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

I think the show could easily end with "guy with terminal disease keeps on living, for now, in a hell of his own creation".

yeah i mean first off im pretty sure in interviews they said they wouldnt kill him off? it also just seems really unlikely -- I'm SPOILER FOR SOME DUDE

assuming some dude just hasn't gotten to the part about the cancer being in remission?

death is letting him off way too easy

hes become such an annoying character, like watching a living human migraine

there's something really satisfying about watching characters in this show who are in control, and something really terrifyingly abrasive about characters flailing about

Like i said up thread, there's some reason to believe that his cancer may have returned. And fwiw Cranston has said on a couple of occasions that he thinks Walter will definitely die by the end of the show, but i guess only Vince Gilligan really knows.

Maybe not even him.

Holly knows.

Who's Holly?

death wouldn't be letting him off easy if he'd fucked up his entire life to the point that nobody cared about whether he lived or not.

Anyway, an interesting turn the show has taken is that Walt has essentially been marginalized. It's all about Jesse and Gus, Skyler and Ted, Holly and her babysitter. Walt is floundering, left in the dark.

I mean, you can't even describe the show as "meth dealing high school teacher" anymore.

meth cooking meth cooker

shitty fighter.

kind of funny now that i think about it - Jesse's advice to him a few episodes ago: "you get used to it... getting your ass kicked"

So the peak of Walt's reign, as such, was his "I am the one who knocks!' speech to Skyler, right? It's been all downhill from there.

Pretty sure he was on a downward slide before that

ive pinpointed his peak somewhere in the first minute of the first episode

http://www.matthoover.com/ttp/roof-pizza.gif

peakza

LOVE PIZZA TOSSING

highlight of the series. Although great controversy on if it was staged.

there is a facebook page called 'walter white pizza tossing'

the mystery of the sliceless pizza was answered. that controversy has been put to rest.

read a thing where gillian said they had a rig all ready make it happen but then cranston just gave it a shot and did it on his 1st try

talent

what I miss in the current season is the bleak little slapstick things like that, haven't been too many of them and I miss the flavor of pizza toss

I mean aside from gale's karaoke tape obv

Yeah, but we got the "Mike and Jesse Show" for the LOLs.

Plus Jesse's money-in-tweaker's-mouth toss

Plus we got the reveal of the unsliced pizza place

btw saul goodman's suit in the recent ep. starting to rival craig sager

nobody can truly rival seger

eh you might be right walt could die ignominiously -- i just dont think its a foregone conclusion

one thing this show is so good at is twisting things forward so tbh its hard for me to imagine a satisfying denouement although if any writers could do it its these guys

yeah i mean first off im pretty sure in interviews they said they wouldnt kill him off? it also just seems really unlikely -- I'm SPOILER FOR SOME DUDE

assuming some dude just hasn't gotten to the part about the cancer being in remission?

― sorry for party blogging (D-40), Thursday, September 22, 2011 6:31 AM (14 hours ago) Bookmark

ha dude why would i be reading & responding to recent posts on this thread on the reg if i wasn't caught up on the latest episodes?

it makes total sense for them to do occasional 'the cancer isn't that bad right now, don't worry about it for the time being' hand-waves as the show goes on for a few seasons but does anyone really think that at some point this show will be about a guy who used to have cancer and now will most likely live into old age?

its not really about the cancer any more -- by the time it went into remission it was basically a subplot -- cancer was just a catalyst for letting out his inner crazy

it's not the driving force of the plot from episode to episode like it once was, but it's such a basic cornerstone of the whole show's premise that if they essentially wrote the cancer out of the show...i don't know man.

i mean every show that starts out with some implicit A to B journey the show will take by the end inevitably finds ways to stretch that out once it's successful and stays on the air for a few years -- "cancer is in remission" is to BB as "we can't leave the island yet this week BECAUSE" was to Lost.

Walt is cancer.

cancer comes back -> walt to hospital (anybody who's got close experience with cancer knows how fast it can move) -> cartel and gus both spike his chemo with poison -> walt dies of "cancer" i.e. is murdered by druglords

it occurred to me that walt will prob just die of cancer at the end of the show

― ice cr?m, Wednesday, September 14, 2011 12:10 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

it's not really cancer it's the same poison that killed everybody in the tequila that is what will kill walt they killed him and made it look like cancer you monsters

has any TV thread ever been so dominated with fan fiction/choose your own adventure/character death pool?

no I'm pretty sure we invented that stuff on this thread right here!

"I Hope You're Happy Now, Jacob"--The LOST Season 5 Thread

Uuuuuuuugh

Yeah have to say the prediction stuff is so pointless. Definite lost vibes on this thread lately.

i mean every show that starts out with some implicit A to B journey the show will take by the end inevitably finds ways to stretch that out once it's successful and stays on the air for a few years -- "cancer is in remission" is to BB as "we can't leave the island yet this week BECAUSE" was to Lost.

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ehh i dont buy this. seems to me that cancer in remission is pretty integral to BB -- his motivations are completely shifted once his cancer goes into remission & motivations are a huge part of what makes him tick

Predictions stuff is completely pointless but fun, that's why TV shows bother to end on cliffhangers in the first place.

That said with a show like Breaking Bad you can't really think more than one step ahead because there'll be another unexpected event along in a minute that blows everything off course. 'Which way will Jesse's loyalties go in the next five minutes?' is more fun to think about then 'will Walt die of cancer or be killed by some other guy in a year or so?'

the cancer gave the show forward momentum and is now a subplot.

The trigger on a gun called Walt that only needed to be pulled once.