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Breaking Bad

Posted: Sun Aug 19, 2012 10:11 pm
by koan
I'm waiting to watch the last airing tonight of the new episode.

I did search to see if there was already a thread so blame the search feature if I'm stepping on something previously existing.



Walter White. Low esteem, high school teacher (never played with Gin Blossoms) who is overqualified for his job. He finds out he has cancer and has nothing to leave his family. He does, however, have the ability to cook crystal meth better than the local schmucks. So he does. Over four seasons he goes from someone you sympathise with to someone who you resent. But Bryan Cranston somehow manages to keep you feeling like you want to like him. It's the final season, afaik, and I'm not sure if they're going to give Walter a tidy ending. He's an *******. But he's justified. But he's not. But you want to believe he is.

Have you watched it?

Breaking Bad

Posted: Mon Aug 20, 2012 6:05 am
by LarsMac
Walter Mitty goes rogue?

Well, I came across an episode while channel-surfing last year. I wondered what the point of this was.

The guy was being a real A$$ and I couldn't get what his game was, or why I should care.

No real interest on my side after that episode. Now that I have an idea of how he got there, I have even less interest.

Breaking Bad

Posted: Mon Aug 20, 2012 9:51 am
by koan
I started out rooting for Walter but switched to feeling sorry for Jesse, the kid that was working with him. Now, I'm still rooting for Jesse but Walter is the bad guy they need to escape. I thought Walter's wife was a total bitch, I'm finally feeling sorry for her this season. I even like Mike better than Walter and Mike is a dead eyed killer.

It would be difficult to care about the characters if you try to pick it up part way through but, if you follow it from the start, the character journey is pretty intense.

Breaking Bad

Posted: Mon Aug 20, 2012 10:35 am
by spot
Facebook's cross-collating algorithm just popped Breaking Bad onto my "would you like to like this" tile. I bet it got that from you.

Breaking Bad

Posted: Mon Aug 20, 2012 10:36 am
by LarsMac
It's on Netflix.

Perhaps when I have finished the Dragon Tattoo trilogy, I'll check it out.

Breaking Bad

Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2012 12:20 am
by koan
spot;1401540 wrote: Facebook's cross-collating algorithm just popped Breaking Bad onto my "would you like to like this" tile. I bet it got that from you.


I might have mentioned it once but I don't watch it on any service connected to facebook so I'm thinking that they just got paid to ask you.