Breaking Bad on AMC (13 Viewers)

[RUSF18]

Couple questions:

1) How did Walt get Brock to take the poison?

2) How could Mike possibly get out of the park when the cops surrounded it?

I love when modern shows draw from ancient mythology. Naming episodes "Kafkaesque" and "Ozymandias" and making allusions to Sisyphus, for example, were awesome.

Bump. Would like to see an answer to these questions as I have the same ones.... the poison was always a mystery.

On 1, we don't have a "real" answer. Gilligan at one point said in an interview that Walt likely got it to Brock by poisoning his juice box in school off-screen, or something like that. It was just something we had to accept as a leap of faith.

I don't remember the situation surrounding your 2nd question...been a while.

 

[Bigboy10182000]

I really enjoyed Breaking Bad, but it's hard for me to consider it a better show than ALF.

You're equating Lost with ALF?

Now who's being silly?

That creative little fellow was doing a spinoff of the New Girl joke...Just smile so he goes away.

 

[Homer J Simpson]

Couple questions:

1) How did Walt get Brock to take the poison?

2) How could Mike possibly get out of the park when the cops surrounded it?

I love when modern shows draw from ancient mythology. Naming episodes "Kafkaesque" and "Ozymandias" and making allusions to Sisyphus, for example, were awesome.

Bump. Would like to see an answer to these questions as I have the same ones.... the poison was always a mystery.

We didn't see how he poisoned Brock, so there is no answer to that one.

 

[Ghost Rider]

Did they ever say for sure if those cops at the park were there for Mike? I remember there being two cop cars. The assumption being that the lawyer who flipped told the feds where Mike was (since he called Mike to find out where he was right before Walt called him to tell him that the cops were after him), but could the cops have gotten to that location in less than a minute, even if the lawyer's phone was tapped and the feds were listening? Hard to know. I thought the idea behind the two cops cars was to show Mike's feeling of the cops closing in on him, and him not having time to say goodbye to his granddaughter, rather than those actual cops being after him.

 

[Plorfu]

I really enjoyed Breaking Bad, but it's hard for me to consider it a better show than ALF.

You're equating Lost with ALF?Now who's being silly?

Willie: You can't vote, ALF, you're not a citizen.

ALF: I'll apply for a green card.

Willie: That's only if you want a job.

ALF: Pass.

[pause]

ALF: I know, I'll marry Lynn. Become a citizen, vote, then drop her like a hot potato.

Willie: ALF...

ALF: Sure it will be hard on her first. She'll cry, drink a little too much. Join with a bongo player named Waquine.

Willie: ALF.

ALF: You'd like Waquine, he doesn't like beets.

Willie: Neither you or Waquine may marry my daughter and you may not vote.

ALF: Fine. I have no voice in government, Waquine will get deported, and they'll make him eat beets.

Willie: How many cups of coffee have you had?

ALF: Forty. Why?

 

[Premier]

I really enjoyed Breaking Bad, but it's hard for me to consider it a better show than ALF.

You're equating Lost with ALF?Now who's being silly?

That creative little fellow was doing a spinoff of the New Girl joke...Just smile so he goes away.

Where am I going?

 

[Long Ball Larry]

Waquine?

 

[Homer J Simpson]

I really enjoyed Breaking Bad, but it's hard for me to consider it a better show than ALF.

You're equating Lost with ALF?Now who's being silly?

Good point. ALF had a story that actually made sense.

 

[FreeBaGeL]

I probably liked Lost's first season more than any season of Breaking Bad, but Lost only went downhill from there while BB got better and better every year.

 

[Abraham]

Couple questions:

1) How did Walt get Brock to take the poison?

2) How could Mike possibly get out of the park when the cops surrounded it?

I love when modern shows draw from ancient mythology. Naming episodes "Kafkaesque" and "Ozymandias" and making allusions to Sisyphus, for example, were awesome.

Bump. Would like to see an answer to these questions as I have the same ones.... the poison was always a mystery.

