Breaking Bad Season 5 Thread

Yeah, I think they're filming (or filmed) all 16 episodes at once and treating it like one big season. Then AMC is doing eight this summer and (I think) eight next summer. Damnit.

 

Hate the shortened seasons, but it'll get me to football, and then I won't have time to watch TV anyway.

 

I hate AMC. It doesn't deserve the shows it has with the way it treats them.

 

I hate split seasons. Hate, hate, HATE them. As soon as you really feel a show is settling into a groove, it's over.
With Breaking Bad, especially, the pace is often so slow in the early part of the season that they've really hit their stride around episode 7 of each season.
Given where they are in the story, having to sort of start over instead of building on the existing tension, I get the feeling this season might be mediocre and the last eight episodes will kick major ass.

 

I disagree when it comes to Breaking Bad. If you look at seasons 3 and 4, both of those were fast-paced right from the start. Hell, in season 3, the 7th episode would have been a perfect half-season finale. That was the episode where Hank took down the cousins. That was the end of 7 of the most intense episodes to start a season for any series I can think of.

 

What was the consensus on the German company which owned Pollo Hermanos? Did Gus own the German company or was he a cog in their machine, meaning that Walter will have a new boss next year?

 

I had just assumed the German conglomerate was, like IG Farben with the Nazis, a company that made money off the cartels by supplying equipment without actually getting its hands dirty.

But that would bring a whole new angle to the final 16 episodes if Walter goes from dealing with street thugs like Tuco to a businessman Gus to a multi-national corporation.

 

Walt IS the boss now. Ze Ghermans will be the competition.

 

If the Germans are involved in the plot at all, which I question, my guess is they cozy up to Walt. Gus had become a liability. Walt probably is too, but do they know that?

 

In the immortal words of Bart Scott: Can't wait!
The split seasons suck, but this season should still be fantastic.
I don't mind when the show goes slow. Some disagree, but I like how the writers meticulously plot out the show's next big move by giving the viewer a hundred angles to choose from.
@ Webster - The show didn't dive into the German company role last season.
Also, my big question is what will be the role of Mike in Season 5? Will he join up with Walt and Jesse or try to take out Heisenberg?

 

This is exactly how I felt. This is, hands down, the best show on TV....and I don't think they can top the ending of Season 4. It was too perfect.