Re: Does Breaking Bad ever get good?
 

I wish AMC could've scheduled it so that we got Mad Men ending and this starting the following week. The wait is killing me.

Re: Does Breaking Bad ever get good?
 

Only thing I don't get... Is Walter really the only one who could cook that meth? I mean, they surveillence the cooks for months. Is it really so proprietary at this point? Otherwise, everything is really tightly written.

And I hate Skyler less going into Season 4. She was really a bitch for two seasons.

Re: Does Breaking Bad ever get good?
 

I believe one of his excuses was that if anything went wrong, nobody else would be able to figure out how to correct it.

Re: Does Breaking Bad ever get good?
 

Just finished Season 4. I LOVED being able to just watch the whole thing. So that's three seasons in a week. I think it's easier to get involved in the fiction, when it's all at once. I'm glad to see that Season 4 had a lot of closure. After Season 3, I had to keep watching (this show is like crack) and was able to find them online.

Re: Does Breaking Bad ever get good?
 

Yea. And they filled in that point during Season 4. Even when they were in Mexico, Jesse only acheived 96%. Walter was doing over 99%. And the other chemist said that extra 3% is a big deal.

Re: Does Breaking Bad ever get good?
 

Remove the "s" from your spoiler tags.

And I think this show is for the Internet era. I mean is not Lost, that after every episode we there would be 10 page threads, but still, I love reading the BB threads here and elsewhere. And that's one thing I really missed when I was watching The Wire in HBO Go, after an episode ended, instead of clicking next I would have loved to go an Internet forum and discuss it.

Re: Does Breaking Bad ever get good?
 

Yeah, I've been going back and reading some of the threads as I watch them. Just read the 4x08 "Hermanos" thread last night after watching it. I got a chuckle out of the Gus possibly being gay talk and that no one saw that coming. :lol: I assumed he was gay pretty much from the get go. Don't want to spoil it for anyone, but everyone who's seen it should know the flashback sequence I'm referring to.

Re: Does Breaking Bad ever get good?
 

And how I wish "Face Off" wasn't already spoiled for me. The show is very unpredictable. But I saw the Face Off ending before, because someone online was like "you need to see this". Actually, I think that it was one of you bastards.

Re: Does Breaking Bad ever get good?
 

Again I am jealous of people who got to see season 4 immediately after season 3. That one year wait was fucking insane.

Re: Does Breaking Bad ever get good?
 

I had started the show last June and blew through it to the point where I finished Season 3 about 2 weeks before Season 4. I watched the first 2 episodes of S4 and realized I couldn't do the week-to-week thing, it was hard because of how sucked in I was. I ended up waiting until after the finale in October and watched All 13 at once.

I hope I can watch this season one ep at a time but it's just so compelling it's very difficult.

Re: Does Breaking Bad ever get good?
 

Yea. And I'll try to block this out of my head for the next year. Then I can watch Season 5 at once.

It occured to me that I watched 40 hours of Breaking Bad last week. I feel like I need to readjust to civilization after taking in that much at once.

And everyone on that show needs to have a talk about answering their damn cell phones. How many times do people leave voicemails over three seasons? 100? 200?

Re: Does Breaking Bad ever get good?
 

Re: Does Breaking Bad ever get good?
 

So, I bought season one and two of this on BD last year...watched it...didn't care for it. I tried. I'm almost positive I gave up with two eps left on season.

Now, last night, I caught those two episodes late-night on AMC...I'm back on board. I need to catch up with this show immediately. Will be borrowing them ASAP.

Re: Does Breaking Bad ever get good?
 

This is a great example of why people shouldn't stop watching a show like this after a couple of seasons. Glad you are revisiting the show. You won't regret it.

Re: Does Breaking Bad ever get good?
 

Just finished season 4. Holy f'ing Jebus... what a masterpiece this show is.

Re: Does Breaking Bad ever get good?
 

I think I may have to buy Season 4. It's in my Netflix BD queue but it says "Very Long Wait"...

Re: Does Breaking Bad ever get good?
 

So Breaking Bad finally gets "good" in Season 4. Whew. Thanks for the info. ;)

Re: Does Breaking Bad ever get good?
 

Yea. You could say that. The show gets action packed and all-around badass in Season 4. Before that, there's a lot of intensity, but nothing really adventerous. All the stuff with the cartels and Gus really brings teh epic.

Re: Does Breaking Bad ever get good?
 

I finished up season 4 last week myself. Fantastic beginning to end. I loved the final scene when it played out, but after sitting on it for a week, I feel it was kinda hokey.

Re: Does Breaking Bad ever get good?
 

I shared my thoughts on Season 1 and Season 2. Finished season 3 tonight, and thought it was the best season so far. Was a little peeved about the ending, since I was expecting some sort of conclusion like there was in season 1 and 2. Can't wait to start season 4.

I mentioned after viewing season 2, I'd personally had this show as the 6th or 7th best show currently on TV, but after season 3, I'd put it around 4th or 5th.

