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

the baby will probably end up smoking meth with sally draper

I think that old hooker Jesse used to hang out with is grown up Sally Draper.

*mind blown*

waiting for baby's flashback episode tbh

BTW, still don't know why Gus didn't threaten his family yet.

Gus is a family man himself, and beyond that, so far has never shown himself to fuck with anyone not in the game themselves.

That would be some rationalization on his part!

Baby should get a total flashback. Actually, baby will inevitably get a lame kidnap/child protective services subplot, so until then I'm happy with it glued in its car seat and stashed out of frame.

BTW, still don't know why Gus didn't threaten his family yet.

wondered this too. came to the conclusion that after Walt had Gale killed and seeing how protective of Jesse he was, Gus must have realized that even mentioning Walt's family would unleash an unprecedented shit-storm from hell.
and who's to say that *isn't* in the cards as some sort of last resort desperation move!

I think this season opener wrapped things up a bit too tidily. I was expecting Walt to be held prisoner and Jesse to be on the run after last season's cliffhanger. What's to stop them from just fleeing the country like Saul?

"you've got a passport, right?"

I doubt Saul is going to make it out, even if he tries.

Not that he'll be killed, he'll just be enslaved by Gus, as Jesse assumes he now is.

Yeah, Saul is going nowhere.

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Dale Dickey

she plays a helluva meth junkie

Someone on Wikipedia should fix her BB credit. Everyone knows it's Wendy!

Wendy's a different character/actress

oooh wait. was this the one with the vending machine?

yep!

gilligan's admitted several times that he's making it up as he goes along

When and if he has said that, he was making sly fun of the writers of "Lost," not actually admitting to being a bullshit artist who doesn't know where this is all going. The only writer I've ever heard honestly admit to that is Steven King. (Hmmm.)

I don't think so. He sounds pretty honest here

I'd love to be able to say that everything is pre-figured. I'd love to tell you I'm Bobby Fischer and I'm playing this game 20 moves ahead, but it's just not true. The writers and I, once we created the Cousins and put them into motion, the problem that we saw for ourselves was, "My God, how do we pay this off?" It's the exhilarating thing about this job and it's the terrifying thing about this job: We actively try to paint ourselves into corners at the end of episodes - at the end of seasons, at the end of scenes sometimes - and then we try to extricate ourselves from those corners. So far, so good. But one of these days, we'll probably paint ourselves into a corner we can't escape from.

doubt there are many, if any, shows where the writers had everything figured out from the start and then just filmed it. and i don't see why that would be any more entertaining either.

It won't necessarily make it more entertaining, but as "The Sopranos," "Lost" and "Seinfeld" proved, if you don't stick the landing it can cast the whole series in a bad light.

"Sopranos" stuck the landing perfectly.

This is why I find "Breaking Bad" more rewarding a watch than "Game of Thrones" - where the latter is literally following a playbook and every plot turn is predetermined (not that it's not fun in its own way), in the former, you can feel the writers agonizing over every plot decision and trying to make it all work in the most interesting way possible.

xp - OTM x 1000

"Sopranos" stuck the landing perfectly.

Yeah, no controversy there. Total consensus, etc.

It's harder to actually figure out which series finales were well-received and not hated. I think maybe The Shield (which I haven't even seen) is probably the only finale I didn't hear everybody frothing at the mouth over

Gilligan has also said that winging it on S3 was a deliberate response to having had every detail of S2 worked out in advance, as shown with the pre-titles on every episode there.

I don't know what "stick the landing" means.

Catch up:
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It's harder to actually figure out which series finales were well-received and not hated. I think maybe The Shield (which I haven't even seen) is probably the only finale I didn't hear everybody frothing at the mouth over

one of the best - if not the best - series ending ever IMO

the best imo

The Shield is perfect because it actually manages to wrap up a 7 or whatever season chronology to some degree of satisfaction. There are plenty of more open-ended shows that end well, though.

yeah but those don't count, people don't really go crazy over those kinds of series finales

like people wouldn't whine that the "finale" of Law and Order OG ruined their collective watching over the last 20 years

trish: from gymnastics, where the gymnast does the big finish in his/her routine without a bobble or extra step that loses points

Ah, right. Thanks. That is not what I would have guessed from the context.

It's harder to actually figure out which series finales were well-received and not hated. I think maybe The Shield (which I haven't even seen) is probably the only finale I didn't hear everybody frothing at the mouth over

one of the best - if not the best - series ending ever IMO

― THIS IS SATIRE BTW (Simon H.), Sunday, July 24, 2011 10:50 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark

could not agree more

good episode tonight, the cold open in particular really demonstrated how far gone Walt is.

loved the walking-to-the-house scene damn

"Go home Walt."

we were watching on a jumpy internet stream lol no tv

how much money did she offer to buy the car wash for?

$900,000 (rounding up)

ending of tonight's was fucking great, despite the set decorator really underplaying what a house where there's been a 3-day meth party looks like (and the screenwriter for that matter: that stereo is gone after that party, period). still just for tone it was A+

haha yeah I was kinda underwhelmed by that craaaazy party and the aftermath, coulda been out of a disney movie

a guy who's been tweaking for days + has access to firearms orders a pizza & it shows up unsliced = at least two people get shot in the balls iirc

I mean I dig that that's not where they're coming from but the party sort of showed a lack of awareness about what meth is like imo

but the whole pizza thing was just to explain how a pizza could fly on a roof, which was sorta genius

what was that whack-ass rap-metal song biting the 'Angel of Death' riff

“I think I’ve, like, got this cat, I think I’m supposed to feed it”

i'm amazed that this show can get away with some of the shot selection it gets away with - it doesn't really look like anything else on tv. the roomba tracking shot was so awesome

also love the really subtle character shading of mike the cleaner, andrea, etc; they're being given depth that they wouldn't have been given in seasons 1/2

a guy who's been tweaking for days + has access to firearms orders a pizza & it shows up unsliced = at least two people get shot in the balls iirc

i did love the bad tweaker logic to defuse the situation ("they pass the savings along to you!"), not the least of the reasons for which being that it's evidently a real pizza place

This episode really emphasizes how ridiculous the idea that Walt is turning into, or that his true nature always was this cold, calculating Heisenberg persona.