Replying to greymanRISES (below):

Replying to greymanRISES (below):

An oversight, but my point stands.

Right, so by "you're not ready" you mean "it's above your head." Perhaps you're full of suggestions on how I might have better "prepared" myself for Aaron Paul's performance, but before I attain such enlightenment I suppose I'm doomed to cringe most of the time he's on screen haltingly delivering his lines.

Near the end of “Confessions”, with the primary players of “Breaking Bad” hurtling violently through denouement, Jesse utters a brief, tantalizing line in his signature robotic cadence: “Alaska – Alaska’s good.” Yes, yes – how satisfying it would be if Aaron Paul’s one-note character were banished to the Alaskan wild,…

True. But call me naive: I couldn't see Tony S. taking the risk of collateral damage in that setting.

I stand corrected. Still, I can see Walt having qualms about turning a gun on Jesse. Unless, as I suggest above, Jesse double-crosses him, or he finds himself in some sort of final showdown with Jesse a la Pacino-DeNiro in "Heat."

Thank you. Aaron Paul is by far the weakest acting link on the show.

I never turned against Tony Soprano. To the end I remained generous in forgiving him his routine immorality. I judged him as I judge a pet dog for snagging a piece of steak off a plate left momentarily unattended on a coffee table: never harshly, always eager to welcome him back into favor.

We'll probably have to agree to disagree. BUT — if by the time Walt shows up at the garage Hank is already 100% certain that Walt is Heisenberg, then Hank has an even STRONGER incentive not to behave suspiciously; instead, Hank comes off more guiltily than the cat that swallowed the canary. He knows Heisenberg is a…

AT LEAST as much as you would've tipped if the meal (or any other service) weren't on the house.

I didn't watch until Monday night, and despite uniformly rave Sunday-night reviews, I nevertheless sat back with little expectation I'd be blown away. This is in part a self-defense mechanism instilled by repeated disappointments with the final seasons of past episodic series. But I reined in my expectations mostly…

I guess with the stakes so high, I wasn't expecting him to succumb to his inner hothead. But yeah, he probably didn't deserve the benefit of the doubt given his history of cracking up.

Was anyone else skeptical about Hank's epic poker-face fail in the garage? After nearly dying and jeopardizing his career for his pursuit of his white whale (WW — hm), his professionalism is gonna just crumble at the very first turn? For all he knows, Walter is just stopping by to say hello. Why can't he play it off?