The cops at the park were watching Kaley, waiting for mike. They didn't look like they were surrounding the park so much as surrounding the girl.

 

[Bigboy10182000]

Couple questions:
1) How did Walt get Brock to take the poison?
2) How could Mike possibly get out of the park when the cops surrounded it?

I love when modern shows draw from ancient mythology. Naming episodes "Kafkaesque" and "Ozymandias" and making allusions to Sisyphus, for example, were awesome.

This the same Mike that had hundreds of rounds shot at him only to lose a piece of an ear? If the cops had him surrounded he would just get up and walk away...they would want nothing to do with him.

 

[Tiger Fan]

One major flaw I didn't like was that Jesse would have known that if he tried to escape the compound and got caught, Jack and crew would retaliate against Andrea and Brock, and he never would have taken a chance that that would happen. The threat of that was very explicit with the picture they gave him of Andrea and Brock.

But it can be explained by Jesse being beaten down mentally and not thinking clearly, so it's not an error - just an unlikely scenario imo.

He had no hope...had to try anything

 

[Tiger Fan]

I really enjoyed Breaking Bad, but it's hard for me to consider it a better show than ALF.

You're equating Lost with ALF?Now who's being silly?

Willie: You can't vote, ALF, you're not a citizen.

ALF: I'll apply for a green card.

Willie: That's only if you want a job.

ALF: Pass.

[pause]

ALF: I know, I'll marry Lynn. Become a citizen, vote, then drop her like a hot potato.

Willie: ALF...

ALF: Sure it will be hard on her first. She'll cry, drink a little too much. Join with a bongo player named Waquine.

Willie: ALF.

ALF: You'd like Waquine, he doesn't like beets.

Willie: Neither you or Waquine may marry my daughter and you may not vote.

ALF: Fine. I have no voice in government, Waquine will get deported, and they'll make him eat beets.

Willie: How many cups of coffee have you had?

ALF: Forty. Why?

ALF is criminally underrated, seriously

 

[Leeroy Jenkins]

Couple questions:

1) How did Walt get Brock to take the poison?

2) How could Mike possibly get out of the park when the cops surrounded it?

I love when modern shows draw from ancient mythology. Naming episodes "Kafkaesque" and "Ozymandias" and making allusions to Sisyphus, for example, were awesome.

Bump. Would like to see an answer to these questions as I have the same ones.... the poison was always a mystery.

The cops at the park were watching Kaley, waiting for mike. They didn't look like they were surrounding the park so much as surrounding the girl.

He wasn't surrounded. One patrol car had just showed up.

 

[Das Boot]

Couple questions:

1) How did Walt get Brock to take the poison?

2) How could Mike possibly get out of the park when the cops surrounded it?

I love when modern shows draw from ancient mythology. Naming episodes "Kafkaesque" and "Ozymandias" and making allusions to Sisyphus, for example, were awesome.

Bump. Would like to see an answer to these questions as I have the same ones.... the poison was always a mystery.

The cops at the park were watching Kaley, waiting for mike. They didn't look like they were surrounding the park so much as surrounding the girl.

He wasn't surrounded. One patrol car had just showed up.

Exactly, and Mike was a former cop - he knew their typical protocol for a situation like that, so he'd have little trouble slipping out the other side of the park.

 

[Das Boot]

One major flaw I didn't like was that Jesse would have known that if he tried to escape the compound and got caught, Jack and crew would retaliate against Andrea and Brock, and he never would have taken a chance that that would happen. The threat of that was very explicit with the picture they gave him of Andrea and Brock.

But it can be explained by Jesse being beaten down mentally and not thinking clearly, so it's not an error - just an unlikely scenario imo.

He had no hope...had to try anything

I agree he had no hope, but I think Jesse would have rather stayed in his situation than place Andrea and Brock in danger.

I chalk the best explanation in my mind up to Jesse being so beaten down that he was no longer thinking clearly and was just acting on animal instinct at that point: escape.

 

[Leeroy Jenkins]

These two fan videos are still the best. They've been posted here, but man, do I miss this show.

