Another side of Todd (Jesse Plemons):

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I somehow thought that the laundry plant was down a long road after a gate. No?

The laundry apparently was just off of a main road. Remember when Hank took Walt there? When Walt had to cause an accident to avoid going there? Had Hank followed Jesse there, he would've easily found Walt entering the building and exiting. He would've put 2 and 2 together since Jesse and the laundry were under suspicion.

Was able to see the whole shebang on streaming Net Flix......good to connect the last season and finale which recently, all I had seen. Watching "House of Cards" now......Spacey and the daughter of the football owners, Kate Mara.

It's a relatively easier task to find plot holes in a finished piece than to create compelling drama, dialogue and visuals on a consistent basis. For that, Vince Gilligan and his writing/production team made history in a dramatic TV series.

What's the link that points out discrepancies in the film, Gravity?

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Agreed, Todd was the absolute howdy-doody creep-a-zoid sociopath for me. That character was about 100 times scarier than anyone else in the series. Seriously messed up wiring on that character!

Spinoff you say? Hmmm.... quite a few characters survived...

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the spin-off has been announced as a pre-quel that would show saul and mike before they met walt and jesse. at least that is what i have heard so far.

BB is a masterpiece of a show. Just curious how in this long thread no one had questioned why Hank never followed Jesse to the laundry. At the time he was surveilling him and was on to him. Just doesn't make sense to me that he would stop (even after being ordered to do so by his command). Gilligan and his team of writers thought of everything - I just wondered about this apparent plot gap. Might not have been a gap at all - hence my question.

This show is very special to me because I watched it while I lived in Albuquerque. My house was In the same area as Hanks. Many references are authentic, like when Walt suggests to spend the afternoon on the Turquoise trail and eat in Madrid. Sadly, I had to watch the last episodes in cold wintery MA. That is when Walt is hiding in NH, which happens to be right next to where I live now.
I can really appreciate how the ABQ vibe was present in the whole series.

Maybe Jesse was observant enough to make sure no one was trailing him while going to work. After all, it's Albuquerque, N.M., not downtown Manhatten.

Not sure about the timeline, but wasn't Hank put on a short leash and a restraining order to not harass or further brutalize young Pinkman after he and Walt punked Hank while cornered in their RV/meth lab?

Yes. This technically covers why Hank left Jesse alone. But given the tenacious Hank we come to know by the end of the show, seems he wouldn't have given up so easily.

One could argue that Walt and Jesse were hiding in plain sight at the laundry - another common theme in the show.

Starting watching BB from E1 on Netflicks last week. My wife and I will binge watch about 4 at a sitting. Man does this show rock! You can't look away or you'll miss something and you never know what will happen next. Currently Hank has been shot and the surviving hit-man twin was off'd by Saul's clean up man. Jessie can't do anything right. Skylar's whoring around with Ted has backfired and Walt is trying to make everyone happy.

Much more to see tonight.

Get used to it...he never does (for the most part)

Paul - be very careful. The last thing you need is a spoiler alert from ANY source. It's too good to be spoiled!

Yeah Paul you should just stay away from threads like this until you finish. It'll be much more fun for you!!!

I will say this...I had heard things about what was to come, some of the surprises I knew about, some I didn't but the show still was better than my expectations and I went in with very high expectations.

I still watch the final episode now and then, and it still blows my mind.

It gets a LOT darker. Enjoy! SmileWavy

One of the best TV shows.

I watched BB after the AMC network had a BB marathon back over New Year's weekend and I recorded all 62 episodes over the weekend. What I found interesting was the manner in which the opening scenes for each episode were not always (most infrequently actually) even part of that episode. It seems sometimes the opening scenes would be for an episode that might be 5 or even 10 episodes later. It took me a while to figure out that they weren't chronological. It just made the series that more interesting!

Don't even watch the BB sendups on YouTube, even Jimmy Fallon's "Joking Bad" parody. Gotcha curious now haven't I? Suffah!

