Todd ➡ Meth Damon

I have never seen a single episode. They had a story on the local TV news about a local lady that works as a technical support for the writers. She is a chemistry professor and she started the interview with "I just want to be clear I have NEVER made any meth" :)

She tries to keep the science parts of the show a bit more accurate. She looks just Betty Crocker.

An article I read said consultants from the DEA were involved in the meth lab scenes, both for accuracy as well as to censure revealing cooking secrets.

A recent Mythbusters segment questioned some of the chemical concoctions used on the show. I recall they tested the fulminated mercury bomb and the hydroflouric acid "defoliation rinse".

More here:
The 10 Most Bad-Ass Chemistry Scenes From Breaking Bad

And some things you need to know to go, "Heisenburg".
Beaking Bad Chemistry - The Chemistry Behind AMC's Breaking Bad TV Series

(just two of numerous BB chemistry lessons).

S

It is nice they are at least getting some experts involved.

How many typical TV shows have you seen where the computer expert can just bang on the keyboard while NEVER ever having to stop to backspace or hit return or touch a mouse and hack any other secure computer system or do absurd & ridiculous photo enhancements and other tasks. One show took a still frame from a video, enhanced the reflection in someones glasses and read the tag number on a car across the street in the shade. I bet there is no still camera on the planet that could capture that much detail under ideal conditions.

It is just make-believe, but if you base the story in the current real world keep it at least in the realm of possibilities.

I think Jesse will ultimately kill Walt in a cathartic rage. It's the only ending that makes sense to me.

A film prof I had in college quoted his mentor, director/editor Slavko Vorkapich's basic film making objective of "Suspending Disbelief" as a core element of basic story telling. In the end, it's really in the minds of the audience as to what seems plausible versus story elements that force you to say, "Oh, come on now", at which point the film maker, author or story teller has lost you.

Suspension of disbelief - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

In that regard, that's one reason BBad is held in such high esteem.

One of my film pet peeves is showing an explosion that is all napalm and flame for effect. I prefer a more realistic effect that often has none of the above but instead black smoke, shrapnel and a concussive, earth-shaking effect. Think of real WWII battle footage and scenes from Saving Private Ryan and Hurt Locker. Few other films try for that level of realism.

Sherwood

i was thinking that it might be marie that kills walt, but not before walt rescues jesse from the aryans.

stay tuned...

It looks as if Todd rescues Jesse, but maybe not.

Walt used Saul's shuttle service to leave Albuquerque, but at some point in time returns to his burned out home.

Two episodes left to tie it all up.

S

How would one go about watching the whole series from the beginning? I've seen maybe one episode.

it's on netflix.

Netflix has streaming up here.

Walt's not going to save Jesse. Something to consider, everything that went wrong on the show WAS Jesse's fault.

Walt should have killed Skyler. God she's annoying.

Not on my Netflix.

However, they seem to be here up to the current episode.
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Thanks, and thanks.

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Hey Nostril....you say Skylar is annoying.....but how about Marie? Talk about a drama queen....she's the ABSOLUTE worst!

If she get's bumped off before the end of the series - I don't care how it ends for anyone else...please!

BTW- when Walt told Jesse he watched as Jayne vomited to death - that was indicative of something confrontational later on between those two. mark my words....Jesse will have his revenge - one way or another.

OK, that was really good. Loved the cameos.

Finished third episode, season one last night on Netflix.

He choked out the Mexican dude with the bike lock after singing the kids Dad's furniture store jingle with him. OMG. While his side kick is pounding a brown toothed skank in the hotel.

It's almost too intense for me. My daughter says I have no clue. I ain't coming back to this thread cause I will learn too much.

It gets A LOT more f***ed up.

Seriously, dont watch if you cant hang with the first season.

the cast will be on with conan on monday night.

Nothing personal ma'am.....

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Is it just me, or did anybody else think, "no way Walt rode from NM to NH in the belly of that old tanker... he would have had to be hauled out of there on a stretcher"?

Creative license. We just saw the vehicle he arrived in. For all we know, they changed vehicles in N. Dakota. :)

Good thinking. Wouldn't surprise me if that guy had several vehicles stashed all around the country.

Hey, nobody goes through ND on the way from NM to NH! :eek::D

Yeah yeah yeah....but........you guys are missing the significant aspects of the situation.

Jesse will get away.....somehow. And he and Walt will meet again - in some fashion. Don't know how that will play out but what a great way to end the series. The professor and student rejoined for the climatic ending.

I'm not sure what will happen to the storm troopers but I have a feeling Todd will be snuffed out by Jesse for that hit on Andrea.

But....what if Walt reappears - imparts his own version of justice - and then gives it up - either suicide or surrender to authorities. That could very well happen....

EDIT: Almost forgot to add...what a great cast for Robert Forster's character. Bulls eye right there...

That ricin may be headed Gretchen and Elliot's way too.....Walt wasn't very happy when he didn't receive the credit he deserved!

Walt knows that Todd and his uncle didn't kill Jessie as they said they would (because of "his" meth comment in the Gretchen & Elliot's interview). So he is pissed off at them twice over now because they took his money and didn't off Jessie. I'm betting that's where the .30 cal gets used next week.

How old is Walt now? There was a scene where he made the number 51 with bacon for his birthday at a diner, sporting long hair and a beard. Wonder how far in the future that is? The show is killing off all the good guys and seems happy doing it. I'm guessing Walt survives, and Jessie doesn't. The big IF right now, is that Walt's family thinks he killed Uncle Hank. He really didn't, and hasn't had a chance to explain yet. I predict Walt and his family all end up on an island with the $88 million. Probably including Marie and Saul.

I think I figured out where that ricin will go.....

Remember when Lydia asked the waitress for more Stevia?

When Walt finds out she is trying to have Skyler killed...she's done.

He really did. Walt wants it both ways, all to his advantage. WW is a sociopath. I don't think it ends up in paradise, or if it does, the Ukranian cartel reps will be waiting at curbside.

marathon just started at eight with episode one on amc.
they will run all episodes through sunday leading up to the final show.

The flash forward in the diner he made 52. When he had his birthday at home he did the 51. The 51 episode was when Skyler walked into the pool and before the train episode.

An nobody goes any great distance in a 331 bobtail propane tanker. That is strictly local delivery. Out of state plates on a truck like that (HM truck - piece of ****) will gather stops and truck inspections every few hundred miles. Be like waving a giant red flag. Guaranteed.

I'm thinking the propane tanker was a way to get Walt around relatively locally. Not very creative by the way. A much better choice would have been a compartmented MC306 tank on a bobtail chassis. Put Hank in one of the compartments, leave the rest with product, and the manholes are big enough to crawl into - thus no cutting, etc. Big problem I see is that any haz-mat tank is attractive to an inspector. I would have gone with a septic tank pump truck, or a rendering truck (transports dead animals). Those are usually left alone. :D

angela

12 possible endings, some you never would have dreamed:
Breaking Bad: 12 ways it could end | Television & radio | The Guardian

S

T-minus 15 minutes.......

I'm ready for some carnage!

11 minutes!

I suggest NO discussion until after everyone has had a chance to watch - I'm East but some of youse guys are West......

Good so far. I like the way they are tying things up.