Well, there ya go then.  I buy it, since the hints about Walt's ego were there from the very beginning.

This will end well.

the run that ends with "...the amount of semen in the chest cavity..." would be my pick.

And then sharks.

Typos fixed.

And even if I go with Walt's ego as motivator - the Bros have already taken over the bizness and Walt knows they're cooking.  That was already going on for the past couple of episodes.  So it doesn't answer the "why NOW?" question.

Well, okay then.  That happened.

I presume we're now going to close the loop and see Walt return home to take care of whatever business he's come to take care of.   Of course, gven the way this show likes to jump around in time we could get an entire flashback episode of Walt and Skyler's wedding for all I know.

The questions I'm most curious about now - why is Jesse still alive after all these months?  (Because he clearly will be.)   Is he the sole master of the blue meth and thus too valuable to get rid of?  Is he still a prisoner or is he running the show?   And good grief, Uncle Jack and co. already grabbed 70-some million dollars and they'll have been cooking for months... how much cash is piled up NOW?

All right you bastards - I'm about to watch The Dark Crystal.  A movie I have felt no desire to rewatch for thirty years.

Whatever happens, it's on you.   See You Next Wednesday.

That's a Teague question.  But I can say that your hotel is about 5 miles from FIYH Central and it's an easy route to get from one to the other, so that shouldn't be a problem.

If Teague says we're doing this then I'll give it the movie second watch and see how it compares to my memory of it from 30 years ago.

The difference being that puppets with strings are properly called marionettes, yes.   One is the genus and the other is the species.      There are also hand puppets, rod puppets, stick puppets, shadow puppets, etc.

Sesame Street-type Muppets are usually hand-and-rod puppets, even though Muppet is a combination of "marionette" and "puppet".  The name doesn't actually mean anything but it's memorable and that's what matters in a brand name.   I assume Roduppets didn't sound as good.

But I'd be surprised if there aren't marionettes in Dark Crystal somewhere.  I may not remember the movie that well, but I paid more attention to the making-of documentaries and books, and they pretty much used every kind of puppet.  Quite a few are actually costume characters (yet another species -  one that some puppeteers don't even consider to BE puppets although I'm okay with it).   

So I don't think you can define any movie more precisely than "all-puppet" since it's a pretty good bet that there's going to be a mix of puppet techniques on display.   We used rod puppets in Team America every chance we got, because marionettes are kind of a pain in the ass. 

There's also the issue that the Bro's came to kill Jesse on Walt's orders - but whatever happens to Gomie and Hank, obviously Jesse's going to survive this showdown.

However the writers manage it, I suspect we'll see Walt and Jesse working together for one final cook, even though neither of them wants to be doing it.   And something that hasn't happened since the pilot episode is - a cook session going disastrously wrong.   Especially if Walt sabotages it on purpose, as in the pilot.

Not sure if that's where we're headed, but there'd be a nice symmetry to it...