I think I will feel cheated if major characters don't die by the end of this because the escape of death has been such a recurring theme.
― calstars, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 01:28 (twelve years ago) link
hey no threadcop but isnt there usually an understanding with these threads that we don't discuss promos for the following week's episode without huge SPOILER warnings?
― ♆ (gr8080), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 01:37 (twelve years ago) link
another interesting bit in that cold open, waitress asks how far a drive is NH, walt says "30 hours if all you do is stop for gas"
whatever the circumstances, it's another classic walter scheme he's flying by the seat of his pants to execute
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Sunday, July 15, 2012 7:18 PM (Yesterday)
maybe if he just drove 30 hours without sleeping he has started using meth
― ♆ (gr8080), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 01:38 (twelve years ago) link
Walter, now more than ever, is the driving force behind many of the other character's motivations.
If I may, I'll restate and slightly elaborate on this. One of the key events in this episode was Walter pulling Mike into his web. And the angry, "godDAMNIT you're right" look on Mike's face as he realized that he, too, was stuck. Mike may be a hired killer, but the fact that he's good at what he does, and does it with a sense of dignity and loyalty, gives him a lot of crime drama cred as a likable character. Walter is also good at what he does, but he has no loyalty, and he's only good at one thing. Even as a criminal, he lacks integrity. He'll throw anyone under the bus to save himself. Anyone but Jesse, who he has (arguably) hurt the most.
― cue "White Rabbit" (kenan), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 01:50 (twelve years ago) link
Whether Walter still has a human being inside of him is one of the great things that this last season has to resolve.
― cue "White Rabbit" (kenan), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 01:52 (twelve years ago) link
otm
― Nhex, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 01:56 (twelve years ago) link
― ♆ (gr8080), Monday, July 16, 2012 9:38 PM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
this would be an intersting development!
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 02:01 (twelve years ago) link
yeah some people don't like it because not everyone sees the promos (like if you watch on torrents or whatever) but I kinda consider any official "next on" that aired on TV as fair game, personally
this one was actually pretty substantive, I'm used to the hilariously vague Mad Men ones that don't tell you shit
― dmr, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 02:04 (twelve years ago) link
yeah its def a non-issue when talking abt mad men, but for real i go out of my way to not watch them w/ any show. reading like 5 posts about a plot point that doesn't surface until next week's episode is a bummer, guys.
― ♆ (gr8080), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 02:17 (twelve years ago) link
i'm kinda with gr80 on this one, but i guess what can you do
― Nhex, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 02:22 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah I always avoid them.
― polyphonic, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 02:22 (twelve years ago) link
they r on tv u guys u have to watch them sry
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 02:23 (twelve years ago) link
legume lol
― polyphonic, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 02:24 (twelve years ago) link
I avoid the coming attractions too, especially since they're in "the first commercial break of 'Redneck Deputies'" or whatever the hell that was.
It's not like Rockford Files where it plays before the closing credits.
― pplains, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 02:31 (twelve years ago) link
fyi guys its 2012!! i am either watching TV via:
― ♆ (gr8080), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 02:36 (twelve years ago) link
what if we start two threads, one where you can discuss the next ep preview, the other where it is strictly off-limits
― iatee, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 02:38 (twelve years ago) link
That would be ridiculous.
I don't even read the synopsis on the OnDemand menu.
― pplains, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 02:39 (twelve years ago) link
I was joking
― iatee, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 02:39 (twelve years ago) link
but if you watch it on DVR and you choose NOT to watch the coming attractions you can't really get mad at other ppl for not doing the same and talking about them?
I mean I could give a shit either way it's all kinda ridic
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 02:43 (twelve years ago) link
I watched the utube of it itt how can u resist idk
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 02:43 (twelve years ago) link
i'm not mad i'm just sayin'
― ♆ (gr8080), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 03:05 (twelve years ago) link
with grady on this, there's been more discussion itt about something that hasn't been in the show yet than what was in the actual episode, ban aero imo
― ¥╡*ٍ*╞¥ (sic), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 03:26 (twelve years ago) link
look I already told you what's gonna happen the rest of the season and you're bitching about next week's eps, get a grip
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 03:27 (twelve years ago) link
you are getting the thread you deserve
― This clam, stranded on someone’s floor, is trying to dig itself (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 03:39 (twelve years ago) link
you want it to be one way but it's the other way wait
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 03:50 (twelve years ago) link
hmmm yeah aero's been kinda bossy in this thread I say we stage a coup
WHO'S WITH ME
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 03:58 (twelve years ago) link
nitpicking, but one thing that bugged me abt the cold open was that Walt showed the waitress his FAKE ID to confirm that it was his birthday. He would not have his actual birthday listed on a phony.
