TheContact
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I've watched oz a few years ago. Great show. I have a choice so far between mad men (Netflix) and the wire (hbo go). Can't decide.
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Breaking Bad - Season 4 - Sundays on AMC
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I've watched oz a few years ago. Great show. I have a choice so far between mad men (Netflix) and the wire (hbo go). Can't decide.
sixteen-bit
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Mad Men is a really good show. Less to catch up on too.
Avinexus
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The Wire. I suppose you need to be somewhat interested in cop shows, but a lot of people don't consider it the greatest show of all-time for nothing.
-Pyromaniac-
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Both are similar. They both take a while for the average viewer to get into, both character pieces (though the wire has broader implications and a much more serious tone). I say go for Mad Men. The Wire might be considered the best show of all time or one of the best by many, but it aint going anywhere I'll tell you that! So catch up on Mad Men so you can watch with GAFz, then finish the wire whenever.
http://breakinggifs.com/bg/
The site received a massive overhaul. It looks like some cool stuff is going to happen. More of the table will be unlocked later. It should be pretty cool.
The site received a massive overhaul. It looks like some cool stuff is going to happen. More of the table will be unlocked later. It should be pretty cool.
Cornballer
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Interesting. Is that tied into the show at all or are they just doing their own thing?
http://vimeo.com/39026614
Not entirely if AMC has any part of this. It might be purely on Paul's end, but Gilligan might be in on it too.
TheContact
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Watched half an episode of Mad Men, can't get into it. Will try to watch it over again today, friends are telling me it's good.
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takes a little bit to get into, but it's super worth it, I also didn't enjoy it a whole lot for the first few, but then it just clicks and now it's magical
Cornballer
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carfo - the TV Shows you've watched recently thread is a good place to get recommendations on new shows to watch. It's active and there are a number of helpful posters in there.
Messypandas
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http://breakinggifs.com/bg/
The site received a massive overhaul. It looks like some cool stuff is going to happen. More of the table will be unlocked later. It should be pretty cool.
looks like they ran a viral at a concert.. and a special guest! http://vimeo.com/41895966
Cornballer
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Yup. ezekial posted a new thread for discussing that project. Looks like they're putting together some cool stuff.
Messypandas
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ah my bad, thought it hadn't been posted!
Darth Pinche
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I just got this new sticker for my new helmet.
Although there are so many amazing moments throughout the series, the ending of Crawl Space has to be the best.
Just some random musings and thoughts by me about this show:
- Skylar and Walt are both "cooks"... he cooks meth, she cooks books. The parallel was always obvious but it didn't really strike me so hard as in the scene where Skylar confronted Ted to write a check to the IRS. I don't think that storyline is over by a longshot...he's either dead or in a wheel chair. If he's in a wheel chair, I can see Skylar feeling obligated to pay for his care.
- Saul Goodman: s'all good man. This guy is a perpetual problem solver, lol.
- The only genuinely "good" character in this show is Walt Jr...everyone else is pretty much a complete shit bag.
- Would love to know if the bomb wired to Tio's bell was the plan from the beginning...the way the bell was featured so prominently from season 2 through now makes it obvious to me.
edit: Wow...it wasn't a series long set up:
- The cartel has video of Jesse making meth south of the border...I figure that will play into the plot somehow.
- Thinking we will get more background story on Gus and who he really was...there has to be a reason he was spared poolside and why the sniper didn't kill him. He's important on some level we don't understand.
This is probably my favorite show of all time...even if there are some suspension of belief moments. Everything just ties together so well and I love their use of callbacks to previous "lore" etc. Simply amazing.
- Skylar and Walt are both "cooks"... he cooks meth, she cooks books. The parallel was always obvious but it didn't really strike me so hard as in the scene where Skylar confronted Ted to write a check to the IRS. I don't think that storyline is over by a longshot...he's either dead or in a wheel chair. If he's in a wheel chair, I can see Skylar feeling obligated to pay for his care.
- Saul Goodman: s'all good man. This guy is a perpetual problem solver, lol.
- The only genuinely "good" character in this show is Walt Jr...everyone else is pretty much a complete shit bag.
- Would love to know if the bomb wired to Tio's bell was the plan from the beginning...the way the bell was featured so prominently from season 2 through now makes it obvious to me.
edit: Wow...it wasn't a series long set up:
- The cartel has video of Jesse making meth south of the border...I figure that will play into the plot somehow.
- Thinking we will get more background story on Gus and who he really was...there has to be a reason he was spared poolside and why the sniper didn't kill him. He's important on some level we don't understand.
This is probably my favorite show of all time...even if there are some suspension of belief moments. Everything just ties together so well and I love their use of callbacks to previous "lore" etc. Simply amazing.
