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

but i really want to read it o jeez

i read it, there are no S3 spoilers

the only thing he really mentions is that gus thinks 20 steps ahead, which we already knew

some vague talk of what will happen in s3e01 but it couldnt really spoil anything

this is think is prob what he was talking abt - its not exactly a spoiler but it does point to where they ultimately want to go w/walt
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And is it also a safe assumption that you're not going to kill off your leading man midway through the series by dropping an airplane on him?

We're back in the writers' room now, plotting out season three. I don't think it's too much of a spoiler to say Walt is front and center, as always. The way I see it, if a jet engine fell on his head and crushed him, he'd be getting off too easy. He's not getting off nearly that easy.

well i didn't exactly think walt was going to make it to st croix with his millions and his forgiving family

yah but the writers have it in for him dont u see - f'n jerkfaces

I didn't mind the Walt vs. Skylar confrontation - she'd done her homework and knew he was up to something but obviously wasn't going to hurt her, so she was taunting him a bit. Also cause it reminded me of Oran "Juice" Jones calling out his woman in "The Rain".

Somebody's just pointed out to me the names of the episodes that had the pink teddy intro. "737" "Down" "Over" "ABQ".

ya, he talks about that in the link earlier.

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

not reading the whole thread but just wanted to say this show is fucking great and i'm abt to start season 2.

I'm not going near this thread yet for spoiler reasons, but the girl and I watched the entire first season in about a week and are now starting season two. This show is so clever and honest and PENSIVE; it's a real treat to see violence and fear given real people responsiveness as opposed to "oh dead body, hm, bummer" there's lasting repercussions.
Total winner; very happy I got into it.

Yeah this show is so damn good.

For all the crazy shit that happens in it, it's not very escapist. I think it will resonate with anyone who has decided, for one reason or another, to keep a part of themselves hidden from their loved ones. Or with anyone who has a loved one who does this. Which can be a pretty discomfiting thing to dwell on.

Just knocked 'Rescue Me' out of the box as my fave current tv drama; Rescue is more of a soap as opposed the the weirdly real flavor of Breaking Bad

I've watched the first three episodes over the last couple of days, and it's great fun, very sharp and enjoyable. Reminds me a bit of Carl Hiaasen.

When's season three start?

spring

LOVE this show.

rulez

On S2 now. Fucking hell this is good.

It's really spectacular.

Carl Hiaasen

Yeah! Or Elmore Leonard.

I tried to pace myself, but have now watched all twenty episodes. In like five days. Have to wait now. Dammit.

It may have darted into my all-time top ten list with alarming speed. Of the decade, at least. Or that could just be the meth talking.

http://images.dailyradar.com/media/uploads/showhype/story_large/2009/06/01/breaking_bad_new_poster.jpg

Can't wait!!!

Me neither. If it's even half as good as S2 I'll be a happy boy.

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*hugglez*

is jesse not one of the most culturally accurately rendered screen characters ever - u know this guy - his ways of are those of a real person right now

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i'm okay with constant anticipatory posts of this picture until march 8

like the dragon on jesses shirt quite a bit

http://www.entertainmentwallpaper.com/images/desktops/movie/tv_breaking_bad02.jpg

http://www.futuregringo.com/2009April/BreakingBad.jpg

Just finished watching seasons one and two in a three-day binge. This show is fucking FANTASTIC - Bryan Cranston is delivering a Gandolfini-level performance here.

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

pillow

sneaky

it's been a month since I finished season 2, and I still can't decide if the final episode was really great or shark jumping terrible.

I think I liked the plane crash as a metaphor for all the horrible things Walt had been doing literally crashing down on him. I'd have liked it more, though, if it wasn't for all those portentous B&W flash-forwards in the cold opens - the shot of what appeared to be Walt's glasses being put in an evidence bag in one of the earlier episodes really set up the idea of something physically horrible happening to him and having it turn out instead to be deliberate misdirection was a bit of a low blow, tbh.

I can imagine people thinking that about the air crash stuff, though I thought it was fine. Everything else was spot on, surely? Skylar confronting him was absolutely nerve-wracking.

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The whole crash thing literal metaphor thing felt grandiose on a season six Sopranos level. Seemed out of character for a show that has been so gritty and real up until that point. I really did feel conned afterward, too. I think I said out loud, "that's it?" The crash itself was an intense spectacle - the sound of the explosion was amazing and seriously eerie. I think it made the hair on my neck stand up a little. The scene was so well done, it almost made up for what I didn't like about it.

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?

I have to say, I think I'll be really disappointed if it ends up being some kind of raining frogs Magnolia plot catalyst.

xp - The whole series has been nerve-wracking! I don't think I've ever been so tense watching a TV show. It does an extraordinary job of ratcheting up the stakes with every episode.

There's always a really visceral sense of the walls closing in around Walt - even pulling off the ostensibly life-changing $1.2m deal was a defeat for him. His comment to Saul about always taking one step forward, two steps back was painfully OTM.

The explosion is a bit of a heavy-handed metaphor, but I actually think it works in the context of the show - it's not that much more out-of-the-ordinary than an exploding tortoise, is it?

The problem I had with it was the sneakiness of the previous shot of Walt's glasses in the evidence bag. Just seemed a bit... cheap to have that mean nothing in the end.

I absolutely agree that realism isn't one of the show's primary aims - it's a morality tale.

I think the thing that impressed me most about the storytelling was the way every little incident had some kind of affect on the overall unfolding of the story - the number of small story elements that came together to culminate in Jane's death is an example. I think the only other season of television I've seen that was as tightly plotted is S4 of The Wire.

I loved Jane btw...I would get addicted to heroin for her anytime.

xp - Yeah, it is very well put-together in that sense. The explosion itself is part of that attention to detail, too - you can trace everything that led to it back to Walt's own actions.

Speaking of small details, I'm almost convinced the spare tyre that Walt threw out of the back of his car while rushing to get to the hospital to see his daughter will come back to haunt him in a future episode. The way it was shot - with the wheel bouncing towards the camera - did seem like a setup for something...

meeting jane's dad at the bar was a bit of a stupid forced coincidence imo

I was willing to buy the coincidence because it established a nice bit of insight into Walt's relationship with Jesse - he'd never admitted feeling anything like a sense of familial responsibility for Jesse before, had he? - and set up Walt's return to Jesse's house.

If anything, I thought the one thing in that episode which was a bit awkward was the setup of the VITAL IMPORTANCE of turning both junkies and babies on their sides when they sleep - it telegraphed Jane's demise a bit too much. When it did arrive, though, the scene was fucking horrific - easily the worst thing to have happened on a show filled with unpleasant actions. Cranston's performance in that scene was great - he's so, so good at telling a story without speaking.

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.