Breaking Bad: Past season spoilers OK but don't spoil Mad Men, The Shield, The Sopranos

Etiowsa

y2jake215 wrote: »

I was not paying nearly close enough attention to that -

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did Walt use the ricin? Was there anything to allude to that he used it, like Huell's patdown of Jesse last season? Or did he just have it there as an option and was convinced by her sales pitch

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I don't think so, he was hiding the vial again after the commercials.

Harry Dresden

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Walt's getting eccentric after Mike's death. That's a bad thing for Walt. He's gonna get sloppy.

y2jake215

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This is literally the most fucked up, brutal thing this show has ever done. I don't even get bothered by violence but this scene has actually made me feel physically ill

TheBlackWind

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Holy fucking shit. Everyone at my house was just slack jaw gaping at that scene.

PantsB

That Just Happened

syndalis

Holy shit, that was an efficient three months!

MalReynolds

syndalis wrote: »

Holy shit, that was an efficient three months!

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And he seems so disgruntled. It's like, without the challenge, without the opposition... why bother?

Also, the reveal of that cash was amazing. First time he's been caught offguard all season.

y2jake215

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PantsB

haha buggy sync

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poll: judgment
Jesse thought Walt was there to kill him.
Yes 100.13%
Not Really 2.44%

syndalis

Aaaaaaaaaaa worst cliffhanger ever!!!

PantsB

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Whoa

I was positive Junior was getting shot. And then it was Chekov's Book

Etiowsa

Seriously, of all the things that could've happened, it was that?

TheBlackWind

Etiowsa wrote: »

Seriously, of all the things that could've happened, it was that?

No that was perfect.

I can't wait another damn year.

Mmmm... Cocks...

All I can think about was the quote last episode

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"No one else has to die!"
*Murders everyone

MalReynolds

Etiowsa wrote: »

Seriously, of all the things that could've happened, it was that?

See, I... like I think most people

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Were expecting massive horrific violence.

That was just so unexpected. Even if a bit unforeshadowed, it was still... I mean.

Reznik

This show has the best montages.

Ego

I'm really glad it ended with that instead of junior

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walking over to holly finding she'd gotten ahold of the poison, which is what I expected.

Also

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wow that was violent.

Crayon

Since I have dish and they got rid of AMC, someone mind giving me a breakdown of what happened instead of "ermuhgerdz that happened?!?!" Thanks.

redx

Boo...

Lame cliff hanger/turn of plot

syndalis

Crayon wrote: »

Since I have dish and they got rid of AMC, someone mind giving me a breakdown of what happened instead of "ermuhgerdz that happened?!?!" Thanks.

You can spend 3 bucks tomorrow morning and watch an amazing episode of television on iTunes.

Why spoil it?

y2jake215

Tons of callbacks this episode.

Particularly liked

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the painting

Harry Dresden

MalReynolds wrote: »

Etiowsa wrote: »

Seriously, of all the things that could've happened, it was that?

See, I... like I think most people

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Were expecting massive horrific violence.

That was just so unexpected. Even if a bit unforeshadowed, it was still... I mean.

That was probably what they were counting on.

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It keeps the viewers on their toes until the last minute where shit just got real.

Crayon wrote: »

Since I have dish and they got rid of AMC, someone mind giving me a breakdown of what happened instead of "ermuhgerdz that happened?!?!" Thanks.

IIRC they stream episodes in real time on AMC's website for Dish customers.

Crayon

syndalis wrote: »

Crayon wrote: »

Since I have dish and they got rid of AMC, someone mind giving me a breakdown of what happened instead of "ermuhgerdz that happened?!?!" Thanks.

You can spend 3 bucks tomorrow morning and watch an amazing episode of television on iTunes.

Why spoil it?

Why? Because I asked? Doesn't seem too complicated here. Spoiling a show does not change my enjoyment of watching it tomorrow.

Also, they only streamed one episode to Dish customers is my understanding.

Romero Zombie

Holy shit I knew

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Eventually Hank will find out

I was waiting that whole last scene for a

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gun squad to come in and start mowing people down

It is gonna be a long year till next season starts

Heisenberg

I missed the fucking cold open, watching the episode now. Can someone tell me what I missed?

syndalis

Heisenberg wrote: »

I missed the fucking cold open, watching the episode now. Can someone tell me what I missed?

