How do you guys feel about the latest episode? I was a bit disgusted. Jesse seemed to be having second thoughts about teaming up with Hank to bring Walt down, but after he was cuffed, he walks over and spits in Walt's face like the man he was. I just don't get how Jesse could cooperate with Hank after he beat the shit out of him.... and to get Walt, the guy that saved his life and kept Hank from tossing his ass in jail countless times. Hank, after years of proclaiming family values and all, has no qualms about turning in his brother in law.... I was shocked he didn't ejaculate after slapping the cuffs on Walt. He would take the money Walt left for his family and turn it in just to "get" Walt. And Todd's Uncle Hitman crew... Gets called to a hit in the middle of the dessert and finds two lightly armed cops there without the ability to get back up... HESITATES to open fire, quickly eliminate them and clean up the scene... That fade to black was the most excruciating thing since... well... Best of Both Worlds!! UGH!!!! At least we don't have to wait a whole summer for the next ep. And Walt... As smart as he was about it, and as convincing as Hank and Jesse's plan was, I can't believe that he didn't think of something to throw them off after he realized it was a trick to get the location of his money. Keep driving. Keep the phone going somewhere else...Especially when you drive by your spot and see no one and nothing. If he had played it differently... Had he went full Heisenberg, Hank, Jesse and Gomez would all be dead. In the end, it was Walt who showed the slightest bit of loyalty and honor in this episode and I honestly wish he hadn't. None of them deserve it IMHO. Oh... and while I'm at it, FUCK Marie... that clepto, holier than thou bitch sitting up in therapy acting all hurt and victimized. Can't wait for the next episode!!
The fact that you equate family values with tolerating very bad, morally wrong and very illegal things is horrible to me. I wonder though, if it hasn't given me insight into a cultural problem.
You know what Breaking Bad really needs. A Christian Fundie character to really shake things up a bit. He would go around casting judgment on others - in an ironic fashion of course as he professes to be a Christian - all the while demonstrating extreme paranoia and little street smarts. He would pretend that he knows how things are supposed to be despite experiencing a sliver of a fraction of humanity, due mostly do fear of the unknown and the inescapable desire to follow (poorly) a fiction book written 2000 years ago - you know, like a stone age Scientologist. Anyway, he would go against Walt and Walt would have to use his brains - though not very much of them - to out"wit" the fundie and put him in his place. You know. Drama.
Yes... I've suffered from it first hand and you've been blessed with divine cultural insight. Take this gift and go do good work. Get a grip. It's a TV show. But we can discuss it further in the Red Room if you'd like. I just don't find it credible that a tightly knit family's first reaction when one of them goes rogue is to turn them over to the authorities. You at least try to help your friends overcome their vices before going to external authorities. Even if one of your family is an external authority... Walt was out of the business. He was ready to move on and live a peaceful life. Hank couldn't accept that. Not because he had some strong sense of law enforcement, but it was precisely because Walt outsmarted him for so long.
Why don't you just say someone's opinion about a TV show makes you think that black people are awful human beings? Why dance around it, like a pussy?
No one cares what is horrible to you, if you can't add to the discussion and only want to share your butthurt start a new topic.
That.....fuck.....that was the best hour of television I've ever seen in my entire life! Ever! The creative hutzpah of the writers and director, and the absolutely stellar performance from every one of the cast, was just beyond incredible. This is how you do drama. This is how you engage an audience. Not by slight of hand or clever hat tricks, but by carefully building your story and taking your characters down the deepest, darkest hole you can find, all the while keeping it as believable and gut-wrenching as possible. Every time you thought the story would zig, it immediately zagged. All the conjecture on where the story will go from fans online are simply tossed out the window. There is absolutely NO predicting what will happen to any of the characters in this show because the writers won't allow it. Yet they never jump the shark or nuke the fridge in their efforts to tell a compelling story. It's all believable, and it's frightening. The Huffington Post perfectly summed up the episode: I only had one question:
I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. 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.
I've actually grown to appreciate the short succinct shows like Breaking Bad and Game of Thrones. They are just big enough for the writers to deliver an inspired story, but not so big that it has to fill 8-10 episodes a season of filler crap. If that means that a show like Breaking Bad has a finite end, then so be it. As Wordforge's official Ambassador to all Black people, I was so disappointed when Skyler attacked Walt. Not for nothing, it was kind of her fault that Hank died. Walt would not have moved to kill Jessie if she hasn't told him to. When Jessie called Walt to ascertain the location of his money, Walt had no way of knowing Hank would be so close. Hank's death is on Hank, Jessie and her... And of course, his killer.... And OK, Walt. Yeah... I think Walt was protecting Skyler in the end and seeing as how Skyler seemed to always know when he was bullshitting, I think she knows it. Great episode of TV.
Yeah, I'd much rather a show go out with a plan than hang on for years with a diminished product. Something like Sons Of Anarchy could have been a great show with a little discipline, as it is its a never ending soap opera.
[?=On that note...] Breaking Bad has had some of the best cinematography and editing of anything I've ever seen on the big or small screen. They've won three editing EMMYs, but none for cinematography. [/?]
I remember seeing promos for the series when it started and I wasn't interested at all. A couple of years later, my best friend was raving about how good it was, but at that point I felt I had too much catching up to do and still didn't start watching it. The following summer, AMC ran the first three seasons over the course of a few weeks and I got caught up in time for the beginning of Season 4. I've been hooked ever since.
I tried it early and lost interest. I'd heard a lot of acclaim, so a combination of DVR and AMC airing a couple episodes every night of the week did it for me.
When I saw the opening scene, with a man in a gas mask and tighty-whities driving an RV through the desert with what appeared to be as many as three dead bodies in it, I thought, "What the fuck was I thinking by not checking this out sooner? " I will say that the advantage to being a relative latecomer to the show is that I didn't have to endure the wait between Seasons 1-4. I watched the whole series run over the course of about two weeks leading up to the Season 4 premiere. I've since seen the whole series two times through. The first was after season 4, when I got my oldest daughter hooked on it. The second was this summer, when I tried to get my youngest interested in it (she doesn't care for it as much ).
