Breaking Bad: The Final 8 - (premieres 8/11/13)

[Psyblast]

Re: Breaking Bad: The Final 8 - (premieres 8/11/13)

http://tv.yahoo.com/blogs/tv-news/-breaking-bad--recap---walt-does-have-a-floor--but-it-s-probably-too-late-023608102.html

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The first thought at the end of "To'hajiilee," the most tension-filled episode yet of the cat-and-mouse game that has made up "Breaking Bad" Season 5.5: several exclamatory phrases that would have to be spelled out with a lot of asterisks.

Our second thought: "Bad" creator Vince Gilligan has said this isn't even the season's best episode; that comes, he says, with next week's "Ozymandias."

Third thought: It's really going to be a long week.

[Matty Aqua]

Re: Breaking Bad: The Final 8 - (premieres 8/11/13)

Great episode...can't wait for next week!

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I don't get why Hank and Gomez rock up with a shotgun and and hand gun obviously expecting gunfire and not wear a bullet proof vest and have the radio close by to call back up?...

[Cabke]

Re: Breaking Bad: The Final 8 - (premieres 8/11/13)

Great episode...can't wait for next week!

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I don't get why Hank and Gomez rock up with a shotgun and and hand gun obviously expecting gunfire and not wear a bullet proof vest and have the radio close by to call back up?...

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Well, the whole thing with Walt has been off the book, so they probably wanted to keep it low key and off the record.

[goh]

Re: Breaking Bad: The Final 8 - (premieres 8/11/13)

Great episode...can't wait for next week!

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I don't get why Hank and Gomez rock up with a shotgun and and hand gun obviously expecting gunfire and not wear a bullet proof vest and have the radio close by to call back up?...

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"Hey guys,we're going out to get my brother in law who funded my recovery with illegal drug money. We're tricking him to show us where even more of his illegal drug money is. Not only that we're using his former partner who also cooked and sold illegal drugs to help. Also he has a video implicating me in the whole thing in case we do actually catch him. We might need some back up."

But yah,maybe they are wearing a vest.

[bichettehappens]

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I don't think Walt actually escapes to New Hampshire to get that license. I do agree that SOMEBODY should've been hit by one of those bullets. What an episode though, crazy

And I'm not sure how Marie would get the platform or credibility to rat Walt out. Killing her with the ricin would accomplish nothing since, even if she snitched, she wouldn't be able to further implicate him. At that point, what's done is done. Skyler and Jesse (if he survives and escapes) are the only ones able to take him down assuming Hank and Gomez die.

[Sandman42]

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I don't think Walt actually escapes to New Hampshire to get that license. I do agree that SOMEBODY should've been hit by one of those bullets. What an episode though, crazy

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He's not going to New Hampshire. He's getting that license from Saul's guy.

[Redacted01]

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No spoilers, but just to join the spoiler party...

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Who says he doesn't go to New Hampshire? He goes somewhere because he has a full head of hair later on. Last I checked, that is going to take several months. And we do know it is his 52nd birthday (I believe) from the season 5, first episode opening.

[bichettehappens]

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He's not going to New Hampshire. He's getting that license from Saul's guy.

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Right, that's what I'm saying. Saw people earlier in the thread saying now we know why he goes to New Hampshire. I don't see why he'd go all the way there to come all the way back. I've gotta think there's somewhere he can hide out that's much closer than New Hampshire.

Who knows though, clearly a lot of ground to cover in only 3 episodes. Can't wait!

[goh]

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Or there's no New Hampshire at all and the plates were switched to avoid suspicion,is that possible?

[thaSLAB]

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[shugknight]

Re: Breaking Bad: The Final 8 - (premieres 8/11/13)

Anyone else believe the ricin is for Walt? I feel like Walt is very stern on his "I do things my way"

I don't think he's going to allow the cancer to beat him.
I don't think he's going to allow the DEA to arrest him.
I don't think he's going to allow Uncle Jack and crew force him to cook.

So in the end, I feel like instead of having any of these things done to him, he'll do it his way and end his life with Ricin.

[TCM]

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[Redacted01]

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Anyone else believe the ricin is for Walt? I feel like Walt is very stern on his "I do things my way"

I don't think he's going to allow the cancer to beat him.
I don't think he's going to allow the DEA to arrest him.
I don't think he's going to allow Uncle Jack and crew force him to cook.

So in the end, I feel like instead of having any of these things done to him, he'll do it his way and end his life with Ricin.

My post from about a month ago... safe to read based on your post.

^^ A few notes, for your eyes only I guess, and those who read his ideas.

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It's ricin, btw. But he has an assault rifle of some sort. That's not really a gun you commit suicide with. It would be awkward to shoot yourself with it, first of all, and second, if it isn't a lethal shot, now you have to figure out how to finish the job. As ricin is slow acting, it seems more likely that he would take it, go on his spree, and then be able to die on his terms versus other's perhaps. Or the ricin gets used for something else. I kind of hope they keep showing a couple minutes of flash ahead for each show so we can see what's going on.

[BenGerman]

Re: Breaking Bad: The Final 8 - (premieres 8/11/13)

I thought a few of you might be interested in this. It's an article my website wrote called "The Walter White Conundrum", and seeing as I hate when people self-advertise stuff, I'm not going to link it or anything and I'll put it in spoilers for those who are interested. Anyway, here's a decent sized chunk of the article:

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With only a few weeks of Breaking Bad left, it's time to pick a side. It's not an easy task -- in fact, it's almost an impossible one. Walter White, or more exactly, his creator Vince Gilligan, designed it to be that way. We aren't supposed to like Walter White. He's a selfish, maniacal prick whose descent from a decent human being to a vengeful monster came like a heavy rain crashing down to the earth. Yet, there's still some tiny semblance of a man who once had us all rooting for him to succeed. Maybe it's just another form of sheer manipulation on the show's part, but it's there none the less. Breaking Bad is coming to an end, and it's put its audience in a really tough spot.

A week ago, most of Breaking Bad's audience would have told you there was not a single part of them that wanted Walter alive and out of custody by the time the show ended. We would have meant it, too.

Of course, then the events from Sunday's "To'hajiilee" happened. And as Walter slowly marched toward an exultant Hank, and an eerily conflicted Jesse, our hearts dropped a little bit. Did we really want this? After all that Walt has put everyone through, how could we possibly want him to escape? Even if that escape meant the potential deaths of Hank, Gomez, and Jesse? It was just another reminder that Vince Gilligan (and Walter, as a surrogate) are master manipulators. To put it into a brief analogy: Walter's manipulation of the characters within the Breaking Bad universe is akin to Gilligan's manipulation of the show's audience. There is no reason to feel sympathetic for Walter White, yet, in that single moment, we all did.

Jesse is widely considered the show's most empathetic character. More or less, he's been tossed around by characters like a bean bag at a tailgate. It's not until the final minutes of last Sunday's episode "To'Hajiilee" that he finally has his moment of vindication: At last, Walter White has been outsmarted. And by who else, other than his protege Jesse Pinkman. But as Jesse so astutely pointed out in an episode a couple of weeks ago, Walter White is the devil. He's smarter than you, and he's luckier than you. So the intense affliction upon Jesse's face as he watches Walt near his demise should be just as moving and important to the audience as anything else in the entire episode. Want to know how to feel about Walter White? Look at Jesse's face in those few moments. That's how you should feel. Confused, lost, sad, happy, vindicated, and guilty.

I call it the Walter White conundrum.

[Psyblast]

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I keep watching the last 20 minutes of "To'hajiilee" over and over. Damn. Just..................damn.