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Free Talk Live => General => Topic started by: miamiballoonguy on April 26, 2009, 10:44:23 PM
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well do you?
If you don't know what it is, it is about a high school chemistry teacher (Brian Cranston I think. The dad from Malcolm in the middle) who finds out that he has inoperable lung cancer and decides to become a meth cooker to provide for his family after he dies.
It's one of the darkest comedies I have seen in my life. The episode where the guy's head was cut off and sent on a turtle to the dea who take the head off the turtle and the turtle blows up was just insane! Go Heinsenburg!
It's on AMC on sunday nights. They have it on iTunes as well.
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Possibly the best thing on TV right now.
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Possibly the best thing on TV right now.
Too bad it ends in the next month or so... Well, at least there's Mad men, Gene Simmons Family Jewels, and last comic Standing this summer...
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I watched a few episodes of the first season but already had a lot of shows I was watching, but my GF really loves it so I've seen every episode of the current season (havent seen tonights yet) and I like it.
I like how at the beginning of the episodes it showed foreshadowing to the house having been (assumed) blown up and the debris placed in the pool. I guessed that one about 2 episodes in of the pool beginning and it signs point to it so far. Then with the mexican band beginning with them showing Heinsenburg facedown on the ground, excellent.
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I liked the first couple of episodes, but haven't had (nor wanted) cable after that.
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I liked the first couple of episodes, but haven't had (nor wanted) cable after that.
The great thing about the internet is we have sites that solve that problem:
surfthechannel.com
http://www.surfthechannel.com/show/2753.html
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Really, better than most things on television AND in the theaters.
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Really, better than most things on television AND in the theaters.
It really is... This whole lawyer episode is great. Better call Saul... He called Walter 'Fredo'... That was hilarious.
Well, it looks like there will be at least one more 13 episode season. Early next year.
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If you haven't seen the show, you can sample it in their minisodes: http://blogs.amctv.com/breaking-bad/2009/02/original-minisodes.php (http://blogs.amctv.com/breaking-bad/2009/02/original-minisodes.php)
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I'll be buying the DVD's. It's really weird to watch reruns of Malcolm in the Middle now.
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I liked the first couple of episodes, but haven't had (nor wanted) cable after that.
The great thing about the internet is we have sites that solve that problem:
surfthechannel.com
http://www.surfthechannel.com/show/2753.html
I'll do it!
Been watching all the Rockford Files on hulu lately.
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Great show, although I fear it might be losing its depressing edge, not much has gone wrong for Walt in season 2, and his lung cancer seems to be a peripheral element. I think the developments with the DEA brother-in-law character have been great though.
Season 1 Breaking Bad Torrents (http://thepiratebay.org/tv/14908/S01/)
Season 2 Breaking Bad Torrents (http://thepiratebay.org/tv/14908/S02/)
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Did anyone here watch tonights episode? I think that my jaw was dropped for half of the show. I dont think that I have seen anything like this on TV before. With the exception of the beginning, it was so graphic with the heroin and stuff. Especially the end. The guy's got an hour to deliver his meth or lose out on the money. His partner has the stash of 38 pounds of meth, who happens to try heroin for the first time. The topper is that while all this stuff is going on, Heisenberg's wife is going into labor.
If that's not some of the most riveting tv in recent memory, I don't know what is.
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Recorded on my DVR. Or, it had BETTER have recorded!
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Did anyone here watch tonights episode? I think that my jaw was dropped for half of the show. I dont think that I have seen anything like this on TV before. With the exception of the beginning, it was so graphic with the heroin and stuff. Especially the end. The guy's got an hour to deliver his meth or lose out on the money. His partner has the stash of 38 pounds of meth, who happens to try heroin for the first time. The topper is that while all this stuff is going on, Heisenberg's wife is going into labor.
If that's not some of the most riveting tv in recent memory, I don't know what is.
Yeah my gf was upset because I was so focused on the episode which she had seen before. Of course if you watch the previews of the next episode you know that
SPOILERS:
Walt makes the deal but misses the birth of his son. Then the bitch girlfriend of Jesse (the partner) tries to blackmail him for money. My guess is he tried to hold out money for not helping in the deal.
Walt should cut those strings snip snip.
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I have been watching from the very first episode. Breaking Bad is the best thing on TV and the only reason we are keeping cable tv. I looked into Dish but I would actually have to spend more money to get AMC than I do now on standard cable. I would get rid of cable in favor of netflix or pulling stuff off the net to watch on the channel websites but we have found we like the random nature of seeing what programing is on.
Anyway I thought that the baby was suppose to be a girl? Missing an ultra sound is one thing, missing the birth of your kid. That is several stories below dog house for any husband.
