Breaking Bad 2012 finale.....

[rppper]

The look on hanks face said it all......hope walter tied up the loose ends....

[valerief]

1. I loved Skyler's question about how much is enough?

That's a question for the .001%. Unlike Walt, they can't quit.

[pokerfan]

13. $80M?

That's what Gilligan said the stack of money was supposed to represent...



So, is Walter really "out?"

[valerief]

20. We don't know for sure yet. He and his family might be safer in than out,

and I'm sure Walt realizes this. I know I wouldn't want to piss off a Czech meth distributor.

As far as 80m being enough. Would it be enough for Mitt Romney? No, 80m isn't enough. Nothing is ever enough when you have more than you can imagine.

[pokerfan]

24. Lydia obviously feels safer in than out

I wonder how much money does it take to create a completely new identity and move to new Hampshire.

[Tunkamerica]

33. He's not in the money business

he's in the empire business

[Mike Daniels]

39. Who knows for sure if Walt quit

It's not like he hasn't lied to his wife in the past. He may just be saying it so that the kids can come back home.

At this point, in his mind, everything is really about Walter.

[alcibiades_mystery]

2. It's the first time watching all the seasons that I've been like "No way."

No way Walt leaves that book around in the bathroom. Just no way. He was never into Gale's weird poetry obsession, and he knows damn well that it would pin him to the wall with Hank. That book would have been burned up two season's ago, the day after Gale's murder most likely, but definitely after the conversation with Hank about W.W. Walt certainly has a proclivity for missing some minor details, but that wasn't a minor detail. That's a big honking finger pointing directly at him. Moreover, I don't recall the set-up whereby it ends up in some place like the White's bathroom. Verging on deus ex machina for Hank's project there. Plotwise, not so great.

[Duer 157099]

3. I had the same reaction

although it wasn't the first time. But yeah, no way.

Maybe because the inscription wasn't on the first page Walt missed it or forgot about it? But still.

[pokerfan]

14. I will never read Whitman without thinking of this series

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1322

[rppper]

4. well said! lmao

NT

[pokerfan]

6. The hubris of Heisenberg

He probably kept it around as some kind of perverse trophy. Talk about getting bit by a dead bee (an episode title from season 2). I guess you could call it..... poetic justice?

[pokerfan]

5. Will the ricin ever be used?

This has to be some kind of record for a Chekhov's Gun. All the way back to Season 2.

[rppper]

7. i saw that...what about jesse as well....

he opened that bag like it was going to explode...are he and walter square now? i don't think walter could off jesse....

[Generic Brad]

8. The imagery was subtle, but clever

Hank talked to Walt about looking for trees on a grid. For the entire episode Walt was wearing shirts that had grid patterns. Did anyone else catch that?

[pokerfan]

12. Good catch

[Major Nikon]

9. Heisenberg Watercolor B&W

[Lionel Mandrake]

10. WW had a science background, but ...

he's dripping blood.

The real Heisenberg also had a science background (Nobel prize, etc.), but turned to something darker during the Third Reich. Bohr never forgave him.

[Baitball Blogger]

11. I'm watching it now and have questions.

1) Why did he take the ricin with him to the coffee meeting in the beginning?

2) Why did he require that the jail murders be so gruesome? I assume they were a rival gang? (I don't watch the show closely)

[Duer 157099]

15. I can take a stab at the second question

I don't think he required it, but that's how prison murder is done. He just wanted it all done quickly within a short time frame so nobody escaped.

[Yavin4]

16. Here Are My Answers

1) Why did he take the ricin with him to the coffee meeting in the beginning?
He was going to poison Lydia once she gave him the names.


2) Why did he require that the jail murders be so gruesome? I assume they were a rival gang? (I don't watch the show closely)
There's no easy way to kill someone in jail. They all had to be killed within minutes of each other in order to avoid having one of them put into protective custody.

[Tunkamerica]

34. +1

Walt didn't say: make them gruesome. He just wanted them done and that's the way they were done.

[pokerfan]

17. first question

He was going to (or he was at least prepared to) murder Lydia. She managed to talk her way out of it (again) by proposing they expand distribution to the Czech Republic. She knows she's dead as soon as she's no longer of any use so she keeps finding ways to make herself useful: an ocean (or tanker) of the precursor methylamine and now the Czech market. Is it really true that 5% of Czechs are using crystal? That's depressing.

[Baitball Blogger]

18. To wrap up that chekhov's loose end, I bet the very last scene will have

Walt taking the ricin in an act of suicide.

[pokerfan]

31. I could see that

The ricin must be used one way or another, I think.

[Tunkamerica]

35. awww. i didn't think about that.

you might have ruined it, good guess though.

[Major Nikon]

38. I've heard rumors about a possible movie or series of movies once the series is done.

So I don't think that will happen.

[Mike Daniels]

40. Walt's too prideful to commit suicide

Remember when Hank was hypothesizing during the dinner scene a few seasons back that perhaps Gil was Heisenberg?

Walt came dangerously close to giving up the game then as he didn't want anyone else to receive credit for his work. My guess is Walt would bask in the attention a trial would provide as he could rub his accomplishments in everyone's face.

Walt may die by season's end but it won't be by his own hand.

[pokerfan]

41. I'm not so sure

Remember that his initial response to the cancer diagnosis was to simply let it run its course, just not before he can make a bunch of money to leave for his family. Also, when his very first cook in the desert goes badly and he believes the cops are coming for him, his plan was to make a suicide video for his family and then shoot himself in the head. When he couldn't figure out how to unlock the safety on the handgun, he reverted to Plan B: Suicide by cop:

[valerief]

29. That's what that little thingy was! I didn't realize it was the ricin. nt

[Initech]

19. The prison scene really creeped me out but Hank at the end..

[valerief]

22. Best potty scene ever! nt

[valerief]

21. What was with Walt in the johnny at the near end? Just a quick image, but

it was telling us he was at the doctor's. Has the cancer returned? What would this mean for him?

[pokerfan]

25. The flashforward in the first episode of this season

had hints that the cancer was back. Coughing, taking pills after purchasing the M60. The fact that he had a full head of hair tells us that he's not in treatment (or at least not on chemo) so perhaps he's planning to let the cancer run its course.

The scene with the paper towel dispenser is a call-back to when he pummeled it after learning that he was in remission so I think we can surmise that this time it's bad news.

[valerief]

28. Oh, was that when he arranged 52 on his plate in the diner? Trying to remember it all. nt

[pokerfan]

30. Yep

Full head of hair, on meds, coughing and buys himself an M60 for his 52nd birthday.

[valerief]

37. Thanks. You're paying attention. Can't wait till the second half of the last season restarts. nt

[valerief]

23. Will Small Town Security be back? Hell, I'm loving that show as much as Breaking Bad. nt

[MiddleFingerMom]

26. Nowhere NEAR as much as BB, but I really, really like Small Town Security, too.

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The season finale was kind of a flop, but normally it has me laughing almost
all the way through.
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A tale truly told in bits-and-pieces through character development.
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They're all pretty hilariously clueless. The Chief and her husband are cute as hell.
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[valerief]

27. Fabulous characters. Yeah, the diva chief and her likeable hubby are cute together.

I'm so glad they cleaned up his hoarding. Yecch!

[pokerfan]

32. Hank knows!

[Tunkamerica]

36. If we didn't know it was the end they could make another whole season on this twist alone.