Breaking Bad Season 5 - Official Discussion Thread

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nageov3t

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I work with a bunch of nerds, so with stuff like Breaking Bad, Mad Men, and Lost (back in the day), I've got to watch the shows live or get spoiled at work the next day (not even intentionally, but unless I'm sitting in my cubicle with my headphones on and music blasting all day, I'll overhear my coworkers' conversations)

if I hated commercials that badly, I could time-delay by an hour and watch the show at 10 pm, but I don't mind them. especially with a Sunday night tv show, I'll use the 2-minute breaks to start getting ready for work the next day (pack a lunch, iron my shirt, straighten up the living room, etc)
 

flyboy84

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So I got rid of cable a while ago, and I'm not going to get it again just to watch 8 more episodes, no matter how much I love BB.

I also have a 3 month old now, so being able to pause/rewind/play when convenient will be key.

What do you think is the best way for me to go about watching these episodes? Amazon Instant the day after?
 

TallBill

Lifer
Apr 29, 2001
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So I got rid of cable a while ago, and I'm not going to get it again just to watch 8 more episodes, no matter how much I love BB.

I also have a 3 month old now, so being able to pause/rewind/play when convenient will be key.

What do you think is the best way for me to go about watching these episodes? Amazon Instant the day after?

Probably the route that I'm going with.
 

Zeze

Lifer
Mar 4, 2011
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I didn't read the recent discussions and it's probably covered by now. But what's your prediction?

I think Walter will die in the hands of DEA, maybe in a grandoise fashion in front of his family- Skyler and his son. Hank will have a bittersweet time as he will be forced to play a hand in Walter's death.

Jesse runs away or vanishes successfully. But he's never the same again- living with a scar of his life. Saul is either arrested or manages to disappear too.

The entire drug ring will go down or get hinted at it- the whole parent company of Gus Fring & Lizzy (whatever that chick's name is).

Walter will die in a bittersweet way- he's glad he got to finally break that mundane lifestyle as a failed business-venture-turned-HS-teacher. But he'll also realize what he's become and look at his family with a genuine guilt.
 

Anubis

No Lifer
Aug 31, 2001
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i still hold the belief that walt will martyr himself to save his family/others.
he takes all the blaim/credit and dies to the cancer before he can be punished

this will complete the fall and redemption of walter white
 

Zeze

Lifer
Mar 4, 2011
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i still hold the belief that walt will martyr himself to save his family/others.
he takes all the blaim/credit and dies to the cancer before he can be punished

this will complete the fall and redemption of walter white

That sounds boring. A sudden onset of cancer and simply dies to it? What about the whole Hank finding out? :hmm:
 

PottedMeat

Lifer
Apr 17, 2002
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what gilligan should do for laughs:

walt goes on the run from hank
ted rats out skyler
skyler goes to jail
walt uses M60 to take out gretchen and elliot
walt pays more aryan brotherhood to take out todd, lydia, and the pest control guys
walt dies of cancer on the run
jr. is out on the street smoking blue crystal
holly adopted by hank
jesse lives happily ever after with his wife wendy and the kid from the meth couple
 

GagHalfrunt

Lifer
Apr 19, 2001
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I didn't read the recent discussions and it's probably covered by now. But what's your prediction?

I think Walter will die in the hands of DEA, maybe in a grandoise fashion in front of his family- Skyler and his son. Hank will have a bittersweet time as he will be forced to play a hand in Walter's death.

Jesse runs away or vanishes successfully. But he's never the same again- living with a scar of his life. Saul is either arrested or manages to disappear too.

The entire drug ring will go down or get hinted at it- the whole parent company of Gus Fring & Lizzy (whatever that chick's name is).

Walter will die in a bittersweet way- he's glad he got to finally break that mundane lifestyle as a failed business-venture-turned-HS-teacher. But he'll also realize what he's become and look at his family with a genuine guilt.


What I think *should* happen, but won't: Everyone except Walt dies. That's been the theme of the series, Walt poisons everything around him in the name of family, yet keeps skating through somehow. It would be a fitting end to see everything Walt cared about lie in ruins, Skylar and the kids dead, Hank and Marie dead, Jesse dead while he is captured and has to live on, alone in prison finally forced to deal with who he had become and what it cost him. That's how Heisenberg should go out, but it's too dark and Vince won't kill the kids.

Wild-ass prediction on what will happen:
Walt goes on the lam to New Hampshire to avoid Hank and the DEA. Skylar and the kids stay in New Mexico as Hank chooses to protect them by covering or ignoring Skylar's involvement. Jesse gets the hell out of Dodge and disappears with his money because Walt warns him in time. While hiding in New Hampshire Walt hears that someone/something has Skylar and the kids in danger. Either Lydia wants to tie up loose ends, the European mob want to force him to start cooking again, the Phoenix gang is upset that he's getting out without fullfilling his end of the methlamine bargain, whatever. That's why he comes back to town and buys the machine gun seen in the flash-forward opening to season 5, to protect them from the retribution that he earned and they'll be forced to face. He dies bloody, but manages a small measure of redemption. Skylar gets away, Jesse gets sucked back in and dies, Saul is fine as there's talk of a spin-off, so he can't die.

What won't happen:
Walt won't die of cancer. Too easy, not forcing him to face responsibility for all he's done. Walt has to die violently. Maybe Walt got bad news already and knows he's dying from the cancer, that tips the scales and leads him to the big bloody showdown with whomever. As he's got nothing to live for he decides to take out as many of his enemies as possible with him. Cancer might be the impetus for how Walt goes out, but it won't be the cause of death.


And of course, every word of that is likely wrong.
 
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Chaotic42

Lifer
Jun 15, 2001
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I wish I could just pay $40 or whatever and get them all on Netflix on day 1. Stupid cable with its stupid non-HD AMC.
 

mugs

Lifer
Apr 29, 2003
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So, did Walt have anything to do with Brock being poisoned? I think he did, so Jesse would be at the hospital in a safe place.

There's no question, he disposed of a potted Lily of the Valley at the end of the episode when he was getting rid of the bomb making materials.
 

TallBill

Lifer
Apr 29, 2001
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There's no question, he disposed of a potted Lily of the Valley at the end of the episode when he was getting rid of the bomb making materials.

Wasn't there another shot of the plant earlier too?
 

Kev

Lifer
Dec 17, 2001
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I wish I could just pay $40 or whatever and get them all on Netflix on day 1. Stupid cable with its stupid non-HD AMC.

well if you go the itunes or amazon prime i think it's $24 for HD and you get each episode the day after it airs. That's what I do. This is a show that needs to be watched in HD.
 

GagHalfrunt

Lifer
Apr 19, 2001
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Ihttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3GOgSEKOqE


Thought this was cute. Breaking Bad recap on an etch-a-sketch.
 

Spydermag68

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Apr 5, 2002
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I think from the first episode of season 5 that Walter goes to New Hampshire to take out Lydia.

Jesse gets away, but he get another thumping from Hank and the DEA.

Skyler and the kids leave.

Walter gets caught but die of cancer.
 
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