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Not quite as nerve-wracking as last week, but it's going how I expected it to, so far. I really couldn't watch the parts with Jessie.
Duer 157099
(17,742 posts)This weak was Fargo. Depressing. I'm not liking how this is ending.
alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)appearance since Season 2.
Then, lo and behold, there they are.
Shrek
(3,984 posts)Maybe you subconsciously noticed it.
Generic Brad
(14,276 posts)Family has rejected him. Is it being disrespected by Gray Matter? Is it the blue meth being manufactured again? I'm not sure who he plans on getting revenge on.
tammywammy
(26,582 posts)He's going after the Aryan Brotherhood for killing Hank.
I think the Gray Matter diss by the Schwartz's is what kicked him back into Heisenberg gear though.
fujiyama
(15,185 posts)"Granite State" was a comedown, but it was needed in a sense since "Ozymandias" was just so intense.
But by the end of "Granite State", Walt's situation is perfectly fitting. He's alone, begging for any human contact he can get. Most of his fortune has been stolen, and his family has left him behind (and their lives have been ruined).
It will be interesting to see how the writers end this. Will Walt get his revenge? Will Jesse survive? Will the Nazis kill Walt's family? I did like how they ended the episode with Elliot and Gretchen with the title music. Can't wait for the "Felina" though I will hate to see this end. What a hell of a ride it has been.
Mike Daniels
(5,842 posts)The Aryan Brotherhood group took away the only thing he still has a reason to live for when they shot Andrea (?). Brock would certainly be shipped off to relatives or a foster home.
He has no family, no money at this point, and not much motivation to live going forward. Even if Walt does take out the AB faction but is killed in the process what does Jesse do with the money? A new life somewhere will inevitably be pretty empty for him regardless.
My guess is that Jesse dies by the end of the episode by someone's hand - perhaps even his own (after killing Mr. White as revenge for Brock?)
blogslut
(38,019 posts)Robert (fucking) Forster.
Heddi
(18,312 posts)I've been reading lots of blogs and different interpretations. Apparently Vince Gillian said that "it will end where it began" and many have taken that to mean that it will end with Gretchen & Elliot, because their getting WW out of Gray Matter is what started him on the road to where he would have Broken Bad...they're millionaires with clout and respect, he's a high school science teacher now with cancer and not a dime to his name.
I have *no* idea how this is going to play out. I thought I knew and the only thing I got right was about Hank.
For a while I thought that Walt would come back to save Jesse, his only remaining family. However, I highly doubt that will happen. The last, very very last 2 things Jesse had were Andrea and Brock. Now that's gone (some of it anyways). I now think that WW is going to die at the hands of Jesse Pinkman.
WW will go back to the house, get the ricin. He has the gun in the trunk of the car. He's going to get his $$ from the nazi's. He's going to kill the nazi's, Todd will tell him where the $$ is, and at the last second Jesse will come out and bang...bye bye Walt.
I have always felt that the ending would be an implosion, that all of his intentions for his family and $$ and security will have been for nothing.
His family is against him, living in poverty, his house is gone, his money is gone, his empire is being run by Meth Damon & The Nazi's and Lydia Redsoles.
He has nothing. And he will end with nothing. And all of it...the death, the turmoil, the nastiness, will have all been for nothing.
Shrek
(3,984 posts)The death of Andrea might be enough to push Jesse back to Walt, at least long enough to ally with him against Uncle Jack's crew.
stevenleser
(32,886 posts)Morning Dew
(6,539 posts)Is related to the song El Paso.
Could be a nice plot parallel.
Sheldon Cooper
(3,724 posts)Skyler? I definitely see Walt dying next week, and going out in a gunfire with police is as good a way as any.
Morning Dew
(6,539 posts)Returning to the place of great danger, where the character has done awful things, for the sake of love - obsession, really.
It's a guess, but that title name suggested the possibility to me - heck, Felina could be Brock's kitty for all I know.
handmade34
(22,758 posts)hedgehog
(36,286 posts)Stardust
(3,894 posts)Initech
(100,107 posts)Islandurp
(188 posts)Fe Li Na = Iron Lithium Sodium
Blood, Meth, and Tears
GalaxyHunter
(271 posts)Maybe both?
Stardust
(3,894 posts)RIP, Mr. White. It's been a wild ride.
(Best Emmy award ever!!!)
JonLP24
(29,322 posts)So Jesse did end up captured and cooking for Uncle Jack, but not at all in the way I envisaged. It now seems unlikely that Walt would come back to Albuquerque packing a military arsenal just for him, and his money probably wouldnt be worth much to him anymore without his family. What therefore is Walts plan? Presumably he would only come out of hiding to address a threat to Skyler/Junior/Holly/Marie, but what could anyone gain from going after them?
If we assume that Walt is planning on taking down Uncle Jack then his choice of weapon is a little unusual. The M-60 is too heavy to be used on foot, so he has to be planning on taking up a static position or firing from a vehicle. If he were storming Jacks facility alone then lighter weapons, armour and explosives might be a better choice. Perhaps hes going to take out a convoy from an ambush position?
http://weakinteractions.wordpress.com/2013/09/18/the-science-of-breaking-bad-ozymandias/#more-2304
This was before the most recent episode so ignore the part about the threat but I wanted to highlight the part about the M-60. I didn't catch that so it does make it interesting to speculate not only who its for but how he is going to use it.
The person who runs the blog knows his stuff, there have been times where the writers made errors that couldn't happen in real life such as the guy killing himself with the defilibrator.
Stardust
(3,894 posts)hibbing
(10,109 posts)Hey Sheldon,
I had to turn away from the t.v. during the scene with Jessie and his ex? that was brutal, those Nazi fucks!
Peace
JonLP24
(29,322 posts)Probably the most tragic scene of the series.
Sheldon Cooper
(3,724 posts)Walt dies, either in a shootout with the cops or in jail from the cancer. There really is no way he gets out of this alive. But he won't leave until he gets Jack, Todd, and the rest of the Nazis. I don't know if he'll blow them away or slip them the ricin, but they are gone.
Against all odds, Jessie survives and manages to get away unscathed, in the legal sense. I think he'll anonymously reveal Hank and
Gomey's burial spot, so Marie can at least bury her husband.
Skyler manages to avoid indictment, but with no money and such notoriety, life will be difficult for her and the kids.
Todd is puppy dog in love with Lydia, but she will spurn and humiliate him, so he will kill her.
Walt's money, all 80 million of it, is abandoned. No one ends up with it.
Anyone else care to weigh in?
JonLP24
(29,322 posts)The only thing I feel for certain is the guns in the trunk is for the Nazis.
I'm really curious when it comes to the character Todd, the focus on him down the stretch leads me to think things will be interesting regarding him.
Baitball Blogger
(46,762 posts)to give complete reign to Heisenberg.
okieinpain
(9,397 posts)Nothing ever happens to WW. every time you think something is going to happen to him, the exact opposite is the result. There is a gun with finger prints on it that are not WW, And its a ballistic match to the gun Used to kill two dea agents.
Not only that but they also happen to be making blue meth at 90%. Lol, no one touches WW. NO ONE. HAHAHAHAHA.....
Yavin4
(35,446 posts)and Jeese is a student in his class.