Breaking Bad on AMC (4 Viewers)

[Jed]

I think that's the point too. Trying to be a tough guy when he's deep down just a coward - and he knows it. Mike knows it too, he's not the least bit afraid of him.

Not sure how you call Walt a coward. He walked right into Tuco's den. He put his life on the line to save Jesse's. He just got done raiding a police station. He's not the badass he's pretending to be, but he's not a coward either.

He only did those things to protect his own interests - at that point he felt he had nothing to lose. And I hope you are not intimating he cares about Jesse? He'd off Jesse in a heartbeat if he thinks that's what he should do (and he still might). I'm sure I'm in the minority, but I can't stand Walt. I think this show has revealed that deep down Jesse is the one that has a shred of human decency.

How did running down those two dealers to save Jesse's life protect his own interest? It put him in a world of trouble with Gus when he could have just cut ties and let Jesse get killed.

When Jesse was in the hospital and threatening to give Walt up if the cops ever caught him, Saul wanted to kill him then, but Walt wouldn't go for it.

Exactly. He also told Gus that he wouldn't have him without Jesse shortly before Gus applies his box cutter to Victor's throat.

Walt doesn't do anything other than look out for #1, and that includes saving Jesse.

 

[PlasmaDogPlasma]

I think that's the point too. Trying to be a tough guy when he's deep down just a coward - and he knows it. Mike knows it too, he's not the least bit afraid of him.

Not sure how you call Walt a coward. He walked right into Tuco's den. He put his life on the line to save Jesse's. He just got done raiding a police station. He's not the badass he's pretending to be, but he's not a coward either.

He only did those things to protect his own interests - at that point he felt he had nothing to lose. And I hope you are not intimating he cares about Jesse? He'd off Jesse in a heartbeat if he thinks that's what he should do (and he still might). I'm sure I'm in the minority, but I can't stand Walt. I think this show has revealed that deep down Jesse is the one that has a shred of human decency.

How did running down those two dealers to save Jesse's life protect his own interest? It put him in a world of trouble with Gus when he could have just cut ties and let Jesse get killed.

When Jesse was in the hospital and threatening to give Walt up if the cops ever caught him, Saul wanted to kill him then, but Walt wouldn't go for it.

Exactly. He also told Gus that he wouldn't have him without Jesse shortly before Gus applies his box cutter to Victor's throat.

Walt doesn't do anything other than look out for #1, and that includes saving Jesse.

You really haven't explained how he was looking out for #1 in the three examples given.

 

[Jed]

That's not entirely true. He cares for Jesse somewhat, even as he uses him as a pawn.

I'm well aware it's an unpopular opinion, and that most think Walt has a "good" side. I personally think he's inherently evil, and if life hadn't dealt him the cancer card, his true self probably would never have been revealed.

 

[Jed]

You really haven't explained how he was looking out for #1 in the three examples given.

Because he still needed Jesse. If Jesse was dead, would Walt be alive? Let me ask you, if Walt ends up killing Jesse - what does that say about his feelings toward him?

 

[PlasmaDogPlasma]

You really haven't explained how he was looking out for #1 in the three examples given.

Because he still needed Jesse. If Jesse was dead, would Walt be alive?

If he had let Jesse get killed by those dealers he'd still be working peacefully for Gus.

Let me ask you, if Walt ends up killing Jesse - what does that say about his feelings toward him?

We'll see if that happens and under what circumstances if it does. But he has previously put Jesse's live before his self-interest.

 

[KGB]

Hate Walt and his whole family. Rooting for badger here.

 

[Senor Schmutzig]

Bryan Cranston on Jimmy Kimmel now.

 

[Major]

Another thing that sux is I am used to watching 3-4 episodes a clip since I got started later with this show. Watching 1 episode at a time also not the most fun way to watch the show. Might have to wait until they get to the final 8 or something.

I like having a week in between episodes to digest what just happened.

Yep, same here....watching seasons at a time doesn't do this show justice. I like to let it marinate before I take another hit.

 

[Daywalker]

How does everyone want the show to end?

I'd like to see Walt, after getting a death-sentence to begin the show, be the only one left alive at the end. Cartel takes out his family and Walt is left on the run with nothing.

 

[Raider Nation]

How does everyone want the show to end?

Let's see. Walt Jr. finally succumbs after enduring several months of torture in a Mexican prison.That's all I got for now.

 

[Sarnoff]

How does everyone want the show to end?

