Breaking Bad Season 5 Thread

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Jesse has a soft spot for not killing people. He jumped to save Lydia at the beginning of the episode, and of course kids have always been an issue. Jesse can't handle death or killing, like the aftermath of shooting Gale.
I think Mike's issue will be he was against heist because of the variables involved and the kid was one of those. Todd was following orders given by Walt and Mike (from a previous episode when Mike told the pest crew not question anything).
Also, loved Walt's manipulation of Hank in his new diggs. Hank can't handle emotion and gave Walt his window to plant the bugs. Classic Walt.

 

I had two thoughts how the kid would've factored into the heist: 1) He would be riding on the tracks and get into a wreck or stuck or something, causing the train to stop where it shouldn't and thus thwarting the heist; 2) He'd see them doing the illicit activity, realize something was wrong, and speed off to tell his parents, thus really fucking all sorts of things.

I never, ever thought that little boy would be murdered. Not even after he waved and Todd waved back. Just shocking almost.

 

What a brilliant episode. The train robbery was shot beautifully and my stomach was doing flips the entire time, just waiting for them to get caught or for something bad to happen. When it was over, just when you could finally exhale and smile at Jesse's, "Yeah bitch!" enthusiasm, there's the kid and there's the gun. Oh my god.

 

When they started talking about "dark territory," was I the only one who thought of this?




Also:

"Hhhuhhuhhh ... Todd's not cool."

 

That's the thing that Gilligan and Co. do most brilliantly on this show: there is no reasonable expectation for moments of pure joy or happiness. Even though they get us to cheer along with them for pulling off a flawless heist, there's always a gut punch immediately to bring you back to Earth. Now, the fact that we're rooting for these people in the first place is a tribute to how great they've developed the characters and the actors themselves but as this series has gone on, there are truly no moments of happiness and joy and if there is, it's unbelievably short lived. Even in the magnet caper at the beginning of the season you think they've gotten away with it and then you see the bank account information from the broken picture frame.

And crazy as it is to say that this show could possibly get any darker than killing an innocent child, I think we're only just beginning.

 

In the scene where Hank was holding the baby and saying "She's my kid (or something to that effect)" did anyone else think that's some more of Gilligan's foreshadowing? It just hit me and I think that the kid ends up with Hank and Marie when Walt is discovered.
In addition, I think Hank finds the bugs somehow, whether the frame is broken or he takes a fall and sees something not right with the computer, and flashes back to Walt. Thoughts?
Damn, this show makes you think in so many ways. I love it.

 

I don't have any doubt that the kids (if they survive) will end up with Hank and Marie as Walt and Skyler will either be dead or in prison by the end.

 

What if Hank and Skyler were having an affair and it really is his kid?

 

If the kid starts slurping homemade beer out of her bottle and her first words are an inappropriately-timed joke, I guess we'll know for sure.

 

After a lackluster episode 4, episode 5 crushed it. One of the show's best episodes.

Bet Walt offs Skyler and says she ran away or something of that nature.

 

For all of his scheming and posturing, there's been more than a grain of truth in Walt's description of his deteriorating marriage to Hank and Marie. I think his "breakdown" in Hank's office was -- on some perverted level -- his coming to grips with Skyler's rejection. Now he can move on, which means Skyler's dead meat as soon as she steps out of line.