or the decision to have him on skis for the entirety of his scene.
Yeah, but ski pole-cam shot kinda redeemed it
― Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Monday, 7 October 2013 06:55 (ten years ago) link
Huell's closing dance to Dire Strait's 'Walk of Life' was inspired
This is beautiful.
― pplains, Monday, 7 October 2013 13:43 (ten years ago) link
Door opens. DEA AGENT sticks head into room, sees HUELL seated on couch.DEA AGENTHey, man. Forgot to tell you. You're safe. You're free to go at any time.Camera pans to HUELL's face. Lone teardrop streams down cheek.HUELLReally?[happy-sounding synth organ begins playing in background]
DEA AGENTHey, man. Forgot to tell you. You're safe. You're free to go at any time.
Camera pans to HUELL's face. Lone teardrop streams down cheek.
HUELLReally?
[happy-sounding synth organ begins playing in background]
― pplains, Monday, 7 October 2013 13:46 (ten years ago) link
lol at Jim DeRo saying "Baby Blue" was too lightweight of a song to end BB on. He'd have preferred "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue"
― I got the glares, the mutterings, the snarls (President Keyes), Monday, 7 October 2013 13:47 (ten years ago) link
Them version of course?
― dan selzer, Monday, 7 October 2013 14:05 (ten years ago) link
No he said dylan
― I got the glares, the mutterings, the snarls (President Keyes), Monday, 7 October 2013 14:07 (ten years ago) link
Surprised he didn't argue strenuously for why whatever Flaming Lips song has the word "blue" in it should have been shoehorned into the scene -- a scene that also suffered from not being authentically psychedelic.
― hopping and bopping to the krokodil rot (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 7 October 2013 14:10 (ten years ago) link
that dylan song is shite. im so glad they didnt go there. i mean, my god.
― "Max's Original Starship" Vol. 3 (sunny successor), Monday, 7 October 2013 14:22 (ten years ago) link
I just heard a convincing argument that the opening scene with Walt receiving the keys from God was not meant to make us think that this was fantasy or delusion, but that Walt was working the 12 steps throughout the episode--and that was the "recognizing a higher power that can give strength" step.
― I got the glares, the mutterings, the snarls (President Keyes), Saturday, October 5, 2013 6:02 AM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
this is an interesting idea and given some weight by the NA key ring. Walt is praying to get home and keys drop down with a keychain that says 'Just for today'. Its kind of brilliant.
― "Max's Original Starship" Vol. 3 (sunny successor), Monday, 7 October 2013 14:26 (ten years ago) link
should've played "for you blue" by the beatles.
and had him die with a krystal burger in his mouth.
― pplains, Monday, 7 October 2013 14:27 (ten years ago) link
would have used Blue Man Group.
― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 7 October 2013 14:28 (ten years ago) link
also, didn't Jesse originally tell us about his woodworking safe place at a NA meeting?
― I got the glares, the mutterings, the snarls (President Keyes), Monday, 7 October 2013 14:35 (ten years ago) link
would have used this (xpost):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxXSUyc3BAU
― "Max's Original Starship" Vol. 3 (sunny successor), Monday, 7 October 2013 14:36 (ten years ago) link
PK yes!!
xp Keyes, good point
― Nhex, Monday, 7 October 2013 14:40 (ten years ago) link
put me in the "this one was def walt's dream" camp.
― Clay, Monday, October 7, 2013 1:53 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
holy moly, just checking back in this thread for laffs and this is what people are saying with a straight face now?
― some dude, Monday, 7 October 2013 14:41 (ten years ago) link
well some ppl think it started with this week's episode, some with last week's. we'll see where it goes from here i guess. i'm voting 'afterlife'.
― Saul Goodberg (by Musket and Pup Tent) (s.clover), Monday, 7 October 2013 14:44 (ten years ago) link
I would say no one's stupid enough to believe Walt would be dreaming about Badger's restaurant and Huell dancing, but people DID like Mulholland Dr, so
― da croupier, Monday, 7 October 2013 14:48 (ten years ago) link
https://twitter.com/JoyceEvansFox29/status/387018681433083905
― opie dead eyed piece of shit (Merdeyeux), Tuesday, 8 October 2013 01:17 (ten years ago) link
wow
― No more kisses (sunny successor), Tuesday, 8 October 2013 15:05 (ten years ago) link
over/under on her getting fired?
― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 8 October 2013 15:13 (ten years ago) link
"So you think no one watches LOW WINTER SUN? Check out how few witnesses there were for this weekend's mass shooting!"
― I got the glares, the mutterings, the snarls (President Keyes), Tuesday, 8 October 2013 15:19 (ten years ago) link
I'm just amazed she hasn't apologized yet
― da croupier, Tuesday, 8 October 2013 15:39 (ten years ago) link
Delete and mea culpa seems like the way to go instead of defensively responding to a couple offendees and then radio silence
― da croupier, Tuesday, 8 October 2013 15:40 (ten years ago) link
Rewatched Dead Freight yesterday (and the 2-3 following episodes, and the finale) and I think that's my favourite episode. So much happens apart from the heist (I'd kind of remembered it as just being the heist), and it seems like a key fulcrum for the final season(s) now.
