Tonight's Breaking Bad was AWESOME!!! WARNING *****SPOILERS*****

[Brazoo]

So stupid..

Haha, welp, you had to know where they were going with that gag pretty quick!

[Brazoo]

Actually, come to think of it, at the end Walt went away too, going along with the order. So is Jesse going away next week? Then the meth lab? Maybe Walt comes back after he hears Jesse and the blue have gone away, to clean house and start up fresh?

Of course the Bounder lab is long gone, but I guess the lab Todd has is still a son of that original lab, in some ways.

[sauce]

Brock is still dangling as bait/hope/threat.

[Sideshow Spock]

So stupid..

[Access]

Actually, come to think of it, at the end Walt went away too, going along with the order. So is Jesse going away next week? Then the meth lab? Maybe Walt comes back after he hears Jesse and the blue have gone away, to clean house and start up fresh?

[Access]

The pleasant phone call with his family ended first, then Walt disappeared, then jesse, then the meth lab went away. It felt like veiled foreshadowing to me the first time I saw it, then in the episode Walts family in essence went away, which felt like the first thing to have gone in the opening sequence.

[Brazoo]

Am I the only one who thinks the order things "disappeared" at the beginning may be telling in some wAy?

That's an interesting thought, and I don't remember the order off-hand. They are so clever about working details in I wouldn't be surprised if you were on to something.

[Brazoo]

To me Todd is like a grown up psycho version of Linus from peanuts. I'd like to see the Lucy who screwed him up this bad.

[Brazoo]

The Nazis let Walt go because Todd respects him and, more importantly, Walt owes them a cook. That $11MM they gave him is a drop in the bucket compared to what they'll make if Todd can learn to cook anywhere near as well as Walt did.

(I'm not sure Jack is aware that Jesse could cook meth almost as well as Walt did. Todd may have saved Jesse so he could use Jesse's cooking skills and take the credit to impress Lydia.)

Yeah, Jack had a few reasons he spouted off for letting Walt go and giving him cash...but all were a wee bit thin, no? Does he really think Todd is capable of caring about anyone that much? I don't think there was a solid reason, and even Jack acknowledged that. (Seems to me like an old screenwriting trick, when you need your character to do something odd, have them acknowledge that they know it's odd to smooth it over a bit with the audience.) Anyway, some weird sociopathic appeal to karma, perhaps? I'm not saying it was bad writing, but it wasn't the smoothest plot development either.

In any case, Jack didn't seem to care about being in the meth cooking business after getting this windfall, he never even mentioned cooking to Walt after they got the money, so I don't think he's enterprising enough to be thinking about doubling down. Though, with Jessie's skills, and Todd doing the heavy lifting maybe the Nazi crew will still be hanging around when Walt brings around his new toys.

I think Todd ABSOLUTELY saved Jessie so he could use him to cook to impress Lydia, as for taking credit, probably. Either way impressing/helping Lydia must be his motive. I don't think Todd cares about money too much. They made a point to show him NOT taking money from Walt (until he learned his new trade better.) He's obviously obsessed with Lydia.

[Access]

Am I the only one who thinks the order things "disappeared" at the beginning may be telling in some wAy?

[Chris]

Not to sound like Skylar but the Nazis just landed 68 million. How much money do they need?

Like you guys I'm watching it from the start for the second time. It's so damn good.

[MegoSteve]

The Nazis let Walt go because Todd respects him and, more importantly, Walt owes them a cook. That $11MM they gave him is a drop in the bucket compared to what they'll make if Todd can learn to cook anywhere near as well as Walt did.

(I'm not sure Jack is aware that Jesse could cook meth almost as well as Walt did. Todd may have saved Jesse so he could use Jesse's cooking skills and take the credit to impress Lydia.)

[Brazoo]

I think the irony is that Hank called everything completely right. He totally nailed Walt's weakness for Jessie. If Jessie listened to his original plan Walt would have been taken down. When Jessie messed that up Hank pulled another plan out of his butt, and that worked too!

Hank had a blind spot for seeing Walt for who he was all this time, but Walt revealed a major blind spot for Hank. Hank had him TWICE, easily out stepping Walt when nobody else could. Actually the only reason Walt isn't dead is dumb luck, because there's no real reason for the nazi's to let him go - when it really comes down to it.

As far as Walt goes I think it was a brilliant episode, because we see Walt at his cruelest (giving up Jessie was expected, but torture?!) and also his most redemptive - trying to give away the money to save Hank, the phone call/confession for Skylar, and letting the baby go.

Also, after that cliff hanger last week the first shot of the boiling pot had me laughing hard. Those brilliant evil *******s really know how to mess with me.

[cjefferys]

Someone pointed out that he rolls that barrel past a pair of khaki pants lying on the ground...Easter egg call out to the first episode

Yeah, I noticed him passing a pair of pants but didn't make the connection until it was pointed out online. Nice touch!

[MegoSteve]

I don't get calling Walt Jr. a pansy, either. He's someone who really wanted to believe in his dad, and in one day went from a completely innocent kid to wrestling a knife away from his dad and throwing himself in front of his mom to protect her, then calling the cops. That's the scene where Walt lost his family and it's also the scene where Junior became a man.

I also don't get calling Marie a hypocrite for being sad about losing her husband. Why?