Shall we anticipate the FIFTH SEASON of the AMC series "Breaking Bad"? I think I may.

idk what you guys are talking about, but I just found this "godard" guy and he was gif whoring like no other

in the BB insider podcast gilligan said that whole coat and tie adjustment thing was something giancarlo esposito came up with himself

Looking at those gifs reminded me of what a great scene this was. What a great show, it hardly ever lets you down
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Whenever I get depressed about S5 being basically two half seasons, I remember how much they packed into that first one.

before s4 started I went back and watched the last 2 eps of S3 and I was agog at how much plot was jammed into them, all these events I thought had happened over the course of the season were just BAM BAM BAM RUN BAM BAM BAM GALE

http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110203035648/hanna-barbera/images/5/50/Bamm-Bamm_Rubble.jpghttp://images3.cliqueclack.com/tv/files/2011/08/breaking-bad-gale-video-425x240.jpg

^ spoiler alert

ilx getting me hooked on san andreas again made watching this ep really really weird

like drive to mike, [mike cutscene] go get the magnet, drive magnet next to building, oh no van is fucked, escape

it was all there in my mind man

(would totally play gta breaking bad if any staff writers keen to indulge internet dweebs are reading)

haha

Could totally see one of those "spook" meters they use when you're trailing somebody to gauge the strength of the magnet.

I think I actually said to sunny, "ooh, this is like a GTA mission" when they drove the truck into the police compound.

lol, it really WAS like a GTA mission, complete with fucking up the main objective and dashing to steal another car to escape

Free Pay N' Sprays at Walt's Car Wash.

ha ha!

hahaha

otm re: GTA affect
they should hire the writers

gta should hire bb writers or vice-versa

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/breaking-bad-vince-gilligan-bryan-cranston-347082?page=show

But the suits had trouble envisioning Fox's suburban dad as their star and threw out film-star names including John Cusack and Matthew Broderick (both passed). "We all still had the image of Bryan shaving his body in Malcolm in the Middle. We were like, 'Really? Isn't there anybody else?' "

lol john cusack

my reaction to finding out that BB was originally set in riverside, CA: of course it was. i can picture that show so easily

The Malcolm in the Middle thing is a big reason why I resisted watching BB for awhile. I hated that show.

its basically the same show

It's amazing how wrong that would be.

And how right Brian Cranston is. Like, I can't even imagine how it could have been anyone else, like it's a scientific law that BC is Walter White.

xp LOL slocki

How wrong John Cusack would be, that is.

i mean the fact that walter white is the same guy who played square-jawed all-american wacky dad just makes it tha tmuch better

i always thought Cranston really carried that show and was responsible for it being watchable at all

i never watched it, always seemed really antic and annoying in a way i couldnt handle

it's a bit annoying. the parents really held the show together and brought a little gravity to it, though.

his only goal is to "make the audience feel something on a visceral level."

"I want moments of showmanship," he continues. "Moments that take your breath away."

i think this is a good way of summing up the show's m.o. and basically think it's artistically valid but that it also kind of feeds into the feeling of them sometimes just swinging so hard for that OMG WTF internet peanut gallery buzz

i rewatched s4 during the leadup to the season premier, and the cran-man really did some amazing work in that season. that guys just insane-o good

yeah season 4 of malcolm is really when he went all in

hahahaha

[btw i tried to post "hahaha" and it told me i was trying to post a duplicate message, lol]

nice.

i think this is a good way of summing up the show's m.o. and basically think it's artistically valid but that it also kind of feeds into the feeling of them sometimes just swinging so hard for that OMG WTF internet peanut gallery buzz

i dunno, i think the story-telling is too well crafted for it to ever feel forced. "swinging so hard for that OMG WTF" makes me think of Lost. mostly BB just hits the bullseye of the OMG WTF and frequently because they've written themselves into a corner and then bust their way out after you're left not knowing how they can do that. (fairly sure gilligan has talked about this approach before)

yeah that was the Season 3 M.O. specifically

definitely, imo that streak of cliffhangers at the end of s3 is the most thrilling tv drama i've ever seen. all these shows have their own strengths and weaknesses but nobody touches BB for how economically it's used the alloted time from week to week, s4 was a bit more loose but i don't expect them to ever top s3.

ya lost was way more "let's wow the audience now and worry about how it makes sense later"

those bastards wrote the book on that. bb can be fanciful at times but only as part of an overall tone of the show imo, eg the plane crash or something.

I even thought the plane crash basically made sense w.r.t the show's themes.

agreed, it has done a good job of setting out the rules.

hated the plane crash but i already know i'm not in the bb cult like y'all so it's whatever

^^ i stopped watching the last episode of season 2 because the plane crash seemed so dumb. but yeah i know i'm in the minority

it was pretty dumb but willing to forgive.

I hated the plane crash initially, but what they did afterwards with it was so good that I've come to retroactively like it

why do u guys hate plane crashes so much

Walt's speech at the high school would not have happened without the plane crash and breaking bad would not have been as good without that speech

No, the plane crash kinda made me go whaaa? too.

Yeah, I get the metaphor, and in a way, I appreciate how the show has treated it since. Walt's responsible for all those plane crash/meth victims. And now, those victims are just a punchline to one of Saul's TV commercials. But narratively speaking, it didn't ring true.