Breaking Bad

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I actually thought the second episode was the weakest of this semi season and really enjoyed the last one.

Saying it was best in season 1 and then giving a lot of artsy meaningless reasoning sounds like a hipster who has to go against everyone else so they can show the world how superior they are.
 
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Ambiturner_sl said:
I actually thought the second episode was the weakest of this semi season and really enjoyed the last one.

Saying it was best in season 1 and then giving a lot of artsy meaningless reasoning sounds like a hipster who has to go against everyone else so they can show the world how superior they are.
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I think you have to get distance - I reckon it won't be until the whole season's out on Blu-ray till you can really tell how it fits in

Still think it feels low budget - you think they used to do a lot more location shoots, big tracking shots with cranes, shutting roads off, the underground factory ... Most this season could've been shot on an Soap opera budget - it's quite TV-play

I do think there's a problem with characters ... Jesse's getting tedious, literally ANY scene he's in now is just him being super pissed or crying about Walter. Walt's not the clear protagonist - the rest have gone totally one-dimensional ... Think where The Sopranos went with its season 6 - I think this season makes it difficult to believe Breaking Bad is in the same league
 
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admittedly jesse's tantrums got fucking old 2 seasons ago, but essentially that is his character. he either bawls like a little bitch over one thing or another or he does something colossally stupid that walt has to invariably rescue him like a damsel in distress. chalk it up to a character who was originally written to be killed off in season 1
 
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... But there's not the same tension now, is there?
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Personally, this season is one of the most tense that I have ever watched. This last episode kind of broke that tension, the gasoline derail just killed that for me. However, every episode leading up to this was just a 'what the hell will happen next' experience.
 
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You seem to be expecting it to follow some sort of formula. You're basing your dissatisfaction on this season on the fact that it's not like other shows you're used to.

It seemed like the operation was getting bigger every season. First it was just Walt/Jesse, then grew with Tuco as distributor, then Gus and a large part of the US, then the Mexican drug cartel, now it's his family?

That's exactly what most of us love about it. It doesn't do what every other show has done and nobody has a clue what is going to happen next. It's all very well done and makes sense, unlike Lost which had a similar following but was just random shit pulled out of someone's ass on an episode to episode basis.

The main characters are also far from 1 dimensional. There haven't been clear cut "good guys" since the first season. Walt, Jesse, Hank, Mike, hell even Gus and Hector had me rooting for them at some point.
 
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Ubiquitrips_sl said:
Personally, this season is one of the most tense that I have ever watched. This last episode kind of broke that tension, the gasoline derail just killed that for me. However, every episode leading up to this was just a 'what the hell will happen next' experience.
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Yep. I knew that Tuco and Gus would go down without the main characters dying but this season could wrap up with literally all the main characters in dead or in jail or all the main characters riding off into the sunset.
 
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Nobody liked the last episode because it blue balled us. Breaking Bad has been the show that always delivers. It does not play the games that other shows do, of over promising and under delivering.

Last episode we had Jesse ready to burn Walt's house down... didn't happen. Then we had Walt and Jesse ready to have a face to face showdown... didn't happen. For an audience watching a week to week show, you cannot fuck with them like that and expect them to sing your praises. The 1 hour episode was just a big buzz-kill.

Shame on them, but I would advice patience. The storm is coming
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It wasnt blue balls. It set quite a few events in motion. This coming sunday's episode will probably make everyone forget last sunday's "boring" episodr
 
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penalty_sl said:
Personally I'm having a hard time really getting into this season. I thought it lost direction and became almost episodic, like Burn Notice or something, especially with the train heist
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Gus was one of the best characters in television, there was just so much subtlety and unspoken backstory that makes anyone who loves mob stories a huge fan of his. Motherfucker spent 20 years planning his revenge and executed the goddamn entire top chain of a mexican cartel, shit doesn't get more epic than that except in a Rambo movie. Carlos Esposito was robbed of his Emmy, but it seems to have bolstered his career a lot).

So yeah, after that its been a slow burn. Walt sucks compared to Gus, he is a terrible mobster but thats kind of the point. The show isn't about crime so much now, its about what happens to the core cast and how much Walt is going to fuck things up. Will anyone find redemption, or are they all falling into the moral abyss...

and will Walt Jr ever eat a good breakfast
 
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Yep. I knew that Tuco and Gus would go down without the main characters dying but this season could wrap up with literally all the main characters in dead or in jail or all the main characters riding off into the sunset.
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Yeah, in previous seasons when someone like Jesse or Hank were in peril, I knew they'd pull through since they're major characters. Now? Anyone is fair game due to the show ending. If the scene with Jesse meeting Walt out in the desert aired a couple seasons ago, it would've been nowhere near as tense as it was this season, because I could see Walt taking Jesse out at that point, something I didn't really see as a possibility prior to this season.
 
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Penalty is objectively wrong/dumb

However the last eoisode WAS kind of a let down and massive blue balling. A large portion of it seemed like time killing, like the hotel pool scene
 
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Dabamf_sl said:
Penalty is objectively wrong/dumb

However the last eoisode WAS kind of a let down and massive blue balling. A large portion of it seemed like time killing, like the hotel pool scene
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I do agree. I hope they have enough room to tie up all the lose ends in the series instead of leaving it to the viewer's imagination.
 
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