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Meth, I Hear You Callin': The Final Season of Breaking Bad

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Spartanforlife4 said:
Or maybe they didn't miss anything, and this show was just so good that I'm craving more story from it. I guess that's the one fault of going out on top, there's no exhausted story.
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This. At least for me.
 
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Spartanforlife4 said:
I'm actually sorta sad. Currently watching a lot of those parodies and getting some bad nostalgia thinking back to the earlier seasons when it was just Walt and Jesse together and the story was still piecing itself together.

I don't know if it's because it's over and I'm still wanting more, but there's a part of me that feels unfulfilled. It was a great finale but it just feels like there's something they missed, like a flash forward to Holly watching the video or something else involving the family.

Or maybe they didn't miss anything, and this show was just so good that I'm craving more story from it. I guess that's the one fault of going out on top, there's no exhausted story.
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They did miss something...Huell. He's still waiting...

:D
 
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Um:

BB, brought to me by a nurse, haven't researched it:

62 episodes, on the table of elements #62 is samarium.
its used to treat lung cancer
 
Re: Meth, I Hear You Callin': The Final Season of Breaking Bad

If you ever read the AV Club newswire items by Sean O'Neal, you might appreciate this gem:

Oliver Stone says the Breaking Bad finale was "ridiculous" and too violent; we're through the looking glass here, people

Vince Gilligan always referred to Breaking Bad as the evolution from “Mr. Chips to Scarface,” so it seems only natural that we’d want to know what the writer of 1983’s Scarface thought of it—particularly seeing as we cannot rest until every famous person’s thoughts on the Breaking Bad finale are properly cataloged, for our children’s children. Fortunately, that writer, Oliver Stone, has now volunteered his review, coincidentally at the same time that he’s trying to drum up publicity for the Blu-ray release of his The Untold History Of The United States: “I happen to not watch the series very much,” the riddle wrapped in an enigma topped with a mustache said, by way of announcing that valid opinions are forthcoming, “but I happened to tune in and I saw the most ridiculous 15 minutes of a movie—it would be laughed off the screen.”

The director’s professional, zeitgeist-capturing critique of those 15 minutes—which were the final act to a larger story he never actually paid attention to—was similarly part of a broader point about on-screen violence that likewise seems ridiculous. “There’s too much violence in our movies—and it’s all unreal to me,” said Oliver Stone, whose own tempered, realistic, and respectful explorations of violence range from Scarface’s dismemberment by chainsaw, to the sitcom parodies and stylized music video murders of Natural Born Killers. “Nobody could park his car right then and there and could have a machine gun that could go off perfectly and kill all of the bad guys! It would be a joke. It’s only in the movies that you find this kind of fantasy violence,” said the man whose last movie, Savages, ended with a violent shootout that is literally a fantasy.

“And that’s infected the American culture; you young people believe all of this ****!” continued the man whose self-professed satirical critique of the debilitating cultural violence he so despises ended up being cited as an inspiration by several real-life murderers. “Batman and Superman, you've lost your minds, and you don’t even know it!” said a man who works in the medium of film, and not a panicked member of the local PTA, of how today’s out-of-control kids probably even think Batman and Superman are real. “At least respect violence. I’m not saying don’t show violence, but show it with authenticity. If people think that bringing a machine gun to your last meeting is a solution to a television series that’s very popular, I think they’re insane. Something’s wrong,” said the man who wrote his own climactic finale where the chief inspiration for Breaking Bad solves his problems with a grenade launcher.

Obviously, some may quibble with a director, who has himself endured criticisms of glorifying violence from those who failed to put it in the proper context, offering the same to a TV series he admits he never actually watched. And yet, it all makes sense once we step through the looking glass, and recognize that it’s part of a larger conspiracy to keep America discussing Oliver Stone. And we’re just the patsies.
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Re: Meth, I Hear You Callin': The Final Season of Breaking Bad

That's like Paul Verhoeven saying there is too much sex and nudity in a flick.
 
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Priceless said:
The Albuquerque Journal published an obituary for Walter White.
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Saw this on Twitter when I working through Season 4.
**** you twitter for spoiling one ending for me :D

Just finished the series and man did I spent a lot of time catching up...but man was it worth. Best drama I've ever watched. It will be hard for any other drama to come close.

My favorite part of the last episode? When Walt said to Skyler that he "..was alive"...just like he said to Jesse in the first episode. Loved that.
I thought the most shocking part of the last few episodes was actually Hank's death. I didn't see that coming at all.

Random thoughts... I HATED Marie and wish she would have been killed. But having her husband shot dead and missing for a while was good punishment. She is such a bad person. Plus everything she owns is purple. Which is funny.

Just a phenomenal series.

Would love that box set but...**** 225?

All in all I'm proud that somehow almost all of the events in the series weren't spoiled for me. I avoided social media the night and morning of the finale.
 
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Biddco said:
Random thoughts... I HATED Marie and wish she would have been killed. But having her husband shot dead and missing for a while was good punishment. She is such a bad person. Plus everything she owns is purple. Which is funny.
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If you paid close attention to the last couple episodes (starting with the one that ended with the shootout)...Marie switches from purple to black.
 
MinnesotaNorthStar said:
If you paid close attention to the last couple episodes (starting with the one that ended with the shootout)...Marie switches from purple to black.
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It started when she found out about Walt and tried to console Skyler only to discover that she was more complicit than either Hank or Marie thought. People over on TWoP thought it was her mourning the "death" of her relationship with her sister.
 
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MinnesotaNorthStar said:
If you paid close attention to the last couple episodes (starting with the one that ended with the shootout)...Marie switches from purple to black.
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I did notice!

The death that made me the saddest was Mike's. It was a relief when Hank was killed because I thought that it would mean Walt could get away. I guess yes and no to that.

And I was rooting for Walt the whole time.
 
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Just looking back, there are so many great characters in Breaking Bad: Walt, Jesse, Hank, Mike, Gus, Saul...

It really is the best show that has ever been made.
 
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I think the Wire will give Breaking Bad a run for its money. It was far more literary, with a social message. Breaking Bad was more pulpy. I don't know what constitutes "best" but BB is certainly the most entertaining show I've experienced.
 
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