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‘Deal, You Little Prick!!’ Two Minutes Of Sunday’s Penultimate BREAKING BAD!!
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Last week Krysten Ritter brought Jane Margolis back from the dead, Hank tried to take a step, Walt kept his eye on Jesse, Skyler butted heads with Saul, Jesse seduced a potential customer, Gus invited Walt over for dinner and Jesse scoped out the competition.
Tonight:
3.12 “Half Measures”
Jesse strikes out against advice; Walt takes drastic action to intervene.
Next week:
3.13 “Full Measure”
With Jesse on the run, Walt negotiates a bargain with Gus to provide for his and Jesse's safety.
10 p.m. Sunday. AMC.
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Jesse strikes out against advice; Walt takes drastic action to intervene.
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Can't wait to see how more fucked up things get!
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Although your specification diminishes your comment to faint praise. Best show on... NOW? In between the series finales, the cancellations and the season finales, what else is on "now"? Saving Grace? Flashpoint? 8)
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There have been many series in the past decade that have really stepped up to bat as far as story and production are involved. Right NOW all I watch is Breaking Bad cause nothing else at the moment compares. Best pizza tossing ever!
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you know it´s coming back, some way or another.
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After the Lost finale I wanted to catch up on all the old Breaking Bads but Hulu doesn't have full eps, only 7-minute "minisodes." In an hour I watched the whole first season. At least I think I did.
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I've been working like crazy on a project, and I was out shooting til midnight. I race home to make it here by 1am to see the repeat showing of Breaking Bad, only to realize, it's fucking Saturday. psrt of me is disappointed, and part of me is excited to savor the anticipation for another day! sounds stupid, I know. and this way I Can see Breaking Bad as it's meant to be seen. with a bottle of wine and a nice dinner in front of me at 10pm!this might possibly be the gayest post I've ever written, but I don't care.
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wine sounds good, tho. And maybe some of that blue stuff...oh, well.
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Lies and deception are going to come back and bite all of them on the arse.
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I've have actually been looking and just get confused
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From GOD!
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looking good?
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Reminds me of the Shield in some ways. Good times. (--Except for last 15 seconds of the final episode. They chickened out.)
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the episode description for the season finale but eh its not all too shocking.
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Seriously.
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Walt, you effing moron. When Jesse brings you and your whole family down, it will be on your own stupid head.
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the fact I hate Jesse so much proves what a good character he is.
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Jesse does like himself some dark hair on the ladies.
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think we're ever gonna see that thing again? it was in like every episode for the first half of the season, now it's as if they forgot about it. they had an episode called "i see you" for crying out loud and the little guy was nowhere to be seen. would have thought they'd throw it in there with a title like that. (and i know it was a play on words with ICU, since it took place in the intensive care unit, but still.)anyway. can't wait for these last two episodes! it's gonna be a long wait til season 4...
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The teddy bear eye was just a random carry-on from one of the plane passengers. Once they got past that, there was no reason to go back to it.
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Don't you even pay attention?
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Going very well. Better than I imagined it could be. Mom is going home in 3 days but will be getting dialisis 3 times a week. Risky stuff, but she looks and feels better now. I hope that's what you were asking about. Otherwise I guess that was a bit of an over-share. lol. But yeah, things are much better than I expected.
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They're the best! Who says blondes have more fun? Maybe with other blondes, but that's not my experience. Those dark haired ladies cannot be beat.
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I used to hate the guy, but now I'm pulling for him to pull it together. Pretty much hopeless though.
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the first ~4 episodes were pretty boring, the best thing about them Jesse, but now he's back to being the "goofy neighbor", and that episode with the fly was complete bullshit. hopefully the last 2 episodes have some actual story.
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a little piece of me dies.
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i'm not talking about its appearances in season 2, fellas. i'm talking about this season. attentive viewers will remember that in the first few episodes it kept popping up, like under walt's bed, in his luggage when he moved out, etc, and it seemed like it was some kind of symbol for his guilt about the crash and who he'd become. we haven't seen it in awhile. given the impressive continuity of the series i would have thought we'd have seen it again by now.
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This show = PWNAGE
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Mister White and Mister Pink(man)?
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Sorry...have to disagree. The episode with the fly was brilliant. Just two characters in a room. Doesn't get any better than that. That was Mamet quality writing that night. When it comes down to scenes involving just Walt and Jesse it's riveting no matter what.
