Yup. Seems to be a popular opinion on the left. I've seen this image floating around for a while:
Utter nonsense, of course (next week? ha!). But, it's out there.
According to the article, Walt would never have turned into Heisenberg if only we had a health care system like Canada's. Of course he wouldn't have gotten any treatment, either, but it is racist to think through it that far.
Not so sure... we don't know if he was a registered democrat or not.
Mr. White, aka, Heisenberg, didn’t start mixing meth to pay for his treatment. He was doing it to leave his family a nest egg to support them when he dies. He didn’t even want to do the treatment. The wife backed him into it.
I watched the first season, and I was bored beyond words. I couldn’t care less about any of the characters, and thought the story wasn’t compelling at all. My question is: is it worth giving it another shot? I hate wasting time on over-hyped shows, but it seems that everyone loves this show.
The doctor told him that the lung cancer was incurable and that all he could do was buy him some time to put his life in order. That is what Mr. White planned to do, but without the treatment. He didn’t want to spend his last year on Earth as as an invalid. The meth cooking was for the family.
But what is TV's best medical drama ever? Medical Center? Doctor Kildare? Marcus Welby, MD? Ben Casey? Quincy? St. Elsewhere? Chicago Hope? Gray's Anatomy? General Hospital? Frazier? I'm betting it's House, though doctor dramas are pretty slim pickings, and hoping it's not Bones or whatever the one with McSteamy and McDreamy is. It's not St. Elsewhere, if only because of their stupid ending.
Yup. Seems to be a popular opinion on the left. I've seen this image floating around for a while:
Utter nonsense, of course (next week? ha!). But, it's out there.
They missed the point. Walt didn’t start cooking to pay for his treatment, though he did use the money for that too. The goal was to give his family, which was soon going to include an unemployed single mother and a change of life baby, a nest egg after he died.
Wait:
A key element —no, maybe THE key element— in Walt’s story is his REFUSAL TO ASK FOR HELP.
He is LITERALLY DYING to not ask for help.
And yet it’s a “progressive” TV series...?!
That’s ridiculous.
Note also they way with GALE: at first he’s presented as a sympathetic character, so there are a couple mentions of him as a LIBERTARIAN.
Later, when it’s clear he has to go, what do we see? Tight shots of his bookshelf, with tomes by KARL MARX. In fact, the makers really smooosh that in your face, too, giving you several different shots of that.
Later, Gale is shot in the face, and to smooth things over a bit viewers are reassured that the man dedicated his notebook to the GAY poet Walt Whitman..!
The program is CLEARLY Conservative.
Soap opera for idiots. It is made up television, get over it. Nothing real-life about it. Seek help.
Jimmy Fallon does a very good parody “Joking Bad”, check it out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duKL2dAJN6I