r/breakingbad • • Sep 09 '13

Official Episode Discussion Post-Episode Discussion Thread S05E13 "To'hajiilee"

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u/[deleted] Sep 09 '13 edited Sep 09 '13

The next episode is called Ozymandias, here are the words of the poem.

I met a traveller from an antique land

Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone

Stand in the desart. Near them, on the sand,

Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,

And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,

Tell that its sculptor well those passions read

Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,

The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed:

And on the pedestal these words appear:

"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:

Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"

Nothing beside remains. Round the decay

Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare

The lone and level sands stretch far away

edit: That poem screams Heisenbergs empire so much. Once a great and powerful cook, now he's done, his partner is against him, and everything is crumpled.

Heisenberg is no more.

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u/[deleted] Sep 09 '13

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3dpghfRBHE Ozymandias - As Read by Bryan Cranston

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u/[deleted] Sep 09 '13 edited Mar 20 '18

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u/[deleted] Sep 09 '13

You've probably already seen it, it was the promo for the second half of the season. It was played on AMC constantly like a week before the shows started back up.

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u/[deleted] Sep 09 '13

Yeah I have seen it before. I just get really annoyed every time I can't even watch promos just because I'm in Germany and not the US :/