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...another kitten masturbates.
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"I'm not your little buddy... bitch!"
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that they're paranoid. Which can lead them to giving their enemies too much credit.
Gus - I'm talking about our Chilean chicken magnate here - has a top secret meth lab of huge Bond-villain proportions and a brilliant distribution system set up.
Along comes Heisenberg killing him on the streets with a vastly superior product.
Then Saul sends Mr. White and Mr. Pinkman to Gus and they step all fly into the spiderweb right in, la dee dah.
Gus enlists his chief competition. It's as if Mr. Clucks opened a Chicken Shack across the street from Los Hermanos Pollos so he just merged the companies.
Gus discards of Jesse like a flyspeck contaminant. Gus provides Walt with a vastly over-qualified new lab assistant. (And as someone here in these talkbacks rather brilliantly deduced, the assistant was clearly learning to cook blue in order to serve as Walt's replacement. I think it makes sense to assume that's what Gus had in mind.)
Walt comes up with a bogus reason to get rid of the assistant and an even more spurious and less logical reason to bring Jesse back in. Gus sees through this but goes along because he THINKS that Walt was on to his plan to replace him.
Walt's brother in law is a threat. The Twins who want Walt dead are a threat. Gus sets them against one another and eliminated both threats.
Did Walt ever really think that huge lab and that distribution system was built up just for him?
Walt had agreed to cook for "Mr. Pollos" for a specific three month period.
Realizing how dangerous the people he's dealing with and the toes he's stepping on are, Walt renegotiates to assure his, Jesse's and his family's safety. Gus leaps at the opportunity to make Walt an open-ended offer with an annual guarantee... and NO exit clause.
"Don;t make the same mistakes twice" he advises, assuming that Walt can get Jesse under control. Clearly not understanding the complexity of the relationship between Jesse "I'm the bad guy" Pinkman and Walter "I can't be the bad guy" White.
The point of this little recap? As freaky super-genius as Heisenberg may be, I sometimes suspect that Walt White is NOT as smart as Gustavo 'Gus' Frings seems to think he is. And unlike the Bond villains who always underestimate their foe, it may be Gus's OVER-estimating Walt that eventually brings his carefully erected fortress of cards crashing down around his shoulders. -
And the moral is, it only takes half a minute to check with IMDb and learn character names if you want to discuss a show. Even less if someone gives you the link:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0903747/fullcredits#cast
Anna Gunn plays Skyler, Betsy Brandt (whose name is thisclose to being a Peter Parker ex-girlfriend) plays Marie and KRYSTEN RITTER plays Jane. If you want to Google image search for sexy pictures of them with safe search off. (You're welcome. If you want sexy pictures of Jesse, Gus and Badger, I can't help you, you'll have to take the extra step of looking up their names. If you want sexy pictures of Saul, well, nothing can help you.) -
Jun 06, 2010 2:10:18 PM CDT
I have the feeling, that when it's all said and done
by david cloverfield
Heisenberg will be an unwilling crime lord, replacing Gus. He will not have a choice. Show kicks ass.
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http://www.wokeupdead.tv/
Looking up Krysten Ritter, I see that she is reportedly the best thing about an internet web series called "Woke Up Dead" that stars Jon "N.Dynamite" Heder and also features Wayne "Newwwwman" Knight, Daniel "Arzt" Roebuck and Jean "Charlene" Smart.
Yes, I cited Designing Women over Kim Possible, 24 and Samantha Who. That's just how I roll... bitches. (At least I went with Lost over Matlock and Seinfeld over 3rd Rock...) -
http://tinyurl.com/KRasJaneMargolis
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hours at work but i'm sure the season will be on dvd in short order and then it gets moved into my netflix que. (currently have The Wire and just released season of True Blood in there.) Just joined Netflex and so far they only send you the next one after they get the last one from me. Someone at work said they are with BB's service and they send a bunch to her, not this one at a time crap. I don't mind. With all the good stuff being released these days (like the old series Thriller in August), it's all good. oh, and only now going through season 1 of The Wire. Great acting from all concerned!
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http://tinyurl.com/DeadLikeJimi
No wonder Jane went out copying the worlds most infamous and nastiest death scene, the Jimi Hendrix "choking to death on his own vomit" stunt: Krysten Ritter is also a rock star -- or at least, in this MySpace era, wants to be one.
