Author Topic: Breaking Bad please use spoiler tags (Read 268363 times)

Johnnyboy1973 · « **Reply #400 on:** October 14, 2011, 05:08:55 pm »

Avoided it for thriteen weeks and have done the series in the last three days.

It was good but I thought it was the weakest season by far.

Seebab · « **Reply #401 on:** October 15, 2011, 08:52:18 am »

Quote from: Johnnyboy1973 on October 14, 2011, 05:08:55 pm

Avoided it for thriteen weeks and have done the series in the last three days.

It was good but I thought it was the weakest season by far.

Agreed. It only really picked around halfway through but the last few episodes were fantastic. Season 2 still the best for me.

buzzing · « **Reply #402 on:** October 17, 2011, 07:23:25 pm »

Randonly heard about it the other day - Just seen ep 1...looks like it could be a good show

Pistolero · « **Reply #403 on:** October 17, 2011, 10:22:09 pm »

Quote from: buzzing on October 17, 2011, 07:23:25 pm

looks like it could be a good show

Understatement of the year

Carlito Roberto · « **Reply #404 on:** October 17, 2011, 10:26:54 pm »

Quote from: buzzing on October 17, 2011, 07:23:25 pm

Randonly heard about it the other day - Just seen ep 1...looks like it could be a good show

What channel is it on?

Brian Blessed · « **Reply #405 on:** October 17, 2011, 10:44:37 pm »

I know walt, Jessie and Gus get all the acting plaudits but Hector deserves them too. It must be difficult to have your face moving like that all the time.

buzzing · « **Reply #406 on:** October 18, 2011, 02:28:29 pm »

Quote from: Carlito Roberto on October 17, 2011, 10:26:54 pm

What channel is it on?

Interwebs

buzzing · « **Reply #407 on:** October 19, 2011, 12:01:49 am »

s02e03 already lol

MBL? · « **Reply #408 on:** October 19, 2011, 12:27:09 am »

That Gus scene was absolutely stupid. Other than that season 4 was brilliant.

G a r y · « **Reply #409 on:** October 19, 2011, 04:21:22 pm »

Boss show, I would even go as far as one of the best ever. Should end here and leave it be - that way it will end on the highest of highs.

The amount of US shows that have the tendency to 'over-do' it is unreal. Lost, Scrubs and one of my all time favourite shows Prison Break all should have ended much earlier.

Brian Blessed · « **Reply #410 on:** October 19, 2011, 05:47:46 pm »

G a r y · « **Reply #411 on:** October 19, 2011, 05:57:49 pm »

Yep.

buzzing · « **Reply #412 on:** October 19, 2011, 07:00:50 pm »

9.4 on IMDB too. Which is more than the likes of Sons of anarchy

and on the level of sopranos

MBL? · « **Reply #413 on:** October 19, 2011, 08:19:12 pm »

Season 5 is the last isn't it?

Pistolero · « **Reply #414 on:** October 19, 2011, 08:48:42 pm »

pcch7 · « **Reply #415 on:** October 19, 2011, 09:09:02 pm »

Quote from: buzzing on October 19, 2011, 07:00:50 pm

9.4 on IMDB too. Which is more than the likes of Sons of anarchy and on the level of sopranos

Better than both of those.

OrangeMochaFraps · « **Reply #416 on:** October 27, 2011, 09:11:47 am »

Started watching on Netflix about a month ago. Finally finished season 4.

Unbelievable episode. I feel like my brain exploded at the end.

Phil M · « **Reply #417 on:** January 8, 2012, 06:13:42 pm »

I'm midway through series 3, this is fucking immense.

I didn't think anything could live up to the Wire in terms of compelling viewing but I'm completely immersed in it. Afraid to read through this thread for fear of spoilers but I will when I get through season 4.

For anyone who hasn't seen it, just go and buy/downlaod season 1 and I can guaranatee you won't regret it.

Calciotore · « **Reply #418 on:** January 9, 2012, 02:16:02 pm »

I've just started on Season 2.

So far so fucking good.

Ace stuff indeed!

Macphisto80 · « **Reply #419 on:** January 9, 2012, 02:59:52 pm »

When's it back?

BigMarcs · « **Reply #420 on:** January 9, 2012, 11:54:59 pm »

Gaah still have Season 1 to watch on DVD. Its been in my room for months, I always forget to give it a go.

IndianaRed · « **Reply #421 on:** January 12, 2012, 05:20:37 am »

I'm so jealous of all you folks who are watching all of this show for the first time. I wish I could somehow rewatch it a second time through as if I'd never seen it before. It'd be an amazing feeling watching through it again naive to all the crazy stuff that goes on.

