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re: Doing a breaking bad rewatch, still incredible
Posted on 5/28/25 at 12:40 am to jlovel7
Posted on 5/28/25 at 12:40 am to jlovel7
Walt's situation is a little far fetched but not too outlandish.
His intelligence was trumped by the circumstances he fell into and his attitude about them. Huge bitch of a wife, a disabled son, etc.
Walt is a beaten down, defeated man at the start of the show. Improving his station in life isn't even on his radar. He's just surrendered to it. That's a big part of what makes him turning his attitude around interesting.
His intelligence was trumped by the circumstances he fell into and his attitude about them. Huge bitch of a wife, a disabled son, etc.
Walt is a beaten down, defeated man at the start of the show. Improving his station in life isn't even on his radar. He's just surrendered to it. That's a big part of what makes him turning his attitude around interesting.
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Posted on 5/28/25 at 12:46 am to WG_Dawg
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she lets him do anal
Did I miss this part somehow?
Posted on 5/28/25 at 3:50 am to FLTech
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I was rolling along with this series until the episode where they were in the lab and the entire episode was about him trying to catch a fly or some dumb shite like that. After that annoying arse episode, I turned it off
That whole episode..
Posted on 5/28/25 at 7:42 am to jlovel7
Obviously Skyler had to stay at home to perfect her Marilyn Monroe act
Posted on 5/28/25 at 10:02 am to LSU Wayne
Did you see her in an episode of the original Law and Order? She plays a complete nut job wearing crazy clothes. It was hard to not see Skylar but I would have to say I would hit that. But just a one time hit it and quit it cause that bitch be crazy.
Posted on 5/28/25 at 10:07 am to Xignals
She was also on Seinfeld.
Posted on 5/28/25 at 10:10 am to jlovel7
Typical woman beats her husband down so much he truly doesn’t care anymore. Never realizing how much he wants to suck start a shotgun every morning than live another day in the pure misery and humdrum that his life has become. I may need to see someone……
Posted on 5/28/25 at 10:15 am to wartiger2004
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Typical woman beats her husband down so much he truly doesn’t care anymore. Never realizing how much he wants to suck start a shotgun every morning than live another day in the pure misery and humdrum that his life has become. I may need to see someone……
agreed, but - devil's advocate - his depression and lack of give a shite in life made him something of a pathetic shell of a man and she, like most women, needed an actual man to be her husband and father to her children.
i've rewatched this series a couple times and on each rewatch i find Walt less of an anti-hero and more of just a piece of shite and i find Skyler more of a sympathetic character.
she's still annoying as frick though.
Posted on 5/28/25 at 10:24 am to jlovel7
Every re watch I do, I like Hank and Jesse more and hate everyone else on the show more.
My first watch, was the opposite. I hated Jesse and Hank and was rooting for Walt.
My first watch, was the opposite. I hated Jesse and Hank and was rooting for Walt.
Posted on 5/28/25 at 10:26 am to jlovel7
It's an interesting show to rewatch. On your first go-through you don't know what's going to happen, of course, so you keep waiting to see if Walt is going to finally do something to redeem himself from the road he is going down. You notice the good side of him (what there is, anyway) more because you keep expecting that side to win out in the end. On a rewatch, you know going into it that Walt is an evil, despicable person who has very few redeeming qualities so you notice that side of him a lot more, especially in the early episodes. It turns the show from "watching an overall pretty good guy slowly turn to darkness because life keeps dealing him a shite hand" to "watching a soulless, depraved monster slowly drop the facade he has been keeping up his whole life and finally let his true self out."
Posted on 5/28/25 at 10:41 am to jlovel7
His hubris was always there and his bad decision making too....but as has been said, he had given up in the beginning of the show and accepted his fate. Skylar was not the worst person at all, she was a normal wife that supported her family and husband as best as she could. When Walt got the cancer diagnosis, he hid tons of stuff from her. She was all in to help him but he decided to go it alone and do what he did. Her eventual cheating and wanting him to leave was due to lying constantly to her (and again, I don't like Skylar but you cant really fault her for being angry). She also had to deal with the realization that her husband is now a drug producer that opposes Hank and she has to support him and keep the secrets vs. outing him when he is dying,etc. I've changed my opinion on her over time. She basically supported him and tried to protect him for the most part after she came around and knew the truth.