MAJOR SPOILERS

El Paso

Great tribute; the last few minutes are chill worthy

 

[Sarnoff]

AMC just cancelled "Low Winter Sun". I'm shocked.

 

[shuke]

I really enjoyed Breaking Bad, but it's hard for me to consider it a better show than ALF.

You're equating Lost with ALF?Now who's being silly?

Willie: You can't vote, ALF, you're not a citizen.

ALF: I'll apply for a green card.

Willie: That's only if you want a job.

ALF: Pass.

[pause]

ALF: I know, I'll marry Lynn. Become a citizen, vote, then drop her like a hot potato.

Willie: ALF...

ALF: Sure it will be hard on her first. She'll cry, drink a little too much. Join with a bongo player named Waquine.

Willie: ALF.

ALF: You'd like Waquine, he doesn't like beets.

Willie: Neither you or Waquine may marry my daughter and you may not vote.

ALF: Fine. I have no voice in government, Waquine will get deported, and they'll make him eat beets.

Willie: How many cups of coffee have you had?

ALF: Forty. Why?

ALF is criminally underrated, seriously

Chick was pretty hot.

 

[cstu]

These two fan videos are still the best. They've been posted here, but man, do I miss this show.

MAJOR SPOILERS

El Paso

Great tribute; the last few minutes are chill worthy

The El Paso one was amazing.

 

[Andy Dufresne]

Couple questions:

1) How did Walt get Brock to take the poison?

2) How could Mike possibly get out of the park when the cops surrounded it?

I love when modern shows draw from ancient mythology. Naming episodes "Kafkaesque" and "Ozymandias" and making allusions to Sisyphus, for example, were awesome.

Bump. Would like to see an answer to these questions as I have the same ones.... the poison was always a mystery.

The cops at the park were watching Kaley, waiting for mike. They didn't look like they were surrounding the park so much as surrounding the girl.

He wasn't surrounded. One patrol car had just showed up.

Exactly, and Mike was a former cop - he knew their typical protocol for a situation like that, so he'd have little trouble slipping out the other side of the park.

This is wrong. There were cars both in front of and behind Mike.

 

[Das Boot]

I just remember 2 cars pulling up in front of him.

 

[Andy Dufresne]

I just remember 2 cars pulling up in front of him.

One pulled up in front of him (behind the swing set his granddaughter was on) and another behind him/his bench.

 

[Rohn Jambo]

Cranston in the new Godzilla - the trailer looks better than the Ferris Bueller version:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nP5s2Y3yJE

 

[Ghost Rider]

Watching that, it reminded me again of how distintive David Strathairn's voice is.

 

[Gator Shawn]

Watching that, it reminded me again of how distintive David Strathairn's voice is.

Very underrated actor. Love the guy.

 

[Ghost Rider]

Yeah, he's always solid. Whenever I hear his voice, I think of Sopranos, A League of Their Own and L.A. Confidential.

 

[Homer J Simpson]

I love how Gus puts a veggie tray out for every meeting he has, even though it never gets touched.

 

[Joe T]

At the beginning of Season 3, what was all the Mexicans crawling along the ground on their hands and knees going to that shrine about?

 

[Andy Dufresne]

At the beginning of Season 3, what was all the Mexicans crawling along the ground on their hands and knees going to that shrine about?

It's not unheard of for some Mexicans to crawl toward a statue of a saint in supplication, and that's what they're doing in the Breaking Bad episode. They're going to a shrine of Santa Muerte, the Mexican "Saint of Death", who is worshipped by drug traffickers because she does not differentiate between requests that are good or evil. The cousins are seeking Santa Muerte's help in killing Walt, (they leave a crude drawing of "Heisenberg" amongst the other tokens on the altar) and the other worshippers are probably looking for help to alleviate them from their poverty, protection from them from the cartels or any number of other requests.

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

Yeah, he's always solid. Whenever I hear his voice, I think of Sopranos, A League of Their Own and L.A. Confidential.

