Shall we anticpate the AMC series "Breaking Bad"? I think I may.

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I could believe it too, Alberquerque's not huge, is it? It was also a very dark bit of irony that Walt wouldn't have gone back (and Jane wouldn't have died) if not for that meeting.

BTW, I'm frightfully middle-class (chap), Tuesday, 19 January 2010 20:58 (fourteen years ago) link

I'm assuming the bar was close to Jesse's house, too, so I guess it's entirely possible both of them would have gone there at the same time.

mister_thoth, Tuesday, 19 January 2010 21:00 (fourteen years ago) link

yeah it ties things up nicely but like...it was a pretty big narrative tool

I see what this is (Local Garda), Tuesday, 19 January 2010 21:04 (fourteen years ago) link

Can't wait for 8th March. How come Skyler's still pregnant in those promo images, though...?

― mister_thoth, Tuesday, January 19, 2010 2:19 PM

thats a promo ad from season 2

♖♕♖ (am0n), Tuesday, 19 January 2010 21:05 (fourteen years ago) link

There's quite a few things like that though... It's like the major characters behave realistically, but the world around them doesn't necessarily, and I'm cool with that.

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BTW, I'm frightfully middle-class (chap), Tuesday, 19 January 2010 21:06 (fourteen years ago) link

Am I the only one who thought Walt's post-op goatee made him look distressingly similar to the latter-day Paul Gadd?

mister_thoth, Tuesday, 19 January 2010 21:11 (fourteen years ago) link

lol

Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 19 January 2010 21:23 (fourteen years ago) link

the thing about rolling babies on their side so that they don't choke on their own vomit hendrix style was weird - you don't actually do that! i mean, i dunno. i guess some people do.

Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 19 January 2010 21:24 (fourteen years ago) link

Oh man, those teasers tease.

Jeff, Wednesday, 20 January 2010 02:17 (fourteen years ago) link

calmly walking away from explosions

♖♕♖ (am0n), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 05:24 (fourteen years ago) link

I wonder... do they spend a lot of time on showing the fallout in season 3, or do they go forward with the plot like it never happened? Like, if somehow the crash raining down corpses on their house is a catalyst for getting them back together, does that ruin the whole point of the metaphor?

SEMI-SPOILER I read an interview recently with the show creator where he pretty much said the plane crash will be addressed in season 3.

Jouster, Thursday, 21 January 2010 01:31 (fourteen years ago) link

Been rewatching a bit of S2. Crantson's been getting all the plaudits, but Aaron Paul really is just as impressive. He's gonna be big, I reckon.

BTW, I'm frightfully middle-class (chap), Sunday, 24 January 2010 18:33 (fourteen years ago) link

he's even good in his small role in Big Love

richie aprile (rockapads), Sunday, 24 January 2010 18:35 (fourteen years ago) link

Good to the point where it took me forever to realize that it was the same actor in both roles.

SNEEZED GOING DOWN STEPS, PAIN WHEN PUTTING SOCKS ON (Deric W. Haircare), Sunday, 24 January 2010 19:04 (fourteen years ago) link

same here

richie aprile (rockapads), Sunday, 24 January 2010 19:38 (fourteen years ago) link

He did get an Emmy nomination, so he isn't going entirely unrecognized. Should've won though, of course.

Jouster, Sunday, 24 January 2010 22:24 (fourteen years ago) link

March 21st

♖♕♖ (am0n), Sunday, 7 February 2010 00:29 (fourteen years ago) link

one month passes...

Guys! I got to see the season premiere and it was excellent.

Jouster, Thursday, 11 March 2010 08:10 (fourteen years ago) link

jealous

excited

Tracer Hand, Thursday, 11 March 2010 12:58 (fourteen years ago) link

i don't watch this show (though i may have to start), but i just found out that the guy who played "badger" is my neighbor.

robotsinlove, Thursday, 11 March 2010 14:29 (fourteen years ago) link

haha that guy is awesome. i get the feeling he didn't have to do a ton of research for his character.

Tracer Hand, Thursday, 11 March 2010 14:41 (fourteen years ago) link

ha ha!

when does it air??

The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Thursday, 11 March 2010 14:59 (fourteen years ago) link

March 21st

― ♖♕♖ (am0n), Sunday, 7 February 2010 00:29 (1 month ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Tracer Hand, Thursday, 11 March 2010 15:39 (fourteen years ago) link

hey whuddya know.

