The "Breaking Bad" Convo Thread

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I have been a huge fan of this AMC TV show since the 1st episode 4 seasons ago! I thought I would start a Breaking Bad conversation thread for a little fun as there are HUGE fan sites all over the web honoring the amazing writing-acting-directing and story line with all the crazy twists and turns-the emotions and rich character development - IMO one of the #1 BEST television series of all time! This is the final season and many millions of fans are freaking out!! Not the LAST season!! Not yet!

Who's (Breaking) BAD?!!

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Breaking Bad is awesome- Jesse Pinkman is so cute lol. I got started watching Breaking Bad just this past season and I love it!

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@WATW: Hey alright! This season has started out crazy good huh? Now that Fring "faced off" lol - and Mike changed his mind-how about Walt? lmao! He is so outrageous now-"I am the danger" wow

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Yeah Walt goes "I am the one who knocks"

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and Jesse Pinkman says: "MAGNETS YES!!!" LMAO (love him)

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How about when Jesse goes "Yeah! Science!" lol- and what was up with that boy and chilli powder

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@WATW: IKR lol - I think our boy Jesse likes it HOT! lmao

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TG On Demand has the latest episodes of 'BB' - i missed it this past Sunday due to Olympics -oops - plan to watch it to keep up-I have seen (and I have DVD's) of every episode since S1

Walt has really changed - he is the DANGER lol

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Music store salesman to Jesse's crew: "Let me throw in the stenciling for free then for ya guys, what's the name of your band? Few minutes later-4 massive rolling equipment cases roll by with the name 'VAMONOS PEST'

OMG I LMAO!!

Let the operation commence--Back in biz!!

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I saw that too Admin- that part was freakin hilarious.

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OK tonight's 505 episode WHAT!?

Skylar you are getting all wet in that pool - hey what's she doing? SKYLAR!! (as everyone stares into the deep end) "Is she coming up Walt"?

LMAO!

Oh nice watch Walt "Jesse thank you how thoughtful"

Hank's promotion=No Fring case (idts lol)
Marie: STFU SHUT UP!!
Jr.: Vroom vroom hot rod vroom vroom ("what with leases these days" OK Walt lol)


tic toc tic toc bang!!

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Lydia to Jesse "Is that what I think it is"...
...and then Mike "she's dead"

Then how about Skylar all "I thought you were the danger" to Walt- that was so funny

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Ready to watch the new BB tonight

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Tonight's show will be great! Last week's cliffhanger in so many aspects demands answers -

What's to become of Skylar? commitment? lol (eww never liked the woman lol) But what about

What's to become of the new on the show Lydia? (really couldn't care less-she's expendable IMO) Except for this: "No, not barrels-I'm talking about an OCEAN" (huh?)

Will Marie EVER shut UP?!!

Will Hank turn down the leadership position since he'd be off the "Fring case'?

It all remains to be seen!! Maybe I need a to pig out on for the show tonight lol

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How about those guys stealing from that train! Walt was really smart replacing the contents with water so that they wouldn't know they were robbed.

Skylar still being less than pleasant

And poor lil Walt Jr. doesn't know what's going on with his mom and dad- it's sad that stupid skylar won't let him stay at home.

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How about the hardcores on the BB chat? Wow lol That was a trip huh? The comments were up to 5000 on Sunday night's episode "DEAD FREIGHT!!

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FYI: The sad truth-there are only 3 episodes left this summer-the final 8 episodes of the final season is reported to be next summer - ughh

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That so sucks there's only 3 left until next summer

I can't wait to see what happens Sunday after last weeks episode though

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Oh I know huh? You will still have - Walter W aka I E lol

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OK the BB chatroom was hilarious Sunday night!! Those hardcores were on all night until 1pm the next day lol - I admit I was on late Sunday but shamone people lol 18 hours? Wow! I hadn't closed the window and when I went to close it the next day-I saw chat still going. Talk about dissecting the show - these people are SERIOUS!!

