bootsy

Sondheim

That's a pretty good parody of some serious Amazon reviews.

dolphinboy

Honestly, I wasn't parodying anything and never read those reviews, but I'm at least glad you have a sense of humor.

RichC2

Not every show works for everyone, surprised you're sticking with it. And yes, that is very much a Amazon.com review

Shady12

YOU CAN GO DIE NOW!!!...oh..you were kidding, carry on then with living.

RoyalTea

Something I noticed recently while rewatching the pilot episode:

Walt's birthday party was before the cancer diagnosis. At the birthday party, he looked awfully curious when they were watching TV on Hank's $700K drug bust.

At first, I thought Walter White was a good man who chose to go down a dark path in order to do good for his family. Now, I think that he always wanted to cook meth. The cancer didn't lead him down that path, it just removed the roadblock.

DthRdrX

It was his 50th birthday party and in typical mid-life crisis mode Walt was shocked by how much money the drug dealers made compared to his crappy salary. Remember Hank was busting on him with Walt Jr. about being the old boring guy. That was probably the first time he held a gun also. I think he was just questioning his place in life.

I think Cranston did a good job of summarizing Walk's situation in the past.

All people in the real world can be tempted to do bad things but the real question is what makes a person step over that straight and narrow line Walt lived his entire life on. For Walt, it was the knowledge that he would soon be dead and unable to provide for his own family.

fumanstan

I haven't read all of this thread because some spoilers started getting tossed around, but i'm early in season 4 (episode 4) after spending the last couple weeks working through the series. Spoilers ahead, just in case.



I don't know, maybe all the raving about it raised my expectations too high. I'll continue watching the rest of the series, but I guess i'm like dolphinboy. It's ridiculous to me that people were calling him a troll at the start of this thread.

EDIT: For what its worth, i actually liked the way the first season started a lot more and seeing the chemistry put to use like with the bodies. I think i've gotten less interested as the story went on, which seems counter to what people were saying. I'm weird, I guess.

bootsy

no1curr

fumanstan

Butt hurt that people don't agree with you in both movie talk and sports talk, eh? Who the hell uses that term anyway

bootsy

People that don't care about useless info you provided. 'Well I like the show but I don't think it's all that but I do like Hank and the guy that did this and the two guys that looked like this but it isn't that great.'

What?

For the good of people that do enjoy the show just stop watching.

fumanstan

Sounds like you're in the wrong thread if it bothers you so much. Most of this thread is discussion on what people liked or didn't like.

The Infidel

I haven't read all this thread, either, but I felt compelled to jump in here in say that I FUCKING LOVE THIS SHOW! I decided to start it up last week on Netflix from the pilot episode, and haven't stopped watching it since. Just finished watching the season four finale before typing this. I am blown the fuck away. It had its lulls here and there, and all of the characters have their good and bad points, just like pretty much everyone you meet in life. But everyone involved in the story affects the outcome in some way or another, great or small, even a character with not a whole lot to do, like Walt, Jr.

I thought they could have ended the series with the final episode of season four, and I was sitting there wondering how they were going to continue it, knowing they're already into season five. It wasn't until the final shot when they showed what Walt had apparently done as part of his plan, and I just sat there in shock, open-mouthed, while the credits rolled.

I don't have cable or satellite, so I either have to wait for them to add the new episodes to Netflix, or find someplace online that shows the episodes. Maybe Hulu, or even AMC's website. Looking forward to continuing the story, however I have to watch it.

My Other Self

I hate Skyler and Marie too, but that doesn't detract me from thinking the show is the best drama in the history of TV.

It doesn't sound like you're paying much attention if you have to refer to Mike as "hit man/cleaner/investigator".

I guess I'm confused to what you were looking for in this show, since as great as the first season is it's only gotten better in terms of story development as the series has progressed.

Your favorite version of Jesse is when he was clean, which as a character who's a crank user and a drug dealer, totally negates everything he's supposed to be.

fumanstan

It's funny, because I swear now that i'm in the episodes where Jesse is working with Mike, his name has been said more in the last few episodes i've seen then all of Season 3. Or maybe i'm just not paying enough attention like you said.

As for Jesse, I simply liked seeing his character evolve. Not just the fact that he was clean, but that he got there after his experiences. I think I've just been rooting for him.

Oh well, I'm certainly entertained by the show. That's good enough I suppose.

Raul3

For some of us, hardcore fans, it's more of: It's OK if you don't like the show, it's not your kind of show, etc. But if you start watching the show and think it's good, and after the third season think it's just OK, well, that's just kind of weird for us, hardcore fans. For us it's like sex, it gets better with time.

But yeah, opinions and stuff.

Unclejosh

I just started Season 1 last week out of boredom and man I was hooked. I ended up catching up the the current Season 5 episode 3 that aired Sunday night. I never tried it out before because for some reason I thought this show was that awful show with Ray Romano that was on recently. Something about midlife crisis or other crap. Needless to say, I was pleasantly surprised to find this show was nothing like what I thought.

Truly one of the best shows I have ever seen.

One thing,

Larry C.

Does anyone else think this will end with Skylala being the one to kill Walt?

RichC2

That to me would be terribly trite and soap-ish.

andicus

Yeah, it's totally got to be Walt Jr.

"WHERE'S MY FUCKING BREAKFAST?" Boom!

Michael Corvin

Larry C.

I didn't say I'd like it but you are right. I think and I may be wrong it will end in his death.

Jack Straw

I think she's reached the point where she will start thinking about and planning to kill him (i.e. fight or flight). I don't think she will succeed. I never thought I would feel sympathy for her, but being awoken by the sound of bullets and then walking into that living room with her infant daughter being subjected to that monster would have been too much.

lacubs

i just watch on Netfilx, and i can't enough of it! i am mad at myself i didn't started this a few weeks earlier so i could watch the new season

bdshort

I finally finished season 4 yesterday then watched the first three episodes of season 5 that were on my DVR. Awesome show, as I'm sure I've said before somewhere in this thread.