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A Couple of Breaking Bad thoughts... *SPOILERS*
Posted on 8/13/12 at 8:04 am
Posted on 8/13/12 at 8:04 am
I watched the first 4 seasons in a little over a month on DVD. I have watched the first two epsiodes of S5 from my DVR. In saying that:
1. The quality of watching them on DVD is far greater than AMC.
2. The start of this season (5) has been iffy for me. I mean, Walt all of a sudden is some bad arse with no worries? Skyler is this scared little bitch all of a sudden?
3. Watching the end of Season 4, then the start of 5 the next night, you really notice character differences in the seasons. Now, I know people change but they could have at least left Skylers hair short considering they flashed back to the phone call at the beginning of EP1. Then she came home and looked totally different then when they left Hanks house.
4. I feel this season is going to be "rushed". It will end a year later with Walt on the run, and not many episodes to get there. I am sure they will do a great job getting us there, I just really liked the slower moments, conversations, character building, etc.
Just some things I noticed. Thoughts?
1. The quality of watching them on DVD is far greater than AMC.
2. The start of this season (5) has been iffy for me. I mean, Walt all of a sudden is some bad arse with no worries? Skyler is this scared little bitch all of a sudden?
3. Watching the end of Season 4, then the start of 5 the next night, you really notice character differences in the seasons. Now, I know people change but they could have at least left Skylers hair short considering they flashed back to the phone call at the beginning of EP1. Then she came home and looked totally different then when they left Hanks house.
4. I feel this season is going to be "rushed". It will end a year later with Walt on the run, and not many episodes to get there. I am sure they will do a great job getting us there, I just really liked the slower moments, conversations, character building, etc.
Just some things I noticed. Thoughts?
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Posted on 8/13/12 at 8:10 am to OnTheBrink
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Walt all of a sudden is some bad arse with no worries? Skyler is this scared little bitch all of a sudden?
All of a sudden? Everything over the first 4 seasons built that character development
Posted on 8/13/12 at 8:13 am to hehateme2285
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All of a sudden? Everything over the first 4 seasons built that character development
I guess maybe. I always kind of viewed him as scared/aprehensive a little bit.
Posted on 8/13/12 at 8:18 am to OnTheBrink
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Thoughts?
I'm pretty sure I don't agree with any of yours. Well, I did notice Skyler's hair length...
Posted on 8/13/12 at 8:25 am to OnTheBrink
Walt definitely started out as scared and apprehensive, but throughout the seasons he has gradually become more of a badass. I mean in season 4 he set off a bomb in a damn hospital. I would say by the end of season 4 that Walt has already established himself as a badass.
Posted on 8/13/12 at 8:31 am to OnTheBrink
It's been a progressive transformation for Walt. His getting away with poisoning the kid and defeating Gus was a big moment in his transformation though. When he tells Skyler, "I won".
it's been 5 seasons. Season 1, he was a family man. I think his "bad" has progressed pretty slowly as far as tv shows go.
it's been 5 seasons. Season 1, he was a family man. I think his "bad" has progressed pretty slowly as far as tv shows go.
This post was edited on 8/13/12 at 8:33 am
Posted on 8/13/12 at 9:01 am to drake20
Yeah, some things I haven't fully thought of yet. Maybe a downfall to watching it unfold so quickly.
Maybe badass was not the correct word. Maybe "the next Gus" would be more appropriate. Just seems he would be smarter than that. Then again, that makes for better tv I guess!
Maybe badass was not the correct word. Maybe "the next Gus" would be more appropriate. Just seems he would be smarter than that. Then again, that makes for better tv I guess!
Posted on 8/13/12 at 9:15 am to OnTheBrink
Well, let me put it in these terms:
You're a 50 year old average joe, middle class, making it along just barely, but you've always been a notch above everyone else in intelligence and, though you keep it hidden, ambition.
You start doing illegal activities to help your family make ends meet because you just got diagnosed with cancer. In the process, you do some pretty messed up stuff. Stuff you never thought yourself capable of doing. You blow up a room with a chemical compound in the middle of a meeting with a shot-caller in the drug business. You run over two hitmen in your car. You have your partner point blank shoot a guy in the face.
