Actually, I wasn't rushed; I just thought I had the names right, so I didn't double check them. Thanks for the heads up. (Also, I wrote this, and I've been writing about the show since the pilot, although we didn't cover all of the first season.)

beema is right. I totally did.

Y'know, my reviews were already pretty long even before you took over, TV. And they've always been _hella_ indulgent.

I don't know! It was my friend's idea, and I didn't want to ask too many questions.

Doh.

He knew what time Lydia would be at the store, and he arranged it so that there'd be only one packet of the stuff at her customary table. A friend of mine theorized he could've injected the ricin into the packet with a syringe; after that, it would just be a matter of planting it, and then keeping watch over the table…

Man, when Vince Gilligan said the finale would be "polarizing," he wasn't kidding.

I also dislike their habit of letting the producers (or the hosts themselves) take over for an interview subject and sum up what the person was saying. It's not technique original to the show, but it gets distracting after a while, and weirdly condescending. But I've been turning on Radiolab a bit lately, so I'm…

But where is God in all of this? Where is God. Where. Is. God. And humanity. But God? Where is that.

Hmm. That's not a terrible idea, given the nature of the episode. Let me think about it.

No joke, I came very close to making a similar comparison in my review; I decided against it because I've been talking about Breaking Bad too much lately, but yeah, it's an interesting comparison.

There's sort of a justification for this in the pilot—it's not a justification that really works, but they try, at least.

Well, most of the cast looks to be in their late twenties/early thirties. Or *gasp* even older.

No, I got that, I was just trying to assure you that I wasn't criticizing the show for going down a well-traversed road.

Ehhhh, it's not like dozens of adaptations haven't gotten there first, disrespecting-wise. (At least this one doesn't call itself "Bram Stoker's Dracula.")

Bram Stoker's Dracula (book) isn't very romantic, it's not a soap opera, and there's not a lot of cleavage in it. But you got me on the foggy streets/gas lamps. (What I should've stressed is that the show basically makes Dracula the hero, and, just as weird, takes one of the character's main weaknesses—his inability…

I think Walt's intelligence is an anomaly, and the scope of the destruction that intelligence can create is an anomaly; but I don't think the capacity to do harm is anomaly. (I think that's what Skyler's arc is about, really.)

No, I don't think he's a good man who, or an evil man who. I think he's just a guy. There's a capacity for good and bad in him, and he decided to hit the bad hard and keep running, but while that made the good weaker, It never went away. This final season has done a great job of showing that he's an awful person who…

A few weeks ago—it might have been before the final season kicked off—a critic on Twitter was asking people when they thought Walt finally lost control of the Heisenberg persona; when Walter White was gone and the Bad Man took over. There were a lot of smart answers (most folks centered on Jane's death; I argued that…

No worries!