I don't think the timing was off, I think the slower pacing was exactly what they intended. They do this every season, have some inhumanly fast-paced episodes and some slow, deliberate and methodical episodes. You may not like that kind of pacing but I don't think it's proof of "padding" things out or getting the…

DAMMIT HANK

I always thought the "Walt" we see in the music video from lo these many seasons ago was really Jesse from behind, wearing Heisenberg's clothes. I'm thinking the facial hair is definitely supposed to mimic flash forward Walt, and maybe an indicator of things to come.

During their delightful Mexican standoff and guacamole dinner? I have always wondered that. Holly is with them at work, surely, but after work I don't know who watches her. Marie is obviously not doing it anymore, and I doubt they would want a sitter in their home who might stumble across things, so I guess it's…

I'm not convinced Walt was completely irrational with his dislike of Hank. Remember, that's a guy who he saw being racist while on the job, sexist while at their home, who was letting Walt Jr. play with a gun during the birthday party, who made it clear he thought Walt was a weak loser and who was generally…

I see a lot of that in Hank's actions, too. He wasn't trying to protect her at the diner, because protecting her and the kids would mean getting them a lawyer, police protection, and then going to the DEA immediately with what he had, regardless of what it did to his career. Instead he advised her to not get a lawyer,…

I saw a flash of concern as well, that wide-eyed look he gets for a moment when he glances off to the left. But we also know he will kill Jesse, he can't stop himself at this point, and when Jesse later ends up in Saul's to go get a new life just like Walt told him… well, Walt is more monster than man at this point.

YOU SAYIN' LOW WINTER SUN WON'T WIN 47 PULITZERS, BOY?

Almost none of my replies are showing up as replies. This happened a few times on last year's threads, too. Sorry if that's not stupid or exciting enough for ya. (ETA: Yep, something is up with my Disqus account, maybe others' too, if page 9 of comments is any indication. This is swell, almost as relaxing as tonight's…

The last we knew, from Gilligan's comments last Tuesday or so, the spinoff was in the "I can't promise anything but…" stage. And it's all talk for publicity, anyway. I dunno, maybe I'm the only one here who doesn't trust entertainment biz publicity, but I hardly think the spinoff is guaranteed at this point.

Some of the excessive damage on the walls could be smoke, though. I've been wondering why the house looks so old, more than one would expect after being abandoned for six months max, and maybe a small fire that gets put out quickly would explain it.

I root for him too, especially with the confession, because I have been DYING for someone to finally make Hank realize he has been more lucky than a good cop, and his ego and assumptions are way outta hand. They hinted at it last week with Tall and Taller making the crack about gambling winnings being a weak excuse to…

Betsy Brandt is awesome. Marie, not so much. If you care about the kids
you don't suggest their dad kill himself; they've already got his cancer
and his drug empire (which will come out one way or another) and their
mom's complicity, you wanna add suicide on top of all that? Ugh, that
was such a self-righteous, "I am…

The demon is a liar. He will lie to confuse us. But he will also mix
lies with the truth to attack us. The attack is psychological, Jesse,
and powerful. So don't listen to him. Remember that: Do not listen. 

I'm saying it's not set in stone that it IS his 52nd birthday. First of all, Gilligan misleads in these flash forwards. That's what he does. Think of everything we saw with the plane crash flash forwards; you think it's completely implausible that he's also misleading us about the six-month timeline? Second, as we…

Then I wish they'd do that NOW, because the five years of aging during one year of show time is getting out of hand. They even had to film Badger and Skinny Pete from a distance because neither can pass as their supposed age anymore.

I assumed he'd decided to tell the DEA what he knew. Marie had just said Hank could either lose his career by telling the DEA now, or lose his career and go to jail if he DIDN'T tell the DEA and Walt ended up getting caught by someone else. I figured he realized she was right and was going to spill to hopefully…

But we don't know it's his 52nd birthday. For all we know, the bacon is him thinking back on his 52nd birthday, or musing on how he'll never make it to his 52nd.

He dumped her, according to "Peekaboo" in Season Two. He was at her family's summer home and while details weren't given, it sounded like someone in her family said something to him that he took offense to, so he packed up and left without saying why. I'd love to hear more about that, and about why he left his…

No, but he probably just wants to make sure that IF he gets caught by the DEA after doing whatever-it-is his "little friend' is for, he dies in a few days rather than weeks or months. I can see it as a perverse kind of fail safe.