I took the fact that Flynn was living with Skyler as evidence they had repaired their relationship. I am sure Marie would have let him live him with her if he wanted.
I assumed they were not on speaking terms…I thought when Marie called the first words she said on the machine were…“Skyler…truce.”
I thought she said “truce” too, which surprised me. I expected them to really come together after Walt was gone and Hank was dead.
She was fun but she needed to go. She would want to kill anyone who’d ever seen her face. No way could Walt take out Jack and crew without also getting rid of her.
Also, the woman in the Marty Robbins song is spelled slightly differently (Feleena, maybe?) and the change in spelling for the episode title adds a nice little twist in becoming a combination of three chemicals: Fe Li Na.
If you take the song literally, Walt’s lost love is the chemistry - which makes sense considering the very end of the episode.
Vince Gilligan was on The Colbert Report last night, and he confirmed that Walt’s lost love is either the blue meth or the lab itself.
Robbins later wrong a song named “Feleena (From El Paso)” about the same character, so I’d say that’s the canonical spelling. I’m guessing the writers didn’t check- or maybe they preferred a spelling that could be interpreted several ways.
He… that’s right, him, Walter Fucking White!.. made the best god-damned meth on the planet. Let 'em bite on that.
Makes perfect sense for Heisenberg’s dying thoughts.
When Gus first showed him the lab below the laundry I knew he was going to take the job instantly, if just to have that lab. As a lab rat myself, who just set up my own new lab this year, there is nothing, nothing as sweet and magical as your own lab.
The funny thing is that Walt is so proud of his knowledge and abilities as a chemist and was so proud of that lab. But the lab is really just a small-scale pharmaceutical plant. A factory in other words. And the work he was doing in the lab amounted to working as a technician in a pharmaceutical plant. Once the process was defined, really you could train anyone to do it. (Perhaps that’s why he was offended at the results that Todd was getting with Jesse’s assistance.)
I would agree if it was in a completely controlled environment with no room for error or outside influence on the process. But part of what makes (sorry, made) Walt so great at this is that he knows exactly how to adjust things here or there to account for temperature, humidity, poor ingredients, etc. Any monkey can push a button in a factory - but Walt has to not only push that button but he also has to finesse each cook so that it’s the very best that it can be.
Huh. I thought he did it to get Jesse near him to make sure he would be OK, not because he wanted him killed. If they all died, the cops would get there and nab Jesse, so Walt was getting him out of there.
…duhhhhh, Todd make meth now?
The interview Gilligan did on Colbert last night was fun, but the sign off sequence was hilarious.
Some folks are claiming that they didn’t like the ending because it all worked out too well for Walt, but did it? Was dying part of his plan? I don’t know, I mean he did go to tell Skyler good-bye and did set up Walt Jr. with a trust fund. but maybe he was just planning on doing all that, shutting down the Nazis (killing/saving Jesse) and then heading back to NH. When he died “happy” I’m not so sure he was happy but kind of relieved, it was all over…and I mean all of it.
Haven’t seen Fight Club, but I do know I’m not supposed to talk about it.
Breaking Bran
Why would Walt want or need Jesse to be OK? As far as he knew Uncle Jack and Jesse had partnered up.
I’ll admit, there’s no one right answer here. Jesse wasn’t in the room when they initially brought Walt in, but Walt didn’t have his keys. So one could argue that Walt telling Jack that ‘he still owes him Jesse’ was just Walt stalling for time, trying to find a way to get to his keys, not Walt wanting to kill Jesse… but I don’t see anything in the episode up until he actually sees Jesse that tells me Walt was thinking, ‘Jesse’s alive and being kept prisoner, I’ll go save him’.
I’ll have to watch it again, but did Walt get the keys before Jesse was brought in, or just as he was being brought in?
I did think it rather odd that you have a guy that you’ve already said you’re going to shoot in the head - but they just leave Walt standing there, pretty much by himself? Seemed a bit odd, but that’s a small nit-pick.
Huell: “Finale start yet?” (In case it hasn’t been posted, the last BB facebook recap.)