Yeah, that's probably the last cooking montage we're getting, so it's fitting to save that song for the last one.
and the best one of the series. it was stunning, especially the final shot over the sprawl with the green and gold tents.
Lydia grates on me. I understand that she contributes to the show, but her delivery is so rushed and clipped that nothing she says resonates, ever. And that's ALL she does. I can't tell if the actress that plays her is horrendous or if it's just an irritating directorial choice, but she's godawful to listen to. OK to look at though.
i have very mixed feelings on her as well. she's written in such a way that she has to deliver long, expository monologues that, for me, feel a bit like they were stuck in for the audience's benefit. or perhaps, because she's a new character, i just haven't bonded with her like i have the rest. i think she does a good mix of a paranoid, high-powered, hyper, annoying, competent but possibly totally bonkers type-A person who i wouldn't trust with my lunch money. i know several women like her. they are all godawful to listen to. so perhaps the actress is spot-on?
I think Walt uses the ricin on Walt.
Some baddies are after him (Madrigal? The Phoenix group? New group?) and he is cornered like a rat, with the cancer having come back.
this seems most plausible to me. Walt would have a period of time before the ricin goes to work, so maybe he takes it and then goes out in the 72 hours before he falls ill in a blaze of glory.
i also think there's bad news, re: cancer. the overhead shot of him in the hospital gown made him look very, very corpse-like.
my thought is that everyone around him goes down in flames and he's the last one standing, but then the cancer gets him.
i, too, was waiting for Walter to cap Jesse, but i never felt the family was in danger. it was feeling a bit final Sopranos episode to me, where i still maintain that Tony didn't die but that he's meant to live in a kind of hell where he can't even sit in a restaurant without thinking every last person in the place could potentially do him harm.