Breaking Bad

I love how They did the Mike thing.

I would've expected a bloody shoot out with no one getting out clean to take Mike out, but he went serenely by a stream.

The grand daughter thing was rough to watch.

Great stuff.
 
That's the beauty of this show they mess with expectations. I get extremely anxious when I watch this show.
 
Yes, great way to end the first half of Season 5. ( 9 months will be a long wait for second half )

A couple things bugged me about episode 508...

1- The musical choices in this episode seemed out of line for a Breaking Bad show. BB usually doesn't make light of anything, and I almost thought I was watching outtakes from "Good Fellas" at times.

2- When Walt meets with Lydia in the restaurant to get the names of the eight guys, the camera seems to be all over the place, where almost every second shot seemed to be from a new angle, which felt kind of messy to me. ( I don't remember seeing this before in Breaking Bad )
 
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Some people are upset about the way Hank found out about Walt. What do you guys think?...I thought it was great, unexpected and funny, but earned by a previous set-up. I think they've stretched it out with Hank being in the dark for so long it almost couldn't happen any other way. It had to be an accident that causes Hank to put the pieces together, it wouldn't have happened through his usual investigations...Also, people are assuming this is the end for Walt, but it's not a sure bet that Hank will do anything with this information, or at least do the obvious. Too many people close to him have too much to lose, including himself...I was actually a little more annoyed with the way Mike went out. They set him up as such a canny and capable guy, almost supernatural in his ability, that having him go out that way felt a little too easy. Also, leaving Walt with only one hand tied to the radiator seemed like another slip up that diminished Mike. I guess it's the problem of writing a character that seems too invincible. You want their downfall to be epic, like Gus Fring's was.
 
Batutta said:
but it's not a sure bet that Hank will do anything with this information, or at least do the obvious. Too many people close to him have too much to lose, including himself....
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I agree...there is a LOT at play here and it could go in many different directions, that's the beauty in it. (funny too how he found out....right when his investigation went to sh*t, he discovers it while taking a sh*t....just wonderful writing!)

I have to agree with Mike's 'wacking' too... just a bit too easy, although I don't think Mike though Walt had the balls to actually shoot him. Could have been better handled. Walt is getting good at this killing stuff.
 
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Batutta said:
Next summer!....AHHHHHHHH!!!!!
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I know…..I thought in the podcast the creators said they would be back in January? Maybe I heard it wrong? Maybe it's out of their hands?

They really crammed a lot of stuff into this mid-season finale. I dunno, they've taken a lot of crazy liberties this season (the magnet thing, the train robbery, the wrist/radiator escape) What is this, McGuyver? Aaaahhhh, who cares? Still the best show out there, IMO.

The musical choices in this episode seemed out of line for a Breaking Bad show. BB usually doesn't make light of anything, and I almost thought I was watching outtakes from "Good Fellas" at times.
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Yeah, but I liked it. This last episode had a feature film feel to it.
 
This is easily the best show on I've ever seen on TV. Nothing comes close... nothing. There will always be some great shows to keep us entertained like Game of Thrones, but this... this is too good. Each episode is better than a good feature film, it's just unreal. I can't grasp how the performances and writing can consistently be this good. There isn't a second of filler in the entire series; I have the utmost respect for the creators and everyone involved in this show.
 
L1N3ARX said:
This is easily the best show on I've ever seen on TV. Nothing comes close... nothing.
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...And each episode is shot in 8 days!

For comparison, True Blood spends almost 3 weeks shooting each episode. ( maybe allowing for all the post production effects slows TB production down )
 
I find it weird how Breaking Bad is accomplishing what both the Sopranos and the Star Wars prequels attempted to do but failed.
 
mentatDUKE said:
I find it weird how Breaking Bad is accomplishing what both the Sopranos and the Star Wars prequels attempted to do but failed.
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I get the SW prequels but lumping it in with The Sopranos!? Sopranos wasn't a perfect show all the way through but the great for me far outweighed the bad. Calling it a failure I think is a bit extreme, while the Star Wars prequels deserve to be called failures by just about every artistic metric.
 
The Sopranos wasn't a failure. The Sopranos attempt at making Tony a conflicted villain was. Breaking Bad handled this a LOT better and a lot more believably. Walter, we now hate, but still kind of root for. The audience at large is sympathetic toward the character to a degree. He's a believably grey character with several flaws. Tony on the other hand was too ignorant to be grey. An out and out villain that ENJOYED what he did and reveled in his flaws. Walt enjoys the empire business, yes. He has a huge ego yes. But he is way more complex than Tony.

This was the only thing that bugged me about the Sopranos. The morality wasn't handled very well in my opinion.

As for Star Wars? Sigh. "Space Operas for adults" deserves its own thread...
 
mentatDUKE said:
The Sopranos wasn't a failure. The Sopranos attempt at making Tony a conflicted villain was. Breaking Bad handled this a LOT better and a lot more believably. Walter, we now hate, but still kind of root for. The audience at large is sympathetic toward the character to a degree. He's a believably grey character with several flaws. Tony on the other hand was too ignorant to be grey. An out and out villain that ENJOYED what he did and reveled in his flaws. Walt enjoys the empire business, yes. He has a huge ego yes. But he is way more complex than Tony.

This was the only thing that bugged me about the Sopranos. The morality wasn't handled very well in my opinion.
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But I don't see that as a flaw in the Sopranos. Walt was a normal, decent guy, who become corrupted. Tony was a sociopath from the start and I never felt he was sold as a conflicted character. He went to Melfi to better understand himself, and specifically the source of his panic attacks. But he was always a rotten guy and never once did it seem like he was going to get out of the business. I think it's a true portrait of a true type of person. Even Melfi, at the end, realized he was beyond truly changing. BB and The Sopranos do two different things so I don't think it's fair to compare them in this way. Breaking Bad is a more consistently great show though, without a doubt. So I'm with you there.
 
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