something about it that's so indulgent in the violence and badness. It's one thing to watch a show about criminals; it's another when the show wants you to root for the criminals. I also didn't get Walt's transformation happening so quickly and so how bad. I don't think the show answers the question of how someone breaks bad. I got how he went into drugs. I got the earlier episodes. I just didn't get how he got so bad.

I still think it's good. I haven't seen it in so long (I guess last summer), that I feel a bit disconnected from it. And I really do have a bad memory.

When I first started it, I could not get past one of the first episodes (where Walter had to kill the guy in the basement). After I got over that "hump," I enjoyed the show.

But then at times it became way too over-the-top. Again, my memory is fuzzy, but in a more recent season, there was that incident with the train heist. That whole set-up was so convoluted, it reminded me of the hijinks of Home Alone.

It's a good show, yes, but it's not better than Mad Men.
 
TSE said:
His character does come off as brash and not very forward thinking, but I think he knows what he is up against. I think certainly behind Walt he will go ballistic, but at first he is going to play it cool.

We will know soon enough!
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Yeah good point I can't wait gonna start watching S4 now, I forgot how cool Gus and Mike are.
 
swingerofbirch said:
I've liked the show but I feel almost sick about watching more of it.

There's something about it that's so indulgent in the violence and badness. It's one thing to watch a show about criminals; it's another when the show wants you to root for the criminals. I also didn't get Walt's transformation happening so quickly and so how bad. I don't think the show answers the question of how someone breaks bad. I got how he went into drugs. I got the earlier episodes. I just didn't get how he got so bad.
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IMO, the show did an excellent job of chronicling Walt's transition from a teacher and family man to a cold-blooded drug lord. The point is that, given the right circumstances, "good people" are capable of horrible behavior. In Walt's case, it was changing motivation (initially wanting to provide for his family after he dies) to an insatiable urge to prove himself better than Gus and the rest (including his wealthy former corporate partner). Walt also quickly got to where he felt that he was in too deep to pull out.

Walt reminds me of situations where someone commits mass murder and the media interview their friends and neighbors, who say that the murderer isn't the person they know and was always polite and friendly.

Despite how bad Walt has broken, there's still a part of me that wants him to get away. I had the same feeling watching "Bonnie and Clyde" when it first came out in 1967.

Looking forward to the final episodes, though. The only regret is that they'll be the first ones that I watch week-to-week, so I won't be able to see as many as I want in a row without commercials. :)
 
sviato said:
I agree that it's a great show and I've been watching it from the beginning, however Mad Men is still best in my eyes.

With the last season I think Walt will become the "bad guy". You can tell he's becoming a bit unstable with the whole empire mentality and still bringing up his college friends who started that company. Based on the first scene in season 4 where walt has hair and facial hair and is carrying the rifle, it seems like he'll be on the run in the next season.
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I caught on to Mad Men a little bit late, but once Breaking Bad is over and done with, I think that might be my new guilty pleasure.
 
Vetvito said:
Yes. I hate them for making me wait so long.

I wish Walt didn't kill the hit man, he was pretty cool.

Man August needs to hurry up.
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World weary Mike was a great character and I miss him, played so well by Jonathan Banks.

Look forward to tonight's episode and so don't want this series to end.
 
Unfortunately I won't be able to watch the show until tomorrow either before or after work.

I'll be self-imposing a social media embargo Sunday evenings for the next few weeks. Last thing I need is some dolt to ruin the episodes with spoilers on Facebook/Twitter.
 
I've started watching it yesterday, clocked up the first two episodes huddled round an MBP on holiday :p

I would have never thought a TV show could match Lost in my mind, however it's good so far, and from what I've heard it only gets better.

Looking forward to the next four and a bit seasons to get through!
 
tigres said:
Tread lightly.
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If you haven't watched today's episode yet, there are spoilers below.


Hank don't play no games.

I think Walt is genuinely screwed this time, unless he uses the ricin to kill Hank before he does any damage. It seems that everyone else is off of the Fring case and that Hank is the only one still looking into it.

Jessie is having a meltdown as well, so there's that. I don't think Walt will be able to kill him either.

Oh and Lydia's superiors are going to cause problems for Walt as well.

What a mess!
 
leftywamumonkey said:
If you haven't watched today's episode yet, there are spoilers below.
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One of the things I most like about Breaking Bad as a TV show is that you never watch a scene and say "Well, that is just ridiculous.. there is no way that would ever happen."

I call that sort of thing the Point Break test - after the Keanu Reeve/Patrick Swayze action movie.

Not that Breaking Bad is predictable. Plenty of times things happen, and not the way you thought they would go down. (I think of the first time Walt met Gus Fring) But then you sit back, and you realize - they got it exactly right.

Minor Spoiler Altert
The confrontation between Walt and Hank in the garage was - IMHO - perfect.
 
That was amazing. I was wondering whether they'd continue from where they left off or just show us the aftermath, and I think the way they did it was perfect.
 
That was an amazing episode. They did a great job of setting the pieces for the final episodes without it feeling like a chore, and the ending made me want to dive into my ipad and demand the rest of the season RIGHT NOW.

This is what happens when you mainline an entire show and have to watch the last 8 episodes as they air...
 
I'm not sure how Bryan Cranston does it, but he somehow manages to look so fragile and timid one second, and then menacing the next. He was practically begging for Hank to back down, and then something in him changed and he threw out a threat so menacing, yet subtle, that I was floored.
 
CountryBobs said:
I'm not sure how Bryan Cranston does it, but he somehow manages to look so fragile and timid one second, and then menacing the next. He was practically begging for Hank to back down, and then something in him changed and he threw out a threat so menacing, yet subtle, that I was floored.
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I remember Bryan Cranston in Seinfeld but there wasn't anything particularly memorable about it. I think the first time I took notice was his Buzz Aldrin in From the Earth to The Moon. I'm glad to see he's finally getting his due. And that switch that I like to call Walt/Heisenberg shows that he's got even more up his sleeve. I have watched all of season 5 one episode at a time and it's painful to have to wait a week at a time to see these episodes.
 
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