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Television Breaking Bad

PepperSocks said:
However there is a smidge of truth in Gale's words. As purity goes higher, it gets exponentially harder to get higher than that. For example it's easy to jump 30% from 60% to 90%, but it takes a lot more work to go 3% from 96% to 99%. The principles are the same, the number of purification steps increases and gets more labourous but intellectually it's no harder, it's just having to repeat things more and more.
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That's not really the case -- getting pure product isn't that laborious. You can just do preparative HPLC or some other type of chromatography to get ultra-pure product, its really not that bad -- you set up the instrument (or an array of instruments) to run around the clock, that's what they do in industry.
 
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Anyone notice Brian Cranston in the last episode at Jesse's party?

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Yeah I thought it was him, then I thought why would they do that? lol.

I'm getting a bit bored of watching Jessie live out his problems... he's so torn up inside and dark, I get the point. Now can the plot actually progress? I don't watch this show because it is a fast easy dose of television, but they are taking the piss a little bit. The old series were slow because they were progressing like 10 interlinking stories at a time, giving you a few minutes of each one per episode, but this has maybe 2 or 3 underlying issues and it's still just as slow.
 
I really really really don't care about Hank and Marie. I enthusiastically, emphatically, zealously don't care about Hank and Marie.

As a comparison, how much did The Flinstones develop the characters of Barney and Betty Rubble?
 
^^^Lol......so true. Hank and Marie can suck it! It's just that the writers don't know what else to do with him. And I'm so fraking sick of Maries purple clothes and their purple house, etc.:X And Jessie needs to stop acting like a little bitch. So he killed a guy --- get over it already! And why the fuck is he trashing his own crib like that? I just wanna bitch-slap him, and Walt too. I would have bashed that camera right off the wall. What the F are they gonna do about it? They need to hit Gus hard and fast, like buy an RPG on the black market and just blow his ass tio bits. But they won't, as Gus is going to be in every episode of the season from here out.
 
Marie and Skyler are about to Break Bad, I think. The only uncorrupted person will be Hank. Hank is a rock.
 
Even I have to agree that this was the slowest, most uninteresting episode of Breaking Bad thus far. As others have said, I don't give a shit about Hank and Marie.

However, Hank is already blackmailed, and when he figures out that Walt is Heisenberg, he will have no choice but to be Walt's man inside. He knows that there is no way the court will believe that Marie bought into that gambling bullshit. He has already taken dirty money, and turning Heisenberg in means turning himself in.

Hank is probably the scummiest character on the show, well, maybe next to Tuco. Maybe I just hate DEA that much :D
 
Jesse is annoying me more and more, he looks so fucking miserable all the time, even when he went go karting. why the fuck would you go go-karting and be looking like your mums just been raped the whole time. The party scenes are stupid aswell. Jesse's character has been annoying me a bit since season 2 though tbh.
 
I'm echoing everyone here. Marie stealing stuff and acting like a moron was completely pointless. I thought I liked her during the "if you come you have to leave the hospital" scene. She had spunk (...) and a good attitude, but then their relationship just degenerates into this ridiculous mess that's just like a trainwreck entertainment-wise.
She ruined an already boring episode.
 
CoffeeDrinker said:
I'm echoing everyone here. Marie stealing stuff and acting like a moron was completely pointless. I thought I liked her during the "if you come you have to leave the hospital" scene. She had spunk (...) and a good attitude, but then their relationship just degenerates into this ridiculous mess that's just like a trainwreck entertainment-wise.
She ruined an already boring episode.
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I'm going to set the argument that this particular episode sucked so much because they brought in a big name director, instead of sticking to the guys they knew. David Slade (Hard Candy, 30 Days of Night, one of the shitty Twilight films) was the director of this episode, and being a big name, he probably changed a bunch of shit around. I wouldn't say that the actions themselves were pointless, but the way everything was shot and the way the dialogue went down for most of it was pretty awful, especially when you consider that every episode up to this one has been outstanding, especially in those two areas.

Never bring in new guys to an already existing (and top of the line) product. Hopefully, this is just one shitty episode out of the series, and we will continue along just fine after this week, forgetting that this turd called "Open House" ever happened. I thought the first two episodes of the season were as great as the rest of the show, in fact, Box Cutter became one of my absolute favorites, while 38 Snub was one of the best of the series as well. So I'm thinking it isn't a decline in the show, but a clusterfuck due to the bringing in of an egotistical, up and coming Hollywood director. I'm sure the 8 days they took filming that episode were hell, and they all knew what a pile of shit it would be.

