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post #51 of 145
Aint seen nothing yet.
post #52 of 145
Thread Starter 
So I just finished the episode before the season 3 finale.

Fuck. Me.

Someone needs to e-hold me right now and tell me things are going to be alright. Walt and Jesse cant keep having things going well for them then turn on a dime.
post #53 of 145
Enjoy the finale my friend. I think you'll love it.
post #54 of 145
He'll love it, but hate that he has to wait for season four.
post #55 of 145
This is where we start the "one of us!" chant, right? Right? It feels weird when I'm the only one doing it.
post #56 of 145
Three episodes into Season Three. I absolutely love where this show is right now.
post #57 of 145
There's just something right about a TV universe where a superbly utilized Bob Odenkirk can interact with such a smooth Jonathan Banks.
post #58 of 145
And Banks only gets better and better from there forward.

Odenkirk loses a BIT of the scene, but he's still amazing.
post #59 of 145
Every scene with Odenkirk is a delight and nearer the end of the season even his jokey weasel character starts to get some shading.

And Banks, well yeah... Banks...
post #60 of 145
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Every scene with Odenkirk is a delight and nearer the end of the season even his jokey weasel character starts to get some shading.

And Banks, well yeah... Banks...
I knew I'd love Saul when it was revealed his office was wall-papered with the constitution.
post #61 of 145
I try to say "gettin' dirty deep in the damp" everyday.

Thanks, Saul!!!
post #62 of 145
Just a thought but can we keep specific Season 3 stuff for the Season 3 thread? I would hate for someone to go too far into spoiler territory.

For purely selfish reasons of course as I'm near the end of Season 2 now. Just finished the episode where Walt and Jesse are stuck in the Desert. I love the show, but I've had the last few episodes to watch for a while and I'm getting that grim feeling I got during 'The Shield'. I know it's going to be tense and I know it's going to be hard to watch. But hey, it's a Saturday so I might as well burn through them now and head on to Season 3.

I'm with Sam on Skylar though, I don't like her at all so far and that's a shame because we should feel sorry for her. If it's the only criticism I can throw at the show *So far*, it's that they've made a mis-step with her character in that regard. Like the Wife in 'Glee' (Not that I'm comparing the shows), it's hard to see why Walt would ever be with her in the first place.

Oh and the Hank/Walt webisode from a while back was fantastic. A nice bit of comedy for the characters.
post #63 of 145
Thread Starter 
Finished Season 3.

Holy moly.

That's all I can say.
post #64 of 145
Skyler's not my favorite character in the show, but I'm fine with the way she's written, and I definitely understand the chemistry between her and Walt (particularly after the vignette in season 3's finale).

Between her, Betty Draper and Carmela Soprano, I'm beginning to wonder if wives of morally ambiguous television antiheroes are destined to be poorly-received.

Also...am I the only person who finds her to be a premium quality MILF?

edit: Btw James, I've also been getting that Shield feeling looking at this show. When Hank finally confronts Walt about Heisenberg, it's going to be heartbreaking. And I think Walt's relationship with Jesse is going to end as tragically as Vic's relationship with Shane. /The Shield spoiler.
post #65 of 145
Speaking of heartbreaking (and simultaneously hilarious), anyone checked out this webisode?
post #66 of 145
Haha...Apology Girl.


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Between her, Betty Draper and Carmela Soprano, I'm beginning to wonder if wives of morally ambiguous television antiheroes are destined to be poorly-received.

Also...am I the only person who finds her to be a premium quality MILF?
Yes..yes...yes..yes...yes.

Don't forget to add Corrine Mackey to that list. Someone shoulld write an essay!

Anna Gunn is one of the big draws of the show for me. The excruciating dynamic of Walt hiding his life from her, would not have been as powerful without an actress of her calibre. I love the fact that she is smart and tough....a real fighter. She obviously wore the pants in the family as Walt repressed and repressed.

Also, her last scene in season 2 should have won her an emmy.

"Lies on top of lies on top of lies..."

"Whatever it is, I'm afraid to know,"


Tour-de-fucking-force. You feel as if you've been hit by a freight train.
post #67 of 145
Trying not to read this thread to avoid spoilers, but I started this show last weekend. About to watch season two episode four right now. How the hell have I survived this long without this show as a major part of my life? I want to personally go out and apologize to everyone responsible for this gem.