The owner of fast food restaurants as the king pin. Well that is true to life many gangs and mobsters have used restaurants as a way to launder money. And the foreshadowing is not just visual it is also often found in the dialogue.
And just to prove my complete geekiness did anyone else catch who the father/landlord of the girlfriend happens to be? It is the actor that played Q on STNG. I wonder how he will fit in later. I hope it wasn't just the one off cameo.
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Did anyone here watch tonights episode? I think that my jaw was dropped for half of the show. I dont think that I have seen anything like this on TV before. With the exception of the beginning, it was so graphic with the heroin and stuff. Especially the end. The guy's got an hour to deliver his meth or lose out on the money. His partner has the stash of 38 pounds of meth, who happens to try heroin for the first time. The topper is that while all this stuff is going on, Heisenberg's wife is going into labor.
If that's not some of the most riveting tv in recent memory, I don't know what is.
Yeah my gf was upset because I was so focused on the episode which she had seen before. Of course if you watch the previews of the next episode you know that
SPOILERS:
Walt makes the deal but misses the birth of his son. Then the bitch girlfriend of Jesse (the partner) tries to blackmail him for money. My guess is he tried to hold out money for not helping in the deal.
Walt should cut those strings snip snip.
The chick is a cutie, but she's gotta be dumped. So does Jessie, but of course, that's never going to happen. That whole scene at the end was fricking hillarious. I'm trying to figure out when Wal't wife id finally going to find out.
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I have been watching from the very first episode. Breaking Bad is the best thing on TV and the only reason we are keeping cable tv. I looked into Dish but I would actually have to spend more money to get AMC than I do now on standard cable. I would get rid of cable in favor of netflix or pulling stuff off the net to watch on the channel websites but we have found we like the random nature of seeing what programing is on.
Anyway I thought that the baby was suppose to be a girl? Missing an ultra sound is one thing, missing the birth of your kid. That is several stories below dog house for any husband.
The owner of fast food restaurants as the king pin. Well that is true to life many gangs and mobsters have used restaurants as a way to launder money. And the foreshadowing is not just visual it is also often found in the dialogue.
And just to prove my complete geekiness did anyone else catch who the father/landlord of the girlfriend happens to be? It is the actor that played Q on STNG. I wonder how he will fit in later. I hope it wasn't just the one off cameo.
John DeLancie. He also played Colonel Simmons in Stargate.
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If you want to watch BB without having to pay for cable, just wait a bit and Netflix the show. No commercials, and no annoying pop-ups advertising other shows.
Another good show is Dexter.
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Or, surfthechannel.com since you clearly have an internet connection. Or just google for it.
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Or, surfthechannel.com since you clearly have an internet connection. Or just google for it.
That sounds like a good resource I will have to check it out especially now that the bay is no more.
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Been watching all the Rockford Files on hulu lately.
"Never trust a guy that's never been to the joint." That's my all-time favorite Rockford quote. Don't think I fully agree with it, but in a certain context, I thought it was quite insightful.
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Or, surfthechannel.com since you clearly have an internet connection. Or just google for it.
That sounds like a good resource I will have to check it out especially now that the bay is no more.
Its amazing. And movie-wise, if they dont have it on there check out watch-movies-links.net (formerly watch-movies.net).
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Back to Breaking Bad. Isn't it really interesting that the boss Skyler is flirting with because she is pissed at Walt is also doing something criminal for the similar reasons as Walt? He is cooking the books to keep the business afloat to save his company and people's jobs. And Skyler knows about it yet hasn't called the police. Similarly she hasn't called the police on her clepto sister either. It makes you wonder even though she shows moral indignation when push comes to shove she doesn't nark on the people in her life. Almost wonder if she would have understood Walts needs to get medical treatment and possibly save his life were worth the risk of breaking the law? Considering she might have been just as naive as Walt concerning the real dangers of the drug world. My point being will she be more angry he lied to her and didn't trust her with his plans or will she be angry he was breaking the law. Cause I don't think she is so hung up on being by the book.
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Back to Breaking Bad. Isn't it really interesting that the boss Skyler is flirting with because she is pissed at Walt is also doing something criminal for the similar reasons as Walt? He is cooking the books to keep the business afloat to save his company and people's jobs. And Skyler knows about it yet hasn't called the police. Similarly she hasn't called the police on her clepto sister either. It makes you wonder even though she shows moral indignation when push comes to shove she doesn't nark on the people in her life. Almost wonder if she would have understood Walts needs to get medical treatment and possibly save his life were worth the risk of breaking the law? Considering she might have been just as naive as Walt concerning the real dangers of the drug world. My point being will she be more angry he lied to her and didn't trust her with his plans or will she be angry he was breaking the law. Cause I don't think she is so hung up on being by the book.
