Will be downloading tomorrow. And awesomely I have the day off so should be able to watch it around lunchtime. Will post my thoughts then!

The General my friends

I hate that they're splitting one season up into two though, just to stretch it out for another year. As usual I BLAME THE NETWORK

Networks ruin everything

Really all this episode did was wrap shit up ...

- Walt disposes of the evidence of the car bomb and poison
- Mike has recovered and is back doing Mike stuff, but isn't about to kill Walt any more
- Ted Beneke is alive but isn't going to talk
- The camera/laptop story was introduced then wrapped up

We're basically still at the start of season 5. Apart from the flashforward intro scene nothing has moved ahead, it's just clarified where we are and tied up loose ends.

Oh I guess the PHOTO shit was introduced

Though it's a bit weak to imply that the writing may only have been found because of Walt's little STUNT with the magnets. Since it was evidence due to be processed I imagine it would have been found anyway.

I know they don't exactly say that it has been found BECAUSE of the magnets etc., but I got the impression they were trying to say Walt's plan has BACKFIRED in this unexpected way and now because of his actions they will be on his trail again etc.

QUESTION FOR DA FANS

Do you think that Walt and Jesse's days of producing meth are now over? There was no suggestion at the end of season 4, or now at the start of season 5, that they would ever need or want to go back to cooking.

Will season 5 be all about them evading the law and covering up their past crimes?

I'm not sure what Walt's financial status is now actually. He was going to use the money to get his family into hiding in late s4, but since he didn't have enough he didn't use it for that purpose. He still had a fuckload, however, presumably enough to support his family when he's gone. So is this essentially OVER for Walt so long as he can wrap up the loose ends and protect himself from HANK?

Or will they both realise that they NEED the excitement and risk that comes with the territory of being HEISENBERG? It has been hinted before, I think in s3, that Walt is actually resistant to abandoning his new life even when he's financially secure and not in any danger. And considering there are no kingpins left (Walt and Jesse have killed them all), there is presumably little in the way of Walt/Jesse now moving in as the new drug lords.

I forgot about the Saul's office scene. That was good.

Also I didn't do a rewatch at all, and I had forgotten about Saul's horrible constitution wallpaper in his office. It was win to see this again and REMEMBER all the crap that has happened in there and in connection with him.

Boc @ 16/7/2012 16:37

Henry_42 @ 16/7/2012 11:29 WTF btw.: Saul somehow gave the "poison" to the little guy...brock?! Damn Saul, lawyers rly got no soul it seems. He said he didn't know what'd happen etc.....well. nah Huell took away Jesse's ricin cigarette so it'd LOOK like that's what poisoned Brock, when it was really Walt poisoning him with the Lily of the Valley berries. He was in on the plan but didn't do the actual poisoning. Though I still don't know how Walt managed to plant the berries in Brock's food!

I assumed from that scene that Walt had got Saul/Huell to replace a regular cigarette with one tainted by the Lily of the Valley berries?

Edit: it's still kind of a stretch though, maybe I'm just not remembering late s4, but how could Walt be sure that the kid would go through Jesse's stuff and smoke that cigarette

Actually I must be remembering this all wrong, the cigarette thing was just a decoy wasn't it?

Wait I just looked on the Breaking Bad wikia and yeah I had it all wrong lol.

Jesse knew he had a RICIN cigarette, it was intended for Gus but not used
Walt had Saul/Huell lift that cigarette
Walt poisoned Brock somehow but we don't know how
Jesse assumed that Brock had smoked his ricin cigarette, as Walt wanted him to think
Walt then SOMEHOW gets him to believe Gus poisoned Brock with the cigarette which I'm still not clear on