I agree on all points quoted below.
Missus and I giggled about how Todd dressed up for his "date" with Lydia.
- Andrea's death was heartbreaking, and the fact that Todd was giving Jesse his favorite ice cream as a reward before his escape attempt--- it's a roller coaster ride with my nerves. Well done.
- Great to see Forster and without his native Great Lakes accent. Some of the fun is just exploring how disappearance *might* work, whether or not this approximates reality.
- The phone call with Flynn was...necessary.
- And it was so great that Walt's ego, his reaction to the Rose interview, got the Heisenberg engine stoked and running again. Perfect.
- He's got hair, MT!
- The motto of New Hampshire is Live Free or Die!
AdamA wrote:
Reub wrote:
So did anyone else feel that the next to last episode fell a little flat?
Not at all!
I loved the addition of Robert Forster as the "vacuum repair" guy ("wanna cut the cards?").
Walt hanging his Heisenberg hat on the deer antlers and wasting away in the cabin was great too. It makes the Charlie Rose scene at the end perfect. Walt is proud of himself. He prefers being the kingpin of a giant meth empire to some rube who sold his stake in a multibillion dollar company prematurely, struggles to make ends meet, and dies prematurely of lung cancer.
I love that it took that interview to pull Walt out of his funk.
Todd was even creepier than usual. The scene where he murders Jesse's old girlfriend was tough to watch.
I think a great final episode would be if Walt takes that giant machine gun, has it out with Todd's uncle and his goons and then goes and turns himself in. I think it will be cool if Jesse is somehow forced to help Walt out one more time. At this point, he probably hates Todd and his uncle more than he does Walt.