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Re: Breaking Bad
« Reply #180 on: July 23, 2012, 08:43:28 AM »
Went on an instant queue marathon of this show this weekend, so I'm caught up through season 4. If the crime show realism spectrum goes from Sons of Anarchy as a low to The Wire as a high, I'd put Breaking Bad pretty close to the middle. It's definitely entertaining. Since X-Files is on instant also, here is a link to Gilligan's X-Files work, which, as far as X-Files goes, has aged pretty well.

http://x-files.wikia.com/wiki/Vince_Gilligan

I believe that's a fair assessment. There's obviously some suspension of disbelief required in order to really enjoy the show. If the show were truly realistic, Walter probably would have been caught midway through season 2.
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Re: Breaking Bad
« Reply #181 on: July 29, 2012, 07:55:20 PM »
Surprised by Mike's critique. It has its moments of weakness and/or excess, but BB is a show unto itself.
Have really enjoyed this season so far. Last year started slowly and frustratingly, but this one has been set up beautifully. Come on Jesse/Hank/Mike...

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Re: Breaking Bad
« Reply #182 on: July 29, 2012, 11:14:10 PM »
So this happened tonight


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Re: Breaking Bad
« Reply #183 on: July 30, 2012, 08:26:30 AM »
To say nothing for the visit to Consolidated Cardboard.

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Re: Breaking Bad
« Reply #184 on: July 30, 2012, 07:18:00 PM »
I wanted to see a conversation between Walt and Brock on that couch.

  WALT
What game are you playing?

  BROCK
  (smug)
You wouldn't like it.

  WALT
Why not?

  BROCK
  (super smug)
Oh, it's just this game where you don't poison any children.

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Re: Breaking Bad
« Reply #185 on: July 31, 2012, 12:10:00 AM »
Am I the only one who suspects the much-prolonged reveal of how Walt poisoned Brock is going to be totally preposterous? Of course, in the show's world, it will be presented as more evidence of Walt's criminal genius.
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Re: Breaking Bad
« Reply #186 on: July 31, 2012, 01:04:10 AM »
I am officially making a break (no pun intended) with Mike on Breaking Bad. I still believe it's junky/pulpy, but I refuse to question its logic anymore. I have fun watching it and that's enough for me in these troubled times.

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Re: Breaking Bad
« Reply #187 on: July 31, 2012, 07:48:29 AM »
Yeah, I was kind of assuming at this point that the poisoning plot was not going to be explained in any detail.

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Re: Breaking Bad
« Reply #188 on: July 31, 2012, 03:40:01 PM »
I would be shocked at this point if we get anything more than the clumsy "Huell really did have magic pickpocket powers" handwave and Walt staring down Brock re: explaining that ludicrous plan, if only because they seem to have a year of time to cover over the next 13 episodes.

I encourage people to look back around pages 7-9 of this thread, where we tried to come to terms with how that plot didn't work and embracing the pulp/comic book nature of the show. In the latter context, Mike sniffing out the ambush last week doesn't annoy me as much as some of Gus' supervillain powers last year, since the show just wants us to accept him as The Punisher, and I can live with that.

Especially if it allows for scenes like the Mike/Hank/Gomez interrogation scene from Episode 2. I think they're starting off a little too slowly again (like they did last year, which felt like it caused problems on the back end of the season), but that was a pretty great scene, and I remain impressed how Hank has turned into the one decent and competent character considering how he was when introduced. The only way this show could really drop the ball now is if they somehow don't give us the scene with Hank and Walt after Hank figures things out/has Walt's story revealed to him, however short that scene might be.
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Re: Breaking Bad
« Reply #189 on: July 31, 2012, 04:11:32 PM »
Who is enjoying Breaking Bad less than they enjoyed The Wire?

I stopped watching the Wire in the middle of the fourth season because it just felt like work. Nothing awesome ever happened. It felt... real-ish.

Breaking Bad is what happens when things like The Wire are actually entertaining.

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Re: Breaking Bad
« Reply #190 on: July 31, 2012, 05:47:32 PM »
Another thing for fans of logic in their dramas: Am I the only one who doesn't find Mike intimidating? How old is he anyway? He looks like a regular at Massa's, for Christ's sake!
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Re: Breaking Bad
« Reply #191 on: July 31, 2012, 06:28:20 PM »
I'll be curious to see what they do with Skyler's character. Will she be overcome with so much guilt that she cracks and rats Walt out to the authorities? Or will Walt eliminate her before she has the opportunity to do so? And given Walt's capacity for evil, I don't think such a scenario is implausible. After all, this is a man who poisoned a child, did absolutely nothing to help a young woman dying right before his eyes and blew up a nursing home. Regardless, I can't see this tenuous arrangement between the two of them continuing.
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Re: Breaking Bad
« Reply #192 on: July 31, 2012, 07:45:51 PM »
Another thing for fans of logic in their dramas: Am I the only one who doesn't find Mike intimidating? How old is he anyway? He looks like a regular at Massa's, for Christ's sake!

At what point does watching stuff that makes you mad become self-loathing?

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Re: Breaking Bad
« Reply #193 on: July 31, 2012, 08:05:11 PM »
Another thing for fans of logic in their dramas: Am I the only one who doesn't find Mike intimidating? How old is he anyway? He looks like a regular at Massa's, for Christ's sake!

I dunno. Some of the regulars at Massa's are pretty terrifying. Joe Puppy the Cleaner would scare the shit out of me.

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Re: Breaking Bad
« Reply #194 on: August 01, 2012, 12:02:32 AM »
I'll be curious to see what they do with Skyler's character. Will she be overcome with so much guilt that she cracks and rats Walt out to the authorities? Or will Walt eliminate her before she has the opportunity to do so? And given Walt's capacity for evil, I don't think such a scenario is implausible. After all, this is a man who poisoned a child, did absolutely nothing to help a young woman dying right before his eyes and blew up a nursing home. Regardless, I can't see this tenuous arrangement between the two of them continuing.

Marie is going to tip Hank to the Beneke affair and that's where it's going to all unravel. Right? Right??