[Mr. K]

they never got to go further with the whole “Todd loves Lydia” part of the plot- I could not see where that was going to lead, and they never really finished that off

we don’t get to see Lydia suffer enough either- she should have been screaming psycho wailing at the end

That’s why this should have been a 2 hour final episode.

[dead]

The whole Todd and Lydia thing was just to show how creepy and psychotic Todd was. He was having some one-way romance in his weird little head, while Lydia just viewed him as some half-dim creepy employee who was clueless but very dangerous. She knew he was into her and kind of just played along enough to keep him producing.

The fact that Todd had a "Lydia" song as his ringtone was just evidence what a weird little freak he was. The fact that it was "Lydia the Tattooed Lady" by Groucho Marx was just perfect for the absurdist humor of the show, like Walt posing Skinny Pete and Badger as world-class assassins who would track the rich couple down to Amsterdam or Paris if they didn't do what he said.

I liked that the ending was crammed together and not dragged out. It kept with the hyper pacing of the whole show. Last week was too quiet and slow. This week kept everything slamming along. Even a conversation with Skylar couldn't slow down the pace of this episode.