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Breaking Bad - Season 5, Part 1 - Sundays on AMC

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This is the year that Breaking Bad ends.

2013 is shit
 
imagine cartel does their research on heisenberg and figures out his real identity

and so they kidnap walt jr and behead him to send a message to walt

and then m60 and total war and jr's death leads hank to take the law into his own hands and become a vigilante and maybe join walt
 
2012 was supposed to be the end of the world, but the Mayans delayed it to catch the series finale of Breaking Bad.
 
Cornballer said:
- THR: 'Breaking Bad' Fan Gives Lifelike Drawings to Show's Stars


I'll probably get a new interim thread up in the next week or so since we're slowly creeping up to the 20k post limit.
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Heh was going to ask about this. We'll need a purgatory thread. The "did Walt *really* mean it when he 'got out'" thread.
Gambit61 said:
Bah, I should of caught up with some other shows instead lol.
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catch up with other shows now, like The Shield. Pairs well with BB. Also it's "should have"
 
- NY Magazine: Ten Things on Vince Gilligan’s Mind As He Writes the Final Episodes of Breaking Bad
“We’re not gonna please everyone, we’re not gonna please everyone … This is what I keep telling myself so I can sleep at night,” Vince Gilligan laughed last month, even though he wasn’t exactly joking. When he spoke to Vulture, he was putting the finishing touches on the story for the third to last episode, getting very close to tackling the series finale (the show’s last stretch of eight episodes airs on AMC starting in July). The writers room had gotten “a little schizophrenic,” said Gilligan: They’ve been taking twice as long as normal, or about three and a half weeks, to break each of these concluding episodes, and rather than building from the ground up, they’ve had to do a little reverse-engineering to arrive where they must by the end. All of which is to say, he’s more frazzled than usual, anxiously working to tie things up beautifully. “It’s going to be polarizing no matter how you slice it,” Gilligan said, “but you don’t want 10 percent to say it was great and 90 percent to say it sucked ass. You want those numbers to be reversed.” Without giving anything away (would anyone really want that?), he took some time to download ten things on his mind as he heads into the homestretch.
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I haven't read through this yet, so I'm not sure if there are spoilers. Please tag things as necessary, though Gilligan usually doesn't give much away in these sort of interviews.
 
It is revealed that the Mr. White of the past season was in fact, not Mr. White. He had been killed and replaced by an alien bounty hunter. This is revealed when he reaches into his pocket and pulls out what looks like a pen, only to have a small metal spike extend from the tip as he goes in for his last kill.
 
Minor casting news about a character that will return next season:

I was listening to Bill Burr's podcast from a couple of weeks ago and he mentioned that he filmed another guest spot on Glee (wink wink), which is what he said last year after he did those Breaking Bad episodes, so he'll be showing up again this season at some point. He plays Saul's red-headed henchman for those that are unaware of Ole Billy Boy's awesomeness.
 
Finally had a moment to read that top ten... God I'm going to feel so empty when this show is over...
 
big ander said:
Heh was going to ask about this. We'll need a purgatory thread. The "did Walt *really* mean it when he 'got out'" thread.
catch up with other shows now, like The Shield. Pairs well with BB. Also it's "should have"
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I don't know how typed that out wrong, I've never done that before lol. To pass some time I decided to try out Louie on Netflix and it's pretty good. It feels kinda like Chappelle's show with the stand up and skits.
 
Reading that list of 10 things for Gilligan, I don't envy his job. How the hell do you come up with a satisfying ending for all this that will please as many people as possible and piss off as little as possible. So many possibilities to consider for so many characters. Tough work.
 
-Pyromaniac- said:
Reading that list of 10 things for Gilligan, I don't envy his job. How the hell do you come up with a satisfying ending for all this that will please as many people as possible and piss off as little as possible. So many possibilities to consider for so many characters. Tough work.
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You don't, because you won't be able to satisfy everyone. You go with your gut and create what your vision of what the ending should be, at least in terms of being honest to the series' themes and characters and stressing what you think should be most important. You can attempt to please the fans, but at the end of the day, people have invested time into a show because of his creative vision, so that's the vision that should shine through at the end. Blowback be damned.
 
ivysaur12 said:
You don't, because you won't be able to satisfy everyone.
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but like Vince says, the goal is to satisfy as many people as possible and piss off as little as possible. Rather than the other way around. That's easier said than done!

It's clear he has ideas of what to do but it seems like it's paining him to get there and pick one thing.
 
-Pyromaniac- said:
but like Vince says, the goal is to satisfy as many people as possible and piss off as little as possible. Rather than the other way around. That's easier said than done!

It's clear he has ideas of what to do but it seems like it's paining him to get there and pick one thing.
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Eh, I don't know. I'm worried about Fringe's finale because of a necessity to "please the fans" according to Wyman. I haven't stuck around for fanservice. I've stuck around for his creative vision that's created this show. I want to see that, not something that's necessarily satisfying for the Comic-Con crowd (though, if that's the ending that is most in line with Vince's creative vision, so be it). I trust his writing; that's one of the reasons I've stuck around so long. I don't want to see that undermined by an unnecessary need to please everyone.
 
ivysaur12 said:
The final part of season 5 premieres July 14th.
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Cool. Mid-July it is!
ivysaur12 said:
I've stuck around for his creative vision that's created this show. I want to see that, not something that's necessarily satisfying for the Comic-Con crowd (though, if that's the ending that is most in line with Vince's creative vision, so be it). I trust his writing; that's one of the reasons I've stuck around so long. I don't want to see that undermined by an unnecessary need to please everyone.
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Yup, that's my take as well. Finish the series the way you want it to end. Once you get into this game of second guessing what your fan base might think, you're bound to run into trouble.
 
ivysaur12 said:
Eh, I don't know. I'm worried about Fringe's finale because of a necessity to "please the fans" according to Wyman. I haven't stuck around for fanservice. I've stuck around for his creative vision that's created this show. I want to see that, not something that's necessarily satisfying for the Comic-Con crowd (though, if that's the ending that is most in line with Vince's creative vision, so be it). I trust his writing; that's one of the reasons I've stuck around so long. I don't want to see that undermined by an unnecessary need to please everyone.
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you're being level headed though, most people will flip out if they hate the ending and act like it was the worst thing ever, even if it's 100% gilligan's vision. Anyway I didn't get the sense from reading that that he wants to do something for the fans, in fact he even hints that maybe he'll go in a direction that won't satisfy people on certain storylines. Guess we'll see. I'm fine either way. I'm just saying it's a tough spot to be in.
 
-Pyromaniac- said:
you're being level headed though, most people will flip out if they hate the ending and act like it was the worst thing ever, even if it's 100% gilligan's vision.
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I guess that Vince shouldn't care because that's not what's important. And anyways, he's making more money than any of them.

But yeah, it's a tough spot. I would lose sleep over it for sure. But he also gets to end his show on his terms. Very, very few creators get to do that. On some level, it must be wonderful.
 
ezekial45 said:
I kinda hope we'll see Gretchen and Elliot again. I want to know what happened to make em all split up. I need that closure!
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I do too, but I feel like there are much bigger fish to fry and not that much time to do it in. With only 8 episodes left, that seems like something that they would skip over in favor of more important stuff.
 
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