Cornballer
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Nope. Just the poster so far and some teasers with footage from previous seasons.
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Breaking Bad - Season 5 interim thread - the series concludes Summer 2013 on AMC
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I watch the ending of that episode whenever I think the Wire is the better show. It puts that show in its place
smokeymicpot
Beat EviLore at pool.
Nope only posters.
TangoAlphaLima
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I'm finally getting around to finishing off The Wire. Watched the first 2 seasons many years ago, just finished the 3rd season recently and am in the middle of the 4th season right now. The first 2 seasons of The Wire are pretty fantastic, but 3 and 4 ain't doing a whole lot for me. Overall, I think Breaking Bad is the better show. It helps that the narrative is much tighter. The Wire seems to lose its way from time to time.
-Pyromaniac-
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I watched this fan made promo from a tiny bit back again and I got mad hyped. August y u so far:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKw8rJfBjzw
masterful promo btw, that guy is good.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKw8rJfBjzw
masterful promo btw, that guy is good.
I still don't understand why some people dislike that particular episode...
Spring-Loaded
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That Ecstasy of Gold remix reminds me of this fan trailer made before 5 started airing. The guy said he made this after watching the show through once all the parallels and links he thought up were made after a single watch.
Then he re-edited it to include 5A. I still like it, but thought the original was almost perfect.
Discotheque
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on rewatch i think it's apparent that walt is just a dick from the start. initially i was annoyed with him around mid season 3. but watching it again...he's just insufferable to everybody since day one.
he has his moments where he helps...but then he just goes back to dick mode or puts it over their heads.
great performances though from him and aaron paul. gus is probably my favorite actor of season 4 though followed by jesse and then walt.
the crawl space moment was cool but jesse had that speech in the rehab meeting...or the go kart scene, or the evolution of jesse when you finally see him become the master cook in mexico
and gus is..just frightening. terminator twins in season 3 were lame
he has his moments where he helps...but then he just goes back to dick mode or puts it over their heads.
great performances though from him and aaron paul. gus is probably my favorite actor of season 4 though followed by jesse and then walt.
the crawl space moment was cool but jesse had that speech in the rehab meeting...or the go kart scene, or the evolution of jesse when you finally see him become the master cook in mexico
and gus is..just frightening. terminator twins in season 3 were lame
Yup, we had this argument around the time he poisoned brock and how much he "transformed". Back when people where trying to say that Walt was ever a good person.
Dude's was a dick from day one. In the pilot he was so selfish he tried suicide and was willing to try suicide by cops.
The Lamonster
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Who killed that little kid anyway? Was it actually Gus or was it his two street dudes?
Or was it Walt??
Also, I'm rewatching the series right now and Walt just cooked the Ricin. God, knowing that it's still around in s5 part 2 and most likely going to be used on someone, it makes me so damn nervous.
Or was it Walt??
Also, I'm rewatching the series right now and Walt just cooked the Ricin. God, knowing that it's still around in s5 part 2 and most likely going to be used on someone, it makes me so damn nervous.
That's pretty controversial.
The Lamonster
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I'm not talking about Brock, I'm talking about his kid uncle who shot Combo.
The two thughs?
MightyHedgehog
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Just for the sake of poetic justice, you know it's gonna be Walt himself. I mean, the dude cooks poison and poisons his family and everyone around him with his corrupting nature.
Tomas.
Yeah, he was killed by the two thughs that Walt ran over, that's what I meant.
Just finished rewatching the whole series. Man, Season 5, pt. 1 is sooo so good. It kind of hasn't dawned on me until recently just how good it is. I wouldn't say it quite reaches the heights of the last chunk of Season 4, but it is most definitely the best first half of any season. I'm so ready for pt. 2!
Cornballer
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I was looking through the Breaking Bad tumblr earlier and saw this:
Ah, the memories.
triplestation
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HEAR ME NOW BITCHES!
digoutyoursoul
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Was gutted about
Great character
Have watched the series on Netflix but tempted to get the lot on Blu Ray
Mike
Great character
Have watched the series on Netflix but tempted to get the lot on Blu Ray
Willkiller
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Started a re-watch with a friend yesterday who hasn't seen it before.
Season 1 feels so strange knowing what I know.
Season 1 feels so strange knowing what I know.
You think so? It wasn't like a drawn out suicide attempt.
He basically was like...omg I'm gonna look like an asshole and get convicted if I get caught...suicide.
Thats pretty selfish.
ZedIndyLil
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Won't wade into the "suicide is selfish" argument, but I absolutely agree Walt was not a good man from the start. He really was a ticking time bomb of repressed anger and bitterness; if he lived in LA instead of Albuquerque, he could have starred in Falling Down.