The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Thursday, 11 March 2010 15:46 (fourteen years ago) link

I would imagine that badger dude has to have some decent money in light of the fact that he was in every single commercial on tv for like 6 months. I hope he saved some of it.

mayor jingleberries, Thursday, 11 March 2010 17:53 (fourteen years ago) link

^^^ badger's dad

fuckin' (jeff), Thursday, 11 March 2010 18:02 (fourteen years ago) link

yeah i saw an ad last night w/ him. can't remember what it was for though

king willie style (will), Thursday, 11 March 2010 18:15 (fourteen years ago) link

his weird voice will carry him far...

robotsinlove, Thursday, 11 March 2010 18:23 (fourteen years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykCFDR5k2fQ

― am0n, Friday, June 12, 2009 11:05 AM (8 months ago)

am0n, Thursday, 11 March 2010 18:26 (fourteen years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fn9UiP0D41c

am0n, Thursday, 11 March 2010 18:28 (fourteen years ago) link

lol i've not seen either of those!

king willie style (will), Thursday, 11 March 2010 18:29 (fourteen years ago) link

i think he was a delivery guy on community

am0n, Thursday, 11 March 2010 18:31 (fourteen years ago) link

lol Badger is hilarious.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0awYP21rdY

Man or Austro-Hungarian? (Pillbox), Thursday, 11 March 2010 18:41 (fourteen years ago) link

Also a pizza guy on How I Met Your Mother.

Jouster, Thursday, 11 March 2010 18:44 (fourteen years ago) link

I just watch every episode in like a week. It's pretty darn good despite drug dealers saying fuck a lot less than I would have suspected.

Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Friday, 12 March 2010 03:47 (fourteen years ago) link

i watched the "director's cut" of the first seaason and it's full of swearing iirc

Tracer Hand, Friday, 12 March 2010 10:19 (fourteen years ago) link

wait, I am confused... does AMC censor this or something?

richie aprile (rockapads), Friday, 12 March 2010 17:31 (fourteen years ago) link

yeah, no "shit" or "fuck".
they just leave blank air generally.

forksclovetofu, Friday, 12 March 2010 20:28 (fourteen years ago) link

I will say though that I thought the long foreshadowed climax was a little unnecessary. Minor complaint though.

Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Friday, 12 March 2010 20:42 (fourteen years ago) link

Season 2 is on On Demand right now. Love this show.

Darin, Friday, 12 March 2010 20:48 (fourteen years ago) link

Slightly gutted I won't be able to torrent this week to week as I'm away on my travels till the end of April. Still, big juicy catch-up when I get home.

BTW, I'm frightfully middle-class (chap), Saturday, 13 March 2010 07:23 (fourteen years ago) link

Big fan of this show, watched it all over the last few months. Didn't really like the airplane anticlimax either, though, it was built up way too much.

I'm surprised nobody brought this up, and I'm fully prepared to be jumped on for this statement, but a big downer for me is that the women characters in the show seem to be really badly or aggravatingly written. Skyler in particular, while perfectly acted, is this archetypal wifely shrew and foil who I dread seeing every time she comes on screen. As the show kept going into the second season, I only hated her more. It seems like most of the women (Skyler's sister, Jane, random methheads) all just end up being evil bitches. Even Hank got more nuance written into him! Sure you could argue just about everybody (except Walt's son) is kind of a bastard on this show, but the men seem to get a more balanced look.

Granted BB is hardly alone in this problem - its a symptom of the likely demographics of the middle-aged men writing many TV dramas (Dexter has this problem for many of its women, too).

Nhex, Saturday, 13 March 2010 08:24 (fourteen years ago) link

by the end of S2, I was like "you go, girl!" to Skyler.

richie aprile (rockapads), Saturday, 13 March 2010 08:45 (fourteen years ago) link

Skylar isn't an evil bitch at all! Walt is an evil bastard. She gives him the benefit of the doubt plenty of times before she finally snaps.

BTW, I'm frightfully middle-class (chap), Saturday, 13 March 2010 10:54 (fourteen years ago) link

She is meddling and interfering tho, and always wants to put a public front on everything. That's not evil but it does make her a bit annoying.

I see what this is (Local Garda), Saturday, 13 March 2010 11:08 (fourteen years ago) link

Am I the only one who loves the brother in law? I sort of feel the longer the show goes on the more you feel that he's actually a decent dude, even if he is a meathead and even if he is vulgar etc. Sort of feel walt likes him too.

I see what this is (Local Garda), Saturday, 13 March 2010 11:10 (fourteen years ago) link

Season 2 is on On Demand right now.

Uhm, where? Online or do you have better cable than me?

DISASTÜR ZÜN RHINE (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 13 March 2010 12:23 (fourteen years ago) link

skyler starts out horribly but after a couple of three episodes it became clear to me that she really does love walt, and thereafter i was totally on her side about pretty much everything despite her being walt's main "obstacle" to geting what he wants - it's a weird and unsettling dynamic

Tracer Hand, Saturday, 13 March 2010 12:30 (fourteen years ago) link

"It seems like most of the women (Skyler's sister, Jane, random methheads) all just end up being evil bitches."

Really? That's not how I read Skyler or Skyler's sister or for that matter Gretchen at all. The final episode of Season 2, it's hard to see how your sympathy is supposed to be anywhere but with Skyler (annoying or not).

Jane, random methheads sure they are evil bitches, but it's not like the methhead guys are great shakes either.

Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Saturday, 13 March 2010 16:11 (fourteen years ago) link


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