Posted on 09/12/2013 12:26:01 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Breaking Bad is about a lot of things—the contextualization of evil, the blind bond of family, the consequences of lifelong repression—and of course, the macro and micro-economics of the methamphetamine industry. But wrapped within all of this is a medical drama unlike any other, possibly the best medical drama on TV, ever.
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Considering who is on this thread, I am not surprised. You sheeple are in good company.
Now Happy Days was a show that featured "The Fonz" and "Potsie" and some young woman (sister of Ritchie?) who hovered near the jukebox in some hamburger joint run by some Italian guy named Al.
Anyway, Leonard Cohen went on to write a song called "So Long, Marianne" which had a reference to that show in a not so sentimental manner.
Getting back to Breaking Bad, it is good how Walter White dispatches those various hooligans that get in his way of making 99.1% pure meth. And that sleazy lawyer (Saul Goodman) steals the show in my opinion.
Why do you insult people? Is there anything about you that is worth liking?
Numerous times the counter-culture Jessie whines for Walt to accept a "good enough" product (chilli pepper). But HOW MANY times times doe we hear Walt admonish that they do their absolute best, insisting they bring CalTech chem to the CAMPER...?
That goes way back to the first season when Jesse tries to get Tuco to snort some poisoned meth. Tuco is about to sample it when Jesse says it has a bit of chili pepper taste thinking Tuco being Mexican will snort that meth for sure!
But in one of the shows funniest scenes Tuco yells out "I hate chili peppers" and throws the meth aside, so does not die from it. The utter hilarity of Tuco being the only Mexican on earth who doesn't like chili peppers
First season was the best with Tuco
A lot of the chemistry that is mentioned in the show is fake, also. For instance, the fulminated mercury that White used to scare Tuco doesn’t look like meth and is so volatile that it would have blown up way before White ever got to throw it on the floor. I was curious, so I looked it up.
Well, at the risk of falling under the “butt monkey” label, I’d like to argue with you.
No similarities between BB and Soprans what so ever, to my mind. The Ton-ster is a mobster just to make money period. Walt is motivated initially by desperation then goes to the Dark Side. Ton abuses women (his wife, strippers, women workers)...Walt doesn’t...among other dissimilarities.
And OC is a “guilty pleasure” like watching a train wreck or an Obozo press conference or Congress in action. No reflection on my “cred”.
And I think people who think someone else’s opinion is “argument for argument’s sake” are called “My way or the highway-ers”...have a nice weekend, FRiend.
I see a lot of similarities between BB and Sopranos. Both are about an anti-hero whose primary conflicts are with other criminals and law enforcement. Both anti-hero characters like to think that they do what they do for the sake of their family but in reality bring a lot of grief to their family. And both temporarily drive their family away with what they do, and when they get their families back it’s not because they changed but because their spouse learned to live with it and in some ways even embrace it. And in both this acceptance re-inforces their behavior and lead (or is leading) to their downfall.
OK, I’ll go along with that...
So Walt goes down, eh?
like a two dollah ho..
In some way or form we know that from the flash fowards that started both halves of season 5. He fled the state, he celebrates his birthday alone, the house has been fenced off, somebody painted “heisenberg” in the house, still no family to be seen. And in non-flash time the BIL knows, one other DEA agent knows, Todd’s family knows who he is and wants him to cook again. Skylar coming back gave him a big ego boost, which led to him being dumb and leaving that book out in the open and started the whole house of cards crumbling.
Meh....
Maybe it goes down like this....
He goes with Saul’s “witness protection plan”, takes the fam, moolah and 300 to Belize and what we saw was a sneak back to old haunts off the record....
Hmmmmmmm? Sound possible?
Jimmy Fallon does a very good parody “Joking Bad”, check it out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duKL2dAJN6I
Partly maybe but he’s still hosed. He’s still known, and he bought a big gun and retrieved his poison smoke so there’s some retribution he’s aiming for. Really the gunfight has put him in a position where there’s no winning. If Hank survives Walt is under arrest, if Hank and partner die Marie knows Walt was there so there’s no hiding it. And I don’t think there’s any way Skylar is leaving her sister a grieving widow to lamb it with the fat cash which will now be very much blood money. And getting the fat cash is going to be rough since it will now be at the scene of a multiple homicide of DEA agents. Plus of course in that scenario has guns pointed at him with blood on their hands and no reason to let him live... except his ability to cook. He’s hosed, there’s no pulling a Walt on that gun fight, no chemistry trick or fast talking is going to make both sides walk away unscathed with him free.
Ok, it really does look that way but then remember, everyone in “Lost” was dead, right?
We’ll see.....
They were only dead in the flash sideways world. And they were on a magic island. Walt has to lose, it’s important to Vince Gilligan: I feel some sort of need for Biblical atonement, or justice, or something. I like to believe there is some comeuppance, that karma kicks in at some point, even if it takes years or decades to happen. My girlfriend says this great thing that’s become my philosophy as well. ‘I want to believe there’s a heaven. But I can’t not believe there’s a hell.’
Interesting......
OK, dis....
Just saw tonight’s episode....
Will not spoil but whaddaya think?
Oh yeah????
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