Breaking Bad is my single tradition upheld since day one of the show. It's the only thing that I actually set aside time for, sit down on Sunday, and watch the premiere of each episode. To be at this point now in the show.... to just know that we've come to this from the point where it was a chemistry teacher taking off his pants to cook in an RV is chilling.

Season 4 was the single greatest season of television I've ever seen, with special notice for Crawl Space, and I have no doubts in my mind that by the time this is over, the entirety of season 5 will match or surpass that. It's great also seeing the scene in the new episode where he walks into his house and it's revealed that the world knows what he's done. I want to see him crushed, because there's no longer any humanity left in him at all; Walt is truly a person of absolute evil. Yet when he stands in front of the spray-painted 'Heisenberg', you can't help but feel a tinge of sympathy behind the hatred. I mean he's been through some awful shit and, while I can't call him human anymore, he's something resembling it, and once was a human.

Jesse is going to be the most important factor in the end. He's the only moral character left, and he's clearly going mad from it. I don't know what part he's going to play in it all, but sadly he's most likely going to end up dead.

From an artistic standpoint as well, the episode was staggering. The cinematography from the first scene with the kids on the skateboards in his pool, to the shot of Walt in front of the Heisenberg tag, to Jesse at the Dog Pound, to the last scene, with the garage door closing and Hank and Walt's eyes burning at each other was flawless. I'm loving as the seasons progress as well, the subtle color coding for the characters gets more and more blatant, more revealed. At this point, every aspect of the colors is prevalent at all times, as if everything is at its maximum saturation. It's really gives you the feeling that this is the endgame and every from here is collapse.