1581

I think the thing with Jesse is totally believable. It didn’t happen very long ago in the context of the show (a matter of months maybe?), and he’s obviously been obsessing over it ever since. Millions of thoughts racing through his mind has he reached that near-catatonic state he’s been in for this whole season so far.

Noticing that one tiny occurrence with his pot could easily set off a massive chain reaction in his mind leading to his ultimate realization.

1582

I know! That’s so tasty. Walt getting his frozen revolver from the soda machine. I was a soda delivery guy in my 20s and I know those machines don’t get that cold down there, but you gotta love Walt’s hickish attempts to be a cold blooded killer.

1583

That happens in the future. Or maybe I’m just not able to follow you. That risin has been moving around. Someone should do a Breaking Bad board game, complete with little pewter risin cigarette piece.

1584

Since time travel isn’t possible, I assume Breaking Bad has entirely been in the past, with events rushing towards present day (like where he returns to his abandoned home, for instance. In other words, his 52nd birthday).

1585

From a story telling perspective, those are events in the future. The show is really expert at using flash forwards (a week, a summer) to add a little narrative umph. The show has trained its viewers how to interpret these. In the beginning, they were only a few hours. Think of the opener with the RV careening through the desert, Walt standing in his underwear in the hot sun. And then, as the show moved on, the flash forwards started to go further out. Think of the plane wreck, the mysterious debris wafting down from the sky for an entire season. You can’t really call each of those events the “present” without making the conversation hopelessly complicated. They’re flash forwards. It’s a narrative device, one that Breaking Bad really knows how to use to ratchet up the tension.

1586

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Spoilers:

So, as for the theory about Walt taking on people’s attributes? Did anyone notice Todd’s jacket? Looked exactly like Walt’s jacket in the future scenes. Maybe Todd comes to get Walt back into the game and Walt kills him? Or, it’s just Vince Gilligan trolling the theory.

1588

My guess is that we all come off cheering for Walt to do some real damage to someone with that big gun of his by end of season.

Sure, Walt’s probably going to do some reprehensible shit between now and then, but I feel certain that we’re all–most of us–we’re going to be cheering for him to squash someone even more reprehensible. Maybe someone like Todd, but probably someone more like one (or all) of Todd’s uncles. Someone where you say to yourself, Walt is fucked up–a criminal and probably a psychopath–but he’s not that fucked up. I’m throwing down on Walt’s side.

1589

LOL. That’s what we want.

1590

Love the confession reveal. The ending part where Jessie realized that the ricin cig had been pocketed was not something I got initially. I had to hit the tubes. I think they could have done that better.

1591

The acting was just terrific last night or maybe it is just the writing. If I was presenting the Emmy’s this year, my speech would be something along the lines of this. “And the winner is Aaron Paul, or Bryan Cranston or Anna Gunn, or Bob Odenkirk,(Saul he deserves something), I am shocked. While Bryan is making is way up to the stage, on behave of my fellow TV actors I’d like to thank the producers of Breaking Bad for killing off the characters and ending the series, giving a shot at these awards to the rest of us.”

1592

Yep. Same here, but I figured it out with the subsequent conversation in Saul’s office without hitting the 'tubes. Saul tried to get a little too slick for his own good. Who else thought Jesse was going to cap him?

1593

Considering they’re trying to sell a Saul spin-off, not me.

I watched the on-line-only Talking Bad extension yesterday, and somebody finally asked what I’ve been wondering since the start of this season - why Walt doesn’t use Saul’s guy to disappear with his family. The way Bob Odenkirk hemmed, hawed, and danced around the question before coming up with a pretty lame answer (he would have to tell Junior the truth), I’m thinking he eventually does.

1594

Hank does this thing with his face where he drops his jaw and has these dead eyes. It’s simultaneously creepy and awesome.

1595

I think the next episode is Jesse’s last.

With each week Walt is proving out to be a more extreme sociopath/psychopath. The confession shows to what extremes he is capable of. He has crossed the line every time it is drawn. It is as if each week he turns more evil and the writer is challenging the viewer to keep loving him.

1596

I don’t think the writers want you to love him. Why would you love him?

1597

HE’S MR CHIPS!

1598

I’ve heard that quote 20 times. Today is the day I finally google Mr. Chips and learn who he is exactly. Sounds like the name for a chimp and… nope! British schoolteacher from an old book.

1599

I don’t know if you’re talking about his face during the restaurant scene or the reaction to watching Walt’s confession. The glare he gives Walt in the restaurant was so damn intense.

1600

And 2 movies.