Breaking Bad

[you have to have a fly's eye to see it]

The cold-open flash-forward appears to be just about 2 years after Walt began cooking - and thus about a year after "present time." I guess we can count on him not dying for a little while.

Aha! I'd never have guessed that. I'm always rubbish with tying stuff together in TV and film dramas.

Loved the first episode, anyway. Everything seen through a brown filter, and the dialogue even more pared down than ever. Mike had a couple of great lines - 'keys, scumbag - it's the universal symbol for keys' had me chuckling.

The most dramatic scene (I won't say any more so as not to spoil it for those yet to see it) was as far-fetched as anything I've seen in any series, but still very well done.

[bobzilla77]

"Inspector Dave Clark... like the Dave Clark 5?... Ah, well, before your time."

[bobzilla77]

Aha! I'd never have guessed that. I'm always rubbish with tying stuff together in TV and film dramas.

He celebrates his 50th birthday in the pilot, and some of the analyses I've read have suggested just about a year has passed in "real time" for the characters since then. Though I'm not sure how they figured that part out. Seems to me it could be as short as a few months.

[Dr Markus]

I know I’m just two shows in but it’s coming along nicely, though I am holding it up against the wire which was/is the best show ever.

[fueryhk(redux)]

Is some kindly poster in the US going to copy and share this with us other Breaking Bad addicts as the officiial DVDs probably won't be out till next May

[fueryhk(redux)]

Aha! I'd never have guessed that. I'm always rubbish with tying stuff together in TV and film dramas.

He celebrates his 50th birthday in the pilot, and some of the analyses I've read have suggested just about a year has passed in "real time" for the characters since then. Though I'm not sure how they figured that part out. Seems to me it could be as short as a few months.

MIght be wrong (it's been a while since I've seen it) but think someone mentions in season 4 that it's been about four months since the BC character's cancer diagnosis...

[Billybob Dylan]

I've seen the show and bought the t-shirt:

[Six String]

For some strange reason, boredom maybe, I started watching the show again. So I'm a couple of shows into season 4 at the moment. Now I remember, it's because netflix advertised it being available streaming. Consumer zombie? Moi? Never.

[you have to have a fly's eye to see it]

I was confused.

[bobzilla77]

Oh MAN I could hardly breathe last night for the entire scene where Skyler finally confronts Walt with her plan to keep the kids away from him. Real edge of seat stuff even with nobody dying through the whole episode.

[you have to have a fly's eye to see it]

Oh MAN I could hardly breathe last night for the entire scene where Skyler finally confronts Walt with her plan to keep the kids away from him. Real edge of seat stuff even with nobody dying through the whole episode.

Yep. Tensest episode for quite a while. I had to pause it several times just to stand up and walk around and breathe!

[mentalist (slight return)]

Lydia's been a great addition

[Harvey K-Tel]

Oh MAN I could hardly breathe last night for the entire scene where Skyler finally confronts Walt with her plan to keep the kids away from him. Real edge of seat stuff even with nobody dying through the whole episode.

Yep. Tensest episode for quite a while. I had to pause it several times just to stand up and walk around and breathe!

So, Basia reckons Skyler's gonna start using Walt's product just to prove she means what she says. Who agrees?

[you have to have a fly's eye to see it]

She'll turn him in. He's central, he can't die until the very last scene - if even then.

[bobzilla77]

He's going to have to kill her. She will eventually either kill him or turn him in to her brother in law.

We've already seen the flash-forward suggesting he's lived exactly one year after this episode, possibly in New Hampshire - or at least been "disappeared" there by Saul's guy.

I'm guessing that Skyler has finked on him and he has gone into hiding as of that flash-forward scene.

I'm also of the belief that Hank is already onto Walt and was going through those drive-around rituals just to watch him squirm and confirm his suspicions. And if he needed anything more conclusive than Walter crashing his car with both of them in it to avoid the laundry...

One of my favorite moments in the entire series so far was the bit where Lydia, after turning her warehouse manager over to the DEA, comes back into her office, conference call still going on, and screams into her seat cushion. I tend to agree with Mike, that GPS tracer was put on the barrel by her in order to get them off her case.

[bobzilla77]

And disturbing though it was - wasn't the shot of Skyler in the pool just beautifully done?

[mentalist (slight return)]

What about Walt Jr, won't someone think of the children?!

I think bacon will be involved in the eventual demise of Walt. Now sure how, but definitely bacon. He may be smarter than everyone and finally becoming a man, the man, and getting his revenge on all the dumber people who rose above him, but every man has a weakness.

[bobzilla77]

As far as the opening scene for this season -- I don't think the 52 birthday is necessarily a year away. Walt shows his ID to the waitress to get a "free" birthday meal and the ID he shows has an assumed name, so there's no reason the birthday would match up -- I wouldn't think that would be a particular benefit to have in a fake ID. He was at that restaurant, acting as he did in order to be memorable to the woman -- to stand out -- he left a $100 tip for a free breakfast, and he made sure she knew his assumed name, he did the little birthday deal with his bacon to attract her attention I think -- the whole scene was orchestrated so that he remained in her memory. He's leaving a trail for someone to follow -- deliberately. But who? Hank? Sklyer? His kid? Mike? Jesse?

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That's pretty clever Martha. This show is so good at rewarding us for our memory of seemingly minor details - letting us add 2+2 together ourselves - I never thought the writers would use them to misdirect us. But what you say makes a lot more sense than Walt suddenly losing caution and propriety. They're anticipating our reaction and using it against us. BASTARDS.

I'm not 100% positive because sometimes Walt DOES do really dumb things that indicate fearlessness. He had the bomb in his possession when the FBI found Jesse in the hospital waiting room for one example. But you may well be onto something.

[Six String]

But Walt crossed the line of forgivable offenses with me when he let the B in apartment 23 choke on her own vomit...since that point it's been a steady decline from protagonist to villain...he is unredeemable to me now. I wouldn't consider ANYTHING past him. He's left morality behind.

This is the reason I found it hard watching the show after the third season but as I said above, I've come back on board and in the middle of season 4 now.
Are you guys talking about season 5?

[mentalist (slight return)]

this two 8 episode mini seasons thing is a bit of a lend, ever since the writer's strike the length of your average TV series has been getting shorter