Breaking Bad
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great1
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I think AMC is breaking season 5 into 2 parts like they did with The Walking Dead but I could be wrong.
I think Hank has to find out that Walter is Heisenberg, he has been chasing Heisenberg for too long not to discover the truth. I am not sure if Jesse will ever find out that Walter was behind Jane's death and Brock's poisoning, if he did then it would absolutely be the end of Walt and Jesse's relationship. I believe Walt's cancer is back, he seemed to have been coughing a lot in season 4 and could have lied to his family about his checkup. Gus' death has to have huge consequences, we don't know a whole lot about his backstory but Don Eladio said that "he knows who he really is" so he must be important.
Walter will continue down his path from good to bad and there won't be any going back.
PotionMistress
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Next to Dexter and HBO's Rome, Breaking Bad is one of my all-time favorite shows!! If you would have told me five years ago that I would be so into shows about a serial killer and a Meth chemist, I'd have laughed.
Westies14
Master Member
There are a lot of good pieces left in play for next year:
Walt's gotta keep cooking, now that he's back at square 1 financially. I imagine he'll also get some added motivation from a return of his cancer. The laundry is gone (and the RV, of course), so I think they'll cook in the car wash. Another business that will be ordering lots of chemicals without raising suspicions and staffed with illegals!
I think Ted may be alive, perhaps brain damaged or comatose. The car wash may be a good cook site - but Skylar's already stated that it's not sufficient to launder the amounts of money that Walt's enterprise generates. Perhaps Skylar can start laundering it through control of Beneke Enterprises?
I won't be upset at all if the Lady of the Valley issue never comes up again. I think it's most realistic for Walt to have pulled this one off cleanly than for Jesse to find out somehow that he did it. I'd rather not waste part of the last season with those two bickering as enemies again.
I don't think there's any way they can let Walt survive the show. While I think his cancer will return, I don't think we'll be subjected to his dying of it. Will Hank kill him, perhaps? Hank's got to find out eventually, or his series arc is a bit wasted. I think he'd cover for him (remember Marie's shoplifting? "She needs our understanding and support right now" etc) rather than bring him in. Could Walt convince him to kill him? Could Hank kill him inadvertently, or only find out that Heisenberg was Walt after he rolls over the body?
This show is too good. I can't wait to see how it all ends!
- Doug
Walt's gotta keep cooking, now that he's back at square 1 financially. I imagine he'll also get some added motivation from a return of his cancer. The laundry is gone (and the RV, of course), so I think they'll cook in the car wash. Another business that will be ordering lots of chemicals without raising suspicions and staffed with illegals!
I think Ted may be alive, perhaps brain damaged or comatose. The car wash may be a good cook site - but Skylar's already stated that it's not sufficient to launder the amounts of money that Walt's enterprise generates. Perhaps Skylar can start laundering it through control of Beneke Enterprises?
I won't be upset at all if the Lady of the Valley issue never comes up again. I think it's most realistic for Walt to have pulled this one off cleanly than for Jesse to find out somehow that he did it. I'd rather not waste part of the last season with those two bickering as enemies again.
I don't think there's any way they can let Walt survive the show. While I think his cancer will return, I don't think we'll be subjected to his dying of it. Will Hank kill him, perhaps? Hank's got to find out eventually, or his series arc is a bit wasted. I think he'd cover for him (remember Marie's shoplifting? "She needs our understanding and support right now" etc) rather than bring him in. Could Walt convince him to kill him? Could Hank kill him inadvertently, or only find out that Heisenberg was Walt after he rolls over the body?
This show is too good. I can't wait to see how it all ends!
- Doug
@Great1, in an interview Vince Gilligan said season five will be the final season and will be comprised of 16 episodes.
I believe the cancer will be back, and Hank will be chasing Walt to his death bed. Then he will either lose the trail at the last moment as Walt dies and takes his legacy with him, or Hank finds out and lets it go with the passing of a loved one.
I believe the cancer will be back, and Hank will be chasing Walt to his death bed. Then he will either lose the trail at the last moment as Walt dies and takes his legacy with him, or Hank finds out and lets it go with the passing of a loved one.
Ghadrack
Sr Member
At this point they've tainted Hank with drug money too, I wouldn't be terribly surprised to have a Reservoir Dogs style three way gun showdown with Hank, Jesse and Walt. Walt and Jesse seem destined to have some sort of ultimate falling out. Hank hasn't been in the mix throughout for no reason either.
I can also see Walt engineering his own death and taking the cowards way out, he has continually made bad decisions throughout the show and ruined everything he's touched, I could see him doing a suicide by cop at the hands of Hank and pushing him totally over the edge into madness in the process for his own selfish reasons to avoid paying a penalty for his sins.
Regardless, I'll be tuned in through the last seconds of the show, Breaking Bad has been masterful thusfar.
Rbeato
Sr Member
I'm just glad the govenor came to her senses and allowed filming in my city again for show, now i get to see Sauls banners and stuff right when i turn up my street, and walts house is a mere two streets away from mine. Show is amazing. Also glad Spartacus returns next month, but without Andy Whitfield it just might not be the same as he nailed that role. May he R.I.P. 
Eh, that just doesn't sound like an ending to me. This whole thing has been about Walt's transformation. Walt needs redemption. Some kind of resolution, not armageddon.
great1
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I'm just not sure if they will be airing all 16 episodes at once though, that is what I meant when I said breaking the season up. AMC aired the first 7 episodes of The Walking Dead in October and November, episodes 8-13 will be airing in February and March but it is all considered the same season.
justinbauler
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does anyone know if season 5 had begun shooting yet?
great1
Well-Known Member
They go back to work in February but I'm not sure if that is pre-production or when filming begins.
But that doesn't resolve anything. These writers know the three act structure. Integral in the three act structure is resolution. It will be much better crafted than that. It's why the cancer is coming back. Most relapse happens within a year or two and it is important to remember his diagnosis and the beginning of the show has only been a year.
The show is Walt's story. In a way, Walt is Odysseus. We've seen him throughout this journey and he's had to do some terrible things to get home and protect his fellow travelers. The Odyssey is not a timeless story where the hero, after all he's been through and learned, gets shot in the head when he's finally reached Ithaca.
What you're talking about would have great shock value but this is not Dexter. It would have no thematic value. This show is leagues ahead of Dexter because it does nothing for pure shock. Everything serves the story. Some ill-fitted shoot-out and some half-@ssed cleanup would not be a good resolution to a story that has been so expertly crafted thus far.
What you're talking about would have great shock value but this is not Dexter. It would have no thematic value. This show is leagues ahead of Dexter because it does nothing for pure shock. Everything serves the story. Some ill-fitted shoot-out and some half-@ssed cleanup would not be a good resolution to a story that has been so expertly crafted thus far.
Ghadrack
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Re: the next season,
I thought they had already made an official announcement that the final season is being split in half into two 8 episode short seasons to air in 2012 and 2013 specifically because of the MadMen money debacle.
I know I read it, I'll see if I can find a link.
I thought they had already made an official announcement that the final season is being split in half into two 8 episode short seasons to air in 2012 and 2013 specifically because of the MadMen money debacle.
I know I read it, I'll see if I can find a link.
