Breaking Bad

[Trembling Eagle]

What don't you like about Tarantino Mike?

His work is derivative and immature.

Does it not matter to you he's doing that on purpose?

[B_Buster]

What don't you like about Tarantino Mike?

His work is derivative and immature.

Does it not matter to you he's doing that on purpose?

I know he's doing it on purpose. He has to ape other directors because he has no original ideas. And he has no original ideas because he never became a grown up.

[dave from knoxville]

And whatever the virtues of Badfinger or "Baby Blue," I just thought that was a plain bad choice that didn't work at all, the first time I can remember thinking that about one of their musical selections.

I was so stoked when Baby Blue came on. The first line of the song is "I guess I got what I deserved" and plays as Walt lovingly stares at the chemistry equipment. It was perfect!

I agree, but I am a sumb Southern rube, so you might need more backup.

[dave from knoxville]

Badfinger got a big bump-up in the public consciousness.

See, for those who are saying that song worked well in that place, I suspect this is really what it's about.

MIND READER AMONG US QUIT THINKING FOR GOD'S SAKE

[iAmBaronVonTito]

Badfinger got a big bump-up in the public consciousness.

See, for those who are saying that song worked well in that place, I suspect this is really what it's about.

MIND READER AMONG US QUIT THINKING FOR GOD'S SAKE

I tried to give this a thumbs up.  I spend too much time on Facebook.

[Shaggy 2 Grote]

Give The Adventures of Augie March a shot. It's amazing. Herzog was tough for me at first. I had a couple of false starts before I could get into it, but when I did I really enjoyed it. Humboldt's Gift is the other masterpiece.

I will!  I have an unread copy lying around somewhere.

[Big Plastic Head]

[iAmBaronVonTito]

fantastic.  i would like to make this one of those animated wallpapers on my phone.  i'm not someone who likes those kind of things, but this has converted me.

[cavorting with nudists]

Here's a little read designed to give Mike apoplexy:

...I suspect on some level this is part of the point of the The Realism Canard. That art in its size and complexity is too much to handle sometimes, and too troubling. That even though we say fiction's job is to take us out of ourselves, we don't really want to be pushed. So we must take it down a peg, to a point where it is beneath us and thus can be put in its place. And the easiest way to do this is to cross check it against "real life" and find it lacking.

Take this piece about Breaking Bad in The New Inquiry. It has some interesting points to make about the show's racial politics, but before it can get there it, it must shrink the show to manageable size by trying to come up with ways that its depiction of the drug trade isn't "realistic," landing on the show's overemphasis on the purity of Walter's meth.  Set aside that the author's critique of the show's purity emphasis on realism grounds is wrong (purity matters because Walt is a wholesaler and the purer his product is the more that it can be stepped on by the people he sells it to), and set aside that the purity matters for character reasons (no one has ever been able to do what Walt figures out). The accuracy question with regard to Breaking Bad is a complete sideshow. Breaking Bad is not a work of realism. Its aesthetic and language is highly stylized, and its plotting is all clockwork determinism, as anyone who has watched the second season can attest. It's not trying to exist in our world. It's trying to exist in its world. You might as well criticize it for having a sky that's yellower than ours.

http://parabasis.typepad.com/blog/2013/10/the-realism-canard.html

[Joe Rogaine]

What is that gif supposed to be?

[dave from knoxville]

What is that gif supposed to be?

I would also like to know. I see the heads, but who are they? Is this from the show? You know how to make me feel dummm

[cavorting with nudists]

Spoiler Alert! Do not read if you haven't seen the finale!:

The answer to that question is kind of a spoiler, if you haven't seen the finale.

[Bryan]

I have seen the finale, but still am not sure what exactly is happening in that gif.

As promised earlier in the thread, here is the complete interview of Vince Gilligan by Charlie Brooker at this year's Edinburgh Television Festival. I haven't watched yet, but as a superfan of both guys, I'm very excited about it:

GEITF 2013 - Breaking Bad: The Network & GEITF Joint Session Masterclass

[Big Plastic Head]

It is from the final episode. If you have seen the episode and do not know the moment that it is from, you missed it. Don't know what to say.

That gif doesn't really spoil anything. If it did, I wouldn't have posted it.

[cavorting with nudists]

Well, if you haven't seen the finale--and I assumed anyone who didn't recognize the image hadn't--it is kind of a spoiler to know that (Spoiler Alert!) those are dying Nazis who got shot in their Nazi asses.