Re: Does Breaking Bad ever get good?
 

I don't know what's better. Watching an episode and let it grow on you, for a couple of days at least. Or marathoning the series, watching an episode after an episode.

What do you think is best for Breaking Bad?


But yeah, if you have the dvd/blu set is really hard to watch an episode and wait a couple of days for the next one. :)

Re: Does Breaking Bad ever get good?
 

Hey I didn't ask the original question! The show had me hooked literally two minutes into the pilot! But season 4 took it from "pretty damn good show" to "possibly the best television I've ever seen."

Re: Does Breaking Bad ever get good?
 

I know. I was just joking around because I'm shocked that a thread with a title this dumb would last so long.

BB is simply a great show.

Re: Does Breaking Bad ever get good?
 

Well you know how some people are. You have your doubters, haters, people that love to say 'it's overrated' just to be saying it.. Can't please everybody.

Re: Does Breaking Bad ever get good?
 

I prefer marathoning with any show but I gotta say I felt season 3 suffered that way. For some reason it seemed to really drag in places - more than when I watched it week to week.

Re: Does Breaking Bad ever get good?
 

It's turned into the "I just started watching BB" thread, which is cool.

:up: I hated the first half of season 3 when I burned through the BDs. It probably would have been better week-to-week.

Re: Does Breaking Bad ever get good?
 

Shit, I bumped an old Breaking Bad thread and didn't even see this one on the first page. Well, yeah, it gets better, dolphinboy, if you even still care.

Re: Does Breaking Bad ever get good?
 

Just finished season 4 and it has been exhausting (in a good way), now I can finally take a break before next week's season premiere. I agree that this show may suffer from marathoning it compared to watching it on a weekly basis, especially since the show has a "slow-burn" approach for each season. It's a great show, but I still have Mad Men, Game of Thrones, and Justified ahead of it. It's crazy to think how much Walt has evolved since the beginning, but unlike other anti-heroes I rooted for (Tony Soprano, Vic Mackey, Dexter, etc), I do want Walt to fail in the end.


Also I really enjoyed reading the episode threads with the constant misspelling of http://www.forumblueandgold.com/wp-c...ok-240x300.jpg.

Re: Does Breaking Bad ever get good?
 

Ab-so-fucking-lutely.

Jesse on the other hand, I'd like to see riding off into the sunset with a "happily ever after" vibe.

Re: Does Breaking Bad ever get good?
 

I was thinking more a "I'm a badass motherfucker" vibe.

Re: Does Breaking Bad ever get good?
 

Well, yeah, that too. I just don't want him to meet a grisly fate or end up in jail. I still think he's not near as gone as Walt and is capable of being a respectable human being.

Re: Does Breaking Bad ever get good?
 

Just watched Season 3 and 4 together this summer after catching Seasons 1 & 2 a while ago. Great effing television.

Re: Does Breaking Bad ever get good?
 

I'm on the fence on wanting Walt to pay the price for his misdeeds. I was firmly on the "I want him to live and get away with it" until the end of Season 4. Now, I don't know.

Re: Does Breaking Bad ever get good?
 

Re: Does Breaking Bad ever get good?
 

I have a feeling that this show is going to end with Walt getting away with everything but some other universal disaster happening to him.

Re: Does Breaking Bad ever get good?
 

I guess he should have to answer for his sins, but he isn't as evil as the one's he's has to deal with. I want him tunneling his way to freedom and hanging out with Jesse working on his boat.

No-one take my idea. It's never been done before.

Re: Does Breaking Bad ever get good?
 

Except that the entire series is null and void if Walt had just taken the money/job from his former colleagues.

Re: Does Breaking Bad ever get good?
 

This is kind of a dumb thread to keep bumping for those not currently up to date with Breaking Bad, but hell I'll play along.

For some reason I never got into the show when it was airing week to week. So I blind bought seasons 1-3 at one point when they were below $20 and casually started watching. Then I started to get really into it. I bought the BD for season 4 release week.

So, here's my situation, I just finished season 2 last night. Loved it. I'm now beginning season 3. I have 26 episodes to get through before next Sunday. My Directv season pass is already set for the premiere. I hope to finish in time to watch week to week.

Re: Does Breaking Bad ever get good?
 

Of course. It's obvious he is bitter about that.

Re: Does Breaking Bad ever get good?
 

My point was Walt doesn't simply kill out of survival. He doesn't just adapt to each situation, he's cold and calculated. There was no reason he had to kill that guy in Jesse's basement in the first season. Sure it came to that point, but he could have let him go sooner and just been a man and dealt with the consequences of his actions to that point. Up to that point his crimes would have been minor for a first time offense and with his brother-in-law tossing some DEA sway his way, he would have been fine. He didn't need 700k to provide for his family in the event of his death, they'll get along just fine. People do it day in and day out.

I just don't buy the "people he killed were bad anyway" so Walt gets a pass argument. Walt has been one of those people since the first season.

Season 4 spoiler talk: