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Breaking Bad Season 5 - Official Discussion Thread

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Zeze said:
Oh my god. How can TV drama be this epic? This episode was absolutely intense! Movie-grade drama!
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The quality of that heist, including its conception, they way they dealt with all of the logistical/logical hurdles to accomplishing it and making it plausible, and the way it was executed and shot, was absolutely top drawer. Then there was the punch-in-the-stomach ending. What a great show!
 
Don Vito Corleone said:
The quality of that heist, including its conception, they way they dealt with all of the logistical/logical hurdles to accomplishing it and making it plausible, and the way it was executed and shot, was absolutely top drawer. Then there was the punch-in-the-stomach ending. What a great show!
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while i did find it awesome myself, so far this season i feel there are plotlines that are cutting it close to jumping the shark.

the whole 'moving lab' just felt a little over the top for this show to me, and now the robbery of 1000 gallons. i mean i love the show to death and can let a lot slide for shows, but something about these 2 incidents this season seem a little over the top even for this show. it just seemed a little out of character.

but at the same time, we're starting to see how hank is starting to get out of control in general, so it's starting to build his character. even at the end of this episode when the train was leaving, he got a little sloppy by not stopping when mike told him to stop.
 
yea was a great episode.

i loved when skyler asked walt if he was out burying bodies, and he straight faced said nope robbing a train
 
Ksyder said:
Also I wonder what happens when Hank finds the bug on the picture frame/keylogger in his computer. I guess Walt better stop back in to see Hank for a chat. I wonder how he will get Hank to leave the office this time.
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This.

Leave more fingerprints next time. 😛
 
purbeast0 said:
while i did find it awesome myself, so far this season i feel there are plotlines that are cutting it close to jumping the shark.
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The train robbery is the first jump the shark moment I've seen in the show. Until now all the things Walt and Jesse have done were at least plausibly within their skill sets. But now we have the Deus Ex Machina moment where Jesse suddenly becomes a criminal mastermind and plots a train robbery from the barest available details. Nope, no effing way. That was too far fetched to be believable.
 
pretty sure jesse didn't plan the entire thing, the way i took it was he came up with the idea of just sucking some out while the train was stopped and the 3 of them worked out the specifics and walt def had input on filling it back up with water and doing the calcs and whatnot
 
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Isn't shooting a kid in the spot where they pulled a heist sorta the last thing you wanna do if you want to stay low key about it? I would understand if the heist failed but they pulled it off and no one is going to know but now there's potential for investigators to be led back to the scene of the crime where the engineer and conductor could piece together the rest of the story having been stopped by a guy on the railroad. Then it's just a matter of finding the guy with the broken down truck and if he buckles... busted.
 
yea and they gotta get that shit out of the ground as someone is bound to find 2 1000 gallon tanks with the tops exposed just sitting there if there is a murder investigation
 
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If Todd was originally with the mover guys and only did petty crime making duplicate house keys to sell/rob later, why does he have a gun and so quick to kill that kid?
 
Anubis said:
yea was a great episode.

i loved when skyler asked walt if he was out burying bodies, and he straight faced said nope robbing a train
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I bet Skylar will realize that he had to do something with the kid being killed at the train tracks at the same time. :hmm:
 
darkxshade said:
Isn't shooting a kid in the spot where they pulled a heist sorta the last thing you wanna do if you want to stay low key about it? I would understand if the heist failed but they pulled it off and no one is going to know but now there's potential for investigators to be led back to the scene of the crime where the engineer and conductor could piece together the rest of the story having been stopped by a guy on the railroad. Then it's just a matter of finding the guy with the broken down truck and if he buckles... busted.
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Well if the kid saw a lot of it then they had to do something.

As for the rest why would the investigators ask the train crew about anything as they know nothing other then about a broken truck and there would be no evidence of anything other then a missing kid if they get rid of his body.
 
Anubis said:
yea and they gotta get that shit out of the ground as someone is bound to find 2 1000 gallon tanks with the tops exposed just sitting there if there is a murder investigation
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Well one should be empty as it was just water inside and the other stuff can be moved as they need to be able to access it easier.

Also how would anyone find the tanks even if they left them for the most part as at best you are only looking for a missing kid if the body gets removed as they would not leave it by where they robbed the train.
 
Even if the kid saw the whole thing, he's not old enough to even know what went down... and if he said anything to anyone, he wouldn't know how to even articulate it. I doubt he knows what methylamine nor does he know it was in the train. And if anyone heard him described what happened, they would not even begin to understand what happened. With a missing child, they are sure as hell going to track him down and I'm willing to bet they will find the site of the heist before they find the body assuming they move it. But it's ok, they needed to advance the story so whatever.

I wonder how Mike is going to take this.
 
darkxshade said:
Even if the kid saw the whole thing, he's not old enough to even know what went down... and if he said anything to anyone, he wouldn't know how to even articulate it. I doubt he knows what methylamine nor does he know it was in the train. And if anyone heard him described what happened, they would not even begin to understand what happened. But it's ok, they needed to advance the story so whatever.

I wonder how Mike is going to take this.
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It's gonna be a long week.....😀

\just when I started believing Todd was an undercover agent....
 
darkxshade said:
Even if the kid saw the whole thing, he's not old enough to even know what went down... and if he said anything to anyone, he wouldn't know how to even articulate it. I doubt he knows what methylamine nor does he know it was in the train. And if anyone heard him described what happened, they would not even begin to understand what happened. With a missing child, they are sure as hell going to track him down and I'm willing to bet they will find the site of the heist before they find the body assuming they move it. But it's ok, they needed to advance the story so whatever.

I wonder how Mike is going to take this.
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the preview for next weeks ep.....


also walt doesn't even flinch when todd shoots the kid
 
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God Mode said:
If Todd was originally with the mover guys and only did petty crime making duplicate house keys to sell/rob later, why does he have a gun and so quick to kill that kid?
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That's all he did with Vaminos... But we don't know his full background or his aspirations. You could tell that he was beginning to idolize the team, and was looking to make an impact with Walt.
 
I guess any shred of sympathy we had for Walt will soon be gone. Its seems like its obviously intended to transition Walt to being the villain now.
 
darkxshade said:
Even if the kid saw the whole thing, he's not old enough to even know what went down... and if he said anything to anyone, he wouldn't know how to even articulate it. I doubt he knows what methylamine nor does he know it was in the train. And if anyone heard him described what happened, they would not even begin to understand what happened. With a missing child, they are sure as hell going to track him down and I'm willing to bet they will find the site of the heist before they find the body assuming they move it. But it's ok, they needed to advance the story so whatever.

I wonder how Mike is going to take this.
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All the kid has to comment about is seeing people using hoses on a train for his parents to think about it and report it and with the broken truck the train crew could had figured it out when told about it and it would had been easy to figure it out then.

Not to mention the person that used the truck to help if he was a local.

By killing the kid it's easy enough to dispose of the body and then there would be no evidence if they remove everything but with how they operate they will forget something. 😛
 
Ksyder said:
I guess any shred of sympathy we had for Walt will soon be gone. Its seems like its obviously intended to transition Walt to being the villain now.
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Walt has been transitioning to the villain for a long time now. Hell, the transition itself ended a while back. Walt is a full-fledged bad guy, his only motivations now are greed and ego.
 
God Mode said:
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If Todd was originally with the mover guys and only did petty crime making duplicate house keys to sell/rob later, why does he have a gun and so quick to kill that kid?
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I'm guessing Mike told him not to leave witnesses if something went wrong.


Why does something have to go wrong every time? That makes it predictable. You knew from start that something would go wrong before it was finally over.
 
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