Here's her band Ex Vivian and their song "Big Planes and Sharks" - not an actual rock video, just a gallery of "look how pretty our singer is" photos. And my, look how pretty their singer is.
So how weird was it that Jane was a tattoo artist with no (visible) tattoos? Like she can dish it out but not take it. How sadistic is that? -
and not the former lead singer of a band named Vivian.
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clearly liked names with Ys in them way too damn much.
Fucking dope-smoking hippies. (Not that I have anything against them, I'm just sayin', that is what they like to do, right? Smoke dope and fuck? Hippie-chicks are hot if you don't mind the arm-pit and leg hair. And sweaty smelly hippie-chick arm-pit hair is totally hot if you're into pheromones.)
Actually, her parents were not hippies. She grew up on a Pennsylvania beef farm harvesting the beef crops until she moved to New York at age sixteen and got a job as a super-model. She is 29 years old now and years of acting have led to her playing guitar in an unknown band and writing scripts.
She is not related to the legendary Tex Ritter or his descendants John or Josh.
Yes, I totally Wiki'd her.
And yes, I'd totally Wiki her if Wiki meant Spork. And Spork meant "to eat with a disposable spoon". Only I'd have her autograph the spork and then put it in an airtight plastic zip-loc bag and keep it in my freezer as a souvenir. 'Cause that's how I go.
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Here comes Mongo!
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Jun 06, 2010 5:30:36 PM CDT
WALT has settled into his EVIL lifestyle this season
by idrinkyourmilkshake
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I want his weaselly dumb ass to be beaten like a stepchild... but I still like the character so. Maybe I'm understanding the abusive relationship.
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when they first showed the cigarette with lipstick in the ashtray, it already felt resonant without any dialogue, because you knew it was Jane's. But then the flashback this week ending with the cigarette, added a whole other layer. That's why this show is so amazing. So many subtle moments that have resonance and layers upon layers. And I love any scene between Walt and Gus. The dinner table scene was like the best Pinter play. Simple lines with amazing amount of subtext. Esposito is just simply genius. He doesn't play it as menacing at all. But somehow he still is, quietly and frighteningly. Jesse is an amazing character, too. Just when you think he's utterly reprehensible, he draws a line when it comes to children. But then it shifts so quickly with the re-introduction of Tomas. Best show on television right now.
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What the fuck did you just do?
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Wow, I was having flashbacks to the end of Sopranos season 5, when Tony B shot Phil's brother, I naively though Breaking Bad would follow a similar path. Boy was I wrong
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That's a holy shit moment.
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You are one cold blooded SOB.
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We don't know yet what Walt did but we can't wait to find out.
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Oh my god what the fuck just happened. I love this show so much. Goddamn i dont wanna wait another week.
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Didn't see that ending coming!!! Best show on TV!!
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but that question is my only comment for the episode.
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So bumbed this show gets not viewers. I keep telling people about it but they just brush me off. From the opening montage of the beat up hooker to amazing ending.
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Walt officially stepped his game up!!! That definitely came out of no where... and the plot thickens
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That has to be the best running gag in TV history. What a show! How many times has Lost used that "Run!", but never which as much literal and figurative impact as the end of this episode.
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this show never ceases to surprise me.
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That has to be the best running gag in TV history. What a show! How many times has Lost used that "Run!", but never which as much literal and figurative impact as the end of this episode.
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Weren't they already laundering the money through the "Save Walter White" website? How will they explain THAT to the auditor? Will that bring more attention on them? Could there be an uncomfortable expose about the 'cancer patient charity' getting miused for buying the car wash?
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Amazing end. I teared up for an instant after Walt *broke his windshield, then I yelled "HOLY SHIT!" after he *painted the sidewalk.
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Jun 06, 2010 10:33:40 PM CDT
Regarding Walt's windshields, when he buys the car wash
by silkscreener
he should add on a windshield repair station. Saves him from going to someone else.
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I LOVE how he gets put into impossible situations that challenge his pragmatism and what he will (and won't do). That ending just shocked me as a line has now been irreversibly crossed for this character. Truly an amazing program of the highest order ....
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I also caught Gus telling his men "No children, understand". I guess they misinterpreted the statement a little. This writing better get an emmy nod.
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I know we keep saying it--but this shit just keeps getting better and better! Fuckin' badass Walt tonight. Damn!
