Breaking Bad - Part 10

[Keyser Soze]

OH CRAP! Something ELSE I never considered! After all my talk about us maybe not seeing Marie again... Jesse told Todd that his full taped confession was at Hank's house. What if Marie gets offed too?

 

[Lord]

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!!!!!!!!

Yeah, now that you mention it this episode would have been an amazing conclusion, Walt's family gets to go on with their lives (for better or for worse), Jesse's fate is left hanging but he will most likelly die, the nazis get what they wanted and move on, while Walt starts a new life with the money he has left.

 

[souvlaki]

Yeah, Matt posted about that awhile back. It's happened before, I'm sure, but I can't think of another.

24 killed 2 major characters and seriously wounded a third within the first 10 minutes of an episode but it was a season opener so a little different circumstances.

 

[JJJ's Ulcer]

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.

At this point why even bother? Just for completion's sake?

 

[georgec]

And so begins my weekly BB-induced postpartum depression.

 

[Keyser Soze]

At this point why even bother? Just for completion's sake?

I'll say this now. If I didn't know going in that Season 8 would be the last, I would have given up and stopped watching after the second episode. I get zero pleasure watching it, and the only reason I'm still enduring the torrent of crap is yes, completism, because I HAVE given all these years to it and I'm so close to making it to the end.

 

[Keyser Soze]

24 killed 2 major characters and seriously wounded a third within the first 10 minutes of an episode but it was a season opener so a little different circumstances.

Another example that jumps to mind is The Wire. That ended an episode with a "Will they make it out alive or won't they?" cliffhanger. And at the beginning of the following episode they were already dead.

 

[Lord]

Dexter is bad?

 

[kguillou]

I think next episode is going to take a breather and be quieter and set up for the grand finale which I'm certain will send all of us to the ER by the time its over.

 

[The Demon's Head]

Ending reminded me of this scene- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DX9JNJThhxY

 

[dark_b]

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.

 

[dark_b]

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/perfect

 

[kguillou]

Btw guys, for those who want to relive last night's excitement: http://forums.superherohype.com/showthread.php?t=465101&page=34

I've never seen these forums so lit up with emotion or seen so many "OMG's" before until last night.

 

[Kane52630]

 

[LegendaryCaleb]

Man...I just rewatched the episode...when Walt tells Skylar "I tried to save him!" my heart breaks...that and when he says "What the hells wrong with you..we're a family!"
So many feelings

 

[Kane52630]

I heard it's supposed to be the best episode yet.

By "Best episode yet" in Breaking Bad terms means it's going to be full of feels, hurting, and a swift kick in the nuts. I can't wait.

See.. I was right.

 

[dark_b]

Did people really expect Walt to be redeemed or something after all these seasons? It's like Sopranos, I never expected Tony to suddenly become this hero in the last season. You're watching a character study. We're just too used to happy endings.

yes. this is what hollywood made them belive . that everything can have a happy ending.

when they showed the flashback to Gray Matter i knew that Walter will not get a happy ending.

 

[Lord]

Well, he lied. It was Skyler who pulled the knife.

 

[Kane52630]

Well, he lied. It was Skyler who pulled the knife.

Walt Jr's first lie. D:

 

[nite-owl]

The show all ways was about Walt Jr's decline.

 

[dark_b]

Wut?


WHAT?!?

i think in the first episode season 1 he loses his pants when he drives the truck in the desert.

 

[The Shape]

BB is a show that will be studied by film/television majors at universities for decades to come, simply because of things like this. The unique episodic structure and heavy emphasis on foreshadowing, which the audience rarely knows is technically foreshadowing...just amazing.

 

[Kane52630]

Yeah it's foreshadowing that doesn't beat you over the head with it or make it too obvious. They just let it naturally flow.

 

[The Shape]

Yeah it's foreshadowing that doesn't beat you over the head with it or make it too obvious. They just let it naturally flow.

Yeah, what I mean is that we know there's plenty of foreshadowing, but it's not obvious to the point where we know what is even being foreshadowed. Things like the pink teddy bear. There are dozens of examples.

The flashback/phone call from last night's episode was foreshadowing/mirroring the phone call at the end of the episode (2 crucial but wildly different lies from Walt to Skyler). However, there's no way any of us could have truly predicted that the episode would end with that phone call in which Walt saved Skyler with a lie.

 

[Maximus One]

I knew something was up as soon as you could see those knives front and center in the flashback. Then again when Walt walks into the back of the house it's another shot with the knives in the foreground. I still can't believe nobody got stabbed in that scuffle.