You are becoming confident, but scared at what you are truly capable of. You have made it to the big time. You are playing beneath the lights in the Yankee Stadium of the drug business. Your manager is a real a-hole, though. He wants you out. He wants to kill you. He's splitting you and your partner up, driving a wedge between you two, grooming your partner to take over your position so you become dispensable. So you devise a plan that will turn it around on your manager; get your partner back on your side and kill the guy who wants you dead so badly. You execute that plan to perfection. You have killed Zeus. You have just marched into the Underworld, kicked Hades in the balls, and snatched his chair from underneath him.
All of a sudden, you find yourself lording over the underworld. You've become a god. You start to finally see yourself as one; as someone who is a force to be reckoned with. Unstoppable even.
You go home, and your wife has learned about what you've become. She sees it now in your eyes. You are evil, despite what you tell yourself. She cowers before you. You feel as if the world is in your hand and you need only squeeze to obliterate it.
That is Walt. That is his evolution. His final descent into Hell and ascent as the next Gus Fring was dealt with in Seasons 3 and 4. So, yes, he is a badass with no worries, but it is not all of a sudden.
You're a 50 year old average joe, middle class, making it along just barely, but you've always been a notch above everyone else in intelligence and, though you keep it hidden, ambition.
You start doing illegal activities to help your family make ends meet because you just got diagnosed with cancer. In the process, you do some pretty messed up stuff. Stuff you never thought yourself capable of doing. You blow up a room with a chemical compound in the middle of a meeting with a shot-caller in the drug business. You run over two hitmen in your car. You have your partner point blank shoot a guy in the face.
You are becoming confident, but scared at what you are truly capable of. You have made it to the big time. You are playing beneath the lights in the Yankee Stadium of the drug business. Your manager is a real a-hole, though. He wants you out. He wants to kill you. He's splitting you and your partner up, driving a wedge between you two, grooming your partner to take over your position so you become dispensable. So you devise a plan that will turn it around on your manager; get your partner back on your side and kill the guy who wants you dead so badly. You execute that plan to perfection. You have killed Zeus. You have just marched into the Underworld, kicked Hades in the balls, and snatched his chair from underneath him.
All of a sudden, you find yourself lording over the underworld. You've become a god. You start to finally see yourself as one; as someone who is a force to be reckoned with. Unstoppable even.
You go home, and your wife has learned about what you've become. She sees it now in your eyes. You are evil, despite what you tell yourself. She cowers before you. You feel as if the world is in your hand and you need only squeeze to obliterate it.
That is Walt. That is his evolution. His final descent into Hell and ascent as the next Gus Fring was dealt with in Seasons 3 and 4. So, yes, he is a badass with no worries, but it is not all of a sudden.
This post was edited on 8/13/12 at 9:17 am
Posted on 8/13/12 at 9:17 am to Vinny V
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Walt definitely started out as scared and apprehensive, but throughout the seasons he has gradually become more of a badass. I mean in season 4 he set off a bomb in a damn hospital. I would say by the end of season 4 that Walt has already established himself as a badass.
People seem to forget the point of season 4. It was a game of chess between Walt and Gus. Walt had already turned the corner but 90% of what he did in the second half of the season was act a certain way to manipulate everyone around him. He may have acted scared (see Jesse gun scene) but he was in complete control the whole time. He had already become a sociopath.
At the end of season 4, the shackles came off, he had won the game, his masterpiece, and now he doesn't have to hide who he is anymore.
Posted on 8/13/12 at 9:23 am to LoveThatMoney
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LoveThatMoney
Well said!
Posted on 8/13/12 at 9:58 am to OnTheBrink
So we all know that Walt's cancer has gone into remission and that it was a big deal when he decided to continue cooking despite no longer being sick.
My question is:
What if cooking meth is the cure for cancer???
My question is:
What if cooking meth is the cure for cancer???
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