Was on vacation recently and I got my sister in law to start watching it. She's hooked and got through the first two seasons in about 5 days or so, but now that we're back she's busy again working and being a mother so I suspect season 3 will take a while for her. Anyway I watched a few episodes of season 2 with her and it was funny because she could guess some things would happen, but they always happened in completely different ways than she was expecting. that's just one of the awesome things about this show.

Can't wait for season 5.

Something Awful · « **Reply #422 on:** January 12, 2012, 07:39:46 am »

Shows like this are why I think tv has overtaken movies in the last few years.

50 Pence · « **Reply #423 on:** January 12, 2012, 10:46:09 am »

Quote from: IndianaRed on January 12, 2012, 05:20:37 am

I'm so jealous of all you folks who are watching all of this show for the first time. I wish I could somehow rewatch it a second time through as if I'd never seen it before. It'd be an amazing feeling watching through it again naive to all the crazy stuff that goes on.

Was on vacation recently and I got my sister in law to start watching it. She's hooked and got through the first two seasons in about 5 days or so, but now that we're back she's busy again working and being a mother so I suspect season 3 will take a while for her. Anyway I watched a few episodes of season 2 with her and it was funny because she could guess some things would happen, but they always happened in completely different ways than she was expecting. that's just one of the awesome things about this show.

Can't wait for season 5.

I had this as well to a degree. I'd got up to about Ep 8 of season 3 & despite me telling the GF how great it was she never bothered watching it, then day or two after boxing day she decided she wanted to see the first episode... ended up watching about 3 & by the time I went back to work on the 5th Jan we'd watched the lot.

Was great listening to what she thought was going to happen in the episodes I'd seen without her, some she was spot on with but others was way off the mark

Loved this show, best thing on TV & the 'Fly' episode in season 4 with Walt & Jesse in the lab was so tense... the whole time wondering if he was going to let slip what happened with Jane, would he have another 'second cell phone' moment

What great actors Cranston & Aaron Paul are

muyuu · « **Reply #424 on:** January 12, 2012, 10:48:47 am »

Love it, but Season 3 and 4 (esp 4) are much weaker script-wise than 1 and 2. Session 4 improves towards the end, thankfully.

red_Mark1980 · « **Reply #425 on:** January 13, 2012, 12:24:08 am »

There is no legal way to see season 3 in the UK I think.

Which is a pain

muyuu · « **Reply #426 on:** January 15, 2012, 05:48:02 pm »

Quote from: red_mark1980 on January 13, 2012, 12:24:08 am

There is no legal way to see season 3 in the UK I think.

Which is a pain

It's all available in amazon.com (DVD/Blu-ray) any issues with shipping this?

red_Mark1980 · « **Reply #427 on:** January 15, 2012, 06:53:07 pm »

Quote from: muyuu on January 15, 2012, 05:48:02 pm

It's all available in amazon.com (DVD/Blu-ray) any issues with shipping this?

It's for my mum who doesn't have a multi region DVD

Antics · « **Reply #428 on:** January 15, 2012, 07:19:18 pm »

On season 3 now and just watched episode 10 (Fly). For an episode that is pretty much restricted to the two characters on the same set it really is brilliant, Bryan Cranston's acting for Walt's introspection in that episode is amazing.

BigJumper · « **Reply #429 on:** January 16, 2012, 11:45:56 pm »

Just about to put the very first episode on now, my bird has watched the first 4 tonight already, so I'm playing catch up.

Timbo's Goals · « **Reply #430 on:** January 17, 2012, 10:18:51 am »

Quote from: Antics on January 15, 2012, 07:19:18 pm

On season 3 now and just watched episode 10 (Fly). For an episode that is pretty much restricted to the two characters on the same set it really is brilliant, Bryan Cranston's acting for Walt's introspection in that episode is amazing.

Watched it over a year ago and the tension that Walt in his dreamy state might give the game away to Jesse about the dreadful deed he'd done still makes me palpitate.

Metallinick · « **Reply #431 on:** January 24, 2012, 06:07:39 am »

Just finished Season 3 and about to start on Season 4 tonight. have got through 3 season in just under two weeks.
Have seen every series of Sons Of Anarchy and Breaking bad is so much better in all areas. I'm kind of happy I left this last to watch.

Nothing more to say about this show except WOW!

Ray K · « **Reply #432 on:** January 24, 2012, 11:05:04 pm »

So while I've gotten into the show for a good while, I've only caught up with season 3 a few months back, and season 4 since xmas.

I've been avoiding this thread like the plague because of the temptation of spoilers.

I've caught up now. Watched the final two episodes of S4 tonight, and all I can think is 'Oh. My. God.'
It's utterly stupendous.

