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Breaking Bad Season 5 - Official Discussion Thread

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iRONic said:
Ohwell... The dinner scene was hilarious. Jesse's face when Skylar mentions her affair...
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I think to most viewers, Skylar is losing any sympathy vote coming her way.

The writers are really making her an unsavory character...most likely to be killed off by show's end.

She has taken his children away, which is the red button with Walt.
 
iRONic said:
Ugh... I'm kinda yanked that Mike used a plastic tie wrap to restrain Walt. Mike's been around Walt long enough to know that Walt is as slippery as they come, very intelligent and resourceful and a clearly desperate man "at the end of his rope" that is going to do whatever it takes to keep his part of the methlymine.

Didn't Mike also have Lydia in metal handcuffs the very last episode? (when they forced her to call the DEA and read the script) He just left those at home this time?

To have to leave him alone and restrain him with just one plastic zip-tie... Because of the half and full measures talk, how he's never going to do that mistake again (oh really?), because he's seen what Walt can pull off in order to survive. Not going to buy that he didn't have any cuffs on him, the whole thing was planned, Mike should've just gotten a couple of cuffs (that he has used before), and make sure Walts both hands were tied. Not just wrap his wrist into a radiator with a fuckin' PLASTIC ZIP-TIE!

Ohwell... The dinner scene was hilarious. Jesse's face when Skylar mentions her affair...
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I thought this was a pretty big slip up, too. Of course, what was it Hank said right after Mike went in with Saul? Something along the lines of "even pros make mistakes." I'm telling myself that they're directly correlated... :<
 
Clinkster said:
I thought this was a pretty big slip up, too. Of course, what was it Hank said right after Mike went in with Saul? Something along the lines of "even pros make mistakes." I'm telling myself that they're directly correlated... :<
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Yea dude is human (didn't plan it out fully) and was running on no sleep, plus he kind of wants Walt to escape so he has an excuse to blow him away.
 
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Mike loves memes....
 
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ultimatebob said:
I wonder if the TV clip about the artificial caviar made from kelp that Jesse was watching will somehow come into play later. I'm not sure how, but random things like that always seem to come back as foreshadowing of something later.
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That was a huge theme in the background. Hank complained that Miracle Whip wasn't Mayo. Jesse complaining about frozen lasagna wasn't as good as it looks on the package. The green beans were store bought, but he thought they were homemade.
 
BladeVenom said:
That was a huge theme in the background. Hank complained that Miracle Whip wasn't Mayo. Jesse complaining about frozen lasagna wasn't as good as it looks on the package. The green beans were store bought, but he thought they were homemade.
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lol nah he was just trying to be nice to break the tension in the room.
 
BladeVenom said:
That was a huge theme in the background. Hank complained that Miracle Whip wasn't Mayo. Jesse complaining about frozen lasagna wasn't as good as it looks on the package. The green beans were store bought, but he thought they were homemade.
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Walt's gonna tell the meth competitors to throw some blue food coloring in their meth. Then they won't have to worry about the real 'blue meth' crowding their market. 😛
 
Balt said:
Walt's gonna tell the meth competitors to throw some blue food coloring in their meth. Then they won't have to worry about the real 'blue meth' crowding their market. 😛
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I wonder if any of the addicts would even notice a difference in meth cooked by Walt vs. someone else. With such a substance I wonder how much his cooking perfection is really appreciated.
 
BrokenVisage said:
I wonder if any of the addicts would even notice a difference in meth cooked by Walt vs. someone else. With such a substance I wonder how much his cooking perfection is really appreciated.
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I remember last season when Gus was grooming Jesse to replace Walt he said they only needed 90% purity not the 99.99% that Walt was making.
 
HopJokey said:
I remember last season when Gus was grooming Jesse to replace Walt he said they only needed 90% purity not the 99.99% that Walt was making.
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Ah that's right, but wasn't that just to show the cartel people that Jesse could cook a premium batch by himself? If Gus didn't care about getting near perfect meth out of the superlab then Gale would have been good enough.
 
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HopJokey said:
I remember last season when Gus was grooming Jesse to replace Walt he said they only needed 90% purity not the 99.99% that Walt was making.
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And it's going to be one of the most terrible moments in this show when Jesse finally puts the pieces together to see what Mr. White is...
 
Walt is planning to make a break for it along with Mike and Jesse, get the cash and somehow screw the competitors and disappear...only to have to end up back into the business after his cancer returns as we saw in the beginning episode.
 
kevman said:
Walt is planning to make a break for it along with Mike and Jesse, get the cash and somehow screw the competitors and disappear...only to have to end up back into the business after his cancer returns as we saw in the beginning episode.
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Hmm, based on this last episode I don't think so. Walt's hubris will no longer allow him to walk away. He's still bitter about Grey Matter, won't take a $5 mil payout, etc.
 
Balt said:
Hmm, based on this last episode I don't think so. Walt's hubris will no longer allow him to walk away. He's still bitter about Grey Matter, won't take a $5 mil payout, etc.
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perhaps he will rip off mike and jesse as well and take a bigger chunk for himself.
 
With the theme of this episode being that artificial caviar, Miracle Whip, and frozen Lasagna are not what they seem to be, does anyone else think that what they pumped from the tanker car isn't methylamine?
 
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thegimp03 said:
With the theme of this episode being that artificial caviar, Miracle Whip, and frozen Lasagna are not what they seem to be, does anyone else think that what they pumped from the tanker car isn't methlymine?
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Nope, he throws a bag of blue at the cartel guys in the previews for the next episode, plus we see him and Jesse doing a cook. The theme might still play a role though, perhaps Walt has some more science up his sleeve.
 
thegimp03 said:
With the theme of this episode being that artificial caviar, Miracle Whip, and frozen Lasagna are not what they seem to be, does anyone else think that what they pumped from the tanker car isn't methlymine?
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I was thinking more that what they're selling won't be... Which would be win-win, until the buyer figures it out. they'd get to keep the methyl amine and the $15M.
 
BrokenVisage said:
Nope, he throws a bag of blue at the cartel guys in the previews for the next episode, plus we see him and Jesse doing a cook. The theme might still play a role though, perhaps Walt has some more science up his sleeve.
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I think there will be fake methylamine, just not from the tanker. I suspect Walt will try and sell the fake stuff to the Arizona dealers.
 
BrokenVisage said:
Ah that's right, but wasn't that just to show the cartel people that Jesse could cook a premium batch by himself? If Gus didn't care about getting near perfect meth out of the superlab then Gale would have been good enough.
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Oh yea Gale would have worked, but too bad (for Gus) Jesse shot him in the face.
 
BrokenVisage said:
Nope, he throws a bag of blue at the cartel guys in the previews for the next episode, plus we see him and Jesse doing a cook. The theme might still play a role though, perhaps Walt has some more science up his sleeve.
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Okay, makes sense. I forgot to watch the previews for the next episode.
 
purbeast0 said:
it's funny that now as a viewer i'm starting to root for the downfall of walt. used to be the total opposite of that.

they are doing a great job of slowly turning the audience against him instead of for him.
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I agree. As a Sopranos fan, this is what happened with Tony. Everyone rooted for him to "win", but David Chase turned the audience against him. Most people, myself included, wanted to see his brains splattered everywhere in that restaurant at the end.
 
anyusername said:
any theories on how Walt plans to get 10$ million and still get the methylamine?
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Since Mike wants out and without him they won't have a distributer I was thinking they'd cook meth for the new guy to distribute... only problem is I think Walt would view that as a step backwards in his 'empire' plans.
 
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