When she eventually find out what Walt's been doing, she's either going to join him or leave him. Either way the dea brother in law is going to find out eventually and then, the shit will hit the fan. All that foreshadowing that has been going on at the beginning of the show also has potential. I mean, why do they keep flashing back to the pool and keep showing the body bags full of bodies. I'm sure something either really funny or really bad is going to happen.
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Walt was doing it for the money. Now, he's doing it because he likes the excitement.
I wonder how many people would do the same if they had the trade skills? I would not, myself. For one thing, I have a low thrill threshold. For another, I have no interest in that line of work.
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Walt was doing it for the money. Now, he's doing it because he likes the excitement.
Also, I think another part of it is Walt finally asserting control over his life.
It started with the drug trade, like with Walt demanding money from Tuco, but now it is spreading to the rest of his life, like at Walt's "remission party", where Walt stand's up to Hank about giving his son booze, and again with his competitors in the hardware store ("stay out of my territory" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vol8QyZgvC0&feature=related)), it seems to be the same kind of aggressive outburst that he has been asserting in the Drug trade, and with his increasingly dictatorial attitude towards Jesse.
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Walt was doing it for the money. Now, he's doing it because he likes the excitement.
I wonder how many people would do the same if they had the trade skills? I would not, myself. For one thing, I have a low thrill threshold. For another, I have no interest in that line of work.
Yeah but what if you had a desperate need for money to save your life? Would you yourself then consider Breaking Bad ????
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Walt was doing it for the money. Now, he's doing it because he likes the excitement.
I wonder how many people would do the same if they had the trade skills? I would not, myself. For one thing, I have a low thrill threshold. For another, I have no interest in that line of work.
Yeah but what if you had a desperate need for money to save your life? Would you yourself then consider Breaking Bad ????
I would
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What is with the season being so short. It is like only 8 shows makes a season anymore. Didn't old tv shows use to have like 16 shows or 18 shows per season? It just seems there are much shorter than now.
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What is with the season being so short. It is like only 8 shows makes a season anymore. Didn't old tv shows use to have like 16 shows or 18 shows per season? It just seems there are much shorter than now.
The first season was 8 episodes due to the writer's strike.
Most of these cable shows are short. The shield averaged about 10 to 13 episodes a season, Nip Tuck the same (although, they are going to keep going until 100 episodes and this past season was split into two seasons due to the writers strike.) Mad men has about 13.
I guess it leaves you wanting more. There is going to be at least one more season of 13 episodes.
Frankly, it's a good idea. Most shows always have a few dud episodes per season. The lower number keeps the writing better, it allows for fewer crap episodes, and it leaves you wanting more. No breaks, nothing. They just show the episodes consecutively.
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OK, so Jesse is officially an idiot Junkie pussywooped simp.
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OK, so Jesse is officially an idiot Junkie pussywooped simp.
SPOILER ALERT if you haven't seen the episode and want to be surprised don't read this post. You have been informed.
Are you shocked? Walt is naive and learning quickly. Jessie has always had drug problems, judgment problems and been a bit slow. And you have to admit the woman was hot in that classic Bettie Page sort of way. She was also a bit older and smarter than Jessie so being able to lead him around was going to be a given. It is possible this event will snap Jessie into realizing that being a junkie can only lead to death. I knew the Mother of a daughter who died of a heroin overdose and that daughters death snapped her boyfriend right into getting clean. But in Jessie's case it could make him even more suicidal. Many junkies are just on an extended ride towards suicide. Maybe Jessie will notice that the Father wasn't using tough love. If only he had dragged her off to rehab or to a place that cleans blood of all toxins she would still be alive. But the Father is going to blame Jessie for her death even though she was the one that introduced Jessie to heroin. There is also the foreshadowing warning to Walt, "never trust a junkie". If Jessie gets caught up in her death he might flip on Walt to save his own ass. Especially if he is going through withdrawal from heroin. I hear that that is the most difficult thing to get off of because it causes vomiting and other problems.
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OK, so Jesse is officially an idiot Junkie pussywooped simp.
SPOILER ALERT if you haven't seen the episode and want to be surprised don't read this post. You have been informed.