Posted on 5/28/25 at 10:41 am to TheTideMustRoll
quote:which the last couple of episodes made clear was always the case
watching a soulless, depraved monster slowly drop the facade he has been keeping up his whole life and finally let his true self out
Posted on 5/28/25 at 11:02 am to TheTideMustRoll
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It's an interesting show to rewatch. On your first go-through you don't know what's going to happen, of course, so you keep waiting to see if Walt is going to finally do something to redeem himself from the road he is going down. You notice the good side of him (what there is, anyway) more because you keep expecting that side to win out in the end. On a rewatch, you know going into it that Walt is an evil, despicable person who has very few redeeming qualities so you notice that side of him a lot more, especially in the early episodes. It turns the show from "watching an overall pretty good guy slowly turn to darkness because life keeps dealing him a shite hand" to "watching a soulless, depraved monster slowly drop the facade he has been keeping up his whole life and finally let his true self out."
Billy Shakespeare couldnt have said it better
Posted on 5/28/25 at 11:11 am to TheTideMustRoll
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It's an interesting show to rewatch. On your first go-through you don't know what's going to happen, of course, so you keep waiting to see if Walt is going to finally do something to redeem himself from the road he is going down. You notice the good side of him (what there is, anyway) more because you keep expecting that side to win out in the end. On a rewatch, you know going into it that Walt is an evil, despicable person who has very few redeeming qualities so you notice that side of him a lot more, especially in the early episodes. It turns the show from "watching an overall pretty good guy slowly turn to darkness because life keeps dealing him a shite hand" to "watching a soulless, depraved monster slowly drop the facade he has been keeping up his whole life and finally let his true self out."
Agree 100%. I especially noticed this in his early interactions with Jessie. First watch I thought Jessie was useless and a bad character. But on rewatch you realize Walter hardly gave him a chance even from the beginning when he was the most out of his element.
Posted on 5/28/25 at 11:36 am to Crow Pie
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She is insensitive, selfish and self-absorbed. She is a terrible mother, wife, sibling and friend. Other than that she is a great.
Are we comparing her character to Walter?
She was a better person and parent than Walter was by far.
This post was edited on 5/28/25 at 11:37 am
Posted on 4/4/26 at 7:10 am to jlovel7
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This show delivers on every rewatch. AMC really captured lightning in a bottle with this show.
However I want to break down something that has always bugged me. Even though Walter gave up his share in grey matter and missed out on Billions, the idea that he’s a struggling teacher who can barely keep the lights on makes no sense.
He contributed significant to research that won a Nobel prize and helped found a billion dollar company. I can understand not reaching a similar level of success but his only option is teaching High school chemist? And does Skylar even work? I know she eventually goes back to book keeping for Ted Bennecke but is she really just a stay at home mom before then? Family is struggling to pay the bills and she’s just a dead beat? Especially considering at the opening she’s barely pregnant and their oldest is in high school. Plenty old enough where mom doesn’t have to be home all day.
Unless Walter is so depressed that he basically undermines himself and his potential, how does some pharmaceutical company at minimum not scoop this guy up? Or any company needing an elite chemist. It’s not like it’s a secret he’s a brilliant chemist and only discovers this by making meth.
Again, awesome show. And I get that having him be in the position he’s in at the start is what driving so much of the show. But it sort of doesn’t make sense how he got there unless I’m missing something.
And they even mention poor health insurance. Don’t teachers as government employees generally have good health insurance relative to most private employees?
My wife and I are on our first watch. I'd always heard how great Breaking Bad is, but could never find it on the streaming services that I have until now (Netflix).
We are in the middle of season 4 right now.
First of, I have to say I don't consider it to be "great". Its OK. I'm not sorry that we've spent the time watching it. But it doesn't approach the greatness of The Wire, Sopranos, Ray Donovan, etc.
I really enjoyed S1. It was goofy and I found myself laughing a lot. But where we are now, it is dark and depressing.
And I really don't like Walt, Jesse, or even Skyler, any longer.
The best characters at this point are Saul, Hank, Marie and Mike.
Any one else agree?
Posted on 4/4/26 at 7:16 am to FLTech
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I was rolling along with this series until the episode where they were in the lab and the entire episode was about him trying to catch a fly or some dumb shite like that. After that annoying arse episode, I turned it off
Agreed. That episode was ridiculous.
I asked my wife - are we supposed to believe that the whole time they were cooking in the desert in an RV, no insects ever got inside the RV?
Posted on 4/4/26 at 7:18 am to LanierSpots
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Meh. I didnt hate Skylar overall.. I did hate Marie and want her to die a slow painful death
I am oddly attracted to Marie. She's not "hot", but is somehow "sexy" to me.
Posted on 4/4/26 at 7:23 am to jlovel7
I’m Classical and you’re Jazz.
Posted on 4/4/26 at 7:25 am to LSUbacchus81
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I thought you were smarter than that.
FLTech? Why would you ever think that?
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