Breaking Bad - Part 10

[hellblazer103]

No she didn't get stabbed at all. That would have been a huge deal. The blood on her shirt was from when she sliced walt's hand.

in a really twisted way, that kinda disappoints me . lol

 

[Hyde]

Holy ****. Brilliant episode. Brilliant brilliant brilliant brilliant.

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Now I want to see Jesse kill Walt. Using chemistry. A trick that Walt should have seen coming but didn't. Now THAT would be going full circle

 

[hellblazer103]

it's amazing how much this show has evolved from a more darkly humourous show with some slightly silly moments at times to just getting darker , and darker, and REEEEALLY FRIGGIN' DARKER. the score alone has become borderline NIN-esque at times. lol

 

[Slick]

I found it interesting how Walt's performance in that last phone call, when he is being almost cartoonishly vile to shift blame and suspicion away from Skyler is pretty much a caricature of the kinds of fans that Anna Gunn just recently wrote about in her NYT op-ed. I cringe at the thought that there were at least a few people that likely cheered on the things that Walt said.

Yup I'm shamed to admit that my friends are some of those folks and that's why I never watched BB with them (only last night). Don't get my wrong I was anti-Skyler the first two seasons but as Walt was slowly becoming Heisenberg my sympathy went to Skyler, Jesse and Hank. Anyway yeah this episode ripped my heart out lol definitely one of the best.

 

[Bruce Malone]

Speaking of that for any of you who caught Talking Bad Dean Norris seemed to take it personal all the walt supporters out there who may still be walt supporters after this episode.

You can tell he really sees things through his character and really dislikes walt the character.

 

[747]

Holy frick, frick frick...

This episode was so emotionally heartbreaking and tensely thrilling it felt like 10 minutes.

 

[747]

I think I need a beer to calm down.

Also; an Emmy for the baby playing Holly maybe?

 

[BrollySupersj]

What a ****ing episode....it all happened in one episode....incredible.

 

[SpideyFan866]

I woke up not too long ago.

I had a bad dream about Breaking Bad.

Particularly the Nazis.

 

[JJJ's Ulcer]

I think I need a beer to calm down.

Also; an Emmy for the baby playing Holly maybe?

The baby playing Holly is like Marlon Brando compared to the "owwww owwww" kid playing Harrison from Dexter.

 

[JJJ's Ulcer]

Speaking of that for any of you who caught Talking Bad Dean Norris seemed to take it personal all the walt supporters out there who may still be walt supporters after this episode.

You can tell he really sees things through his character and really dislikes walt the character.

I think he's just having a bit of fun.

 

[kguillou]

Did anyone else notice

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Walt's Pants!

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OH SNAP!! Hahahaha. That is brilliant!

 

[Ramsay Snow]

So, which line exactly did Skyler catch on to what Walt was up to during the last call?

 

[SpideyFan866]

I have to say..... seeing Jesse being chained to that track in the lab, with a pic of Andrea and Brock as a warning, was the only thing in this series to truly horrify me.

 

[SpideyFan866]

So, which line exactly did Skyler catch on to what Walt was up to during the last call?

I think when she said "I'm Sorry".

 

[Ramsay Snow]

I think when she said "I'm Sorry".

Ah, so basically what Walt said before she apologised.

 

[dark_b]

Walt saved Skyler durring the phone call . holy sh...


best episode in this series. since this is the best series of all time this is it. i am ready to die .i am happy.

 

[Keyser Soze]

That.... might have been the single greatest episode of Breaking Bad I've ever seen. Quite possibly one of the best single episodes of ANY television show I've ever seen.

So much happened here that we've been waiting the whole series to see come to a head. The final resolution of Hank/Walt. Jesse finding out the truth about Jane. Walt Jr. finding out the truth about Walt. Walt becoming publicly known as Heisenberg. It's all here, and from the very beginning this was like watching a car-wreck that wouldn't stop. Even that pre-credits flashback sequence was laced with dread and foreboding. Walt's words about the process of cooking the meth hung in the air for me, and hammered home the finality of how everything was doomed from the moment Walt made that first wrong decision: "The reaction has already begun." And I remember from my Chemistry classes that a chemical reaction is irreversible.

At the next Emmys, should we skip the Best Drama Actor campaign and just give the award to Bryan Cranston? Why go through the formalities of nominations, when his performance in this episode alone blows away anything any other actor could hope to achieve this year? In 5 seasons of some of the greatest acting ever committed to the screen, this episode could very well be Bryan Cranston at his finest. He runs the whole gamut here, from violent hatefulness to desperation to heartbreak and despair. We see him at his most repugnant, his most petty, vindictive and cruel, quite possibly the most hateable he's ever been: handing Jesse over to the Nazis and then taunting him with the truth about Jane's death, or snatching away baby Holly as an impotent punishment for his wife and son not falling in line. But we also see him at his most painfully human and decent, remembering why we sympathised with him so much in the first place: the display of love for Skyler in the opening flashback, or offering to give up the whole $80 million in order to save Hank's life, or his final call to Skyler to exaggerate his monstrous nature and thus exonerate Skyler by presenting her as a terrified hostage. It was interesting to me how quickly the ruthless Machiavellian schemer of Season 5 evaporated and we were back to Season 4 Walt, lurching into panicked self-preservation mode once everything falls apart for him. The images of Walt lying with his face in the dirt, sobbing, after Hank's death, and the image of him just breaking down over the phone at the end, tears streaming from his face as he convulses with grief, will be in my mind forever. An absolute masterclass performance.