Darth Pinche
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Hey the other "good" character is Hank, that man is awesome.
He's not good in the sense that he isn't following police procedures, and he's kind of a dick to his wife and coworkers. Oh well. I like him too.
Darth Pinche
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You're right. I just like that bastard.
sixteen-bit
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Hyped. I really liked Brick and Fly. Rian Johnson is my dude.
In his defence she did keep calling them rocks.
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I can't believe they've just finished filming episode 4 (unless 'wrapping' involves his post-production work, which I don't imagine it does?)
Considering they started in late March, I would have thought they'd have been filming 6 (or at the very least 5) this week, hm. Anyway, extremely excited for Rian to be back, and for more Breaking Bad. I can't believe the premier is probably no more than two months away!
Considering they started in late March, I would have thought they'd have been filming 6 (or at the very least 5) this week, hm. Anyway, extremely excited for Rian to be back, and for more Breaking Bad. I can't believe the premier is probably no more than two months away!
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I was so good at avoiding spoiling myself this year, but I just read a casting call. I need help GAF
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Please don't post it here, I'm doing my best to avoid any spoilers at all 
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The Wire. Starts slow, but they really establish the characters and by the end of the first season, you'll be completely hooked. It's a lot more "slow burn" than Breaking Bad. Best cop show I've ever seen though, and Idris Elba is awesome.
TheContact
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How come so many different writers and directors work on different episodes for shows? I remember looking at episodes of Lost, and the first two or three or something were written by JJ Abrams and couple other people, then he's nowhere to be seen, and a bunch of different directors do different episodes. How come shows like this don't just have one staff of writers and one director?
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They do have a staff of writers. The writers come up with the ideas and all that, but one person ends up being chosen to pen the actual script to make it all come together. They obviously can't have the whole staff working on the script because it won't be as cohesive. As for directors, it helps lessen the workload on the people involved and also offers an opportunity to keep things fresh. Some directors might have a knack for the more dramatic stuff, and so on, so they go to who they need, or who is right for the job. You can also plan multiple episodes at once this way with different writers/directors working on different episodes.
Again...the most amazing scene in the series for me, I present you, Crawl Space:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWfK5JyD2bA
The acting, the sound editing...fucking chills me to the bone every time I watch this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWfK5JyD2bA
The acting, the sound editing...fucking chills me to the bone every time I watch this.
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Breaking Bad's writing staff has pretty much been the same since the show started.
Yeah, loved that scene. Especially the way we get to "look up" at Skyler.
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I wonder how different Walt will be next season, considering that was essentially his death scene - laying in a grave and all.
The scene directly following that has a song called "We are born when we die" and has him make the decision to poison a child in order to get what he wants. All throughout the last two episodes of season 4 he acts more like Heisenberg than Walt - he even dresses a bit different and shows his true nature to Skylar with the "I won" shit.
I really hope they keep him continuing in this direction and don't reset him back to S4 Walt.
The scene directly following that has a song called "We are born when we die" and has him make the decision to poison a child in order to get what he wants. All throughout the last two episodes of season 4 he acts more like Heisenberg than Walt - he even dresses a bit different and shows his true nature to Skylar with the "I won" shit.
I really hope they keep him continuing in this direction and don't reset him back to S4 Walt.
I don't think he'll revert. At this point he's immune to any truth...he's far too gone to relinquish any control of his life. I think back to that scene where he was getting a screening to see if he was still in remission and that guy was blabbing away and Walt pretty much shut him down and said he's in control of shit.
He's a total shitbag...the protecting his family thing is a convenient excuse to fulfill his ego.
Blame it on Jesse for introducing him into such a vile line of work.
Now, that guy, totally irredeemable from any perspective.
Even skysky is responsible for corrupting poor Walter.
Patrick Bateman
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The pool scene at the end of season four made me listen to that song the whole weekend:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThOP2S9VF5Q
So great. <3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThOP2S9VF5Q
So great. <3
I think it depends a lot on the question if there was a chance that the kid actually would have died. Though you could also say that the sole fact that he made a kid suffer through this + yet again tricked Jesse and used him for his own means, shows that he crossed the line.
triplestation
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Same.
sixteen-bit
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Jack Scofield
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Hahaha! The handwriting of a child is what makes it.
Fucking awesome. Care to share where you purchased the sticker?
I just got this new sticker for my new helmet.
Fucking awesome. Care to share where you purchased the sticker?
vatstep
This poster pulses with an appeal so broad the typical restraints of our societies fall by the wayside.
News:
http://www.avclub.com/articles/friday-night-lights-jesse-plemons-joins-the-cast-o,75262/
Not familiar with any of his work, though.
Maybe he meant "big, dumb, baby head."
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