Let's see. Walt Jr. finally succumbs after enduring several months of torture in a Mexican prison.That's all I got for now.

Junior/Flynn has got to get hooked on drugs and/or start dealing this season.

 

[Encyclopedia Brown]

An explanation for how the magnet would/would not work:

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2407192,00.asp

 

[Leeroy Jenkins]

I really hope we don't look back at THE MAGNET as this show's Jump The Shark moment.

It was fun, but utterly ridiculous.

Worse than the turtle head bomb?

Or a guy being 2 feet from a bomb and losing half his face calmly walking out of a room and straightening his tie before collapsing?

I really like this show a lot, but realism and unpredictability have never been its strong point.

 

[blend]

Without a new super-lab they won't be able to cook at the level they'll need to, and that's not something that is easily rebuilt. Remember how much trouble they had getting the tools and chemicals they needed in season 1-2? How are they going to go about it now?

How about a lab under the car wash? If a laundromat needs heavy duty chemicals, maybe a car wash does too? Crazy thought. They are going to have to cook again, and I don't see cocky Walt going back to cooking in an RV in the middle of the desert.

My prediction: Walt get's the Madrigal Electric (or whatever the German company name is that owns Los Pollos Hermanos) to sponsor him and build a new lab.

I'm wondering if they are going to go to the Mexican superlab to cook now that Eladio and others are all gone.

 

[pollardsvision]

Cranston wasn't the first choice to play Walt:

John Cusack, Matthew Broderick

Weird. Strange timing. I was just wondering to myself yesterday if the execs had someone else in mind to play Walt or Hank. I could see a big name reading the script and saying ...."Really? A chemistry teacher starts cooking meth? "

BTW, I could definitely see Cusack pulling off the role. Ferris? Not so much.

Yeah, the execs had trouble imagining Malcom's dad as Walt, but they were fine with Ferris ####### Bueller?

 

[comfortably numb]

How does everyone want the show to end?

Let's see. Walt Jr. finally succumbs after enduring several months of torture in a Mexican prison.That's all I got for now.

I assume the torture would be no breakfast for 3 weeks?

 

[beer 302]

I really hope we don't look back at THE MAGNET as this show's Jump The Shark moment.

It was fun, but utterly ridiculous.

Worse than the turtle head bomb?

Turtle head bomb was a great episode. And lets be honest, Walt is a mad scientist and that's part of what this show fun. Sometimes he hits, sometimes he misses but it's great TV either way.

 

[shader]

How does everyone want the show to end?

Let's see. Walt Jr. finally succumbs after enduring several months of torture in a Mexican prison.That's all I got for now.

 

[shader]

How does everyone want the show to end?

Let's see. Walt Jr. finally succumbs after enduring several months of torture in a Mexican prison.That's all I got for now.

Junior/Flynn has got to get hooked on drugs and/or start dealing this season.

I agree. Either give him a meaningful storyline or get him off the show/give him much less airtime.

 

[Major]

No mention of Gus on the call, just a general cartel threat as before. You also can't have Hank killed b/c the final season will likely focus on the showdown between Walt and Hank.

As for the Feds, remember they don't 'suspect' Gus (likely b/c Gus has a mole embedded in the DEA). In Season 2 or 3, I suspected the mole to be Hank's boss (the tall, older white guy) but now I'm thinking it's Gomez.

17seconds, tell your mother in law to stop biting my theories

 

[Eviloutsider]

How does everyone want the show to end?I'd like to see Walt, after getting a death-sentence to begin the show, be the only one left alive at the end. Cartel takes out his family and Walt is left on the run with nothing.

Malcom waking up to find out it was all a dream and his dad wasn't a drug lord with another family?

 

[Major]

How does everyone want the show to end?I'd like to see Walt, after getting a death-sentence to begin the show, be the only one left alive at the end. Cartel takes out his family and Walt is left on the run with nothing.

Malcom waking up to find out it was all a dream and his dad wasn't a drug lord with another family?

 

[Jed]

An explanation for how the magnet would/would not work:

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2407192,00.asp

I think we'll find it didn't work (Samsung probably paid for product placement, and it will 'survive' the magnet).

 

[badmojo1006]

How does everyone want the show to end?I'd like to see Walt, after getting a death-sentence to begin the show, be the only one left alive at the end. Cartel takes out his family and Walt is left on the run with nothing.

Malcom waking up to find out it was all a dream and his dad wasn't a drug lord with another family?