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FULL MEASURES!
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It does..This show has the biggest balls on the block right now..Walt is now a forced to be reckoned with or to say the least respected.
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So, thanks to Herc's copy-paste synopses, it looks like Walt blames this on Jesse. Wow.
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RUN! Super-Walt is back.
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But Walt's "reaction" had as much to do with what happened to the kid as it did protecting Jesse. Mark my words. Walt didn't want to not sleep for the rest of his life because something he was involved with led to the murder of a child.
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Jun 06, 2010 11:38:53 PM CDT
VULGARITIES, BLASPHEMIES (insert multiple punctuation here)
by vikkimarsdale
VULGARITIES, BLASPHEMIES (insert multiple punctuation here)...
...and repeat for one full paragraph.
Do much drama, like repeated hammer blows to the heart.
So, are we not talking about this yet for the benefit of some Pacific Islanders or something? F*** that.
IF YOU HAVE NOT WATCHED THE EPISODE go away.
Okay? All right to talk about Breaking Bad now?
Strings of VULGARITIES and BLASPHEMIES in all-caps, (insert multiple punctuation here)...
...and repeat for one full paragraph.
And that said... So much drama... and so much humor... and so much... detail.
Maybe this is just me but when Skyler said "I'd rather be thought of as Bonnie what's her name than as an idiot" I started yelling "Franklin! Tyler! Bramlett! Lies Over The Ocean!"
Maybe this is just me and the comics geek talking, but I want Bryan Cranston in a Green Arrow movie. No hair, don't change the beard, just lose the glasses. Anyone else?
The self referential stuff. Walt White knowing his Walt Whitman. Aaron "Jesse" Paul having his "buy you a beer" scene at a bar named "Paul's". A show that has still not been renewed for another season actually using the term "On the bubble" in the dialog.
And... wait, they can open with a hooker going down on four guys but a woman giving her husband a hand-job requires an onscreen TV-14 warning in the middle of the episode?
Hank being rolled out with his box of nick-nacks and that smug look on Marie's face!
Skyler looking up Money Laundering on Wikipedia.
That back lighting on the PI during that wife-abuse story, the way his ears showed through pink like a rat. I mean this attention to that sort of detail is f*cking genius.
And, okay, seriously, I mean it, if you are going to watch this tomorrow or next week and don't want spoilage, look away.
Because that ending...
Gus at his most menacing. Jesse at his craziest. Jesse standing up to Gus eyeball to eyeball. "No... more... children."
Walt... Walt... WALT!!!
Last week after Jesse learned Tomas had killed his man, I almost feared Jesse would go after the kid. It played out different... but with the same result.
(more swearing) ...and there was no way Jesse was going to cowboy his way out of that main street showdown. He may have thought he was going to kill those guys, but he was marching to his own death, no question...
Except... WALT. Crash! And > bang
And the thought of poor Walt Jr. showing up for his driving test in a car with a smashed window, blood on the bumper and guts dangling from the undercarraige.
And still more swearing and taking in vain... And if AMC doesn't give us the two more years of this that Giligan wants, there is no... justice.
And, y'know, I watch more than my share of TV - I moderate over at Jump The Shark. And these days I rarely watch a show while taping it and then immediately watch it again. And NEVER...
Fuck. I want to watch that again.
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Jesse doing drugs again. Always upsets me when you see so much hard work being thrown away flippantly.
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I watch a lot of TV. Way too much, maybe. I try to cut down, but hey, I moderate over at Jump the Shark. (The yahoo group, not the defunct web site.)
I very, very rarely tape a show, watch it live while taping it and then immediately have to see it again. maybe a couple Losts and a few Fringes this season. And this.
Watch the ten o'clock, then when they started the second showing I said screw the commercials and went to the tape and immediately saw it again.
And I never say this, but...
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OH... Clyde's wife?
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Funny, during the beginning of this episode I was saying to myself, "You know, this season is still good but it kinda already climaxed with the Hank shootout." Not that the show has been bad or anything but it just hasnt been THAT level of dramatic genius. MAN WAS I WRONG!!!!!!!!! Add another "BEST SHOW ON TV" comment to the pile here...
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Speaking of AMC, I caught The Unforgiven last week. Eastwood is an old retired outlaw. Hackman a sadistic corrupt sheriff.