― mister would you please herp my brony (Pillbox), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 04:02 (twelve years ago) link
a man can make bacon say "52" any day he pleases.
― ♆ (gr8080), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 04:10 (twelve years ago) link
of the glut of BB-related listicles on the interweb in recent days, the Cranston-on-White version is the most worthwhile prob: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/07/12/bryan-cranston-picks-13-favorite-breaking-bad-moments.html
― mister would you please herp my brony (Pillbox), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 04:11 (twelve years ago) link
why was walter white wearing eyeliner
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 04:14 (twelve years ago) link
maybe they give him his real birthday on his fake id cause its easier to remember
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 04:14 (twelve years ago) link
btw I caught up to this series like most ppl I know by this point so now I am with ya'll but I have to tell you that glancin at old bb threads and seeing really really horrible conjecturing posts about what people think is going to happen is p maddening idk I wasn't really maddened tho, not that madden'd, just like from the point of a casual viewer I was kind of like, wut people think about tv like this?
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 04:17 (twelve years ago) link
but maybe I am just kind of scared that now that I am in this thread (itt) I am going to start posting like everyone else
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 04:18 (twelve years ago) link
bbbut what would a Breaking Bad be w/o all sorts of misguided conjecture?
― mister would you please herp my brony (Pillbox), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 04:20 (twelve years ago) link
er 'Breaking Bad thread'
the show purposefully invites it, its kinda how it works
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 04:21 (twelve years ago) link
does not compute
so we would just talk abt stuff that already happened?
i...i...don't understand
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 04:21 (twelve years ago) link
yeah but OTOH it's v. hilarious when people are like "OMG it is SO OBVIOUS that Walt is going to chop off his own hand next week, the writing is on the wall even an idiot can see this" and then of course nothing like that happens but because other stuff happens the dumb conjecture just mists away
― tallarico dreams (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 04:22 (twelve years ago) link
the thumb conjecture just mits away
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 04:24 (twelve years ago) link
I would never tell anyone how to post, don't mind me, just that I looked at like a season 3 or 4 thread after watching the season and was like wut how do people think about tv like this? <--- btw thinking about this now, this is prob because after I watched an ep of this, I was like welp let me watch another
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 04:24 (twelve years ago) link
ya its the waiting week to week that drives us to speculate, if you can just find out what happens right away youre gonna
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 04:25 (twelve years ago) link
does anyone else text "pollos" to people they know at like 2 in the morning
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 04:26 (twelve years ago) link
pollos
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 04:27 (twelve years ago) link
idk why people r mad abt speculation being wrong, its the nature of speculation and its just for fun
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 04:31 (twelve years ago) link
i mean you can not speculate and not be wrong but everyone knows inside you are speculating
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 04:32 (twelve years ago) link
some of it is v stupid thats ok though its just a learning exp for me
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 04:36 (twelve years ago) link
I'm evolving
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 04:37 (twelve years ago) link
you have to take the stupid w/the not quite as stupid
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 04:39 (twelve years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/unrv5.gif
from the Cranston-on-White listicle I linked to upthread
Walt is trying to get back into the good graces with Skyler (Anna Gunn) and trying to get her to approve of him and move back into the house. He brings over this enormous pizza. She rejects both him and the pizza and he walks away in frustration and disgust. And he just throws the pizza up in the air to get rid of it and it lands on the roof. Well, we had a long discussion about it. This was an enormous pizza. You had to hold the box with two arms. I couldn’t possibly do it with one because it’s huge. I told the director I have to be this far from the roof while doing this because I couldn’t look at the roof. Walt’s not trying to throw a pizza on the roof. He’s throwing it out of frustration and it lands on the roof and he’s not even aware of it. So I actually do this. It lands in precisely the perfect spot on the very first take. I didn’t see it land because I’m not looking up there, I jump in the car and pull out and speed away. But when I come back and drive up with the car, I look up and I see the pizza perfectly placed in front of the camera on the roof. You’re kidding? It couldn’t have been more perfect and then our director says, “Let’s do a second take!” And I said, “We can’t do this again! There is no second take! It’s done!”So flash forward to today: the lovely people who own that house where we shoot the exteriors, they will have, from time to time, someone who will take pictures in front of the White house. They get the address from somewhere. Several people have come with pizzas and they ask if they can put this pizza up to take pictures? And they say, “Go ahead.” They’re very nice people.
So flash forward to today: the lovely people who own that house where we shoot the exteriors, they will have, from time to time, someone who will take pictures in front of the White house. They get the address from somewhere. Several people have come with pizzas and they ask if they can put this pizza up to take pictures? And they say, “Go ahead.” They’re very nice people.
― mister would you please herp my brony (Pillbox), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 04:45 (twelve years ago) link
lol wut people do not come and put pizzas on the roof
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 04:47 (twelve years ago) link