Point of irony, Hank "had" Walter during the investigation into Gale's murder. Hank laughed off his own realization that the "W.W." in Gale's notebook could stand for Walter White and moved on to investigating Fring. Hank was just too close to the truth to see that Walter had the skill set to actually be Heisenberg.

Walt hasn't mentioned to Skyler that the cancer is back, either. So I just chalk up the undisclosed tracking device as another example of Walter withholding information again until Skyler absolutely needs to know. It's another kind of manipulation that has just become habit for Walt.

The issue of "purity" is an issue of waste. If Declan's crew is only able to produce meth that's 68% pure that means nearly 1/3 of what they produce is unsellable.

My later thoughts on the "Heisenberg" graffiti was that the name should have been misspelled. Except that Walt's admirers would have made the effort to get the spelling right. So after the initially misspelled "HISENBERG" was painted to fill the entire living room wall, the tagger has noticeably squeezed an "E"…

Walt didn't call Saul until after Jesse called Walt the next morning. As far as either Saul or Jesse (or the police) know, Jesse was the first one to "discover" Jane's dead body.

Brock's poisoning is more likely to be linked to Walt than Jane's death. Once Hank starts matching up Jesse's timeline with Walt's, Hank will see that Jesse advised the hospital that Brock might have been poisoned, leading to the uncovering the Lily of Valley plant as the source of the actual toxin. Hank will remember…

I never considered the coincidences of "Breaking Bad" to be all that remarkable. After all, in theory only six connections are necessary to join anyone in the world to anyone else. Albuquerque is a much smaller subset of the whole world… and the drug world is an even smaller subset of Albuquerque. It wouldn't be…

So seasons are the concept albums of TV?

I'm late to the party, I know. But now that WB has finally released POI to iTunes, I've spent the last few days catching up on this remarkable series.

I'm sure the contract would have had other booby traps to prevent the clones from seeking legal remedies. A non-disclosure clause, for instance, to prevent the clones from even discussing the contents of their contracts with anyone. And maybe an arbitration clause to keep all disputes out of the courts.

Whether the notice of patent is valid or not, the fact that it exists in the clone's gene sequence points to one thing clearly: the contracts the clones were being asked to sign weren't being offered in good faith. That fact alone makes the contracts non-binding.

Of course Felix Unger was the neat one.

In the Frazier Crane intro episode of "Cheers", Grammer somehow manages to stay in the background until his first cue. But Grammer becomes impossible to ignore on subsequent viewings.

Some of Abe's and Peggy's neighbors are hostile, unless you want to calling stabbing and throwing rocks through windows acts of warmth.

Abe, Abe, Abe. A "pioneer" who denies the very existence of hostiles doesn't survive very long on the prairie.

"…Face it, I got elected on the basis of one good speech and then I didn't have the skills to back it up. It's what's wrong with politics, if you ask me."

Yes, it's going to have to be a balancing act. The writers have really put themselves into an interesting corner with "all in a single weekend" limitation. And it's going to be equally interesting to see how they write themselves out of it.

I'm real to everyone I owe money to.

Oh, good, it's not just me. On the strength of the enthusiastic comments on this site, I sampled Happy Endings just today. I kept waiting for the funny to ensue..and waiting…and waiting.

Uh, did everybody miss the part where the artist never actually *saw* Maude's breasts? The painting is no more "real" than Annie Fannie.