Shall we anticipate the FIFTH SEASON of the AMC series "Breaking Bad"? I think I may.

you may be right that hes not ideal for the job but it doesnt really matter as hes the only person walt n jesse have any connection to who has any dea what hes doing in the drug business

i mean setting aside for a moment the fact that mike wants to kill them can you really argue that theyd be better off w/o him than w/him, what are their other options, can they get mike w/o offering him a full partnership

badger has good line on a fun job as a walking billboard. p chill job

I liked it being a breezier, slightly goofy episode after the intensity of S4. Recalled S1 shenanigans.

also walt's "I forgive you" moment with Skylar, so fkn creepy.

Yes

that would prob be the wise choice xp

Scrap yard guy was amazing, by the way.

i mean setting aside for a moment the fact that mike wants to kill them can you really argue that theyd be better off w/o him than w/him, what are their other options, can they get mike w/o offering him a full partnership

I think keeping him in the mix is the smartest & easiest move. I think the idea of cutting him a full third is how this scenario would play out on Saved by the Bell

ya i guess its just a question of what it would take to keep him in the mix, but lol walt n jesse often do things in a p saved by the bell manner

i wonder if well get a scene of them discussing mikes compensation

that would have been the scenario I'd've expected - "we're going to give you ten percent" "fuck you, I get a third, you're dead without me" "oh ok scary noir guy, a third it is, let's celebrate by getting into a terrible pickle"

I think the idea of cutting him a full third is how this scenario would play out on Saved by the Bell

But you see, this show should be called Murdered by the Bell.

ha ha!

so... which one is Zach?!

I am the one who Zachs

no.

I liked it being a breezier, slightly goofy episode after the intensity of S4. Recalled S1 shenanigans.

yeah definitely. reminded me of the one where they stole that big barrel of chemicals.

walt's "I forgive you" moment with Skylar, so fkn creepy.

SUCH a great last line. Because he does forgive her. But OMG, if the Death Plant reveal at the end of the last season wasn't evidence enough that Walt has lost his moral compass, this seals it even further. He doesn't realize anymore when he's done something bad. Talk about an antihero. He's truly psychopathic.

The man don't give a fuck.

He'll get what's coming to him, if Gilligan has any balls. And my that I mean Walt will be forced to watch his wife and son murdered.

Gus always keeps his promises. :)

But even better was the look on Skyler's face: YOU forgive ME?!

^^^

Exactly.

“Keys, scumbag. It’s the universal symbol for keys.”

that "offering Mike full partnership" thing in the trailer is irritating me. Mike's a great character & scenes with him are fantastic but reducing your cut by 17% is not something you do just to get a guy whose dialogue is snappy

they have repeatedly shown what a total badass mike is, he's not some ten a penny thug. i mean they gave him that amazing assault on precinct 13 scene to tell us this. he is a complete pro.

great episode. loved the two fat guys in the scrap yard high fiving each other.

xpost yes to the "keys" bit, and mike is just fucking awesome as ever, my favourite character in the show.

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magnets, how they work

Gilligan's a closet juggalo.

show's got a magnet fetish. my favorite bit of slapstick from last season was the magnet on walt's carbomb sticking to the elevator door.

i'm looking forward to more hank. loved walt jr's get-the-audience-back-on-track speech in the beginning and also how he was like WOW uncle hank is gonna be an even BIGGER badass now huh dad?

walt's basically doing a gus impression with this "walk up slowly and intimidate people without laying a finger on them" routine, right?

Oh yes. He has watched and learned.

finale of this show has to be walt vs hank. lookin forward to it. love me some hank.

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ha ha

jesse's OH YEAH BITCH, MAGNETS exclamation after the job was awesome

saul withering in response to walt's gus imitation = quality television

I don't think they'll kill Skyler or the kids. I don't think they have the stones to do that, although Ted in his head traction was pretty shocking.

still sorta hate how everybody loves Mike, a total sociopath who's every bit as big a scumbag as Walt, because they impute some Noble Code of the Criminal to him. Mike talks cool and is smart. That's awesome. He is pond scum.

yeah but who aside from, Walt Jr isn't some form of pond scum.

by that rationale you can't really 'like' any of the characters.

I love Mike because the guy's a walking story of his own - he wears his whole history on his face but he's the sphinx. He's the guy who keeps his mouth shut who can do the job best and that's why he's still around.

Mike's awesome and I make no apologies for loving the pond scum that he is.

I wouldn't be surprised at any character's death in this show. I don't think they'll make the storytelling mistake of killing everybody, but there won't be a single death in this season where I'll say "I never thought they'd kill that person."

I am willing to bet any amount of money that they won't kill the baby

it's gonna be marie and the baby standing in front of a pile of smoking gristle in the series finale

still sorta hate how everybody loves Mike, a total sociopath who's every bit as big a scumbag as Walt, because they impute some Noble Code of the Criminal to him. Mike talks cool and is smart. That's awesome. He is pond scum.

weren't you saying this about Jesse last season? A lot of people like antiheros you know. It's not like they'd applaud such actions in real life.

yeah true of Jesse too. this is probably more a personal than a formal concern with me - kinda Ted Bundy syndrome, how a dude that cuts a charming figure (or in the case of Mike, a colorful one) gets this sort of "I like him, he's got style!" pass that...like, I get, as a response to fiction but it sticks in my craw somehow. But in discussing the characters, look anywhere - this thread, elsewhere - and hatred of Walter White is just visceral. What an asshole! What a self-serving, narcissistic, cold-blooded son of a bitch! But Mike's almost doubtless killed more people, directly, with his bare hands; Jesse goes to NA meetings to deal meth to people who are trying to climb up from addiction. These characters' actions & motivations aren't in any way nobler or more justifiable than White's; Jesse especially, fuckin' A dude, you don't have cancer or loans to pay or a family to worry about, dude like that has zero excuses for fucking up anybody else's life. So something chews at me about how of all the total fucking scumbags on this show (for whom I have affection, too, don't get me wrong), Walter White gets to wear the bell around his neck. As soon as any of these characters are seeming cool to you as a reader, there's an opportunity to really engage the story at a deeper level: so this or that style point is where you start cutting a dude slack for abominable behavior? Huh. Interesting. But it also drives me nuts, because the point at which people start to say "he's cool" seems basically "his dialogue is snappy," which seems a p. low fuckin' bar to me.

Scrap yard guy was amazing, by the way.

I thought I recognized him from someplace...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4qiPSJo3pQ&t=3m0s

Good response. I think the fact that there's such vocal hatred for Walter over the rest is in a lot of ways a tribute to Cranston's performance. Of course everyone was sympathetic to him at the start but there's such a coldness to the character now. I mean he's downright unnerving, whereas Mike has the avuncular cat burglar thing going on and Jesse is the loveable screwup (and i know that downplays the terrible shit he's done) which is just easier to relate to than whatever Walt has become.

but i'm still getting a kick out of the "I'm the king now" stuff so i don't understand blanket hatred for Walt

Scrapyard Guy was also Friends' neighbor, right?

+ dude playing Kramer on Jerry and George's pilot in Seinfeld

Jesse goes to NA meetings to deal meth to people who are trying to climb up from addiction. These characters' actions & motivations aren't in any way nobler or more justifiable than White's

Walter, now more than ever, is the driving force behind many of the other character's motivations. Especially Jesse! Walter has been poisoning Jesse from day one.

Jesse was a meth dealer before Walter even met him though