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12:00 AM

> Jesse's plan was low-percentage, I thought. But didn't you get the impression at the end of the previous episode that he was certain it would work? The plan has too many variables.

Robusto

Well, I take issue with that.

RegDwighт

Now. About that last remark. This wasn't actually the first time such a plan has been put forth. Look no further than the Season 4 finale. Which was preposterous, absurd, completely over the top. But that's the thing. It still worked.

Boy did it work.

Robusto

Remember, Jesse is the one who comes up with the raw ideas. Others are left implement them. Jesse dreamed up magnets and Walt put it to work. Jesse thought trains and Walt did the math. Now he thinks about hitting Walt in the money, and Hank fucks up that plan.

RegDwighт

That is a good point.

Though while we're at it, the magnet was subparly executed as well.

It had no effect on its own batteries lying right next to it, yet dragged on stuff twenty feet away. Right.

Robusto

It was executed well enough. And it was a deft enough touch that they didn't get away with the van. They just left it stuck on the building.

Hey, remember, this is all still way more plausible than most TV fridge moments.

RegDwighт

12:04 AM

Yeah. I think the bigger point I am making is I'm not sure yet what to think of season five.

So much of it seems so unbreakingbadly.

Robusto

The quality of Season 5 all depends on how well this show finishes.

RegDwighт

The train job was testing my patience as well.

@Robusto exactly.

Which is why I still have some hopes left for the current cliffhanger.

Robusto

If we have a satisfying conclusion, Season 5 was the tide going out before the tsunami. If there's no tsunami to follow, it's just tide going out.

But I like what the guy said about Todd's creepy come-on to Lydia. Still, is he only now wondering if there's something odd about Todd?

RegDwighт

BTW speaking of cliffhangers, I must say for me personally the strongest moment of the last episode was when I realized, or was spoonfed, that it was indeed Jesse Walt was going after.

Robusto

Duh.

RegDwighт

12:08 AM

What I mean by that is they will often have those enormous cliffhangers that they subsequently resolve to a gust of air.

Robusto

But here's the thing. Walt doesn't really want his family killed. Hank is family, and so is Jesse. Some part of him still loves Jesse. And some part of Jesse still loves Walter. Otherwise, he couldn't hate him so much.

RegDwighт

@Robusto sorry but it is the show's own fault. I totally expected the call to turn out to be about something else entirely.

It was a shocker that it wasn't.

They pulled this trick way too often, with tons of shit about to hit a giant fan at the end of an episode, only for you to find out in the next episode that the shit was Nutella and the fan never existed.

Robusto

@RegDwighт That can't happen this time. There is no gust of air. Hank is dead meat. What we had was not Nameless Henchmen Syndrome but Delayed Resolution. The bullets are going to find Hank and Gomez. But somehow Walter is going to manage to save Jesse. That's what I think will happen. And I'm fine with that.

@RegDwighт OK, name another instance. I think you're exaggerating.

RegDwighт

Well when Mike drives Jesse off to the desert. And Walt rushes to help, making the call to Skyler, as if it's the last call of his life.

Robusto

Anyway, I think we can't judge yet. Be worried all you want, but maintain some trust. They can't go all Lost on us. Not at this point.

RegDwighт

12:13 AM

I don't think I'm exaggerating on this one account, what with me rewatching season one through four right now, and paying attention to just such things.

Robusto

@RegDwighт I didn't think that was a blown climax.

RegDwighт

I don't really mean to say it was blown. More like resolved, and more to the point, very quickly.

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