Breaking Bad Season 5 - Official Discussion Thread

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smackababy

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Rewatched the entire show over the past week or so (GF had never seen it, so I forced her to watch it all) and I have a few nitpicking complaints. =(

I just don't understand why Mike (in season 5) insists Walt "had it good". Gus was continuously trying to find a way to kill him. Mike even knew Gus was only initially using Walt for the 3 months and then going to give the cartel the go ahead after Gale learned his cook method. Mike, having this knowledge, couldn't really fault Walt for killing Gus. I mean, really? He also seemed really adamant about protecting Jesse despite advising Walt to kill him just a few months earlier; "no half measures".

Secondly, the money issue made zero sense. Walt says they made $135k for that week and it was less than with Fring. However, he didn't take into consideration the $40k he paid to Jesse for start ups nor the $35k for buying into the pest control business. Those costs would not continue after the first cook, netting him more than the ~$144k a week from Fring (this is based on the 7.5 million figure he quoted to Skylar). He was protesting the legacy costs, but he still didn't take into account the start up expenses that would no longer be there.
 
Spydermag68

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If you go back to the first season he was selling 1 pound at $40,000. For Gus he was making 200 pounds = 8,000,0000 a week. The problem is that getting the $2,000,000 a week pay check he wanted....He still had to pay the overhead costs.
 
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smackababy

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Spydermag68 said:
If you go back to the first season he was selling 1 pound at $40,000. For Gus he was making 200 pounds = 8,000,0000 a week. The problem is that getting the $2,000,000 a week pay check he wanted....He still had to pay the overhead costs.
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He told Skylar (when she was counting the money he was bringing in) he made $7.5 million a year before "expenses". That is roughly $145k a week, making 200lbs for someone else while under the threat of death. In his new venture, he was making 50lbs a week and netted initially $135k that week, before expenses with the additional start up cost ($40k to Jesse and ~$35k to the owner of the pest control to get them in). So, he stood to get a lot more money with their current setup, and he just didn't factor the money Jesse fronted and the initial cost of buying into the business. He would be making over $200k the next week, while only working to make 50lbs (one cook) and nobody trying to kill him. He could, had he not made such a huge stink over the legacy costs, had Jesse start up his own cook and essentially double their profit.
 
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Kept hearing about BB. Finally plowed through everything on Netflix this past 3 weeks.
 
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BoberFett

BoberFett

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I was just told that the second half of Season 5 is now on Netflix.

For those of us who refuse to pay for cable, this is a good thing. :)
 
ImpulsE69

ImpulsE69

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Or you could stand outside your neighbors house and watch through their window like..um...someone else did.
 
NFS4

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Aaron Paul wants in, Dean Norris out for 'Saul'


LOS ANGELES (AP) - If Aaron Paul gets his way, "Breaking Bad" fans can expect to see Jesse Pinkman calling on Saul Goodman - and perhaps calling him some names - in the spinoff series centered on a sleazy lawyer.

Paul says he'd had "serious talks" with "Better Call Saul" co-creator Vince Gilligan about returning to his character, a low-level drug dealer before he linked up with Bryan Cranston's Walter White to produce methamphetamine.

"Anything Vince is involved with, I'm there," Paul said in an interview while promoting the upcoming "Need For Speed" movie. "I owe him my entire career. And the idea of jumping into the skin of Jesse Pinkman again in his lighter days - because it's all a prequel - it would be fun."

The Emmy-winning "Breaking Bad" ended last year after five seasons. Gilligan told reporters last month that he'd be asking its actors to make cameos in "Better Call Saul," which will star Bob Odenkirk and is set to premiere in November on AMC.

It's unclear if Cranston will make an appearance. One actor who definitely won't be involved is Dean Norris, who played White's DEA agent brother-in-law Hank Schrader. Norris is starring in the series "Under the Dome," set to premiere its second season on CBS this summer.

"I don't think they'll let me do a little cable show," he said in an interview this week while promoting the film "Small Time."

"I think that experience was that experience. I'm not a big fan of kind of revisiting something that has already been done. But I think it's going to be awesome. So I can't wait to see it."
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Wingznut

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squarecut1 said:
Finished it. Excellent...beyond that actually

Any other show to recommend?
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True Detective... An eight episode series on HBO, the finale was last week. The writing is just as tight as Breaking Bad.

Game of Thrones is phenomenal too.
 
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squarecut1

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I am new to tv shows and been very impressed by the production quality of Breaking Bad.

I liked True Detective. Game of Thrones is good but doesnt capture me the same way as Breaking Bad did. Dont really know about any other shows
 
WaTaGuMp

WaTaGuMp

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squarecut1 said:
I am new to tv shows and been very impressed by the production quality of Breaking Bad.

I liked True Detective. Game of Thrones is good but doesnt capture me the same way as Breaking Bad did. Dont really know about any other shows
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That is because BB is the best thing ever on TV, period.
 
IHateMyJob2004

IHateMyJob2004

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squarecut1 said:
Finished it. Excellent...beyond that actually

Any other show to recommend?
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Breaking Bad has ruined TV for ever. It is the perfect TV series. 5 seasons of pure god damned perfection.

Sorry, but it was better than Lost all you Lost fans. Haven't done Lost, try it out?
 
sze5003

sze5003

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I've seen lost on Netflix. I say it has nothing on breaking bad. I got to 2 seasons near the end and gave up. It just didn't hold my attention because it was too damn long. It is a good show and has some really interesting twists and characters but I felt like it was all over the place and at times kind of slow.
 
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BladeVenom

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squarecut1 said:
Lydia's lesbian video above is no longer viewable
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It's been awhile since that was posted, but I think it was worth a look if you found her attractive. Probably from the show Lip Service, but I don't remember for certain.

I'm pretty sure that school principal of Junior has done lesbian scenes too
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Laura Fraser has played a lesbian character at least four times previously. Seems she keeps getting cast as a lesbian. Typecasting or coincidence? So she might have been one in Breaking Bad to.
 
WaTaGuMp

WaTaGuMp

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BladeVenom said:
It's been awhile since that was posted, but I think it was worth a look if you found her attractive. Probably from the show Lip Service, but I don't remember for certain.


Laura Fraser has played a lesbian character at least four times previously. Seems she keeps getting cast as a lesbian. Typecasting or coincidence? So she might have been one in Breaking Bad to.
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Maybe she was, but she did have a daughter.
 
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