corsair
1701
Who the hell is Meth Damon?
Really you couldn’t google it? Though it should also be kind of obvious.
corsair
1703
It was kind of the point: best nickname ever and I didn’t know who the hell was being referred to? And seeing who it is all I can say is: hunh? Why is he “Meth Damon”? Blondie McHottiepants wins.
It’s a mystery
But I suppose if you suffer from prosopagnosia…I can see why you might be confused.
Meth Damon is the Eddie Haskell of the twenty-first century.
“Wally, if your dumb brother tags along, I’m gonna - oh, good afternoon, Mrs. Cleaver. I was just telling Wallace how pleasant it would be for Theodore to accompany us to the movies.”
corsair
1707
I thought Eddie Haskell was the John Holmes of the 20th century?
You’re thinking of Jonah Falcon
You really don’t think he looks like Matt Damon? Or are you just being obstinate?
corsair
1710
Actually, I’m having some fun with it. No, it never particularly struck me he looked like Matt Damon. From many angles he doesn’t (or are you just being obstinate in insisting the photo I selected could be confused for Matt? <g>). With a different haircut (like the one he has this season) he looks less like him. From that particular photo, yes, he does. I get the joke.
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corsair
1711
Haha - I like that one, but, no:
Another widely reported urban legend of the 1970s was that Osmond had grown up to become adult film star John Holmes. The story apparently began when fan magazines falsely reported that Osmond had embarked on such a career. The rumor was dispelled when a Los Angeles movie theater lit up its marquee advertising “Eddie Haskell of TV in ‘Behind the Green Door’ - X-rated”, prompting Osmond himself, then an LAPD officer, to go into the theater to request that the manager of the theater pull the plug on the marquee.
Ken Osmond was the actor who played Eddie. As I remember it, the Los Angeles Times in confirming that Osmond was not Holmes, mentioned he was questioned by his superiors in the LAPD because they had concerns and wanted to clear up the rumors for the good of the department.
Dang the show got a little dark this episode.
Warning
1714
Yeah that went bad in about nine different ways. Painful to watch.
Tyjenks
1715
So fucking awesome! I was all ready for them to give people outs or glimmers of hope, but they are pulling no punches and it is going out like the bleakest of bleak runaway trains. I. Love. It.
So that phone call at the end was Walt doing what little he still could at that point to protect his family by basically clearing Skylar and taking all the blame, right? My friends were pretty horrified at the beginning of that call. All in all, an amazing episode for watching my friends freak out about things!
Also, it was directed by Rian Johnson, which explains the time travel at the beginning.
Right, it was one little shred of redemption for Walt. It was completely believable unlike most of his horseshit though, given the fact that he had taken the kid and fought with his wife. I doubt him taking the kid and struggling with Skylar was part of his master plan for clearing her.
I assumed his taking the child after the fight was his inability to completely dissolve his family unit, even though half of it willing sheered away from him. A combination of hurt, betrayal, exhaustion from not just a day’s worth of barrel pushing but then also getting slashed with a knife by his wife probably led to his taking the child, but then hearing Holly ask for her Mom woke him up, and from that point on he put a plan in motion to move all the blame to him, make his family hate him completely so he could disappear and not have them worry about him, and etc. Brilliant.
corsair
1719
Go watch your recording (I barely remembered to stop reading this thread in time before I got to my recording while I was watching the football game):
You have been warned. So…
In. Fucking. Tense.
That was a difficult episode to watch, and an equally difficult one not to turn away from. I’m like Mr. Talking Bad (who I have on pause at the moment) and would have to stop the recording and walk away for a minute during commercial breaks.
I was so wrapped up in it I completely forget that Walt would undoubtedly better call Saul for the exit plan.
The opening told me one thing: that the shit had hit the fan and Hank and Gomie were not going to survive. Great use of flashback to the same location to set the story. Hank got to go out like a man, but I figured he wouldn’t survive the series once he was willing to let Jesse die in setting up Walt. He was in your care, buddy - the writers signed your death warrant! Gomie? Bummer. Walt Jr? Intense bummer. Marie? Well, never liked her, but damn, she didn’t deserve that. Skylar? Better than she deserved, but I suppose the jury is literally out on that. At least Hank got to go out the hero, he knew the score, knew what would happen, and didn’t blink or look away.
Jesse. Meth Damon (okay, okay, maybe a little…) made you his bitch! I’ll stand by my prediction that Walt goes out trying to rescue him. Take 70 million dollars from me and we’re square? No fucking way, Aryan Motherfucker!
Damn, I’m not sure I can take another episode as uncomfortable as this. Raw and naked as it gets. Best third to last episode on television ever?
Except Skyler realizes what he is doing and says ‘I am sorry’ to him . . . she may hate him, but she also still loves him - definitely at that moment on the phone.
When he parked in front of the fire station after saying ‘We need to get you a new car seat’ - I thought he was setting up so that his entire family was going to ‘die’ - starting with Holly in a fire.
