The cops came for him at the bar just moments after he left. I suppose he could have gone back to the cabin to wait around a bit longer, but I doubt he’d risk it, since it’s known now that he’s in the area. Whatever he’s up to, I think he realizes that he needs to be moving pretty fast, to stay ahead of the law. Also, the cancer will get him soon.
I doubt that he even brought that barrel with him back to ABQ, so he probably only has the money that is in the package that he was planning to send to Junior.
We know it was at least two months, and probably three. Vacuum cleaner guy (Robert Forster) was making monthly supply runs and said Walt should make a list of needed items.
VCG apologized at the last visit for how badly the last chemo session went, and said he’d looked at some youtube videos to help with the needle stick. So we have the initial drop off, a supply run where Walt orders chemo supplies, another run where the chemo went poorly, and the last chemo session. Walt might have had the chemo supplies pre-ordered for the first run, or the urgency might have accelerated the schedule, but 60 days minimum, and probably 90.
It could be a wistful imagining of a now-impossible future that he knows he will never see. Maybe his birthday is months away and he knows that one way or another he won’t live to see it.
Thank you. But I think that’s what we’re supposed to believe.
Alright, maybe so. To be honest I don’t care if the writers forget when Walt’s birthday is. It seems like a minor error like the Bin Laden raid reference in (I think) Gliding Over All.
Normally, I don’t think anyone would even notice, let alone care, but the show has consistently used Walt’s birthday as a milestone. We got the contrast between the surprise 50th party and the frosty 51st pool party. We got Walt’s speech about what a tough year it had been between the two birthdays. We got the bacon numbers, for heaven’s sake! After all that, for the writers to say, “Fuck it, it’s his birthday in the finale, timeline be damned!” would be annoying. Plus, it screws up how much time has elapsed since Walt quit cooking and he got caught. Personally, I don’t care at all about tiny anachronisms like the Bin Laden thing. I do care about stuff that messes with the timeline.
Ditto- Frankly I put myself wholeheartedly in the writers hands. I trust that where they are taking me will be worth the trip, minor nitpicks notwithstanding.
If the location Walt was at was so far north in NH that it could only receive Montreal radio signals, then it’s not unlikely that that mountainous of an area could be buried in snow even during the warmer seasons, if his elevation is high enough.
Also, in looking at the map of that area of NH and it’s proximity to the Canadian border, I wouldn’t be surprised if the spot was chosen for Walt in case Ed the Vacuum Guy wanted to spirit him across the northern border.
I’m in New Hampshire at the moment, which happily happens to be September, and I can confirm that there’s no snow here yet. I’m not in the northern mountains, but even on top of Mount Washington, which always has the worst weather in the state, it’s currently 40 degrees F.
Snow - particularly the deep snow shown in the last episode - is not what you’d expect to see around here in September of any year.
BTW, perhaps interestingly (or perhaps not), Walt’s birthday is specifically given in the divorce papers as September 1959, which is also the month and year when Marty Robbins’ “El Paso” (the song which people are connecting to the episode title “Felina”) was first released.
Edit: I could add that Walt’s birthday is even more specifically given as September 7, and “El Paso” is the seventh track on the album, if you count upwards from side 1 and continue on side 2. But I think that’s just a sign that it’s time for me to go take a walk around the block.
I posted the following in the “Felina” thread instead of this one by mistake, but what the heck, I’ll post it here as well:
I found the source of the September birthday: It’s the divorce papers. Hard to argue with that one, then.
(Of course, in any case, neither a September or February birthday for Walt fits with Jane “turning 27 next month” and her date of birth being given as April. In that case, it would have made more sense for Walt’s birthday to be in December.)
I think I’ll just settle for the timeline being thoroughly boned, and take it as a reminder to get that shit right when I create my own hypothetical future TV show.
BTW, perhaps interestingly (or perhaps not), Walt’s birthday is specifically given in the divorce papers as September 1959, which is also the month and year when Marty Robbins’ “El Paso” (the song which people are connecting to the episode title “Felina”) wasfirst released.
My last few posts got a bit messed up and **Marley **kindly cleaned them up for me, but I think the link to the screenshot of the divorce papers stating Walt’s birthday got lost, so I’ll just repost that.
For the record, that seems to be the source of September as the date of Walt’s birthday.
That’s a good idea about the gun, maybe it will be as a set-up or something else. Walt has been violent before, but to mow people down with a big-ass gun seems like such an action movie cliche. Using the gun with trickery or manipulation seems more like Walt’s style. But the show is also about going from Mr. Chips to Scarface. It’s hard to guess what will happen.
And while it would be nice for Jesse to have a happy ending, you might be right that the happiest ending he could have might be to go out with a bang, and take Todd and the Nazis with him. And maybe Walt as well. With all his done and been through in just the past two years, there’s no way he could go on and live a normal life.
Jesse has really suffered for Walt in a lot of ways on the show. For one reason or another Walt couldn’t absorb a lot of huge beatings, so Jesse did. Does that finally result in Jesse dying because of Walt? Or does Jesse become a leader and execute one of his own designs?