The character arc of Walter White is quite unlike anyone I've ever seen in a mainstream tv show. So much so that I'll be forced into watching the 1st season again. After watching that last episode, and especially the parts where

Spoiler

- he shoots the two guys in the lab, barely even noticing the blood spatter on his face and
- he calmly announces to Skyler that 'I've won', as if he's been involved in a particularly long running chess match, instead of being responsible for blowing up 3 people in a nursing home

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makes me wonder: Was Walter ever really 'good' all along? (and sorry to break into simplistic 'good' and 'bad' stereotypes).

I think that Walter at the beginning of S1 was someone completely bound up with the expectations of normal society - get a job, get married, have kids, buy a house etc. But what happens if, one by one, these don't match up to your expectations? - well you'd be in a rut at the least, or become depressed, as Walt was.
What the cancer diagnosis gave him was a way of breaking free of those expectations, and act with the morality of someone who thinks he's going to die soon. Which is to say, with no morality.
Maybe Walter hasn't 'broke bad', as Jesse suggests in S1. Maybe the 'bad' was always in him, but just bound up by the constraints of society and morality.

Spoiler

Because, is it possible to transform yourself from someone who uses his knowledge to make some illegal money for his family when he's dead, to becoming such a cold blooded assassin, without that being inherently 'inside you'? Compare Jesse's reaction in the opening of S4 after he's killed Gale - he slumps into a spiral of self-loathing and depression. Walter, on the other hand, is smug and boastful at the turn of events at the end.

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I'll be back to post more later. What a phenomenal show.

IndianaRed · « **Reply #433 on:** January 25, 2012, 03:32:38 am »

@ Ray K

Spoiler

I think you're probably right to a degree. The cancer diagnosis probably was indeed a sort of catalyst for Walt to break free of everyday worries and and not fear death anymore, because whether it be through this money-making, drug-selling venture or through the cancer, he's, as far as he knows, going to die one way or the other... so he might as well use his brilliance to make enough money for his family to never worry about anything financially ever again before he kicks the bucket. But... Bryan Cranston gives a REALLY good interview here explaining how he approaches Walt and his transformation from 'good' to 'bad' and i believe his take on it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wG-brQgpeKk

As far as Walt not really batting an eye after murdering a few people while it chewed Jesse up after killing Gale, I think he just understands that conditions change and if he doesn't take the actions he does, he will die and possibly his family too. Walt cannot dwell on his actions because he simply HAD to do what he did, and he just knows that. I also think he sort of learned a ruthlessness after having to kill Krazy 8 in season 1. He had kind of a hard time after he did that, but once again he simply had to. It chewed him up at the time, but it's not going to now in season 4 just because he thoroughly understands the situation and does what he must, or he will die. There's no time for sympathy - sympathy is dangerous. This attitude gives him an edge - a bit of a feeling of power. It's the attitude that allowed him to beat Gus, and if he beat Gus he can beat anyone, so yeah, of course he's feeling a little boastful and smug about what he's done. He won - not just in terms of killing Gus, but in terms of securing his own and his family's safety. The nightmare is over... for now *cue season 5*

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ghost1359 · « **Reply #434 on:** January 25, 2012, 03:36:01 am »

Quote from: G a r y on October 19, 2011, 04:21:22 pm

Boss show, I would even go as far as one of the best ever.

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The wire says no.

Brian Blessed · « **Reply #435 on:** January 25, 2012, 03:47:02 am »

Quote from: ghost1359 on January 25, 2012, 03:36:01 am

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The wire says no.

the wire says breaking bad isn't near the top?

ghost1359 · « **Reply #436 on:** January 25, 2012, 03:53:20 am »

Quote from: King Brian Blessed IX on January 25, 2012, 03:47:02 am

the wire says breaking bad isn't near the top?

The Wire is the single greatest television series of all time. The only thing that can rival it is The Sopranos. I'm as much a Breaking Bad fan as anyone but it can't hold a candle to those two shows.

Brian Blessed · « **Reply #437 on:** January 25, 2012, 04:00:35 am »

Quote from: ghost1359 on January 25, 2012, 03:53:20 am

The Wire is the single greatest television series of all time. The only thing that can rival it is The Sopranos. I'm as much a Breaking Bad fan as anyone but it can't hold a candle to those two shows.

brilliant, but that doesn't exclude it from being "one of the best ever" which is what you disagreed with. And not something I necessarily agree with.

ghost1359 · « **Reply #438 on:** January 25, 2012, 04:06:15 am »

My apologies, I read it as 'the best ever'

Brian Blessed · « **Reply #439 on:** January 25, 2012, 04:10:25 am »

Quote from: ghost1359 on January 25, 2012, 04:06:15 am

My apologies, I read it as 'the best ever'

When you come at the king, you best not miss.

Author Topic: Breaking Bad *please use spoiler tags* (Read 268363 times)

Author Topic: Breaking Bad please use spoiler tags (Read 268363 times)