Oh and that truffle link upthread. I think this is the best indignant comment on the subject ever:

You can’t even “trip” off these things. I am not spending $300K to not even crack through the universe and float around like there’s no…ground…

I have to know what happens next!

Do you think Walt is still telling himself that this is all for his family? I think, especially with that empire remark in the preview, maybe he's past that.

Just thinking about my own reactions to the characters, who I sympathize with, and what I want to happen is really complicated. It's pretty great.

.if you don't want something for nothing at some level, you won't buy in

Doesn't everyone, at some level?

I mean, don't most people feel they "deserve" more than they have? A con comes around, it might just sound like getting a bit of what you deserve, but your life has been so fucked that you haven't gotten it.

Or you could be helping out my cousin in the UK (that specific Diane Abbott is my father's niece) and you're going to get rewarded finally, according to a trufax UK politician.

Crime making you stupid doesn't mean that being stupid makes you dishonest.

acknowledge the basic complexity of humankind

And you know what? The minute they force the characters to act like they have any sort of moral high ground? They become the sort of characters whose badness I can't root for anymore. Why should I take their side over the people they con? They're arrogant and mouthy too.

I have developed huge Hank love and I do not want him to get fired no matter what.

Personally, I think Walt would have been okay with killing Lydia but I think he didn't want to admit it. I think Walt is totally gone on his power trip and I doubt he even justifies this to himself anymore. He's Heisenberg and he's a force, even if he's not a force for good.

Maybe I want to See Jesse side with Hank at the end and turn in Walt. It would be a nice turn around from the pilot.

I am so with you about Hank. And, yeah, Walt would have been fine with killing Lydia if she wasn't needed to get the precursor.

That's an interesting idea about Jesse working with Hank. I could see how we could get there from here.

Yeah, exactly. Just make them affable bad guys that I root for despite myself and we'll all be fine. Don't make it so it has to be okay for me to like them.

But yeah, I feel like me thinking I'm getting a good deal when I score a super discount and bragging about it is on the same continuum as people who get scammed thinking they're getting over on someone.

So--due to things (which I honestly can never remember at the time), my Breaking Bad recording is clipped at the end. What happened after the truck got pushed off the rails?

Oh, god, so much! Should I whitefont? It's high HSQ, so I will

Mike told Walt to abort but Walt had the guys finish pumping until he had the full 900 gallons, then they raced the clock to get the seals and whatever put back together. Todd (I think that's his name, Landry from FNL) had to climb down the side of the car and jump off while the train was moving. Jesse LAY DOWN BETWEEN THE TRACKS until the train passed over him.

So they're all jubilant that that worked and they didn't get caught and the kid from the opening scene with the tarantula rides up and, like, waves at them. And Landry shoots him, bang, no hesitation, while Jesse is saying "No, no, no".

Credits and previews.

Wait--the blond kid shot him? Have we seen him before? Do we know why he's a hardcore kid-killer?

Did we see Walt's reaction to the boy being killed?

The show is still really good, and I think my problem might be that I saw the final episode of last season by mistake before any of the others, but I've lost touch with everyone but Jesse. I could not give one fuck if anyone else lived or died in the end. If the show ends with him planting a flag into a smoking heap of their decapitated heads, I'd be a-okay with it all.

He works for the exterminators/burglars, and he brought himself to Walt's attention at the first house where they pulled the cooking-inside-the-tent thing by mentioning that he'd spotted and disabled a nannycam. So he's a go-getter, I guess, and Walt had emphasized that no one outside of them who were robbing the train could know what happened. That's all we know about him, I think.

We did not see Walt's reaction, yet, unless I missed it in my own reaction.

Jesse is my favorite, but I still like Hank and Walt Jr. Marie I was never fond of, but I'd rather she lived. Skyler, man, Skyler is just so screwed that I hurt for her, but I'm pretty resigned to her suffering at this point.