I discovered this show just recently, and it exploded in my life like a bomb. I love this show. I watched them all, using bittorrents. Now I'm restless as I await the final 8 shows this coming summer. My experience was enhanced by being able to watch 1-2 shows every day instead of waiting weeks or months. The developments in plot and character are clearer that way.

Part of what makes Breaking Bad exceptional is the willingness of the show's makers to allow the actors enough time to fully develop the emotion in each situation. Instead of the frantic cuts typical of TV dramas, intended to create excitement, BB will linger on an actor for an extra minute or more if that's what it takes for a full realization of what that character is thinking and feeling. In every show, there are powerful moments created by long unbroken shots of characters in the depths.

What's also exceptional is that it follows the lead characters - Walter and Jesse - on an extended journey. Instead of being fully formed from the start, their characters learn and change and grow as they get deeper into the criminal world. Most TV dramas start with fully formed characters, defined as types, who interact with one another in predictable ways. In Breaking Bad, character-defining choices must be made on every show. This creates genuine suspense, since we can have no idea where the characters will choose to go. It's thrilling to see the mature characters emerge from the seeds of themselves.

Also exceptional, is the way BB puts each of the main characters in a social context. We see their families, friends, home life. Many shows provide their stars with nominal backgrounds, but these are seldom important. Here, we see how crucial and even defining these relationships are.

My only caveat has been what I take to be the inexplicable loyalty of Walter to Jesse. I think a man like Walter would have dropped Jesse long before because he's so often a liability. Of course, the show is careful to reward Walter's loyalty, since Jesse saves him more than once.

So what do you think? Are there any Breaking Bad fans here who want to discuss?

>>I don't watch the show but I did see this online recently and thought the article was hysterically funny...

>>I was nicknamed "BOOM!" for a few years and banned from several laboratories at work for dropping glassware on the floor by accident.

>>Steel vessels don't break, glass does. Hazards of being an engineer.

>>Making Meth isn't hard chemistry, it's just very dangerous chemistry.

>>

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/1 ... 60945.html

It turns out Bryan Cranston's superb meth-cooking skills on "Breaking Bad" aren't just a case of great acting.

In a recent interview with Howard Stern, Cranston admitted he was taught how to cook meth in preparation for his role as Walter White.

“We were taught how to make meth [by] DEA chemists who were our consultants on the show," he told Stern, according to "Today." "We didn’t cook it, but we were told exactly the process at that high level," he said.

When Stern challenged him on whether he'd actually refrained from cooking the drug, Cranston insisted the project was too complicated for him.

"It's extremely difficult," he continued. "There are so many volatile components to it that at any given time, you could literally blow up. So you had to be very careful and very specific to follow this. Most of the cooks are also meth heads themselves. That's why they get themselves in trouble and you see burn marks, or their hands are missing."

>>AMC puts out good shows. This is one I didn't watch.

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Breaking Bad. Sons of Anarchy. Successful shows, bad subject lines.

Where are the shows demonstrating goodness and decency.

Waltons. Kung Fu.

Maybe it is time for viewers to just say no to such shows. That is like asking

"don't look at the accident".

Moi

Goodness and decency make for boring characters. They deflate drama.

The real actor who played the Grasshopper in Kung Fu died of auto-erotic asphyxiation in a hotel closet. His life probably would have made a more interesting show.

bobover3 (imported) wrote: Sat Oct 13, 2012 2:27 pm Goodness and decency make for boring characters. They deflate drama.

The real actor who played the Grasshopper in Kung Fu died of auto-erotic asphyxiation in a hotel closet. His life probably would have made a more interesting show.

Did he just call John Wayne a boring character? :realpisse

Dave (imported) wrote: Sat Oct 13, 2012 1:01 pm Steel vessels don't break, glass does. Hazards of being an engineer.

What if the steel is cooled to liquid helium temperature?

curious_guy (imported) wrote: Sat Oct 13, 2012 3:49 pm What if the steel is cooled to liquid helium temperature?

growl...

snarl!

stick to the topic

wink

moi621 (imported) wrote: Sat Oct 13, 2012 3:38 pm Did he just call John Wayne a boring character? :realpisse

No moi, he did not however if you seen one John Wayne movie, you saw them all because nobody I mean NOBODY played John Wayne better then he did, movie scrips interchangeable.

Having said that I do have 4 John Wayne movies in my collection 5 if you count the one staring Jimmy Stewart.

So here is your question moi, What are the five movies I have with John Wayne?

Clues:

Two of the movies also stared Maureen O'Hara and Lee Marvin (not necessarily the same movie)

Two were not westerns or war movies.

Three were centered around kids.

Only one did he not ride a horse.

All were period pieces.

Three were directed by John Ford

Three of them were 10 years apart.

Good luck

River

I love it. My favorite TV show.

Some of the best writing on TV ever and wonderful small details.

If I can I watch each show twice, in order to look for the subtle

hints of future action.

A boy riding in the desert stops, then hears a train whistle in the distance...........

ask not for whom.....

Riverwind (imported) wrote: Sat Oct 13, 2012 5:55 pm No moi, he did not however if you seen one John Wayne movie, you saw them all because nobody I mean NOBODY played John Wayne better then he did, movie scrips interchangeable.

Having said that I do have 4 John Wayne movies in my collection 5 if you count the one staring Jimmy Stewart.

So here is your question moi, What are the five movies I have with John Wayne?

Clues:

Two of the movies also stared Maureen O'Hara and Lee Marvin (not necessarily the same movie)

Two were not westerns or war movies.

Three were centered around kids.

Only one did he not ride a horse.

All were period pieces.

Three were directed by John Ford

Three of them were 10 years apart.

Good luck

River

Can I use one of my life lines?