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Breaking Bad - Season 5, Part 1 - Sundays on AMC
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Joe Shlabotnik
Banned
Puddles
Better call Puddles
(Today, 05:54 PM)
If you're all gonna be this dumb, then I'm just rooting for Puddles now. Bait away!
She (Lisa) looked good!
Was that clip from the next episode? Skylar seems a lot move level in that clip.
Cornballer
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-Pyromaniac-
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obviously,
she can now be the criminal she has been trying to be for the past season now that the kids are out of the picture.
Cornballer
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- Maureen Ryan interview: 'Breaking Bad' Creator Vince Gilligan On Walt's Sins And His Future (hour-long video interview also available as an audio file via the link)
okay, LOL'd at work
HA!
BenjaminBirdie
Banned
JoJoShabadoo
Member
I expected to come in here and see, you know, discussion on the episode. Instead it's just more Skyler's a bitch/a victim, Walt is a hero/villain, future speculation barely based on new evidence but rather promos and interviews, etc.
Anyways, I'm enjoying this season a lot, but this episode (the first half) just felt off. It just felt very tv. Like a forced episode dedicated on character development that the other seasons (4 to a lesser extent) did an excellent job of naturally placing in the middle of the criminal Heisenberg tension.
The intro was hilarious but out of place. Both in the music video style directing, and in last episode ending with Walt getting like $120,000 which he owed to Jesse basically. The whole "it feels like more than a year" thing and Walt just summing everything up like it happened 10 years ago "You know, I got my cancer, Hank got shot" etc. just felt like it belonged in a network soap opera. Skyler in the pool was a bit over the top. I get that it was a desperate cry for help for her character, but it could have gone much differently.
Jesse is getting shafted this season with his development, breaking up with Andrea off screen for example (Walt straight up saying "I was talking about Mike" was a good recovery though) and everything that's happening seems wayyyy too unrealistic and sloppy.
I'm still enjoying it but this season doesn't feel as carefully crafted as the earlier ones.
Anyways, I'm enjoying this season a lot, but this episode (the first half) just felt off. It just felt very tv. Like a forced episode dedicated on character development that the other seasons (4 to a lesser extent) did an excellent job of naturally placing in the middle of the criminal Heisenberg tension.
The intro was hilarious but out of place. Both in the music video style directing, and in last episode ending with Walt getting like $120,000 which he owed to Jesse basically. The whole "it feels like more than a year" thing and Walt just summing everything up like it happened 10 years ago "You know, I got my cancer, Hank got shot" etc. just felt like it belonged in a network soap opera. Skyler in the pool was a bit over the top. I get that it was a desperate cry for help for her character, but it could have gone much differently.
Jesse is getting shafted this season with his development, breaking up with Andrea off screen for example (Walt straight up saying "I was talking about Mike" was a good recovery though) and everything that's happening seems wayyyy too unrealistic and sloppy.
I'm still enjoying it but this season doesn't feel as carefully crafted as the earlier ones.
I don't think it was out of place at all. It fits right in with the style of previous scenes like Jesse filling his hazmat suit up with air and dancing around, some of his party scenes, Mexican band intro song, etc.
JoJoShabadoo
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Not necessarily the way the intro was done, more like placing that kind of scene in the final season. Well I don't know, it was hilarious and it sums up Walt's delusion about his personal life, where it all comes crashing down in the second half of the episode, an episode dedicated on his birthday. I take it back
I loved the shot of him coming into the house! It was just like the one in the pilot, only he was anticipating a party this time hahaha. Walt Jr. just flipping through channels and saying "hey dad" was hilarious.
Honorable mention to the funniest scene of the episode:
"Slow down with that car, son!"
"Never..."
Cornballer
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FantasticMrFoxdie
Mumber
Walt Jr was out of control talking back to Walt like that...
Walt should ricin his breakfast.
Walt should ricin his breakfast.
Wow. That was a pretty fun read.
well it would make sense for it to fit in with another blatent advertisement scene (RAGE)
freenudemacusers
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lol preeeeety much. Why do you all do this to yourselves?
Extra Sauce
Member
You're completely missing the point. Skyler doesn't love Walt anymore, and the reasons why are irrelevant. You can't force someone to be your life partner, yet that is exactly what Walt is doing. She clearly hates him yet he lays beside her every night and cuddles her while she is paralyzed with fear and disgust. It's incredibly creepy and wrong, and I can't fucking believe I have to explain this to another human being.
nice
Cornballer
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ConradCervantes
Banned
Good lord, people. You're all fish in Puddle's pond, and no one thinks twice when he casts down the line again and again.
brilliant :lol
dave is ok
aztek is ok
Should be up in a bit
It's a tradition of the Breaking Bad threads.
Extra Sauce
Member
Is Puddles a diabolical troll mastermind, or an oblivious troll?
I don't know but I'm rooting for his truthful and on point commentary.
HP_Wuvcraft
Banned
Not sure if serious?
I want that on a wall. Mine specifically
lol, that was pretty much gafs reaction
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=481742&page=126
why are the eyes a different color? did I miss something about those?
Battersea Power Station
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And what is a "cooker?"
i lol'd
I think they mentioned at one point they played up his eyes to look more blue than green when he was being all Heroic.
Should be up in a bit
is it just me or does that look more like Jesse than Walt lol
Doug Heffernan
Member
Has Vince ever publicly explained why Marie wears purple all the time or why Walt Jr. is predominantly shown in breakfast scenes?
Not available in my country! fuck teamcoco
ConradCervantes
Banned
Because Junior is an otherwise useless main character portrayed by an actor presumably under a five-season contract.
Hey, he's not useless. He gives Walt an excuse.
Johnny Cage In The Shower
Member
He is a character that helps to portray Walt as a family man, same reason we usually see Maggie Simpson at a Simpsons family dinner table for example or Anthony Jr. flipppin the channels on the couch or stuffing his mouth at the dinner table for example. Guess the Maggie Simpson would be a better example for Walt's baby daughter, but you know what I mean.
Was anyone else also kinda upset that Walt sold the P.O.S. Pontiac Aztec to the mechanic?
As ugly as of a car it is, it became iconic throughout the seasons. Walt did lotta stupid shit with that car. Bodies landing on it. Chase scenes. Dileberate "accidents" Stalking people, detective work etc. I was really hoping he'll start driving it again, that little Toyota Echo was just looking ridiculous on him.
But I guess he's all cool now with his hat and stealth 2013 Xenon lit, Hemi Chrysler.
Kinda think they're setting it up to be evidence somehow.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?p=29906457&highlight=bullet+points#post29906457
Episode 4 of last season was on its 54th page. We are at 158 pages this season.
Episode 4 of last season was on its 54th page. We are at 158 pages this season.
Cornballer
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Episode 4 was around post #80 in the S1 thread.
MMaRsu
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Cornballer
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S1-S4 threads are all linked in the OP.link pls! Wanna read that
MMaRsu
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I did read that
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