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WOW- What a GREAT show last night- best so far this season! First I'd like to say how about that opening scene- "I am the cook. I am the man who killed Gus Fring- now say my name"- the dude goes "heisenberg"- Walt "You're GD right"- WOW ego trip much?

Jesse is going to when he finds out about Mike- can't stand Walt for doing that to poor Jes again- and to be all "Oh I could just get them from Lydia" like they were out having dinner or something- I wonder if they took that money away from lil Kaylee- and whatever happened to her in the park? Looks like g-pa just left her there

Walt to Skylar: "Why don't you just go back in the office"

I thought: geez Skylar why don't you just go back in the pool

Can't wait to see the big scene between Walt and Lydia next week- wonder if he'll get those names

RIP Mike Ehrmantraut

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Wow WATW LMAO - Skylar - go back in the POOL!! That is too much-good one!

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Hate
The wait
For 8

No words yet on s5 e8

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It is going to feel so weird tomorrow not tuning into BB at 10 . I definitely cannot wait for July!

What an episode though- don't even know where to begin- there was so much going on and I don't think there could have been a bigger cliffhanger! Can't wait to find out what happens with Hank now that he's found Gale's book in Walt's bathroom- who the heck put that thing there anyway?

That scene with Walt and Lydia was hilarious. L's all I think you should order something- i think this whole thing would go over much better if you just ordered something- then she goes it's in my head, safer there LMAO.

Oh and Sky- please look behind your electrical socket

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"Glyding Over All" was unbelievable! That S5 ep8 was rockin' with so many scenarios it was almost as if they crammed two eps into it!

WATW you are spot on with the dialogue hilarity! The Empire's Emporer may be in the deep ish now with Hank though with that "Leaves of Grass" book Hank spotted -the inscription Gale wrote is too much!! lol

I am worried for Walter White - I gotta say

Jesse please watch that Todd, he is too broken bad - he's "breaking ROTTEN" so we HATE him!

Yes Skylar listen to WATW-it is that socket-over there - yes that one-look behind the plate-there's a surprise there all for you!! LMAO

I have to find that passage in the book I posted on the BB (AMC) chat-will post it here after I do!

I think since we have to wait until next year for the final '8' predictions are in order! Let's tell how we think this entire EMPIRE will go forward and what WE see coming!!

Go Heisenberg!! (and of course our fav JESSE!!!)

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I haven't weighed in yet but thought I would provide this interesting VG fan chat which is in 2 parts:

Vince Gilligan Answers Fan Questions (Part I)

In Part I of his chat with the fans, Breaking Bad's creator and executive producer Vince Gilligan explains why Hank discovers Walt's secret when he does and lays odds on the chances of seeing Bryan Cranston in his underwear one last time.

The scene with Hank on the toilet was wonderfully tongue-in-cheek. Were you worried about people not taking the scene seriously enough, given the weight of the revelations? -- shiggityshwa

A: That's an excellent question. Why on the toilet? We were looking to do a type of scene and a moment of revelation that was unique to the show and that seemed a bit overly-mundane or perhaps even undramatic in its setting. Breaking Bad is known for its moments of high tension and drama and showmanship, and we wanted to end the season in a very different manner. We believe that the moment of revelation, when it finally comes, is so very dramatic that really it could be set anywhere and still have the punch of horror for Hank that it needs to pack.

When you introduced Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass in Season 3, was there a plan that the book could be Walt's undoing? Is this poetic justice for Gale? -- Fulminate

A: [Laughs] I like the idea of Gale's poetic justice from beyond the grave. The writers and I love the idea of revisiting previous moments in the show because we love the idea that all actions have consequences. We know that in our day-to-day lives, but very often in television storytelling characters say things or they do things and a particular episode ends and there's not necessarily much in the way of resonance. On this show, we very much like a character's actions to have repercussions in ways that we identify with in real life. And to that end, we love revisiting these old moments, and Walt Whitman's poetry was something that Gale Boetticher loved. It touched his heart and he wanted to share it with his new friend and mentor Walter White. And unfortunately the sharing of it and Walt keeping this book in hindsight proved to be a bit unwise.

