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Re: Any "Breaking Bad" Fans Here?

Post by l82start » Thu Oct 03, 2013 8:45 pm

WOW!!!
i have been avoiding this thread so i could watch the final season/episodes in one go, w/o spoilers
took me awhile to read all the posts, lots of accurate predictions,

personally i thought they did a good job of going out on a high note and maintained the quality well
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Post by Reub » Fri Oct 04, 2013 2:29 pm

An obituary for Walter White was placed in today's Albuquerque Journal:

"White, Walter, aka "Heisenberg," 52, of Albuquerque, died Sunday after a long battle with lung cancer, and a gunshot wound. A co-founder of Gray Matter, White was a research chemist who taught high school chemistry, and later founded a meth manufacturing empire."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/0 ... 44193.html

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Post by dualstow » Fri Oct 04, 2013 3:06 pm

Love it!
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Post by AdamA » Sat Oct 05, 2013 2:19 pm

Here's a very cool alternate interpretation of the final episode.

http://www.grantland.com/blog/hollywood ... eam-theory
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Post by MediumTex » Sun Oct 06, 2013 12:14 pm

AdamA wrote: Here's a very cool alternate interpretation of the final episode.

http://www.grantland.com/blog/hollywood ... eam-theory
I've been thinking about this all morning.

Here's why it can't be a dream:

Todd's ringer.  Think about it.  How could Walt possibly know about the depth and complexity of Todd's feelings for Lydia?  If Walt didn't know about it, how could it be part of a dream he was experiencing?
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Post by dualstow » Sun Oct 06, 2013 12:17 pm

MediumTex wrote: Here's why it can't be a dream:

Todd's ringer.
I like both the Thomas Dolby tune and the ringtone in the final episode: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4zRe_wvJw8
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Post by AdamA » Sun Oct 06, 2013 3:48 pm

MediumTex wrote:
I've been thinking about this all morning.

Here's why it can't be a dream:

Todd's ringer.  Think about it.  How could Walt possibly know about the depth and complexity of Todd's feelings for Lydia?  If Walt didn't know about it, how could it be part of a dream he was experiencing?
But Walt worked with both of them for quite a while (Crystal Blue Persuasion montage).  He could have picked up on it then.

For the record, I prefer to take the episode at face value, b/c I really liked how things wrapped up. 

For some reason, though, the idea that just maybe things didn't go so perfectly, and Walt actually died in the Volvo in NH appeals to me. 

I'd like to think there's a 95% chance that everything was real, and a 5% chance that it Walt's dying dream. 

Either way, I loved the final 2 episodes of the show. 
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Post by AdamA » Sun Oct 06, 2013 10:12 pm

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Post by iwealth » Mon Oct 07, 2013 8:42 am

Off the dream topic, but imagine if we never saw the flash-forwards to begin seasons 5A and 5B. What a difference that would have made. Positive or negative, hard to say.
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Post by Lone Wolf » Mon Oct 07, 2013 10:00 am

MediumTex wrote: Here's why it can't be a dream:

Todd's ringer.  Think about it.  How could Walt possibly know about the depth and complexity of Todd's feelings for Lydia?  If Walt didn't know about it, how could it be part of a dream he was experiencing?
I agree.  Also, how would Walt have known that Jesse was the Aryans' meth-cooking slave?  I thought he didn't know that his blue was even on the streets until he talked with Badger and Skinny Pete.

How would he have known about Jesse's rage at Todd for killing Andrea?

And did he know about the wooden box that Jesse made as a kid?  (The one he was daydreaming about.)

I think there are too many holes in the dream theory.  It's not really needed to explain Walt's plans coming together so well.  Remember that "he's luckier than you".  :)
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Post by MediumTex » Mon Oct 07, 2013 10:03 am

What I want to know is how you drive a stolen car from New Hampshire to Albuquerque.

The police surely knew that it was him who stole the car.  How many car thefts are going to occur in New Hampshire in the winter when a drug lord is on the run?  Armed with this knowledge, every cop in the country would be looking for that car.  His story was on Charlie Rose!!!
But Walt worked with both of them for quite a while (Crystal Blue Persuasion montage).  He could have picked up on it then.
I don't know, the ring tone conveys such a childlike infatuation.  After Walt saw what Todd was capable of and how utterly un-lovable Lydia was, it's hard to imagine that a dream of his would have such an odd detail in it, but it's possible.

If anything, I would think that a dream with Todd in it would have Todd's ringtone be Helter Skelter, or maybe I Used to Love Her by Guns n Roses.
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Post by dualstow » Mon Oct 07, 2013 10:32 am

Dallas has ruined everything for all time, but I suppose dream theories have been inevitable ever since the Chinese philosopher and the butterfly.

