Breaking Bad!

[wobrien]

When he picked up the gas mask, looked at it, then put it down, I thought he might do one last cook without protection and go out that way.

 

[HoppyDaze]

think I would put Breaking Bad at #2, behind Band of Brothers

I have several reasons, but mainly because BoB actually happened

Recognize the guy in my avatar?

 

[jbaysurfer]

Recognize the guy in my avatar?

Lieutenant (Captain)Winters no doubt. Great show too. I think BB, Sopranos and BoB are definitely right up there for me as the best series ever. With a nod to Cheezy and BSG of course. ;-)

 

[cheezydemon3]

Wish I had seen more of BoB. It did seem really good.

I wonder if it is streaming....

 

[GrogNerd]

Wish I had seen more of BoB. It did seem really good.

I wonder if it is streaming....

jeezy, cheezy.

I HIGHLY recommend it.

also recommend The Pacific, but it's not nearly as good.

 

[jafo28]

Wish I had seen more of BoB. It did seem really good.

I wonder if it is streaming....

Buy on DVD, it's well worth it.

 

[BGBC]

Buy on DVD, it's well worth it.

Speaking of DVDs, is anyone going to buy the full barrel set they were advertising for BB? Haha

 

[BrokenArmBrewing]

Speaking of DVDs, is anyone going to buy the full barrel set they were advertising for BB? Haha

Not here. Just need to download salt half of season 5 and ill have the set 720 p free Fo me!

 

[TheSmithsEra]

Speaking of DVDs, is anyone going to buy the full barrel set they were advertising for BB? Haha

its very expensive, but kinda cool. Looks like it will definitely be a collectors item

 

[passedpawn]

Well, I can finally stop avoiding this thread. Just watched the final episode. What a great ride. I'm not gonna bother with a spoiler alert cause if you're looking at this thread and you haven't seen the show then you should know there will be spoilers.

My nitpicks: I hated skylar, pinkman cried way too much, hank squinted angrilly a bit too much, hank's wife was a *******. The crazy Stevia chick was manic and hard to look at.

The positives: Great cinematography (vistas, cam angles, night shots). The chicken pollo king was excellent. The bad guys at the end were particularly good (manacing). Scenes in Mexico were excellent. Music was great. Walt going from good guy to superbad to evil to pathetic was mesmerizing. Pinkmans journey, from pathetic, to courageous, to loser, to hero was excellent.

The two stoners, pinkman's friends, were great and I think they should have their own spinoff.

I did like Saul and if there is a spinoff for him, I'll check it out.

This show was not as good as Sopranos, which I think is the best serial ever of the modern age (M*A*S*H will never be touched for me). Band of Brothers was also superior, but it's in the mini series category, which you can't compare to a serial that has to run over 5 years.

 

[kombat]

I agree about Pinkman - I never sympathized with him. I always found him an impulsive, impudent, immature, whiny, insolent little punk. I would've been content to see him killed off. I read an interview with Aaron Paul (the actor who plays Jesse), and he described the character as a sympathetic underdog. I was like, "are you nuts? Do you have any inkling of how annoying your own character is?" I don't know if that was a failing of the writers, or a total disconnect of the actor himself, but I did not feel any empathy for Jesse at all. At every opportunity, he sabotaged himself, and never really got his come uppance.

 

[BGBC]

I agree about Pinkman - I never sympathized with him. I always found him an impulsive, impudent, immature, whiny, insolent little punk. I would've been content to see him killed off. I read an interview with Aaron Paul (the actor who plays Jesse), and he described the character as a sympathetic underdog. I was like, "are you nuts? Do you have any inkling of how annoying your own character is?" I don't know if that was a failing of the writers, or a total disconnect of the actor himself, but I did not feel any empathy for Jesse at all. At every opportunity, he sabotaged himself, and never really got his come uppance.

Really? What do you call being locked in a caged an tortured? And to watch so many people around you that you love die?

He was his own worst enemy and he effed himself over so many times, but other people also screwed him over without him even realizing it.

Regardless, I think Paul did a great job with the character.

 

[passedpawn]

Really? What do you call being locked in a caged an tortured? And to watch so many people around you that you love die?

He was his own worst enemy and he effed himself over so many times, but other people also screwed him over without him even realizing it.

Regardless, I think Paul did a great job with the character.

The only actor that cries more is Amy Adams.

 

[emjay]

Really? What do you call being locked in a caged an tortured? And to watch so many people around you that you love die?

He was his own worst enemy and he effed himself over so many times, but other people also screwed him over without him even realizing it.

Regardless, I think Paul did a great job with the character.

I agree. Kombat keeps calling Paul out of touch with his own character, but it would seem that HE'S the one that lacks insight into Jesse. Without a doubt, most people ended up sympathizing with Jesse, and although nobody's required to do so (disagreement is totally fine, and not everybody is going to relate in the same way), one should still be able to see that a) most people actually did, and b) that this was entirely intended by the writers. The whole point to both halves of season 5 was to foment hatred for the person that Walt became, and sympathy for the person that Jesse became.

 

[eric19312]

Jesse was fantastic in the mexico drug lab.

 

[Melana]

My boss just told me in our 1:1 meeting that she thought of me when she watched Breaking Bad. Should I worry?

 

[GrogNerd]

My boss just told me in our 1:1 meeting that she thought of me when she watched Breaking Bad. Should I worry?

guess it depends on which part made her think of you...

the chained to his job worker/slave?

the neo-nazis?

the former drug kingpin dying in the lab you created?

the worker most likely to show up to work with an remote-controlled, auto-sweeping M60 in the trunk of your car?

 

[jbaysurfer]

guess it depends on which part made her think of you...

the chained to his job worker/slave?

the neo-nazis?

the former drug kingpin dying in the lab you created?

the worker most likely to show up to work with an remote-controlled, auto-sweeping M60 in the trunk of your car?

^ If those are the options, I'm pretty sure he should be worried.

 

[Melana]

I've never seen the show so I do not understand what you are referring to.
The comment came out of left field.

My boss is a woman.

 

[BGBC]

I've never seen the show so I do not understand what you are referring to.
The comment came out of left field.

My boss is a woman.

I'd want to know what part of the show she was referring to. Or what character you reminded her of.

I'm trying to think of ways that comment could be a good thing and I'm having a hard time...

Or maybe she just thought of you while watching the show because she thought you might like it, haha.

 

[Melana]

I probably would like it from what i've heard...

 

[cheezydemon3]

The crazy Stevia chick was manic and hard to look at.

.

Is there something wrong with me? I found her to be HOT. Her mild neuroticism and minor tics were adorable.

 

[emjay]

Is there something wrong with me? I found her to be HOT. Her mild neuroticism and minor tics were adorable.

I agree. But there IS something quantifiably wrong with me, so... probably.

 

[Melana]

Ok, can someone go find a pic of said Stevia chick?

 

[GrogNerd]

forgot she also played one of Heath Ledger's group in Knight's Tale

 

[cheezydemon3]

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0292182/

DEFINITELY HOT......(hi! how are ya?)

 

[GrogNerd]

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0292182/

DEFINITELY HOT......(hi! how are ya?)

definitely, her character photos do her no justice

 

[Melana]

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0292182/

DEFINITELY HOT......(hi! how are ya?)

Really? Hmmm...

 

[GrogNerd]

Really? Hmmm...

yes, really.

 

[emjay]

Oh man, she's Scottish? An accent like that would make her even hotter. Dammit, why couldn't they just keep her accent?