Or should I say, “begins to end!” I am torn between excitement and loathing that the finale is around the corner.
For some reason I thought it wasn’t coming back until Sept or Oct. I have been re-watching the series to lead into the finale. I am halfway through Season 4 now. I thought I was going too fast, but should be right on pace.
Re-watching the second time…
Holy shit, Aaron Paul is one hell of an actor.
I need Hank’s victory as much as he does.
But I need Jesse to kill Walt.
Skyler and I will run away together during the final credits, while Flynn makes off with the money and baby.
Fast-forward Marie.
Best show ever. Any way they decide to end it.
I started watching this on Netflix a few months ago and just caught up to the end of last season (or middle of this season I guess). I can’t wait for it to come back but… does anyone know if there is a way to watch it online if you don’t have cable? For the first half of season 5 I watched it on Amazon at $2/episode, which is fine, but I don’t want to have to wait until the season ends to start watching again.
I predict that the show will end with Walt Jr. ordering a hit to avenge his father’s (expected) death. He & Skylar will assume control of Walt’s empire.
I just started watching this over the last few months at my kids inistence and have just yesterday caught up.
I am disappointed that Hank’s finally figuring out that Walt is Heisenberg was not from his detective skills but from Walt being uncharacteristically stupid in not only hanging onto evidence but leaving it out in the bathroom!
We know Walt survives for another year anyway. They have to bring us up the opening scene of season 5 before killing him off and by then Walt Jr is old enough to have made it college (unless of course events get in the way of that).
Obviously all Walt now has left is his ego and he has little means left for getting it validated. Nothing left but building his empire but even he’s now realized that without anyone admiring him for it it’s just a pile of cash getting sprayed for silverfish while he eats frozen meals.
I don’t have any great guesses as to how they will wrap this up but I hope that he dies knowing that no one will know what he thinks he accomplished other than those who formerly loved him and now hate him for it, knowing that his son’s lasting memory of him will be a bad one of a weak man, his daughter will be told only that he was a nothing, and that he will ultimately be quickly forgotten. In my mind justice requires that he dies knowing that he is not feared at the time of his death but pitied and will not be long remembered.
I have never seen Breaking Bad, or, for that matter, any other HBO series. My wife, on the other hand, is a major fan of HBO series, from Game of Thrones to Boardwalk Empire to The Sopranos. I have little if any desire to watch any of them. Just not interested (much to my wife’s disgust).
However, I would like to watch Breaking Bad, which from all I hear is excellent. I will have to get it on DVD to watch from the beginning, as I don’t want to come into the series in the middle (or end).
As I read your post I increasingly thought how harsh your comments were regarding Walt and his ego. But then I remembered that I stopped liking Walt some time ago. That he had become an ego maniac bent on imposing his will on others had slipped my mind since last years final show. I do like the old Walt, the one I could partially ID with and find compassion for but this Walt has me eagerly awaiting his final confrontation with all that he has created. I dunno how to do that spoil thing so for those who are not caught up with last season the next sentence needs to be highlighted to be seen.
I miss Mike, that pissed me off and was bullshit!!!
Netflix has the first four seasons available via streaming, but not Season 5. I got those from Amazon streaming video ($2/episode). Not sure if Netflix has the S5 discs; my plan doesn’t include them.
[spoiler] The first scene of S5 is a flash-forward to Walt, sitting in a diner, “celebrating” his 52nd birthday. He has a full head of hair and a rather unkempt beard. For his free birthday meal he grudgingly shows the waitress his New Hampshire ID which has a fake name. She remarks that he’s far from home (apparently in ABQ). Another guy walks in and Walt follows him into the men’s room were he gives the guy a fat envelope (presumably money) for a set of keys. He then walks out to the parking lot, finds the car belonging to the keys, opens the trunk, and notes the assault rifle therein. He also coughs a bit during the scene which some think indicates the cancer might be back.
At the end of the season, Hank has quit the meth business after piling up a storage container full of cash, “more than we can spend in 10 lifetimes” according to Skylar. Things seem to be getting back to a tense normality when a visiting Hank goes to use the bathroom at Walt’s house and finds his copy of Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass with a very incriminating inscription to “WW” from the late Gale Boettiger. Hank puts 2 and 2 together. End scene![/spoiler]
Another funny little thing to consider, as someone noted in an interview I saw, is that Hank’s physical therapy after the shootout with the cousins has (without Hank knowing) been paid for with Walt’s drug money. That might cause some complications.
Right. The show has established that’s how DEA agents lose their jobs. The previous ASAC (Hank’s former boss) got canned because Gus Fring was right under his nose, even to the point of being each other’s house guests. Now whether or not that’s reality or not is not important. It’s the reality of the Breaking Bad alternate universe and I can suspend disbelief for that. So looking forward to the final eight episodes.
