Breaking Bad

It gets progressively better, from an insular character drama focused around the quest to look after a family into an epic piece of pulp fiction incorporating many larger than life characters and situations grounded by a superbly written core group of characters. It grows outwards in a very organic fashion, as opposed to starting big and burning out like Boardwalk Empire.

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I know this makes me sound a little childish and impatient, but I really don't like how the episode ends. It seems pretty clear there's going to be Hank and the Mexican guy dying and it always works best with major character deaths if you let that be the lasting image. I mean I may be wrong and no one dies, but it's just such a cheap way to end the episode. The last two episodes (and at decent part of the next) could have been pushed into half the time. The jump from now to beard Walter White now only has three episodes to happen. Given how long they're taking just to play out a conversation per episode I'm worried that it's suddenly going to rush to a conclusion.

I'm still enjoying it and it's keeping me hooked, but I just feel like there's not enough time to tell the story. I really, really hope I'm wrong.

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Yeah, I completely agree with them not showing what happens/ who dies at the conclusion of the shootout. It all built up to that fantastic climax - I could tell something big was going down after Hank called Marie - and to rob of us of the ending feels a little cheap. I'm pretty certain Gomi is going to die, and if that is the case then it would have been much better to show him going down and maybe leaving Hank and Jesse's fate up in the air.

It was a good episode, even if the ending left me wanting more. No idea how it's all going to end.

Also, am I the only one who can't help but cheer Walt on? I'm so conflicted. After he killed Mike I was sure that I was now against him but at the end of this episode I realised I kinda wanted the Nazis to get Hank and Gomi whilst releasing Walt. I don't want his money burnt, and I don't want him to get arrested, but I don't know why.

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I want Walt to live as I want both him and Jesse to walk free from it all. Jesse to start a life with Andrea and then Walt to move away with Skylar and Walt Jr.

When I was watching it I could not help but look at Brocks reaction to Walt as possibly he knows hes bad and so forth. Also whats with Brock eating breakfast but not Walt Jr

Why is everyone using spoiler tags?

Why is everyone using spoiler tags?

Cool.

So who thinks that Hank's dead?

I reckon Gomi's bitten the bullet but I'm not sure about Hank. I feel that the whole "I might not be home for a while" call to Marie might be some foreshadowing.

I can't imagine how gutted I'll be if I don't like the ending.

It's a TV show that most people in the thread are fully caught up with. If someone is afraid of having their experience spoiled by learning a key plot point in advance they really shouldn't be in this thread at all.