What was the purpose of opening the final scene out by the pool with the same shots, in the same order, as the beginning of "Seven Thirty-Seven"? -- Harmonica

A: This episode is the end of the first half of our final season. So there's a feeling of ending to it, and certainly at the end of this episode, there's an end that we finally reach to Hank's lack of knowledge about who Walt really is. But maybe the most important ending is the resonances of what happened in Episode 7: the end of Mike and also the end of Walt's collaboration with Jesse. And those two endings lead my writers and I to feel somewhat sentimental for better times in the show. There's sort of an elegiac quality to this episode -- Episode 8 contains within it a bit of an elegy for episodes past and to that end, we do have a lot of visual shoutouts and harkenings back, and also some lines of dialogue. For instance, Lydia says to Walt, "We're gonna make a lot of money together," which is something Tuco told Walt way back in the end of Season 1. So there are a lot of moments like that -- little Easter eggs to be gleaned.

VIDEO: Inside Episode 507, "Say My Name"

What influenced your decision to kill off Mike instead of letting him drive away into obscurity? -- Virginia Young

A: It was definitely a decision that was hard-fought and hard to come to because the writers and I all love the character of Mike, and we also love Jonathan Banks who plays Mike. But on the other hand, Walter White is a very powerful and dangerous man and he's also a very damaged man. And whether he would admit to it or not, he has to flex his power because deep down inside he feels very powerless. I think he has very terrible low self-esteem issues. [Laughs] So it's very important for Walt to get respect and feel respected, and certainly for the last eight episodes and many episodes prior to that, Mike dissed Walt on a regular basis. Walt did not like being zip-cuffed to a radiator. He did not like the idea of Mike deciding to take away his hard-earned methylamine. And going back many episodes before that, he didn't like all the various times Mike has held a gun on him, punched him off a bar stool, dog-kicked him when he was on a bar floor. So all these reasons had built up over the episodes, but they unfortunately come to a head in a moment in which Walt doesn't really need to do what he does. He can let Mike ride off into the sunset.

Although it could be argued that Walt really is in trouble once these ten guys give out all the information they're going to give to the feds. So Mike is leaving Walt and Jesse in a terrible lurch, and if Walt were to get the names from Lydia, and Mike were out there somewhere alive, Mike would probably come back and stop 'em or kill 'em in retaliation. So, as a lot of these moments in Breaking Bad, there's a lot to be chewed over in this moment: Did Walt have to do it? Was it the best play? Or was it an unnecessarily petulant and instinctive moment that he now regrets.

Will we ever see Walter White in his tighty-whities again? -- Lisa

A: Very possibly, but Bryan Cranston is a man who, for just the spare change in your pocket will most likely drop his pants if you ever run across him on the street. So even once the show ends, there's a great possibility of seeing Mr. Cranston in his underpants, even if he's not playing Walter White. [Laughs]

I will post Part II of Vince Gilligan's fan chat , in which Breaking Bad's creator weighs in on the show's unusually high child mortality rate and Walter, Jr.'s love of breakfast, in a few days

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This is great Capricious-thanks for posting! I cannot believe still that we have to wait for the last '8' until next JULY!!

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@admin: YW! I know the wait is crazy! Did you go see if the BB chat was nuts again last night (even without a show airing?)I forgot to look lol - they are BB hardcore like we are with MJ

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Took a break from studying and cleaning and watched "Fly" for the first time in its entirety- that was a hilarious episode- that homemade fly swatter - and when it landed on Walt's head and Jesse goes *BANG* hits W's head with the metal swatter- Walt's all where is it did you get it? Jesse goes yeah I'm sure I got it- then

Walts lookin around

Jesse- wait whats that over there?

Walt- that's a raisin - LMAO

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Can't wait to see the return of Gus Fring on 'Revolution' tonight!

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