Are you shocked? Walt is naive and learning quickly. Jessie has always had drug problems, judgment problems and been a bit slow. And you have to admit the woman was hot in that classic Bettie Page sort of way. She was also a bit older and smarter than Jessie so being able to lead him around was going to be a given. It is possible this event will snap Jessie into realizing that being a junkie can only lead to death. I knew the Mother of a daughter who died of a heroin overdose and that daughters death snapped her boyfriend right into getting clean. But in Jessie's case it could make him even more suicidal. Many junkies are just on an extended ride towards suicide. Maybe Jessie will notice that the Father wasn't using tough love. If only he had dragged her off to rehab or to a place that cleans blood of all toxins she would still be alive. But the Father is going to blame Jessie for her death even though she was the one that introduced Jessie to heroin. There is also the foreshadowing warning to Walt, "never trust a junkie". If Jessie gets caught up in her death he might flip on Walt to save his own ass. Especially if he is going through withdrawal from heroin. I hear that that is the most difficult thing to get off of because it causes vomiting and other problems.
Of course I'm waiting for next week's season finale. Walt's Story is starting to unwind with his wife. Q is going to find out about what happened i bet.
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Jessie is going to want to attend the funeral. And, if he somehow drags Walt along (who has to at least pretend to be surprised) then there will be trouble, since Walt and Daddy have met.
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Neither Jessie nor Walt went to one of their henchmen (dunno his name)'s funeral, and I doubt Walt will go to the girls. He is supposed to stay unattached from the affairs of his cronies so as to appear mysterious and not blow his cover.
I'm guessing Jesse shapes up pretty quickly. A big problem I think that's going to come up is dealing again with the Mexicans, the Cartel should be taking some action in one of the upcoming episodes I think.
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well do you?
If you don't know what it is, it is about a high school chemistry teacher (Brian Cranston I think. The dad from Malcolm in the middle) who finds out that he has inoperable lung cancer and decides to become a meth cooker to provide for his family after he dies.
It's one of the darkest comedies I have seen in my life. The episode where the guy's head was cut off and sent on a turtle to the dea who take the head off the turtle and the turtle blows up was just insane! Go Heinsenburg!
It's on AMC on sunday nights. They have it on iTunes as well.
I watched 1 episode and decided I would go back and start from the beginning as it looks like an awesome show!
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well do you?
If you don't know what it is, it is about a high school chemistry teacher (Brian Cranston I think. The dad from Malcolm in the middle) who finds out that he has inoperable lung cancer and decides to become a meth cooker to provide for his family after he dies.
It's one of the darkest comedies I have seen in my life. The episode where the guy's head was cut off and sent on a turtle to the dea who take the head off the turtle and the turtle blows up was just insane! Go Heinsenburg!
It's on AMC on sunday nights. They have it on iTunes as well.
I watched 1 episode and decided I would go back and start from the beginning as it looks like an awesome show!
I've seen all of this season, and a couple of the first. I havent found the time to go back and watch all the old ones yet.
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Neither Jessie nor Walt went to one of their henchmen (dunno his name)'s funeral, and I doubt Walt will go to the girls. He is supposed to stay unattached from the affairs of his cronies so as to appear mysterious and not blow his cover.
I'm guessing Jesse shapes up pretty quickly. A big problem I think that's going to come up is dealing again with the Mexicans, the Cartel should be taking some action in one of the upcoming episodes I think.
Well, if it doesn't happen this weekend, we'll have to wait until next year.
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Perhaps the season will end with him checking into rehab.
Interesting, how the two characters have virtually changed roles. At the beginning, Jessie was the street-smart one, and Walt the innocent who was unsure what to do next. Now, they've reversed, and Walt is clearly in charge.
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Whens the damn house gonna explode or at the very least burn down? Those of you who watch every beginning have to have picked up on that by now.
They foreshadowed it sooo much that it better happen this season.
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Whens the damn house gonna explode or at the very least burn down? Those of you who watch every beginning have to have picked up on that by now.
They foreshadowed it sooo much that it better happen this season.
You know what could cause that would be the new fancy water heating system Walt installed. I wonder if it will be before or after he has managed to launder the money? Many a stupid accident have exposed and otherwise tight criminal enterprise.
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Whens the damn house gonna explode or at the very least burn down? Those of you who watch every beginning have to have picked up on that by now.
They foreshadowed it sooo much that it better happen this season.
You know what could cause that would be the new fancy water heating system Walt installed. I wonder if it will be before or after he has managed to launder the money? Many a stupid accident have exposed and otherwise tight criminal enterprise.
Why would a cleanup crew wear hazmat suits for a burned down building and a blown up water heater?
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Whens the damn house gonna explode or at the very least burn down? Those of you who watch every beginning have to have picked up on that by now.
They foreshadowed it sooo much that it better happen this season.
