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Television Breaking Bad

^^I've noticed that, the bells and clicks and dinging is a repeated theme. I fucking loved that episode that starts out with the sound of Jesse's lo-jack bouncing and bouncing, the episode where they try to poison tuco

This is for sure one of my favorite shows at the moment.
 
Carl Landrover said:
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It's at the very end of the episode right before the credits come up. I had rewatched the episode after reading this thread and the mention of it. I'm not sure it's a gun cocking (it could be), but there is a different noise than the previous ticks on the watch.
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Yes, it is a sound of a gun cocking.
If you like you can listen to the podcast (link in my previous post), the creator and director will confirm this.
 
MrGrunge said:


After this last episode, I'm convinced I would have been happier if the show had ended after four seasons.

Walt is a stupid, oblivious cunt now.
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How so? Are you suggesting that Season 4 (with all its apocalyptic escalation and outlandish "going to Mexico" and "blowing up a nursing home" stunts) was somehow more plausible than a couple of new cars, a distraught housewife, and an unreliable third party?

Either you're dissatisfied with the relative mundanity of the content (Walt is stupid, oblivious, human, etc.) or you're upset over this season's (perceived) implausibility. It can't be both.
 
The scene of Walt at Denny's is a flash forward (not sure if people are still confused by that one), because he breaks the bacon into a 52. Last week's episode, Walter Jr. forces Skyler to break his bacon on his birthday, and the number she makes is a 51.

Like others have said, I can't stand Skyler. I never thought she added much to the show but the pity party she's throwing herself this season really has ticked me off. I'm predicting that she kills herself in one way or another. That whiney Lydia bitch is up there too.
 
queenbee1127 said:
The scene of Walt at Denny's is a flash forward (not sure if people are still confused by that one), because he breaks the bacon into a 52. Last week's episode, Walter Jr. forces Skyler to break his bacon on his birthday, and the number she makes is a 51.

Like others have said, I can't stand Skyler. I never thought she added much to the show but the pity party she's throwing herself this season really has ticked me off. I'm predicting that she kills herself in one way or another. That whiney Lydia bitch is up there too.
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I really do agree. Still, I feel really bad for Skyler because Walt fucked over her life. If he gets caught, she will get in trouble too just due to any association, but the way she deals with things just really pisses me off, the way she shows no gratefulness for some of the things good in Walter, even though this season has clearly shown an extreme moral decline in Walter.
 
most of the women on this show are harpies
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True that. Does Gilligan have some sort of covert/un-confronted issue with the fairer sex? In all fairness, the men aren't that much better, but must every woman be a Quasi-Hysterical, Hyper-Emotional Shrew Just Barely Keeping it All Together? In addition to being securely nestled within my top ten "Done to Death" Good TV Drama Cliches, Gilligan's weird preoccupation with obstinate, busybody fussbudgets is a constant, detractive undercurrent in the show.

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That said, I'm more or less at the same place that I was after the first episode re. Skylar - I'm just not certain. She's clearly a necessary character, one that provides a large bulk of the narrative tension with which the show has consistently pleased me. On the other hand, even at her most resourceful and malleable, Skylar's character is about as static as they come. Despite her recent roller-coaster of emotions and behavior, every meaningful alteration in her personality has been surface-level, as the last episode perfectly illustrated. I suppose this provides a certain meta-tension to the story, wherein Walt's radical transformation is continually challenged and (ironically) reinforced/cultivated by the obdurate, vaguely moralistic sensibilities of his shrewish wife. Another bizarre source of personal friction is the attempt to portray Skylar alternately as an Ordinary Housewife Whose Normal Life is Upended by [Someone/Something], Forcing Her to Change Not Only Her Behavior, but Also Her Worldview in a Very Big Way; the perennial (and offensive) Stubborn Shrew Who Wears the Pants; the Plucky, Assertive Woman with a Broadly Pragmatic Attitude; and the (also offensive) Hysterical Damsel in Distress. I find it somewhat outlandish that she should alternately be portrayed as all four, or some combination thereof, depending upon the individual season or episode. Clearly, this show hasn't been aiming for artistic realism since, like, Season 2, so what are they playing at with this bitch? Skylar's character simply isn't multidimensional in the usual sense - more like a mildly interesting, but nevertheless tedious agglomeration of offensive stereotypes and hackneyed TV cliches. As of Season 5, her misery appears to be the consequence of, proximately, her (ill-rewarded) shrewish preoccupations with the minutiae of her loved one's lives, her understandable shock at her husband's deviant metamorphosis, and the clash between the fundamental rigidity of her Pragmatic Fussbudget Housewife persona and the desperate reality of her circumstances. I guess I just wish that Gilligan had focused a little more on making her character genuinely likable and believable to serve as an effective dramatic counterpoint to Walt's gradual decompensation into a DSM-IV personality disorder with a chip on its shoulder.


Anyway, after trying to drum up a single redeeming paradigm case re. women in this show, I could only come with....Jesse's girls?

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queenbee1127 said:
The scene of Walt at Denny's is a flash forward (not sure if people are still confused by that one), because he breaks the bacon into a 52. Last week's episode, Walter Jr. forces Skyler to break his bacon on his birthday, and the number she makes is a 51.

Like others have said, I can't stand Skyler. I never thought she added much to the show but the pity party she's throwing herself this season really has ticked me off. I'm predicting that she kills herself in one way or another. That whiney Lydia bitch is up there too.
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You think that Walt's better half, to whom he was supposed to leave his money behind once cancer got him, being overwhelmed emotionally and feeling depressed and protective of her kids (now that she knows the full scope of Walt's badness, where she didn't before when he was simply working in a superlab) and thinks he's the biggest piece of shit imaginable isn't an important plot setting? And you have a problem with the argument the two had in the bedroom? As far as drama goes that was pretty amazing cinematography and dialogue IMO.

Since this show is geared towards the young, they might have an understanding of Walt's situation due to movies like the bucket list, and the whole concept of the Mid-life-crises. These cultural memes make Walt relate-able even if no one watching is really quite prepared to take his exact actions. Skyler, as a middle age woman who's too afraid of what would happen if they divorced, now that demographic probably isn't making themselves heard on the internet nearly as much, but I'd bet you'd find a lot of women saying they can relate with Skyler completely. She's unlike any other TV wife, stronger than most, but she's backed into a corner and is pulling what few moves she can to protect her kids "from the man who protects this family".


'medicine cabinet' said:
i wonder what will end up happening to the ricin walt decided to save and stash in the outlet in the bedroom?
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Good catch! A common thing in drama is you can't have a gun on stage if it's not going to get shot.
Now we have a multiple episode waiting period, but we were clearly shown the ricin being hidden, so the producers obviously haven't forgotten about it. You brought this ricin question up in the middle of people talking about skyler...that's interesting. All I can do is wonder as well, but it gives you something to think about.
 
What do you all think about Hank applying for head of the DEA? I think it's going to become a stand off between Walter and Hank sometime near the end of the season :)
 
Man, once the train heist came together I just knew something was going to happen to the kid from the cold open.


Todd really made things easy on Walt. Now he doesn't need to convince everybody that the kid has to go at the expense of his relationship with Jesse. He just has to kill Todd and pretend to cry for the kid. Problem solved.
 
I guess that spider is going to be of some significance, and do you think the kid is actually dead?
 
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