 

[identikit]

An explanation for how the magnet would/would not work:

http://www.pcmag.com...,2407192,00.asp

I think we'll find it didn't work (Samsung probably paid for product placement, and it will 'survive' the magnet).

I'm thinking some of the date on it survives as well.Just not so sure how much video Gus would keep stored on it.

Unless he was trying to put together a video tutorial of how Walt makes meth.

 

[Raider Nation]

If you watch the scene again at the 46:00 mark, some of the bins go flying into the wall, but the vast majority simply tumbled over gently when the racks fell. Naturally, Fring's computer was one of the few items which went smashing into the wall, causing serious damage.

 

[Apple Jack]

An explanation for how the magnet would/would not work:

http://www.pcmag.com...,2407192,00.asp

I think we'll find it didn't work (Samsung probably paid for product placement, and it will 'survive' the magnet).

I'm thinking some of the date on it survives as well.Just not so sure how much video Gus would keep stored on it.

Unless he was trying to put together a video tutorial of how Walt makes meth.

Gus doesn't strike me as the type to keep unmistakable evidence of a criminal conspiracy lying around his office.

 

[identikit]

An explanation for how the magnet would/would not work:

http://www.pcmag.com...,2407192,00.asp

I think we'll find it didn't work (Samsung probably paid for product placement, and it will 'survive' the magnet).

I'm thinking some of the date on it survives as well.Just not so sure how much video Gus would keep stored on it.

Unless he was trying to put together a video tutorial of how Walt makes meth.

Gus doesn't strike me as the type to keep unmistakable evidence of a criminal conspiracy lying around his office.

Right.Though the Cayman info wasn't that well-hidden.

 

[Ned]

If you watch the scene again at the 46:00 mark, some of the bins go flying into the wall, but the vast majority simply tumbled over gently when the racks fell. Naturally, Fring's computer was one of the few items which went smashing into the wall, causing serious damage.

I have a mental image of you sitting at a high school style desk in a tape room, NFL style, watching the scene over and over again. Furiously taking notes.

 

[Leeroy Jenkins]

Are the episodes available on AMC.com or for tablet viewing after they air initially?

 

[pollardsvision]

An explanation for how the magnet would/would not work:

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2407192,00.asp

I think we'll find it didn't work (Samsung probably paid for product placement, and it will 'survive' the magnet).

Esp. in comparison to Jesse's Dell that croaked without a fight.

 

[Jed]

An explanation for how the magnet would/would not work:

http://www.pcmag.com...,2407192,00.asp

I think we'll find it didn't work (Samsung probably paid for product placement, and it will 'survive' the magnet).

I'm thinking some of the date on it survives as well.Just not so sure how much video Gus would keep stored on it.

Unless he was trying to put together a video tutorial of how Walt makes meth.

I think the video tutorial is a real possibility. He wanted to ditch him ASAP, but needed the nuances of his recipe first.

 

[Jed]

An explanation for how the magnet would/would not work:

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2407192,00.asp

I think we'll find it didn't work (Samsung probably paid for product placement, and it will 'survive' the magnet).

Esp. in comparison to Jesse's Dell that croaked without a fight.

 

[CBusAlex]

If you watch the scene again at the 46:00 mark, some of the bins go flying into the wall, but the vast majority simply tumbled over gently when the racks fell. Naturally, Fring's computer was one of the few items which went smashing into the wall, causing serious damage.

It doesn't really matter if the laptop itself takes physical damage. Even if the screen is cracked or whatever you can still recover data from the hard drive.

 

[Apple Jack]

If you watch the scene again at the 46:00 mark, some of the bins go flying into the wall, but the vast majority simply tumbled over gently when the racks fell. Naturally, Fring's computer was one of the few items which went smashing into the wall, causing serious damage.

It doesn't really matter if the laptop itself takes physical damage. Even if the screen is cracked or whatever you can still recover data from the hard drive.

But the idea is that if there is enough of a magnetic force to pull it into the wall, there was certainly enough to wipe the HD.

 

[identikit]

If you watch the scene again at the 46:00 mark, some of the bins go flying into the wall, but the vast majority simply tumbled over gently when the racks fell. Naturally, Fring's computer was one of the few items which went smashing into the wall, causing serious damage.

It doesn't really matter if the laptop itself takes physical damage. Even if the screen is cracked or whatever you can still recover data from the hard drive.