I'm annoyed at myself a bit, as a week ago I TOTALLY CALLED Jesse being kidnapped by the Nazis and forced to cook for them, even predicting that they would hold their knowledge of Brock and his mother over Jesse's head to make him comply, with the further prediction that Walt re-emerges at the end to rescue him. But I deleted the post, because I felt I was too embarrassingly off-base with other aspects of my prediction, such as Hank living and escaping the scene with Walt. As much as I tried to comfort myself by saying Hank's death was too telegraphed or that if they were going to kill him they'd have done it at the end of an episode rather than the start of one, deep down I knew he was a goner. With the way everything was set up, anything else other than Hank's death would have felt like pulling a punch. And Breaking Bad never pulls punches.

Hank's death was tragic, but he went out on a good note, as dignified as he could be. And I liked that, at the very end, he kinda softened just a bit towards Walt. He didn't die thinking Walt would happily see him killed, he seemed to recognise that Walt was willing to give up everything to save him. The last thing he said to Walt being "You're the smartest man I've ever known" was kinda poignant.

And poor Jesse. I'm sure there are a lot of people fist-pumping with triumph that the "rat traitor" got a deserved comeuppance here, but I was devastated. For me, the parts of the episode where my heart was most in my throat were the whole sequence with the knife fight, and the moment where Jesse was dragged out of the car and it seemed like he was going to get killed. I really thought that it was over for him for a second, and with me still reeling from Hank I would really have been destroyed if that had happened. But even in his survival, he has been left to a grim fate, and after a few months of that (or however long it is before we get to Future Walt aged 52), I think he'll have been more than punished enough for his share of the wrongdoing. Though I believe Walt's fate is ultimately sealed, Jesse at least deserves to get out of this alive. So I hold out hope for Walt rescuing him.

One final note: though the Jesse/Nazis thread is still hanging there, this was an INCREDBLY climactic episode. And the greatest compliment I can give it is that, if THIS was the series finale, the last Breaking Bad episode ever, I would consider it a worthy conclusion, and it would be up there with the greatest finales ever. BUT WE STILL HAVE ANOTHER TWO EPISODES TO GO!!!!!!!!

 

[Keyser Soze]

Something else to consider: could this be the last time we see Walt's family? It's quite possible that in the last couple of episodes our focus is narrowed to Walt, Jesse, Lydia, Todd, Uncle Jack and the Nazis. Something that makes me think that could be the case is that Skyler, Walt Jr, Hank (obviously), Marie, even Holly all got suitably dramatic send-offs here tonight, enough to think that if we never saw any of them again they went out on a high and the actors each got to have at least one glorious moment to shine. I do hope we haven't already seen the last of Saul, though. He deserves a memorable send-off too.

 

[TheNextNolan22]

I think this next episode Marie is going to see Hank's body.

 

[giveyourself12%]

Did anyone else catch when Walt was telling Jack about the money, Hank slightly shook his head at Walt as if saying, "They're going to kill me no matter what now...keep your money."?

Also when Hank said, "You're **** right, the cavalry's coming", Walt, through his panic and desperation at wanting them to spare Hank inadvertently shot down his one remote chance of keeping Hank alive.

They MIGHT have spared him had they thought more DEA had been on the way and that they had to get out of there ASAP, but probably not.

 

[CrypticOne]

Holy ****. Brilliant episode. Brilliant brilliant brilliant brilliant.

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Now I want to see Jesse kill Walt. Using chemistry. A trick that Walt should have seen coming but didn't. Now THAT would be going full circle

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I could actually see this happening, since the only thing he'll have is this meth lab for the foreseeable future. Maybe he'll discover some secrets of his own.

Man, that was a hard episode to watch. I had to walk away during some parts. I couldn't believe what was happening.

 

[Keyser Soze]

Crap, just remembered I have last night's Dexter recorded and waiting to watch (we're a week behind on Dexter in the UK. I try to watch Dexter first, because following Breaking Bad with that garbage is like having a cooked-to-perfection surloin steak for dinner, then following it up with a diarrhoea souffle for dessert.

 

[CrypticOne]

Something else to consider: could this be the last time we see Walt's family? It's quite possible that in the last couple of episodes our focus is narrowed to Walt, Jesse, Lydia, Todd, Uncle Jack and the Nazis. Something that makes me think that could be the case is that Skyler, Walt Jr, Hank (obviously), Marie, even Holly all got suitably dramatic send-offs here tonight, enough to think that if we never saw any of them again they went out on a high and the actors each got to have at least one glorious moment to shine. I do hope we haven't already seen the last of Saul, though. He deserves a memorable send-off too.

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We have to see what happens to the White house, at least.

 

[A Necessary Evil]

Well, this photo has taken on a whole new meaning.