Posted on 08/13/2013 11:08:30 AM PDT by Mr. K
Who saw the first episode of the last season of Breaking Bad last night?
Is this the most awesome show ever on TV or what?
The acting is first rate all around.
When Hank punches Walt it looks like he is going to go all out right then and there, but as Walt circles back around him and stares Hank down at the end, it shows he is clearly in charge of the situation
Yup, Skyler would be punished, maybe less if she cuts a deal but bottom line his nutty wife’s sister was in on it for a while. How does a high level DEA agent recover after that comes out?
The problem Hank has, no matter how he opts to ‘handle it’ on or off the job, he’s got to worry about anything EVER coming out no matter what, at least while he is on the job. Could he even risk Walt getting really sick and full of delirium and remorse from drugs?
Like I said, as far as I see it his choices are all pretty much catch 22.
Freegards
Good point. I think Hank will retire early and take his wife and WW’s wife and kids somewhere safe and live off the drug money. (There were no body outlines nor any bullet holes in that house so I’m thinking they are alive.)
WW has been in hiding but will now wage war on the cartel before dying of cancer. The End.
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It sounds plausible, but for sure these writers love twists. Maybe something completely unexpected. The most unexpected thing might simply be Hank doing his job no matter what, turning everything public and just burning up on that fire. I wonder how many episodes WW JR knows about his dad, it might be tempting to show him dealing with that for more than the last episode (if ever I suppose).
Yeah, I’ll belong to a Breaking Bad ping list too if such a thing develops.
Some of my observations.
I believe that Walt finds out about the no-knock raid by the bug in Hank’s office. Walt will stage his death to coincide with the raid. After the raid the story about Walt being Heisenberg hits all of the papers which accounts for Carol’s reaction in the preview. I am not sure about Skylar or their son, Walt seems to be alone in the preview.
What I find interesting are the comments about Hank. He has been a stumbling bumbling cop from the beginning. The DEA agents regularly mocked Hank before they all got killed by the turtle. Now that he has discovered the truth about Walt, the reality of how he has been used by Walt has hit home. Which is why he had the episode in the car and why he lashed out at Walt as he did. He will lead the raid on Walt’s house and probably kills Skylar or is killed himself in the raid.
The only reason to keep Lydia around is because she is Walt’s link back into the meth trade.
I don’t think anybody feels good about Walt or the meth business. The killing of the teenager last season probably drained any empathy anybody might have had for the show or Walt in particular.
“He has been a stumbling bumbling cop from the beginning.”
Not so much in his own office in my opinion, now he is the hero who suspected Fring, they made him boss. In any case, the viewer might think he has been a bumbler but his bosses haven’t thought that at all, at least on the whole.
“He will lead the raid on Walt’s house and probably kills Skylar or is killed himself in the raid.”
Again, plausible as anything else. I wonder if in real life they would let family do such a thing? Maybe if he’s the boss nobody could do anything.
Freegards
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Watching a show about the Mafia (Sopranos) doesn't make me a mobster anymore than watching a documentary about Adolf Hitler makes me a Nazi. Once the show is over, I go back to my normal, mostly boring life of a middle-manager in a large corporation with a wife and 2.2 kids in a colonial home out in the leafy suburbs. So what's the harm in imagining myself as Don Draper, Tony Soprano or Walter White every once in a while?
TV and books would sure be boring if it reflected my actual life.
Unless you get a kick out of seeing a guy mow his lawn at home and fuss around with Excel spreadsheets in the office.
ooh I got an idea- Lydia and the Czecks kidnap jesse to cook and walt gets the weapons to go free him
He gets injured and when they threaten to torture him to death he eats the RICIN
The family are gone because the feds did raid the house - but walt tells them they had no knowlege and they go into witness protection
Not sure how the house being raided and boarded up by the feds can happen and yet Walt be still out of jail walking around, buying guns
It’s not a show about meth. It’s a show about a guy that makes one bad decision and all the consequences. It’s about turning Mr Chips into Scarface (actual pitch line used to sell the show). It’s about a good guy becoming a bad guy. It’s also a really amazingly well written show. The show has plenty of conservative values, it’s a show about facing repercussions for bad actions, Walt will lose everything for one bad call, he’s already lost a lot. There’s very few things in the world more conservative than actions having consequences.
No, it's about teaching suckers like you that good people are one mistake away from turning into scarface. It's about creating a thinly justified media platform to expose millions of people to depravity, who believe they aren't emotionally effected by their exposure. It's about normalizing insanity and horrific crime so that the population accepts these levels of madness as commonplace, and thereby learns to go along with things that they should stand up against. It's about teaching people that things are so bad "out there" that they may as well just give up.
Your naivete' is almost criminal, and definitely pathetic.
You sure are offended about a show you obviously haven’t watched. White makes a lot of mistakes, but they all start with the first mistake “I’ll make meth”, and yes frankly anybody that makes that decision will wind up bad no matter what they were before hand.
There isn’t actually any depravity, that’s you making crap up.
None of the things that happen in the show are normalization, once again you’re making crap up.
None of the show is saying things are bad out there give up, again you making crap up.
Funny everything you’re mad about came out of your own head. T If you don’t want to watch the show that’s your choice to make, but don’t tell me what’s in a show you never watched or what it says about me, because that’s just you being a worthless $%%^&*(. You don’t know what you’re talking about, and you’re espousing on a topic you’re totally ignorant on is pathetic.
Do you think that Macbeth, Crime and Punishment, and Lolita also fall into that category?
Meth is not evil, it is just a thing, like a gun. People are evil, like Walter White. White has always imagined himself to be decent as he descends into unimaginable reprobation.
OK I missed Sunday Night (again) this week
But I still don’t mind hearing about it
Whose up for more?
The killing of the kid was the worst thing in this whole show
What happened to the guy who shot the kid?
He was kinda bland (as an actor) and I could not see him growing into any significant part.
I figured he was kind of like any extra you saw in a star trek episode- you knew they were there to get killed off before the end of that episode
I was surprised Walt did not go postal on him - they shock value of that should have been 1000 times worse for the audience to continue to have empathy for Walt
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