True.But it being closer to the magnet would make Operation Magnet more effective, no?

 

[Jojo the circus boy]

As posted by PCMag, if it were SSD, good chance the data survives.

 

[identikit]

FWIW my Samsung laptop that I bought in January has a S-ATA hard drive.

I'm not a .

Had to google it.

 

[Leeroy Jenkins]

Stop nerding up the thread. The data is 99% wiped I would think. Usually walt's plans work but also have unintended consequences. So the data is gone, but they are now turned onto the money trail, which will some how lead back to Walt as well, who will then need to come up with another plan . . . and so on and on we go for 15 more episodes.

 

[Major]

Stop nerding up the thread. The data is 99% wiped I would think. Usually walt's plans work but also have unintended consequences. So the data is gone, but they are now turned onto the money trail, which will some how lead back to Walt as well, who will then need to come up with another plan . . . and so on and on we go for 15 more episodes.

but Gus is a perfectionist and demands 96% purity

 

[The Duff Man]

Things that could happen:

Walt or his family die, one of these have to be the ending, maybe both. Walt seems more likely.

Walt having to choose between Jessie/life as a criminal and his family. He is moving closer to picking the former. Even better if he picks the former then later Jessie finds out the stuff Walt has done and offs him.

Hank figures out everything and Jessie or Mike kill him. Walt has the chance to intervene and walks away.

Walt pays Gretchen and her husband a visit as a FU, lets the cat out of the bag with his foolish bravado then has to have them dealt with

Saul bangs Walt's wife, episode title......IFS

 

[Wingnut]

Things that could happen:Saul bangs Walt's wife, episode title......IFS

 

[CBusAlex]

Better #### Saul

 

[Wingnut]

Better #### Saul

Better Ball Saul

 

[Flying Spaghetti Monster]

Things that could happen:Walt or his family die, one of these have to be the ending, maybe both. Walt seems more likely.Walt having to choose between Jessie/life as a criminal and his family. He is moving closer to picking the former. Even better if he picks the former then later Jessie finds out the stuff Walt has done and offs him.Hank figures out everything and Jessie or Mike kill him. Walt has the chance to intervene and walks away.Walt pays Gretchen and her husband a visit as a FU, lets the cat out of the bag with his foolish bravado then has to have them dealt withSaul bangs Walt's wife, episode title......IFS

Need to add a few more.Walt's wife gets so scared of Walt after she find out he killed Hank - she goes to the Feds. Walt abandoned by everyone, even his family which was the original reason he went into the drug business ,relapses and dies of cancer, alone.

 

[Major]

How does everyone want the show to end?

I'd like to see Walt, after getting a death-sentence to begin the show, be the only one left alive at the end. Cartel takes out his family and Walt is left on the run with nothing.

Malcom waking up to find out it was all a dream and his dad wasn't a drug lord with another family?

So Malcom wakes up from his dream only to find his Dad being his jackass self that will all know and love, ending the show with this routine? http://youtu.be/5fBuSZ5a_UI?Maybe Tuco, Tio and Gus join the fun later and breakout in unison dance?

 

[tommyboy]

Walts wife and the coma guy get back together. As they slip into the hot tub for a passionate round of intense lovemaking, the clumsy oaf drops the boombox playing Barry White music into the jacuzzi and fries them both. Then Jr comes to discover them in the hottub and decides to jump in with them, not realizing they are dead and fries himself too. Then Hanks wife discovers all 3 of them and decides to steal her diamond earings, and gets fried in the process

the end

 

[Christo]

If you watch the scene again at the 46:00 mark, some of the bins go flying into the wall, but the vast majority simply tumbled over gently when the racks fell. Naturally, Fring's computer was one of the few items which went smashing into the wall, causing serious damage.

I have a mental image of you sitting at a high school style desk in a tape room, NFL style, watching the scene over and over again. Furiously taking notes.

 

[Major]

If you watch the scene again at the 46:00 mark, some of the bins go flying into the wall, but the vast majority simply tumbled over gently when the racks fell. Naturally, Fring's computer was one of the few items which went smashing into the wall, causing serious damage.

I have a mental image of you sitting at a high school style desk in a tape room, NFL style, watching the scene over and over again. Furiously taking notes.

I get a similar picture....and for some reason he wears these shorts to work: http://rencher.com/images/20091022b.jpg

 

[Major]

Things that could happen:Saul bangs Walt's wife, episode title......IFS

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