Though most of the movie Eastwood ways that he doesn't kill, doesn;t get in gun fights no more, his dead wife wouldn't like it. He doesn't fight, he doesn't go to whores no more, he doesn't drink no more, because of his dead wife. And repeatedly he turns down offers of drink, even in pissing down rain, even after traumatic events. He don't drink whiskey no more.
Until finally the time comes when he does. And then we seem him in the bar, the cliched "and leave the bottle" scene of him just pouring and hitting it back. Damn he's a mean drunk. The killing begins and half the bar dies and the other half runs away. And he yells out the door "If you shoot me I will kill you and your family and burn your house down."
Hackman, of course, is shot and dying but the damn fool has to reach for his gun. clint stands on his arm and points a rifle in his face. Hackman says "I don't deserve to die like this. I was building a house." Clint snarls "We all deserve to die like this." and pulls the trigger.
DAn K, I agree with every word you wrote except the last one. "Flippantly" Jesse bought blue product he made with his own hands from the men who had a little boy kill one of his friends for being on the wrong Corner. He tried to handle it himself and gets reined in.
Gus tells his "trusted employees" "No children, understand?" Maybe they misunderstood, or maybe they understood perfectly. There IS no exit strategy. And how can you trust an eleven year old to keep secrets once you fire him? So they resolve the matter the way they know how.
Jesse wants to take direct action. but he's no killer. He's a recovering user a couple of months clean finding he's in business with the men who killed his friend and after promising to keep the peace they kill the kid he wanted to save.
Tomas, dead -- something Jesse did.
So Jesse needs more than a gun. Fuck, sometimes even Clint Eastwood needs to take that drink.
Sure he would have been killed. Sometimes it comes down to kill or die. (At least in fictional tough guy story land, hopefully not in your life or mine.)
Nothing flippant about it.
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Great Ep! I found it odd that Gus would expose himself to the street dealers and Jessie but that scene was worth it regardless. I'm really just speechless from that ending. Not saying that Breaking Bad is better then The Wire but Breaking Bad is wearing the crown at this point.
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about his relationship with Walt. He wanted to keep Walt happy. Remember, He just had Walt over for dinner.
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Yelp!
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beyond next week. Looking at the preview, the Cleaner tells Gus "It looks like the cartel" as Gus stares with concern at something in his hand, which, later in the preview, is revealed to be four bloody passports. I think the cartel offs a few of Gus's men next week, a sign that Gus is nearing his end. Hell, could you imagine them capping season 3 with the cartel brutally executing Gus? His character brings a lot to the show, but I don't think there's any other way Walt and Jesse can be allowed to live unless Gus dies. Damn I hope we don't get a cliffhanger ending. This is the one show whose season finale I want to have a pretty pink bow tied to.
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Makes Treme look like Rhoda or some shit like that. Walter White with the car in the park lol. That was great.
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breaking bad has proven in season 3, it is the amc series to beat. best series on cable in 2010. probably the best series on usa tv in 2010.
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The character of Jesse grows and grows, some bad guy, well as long as children don't get hurt. Jesse has spent all this season trying to become cold and hard, but he isn't that guy. Jesse cares. Thats what it comes down to, and Walt cares about Jesse too. The end was nothing short of Dynamic, my friend said after the crash, "oh I saw that coming" i asked her 5 seconds later if she saw that coming...No half measures. oh and while i agree with almost everything VikkiMarsdale has to say except, after saying how much you wikki you could have found the right quotes, and there is no sceane in Unforgiven where William Munny drinks a bottle in a bar, it is by a tree when him and the Scholfield kid are dividing the money and he finds out Ned is dead...not judging just saying
Little Bill Daggett: I don't deserve this... to die like this. I was building a house.
Will Munny: Deserve's got nothin' to do with it.
[aims gun]
Little Bill Daggett: I'll see you in hell, William Munny.
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One cannot throw the word amazing around enough when speaking of Breaking Bad. Truly the best program on the airwaves!!
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I LOVE Jesse; always have. I think he is great, I can understand where he is coming from, and I just love to death his scenes, and have always thought he was a main driving force behind the show, and Walt. But when Mike grabs Jesse, and is driving him, it TOTALLY felt like Adrianna's end in The Sopranos, and it was the first time I WANTED Jesse to die. At this point, Walt has done all he can for him, and him dying would be the impetus Walt needs to go to the next level. And this show is crazy enough to kill one of their leads an episode before the finale. That being said, I'm glad Jesse isn't dead, but not many shows can make you think they're actually going to kill one of their main characters, in a "random" episode of the season.