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-Walt spends a minute studying a fly in the office.
-new guy comes in and informs him he had the car crushed into a cube at the dump
-they proceed to opening the other car trunk, which has Mike in it, and get the rubber barrel and chemicals ready
-Jesse shows up. They close the trunk before Jesse sees anything, Walt and Jesse talk for a minute about ehat do to about the 9 guys until Walt tells Jesse that he has no say in anything anymore, and closes the garage on him.

Heisenberg

Thanks.

Invisible

Man, the whole time I was thinking she's wearing pink, pink is death, she's wearing pink, pink is death.

Then

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Hank got up and I realized Walt Whitman. There was no other reason to show the Walt Whitman cover earlier if it wasn't going to come back into play. You got me.

ninzorjons

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Don't remember the book at all. Can someone refresh my memory?

Big Dookie

The real question is...

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What does Hank do now? He can't just go out and confront Walt in front of Junior and everyone. He can't bring it up to the DEA because it's going to make him look incompetent at best, and maybe downright complicit. The only option he has is to (A) do nothing, or (B) take out Walt on his own.

Argh, I can't believe they're making us wait a whole year to see the rest of the season. Stupid AMC.

Form of Monkey!

Hmm, disregard.

Heisenberg

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Wow that ending was fucking unbelievably contrived. All this time and Hank finds out on the toilet.

minor incident

My god, what a good episode, and what a brilliant way to end it.

Heisenberg

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Everything is effectively wrapped up and the one thing that makes 8 more episodes possible is Walt putting that book on the toilet.

MalReynolds

Heisenberg wrote: »

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Everything is effectively wrapped up and the one thing that makes 8 more episodes possible is Walt putting that book on the toilet.

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Hoffa was nailed on tax evasion.

It's the little things that end us.

NailbunnyPD

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No one is expecting a clean break for Walt. Having everything wrapped up in a such a clean fashion would have been anticlimactic. There must be some sort of sacrifice for what he has accomplished. You could argue that his relationship with his wife was the sacrifice, but that appeared to have been salvaged in that final scene.

Form of Monkey!

So it's Gale Boetticher's lab notes that

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had the earlier mention of W.W in them, correct? And the book itself has an inscription to W.W. in Gale's handwriting. Is that what's going on, or is this the second time that Hank has seen this exact book before, but only now is he realizing that the inscription really is to Walter?

It's kind of immaterial, a mental housekeeping issue, one would derive the same result from the episode either way. It's just nagging me that I just can't remember if they found W.W. in the lab notes or in this exact book before, among Gale's personal effects, when he was killed.

edit: OK, I think I found a youtube clip that has jogged my memory sufficiently. It's that

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Gale just gave Walt the book earlier. Walter left it lying around because...because it must have seemed like an afterthought, and Walter is arrogant enough to do something like that. The inscription is meaningless to anybody but Hank, due to the W.W. mentions and Hank's familiarity with Gale in general.

NailbunnyPD

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I'm pretty sure it was in the lab notes, or a journal of some sort. I recall Walter was the one to mention Walt Whitman as the possible WW reference.

Solomaxwell6

Form of Monkey! wrote: »

So it's Gale Boetticher's lab notes that

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had the earlier mention of W.W in them, correct? And the book itself has an inscription to W.W. in Gale's handwriting. Is that what's going on, or is this the second time that Hank has seen this exact book before, but only now is he realizing that the inscription really is to Walter?

It's kind of immaterial, a mental housekeeping issue, one would derive the same result from the episode either way. It's just nagging me that I just can't remember if they found W.W. in the lab notes or in this exact book before, among Gale's personal effects, when he was killed.

edit: OK, I think I found a youtube clip that has jogged my memory sufficiently. It's that

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Gale just gave Walt the book earlier. Walter left it lying around because...because it must have seemed like an afterthought, and Walter is arrogant enough to do something like that. The inscription is meaningless to anybody but Hank, due to the W.W. mentions and Hank's familiarity with Gale in general.

The first.

Nibble

Heisenberg wrote: »

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Everything is effectively wrapped up and the one thing that makes 8 more episodes possible is Walt putting that book on the toilet.

I'm pretty certain that everything was not wrapped up, at least not entirely. The whole time during the last scene, I was thinking

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what about the guys Walt forced into cooperation with him? Did he just hand in a letter of resignation and hope they'd go away? Won't they either want the rest of the methylamine and his recipe, or just want to kill him for screwing them over? What about the Madrigal woman? She just started up a new overseas business for him. I don't think he can just stop showing up to work and expect everything to smooth over.