― they all are afflicted with a sickness of existence (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 8 October 2013 15:45 (ten years ago) link
My favourite one is definitely the one where they're being held hostage by Tucco and trying to poison him with the ricin.
― Pingu Unchained (dog latin), Tuesday, 8 October 2013 15:54 (ten years ago) link
and Tuco chewing all of the scenery
― Neanderthal, Tuesday, 8 October 2013 16:10 (ten years ago) link
"I fucked Ted" still the most ice cold moment.
― Neanderthal, Tuesday, 8 October 2013 16:11 (ten years ago) link
just re-watched the first few episodes in season 2 where skylar knows walt's up to something w/ his extended disappearances and over-eager breakfast making but she doesn't know what. when she starts freezing him out and disappearing herself for hours at a time and he starts getting nervous it's portrayed so well.
one of the most underrated parts of the whole series imo. #teamskylar
― ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Wednesday, 9 October 2013 13:47 (ten years ago) link
yeah i agree. the tension of season two, all the micro-lies, all the little domestic strategies, had me gripping the edge of my chair at least as much as the more conventional action sequences that would come later. the stakes seemed just as high. or higher.
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 9 October 2013 14:12 (ten years ago) link
season 2 was when i really turned around on Skyler, was so glad they could write her as more than shrewish wife
― Nhex, Wednesday, 9 October 2013 14:28 (ten years ago) link
funny, she doesn't look shrewish
― brio, Wednesday, 9 October 2013 20:25 (ten years ago) link
Just rewatched "…And the Bag's in the River". That's an amazing episode.
― One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 9 October 2013 21:12 (ten years ago) link
is that the grill in the river ep?
― No more kisses (sunny successor), Wednesday, 9 October 2013 21:24 (ten years ago) link
Think it's the Krazy-8/plate episode
― Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Wednesday, 9 October 2013 21:27 (ten years ago) link
ohh. way early
― No more kisses (sunny successor), Wednesday, 9 October 2013 21:32 (ten years ago) link
http://variety.com/2013/tv/news/mipcom-katzenberg-offered-to-pay-75-million-for-three-extra-breaking-bad-episodes-1200708639/
― Number None, Friday, 11 October 2013 00:27 (ten years ago) link
wouldn't mind watching a compilation of all the cold opens, they were pretty much all great. Wonder how well the showier/more gimmicky ones hold up. What was the episode where it's just a close-up of a hummingbird or sth and then in the ep it comes to a key bit and a character goes "woah did you see that hummingbird over there? anyway, meth." or whatever, I don't remember the details
― swmp thing (wins), Friday, 11 October 2013 22:00 (ten years ago) link
lol
― woah did you see that hummingbird over there? anyway, meth (sunny successor), Friday, 11 October 2013 22:04 (ten years ago) link
Buried somewhere in one of these threads is a link to a blog post where an uninformed viewer tried to piece together the plot entirely from cold opens of the first few seasons. All those flashforwards made her synopsis weirdly disjointed.
― Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Saturday, 12 October 2013 13:55 (ten years ago) link
been having some dreams about ol' Walt, miss your antics boo
― Matt Armstrong, Saturday, 12 October 2013 13:57 (ten years ago) link
I was viewing an early episode again recently where Walt was discussing music with Walt Jr. and raving about Steely Dan (who Flynn has never heard of) and it occurred to me that Walt's culinary skills kinda made him like Kid Charlemagne...and then I do a bit of Googling and find that "Kid Charlemagne" was the name Hal used when hosting his college radio program on "Malcolm In the Middle"! Weird...Wonder if Cranston is a Dan fan and wrote that stuff into the scripts himself?
― Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Monday, 14 October 2013 01:57 (ten years ago) link
i forget which interview it was, but you're right - he's a Steely Dan fan, he admitted to sneaking those references in
― Nhex, Monday, 14 October 2013 02:30 (ten years ago) link
My wife started Netflixing this after the finale and she's near the end of S4. She started out watching 3-4 episodes at a time, but now she has to take a break to watch, like, an episode of Glee after each one to clean the nihilism out of her brain.
― cops on horse (WilliamC), Monday, 14 October 2013 02:54 (ten years ago) link
how would Glee clean away nihilism exactly
― Nhex, Monday, 14 October 2013 03:37 (ten years ago) link
Fuck, I don't know, I just picked a show at random from the ones that she watches and I don't. The logical answers are down the hall and to the left.
― cops on horse (WilliamC), Monday, 14 October 2013 03:50 (ten years ago) link
haha ok. i'm just saying that Glee makes me believe in nihilism far more than BB. that show at least had some kind of moral compass
― Nhex, Monday, 14 October 2013 03:55 (ten years ago) link
Is there gas in the AztekYes there's gas in the Aztek
― Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Monday, 14 October 2013 05:32 (ten years ago) link
http://entertainment.ie/images_content/TonyHopkinsLetterBreakingBa.jpg
― pplains, Monday, 14 October 2013 14:13 (ten years ago) link
damn
― call all destroyer, Monday, 14 October 2013 14:25 (ten years ago) link