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May have been the wrong word choice. But it kind of registered just as some false courage before he goes out and does something huge. Like taking a shot before asking someone out. That being said, YES, Jesse has gone through a tremendous amount, and I guess it's not surprising he has turned back to drugs (although that doesn't make it any more sad, and I hope this was just a one time thing). I just love that the stuff with Combo, and the aftermath is KIND OF Jesse's equivalent to Walt's situation with Jane's death, in terms of doing one thing, that has tremendoussss repercussions, that just keep fucking up our character.
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It will be really interesting to see where Walt and Jesse end up after Mr. Pollio goes down though.
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bitches
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shouldve been the title
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I have no idea where this show is going. It set up the play to right and then it goes left and not in a fake way but in a way thats real for the charaters. I total saw Walt turning his back on Jesse and going all big bad on everyone. Boy was I wrong. Keep it up AMC.
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Yeah I don't see how he will survive if we expect Walt and Jessie to still be around. We will miss you chicken man!!
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with everyone whispering all episode. About half-way thru, I was like "Everybody is speaking in hushed tones- what other show would try this?"
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The BJ music video...storytime with Grandpa Mike...pow wow at the chicken farm (sans cheese tray)...raising Hank's flag...the return of Heisenberg.TV so good, it's criminal.
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Gustavo: "Mr. White, when I asked your young compatriot to make peace and abandon his plans to kill my employees, exactly what part of that made you think that I wanted you to kill them for him?"
Walter: "Well, when I asked you for your advice to me you replied that I should never make the same mistakes twice. You have to agree that this was a completely different sort of mistake."
Gustavo: "Ah yes, I see. Well, don't do it again, all right?"
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Totally pitch that as next season's tag line, McPoyle Clan.
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This could have easily been a season finale, how are they going to top it this week? I dare any show on television to step it up like BB does week in and week out.
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Jesse stan=ding up to Gus, Jonathan banks' monologue to Walt and THAT ending.
Oh and Vikki, Clint's reply in Unforgiven is actually- " Deserve's got nothing to do with it." -
...Aren't you sad you can't buy them anymore?
Just watched the preview clip over at the AMC site...holy crap, it's great. More tension in the first couple of minutes than I've paid for at a movie theater in the last year or two. -
I'm almost positive you're right. It's the only way both Walt and Jessie can continue to breathe. Plus, with Gus out of the picture, "Heisenberg" can step into the vacuum and finally become the major operator he only aspired to before...the cartel may actually prefer a partnership. And remember, he's already set up his own, Saul-free laundering scheme with Skyler's help.
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I've hardly ever seen Jonathan Banks playing anything but villains apart from the start of 48hours. I'd like to see more especially after he revealed he used to be a cop.
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I thought Hank vs Mexitwins was a badass shocker. But wholly fuck! Mr. White is actually becoming Heisenberg!
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Literally stunned me, I couldn't breath for a second or two. What an ending, what a fucking show. I was just getting pissed off with whiny Jesse and his dumb ass moves when *BAM* everything changes and it's Walt who steps up again and, just like at Tuco's HQ in season 1, takes charge. Amazing, amazing show.
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He sure ran one over and one under for the win.
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The ending of this episode may have been the most shocking moment in the history of dramatic television. It leaves only one question unanswered...WHY IS THIS NOT IN FUCKING HD !!!???
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I'm glad Herc gives us a Breaking Bad talkback at all, but off the front page and out of the top ten in one day? Less the 24 hours after airing? This show needs more people talking about it.
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Finally watched this. This really is the best show on tv, and yes, the best since The Sopranos
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On Verizon Fios, anyway...
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The sight of that plane crashing right over Walt's house hammered home a karmic message in such epic terms that it actually took half of this season for Walt to finally shrug it off and get back to business. Beats a lazy, "creative" black screen any day of the week. And this season looks likely to end on a higher note.
Sopranos was like one of those porn movies where the chick is sucking and jerking for what seems like forever before a tablespoon of splooge finally dribbles out...Breaking Bad, on the other hand is like watching two horny lovers moaning, then gasping, then SCREAMING, then having difficulty breathing, before the cocksplosion and the screen is just FILLED with a column of ropey jism (to use Bill Hicks' colorful terminology), sufficient that the girl is physically buffetted at her face blasting.
