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Post by wildknight on Feb 9, 2014 20:04:11 GMT -5
{Spoiler}
Hank is Heisenberg, and he cooks blue meth  Whaaaaaaat? |
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Post by muta75 on Feb 9, 2014 20:07:21 GMT -5
{Spoiler}
Hank is Heisenberg, and he cooks blue meth Whaaaaaaat? shhhh don't give it away... |
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Post by miketheratguy on Feb 9, 2014 20:25:17 GMT -5
I keep wondering when someone like Tom, who only just started watching the show (don't know if he's going to continue but I hope he does), is going to ask me why everyone keeps calling Walter White this "Heisenberg" character.
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Post by WSS? on Feb 9, 2014 20:32:39 GMT -5
As a person who hasn't started watching yet, I feel like I'm going to have to start ignoring this thread very soon.
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Post by wildknight on Feb 9, 2014 20:35:17 GMT -5
As a person who hasn't started watching yet, I feel like I'm going to have to start ignoring this thread very soon. Good. Get out, ass! Actually I'm pretty sure that if you don't understand from just the ads that Walter = Heisenberg = meth dealer, you probably won't get the actual show either 8) |
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Post by miketheratguy on Feb 10, 2014 1:26:36 GMT -5
It's true. Though I do urge to leave the thread, if for no reason than you should be watching the show instead. It's seriously that good. I rarely use terms like "outstanding" and "among the top five television shows I've ever seen" but yeah, this one calls for it.
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Post by miketheratguy on Feb 10, 2014 1:29:01 GMT -5
You've got quite a gift for understatement. ... at least it wasn't Crystal Blue Persuasion (I actually really like that song, but that would have been way too much) Wait, I don't know if you were just being facetious or if you actually remember this (I didn't), but Crystal Blue Persuasion (which I agree is a good song) WAS in fact used in one of the last ten or so episodes. I was only reappraised of this fact just tonight when watching the show with the family, think it was like episode 508. |
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Post by CaptainDamage on Feb 10, 2014 4:56:48 GMT -5
Up to season 2 now. I found it very intresting can't wait to reach the half way point.
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Post by miketheratguy on Feb 10, 2014 5:09:18 GMT -5
Though a couple of my favorite episodes of the entire thing are in season 1, and though there's what I consider to be just a slight bit of slowdown right around the halfway point of the series, I think that each season is generally better than the last.
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Post by wildknight on Feb 10, 2014 6:51:32 GMT -5
You've got quite a gift for understatement. ... at least it wasn't Crystal Blue Persuasion (I actually really like that song, but that would have been way too much) Wait, I don't know if you were just being facetious or if you actually remember this (I didn't), but Crystal Blue Persuasion (which I agree is a good song) WAS in fact used in one of the last ten or so episodes. I was only reappraised of this fact just tonight when watching the show with the family, think it was like episode 508. I didn't remember that at all, no. |
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Post by miketheratguy on Feb 10, 2014 7:07:22 GMT -5
Well then, you accidentally called it.
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Post by SoonDragon67 on Feb 10, 2014 17:46:46 GMT -5
I watched the first season of Breaking Bad. I thought it was fairly good, but I really hate the "Casual conversation suddenly ends up about the thing one of the characters is guilty of doing" cliches in there.
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Post by miketheratguy on Feb 10, 2014 19:16:57 GMT -5
Hmm, I don't remember that enough for it have been an issue to me. Can you give me a specific example?
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Post by SoonDragon67 on Feb 10, 2014 19:18:35 GMT -5
Hmm, I don't remember that enough for it have been an issue to me. Can you give me a specific example? The scene where Hank and Walter are smoking the Cuban cigars for one. |
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Post by miketheratguy on Feb 10, 2014 19:25:19 GMT -5
Ah, gotcha. Yeah I suppose the show is guilty of that sometimes- someone will be having a conversation or talking directly to someone about an act that this other person is himself responsible for without even realizing it. I guess it's just a writing choice that's meant to add some tension to the scene and make things more interesting to the viewer. I don't know if it's just that I wasn't bothered by it or that it doesn't happen all that much throughout further seasons (I think both, really) but until you described it I hadn't really noticed the phenomenon. If anything I actually found the dialogue of the show to be quite good, especially when things get more complicated and certain new characters are introduced.
