Lately I've been listening to that song a couple times a day, it's just so perfect

I love that song, plus "I've Gotta Get a message to You" and "To Love Somebody" are great too

No, he's definitely enough of a dick http://gawker.com/5899097/h…

Yeah I think he "cares about Jesse" the same way he "wants to protect his family." It's an important image for him to be able to project, and it's an important belief for him to have about himself, but pretty much everything he's done shows how flimsy that assertion really is.

I completely agree with this assessment, and some of the outraged responses you're getting are laughable. I have lived through and witnessed abuse myself, and it's because of my experiences as an abuse victim that I find people's hatred of Skyler so off-putting.

I have to say, as someone who grew up being abused and witnessing abuse, whose mother made the impossible happen to get us out, watching Skyler's scene in the bedroom with Walt in "51" was one of the most emotionally cathartic scenes I've ever seen on tv. And then I went online and saw people saying she's a cunt who…

@avclub-a1967e6de4ca99fb2635d94b99453928:disqus The pool scene was a deliberate move to set up a plan to get her kids out of the house after she saw how totally opposed Walt was to that. I think being willing to fake a suicide attempt and deliberately open herself up to the vulnerability that comes with other people…

This is more or less okay but I would swap out some of your first points: he didn't first want Jesse to think he'd been careless, the whole point was to make Jesse think Gus had poisoned Brock so that Jesse would go along with killing Gus. Remember that at this time Walt had been trying and trying to get Jesse to go…

Right, but Jesse thinking, originally, that it WAS ricin, was important to get Jesse go along with killing Gus. After it's all over and knows it wasn't the ricin, and probably wasn't Gus behind the poisoning, you can tell he's uncertain about what he's done, asking Walt "but he had to go, right?"

I'm wondering where exactly Hank was headed when he left the office. Jesse didn't want to work with him before, but maybe this will change his mind.

Aaron Paul actually has called people from Twitter after telling people to give him their numbers before; I was pretty tempted last week and a little regretful after seeing a "OH MY GOD I JUST TALKED TO AARON PAUL" tweet. But, still not putting my phone number on Twitter. Unless I get a Walt-style second cellphone, I…

You're gonna want that Tru-Coat!

Walt's treatment of Jesse has long reminded me of an abusive relationship (I mean, it is, just not in the standard i.e. romantic sense as we think of it). Walt mistreats and insults Jesse constantly (especially when Jesse shows any sign of independence/not needing to rely on Walt/forming outside relationships), tells…

Well at least from what I could see, not everything seemed to be cut

Yeah, what do you think the "D" is for

@avclub-9645f62edbc61f2e1cf4d8a69cc3d014:disqus I think I'm calling faked death of Skyler and maybe the kids

Yeah I think the key is that, before, it was Skyler's idea for the kids to go with Marie. So it's not so much about the fact of the kids being away/Marie taking care of them, it's how much control Skyler has. Her huge weakness much like most people on this show is her desire to be in control of her own fate no matter…

Yeah I had an idea (not based on anything other than some "what if" feeling) that maybe Walt did lose his family, but they're in Witness Protection without him or something

Aloha, Mr. White

I want more tv shows to start directly incorporating poetry and themes from specific poems into their narratives; I loved the use of Frank O'Hara on Mad Men and I love the use of Whitman and Shelley on BB.