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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I suppose you would do better to direct that to the creator[s] of the show.
Last time I checked, I was not involved with it.
Temptation is everywhere.
I merely despise the easy out of blaming some external influence when, in the end, we choose whether or not to act on a base, evil instinct.
Case in point, my uncle was [is?] a pedo.
He was ‘excused’ because he was a Viet vet and “who knows how that affected him”.
Peachy.
So I get to suffer because he lusts for little girls?
See how *easy* it is to blame everything and everyone but your own wicked self?
We live in a lazy, Godless, blame-laying world.
Frankly, I’m tired of it.
I’ve been through a hell of abuse in my life but I’ve always chosen the path of helping the abused, helpless and innocent.
Theoretically, I could have been a horrible, evil person and had a ‘good excuse’ for that...but I ~chose~ not to.
I’m just a puny little woman.
If I can walk a [reasonably] straight path, so can those who are better and stronger than I.
“Did NetFlix cut them out or what?”
Yes, it was all over the internet. The whole Walt Jr./Hank love tryst/meth binge in season three was cut for Netflix distribution. The hardcore BB fans are still screaming about it. I personally think it was a little over the top.
Freegards
Actually, it’s more about how a nice, normal person does something wrong for the “right reasons.” It’s a slippery slope of bad choices and he morphs into a totally different character. Along the way there are lots of casualties.
This show has lots of interesting character development.
I missed that too!
What the heck have I been watching??
Stoopid NetFlix.
Now I understand that little “buffering” thing at the bottom of the screen.
Coincidence?
Of course not. Gay. Bald. Depraved.
Now, despite the fact that I, nearly sixty, and my Dad, over ninety, still have all of our hair ... all my boys want to be bald because of this evil depraved gay bald show. Even my daughter ... baldness envy ... as a result of this evil evil television program.
Growing up, it was Ricky Nelson and Brylcreem.
But they have been >>>desensitized<<<.
Many people seem to be missing your invisible sarcasm tags. I just hope they don’t make a similar mistake when they see Walt’s phone call to Skylar in last night’s episode. What he’s saying isn’t really what he is saying. :)
Remember the movie “TAPS”?
“The wrong execution of the right idea”.
And Jesse shaved his head...but now it’s growing back.
He’s symbolically rejecting his foray into the gay agenda lifestyle?
It doesn’t matter what you have been watching, it matters what others think you have been watching.
Freegards
Whoa.
That was so....Zen.
8-O
What he’s saying isn’t really what he is saying. :)
Im not so sure.
He was in a knife fight with his wife and he grabbed the baby ....I think he is mad as hell and isnt gonna take it anymore
I don’t have a problem if he drags her down with him.
The boy and the baby should be left alone.
Unfortunately, they’d have to go live with Aunt Kleptomarie.
:-\
“pro-gay messages and extended sex scenes”
“Breaking Bad” not “Brokeback Mountain”.
Try to keep up.”
Try to take advantage of the brilliant exegesis that has been done in this thread concerning denuded skulls and the obvious pro-gay agenda Breaking Bad spews forth at every opportunity.
Breaking Bad: Pro-Meth, Pro-Crime, Pro- Destructive Pride, and Pro-Bald Gayness.
Freegards
Yes, what does Vince Gilligan have against full heads of hair? He is biased towards all that bare skin on those bald heads.
He is using (abusing?) his great powers of mind control to *influence* both men and women agaisnt Rogaine.
He wants all of us to go Breaking Bald!
Do you ever read a great novel?
That scene was tremendous, Walt takes especial care to stipulate that Skyler was always against his Meth Lord kookiness, and that he has previously threatened her before if she didn’t tow the line. She realizes what he is doing and he realizes that she does, and is breaking down while gibbering these awful things.
Freegards
Yup.
American and English lit were two of my favorite classes in high school and I am a voracious reader.
I have a particular fondness for Shakespeare although his works are not technically “novels”.
My other loves are the endless mythic works.
Why do you ask?
LOL!
[keepin’ my locks, though, thanks]
[It's not a Lifestyle damnit! People are born bald!]
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