He's great in that despite it being a rather minor role.

 

[Raider Nation]

Fantastic interview with Gilligan on the Rich Eisen podcast.

I highly recommend carving out some time to check it out. Vince shares some interesting stories.

 

[Leeroy Jenkins]

Started watching Under the Dome on amazon prime based on Dean Norris. His acting is so much better than everybody else on the show. In 4 episodes in and I'm ready to quit because they are all so bad and it seems a bit cheesy right now. Stick to it?

 

[Gator Shawn]

Fantastic interview with Gilligan on the Rich Eisen podcast.

I highly recommend carving out some time to check it out. Vince shares some interesting stories.

That is good stuff. In contrast, I got almost nothing out of this Gilligan interview.

 

[Brady Marino]

Started watching Under the Dome on amazon prime based on Dean Norris. His acting is so much better than everybody else on the show. In 4 episodes in and I'm ready to quit because they are all so bad and it seems a bit cheesy right now. Stick to it?

Nope. Not even Hank Schrader can save that show. Sucks for Dean because he deserves better.

BTW, I bought the complete Breaking Bad series and Under The Dome prevented Dean from doing any commentary during the last season. Pisses me off even more because he was such a focal point of the last season.

 

[Long Ball Larry]

Started watching Under the Dome on amazon prime based on Dean Norris. His acting is so much better than everybody else on the show. In 4 episodes in and I'm ready to quit because they are all so bad and it seems a bit cheesy right now. Stick to it?

Nope. Not even Hank Schrader can save that show. Sucks for Dean because he deserves better.

Honestly, the most important thing was probably that he cash in on a nice payday. Then he go do better quality stuff.

 

[Maurile Tremblay]

Marathon tomorrow.

 

[Raider Nation]

Marathon tomorrow.

 

[werdnoynek]

Marathon tomorrow.

highly recommend a redo. I've been thru it again. no regrets.

 

[Raider Nation]

Crackhead's gonna git his melon squashed by an ATM pretty soon.

 

[Abraham]

Crackhead's gonna git his melon squashed by an ATM pretty soon.

Great episode.

 

[BustedKnuckles]

Crackhead's gonna git his melon squashed by an ATM pretty soon.

watchin ...love that scene

 

[Judge Smails]

So I just finished a multiple week marathon. Hadn't seen one full episode 3 weeks ago, and now I'm done with the series. I thought it was the best seriesI've ever seen, with incredible character development. Exceptionally well written. Very well acted.

 

[Raider Nation]

Man, that exploding tortoise scene never gets old.

 

[IvanKaramazov]

Marathon tomorrow.

Meh. Why watch on AMC's schedule and endure a bunch of commercials when I can watch this whenever I want commercial-free.

 

[Joe T]

How I would rate the seasons:

S1 = 3/5 stars

S2 = 4/5

S3 = 2/5

S4 = 5/5

S5 = 5/5

S6 = 5/5

 

[Maurile Tremblay]

Marathon tomorrow.

Meh. Why watch on AMC's schedule and endure a bunch of commercials when I can watch this whenever I want commercial-free.

So you can follow along with RN's live posting.

 

[Abraham]

How I would rate the seasons:

S1 = 3/5 stars

S2 = 4/5

S3 = 2/5

S4 = 5/5

S5 = 5/5

S6 = 5/5

4

3

5 - half measures, one minute, and salud.

5

4

5

 

[timschochet]

There's nothing wrong with saying you love Lost as much as or more than Breaking Bad. Both are great shows.

Here are a list of the completed series that I loved the most, in no particular order:

Lost

Breaking Bad

Battlestar Galactica

24

The West Wing

Friday Night Lights

Firefly

 

[Sarnoff]

There's nothing wrong with saying you love Lost as much as or more than Breaking Bad. Both are great shows.

Here are a list of the completed series that I loved the most, in no particular order:

Lost

Breaking Bad

Battlestar Galactica

24

The West Wing

Friday Night Lights

Firefly

Oh come on