Posted on 09/16/2013 6:36:37 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Twenty three minutes into Episode 514, entitled “Ozymandias” after a Shelley poem, Breaking Bad made television history. Except that most fans didn’t notice. They were instead ready to cry, scream, vomit, or hurl a waffle iron at the plasma TV, or some combination of the above.
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Charming bump
There’s actually very little nudity, if any that I can recall, and no profanity other than Hell and damn. They may say p*ss at times, but I’m not even sure if they say that. Anyone who watches the show, can you remember if they drop the F bomb? If they did, it was only once or twice.
Tig is back at the club house but one of Pope’s minions has repappeared, asking for Tig as reparations for the family...even though the family is all dead.
Some kind of post-mortem loyalty thing, I reckon.
[or an annoying plot twist device...they know Tig is extremely popular]
Still, Jax has given his word Tig will be delivered in the future.
I was looking forward to it but found it too politically correct in the episode or two I watched. The black guy couldn't just be another character, - had to be the focus for the 'white guilt' angle.
“No nudity, very little sexuality.”
Come on. EVERY chance the writers get, they strip Cranston down to his tighty whiteys to prance around to the titillation of all.
Freegards
They’ve bleeped out just about everything but Jesse’s ubiquitous “bitch” suffixation on my TV.
NetFlix allowed very little more, either.
YMMV.
I lip read.
:)
“They made the hero figure a guy that most Americans can “connect” with.
It would be diffucult to make mind control any more obvious.
If you really hate the show, there’s a pretty good chance your mind is still functioning.”
I watch it and am fascinated by all of it, mostly because of the storytelling and the cinematography, but in no way is it making me want to enter the world portrayed within it.
“And now you’re a tiny bit desensitized. “
Praise God! that I have ~you~ to inform me of the status of my own mind, at any given time.
I’m busy with the Crockpot and some other things I need to do, right now.
Would you be so kind as to post any/all my other thoughts and opinions on this thread for, oh, about an hour or so until I’m done?
Thanks much!
I absolutely agree on The Shield. I don't know if was the first, but it was in my personal experience of all these shows that took things to another level from the previous high of The Sopranos.
Also love SOA and The Walking Dead. The premise of the latter leaves it open to all kinds of creative character development like the last episode where we are left to make our own decision of whether a kid kills somebody out of self-defence or for the thrill of it - or a combination of both.
Truth be known, I have only seen a few episode. I really like the last one though. It has the ex-confederate and Gen Ulysses Grant having a few drinks together and lambasting “Railway Men” and the Eastern dandies who paid others to fight for them in the Civil War. I liked the populism of that episode.
Hank exploded a choice f-bomb in last night’s episode. I respectfully avoid saying any more for anyone who plans to see it but haven’t done so yet.
“but in no way is it making me want to enter the world portrayed within it.”
Quite the contrary, IMO.
When you consider the current issues of illegal aliens, murderous drug lords in Mexico, Fast and Furious, etc, it makes those even more real and horrifying.
I have not seen this episode yet and have been avoiding spoilers. I can’t wait for it to end up on “On Demand” cable.
>>Say..is anybody else having to hit refresh repeatedly to get FR to load?
Yep. Me too.
Glad you’re being titillated.
The rest of us probably aren’t.
;D
Me too. Just a second ago.
Just watched the most recent.
WOW
*Whew*
I thought some alphabet agency took umbrage at my posts.
:D
He’s the one who knocks.
8-O
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