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kirk wrote:Tread lightly.

avenger wrote:

crawtona wrote:

kirk wrote:

crawtona wrote:

DO YOU EVEN BREAKING BAD?

crawtona wrote:I've Broken Badly for at least 5 minutes once. Then my boredom was Broken Well after changing the channel.



TBH, I never really tried to get into it. Though I'm sure it's good, It's not really a genre I care about, so I did and watched other things instead.

avenger wrote:just finished dl'ing it. just started it!

ward wrote:I watched it.....shits gonna get real.

ward wrote:Not gonna lie, I zoned the fuck out when he went crazy with the Star Trek shit. Could be foreshadowing, who knows.

kirk wrote:

crawtona wrote:I've Broken Badly for at least 5 minutes once. Then my boredom was Broken Well after changing the channel.



TBH, I never really tried to get into it. Though I'm sure it's good, It's not really a genre I care about, so I did and watched other things instead.

That's kind of how I felt for much of the first season, but after that, the intensity just progresses exponentially each season. I think there's a lot left to be desired, and there are plot holes here and there, but there is some creative writing on the show and watching the main character transform into the person he is now is really entertaining. Going from chemistry teacher to the most prominent meth cook, along with his character change as this innocent family man to a guy who goes toe-to-toe against cartel, has been fun.

I don't really watch it for anything more than the intensity of the characters and their interactions. I go to Mad Men when I care about well-written drama, and The Walking Dead for mindless action. This lies somewhere between the two for me.

crawtona wrote:I swear to Christ, Kirk, if you get me into another show, I will dig out all the fat I gain from doing nothing other than watching it with a rusty spoon and force feed it to you.

kirk wrote:

crawtona wrote:I swear to Christ, Kirk, if you get me into another show, I will dig out all the fat I gain from doing nothing other than watching it with a rusty spoon and force feed it to you.

WORTH IT. Just Netflix it bro. Set aside like a week, recognize that spending a week on a TV show isn't such a terrible thing in the broad scheme of things (I mean if you live to be 75, that's 3,900 weeks...I'm just telling you to devote ONE of them!), and get it done.

The only shows I would ever urge people to try are Mad Men and Breaking Bad.

kirk wrote:

ward wrote:Not gonna lie, I zoned the fuck out when he went crazy with the Star Trek shit. Could be foreshadowing, who knows.

The transporter discussion is easy to connect, in my opinion. Skinny Pete says that in Star Trek, each time someone is transported they are actually killed and copied. That is, their physical material (bones, molecules, etc.) are destroyed and recreated like Xerox. So each subsequent transport is a copy of a copy, bringing an individual further and further away from his/her original physical self.

That's exactly what we're seeing from Walt, though more in regards to his personality/character than his physical form. On one end of the spectrum is Walter White, chemistry teacher, and on the other is Heisenberg, drug lord. Each day his original self, Walter White, is killed more and more and subsequently his identity is slowly becoming Heisenberg; it is no longer an alter-ego, but who he actually is at his core.

The pie eating contest is tougher and ambiguous for a reason, so people can form their own beliefs. Basically I think Walt is Spock, Hank is Kirk, and someone I can't figure out is Chekov. Hank will try to beat Walt fairly and lose (throws up early in the contest and can't eat as much as Spock), someone else will try to out-trick Walt and get killed (reference to Chekov having the pies transported out of his stomach), and Walt will escape somehow. Jesse might be Chekov, and in an attempt to rid himself of his guilt, try to bring Walt down. But then he loses somehow.

But a friend of mine pointed out that Jesse left his house before the story was over, and Badger said "you're leaving at the best part," or whatever. So Jesse might not stick around for the end of the series, and so he may be none of the characters in the pie-eating contest.

It was a really random dialogue, but I doubt the writers of Breaking Bad did not have some rationale behind it. That wouldn't be like them.

kirk wrote:

ward wrote:Not gonna lie, I zoned the fuck out when he went crazy with the Star Trek shit. Could be foreshadowing, who knows.

The transporter discussion is easy to connect, in my opinion. Skinny Pete says that in Star Trek, each time someone is transported they are actually killed and copied. That is, their physical material (bones, molecules, etc.) are destroyed and recreated like Xerox. So each subsequent transport is a copy of a copy, bringing an individual further and further away from his/her original physical self.

That's exactly what we're seeing from Walt, though more in regards to his personality/character than his physical form. On one end of the spectrum is Walter White, chemistry teacher, and on the other is Heisenberg, drug lord. Each day his original self, Walter White, is killed more and more and subsequently his identity is slowly becoming Heisenberg; it is no longer an alter-ego, but who he actually is at his core.

The pie eating contest is tougher and ambiguous for a reason, so people can form their own beliefs. Basically I think Walt is Spock, Hank is Kirk, and someone I can't figure out is Chekov. Hank will try to beat Walt fairly and lose (throws up early in the contest and can't eat as much as Spock), someone else will try to out-trick Walt and get killed (reference to Chekov having the pies transported out of his stomach), and Walt will escape somehow. Jesse might be Chekov, and in an attempt to rid himself of his guilt, try to bring Walt down. But then he loses somehow.

But a friend of mine pointed out that Jesse left his house before the story was over, and Badger said "you're leaving at the best part," or whatever. So Jesse might not stick around for the end of the series, and so he may be none of the characters in the pie-eating contest.

It was a really random dialogue, but I doubt the writers of Breaking Bad did not have some rationale behind it. That wouldn't be like them.

scorch- wrote:How could walt be dead if he's visiting his destroyed house months/years later?

scorch- wrote:How could walt be dead if he's visiting his destroyed house months/years later?

Polak wrote:I'm calling this now.

Walt's new born gets murdered. He ends up teaming up with Hank to take down everyone.

Walt uses the m80 is a drastic shoot out. As he's wounded he confesses the lies he said to jesse.

It honesetly doesn't matter whether or not walt dies from his wounds. Cause to me it's irrelevant. It's either prison or death. =/ no happy ending here

scorch- wrote:How could walt be dead if he's visiting his destroyed house months/years later?