Be Excellent To Each Other

"Stay out of my territory" is probably one of my favourite moments of any TV show in recent memory.

It looked like jesse didnt shoot him to me. I think he'll hide him and then it'll get found out later on.

I reckon he killed him. No idea what's happening next though.

Isn't Saul amazing? And the Chicken guy.

I love Saul. Just how ridiculous he is with all his pedicures and back massage things. Only recently I recognised him from HIMYM. I also love the fixer guy for the chicken guy, the one who told Walter no half measures.

Doug from Flight of the Concords is quite funny too.

The legend of the ATM machine is pretty good too.

TORTOISE!

What is he going to do?!?!?!?

The whole poison thing was sort of suspect. I was pretty confident it was Walt behind it, but didn't know for sure until the reveal. Sad that there is only going to be one more series, but who know's where they will take it next series.

The last shot of the flowers!?!?!?! I kinda saw that coming but OH MY GOD we are going to see Walt turn into the most evil fucking piece of shit ever in the final season!

Also, double meaning for the episode being called "Face Off" too I literally shouted "WOAH!!" when that camera panned round to reveal that!!!?!?! Fuck!!

That's a little disappointing, actually. I was quite happy with the way they wrapped all of that up.

Anyway. I thought the whole ‘Gus walking out, revealing his mangled face, adjusting his tie then falling over’ was cheesy, unbelievable and completely unnecessary. That was a real shame in such a strong episode.

And the way they zoomed in on the plant at the end. It was pretty obvious from the subtle camera changes before that Walt was the one behind it. There was really no need to thump it into our heads. Oh well.

I would definitely have preferred that scene to have cut away just after the explosion. BB often throws in some cracking humour (often from Saul), but Gus' horror-comedy pratfall pretty much buggered up all the atmosphere they'd built up during that brilliant scene.

See, I did need that plant-based reveal for it to click into place for me, though that's me for you. The only thing that diluted the power of the final shot for me was the earlier scene, where we saw Walt trick an elderly neighbour into popping into his house in order to find out if hired goons were hiding there. As we've seen, Walt has done worse in the past, but it did remind us of how cold he's now become before that final hammer blow.

Oh, and unrelatedly, I just LOVE how Jesse - a person who never really does anything politely - still generally refers to Walt as "Mr White".

I didn't mind Gus's final scene. The visual imagery was nightmarish, and I loved that he adjusted his tie before falling over.

Also, I too needed that final trailing shot to realise that Walt poisoned Brock.

Jesse kills Walt. It's the only thing that makes sense to me.

For one, the show started with a sentence of death over Walt's head and Vince Gilligan is on record as saying that he doesn't believe you can cheat the viewer by not having Walt die. But also, the show is about consequences, and it's about Walt becoming the bad guy. Dying of cancer in bed surrounded by his family would mean he'd cheated the consequences of his actions. That can't happen either. So it has to be a violent death.

For two, the show has been playing up the father/son relationship between Jesse and Walt, but now Walt has poisoned that as he poisoned Brock -- and we've seen Jesse becoming more and more confident as time passes, less and less in Walt's shadow (think of him cooking for the Cartel). I think we are gradually seeing Walt and Jesse come into an epic conflict that will be the major arc of the final season.

Re: Gus' death. This worked really well IMHO. It was OTT and cartoonish, but that's the style of the whole series. The room blowing up and then a cut away would have been too implied rather than showing Gus actually dying. I see a very comic book style to this whole series. Many of the characters are like cartoon villains (Gus being the cold/calculated mafia dude, Tuco being the CRAZY drug dealer, Saul being the ridiculous lawyer), everything has an edge of hyper-reality to it, it reminds me of the Dark Knight Batman, a slightly tweaked reality. Even the over exposed colour palette implies this. I mean, just re-watch the very first episode of season 1 and try and argue it's not cartoonish?! Or Tuco's cousin dragging himself across the floor on his bloody stumps to get at Walt!!

Also, which relates to the final shot of the flowers, nothing is implied in BB. This is all in your FACE! That's the style. When people die, you see them die. When significant events happen, they're made very clear. This isn't the Wire. Even though I had pretty much figured that Walt had masterminded the poisoning of Brock to get Jesse behind him in killing Gus, that final shot was the confirmation which made everything concrete. THIS IS A GOOD THING. I don't want BB to be all did they/didn't they, keep you watching as you want to know the truth crap script writing like Lost. That is how scripts get messy, confused and result in conclusions like Lost which piss people off as they don't tie everything together and explain all the loose ends. Also, keep in mind, the script writers of BB possibly didn't know if they'd get a season 5 of BB to write, so they finished off season 4 in a way that is nicely concluded on it's own. If Season 4 was the end, I'd be happy, but I'm really excited to see how much of an evil cunt Walt turns into in season 5. I agree with Gaywood, he's fucking toast and Jesse will be the one to take him out.

Walt pretty much has only one option left, and that's to take out Gus, or die trying
I notice he's coughing a lot again.