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Originally Posted by joven
No offense to you personally, but this must signify the time of year on the BB thread where the idiotic theories begin circling. It's painfully obvious that they are not going to introduce a new "villain" with merely 8 episodes left and plenty of plot left to unfold. Do you really think Gilligan is that bad that he would let a character who has never been mentioned, referenced, or heard of come in with 8 episodes left and destroy the main character?
/facepalm
At the end of season four, I steadfastly claimed Ted Beneke was dead, and ended up being dead wrong. You sound exactly like I did back then.
What's more plausible, the idea that Vince Gilligan and the other writers would be able to come up with a way to convincingly portray some kind of threat to Walt as a result of Gus' death, involving some individual or group of people from Chile trying to kill him, or the idea that they specifically decided to drop a line like "the only reason you're alive is because I know who you are" into a pivotal season four episode at a key moment in the knowledge that they weren't going to follow it through?
I would be extremely surprised if we get absolutely no follow-up on the death of the biggest meth kingpin north of the border. There are fairly obviously tons of ways they could do it effectively without having to introduce, characterise and flesh out a new villain in the space of eight episodes.