Breaking Bad Season 5 Thread

Also how is the media not up Jesse's ass regarding the money giveaway? He'd be stalked everywhere he went if that hit national cable news.

 

I'm with No One Likes Us, but not for the same reason. That's a deus ex machina too far for me for a show that's relied too much on them (kid in the desert, Leaves Of Grass) to advance the plot in a flawed final season.

Just seems way too convenient that Jesse just happens to recall that circumstance just at that moment. I don't like the visual cue of the cigarette pack. Did he need that or was that for our benefit as viewers?

Aside from that, I liked the episode. Walt's confession was awesome in its brazenness.

I wonder if Jesse lights that match that one of Walt's kids gets hurt and turns Skyler against him?

 

The contrivances are Breaking Bad's crutch, and it was one, for sure. But this one doesn't even compare to Leaves of Grass, which I would really appreciate a better explanation for than Walt saying "I messed up."

 

C'mon man. Haven't you ever plopped a deuce whilst reading Walt Whitman poetry? And don't you reveal your deepest, darkest secret on the pages within? Makes perfect sense.

In my personal bathroom library, there's some out-of-date Four Four Two magazines, an old college basketball preview, and Walt Whitman's Drum Taps. Inside my copy of Drum Taps is the secret of my supple ass.

 

I don't agree that this was some secondary plot element at all. Brock's poisoning was a big deal and the show has taken great pains to point out how much Jessie cares about kids. He was freaked out when he originally thought Brock was poisoned by the ricin and when he thought Gus was the one who did it, that became a huge turning point in the battle for Jesse's loyalty. Beyond that, the show then went far enough to have an entire scene of Walt and Jesse "searching" for the ricin cigarette. That ricin cigarette has been a huge shadow hanging over the show for sometime, in my opinion. And for Jesse to come to the realization that quick upon realizing his pot was gone was confirmation of something he'd suspected before, not some random gotcha moment.

 

What I learned last night was that it's almost impossible to predict what's going to happen. Each episode seems to wipe out all of the previous week's theories and speculation, whether you're reading recaps on Grantland or message boards like this one. That being said, the scene in the diner makes me think one of two things could happen (but probably won't):

1. Todd's talked too much to his uncle and associate. One of them gets pinched and tries to give up Walt.

2. Todd talks too much (or screws up; re: the fire he started), and they decide to dispose of him and, in a not-so-ice way, go after Walt and/or Jesse to cook.

 

And have you never taken a look at something or had some quick glancing thought and had a major epiphany? Or at least some sort of significant one in your life? It's not like they threw it in there lazily. They made it clear how he figured it out.

 

Exactly. I viewed it as more of a culmination of many months of wondering and suspecting rather than a singular a ha moment.

 

In the Breaking Bad universe, such epiphanies have always been commonplace.

 

I'm thinking Marie's demand to Walt -- "why don't you just kill yourself" -- is what leads to the flash-forward scene from this half-season's opening scene, where Walt grabs the ricin from the electrical socket; Walt's going out on his own terms.

 

I really want to be that "Makes People Disappear" Guy. He's pocketed about half a mil and hasn't had to do anything.

And I may be mistaken, but it also became clear that Jesse knows (or at least strongly believes) Walt killed Mike.

 

He got nothing from this go-round, though. Jesse had the money with him and never gave him a dime. It seems obvious that Walt uses his services later on, but I wonder if Jesse's walking away from the car causes problems when it comes time for Walt to disappear.

I think Jesse's suspicions about Walt killing Mike are just from Jesse seeing how Walt takes care of business. Most people who get in Walt's way end up dead. Along with Jesse's realization that Walt is constantly lying to him and everyone else, it doesn't take much to put two and two together and realize Walt had something to do with it.