Breaking Bad: Season 5

Count this under the 'believe it if you want', but I tweeted at Aaron Paul tonight to get a phone call and he actually called me back.. I asked him about Sunday's episode....he laughed and said "It's by far our most expensive episode'. Take that for what you will.

 

This is just wild guessing on my part, but I bet that Hank's promotion causes him not to be a part of some future DEA raid in which Heisenberg kills them all.

 

I tend to agree, I don't think however any of his kids will get killed, but someone will either go after them or hurt them somehow, causing Walt to go on that crussade involving a large machine gun.

 

Holy shit.

 

I immediately thought of when Walt ardently impressed upon him that NOBODY, absolutely no one, could know what was going on. I totally cringed when it happened. I saw a bunch of things going wrong, but that one I had no idea about.

 

God damn it Todd, you had one job.

But yeah, knew that kid was going to stumble upon them, you could hear a train horn at the end of the opening scene.

 

Awesome episode.

Every time Hank and Walt are together my heart rate goes up. Hank is too perceptive not to start getting suspicious on some level. He noticed Lydia's shoes didn't match and immediately factored that into his opinion of her story. He made that comment about Walt's new cars, and now this episode he took the time to really examine the new watch.

I don't think he's suspicious now, as some people have suggested, but I feel like there's going to be an "ah ha" moment where all of a sudden everything fits. I'm thinking he might find the bug in the picture frame somehow. He'll remember Walt holding the picture when he came back with the coffee, and then he'll see it.

Any ideas about the symbolism of the tarantula in the jar? Seemed significant, but I'm not coming up with anything.

 

Capping the kid at the end is the kind of thing I think this show will just forget about. That kid had to die to cement Walter White's complete loss of innocence (though I saw the kid getting killed coming, I thought it would be Mike who did it out of the blue). They can work the logistics out with the methylene easily enough. One thing I really worry about this show is having the whole plot turn on some silly new character or event. Lydia better not take these guys down, it would be horribly anti-climatic.

I was thinking as Hank was playing with Walt's daughter that Walt is going to be the one who ends up raising those kids, the ultimate irony for a failed drug lord.

Ugh, as I reflect on it, that last scene makes me sick.

 

So I've been rewatching the early seasons with a friend of mine who is into the show now too. Watching those, I feel even more strongly now that Hank is going to be (or at least be related to) the downfall of Walt. In the sixth episode of the first season Hank goes through Walt's lab and notices all the glassware missing. The seed for Hank to become suspicious of Walt was planted long ago, and it would almost be a shame for them to not explore that option for how to end the series.

 

What do you mean just forget about it? It was the bloody cold open and they closed with the kid getting shot. If you watched the preview for next week they're still dealing with the kids body. Then they're going to have to deal with the police and everything else. You have some interesting thoughts about all the shows you watch, and by interesting I mean I always think "Did he watch the show?"

This is one of those episodes I'm going to have to watch twice. First watch was pretty sweet, I knew him and Skylar had to come to some sort of understanding. The bugging of hanks office was funny and ballsy as all hell. I'm getting a little kick out of Mike and Walt's confrontations because if they get steered correctly they could run a serious empire...theoretically. Jesse is getting smarter and smarter, this is very interesting.

Also, funny observation two my friends have been repeating over and over, not sure if anyone has posted here but...Jesse, Walt, Mike, all rocking shaved heads and goatees. Its like 3 generations of bad guys all working together. With Walt being the "middle" child, wanting more and more attention, but not getting the respect he wants. Mike being the all-knowing older one. Jesse being the younger unsure little brother that everyone loves because he's still "innocent".

 

I mean "Forget about it" the way the sopranos forgot about the Russian in the woods. I feel like it would be more powerful as just another indication of Walts moral decline and supportive of the common threads of children being made to suffer for his crimes (drug dealing kid, Brock, jessies own corruption) as a juxtaposition to his prior life as a teacher entrusted to help children. Like I said I will be disapppointed if they squeeze the plot device the finale turns on into the final few episodes unrelated to the entire history of the show). But Haha about goatees.