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Post by SoonDragon67 on Feb 10, 2014 19:29:35 GMT -5
Ah, gotcha. Yeah I suppose the show is guilty of that sometimes- someone will be having a conversation or talking directly to someone about an act that this other person is himself responsible for without even realizing it. I guess it's just a writing choice that's meant to add some tension to the scene and make things more interesting to the viewer. But my problem with it is that it's done so often in movies/TV shows/cartoons. I feel like I've seen those incidents over and over again, and it really annoys me when I see it again. Other than that I really liked the first season. Also Bryan Cranston's mask is awesomely made.  |
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Post by miketheratguy on Feb 10, 2014 19:41:28 GMT -5
You should continue to give the show a chance, the near-universal consensus (and one that I agree with) seems to be that the show only continues to get better as it goes on. The last "season" (in reality a 16-episode arc that was aired in two separate halves) is about as perfect a finale as I could have hoped for. The show gets more serious, more complicated, and more gripping in further episodes.
It's possible that, being annoyed by this particular "I don't know that I'm describing you" brand of ignorance might have made you sort of zone in on it for Breaking Bad. While it may strike you as annoying now, all I can say is that such ignorance leads to a multitude of interesting and suspenseful scenes throughout the course of the show, it's one of the many things that make it good.
Seriously, if you have some time I'd say get around to going through season 2. I'd be surprised if you weren't hooked by then, though if you weren't then maybe the show just isn't your kind of thing.
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Post by SoonDragon67 on Feb 10, 2014 19:43:59 GMT -5
You should continue to give the show a chance, the near-universal consensus (and one that I agree with) seems to be that the show only continues to get better as it goes on. The last "season" (in reality a 16-episode arc that was aired in two separate halves) is about as perfect a finale as I could have hoped for. The show gets more serious, more complicated, and more gripping in further episodes. It's possible that, being annoyed by this particular "I don't know that I'm describing you" brand of ignorance might have made you sort of zone in on it for Breaking Bad. While it may strike you as annoying now, all I can say is that such ignorance leads to a multitude of interesting and suspenseful scenes throughout the course of the show, it's one of the many things that make it good. Seriously, if you have some time I'd say get around to going through season 2. I'd be surprised if you weren't hooked by then, though if you weren't then maybe the show just isn't your kind of thing. I've already had season 2 on hold at my friendly neighborhood library since Saturday. Just waiting for the person who has it now to check it back in. |
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Post by miketheratguy on Feb 10, 2014 19:51:39 GMT -5
Ah, good on you. The first season is good (I find the first three episodes to be a perfect start for the show and consider episode 3 to be the show's first masterpiece) but it was cut short and didn't end quite properly due to the writer's strike of 2008. Fortunately they didn't miss a beat and were able to get right back into the swing of things with season 2, adding several classics that always appear on "best of" lists. Important new characters are introduced, existing characters grow and gain complexity, and pivotal events begin to take place.
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Post by SoonDragon67 on Feb 10, 2014 19:53:19 GMT -5
Ah, good on you. The first season is good (I find the first three episodes to be a perfect start for the show and consider episode 3 to be the show's first masterpiece) but it was cut short and didn't end quite properly due to the writer's strike of 2008. Fortunately they didn't miss a beat and were able to get right back into the swing of things with season 2, adding several classics that always appear on "best of" lists. Important new characters are introduced, existing characters grow and gain complexity, and pivotal events begin to take place. Which one was the third one? What was the basic plot of that episode? |
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