My theory is that most superfans have been exposed to The Matrix as well as films in which the camera is an unreliable narrator. The show is done, so there's nothing left to do but mash, rehash, reinterpret. It's fun, but sometimes a cigar is just a cigar and car keys behind a visor are just that. Yes, Walt's luck was improbable but ... it's a tv show. He would have been killed early on, probably by Tuco before he ever had a chance to whip out that fulminated mercury.
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What I want to know is how you drive a stolen car from New Hampshire to Albuquerque.
My guess is that the car was semi-abandoned and not reported as stolen. That actually happened to my ex's car one winter when I kept asking her if she wanted to check on it and she just wanted to leave it in the snow, not far from home, until it was thawed in the spring. It wasn't triven to ABQ, but someone took it for a joyride and then it was eventually towed and crushed according to the report we got. I think my favorite Hendrix CD was in there.
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Post by dualstow » Tue Oct 15, 2013 8:18 am

Anthony Hopkins Writes Fanboy Letter to Bryan Cranston About ‘Breaking Bad’
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Post by blackomen » Wed Oct 23, 2013 8:28 pm

I never watched a single episode of this series until early this month..  just finished it all yesterday..  pretty amazing, makes me want to visit Albuquerque some day as I've found some of the locations in the movie on Yelp (i.e. the dog house restaurant.)
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Post by AdamA » Tue May 20, 2014 2:31 am

Anyone see that "Better Call Saul" is scheduled to start in November.
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Post by Reub » Tue May 20, 2014 7:42 am

I can hardly wait! :)
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Post by dualstow » Tue May 20, 2014 9:48 am

Until then you can get your Bob Odenkirk fix by watching 'Fargo'. :-)
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Post by AdamA » Tue May 20, 2014 11:08 am

dualstow wrote: Until then you can get your Bob Odenkirk fix by watching 'Fargo'. :-)
He is great on that show too.

I think it's a testament to his acting skills that you immediately see him as Bill Oswalt instead of Saul Goodman, who was almost a Cosmo Kramer-like character, with all of the type-casting risk that can occur with such a role. 

Saul, in spite of his deeds, was a very likable character whereas Bill Oswalt is probably the most off-putting character on Fargo (even worse than the bad guys, b/c he's so frustratingly stupid). 

Odenkirk does a great job in the role, and I love his cheap haircut and pseudo- pushbroom moustache. 
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Post by dualstow » Tue May 20, 2014 2:50 pm

That's so true. Saul was everyone's favorite dirtbag. :-)
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Post by dualstow » Tue May 20, 2014 8:17 pm

Desert wrote: Reading through the comments, it appears that I need to give it a few more episodes before coming to a conclusion on the show.  Is that fair?
To each his own.  ;) For what it's worth, it took me a few episodes.
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Post by dualstow » Tue May 20, 2014 8:25 pm

He's like a naughty Mr Wizard.
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Post by AdamA » Tue May 20, 2014 8:28 pm

dualstow wrote: He's like a naughty Mr Wizard.
But it goes beyond that.

I was milk toast on it for the first season, but wound up loving it.
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Post by dualstow » Tue May 20, 2014 9:12 pm

AdamA wrote:
dualstow wrote: He's like a naughty Mr Wizard.
But it goes beyond that.
Trying not to give anything away :-)
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Post by MachineGhost » Wed May 21, 2014 12:33 am

Desert wrote: Hey guys ... I'm just starting to watch this show.  I know, I'm a few years behind as usual.  I just finished the old 24 series, if you can believe that.  Anyway, we've watched the first three episodes, and it's decent so far but not great.  Reading through the comments, it appears that I need to give it a few more episodes before coming to a conclusion on the show.  Is that fair?
Yes, it was very slow and boring the first couple.  Just like Andromeda.  No relation.

A great, independent movie that Breaking Bad reminds me of is Warrior.  Similar cirumstances with a teacher but an entirely different road to perdition.
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Post by MediumTex » Thu May 22, 2014 4:26 pm

MachineGhost wrote:
Desert wrote: Hey guys ... I'm just starting to watch this show.  I know, I'm a few years behind as usual.  I just finished the old 24 series, if you can believe that.  Anyway, we've watched the first three episodes, and it's decent so far but not great.  Reading through the comments, it appears that I need to give it a few more episodes before coming to a conclusion on the show.  Is that fair?
Yes, it was very slow and boring the first couple.  Just like Andromeda.  No relation.
The degree to which Walt goes from dabbling in bad stuff to becoming the bad stuff is pretty striking.

At first, he seems clumsy, desperate and sort of pathetic, but then his anger just seems to eclipse everything else and from there forward he's a really scary dude.

For me, I think that the turning point was in the clothing store when the punks were making fun of Walt Jr.'s disability.

It's 2:33 long and doesn't give anything away: http://youtu.be/DAtb7lHb8Y8
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