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Television Breaking Bad

-enigmaticfreak: Could you explain what would make someone take on the life decision of living under a bridge. Also, why didn't you choose to forage for food instead of threatening to eat passing goats?


-3,4: not a clue.
 
I can give them away if people want me to. I'm not sure if somebody who knows is going to come on and make me regret giving them away, there still might be someone out there who knows and hasn't visited F&T for a while, but at the same time I don't want to ruin the game with a question that only somebody who watched the first three seasons five or six times would know (I'm obsessed, best show ever).

I have an easier Breaking Bad Trivia question to pass the torch with. It would only be the least bit tricky because it is the off-season, but midseason this question would be a breeze.
 
It's Leonal and Marco, the names of Tuco's cousins.


I'll pass the torch with a ridiculously easy question: What is the name of Walt's infant daughter?
 
Shimmer.Fade said:
Just finished with the 4th season. Pretty awesome stuff, right up there with the HBO/Showtime crowd, perhaps even better than some.
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Yah. And the rub is that HBO/SHO were both too stupid to pick up this show after Vince Gilligan pitched it to them first. What I love most about VG is that he doesn't try to preach or make ridiculous assumptions about meth users based on popular, alarmist, and media perpetuated stereotypes. Despite Jesse veering between the spectral extremes of meth head to sober yet troubled AA'er, VG doesn't try push nonsense. Jesse generally maintains his moral compass whether high or sober. It's his always sober mentor Walter White who is transforming into Scarfarce.

For instance, I read an interview with the executive producer of Sons of Anarchy, a show I don't watch but know it is about a biker gang. He's highly critical of VG because he feels BB glorifies meth use. I find that description preposterous. He also feels that meth is such a dirty, dangerous, and destructive drug that he rarely introduces it as a plot device in his show because when it's introduced it's destructive properties end necessitate making the characters that use it totally unlikable (or else, in his view it "glorifies" use) which is then counterproductive to the show. All I could think is what a tool. How could he credibly portray a biker gang modeled after the Hell's Angels that doesn't have some segment of it involved in meth use and trade?

It made me wonder about VG and how he nailed Jesse and his burnout friends so accurately not being a user himself? Did he immerse himself in this culture somehow as a way to learn and write about it credibly? I have no doubt that Aaron Paul HAD to have dabbled (not sure whether strictly as a method actor in pursuit of research for the show, or as a party kid in LA) to have so nailed his consummate wiggerisms. Also wondered what Paul's smoking those times they actually show him smoking glass. 8) Anyone who has even seen the movie Salton Sea would have a hard time disputing the cultural authenticity or the substances shown used by those immersed in the "culture" of that show. Not necessarily the stars but the drugs used in the party scene shots were unquestionably real.
 
FWIW Sons of Anarchy does deal with meth to a degree. They are adamantly against selling it (though some in the group think they should) but all the other motorcycle gangs surrounding them are involved in the trade. Plus a character or two gets themselves in hot water with using it... So yeah, they pretty much paint meth as entirely disgusting and dark but it is used as a tool through the show. That said, I think SoA's creator saying that about BB is kinda lame.
 
Damn, that is fucking lame by the Sons of Anarchy producer.


Some people aren't happy unless they see the worst, most implausible drug scenarios in television. Everything has to be propaganda to them. As if Jesse hasn't had it hard enough, lol. And oh, Badger and Skinny Pete shouldn't have gotten clean, because we all know that never happens 8(

BB is one of the most accurate pictures of drug use I have ever seen. Hardly any of the hard drug users look like hard drug users, and that's the way it is (some look the part most don't), especially for people in their 20's.

Pretty fucking lame for a guy who makes a show that does actually glorify murder and gun running. I suppose doing meth is worse than killing people, however. At least my TV wants me to believe that.
 
This show is pragmatic. It doesn't preach, its just great entertainment, great acting, great character buildup, just one of the best shows to ever hit the air waves. This show rocks! I hate meth too!
 
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