(xpost) First I'll have to get the proper training in vacuum-cleaner repair, but if I can look after that, this sounds like a worthwhile project--will report back.
― clemenza, Thursday, 9 January 2020 19:37 (four years ago) link
Occurred to me that I would’ve liked breaking bad if it were a 110 minute movie but as a TV show I got sick of it in season 2 somewhere.
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Thursday, 9 January 2020 19:39 (four years ago) link
Cancer dx, encounter with Jesse, virtuosic cooking sequence, flying high, confrontation with the cartels, third act yadda yadda, Walt gets a bullet to the head and Jesse rides off into the sunset with Krysten Ritter, boom.
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Thursday, 9 January 2020 19:42 (four years ago) link
Couldn't disagree with that approach more strongly, completely cuts out just how debased and detestable Walt gets.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 9 January 2020 19:44 (four years ago) link
that's what made me sick of the show early on, dude was like strangling a kid in his basement, wtf
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Thursday, 9 January 2020 19:45 (four years ago) link
I guess if that's what put you off, then fair play, this def wasn't the show for you.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 9 January 2020 19:46 (four years ago) link
"chemistry teacher with nothing left to lose and genial dirtbag team up to cook meth in the picturesque southwest" is a good start to something though.
yeah I was coming in late (this was already years ago) and getting into s2 after the first season was basically comedic in tone was like "oh this is just going to constantly escalate, never mind." Same reason I only watched one season of Downton Abbey. anyway I don't watch much TV anymore.
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Thursday, 9 January 2020 19:48 (four years ago) link
He didn't really set Walt up with a new identity thought, he just bunged him in a cabin in the middle of nowhere.
true but I think Walt was a special case because his picture was all over the news & wasn't gonna live long enough to see the heat die down
― frogbs, Thursday, 9 January 2020 19:56 (four years ago) link
only because he figured out that the kid was planning to stab him the instant he got free
― frogbs, Thursday, 9 January 2020 20:00 (four years ago) link
after the first season was basically comedic in tone
I mean maybe relatively speaking but, yeah, this is the same season where a dude gets strangled with a bike lock and dissolved in a bathtub full of acid, so
― Drive Like a Demon From Steakhouse to Steakhouse (Old Lunch), Thursday, 9 January 2020 20:13 (four years ago) link
...but funny!
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 9 January 2020 20:23 (four years ago) link
Gene is a square citizen
― don't care didn't ask still clappin (sic), Thursday, 9 January 2020 20:28 (four years ago) link
(bathtub drops through the ceiling)Jesse: (sheepishly) I done a bad bad thing, boss.Walt: (mugging to camera) Mama mia, that's a-one spicy meat-a-ball!(audience laughs, applauds)
― Drive Like a Demon From Steakhouse to Steakhouse (Old Lunch), Thursday, 9 January 2020 20:36 (four years ago) link
Can't imagine Walt's chemo stuff in that cabin was cheap
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Thursday, 9 January 2020 21:26 (four years ago) link
To be clear I don’t really remember the order of operations there.Like six seasons or whatever of playing peekaboo with the brother in law, I wouldn’t be able to deal.
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Thursday, 9 January 2020 21:27 (four years ago) link
hey now it's really only 3.9999 seasons of that
― frogbs, Thursday, 9 January 2020 22:50 (four years ago) link
The peekaboo does lead to what is probably the show's greatest moment, though.
― clemenza, Thursday, 9 January 2020 23:00 (four years ago) link
I assume it's
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKTT-sy0aLg
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Thursday, 9 January 2020 23:37 (four years ago) link