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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Gee, I reckon I can’t help it if the constant gratuitous sex and smut portrayed on Breaking Bad jumps out at me and forces me to recognize all the good things that might happen if I start cooking meth.
PS are you seriously not getting what I’m really saying here??! FR used to be the home of sarcasm, what happened?
Freegards
THE ENTIRE POINT OF THE SHOW IS THAT. METH. IS. BAD.
It’s screamed from day one. It’s a bad thing to get involved in. It. Is. Ruination. Clear and sound. This show is the biggest anti-drug event to hit the airwaves in a decade. It teaches us that getting involved in the trade is a dead-end street. It leads nothing. NOTHING.
You really should watch it and understand it before commenting on it.
You seem just such a fool about it now. You are dumb and displaying so now. A little tip, don’t be completely dumb on a subject before trying to comment on it. It helps you to know a little something on it before the commenting starts. Just sayin’
The Butterfly Effect gone to Hell.
Everybody dies and it’s all Walt’s fault.
Bald heads?
LOL
[maybe that was the homo-erotic part I’ve missed?]
You don’t like the holy roller threads? That’s fine...because that’s what this forum is about. If some Freeper wants to make a comment about whatever, that is their right. What you have to understand is that when some person claims that some show they’re watching is the greatest thing ever created, the natural response is to doubt it. This show might be the best...or it might just be good or even mediocre. But missing the show will not affect anyone’s life. And sometimes when a person says “IT’S THE GREATEST!!!!!”, it’s almost irresistible to say “so what?”
Why would I watch the same episode twice?
I really do think you should get over yourself.
The only worse than BB is the judgmental, self-righteous lunacy of denouncing BB as a “cultural influence”.
It’s a TV show.
I’m sure I’m not the only person who has noticed that.
Agreed. It has gone on too long.
The whole Hamlet plot of Jax vs. Clay made the show riveting. The acrobatic plot twists to keep Clay alive have made the show ridiculous at times. The show is very uneven. When the show concentrated on the mythology of the club and Jax was still a redeemable soul, the show was very good. I think turning Jax into Clay was a natural direction for the show, but It could have been accomplished in 3 seasons, not the 7 that is contracted for.
It’s been on how many years ?
I clicked past and stopped to look at a scene just for the sake of noting it.
The scene was the wife in a rental space with a pile of cash under a tarp, and telling the husband she didn’t know what else to do with it.
Now, if you’re telling me a 15-year old boy would not be affected by that...
As I said earlier, the only way the show would be able to present it in an appropriate way for a young person would be for the main character to get murdered by drug dealers at the end of episode 1, and that’s a wrap on the series.
Otherwise, it’s a multi-year soap opera that induces quite a few young people to entertain the notion that, while they may “eventually” pay the price, they can live a pretty cool life for a few years while they distribute drugs.
I’ve personally known people who felt sure they would not live to an old age, so that justified them doing all sorts of wrong things. When we’re young, we don’t think that far ahead (well, most of us). Many people will gladly trade their future for what they want now.
I’ve seen good kids go bad right before my eyes.
TV helps them to go bad. So does their music. So do their friends.
It’s called pop culture.
Bad is good. Good is bad.
Young people that are teetering on going bad themselves don’t sit and think about the directing, the cinematography, the character development, etc., they simply think wow, what a cool show, the teacher made meth.
Nope.
He made exactly -one- “bad decision”.
*All* of the rest of it is the inevitable “unintended consequences” of that one “bad decision”.
Quite the terrifying cautionary tale, IMO.
I’m really looking forward to your next post to see how much more of Goodwin’s Law you can break by twisting 4 short sentences.
Damn.
I guess I missed that point by slavishly hunting for the fleeting glimpses of ‘tighty whities’ and homo sex stuff.
:::rolls eyes:::
This is a great thread about BrBa.
Well said.
Hamlet “went mad” but only in appearance to everyone else.
He was the only sane, decent person in the family.
He never ‘became’ Gertrude or Claudius.
I’m going to suppose that at some point, they’re going to attempt to reconnect/revive the Hamlet/Jax meme and “redeem” him, somehow.
It’s awful but by now, I really don’t care.
[Just as long as Tig is still sucking air in the final episode]
:D
If 515 and 516 are 48 minutes of blank screens, it will still have the best ending ever; that’s how good 514 was.
He made exactly -one- “bad decision”.
*All* of the rest of it is the inevitable “unintended consequences” of that one “bad decision”.
Quite the terrifying cautionary tale, IMO.
I’m really looking forward to your next post to see how much more of Goodwin’s Law you can break by twisting 4 short sentences.
What you just posted is the argument of a coward.
American military personnel became American military personnel because they looked at America, looked at those who would destroy America, and, personally, in themselves, said, "no."
They said, in effect, "I would rather die than let you bastards destroy America."
But somehow, that morality choice, that human principle, doesn't apply to this cowardly antihero meth freak.
Somehow, just because he made that first decision, absolutely no one believes that it would be better to die trying to get out, than to stay in. No one believes that he should try to call on God for protection for himself and his family. No one believes that maybe his entire family should risk dying by fighting these evil bastards that he turns against after making that first mistake. No, somehow, one mistake means that he is free of any further morality choices.
Bull.
Meth IS the freaking Nazi death camps. That is NO exaggeration.
And the "hero" of Breaking Bad is a damn coward - and Left-wing Hollywood suckered every one of you into admiring him.
COWARD.
Not "anti-hero."
Not "classic tragedy."
Cruel, sadistic, evil COWARD.
JUST like the Nazis.
So you’ve pinged a huge “hit squad” against me?
How gutless and cowardly.
I sincerely hope you’re not male.
Well there we agree.
Now go watch your meth freak. He has something to teach you that you don't know already.
Oh, and yeah - all those burning, craving, laughing, howling, insane meth freaks out there will have themselves strapped to a chair so they can stay still long enough, without tapping and nodding, and giggling, and howling, and twitching, to wathc the show and reflect for a sober moment of insight and say to themselves, "yea, I am pursuingeth a road of travail which the Lord is mightily seeking to aver me from, and yet... forsooth... [scream] [maniacal laughter] I DON'T GIVE A FLYING F**K GIVE ME MORE MORE MORE!!!"
Yep, this show's defintiely gonna turn 'em around.
Oh I'm sorry, did I exaggerate? Really? Go make sure - ask a cop.
Is this who you're thinking of? http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-31749_162-57383830-10391698/seinfeld-actor-shoots-self-in-apparent-suicide-attempt/
Wow.
Drama queen much?
Why don’t you just post pictures of mom, puppies, apple pie and the American flag?
Just go ahead and get all those ‘knee jerk trigger phrases’ out of your system in one shot.
Better yet, do as your posting buddy just did and ping all of FR to attack one lone poster.
*Then* we’ll all truly understand the definition of “coward”.
They got the whole nut house out for you. Imagine these freaks were actually in charge. Hey, it might make a good distopian show. Call it Breaking Crazy.
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