I can't seem to be able to sit down to watch only one episode without watching three or four. And everyone says the show gets better? I call bull shit. That isn't possible.
post #68 of 145
You are approaching the part where it gets exponentially better. 3 new cast members do all the difference in the world.
post #69 of 145
I'm highly anticipating Odenkirk's arrival. I've heard nothing but great things.

But, about that episode I just watched - I HATE PINKMAN'S PARENTS. I know I'm being harsh, but, as someone who comes from a community in which many of my peers fell into serious drug habits and had huge struggles at young ages, his parents are doing a terrible job. And the acting on this show? Fantastic. Cranston really brought it in that episode.
post #70 of 145
"I ain't. No. Skank." MAN.
post #71 of 145
Yeah, that moment feels like its been branded on my brain.
post #72 of 145
As it is literally too hot in my room (air conditioner literally froze up. Have to let it melt itself back to normal and then clear the filter. not fun) to sleep, I'm going to keep tackling season two.
post #73 of 145
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And everyone says the show gets better? I call bull shit. That isn't possible.
I didnt think it was possible either.

Boy was I wrong.
post #74 of 145
Just finished Season 2 now (Fantastic) and I'm reading Sepinwalls interview with Vince Gilligan. I have to say I never noticed this, what a devious bastard Gilligan is...

****BELOW ARE SPOILERS FOR SEASON 2 - DON'T READ UNLESS YOU'VE SEEN THE WHOLE THING....TRUST ME****


A few of the Season 2 episodes have a flash forward to an incident we don't witness until the Season finale. Well if you take the titles of those episodes it spells out 'Seven Thirty Seven Down Over ABQ'. Stroke of genius!


***SPOILERS OVER****
post #75 of 145
It'd probably be best if you blacked out stuff like that.
post #76 of 145
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Don't forget to add Corrine Mackey to that list. Someone shoulld write an essay!
Holy shit, yes!
post #77 of 145
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Don't forget to add Corrine Mackey to that list. Someone shoulld write an essay!
I'd love to read something like that. Those are thankless roles to have. No matter what the guys do, it's the wives who always end up being called shrewish or bitches.
post #78 of 145
I think it plays into the fact that, while we recognize that what Tony Soprano and Walt and Vic do is BAD, we WANT to see them do that, while the wife character holds them back from doing it. Even though she's completely right and in a real life situation we would be on her side, in the realm of drama/TV, we want to see people do really bad things.
post #79 of 145
Sure, they're killjoys. I just think there's an element of misogyny in the general responses to the characters, that I've read. If Walt had, lets say, a brother who was trying to keep him on the straight and narrow, I don't think the fan reactions would be nearly as severe.
post #80 of 145
edit: copied my post to the appropriate thread, now that it exists.
post #81 of 145
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Someone should write an essay!
No essay, but here's a thread.
post #82 of 145
It's arguable that Walt is doing what he's doing because of Skylar in the first place. He was ready to roll over and die. It was she that slapped the defeatism out of him.

That she unleashed Heisenberg is part of the fun.

I think there are definitely viewers who see her as a shrew/cock-blocker, but I think it's because they can't wait to see where Walt goes in his adventures. While my feeling is that Skylar is going to be a big part of that adventure by the end. She's not cock-blocking Walt so much as she's cock-blocking herself.

What's the best outcome for Walt? Full Heisenberg and Skylar dead or run away? Full Mr & Mrs Heisenberg? Or Walt choosing the "good death" he described in FLY (I think?).

The endings where Skylar is present are the ones I'm hoping for.
post #83 of 145
I have no idea what they will do near the end of this show, but just looking ahead at inevitable confrontations with Hank and Walt Jr, I expect some otherwordly tension and tragedy, and lots of s.
post #84 of 145
Closing in on the end of season 3 fast. I've fucking powered through this show. I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that "Fly" is kind of the calm before the storm.
post #85 of 145
I am going through serious Breaking Bad withdraw. Those last two episodes were just so good.
post #86 of 145
Season 3 is an endless cavalcade of shit getting progressively more real. Just when you think that the shit is as real as it can possibly be, it just gets realer.

