Breaking Bad
Season 5, Episode 13 – “To’hajiilee”
Directed by Michelle MacLaren
Written by George Mastras
Starring: Bryan Cranston, Anna Gunn, Aaron Paul, Dean Norris, Betsy Brandt, RJ Mitte, Bob Odenkirk, Laura Fraser, and Jesse Plemons
AMC
Air date: September 8, 2013

Full-on spoilers for this week’s action-packed Breaking Bad are below. You’ve been warned.

In his mind, the only thing that kept Walter White (Bryan Cranston) from fully descending into hell was a Batman-esque, one-premise code: Family was off-limits. For so long, Jesse (Aaron Paul) was considered family that Walt could never imagine sending him to Belize. He fought hard and long to make sure that Jesse ended up safe, but after last week’s episode that rule was broken and all bets were off. Jesse has always been far smarter than anyone ever gave him credit for and uses this to his advantage. I was half right last week when I said that Jesse would come for Walt at the car wash. So much of Walt’s motivation to cook was always about the money. There’s no way all that green would disappear.

Hey, who wants to check out a preview for a new series from Dark Horse Comics, Grindhouse: Doors Open at Midnight? Because that’s just what we have for you today!

Check out the covers here below for the first and second issues, as well as a six-page sequence from the story and pick up the full issue in October.

On Thursday, the first trailer for next February’s RoboCop reboot/remake was released. I watched it twice – the first time squinting and achingly readjusting my eyesight as a YouTube embed played on my trading card-sized cell phone screen; the second time in high-definition on my laptop. Viewing it initially with lackluster screen resolution and barely passable sound quality, I felt that I couldn’t judge the content fairly, since I was only able to process a flurry of rapid-fire images. The most visually appalling that I could recall were Samuel L. Jackson‘s hairpiece and some the sight of the iconic cyborg police officer of a crime-ridden Detroit re-envisioned (and I use that term so loosely it would not stick even if I used applied super glue and hammered nails into it, crucifixion style) as the stillborn love child of Mike Baron and Steve Rude’s sci-fi comic book superhero Nexus and one of those Jaeger pilot suits from Pacific Rim.

So I waited until the second time when I could finally hear and see everything the trailer had to offer to decide for myself if this 2:20 spot that us fans of the original RoboCop had been waiting for with the kind of anticipation that can reduce your stomach lining to beef jerky was a positive sign of things to come. As it turns out, I shouldn’t have bothered with the second viewing because I hadn’t really missed anything on my initial viewing of the trailer. No matter what size you watch it on, be it Google Glass or IMAX, the trailer for the rebooted RoboCop represents everything the bad buzz that has been gathering and festering for months like locusts feasting on the decaying remains of Bubonic plague victims was priming us for: ugly, bland, humorless, monotonous, and derivative of not only the original RoboCop movies, but of every jacked-up and failed superhero movie ever made by a major studio.

Marvel Studios has released a new character poster for Thor: The Dark World featuring Thor (Chris Hemsworth) and his human love interest Jane, played by Natalie Portman. One look at this poster will have you wondering what the hell is going on with Natalie Portman and why would this image even be approved for release?

I can’t even imagine why they apparently photoshopped Portman’s head on a barbie doll or why her facial expression is so terrible. And my only guess as to why it was released like this would be that it will get people talking, and it sure has. I expect this one to be on every Photoshop Disasters site out there. I likely would not even have bothered to post to about it had I not been so mesmerized by its hideousness. So, job well done, Marvel.

Check out the full poster here below.

Remember that eerie teaser video simply titled “Stranger” that was posted last month to J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot Productions YouTube account? At the time, no one knew what this teaser was for and why it showed a man’s face with his mouth sewn shut.

Well, we still don’t know why the guy’s mouth is sewn up Strangeland-style, but we do finally know what the project is, thanks to another cryptic video released today, which you can watch here below.

The mystery project is called S. and it’s a novel by Abrams and Doug Dorst being released on October 29, 2013, available now for pre-order in Hardcover and Audiobook.