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http://knifefightingjesus.com/?p=13157
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Breaking Bad doesn't do anything by accident. They actually used Jeopardy to define the sound that we the *audience* would then be caused to make 10 minutes later.
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...has ever made me say "holy shit" on a consistent basis like Breaking Bad has. It seems like there's always at least one of those moments per episode.
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Someone else said it, and I have to agree, it's the only show where I usually watch the episodes two or three times before the new one.
I actually couldn't wait to get home from work to watch Sunday's again.
It's TV brilliance. Sometimes there are only a handful of scenes all lasting around 7 minutes, a lesser show could not pull this off. -
I love how Heisenberg slowly swallows Walt White. I love how he eventually comes out on top of every confrontation in the underworld, while his family life is in shambles. My guess is, by the end, White will disappear and only the scary fucker remains who screamed RUN to Jesse. A++
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When you think what deliberation Walt goes through in season one, before he kills the man. Making a list, and thinking over it SO methodically, and now, he is at the point where he can just off-the-cuff shoot someone.
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Not that it needs to be, but it would be nice to get a full sixty minutes.
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Finale will be an extended episode.
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I think it had less to do with mustering up courage, and more to do with the fact that he knew he was signing his own death warrant. But it was something that he felt like he had to do. I don't think he expected to get killed by the street dealers, but he surely knew that killing them means that HE dies. And so, fuck it. If that's how things have to end, might as well get high. More than anything else, I think him getting high again was mostly a consequence of him realizing that his life was about to end.
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Jun 09, 2010 10:40:39 PM CDT
Jesse:"Like, do you mean run away from this crime scene
by vikkimarsdale
...here right now, or do you mean pack up and get out of town, leave the house I just bought behind and hope that chicken guy never finds me? Or just "run" in general?"
"Walt: "Run in general? Do you mean, am I at this point in time endorsing running as a heart healthy cardiac activity? No. What I mean is, I just killed two men because of you, and I have not been particularly happy with you lately either, so while I'm standing here in shock holding a smoking murder weapon in my hand, you may just want to get the fuck away from me... NOW!!!" -
getting to use your van for my driving test because mom's brake's stick. How could you go mess it up like that when you knew I was counting on it?"
Walter: "Sorry, son, but I needed to waste a couple of scumbag child-murdering meth dealers. Sometimes a bitch just has to die." -
Herc ran an article claiming Rubicon airs Sunday at 11:00 after BB. this appears to be in error.
The AOL/Zap2It TV listings state that BReaking BAd airs at 9:00 pm ext - that's NINE O'CLOCK - and runs for 107 minutes, until 11:47.
That may be including some special material along the lines of a Lost recap clip show or just actors congratulating themselves on a job well done, because the following repeat broadcasts are listed as 68 and 65 minutes respectively. Might be worth catching the nine o'clock show to see that the bonus features are - or what will be cut from the reruns? -
BReaking BAd airs from 10;00 pmest - it's usual time slot - but the first airing does run 107 minutes, until 11:47. The rerun then immediately airs for 68 minutes while the third showing runs 65 minutes. I can understand the three minute difference being due to how much advertising they can sell in different time slots - I hope that doesn't mean the 10:00 show doesn't have an extra forty minutes of commercials.
I also hope they pull a Star Trek and have on on screen announcement of a 4th (and maybe 5th) season renewal at the end of the episode. -
"Do you mean, am I at this point in time endorsing running as a heart healthy cardiac activity?" -- Haha!
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At the Jump The Shark discussion group someone oddly enough named Jesse (B.) wrote: "As what the extra time will be for, maybe they plan to let the Jesse character rant and rave for about 10-15 minutes, as far as doing yet another monologue about how evil he is and about how evil must have standards. What with Jesse spending most of the season ranting and raving about how evil he is."
And Poppaspank replied: I never noticed Jesse Pinkman discussing the philosophy of evil much beyond his "I learned a lot in counseling. I learned who I am. ...I'm the bad guy" speech.
We have seen his vulnerable side: his obsessive calling of Jane's phone to hear her voice on her answering machine until the line was finally disconnected, the fact that he still has her lipstick tinged cigarette butts in his car ashtray. (And I loved the recent episode opener flashback that showed the "origin of the cigarette butt" - what kind of shows goes into that sort of detail?)
