Breaking Bad Season 5 Trailer – Walt’s a Ticking Time Bomb

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There’s something to be said about a series that can tease its highly anticipated final season by using nothing but previously seen footage, and that’s exactly what Breaking Bad is doing for Season 5. It doesn’t need to show us anything new because we all know that it’s going to be the greatest thing on TV, which has been true for every preceding season as well. The old stuff is intense enough to sell how crazy and heart stopping Season 5 will be. It also means AMC is saving the good stuff for when the show finally premieres July 15^th.

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The 30-second teaser does an amazing job of setting up the final season. Everything we’re shown has a specific purpose to it, coming together to highlight how Walt has at last become the big man on campus, the king, but he’s all but destined to have it all taken away from him. His empire, which he will be looking to build with Jesse, will have to fail. It’s the rule of storytelling. The bad guy has to lose. Sure, at the start of the series Walt was the protagonist, but he has steadily been turning into the ultimate villain, going so far as to poison a child to get what he wants. And we all know the bad guy has to be defeated.

The question is, who will be the undoing of Walt? Will it be Sylar, who has slowly started to realize just how scary and far-gone Walt has become? Or Jesse, when he inevitably discovers what Walt did to Brock. There’s Hank, his DEA brother-in-law who has unknowingly been on Walt’s trail for the past few seasons. And lets’ not forget Mike, whose boss Walt murdered. Any one of these characters could turn on Walt at any point. It’s just a waiting game. I’m putting all my money on Jesse. He has to be the one to take out Walt. The apprentice has to become the master.

6 Comments

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   conr

   June 30, 2012 at 9:06 pm

   There are like, multiple scenes in that trailer which are not old footage..

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   Ken Richard

   July 1, 2012 at 5:41 am

   How pathetic. The reason why I don’t own a TV. And grown men cream in their shorts over this series?

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   Jamie

   July 1, 2012 at 7:58 am

   I love the typo — calling his wife Sylar instead of Skylar!

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   Jamie

   July 1, 2012 at 8:01 am

   Mike is a mercenary, with no real loyalty to his boss except for money. He won’t be pissed Walt bumped off Gus, it’s not like he lost his best friend…

   I would presume that Walt will seek to employ Mike. But Mike’s apparent fondness for Jesse, and the fact that he owes him his life, could well come into play.

   Mike has always been a cog in the whole story, but i think S5 will be his time to shine.

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   HavaCuppaJoe

   July 1, 2012 at 3:15 pm

   So I must have missed something because in Season 4 they made it a point that Brock was not poisoned with Ricin but with some kind of wild berry. (That’s why the cops let Jesse go). Did I miss a scene where Walt sneaks in and slips berries into Brock’s pancakes or something?

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     Lily of the Valley

     July 1, 2012 at 3:35 pm

     See last scene of season 4 – Walt’s the culprit.

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