However, this Fallon segment is spoiler-safe:
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I started reading this entire thread but had to stop after awhile. :(

OK, we're up to the final season and some of the story lines/writing has turned a little non-sensible.

1. So they have lost the lab under the laundry, which was bit far fetched anyway in my mind but I can deal with it. Maybe its left over from an old factory. Now they are cooking in houses being tented for bugs? Loading and unloading roadie crates full of equipment and supplies and cooking in a tent set up in the living room? The home owners don't think anything of why one company take one day to kill their bugs and this company takes 3 days? Walt and Jesse coming and going in/out and no one notices? Come on how about something a little more plausible? :rolleyes:

If it was me I'd have built a lab in a 20' shipping container and buried it under a pile of scrap cars in the junk yard. Noise/smells no problem. No one thinks about you coming and going cause no one sees you.:D

2. The great train heist. Give me a f'n break! They stopped a train and the car they needed just happens to stop over the bridge where the tanks are buried? Why couldn't the writers have them high jack a tanker truck while the driver was at Waffle House? It would have been more believable. :(

BTW my wife hates it when I point out things like this so I have to come and vent here. Thank you. SmileWavy

A couple of thoughts:

You must suspend more disbelief. Yes some of the setups were a little too convenient. However, more than offset by a great story arc, acting and surprise elements that are brilliantly conceived.

You must binge-view more often.

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The lab under the laundry isn't that far fetched. Gus was ready to pay Walt $3 million for a couple months work, which means Gus was making a lot more than that. I would think the cost to build that bunker would have been paid for in no time.

As for the train, you're right it was a little out there but stopping the train over the bridge seems like a calculation Walt would thrive on.

You have a treat coming in the final season. I wasn't all that happy with some of the story line but I still contend the final episode is the greatest finale to any TV show in history.

I found other episodes more compelling (but w/o the required "ending"). The last episode, "Felina", was highly rated. I felt it was just rewards for a great series and tied up the loose ends nicely.

However, there were a couple of examples of "aw, come on" as I watched the last episode (I described in post #210). My mileage varied; that's just me.

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- Lab under the laundry: have you seen those idiots' bunkers in Gaza? Where there's a will there's a way.

- Train heist: didn't Lydia have access to how the trains were made up at the last stop? I seem to remember some of that in the story line.

- Cooking in the fumigation tents: VERY "Walt" if you ask me.

I too have trouble suspending my disbelief at times. The show does get a bit more outlandish as it developed, no doubt, but that also made it so damn interesting.

Hold on for the finale - it'll be worth it!

We watched the finale the other night. I'll have to agree, it was an azz-kicker. Before we watched it my wife and I tried to come up with how he (the writer) was going to wrap all the lose ends up. He did a hell of a job, we never thought of it ending like that.

Plus this week they walked off with a bunch of Emmy Awards. Perfect timing. ;)

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I love the show and am re-watching some of it currently but as for suspending disbelief, the whole show is about as believable as Walking Dead. There isn't one aspect of it that I've ever found believable. From the world's dumbest cops to the world's luckiest criminals to that Mike guy who has super powers and always knows what everyone else is up to before they do to....

You just have to enjoy it for the wonderful acting and characters. Anna Gunn is amazing.

Looks like they found Walt's stash in el lay:

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Money Laundering Stash

I called it.....Walt isn't dead.

"Vince Gilligan Announces Breaking Bad Season 6; Begins Shooting August 2015 – Walt Did Not Die!"

Vince Gilligan Announces Breaking Bad Season 6; Begins Shooting August 2015

Faking bad.
That's pure fiction, breaking bad is not coming back.

Well, I did some digging, and it's not true. The writing in that piece sounded pat and fake, and nothing came up in a Google News search, so I went back to that link and noticed right away that it's suspect.

nbc.com.co?

Ugh.

That whole site is bogus.

Check out the text of this PIXAR article on the site: The Eyes of the Pleasure - NBC

Dam...... I need to get more sleep.

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