However, Mr. Pinkman has done some breath-takingly evil things: trying to prey on recovering addicts to sell product, seducing a woman from rehab to try to develop a customer, slipping Walt a sleeping pill to get him over his obsession with the fly, jeopardizing his and Walt's multi-million dollar cooking deal with Gustavo in order to swipe a few ounces and make a few bucks on the side, rejecting some of Saul's sage advice, buying his parents home out from under them, trying to get a hooker to pass poisoned burgers to her drug connections. People credit him with making "bad decisions" but I think his behavior goes well beyond making mistakes - he actively wants to reject all good advice and actively be that "bad guy".
And yet as bad as JP wants to break, he got Badger and Skinny Pete into rehab (for the worst of reasons but with unexpectedly positive results). He did not want revenge on 11 year old Tomas for killing his friend, he went after the dealers who gave Tomas the orders, and he stood up to Gustavo and looked him in the eye to say so. And when they killed Tomas in retaliation he snapped, relapsed and went walking to his death in that cowboy style main street showdown.
Walter White, on the other hand, famously told Saul Goodman "I can't be the bad guy" yet he lied to get his overqualified assistant (and potential replacement) fired, he got his brother-in-law shot and crippled, threw a perfectly good pizza onto a roof, went totally obsessive over a stupid fly, altered his arrangement with Gustavo from a three month limited engagement to an open ended contract with no exit strategy, failed to prevent Skyler from working out a plausible money laundering scheme, and, oh yeah, ridding the world of a couple crystal meth dealers by crushing one beneath his Aztek and capping the other in the face with his own pistol.
Mr. White doesn't want to be the bad guy, but look out, old Heisenberg's back.
I have not (yet) heard that BReaking BAd has been renewed for another season. I have read that series creator Vince Gilligan has stated that he would like to do the show as a close-ended five year series.
I've also heard that like Andy Renko, Any Sipowicz and Jack Shephard (Hill Street Blues, NYPD BLue and Lost respectively) Jesse Pinkman was another character who was originally intended to be around for a few episodes, a single arc or, at most, a season and then die. Instead the talents of the actor and the popularity of the character got those plans changed. Now he's the series' nominal co-star - the antithesis or flip-side of the show's star.
Jesse wants to be the bad guy. He certainly has the motive or justification to shut down emotionally. He was finally happy when his beautiful girlfriend convinced him to try heroin, leading to him waking up with her lying dead beside him. He wants to be the bad guy, he just may not really have it in him.
Walter White on the other hand set out to provide for his family after his death by cancer by raising some money fact by cooking and selling some meth. He wound up with his illness in remission and a deal that could make his family millions of dollars. But how much do they really need? And how can "a man providing for his family" justify the mass destruction that's surrounded him at every turn?
It's just a TV series and everyone can have an opinion. but if you think half of the third season was Pinkman "ranting about how evil he is" as opposed to actually displaying how bad he can be, then I think we must be getting different things out of the show. You're entitled to your opinion, of course, but I seem to be enjoying the series more than you are, so yay me.
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I cant let this thread end with a post that fail
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BAking BRead.
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This thread ends when the next one goes up. That's how this works. Run.
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Vikki does a great job of putting the more nuanced elements of the show into perspective. Though I do find it scandalous that she is discussing this show outside of our small band of pathetic talkbackers. I keed, I keed. Pollute the internet with news of this glorious program all you want. I can't believe it hasn't been renewed yet?! What the fuck! Give it a two year close-ended renewal already, AMC. That's plenty of time for Gilligan to finish crafting his masterpiece.
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Here I just comment on what I like about the show and hopefully notice a few things worth commenting on. I co-mod over in the Shark Tank. Here people are pretty positive about the show - we don't seem to get that many trolls the way the Lost talk backs did. so I'm not accustomed to having to actually "defend BReaking BAd". And I do think JB was off base - sure Pinkman's "bad" but he doesn't really rant about it all that much.
Oh, about that "blank" post above that I accidentally clicked send on - AMC actually is running a promo during the late night hours that is basically "Previously on BReaking BAd: screech, crash, BANG" from the ending of the episode.
I still worry that running constant on screen promos for the show may alienate potential viewers. They probably don't do that during the say, but who watched AMC during the day? That's when I sleep.
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