You know what could cause that would be the new fancy water heating system Walt installed. I wonder if it will be before or after he has managed to launder the money? Many a stupid accident have exposed and otherwise tight criminal enterprise.
Why would a cleanup crew wear hazmat suits for a burned down building and a blown up water heater?
Good point. Breaking the sewage line that would bring out the hazmat suits. But that might not be dramatic or exotic enough of an explanation for a tv show.
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Whens the damn house gonna explode or at the very least burn down? Those of you who watch every beginning have to have picked up on that by now.
They foreshadowed it sooo much that it better happen this season.
You know what could cause that would be the new fancy water heating system Walt installed. I wonder if it will be before or after he has managed to launder the money? Many a stupid accident have exposed and otherwise tight criminal enterprise.
Why would a cleanup crew wear hazmat suits for a burned down building and a blown up water heater?
Good point. Breaking the sewage line that would bring out the hazmat suits. But that might not be dramatic or exotic enough of an explanation for a tv show.
Also I thought he had a small fancy water heater, not enough to blow up his house that much. Still, they didnt pick up money out of the pool so I assume he got it out in time.
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Oh, what about the Mexican mob? They did blow up the informant's head. And there hasn't been much back story on the Dad of Jessie's Girlfriend's dad. Possibly he is in construction and has access to explosives. In his grief over losing his only daughter he wants to take an eye for an eye and attack Walt's only daughter. There are any number of possible stories to explain the explosion.
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OK
That was an interesting season finale, but, Who in the world saw the ending coming? I suspected something the second I saw Q as the the Air Traffic Controller... that was one of the biggest switcheroo's I've seen in a while... I mean, here we all are talking about the mexicans are coming after him, and stuff like that...
Some stuff that was predicted happened, especially with Jesse and Walt's wife, but we were all wrong about the forshadowing that happenned throughout the season. Especially when Walt saw the whole thing go down...
Anyone care to comment on it?
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I watched a few episodes of the first season but already had a lot of shows I was watching, but my GF really loves it so I've seen every episode of the current season (havent seen tonights yet) and I like it.
I like how at the beginning of the episodes it showed foreshadowing to the house having been (assumed) blown up and the debris placed in the pool. I guessed that one about 2 episodes in of the pool beginning and it signs point to it so far. Then with the mexican band beginning with them showing Heinsenburg facedown on the ground, excellent.
I know, but I do not think that the rug has been pulled from under me as much as tonight... maybe the first time I heard Philip Emo's Cellar Joke, but tonight the whole pool explosion thing caught me off guard.
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Havent seen it yet...avoiding this thread...grrr why did I click here...
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I kind of suspected it would involve the father of the girlfriend somehow. Just didn't have a clue how it would go down. They really didn't say that Skyler was taking a plane back to her Mothers or did I miss that part? And where was Walt junior? Did he miss the flight if Skyler was flying home to her mother's. She might be ok it is just that Walt doesn't know and might go into a panic thinking that she did die with his daughter. I wonder if Skyler is dead will it actually prolong Walt's drug making activities? Cause Skyler was the only one that had a clue that Walt was up to something.
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I dont think she was on the flight. I thought she drove but I suppose I could have missed it. I'll google it.
Read several reviews. Seems like the plane crash is just as it seems. Skylar is safe and will probably cause more drama down the line.
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I dont think she was on the flight. I thought she drove but I suppose I could have missed it. I'll google it.
Read several reviews. Seems like the plane crash is just as it seems. Skylar is safe and will probably cause more drama down the line.
Ya think?
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Time for Walt to dump her and get a moll.
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My cable company has all the old episodes available for free from On Demand. The fiancé is out of town, so I'm catching up from the beginning. This show is awesome, and I think it also is a pretty good critique of the drug war, in some ways. I mean, it shows how vile and gritty the drug underworld is, but it also shows how corrosive it is even on decent people who dabble around the edges, and especially the cops. Walt's brother in law is such a tool. Sorta decent, but still a tool. The hero is a freaking meth cook! You could not make this show even during the Clinton years. People really just don't care that drugs are illegal anymore. No one takes prohibition seriously anymore. Watching Intervention sometimes has a similar feel. They only use the fact that drugs are illegal as a means of threatening people with consequences, they never try to impugn their character or try and make them feel guilty about breaking the law.
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Time for Walt to dump her and get a moll.
What the hell is a moll?
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Time for Walt to dump her and get a moll.
What the hell is a moll?
A Bonnie to his Clyde and partner in crime who is also a sexual partner / lover.
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Time for Walt to dump her and get a moll.
What the hell is a moll?
A Bonnie to his Clyde and partner in crime who is also a sexual partner / lover.
As Biden to Obama?