Alright, so this is more like episodes six, seven and eight. After the Train ep I wanted to savour the awesomeness, plus I knew this mid-season break thing was coming. Seriously? I've bitched and moaned about short seasons but this is bloody ridiculous! Splitting a season in two, eight eps a half?! If that's not money grabbing marketing I don't know what is.
I also wanted to point out how entering this season I sort of knew what to expect. I knew it was the last season and I'd read interviews with the writers about how they always planned to end the season. So from the very beginning of this season (you might note it from previous reviews) I assumed Walt (Bryan Cranston) was going to be the Big Bad, as I like to call it. Watching the last few episodes has proven that to me, so it wasn't really a shock. How did all you other viewers feel about his actions lately?
I was sad to see Mike (Jonathan Banks) go. Funny how he was the evil one in the last couple of seasons and this season I was cheering him on to get out of the game and was really sad when he died. I think it was when they both wanted to kill Lydia (Laura Fraser) that I realised how evil Walt had gotten and for Jesse (Aaron Paul) and Mike to be the voices of reason is a complete flip to how it used to be.
So I always thought, and still kind of do, that this series would end with Walt murdered, but after seeing this episode maybe Hank (Dean Norris) will catch him. What do you think? Is Hank going to arrest Walt and send him to jail? Think he'll confront him first? Maybe he won't dob him in at all, after all Walt and Skyler (Anna Gunn) did pay for his physical rehabilitation... Mmm, I wonder...
[Edit] Did anyone else think there was something other than money in the bags Walt left for Jesse?
Was not too impressed... I would have given it another point if it were finale worthy... but with it being a half season and nothing too spesh happening in this ep, merr...
My first thought was that this was another episode like the tortoise episode from season 2 or the fly episode from last season, and boy, could I have been more wrong! What an episode! Like setting up a mobile lab in a tented house wasn't crazy enough, now they're siphoning stuff out of a tanker on a train... These guys are nuts! It amazes me some of the stuff they get away with in this show... What fantastic ideas they have though. Wow.
I was ripping my hair out with whether they were going to get away with it or not... nerve wracking or what? reminiscent of the camper-van episode last season where Hank (Dean Norris) almost caught Jesse (Aaron Paul). Holy crap! I felt like applauding!
Then the kid! Oh shit! I spent the whole episode wondering what he had to do with everything - I thought maybe he'd dig up an old body or something - did not expect that! By the time he rolled around again I'd completely forgotten about him. Now they're in the shit. Knew it couldn't all go so smoothly.
I'd also like to bring up the whole thing between Skyler (Anna Gunn) and Walt (Bryan Cranston) this season, it's really warped my view of their relationship. Last season I wasn't a big fan of Skyler's, she was just so annoying and whingy. This season I kind of feel a bit sorry for her. I mean, it's not really her fault that she's cracking under the stress of everything, wouldn't anyone else in that situation be the same? And I think she really is scared shitless of Walt now that she's realized he's a murderer as well as a drug dealer. I think that's the main reason she doesn't want the kids at home.
So I feel a bit bad for her but then I get this complete confliction with Walt. He's the bad guy in that scenario and this season he really seems to be actually turning into a real bad guy, don't you think? He's been badmouthing Skyler to Hank and Marie (Besty Brandt), he voted to kill poor Lydia (Laura Fraser), and he's robbing trains for Christ's sake!
