Shall we anticpate the AMC series "Breaking Bad"? I think I may.

have they been getting complaints about the violence? i don't recall a disclaimer before a specific scene before. was kenny rogers a chicken gag? god this show is awesome! .

Yeah, kenny rogers roasters was the first thing I thought of
Well done

I d/led this so I took note of how long it was from Gus's entrance to exit from the lab - ten full minutes. (Amazing sequence - rest of the ep was just OK.)

I thought it was a masterpiece. The Gus scene nearly induced a panic attack, everyone involved nailed it 100%. The rest of the ep was totally built around that scene in terms of pacing. My god, what a show.

Also great work form Anna Gunn this week.

A+ 100% I think we're really getting into some next level tv over the next few months. Thank god this how is back. So perfect and so effortless.

lol @ hank buying rocks off the internet

was I the only one who thought maybe he had some sort of obscure work-related reason to be doing that?

he's BIDDING on MINERALS.

96% pure minerals
A GULF

yeah, skyler was in rare form as gangster moll

Wow! The suspense in this episode was unreal. Jesse not say one word until they are cleaning up the mess was great.
so crzy that Gale was the one that convinced Gus to hire Walt in the first place.

LAB NOTES

^ i'm wondering if Hank is going to be back with the force in time to get involved in the inevitable investigation into that!

i really should have gone back and watched the end of last season because I can't remember WTF was gong on that led them to that place, I only remember the shooting. suppose it doesn't matter now.

we read the wikipedia summary of season 3 like 4 minutes before this ep started

helped a lot...

yeah I watched the last two eps of s3 recently... not just as a refresher, but also because they're the best 2 hours of entertainment the television medium has produced in recent memory

RUN

http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_loih0xgOoy1qe1ikpo10_250.gif

should prolly be an ilx embed

honestly, i knew i should expect the unexpected with Gus's reaction. but i'm not sure about what he did. why do that? seems too irrational for Gus. why the need for it?

i guessed he was going to kill that guy pretty much the minute he walked in. and the reason was because he's more of a liability than walt/jesse cos he was seen at gail's apartment.

ahhh. true. i guess the whole Gus getting killed thing could be put on him a little as well.

yeah had to be that he was spotted at the scene acting weird.

He also wanted to put the shits up Walt and Jesse big time.

the scene worked, but agree it was out of character for gus... he doesn't get his hands dirty ever and then he wacks somebody?

the way I rationalized it was gus was so pissed about gale and his plans being thwarted that he had to take it out on somebody, and out of the present company that would make the most impact - keep walt + jesse intimidated plus wipe out a guy who was spotted at the scene... but it still didn't make sense given his trusted role in gus' org

xpssss

ya. i always thought Gus's team seemed a little sparse to begin with.

have strong urge to rewatch s3 now to see if there are any clues of what's inside LAB NOTES

killer coffee recipes

i guessed he was going to kill that guy pretty much the minute he walked in. and the reason was because he's more of a liability than walt/jesse cos he was seen at gail's apartment.

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ya me too, it somewhat ruined the suspense of that scene 4 me

like if it says "walt's secret sauce" anywhere in there I'm sure we'll get several eps worth of it being dangled under hank's deskridden nose

victor's authoritative initiation of the cook was a nice piece of misdirection tho

xp

Gus took a risk and hired Walt in the first place because Gale convinced him 96% purity wasn't good enough, Victor wasn't going to reach anywhere near that with his.

and you know gale's advice worked out so awesome for gus

damn

xpost exactly, and why have a crap cook who's implicated in a murder when you can have walt who is begging to work.

i didn't think this was an amazing start i have to say, there were scenes that were sort of pointless, eg skylar driving the car away and coming back, seemed to take ages but what was the point? the length of the gus scene made it feel a bit weirdly edited or uneven, which is v unusual for breaking bad.

not doubting tho, it's the return of the show that's great, it won't succeed or fail for me based on the first episode.

thought the hank bits were great.

Hank stuff was good. as was each scene at Gale's.

thought the colours + lighting during that gus scene were incredible. this is probably the only show i've ever felt inclined to try and watch in HD

seriously gruesome though

the ketchup thing was amazing. i love the playfulness of the show. actually maybe the best part was jesse's deadpan "trust us" after mike asked if the acid worked.

dude who plays mike is just a fantastic actor. he is so well cast, those constant jaw clenches and slight head swivels he does are worth a thousand words. that scene in s3 where he talks about "half-measures" and tells the story about being a policeman etc, is just so unbelievably raw and real.

fuck directTV for not having AMC in HD; I'll be torrenting the next two weeks of this until I'm able to get back on a real cable system.

i didn't think this was an amazing start i have to say, there were scenes that were sort of pointless, eg skylar driving the car away and coming back, seemed to take ages but what was the point?

yeah otm. until the big Gus scene the episode felt underwhelming to me.

did anything important happen once Skyler got into Walt's other apartment? they made a big deal out of the locksmith but then she didn't really find anything there, right? or am I missing something?

just another excuse to show that eyeball

that scene in s3 where he talks about "half-measures" and tells the story about being a policeman etc, is just so unbelievably raw and real.

^ one of my favorite bb moments

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arTnX8tF2_s

I thought the locksmith scene was a great character piece for Skylar... really demonstrated how conniving and manipulative she can be, which I think is a bit of foreshadowing in terms her characters development this season.

Like, when she handed this strange man her newborn baby I was disgusted with her in a way I haven't been before, even though I didn't even like her character until season 3!

on reflection feel the victor thing was a bit stupid...like they made him be seen at the crimespot just so that they could make him have suddenly decided he could cook meth just so they could have gus SURPRISINGLY kill him. not the standard you'd usually expect.

lol crimespot...crimescene!

No, I can see why me showed up at the crimescene... at the end of s3 he was trying to get there before Jesse did. So clearly, he didn't think Gale had already been killed when he went there, he was trying to prevent it!

yeah true...but he did kinda storm in

so what, just another lookey-loo

^ loved that

there were scenes that were sort of pointless, eg skylar driving the car away and coming back, seemed to take ages but what was the point?

TENSION