Breaking Bad Season 5 Thread

Agreed. This show is set in a Pentateuchal universe. It demands a punishment straight out of it. I image the ending will have the same feel and similar destination as the Coen Brothers' "A Serious Man" did. At leat I hope so.

 

I see your point. Not all the characters (Badger, Skinny Pete) have been brought to justice, although I'm nit-picking with those two. From your viewpoint, then, does everybody die who is associated with Walt, except the kids and Hank?
I guess I looked at the show's driving force was for Walt to get the money he needed to provide for his family b/c of cancer. Things changed after he hooked up with Gus and became more powerful and slipped out of capture/death several times over.
Now he's on top, and to me, it's about how he survives being the top dog. I wouldn't have a problem with him getting killed, but I can see him surviving just as well. I mean, he's always slipped out of trouble, and I don't see why it couldn't happen again.
I think the popularity of the show will split with the decision of Walt's fate, similar to The Sopranos.
I liked the critic's take, but when has B&B ever followed the norm?

 

I don't think they'll end the show with Walt dead or in jail.

I think they'll save that for the movie.

 

That was definitely a flash forward. He shaped his bacon into "52" and noted to the chatty waitress that it was his birthday.

The show started with his 50th birthday and all four seasons and this past episode have taken place roughly over a year in Breaking Bad universe.

So, it's a flash forward to roughly a year from where we currently view.

 

Wasn't he out in California at that point, too?

 

I swear to God, if the last episode of this half-season ends with Walt pulling the Aztec up behind the shattered remains of Wayfarer 515, and yelling to Jesse, "We have to go back!" then I'm done with the show.

 

There wasn't really a clue as to exactly where he was but it's somewhere out west.

The ID he was using and the plates on his car were from New Hampshire. The waitress made some comment about him being, I think, 3,000 miles from home and the guy who dropped off the keys warned him not to take the car across the border but that could be either the Mexican or Canadian border.

 

Seeing as how it's the same gun dealer he bought the pistol from in Season 4, I assumed he was in Albuquerque.

 

Holy shit, it was the same guy! "Lawson" is the character's name. Played by Jim Beaver.

 

Yep, played Ellsworth in Deadwood.

Saul put Walt in touch with the gun dealer, just as he presumably put him in touch with the guy who changed his identity in the flash-forward (which was also referenced in Season 4, but Walt couldn't do it then because Skyler had given all that money to Ted).

 

There was a clue as to his location. The address on the door of the Denny's was 2608, and there is a Denny's in Albuquerque on 2608 Central SE.

 

Seeing as the show is filmed in Albuquerque, that's not a shocker. It probably is Albuquerque in the story (the scene felt like Walt was coming home to take care of unfinished business, plus the gun dealer), but it doesn't necessarily mean it had to be.