I'd list it right next to 'The Shield: Season 5' on my 'favorite stretches of great TV' list.
post #87 of 145
Yeah. I think I sped through it too quick. Now I have to wait like the rest of you folks. Those last two episodes? Probably both are in my top 20 episodes of television ever list. If I had such a list. Which I do. . . somewhere deep, deep inside my messed up head.
post #88 of 145
They say the only had four seasons in mind, but God, I think there's enough material left for at least two more. I'm just itching to see Jesse find out what Walt did to Jane, Hank to find out all about Walt, and probably the most heartbreaking of all, Walt Jr. to find out about all of this. I can already tell THAT'S going to be the most difficult scene to watch of all.
post #89 of 145
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They say the only had four seasons in mind, but God, I think there's enough material left for at least two more. I'm just itching to see Jesse find out what Walt did to Jane, Hank to find out all about Walt, and probably the most heartbreaking of all, Walt Jr. to find out about all of this. I can already tell THAT'S going to be the most difficult scene to watch of all.
All of those reasons you just listed are exactly why my demented mind wants there to only be one more season. Just a chaotic fucking mess.

Speaking of messes, Walt standing over Jane as she choked to death on her own vomit pissed me off to no fucking end. I've never wanted to jump through a screen and hit someone that hard before. I understand that he did it so that Jesse would get his head on straight and yadda yadda yadda, but DAMN was that a brutal minute of television. End rant.
post #90 of 145
I think he also did it to end the threat of her blackmailing scheme. /end

Syd, Gilligan's hinted in an interview with Alan Sepinwall that due to the relatively unplanned plotting process of Season 3, a fifth season has become a possibility.

I'm fine either way, though I'm leaning toward hoping that next season is the last. This show's final season is going to be some Shield-level shit.
post #91 of 145
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I think he also did it to end the threat of her blackmailing scheme. /end

Syd, Gilligan's hinted in an interview with Alan Sepinwall that due to the relatively unplanned plotting process of Season 3, a fifth season has become a possibility.

I'm fine either way, though I'm leaning toward hoping that next season is the last. This show's final season is going to be some Shield-level shit.
And Walton Goggins still won't win an Emmy! Of course, for the legitimate reason of not actually being on the show this time, but still.
post #92 of 145
For a second you had me thinking Walton Goggins was going to be on this show.
post #93 of 145
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I think he also did it to end the threat of her blackmailing scheme. /end
That's what I love about the show. The character motivations are never clear. Whenever you think Walt is doing something out of the goodness of his heart, he goes and turns it around on you.

EDIT: and Goggins on Breaking Bad might actually cause the world to implode out of pure awesomeness.
post #94 of 145
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For a second you had me thinking Walton Goggins was going to be on this show.
We can all dream. Of course, a Justified/Breaking Bad crossover episode wouldn't really be THAT out of the ordinary. . . .
post #95 of 145
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For a second you had me thinking Walton Goggins was going to be on this show.
You got your hopes up too?
post #96 of 145
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We can all dream. Of course, a Justified/Breaking Bad crossover episode wouldn't really be THAT out of the ordinary. . . .
Seeing as how Goggins spent the last half of the season cleansing his town of meth that actually makes a lot of sense.

Plus, have Raylan get transferred again after the season-ending shootout we just witnessed. Perfect fit.

brb emailing FX now...
post #97 of 145
http://sepinwall.blogspot.com/2009/0...ton-talks.html

Great reading, It took all my morning to slowly enjoy it.
I just watched the Season 2 premiere. Impressive. The fact that It was directed by Bryan added an extra flavor.

Spoilers for S2 ep. 1 below

Alan:
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So when Walt tried to have sex with Skyler in the kitchen after coming home from the junkyard encounter with Tuco, I at first took it for another case of him converting his fear of death into sexual energy. But no -- it was something much uglier, and much more terrifying. It may have started out as that, but when Skyler (covered in a mud mask, unprepared and not yet in the mood) tried to slow him down, it turned into Walt trying to prove his dominance over someone, and poor Skyler happened to be the only person handy. When Skyler accuses him of taking his fear of death out on her, she has no idea how right she is -- of how close Walt thinks he is to death.
This. I think it's great Skyler isn't aware how close to death his husband is but at the same time she knows he is going to die.
post #98 of 145
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brb emailing FX now...
Non-inviso texted Justifed spoiler in a Breaking Bad thread makes baby Jesus cry.
post #99 of 145
Thread Starter 
Shit, youre right. My bad...didnt even cross my mind.
post #100 of 145
I just had a hard-on

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