That said, it is hard to fuck up a scene with Jesse in my book. I thought he did a really good job in the little time he had, and his moments on screen were the only ones I was entertained, besides the very beginning where Walt discovers the camera. Even Saul wasn't as funny as usual in this episode, and Odenkirk can turn almost anything funny. He must have known it was going to be a shit week and phoned it in.

I feel bad for Betsey Brandt, the actress who plays Marie. This was probably her feature episode of the season, if not the entire series, and while she did a great job acting wise, she got stuck with a shit gig.

Anyways, just so we all remain optimistic here, I let in my 2 cents.

And L2R can go fuck himself with all that "if they showed Skyler taking a shit for 45 minutes, Breaking Bad fans would call it genius" noise, because every single one of us "super fans" has called out this particular episode as shit ;)
 
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Eww...I don't like the idea of them bringing on the director of anything twilight...what the hell were they thinking? That's a terrible omen, IMO, who was the person in charge of doing that? And is that just a one-off, or is he a "part" of the whole crew now? It's terrible because, if poor judgement is being shown this early in season 4 that's not a good outlook.
I agree with the fact that Betsey Brandt is a good actor who got stuck in a shit role, she's sooo good at grating on my nerves, but that reputation is only very recent, I never had much of a problem with her before.
 
CoffeeDrinker said:
Eww...I don't like the idea of them bringing on the director of anything twilight...what the hell were they thinking? That's a terrible omen, IMO, who was the person in charge of doing that? And is that just a one-off, or is he a "part" of the whole crew now? It's terrible because, if poor judgement is being shown this early in season 4 that's not a good outlook.
I agree with the fact that Betsey Brandt is a good actor who got stuck in a shit role, she's sooo good at grating on my nerves, but that reputation is only very recent, I never had much of a problem with her before.
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It was just one episode, he is not a part of the regular cast. Thank god. Neither are any other big name directors from anything I've heard. They were hyping David Slade up sometime in the offseason, and then they went quiet on his episode for the rest of it. It really makes you wonder....

Anyways, I believe they picked him up due to his ability to shoot disturbing scenes, as he did in Hard Candy. How the fuck this guy went from Hard Candy to the Twilight series I will never know.

Hopefully we go back to the Breaking Bad we all know and love tomorrow night. I hope this is only one small hitch in an otherwise perfect series.
 
Big fan of the show. Love the early walt scenes almost reminiscent of the Malcolm in the Middle days in the earlier series scenes with him just getting into meth was that kinda flippant/panicky family man comedy was trippy. That's not a swipe at his outstanding performance just pretty funny
 
marie always comes off as a stuck up cunt , the crazy doesn't help her case at all. They need to stick her in the middle of a crossfire and just take her out fast.
 
To be fair to Marie, her character has always had issues. She was seeing a counselor for her kleptomania in the first season, so it doesn't really surprise me to see her problems manifest to a greater degree now that her husband, once an unshakable rock, is now a broken, depressed, self-loathing wreck. Some pretty traumatic shit went on in their household, I would call bullshit if either of them just shrugged it off and went back to normal.
 
I like Marie, and her scenes were OK.


I think it is a bit of a shock to the system for some people, as she was almost entirely phased out as an ancillary character in season 3, with the exception of I See You.

She is more crucial to the show then ever before at this point, as she has accepted Walt's drug money (under the bullshit gambling story) to pay for Hank's medical treatment, which puts Hank into a nice neat little corner when he discovers that this Heisenberg character he is looking for is paying his medical bills, and to turn Walt in would be to turn himself and his entire family in. Walt inadvertently blackmailing his biggest enemy in the DEA is one of the most hilarious aspects of this show.

I think Hank finds out tonight, for the record.
 
That was a pretty sweet episode.

The beginning with Walt and Skyler was pretty funny, which was followed by a pretty tense dinner with Hank and Marie. Walt must have felt so awkward when Hank put that tape of Gail on, and when he mentioned the name "Heisenberg".

All the stuff with Jesse is pretty intense. Kind of annoying since you want to shake some sense into him, but he doesn't seem to be in touch with reality at this point. Almost seems like they might kill him off, though that would be surprising since he's a main character. Did sort of think he was going to get killed tonight.
 
I have a question about this show nobody has ever brought up.

How the hell did they assemble the superlab for the show? I mean where is that set, did they actually spend hundreds of thousands, maybe a million or more even, to build a fully functional gigantic meth lab? You can't fake stainless steel industrial equipment they actually have those massive vats and condensers on the set for the show. What is up with that? Are they filming inside of a seized superlab? I don't think so because that would be a health hazard most likely right?
 
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