Now i want a remake of Falling Down with Cranston as D-Fens
I have finally watched every episode of Breaking Bad, and for me season 1-3 are mediocre at best. Many dull episodes where nothing happends, and far to much repeting of similiar problems. Season 4 on the other hand was very good. Partly because Gus was awesome, but Mike and Jessi had a very good chemistry and the story was actually going somewhere. The twins where lame/underused.
Season 5 has for me been good, but I now dislike Walt so much that I am rooting for everyone to kill him,
. And that is a bad premise for a show..
Season 5 has for me been good, but I now dislike Walt so much that I am rooting for everyone to kill him,
instead of him killing every good character
No, it's not. That's like saying Scarface is a terrible movie, because Tony Montana doesn't win in the end. This character is despicable, he's destructive to his enviroment and has almost completely foregone any moral compass he might have had at the start.
Almost everyone in the show, no, everyone in the show would be better off if Walt wasn't around and seeing him get his due is a great hook for this season and a big compiment to Bryan Cranston and the writers that they managed to get people to root against the main character.
TrumanBurbank
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Before he dies, The realisation on the face of Gus was awesome. A man who never lost his cool, until that moment when he knew he'd been outsmarted.
For me they are mediocre, good for you that you like them.
ostrichKing
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Really? I mean...really? What is "mediocre" about them? What is repetitive and dull?
For me:
the "ohh we are so smart that we are showing the ending first of every episode" bit is just tiresome. And the whole "dead bodies" around Walts swimmingpool, was a huge letdown.
The story repeats itself twice in the first seasons. It is: Walt having issues if he really should cook, then start cooking, then meeting a loco drugdealer and then killing him. (And it happends for the third time with Gus, but that is better developed)
Terrible acting from Jesse's drugfriends. Which also leads to the worst scene in television history, when the three of them are discussing plasm vs lcd.
Really slow develpment (2 or 3 episodes of them deciding if they should kill the first drug guy in the basement), and far to many making-up-uneccecery-problems-just-to-make-it-longer. I.e. the battery dying in the dessert, after Jesse leaves the keys in the ignition.
But the main problem is that I find them mostly boring, and the only reason I have watched all of them is because the praise its getting everywhere. But since I found s4 to be really good, I don't regret it at all. Sadly not as found of the first halv of s5. But the cliffhanger was good, allthough I do find it a bit difficult to understand why Walt forgets that book on his toilet, when he is so anal about everything else.
the "ohh we are so smart that we are showing the ending first of every episode" bit is just tiresome. And the whole "dead bodies" around Walts swimmingpool, was a huge letdown.
The story repeats itself twice in the first seasons. It is: Walt having issues if he really should cook, then start cooking, then meeting a loco drugdealer and then killing him. (And it happends for the third time with Gus, but that is better developed)
Terrible acting from Jesse's drugfriends. Which also leads to the worst scene in television history, when the three of them are discussing plasm vs lcd.
Really slow develpment (2 or 3 episodes of them deciding if they should kill the first drug guy in the basement), and far to many making-up-uneccecery-problems-just-to-make-it-longer. I.e. the battery dying in the dessert, after Jesse leaves the keys in the ignition.
But the main problem is that I find them mostly boring, and the only reason I have watched all of them is because the praise its getting everywhere. But since I found s4 to be really good, I don't regret it at all. Sadly not as found of the first halv of s5. But the cliffhanger was good, allthough I do find it a bit difficult to understand why Walt forgets that book on his toilet, when he is so anal about everything else.
Ignatz Mouse
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While I really enjoy the show, I'd say those are fair criticisms. I like Breaking Bad a lot, but I don't put it on a god-tier of dramas.
Cornballer
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Three more episodes airing tonight on AMC as part of their continuing Midnight Badness marathon: Down, Breakage, and Peekaboo.
Um, how can anyone dislike this episode? This is the beginning of what makes Breaking Bad such a fantastic show. It's the subdued moments like these that define the characters and make them feel real. Walt's dilemma in the basement really makes you feel for him and feel his pain in killing Krazy 8. What you call "slow development" is in my opinion masterful development. A normal show would deal with the Krazy 8 situation through trivial means, like a cliched action scene (which is what I would consider boring). Normal shows deal with death in trivial terms, and the impact of physically murdering another human being is llost. But Breaking Bad is not a normal show.
One of the best ones.
I ain't no skank.
Cornballer
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August 11th
Steelyuhas
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no now
The first two clips from Season 5, Part II have aired on AMC
They're only about 5 seconds long each, and show next to nothing, but they're certainly getting me hyped. The quality of these YouTube versions is pretty terrible; if someone finds a better quality version, I'll update the link.
Hank: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASI6Xls8dpI
Jesse: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=Ff1VxkH5ZoA#t=7s
They're only about 5 seconds long each, and show next to nothing, but they're certainly getting me hyped. The quality of these YouTube versions is pretty terrible; if someone finds a better quality version, I'll update the link.
Hank: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASI6Xls8dpI
Jesse: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=Ff1VxkH5ZoA#t=7s
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