 

Did anyone catch the part where Hank asks Walt Jr if he wants to watch Heat with him? The similarities between the movie and the show could be a sign of things to come: Deniro's character (Walt) getting greedy, resulting in him being killed by Pacino's smart cop (Hank) that figures the whole thing out. Todd is the Waingrow character who offs the security guard after they rob the armored truck. Sal is a lot like the John Voight character. I could see the ending playing out like Heat does, with some creative twists of course.

 

A pretty open-ended prediction, I'll admit, but I'd bet my savings that something HUGE is gonna happen involving the baby (Holly, right?). She'll either die, or get taken hostage, or, more likely in the short term, Hank and Marie won't want to give her back. I dunno, but fucking something is gonna happen, and it will be epic.

This is probably quite slow of me, but the last episode made me realize how the theme of harming children keeps popping up. And since she's been born, they reguarly refer to Holly's perfectness/deliciousness/etc. Seems to me like one of those things that will look obvious to us once it, whatever it is, happens. As in, we'll all go "Oh, of course the emphasis on her perfectness meant that (SOMETHING HUGE), which led to (EPIC DOWNFALL OF WALT)."

Probably not in that straight of a line, but fucking something.

The stuff about colours and whatnot influenced my prediction as well: <a class="postlink" href="http://www.uproxx.com/tv/2012/08/breaking-bad-allusions/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.uproxx.com/tv/2012/08/breaki ... allusions/</a>

 

When I saw the holes they were putting those tanks into I kind of expected one of them to end up filled with a certain blonde man post-heist. Especially after the whole "No one can ever no about this" scene.

I feel like this is the writers playing with us like someone else said after the Scarface scene. The two most popular theories of how the show ends have to be Walt going out in a blaze of glory taking as many with him as he can (Scarface), and Hank catches and is forced to kill Walt (Heat). They've foreshadowed both possibilities now so I'm expecting to be surprised by something different. Also that scene in the Schraeder household... I always knew Marie liked purple but holy shit.

As for the Holly situation

Spoiler

Seriously this actually is a spoiler don't read if you don't want a vague spoiler straight from one of the actors mouths. Nothing specific but fair warning has been given. The guy that plays Hank recently let slip in an interview that there is in fact something big re: Holly coming up.

 

Yeah, Vince Gilligan tossed in the Heat reference in the same way he did the Scarface reference "Fuck you guys, I'm not going to rip of their shit, and I'm going to make you aware of it by mentioning it." I feel like we'll get at least one more movie reference before these 3 episodes are done.

In regards to Holly, of course, something has to happen with Holly. Skylar's biggest nightmare HAS to happen. I don't think it has to do with the fact they've gushed over her, that's what you do with babies in general.

Also I don't think tarantula boy is going to be forgotten about in that way, I think its going to have an impact on Jesse more than anything else. He didn't want to kill Gale, didn't want to kill Lydia, and was super shocked when this kid got killed. Side note, Landry is fucking killing it by the way.

 

Sorry this is a week late, but the wife hasn't wanted to watch anything but the Olympics so I'm just catching up.

My thoughts are that Lydia is scared shitless and wants out and she was wearing a wire in order to get a recording to turn in to the Feds.

 

Great theorycrafting on the Grantland podcast. Andy Greenwald spouting this whole thing about poison and cancer being in the house emotionally and literally. Skylar being concerned with him getting shot is silly because the show has had more people killed in much worse ways than guns. He thinks she's going to get got by the ricin, all that smoking she's doing to kill Walt, might kill her.

Chris Ryan countered with him thinking Lydia is going to kidnap Holly. She now knows Walt has kids and she puts kids as being the most important thing to people. She probably now thinks the only way to get out of this is to get one of Walt's kids. All of this is signified due to the constant repitition of "OH SOMEONE THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!!"

I don't know which one I follow or like, but I support anything that contains Lydia doing crazy shit.

 

I love that this week's episode was inspired by "Under Seige 2 Dark Territory."

Any homage to Steven Segal and Eric Bogisian (a rare playwright cast as an evildoer) is cool with me.

And I liked that Mike was dead wrong. Lydia did not plant the tracking device.

 

I'm curious if the kid getting murdered will make it onto the news or something. Walt told Skylar he was going to rob a train, if she hears a kid was shot near the train tracks she'll really start losing her shit...