Breaking Bad Season 3

Oh well , nobody else "gets it". -EOFD-

  On 4/27/2010 at 4:47 PM, The Overlook said:

The Mexican Twins are the most derivative, snooze-inducing thing in the show. I had a couple serious problems with this episode.

 

It felt too....writerly. They did a really poor job of motivating and explaining some of this nonsense.

 

1. The meth lab assistant - this guy is way too fruity. They really should have toned down his enthusiasm. I felt like I was watching campy theatre.

 

2. The Mexican Twins - they're not tough, they're fucking boooooooooooring. They just come across like rejects from a thousand incomplete 1990s scripts found in Tarantino's waste basket. Did anybody find the ending totally retarded? "Your boss said you can't kill the DEA agent. In the north, I am the boss. You have my permission."

 

WTF. That makes sense only if you're a writer desperate to ratchet up the tension and don't follow the logic of human behavior.

 

3. Walt was dumb, Hank was dumber - so Walt realizes the entire RV house of cards will fall if Jesse (with Hank in tow) follows him to the RV yard. It made no sense at all that Walt would involve the RV yard mechanic and Jesse's dumbass friend without realizing the friend would call Jesse immediately. I saw that coming from a mile away and it was really dumb writing.

 

Then, of course, there's Hank taking the prank call bait. That was just fucking retarded. In the age of caller ID, etc. there is no way that would happen. Hank would have been, at the very least, incredibly skeptical. It also contradicts how focused (to the point of going half-insane) he had been on finding that RV. He has Jesse cornered, he has the RV, he has the owner of the salvage yard acting suspiciously...and he just takes off like a bat out of hell? Cheese. Not buying it.

 

I also hated the shit with the salvage yard owner. He came out with all that legalese bullshit about 4th amendment and domiciles, bla bla bla, and it just came across like WAY too clever writing. This episode was really annoying.

catsonearth???

i dunno i feel some things while watching the episodes but i don't tell, but everytime anyone mentions them i kinda agree, i noticed all that shit, and kinda gotta meh but...

what about WALT TAKING IS OWN CAR TO THE PLACE WHERE HE COOKS??? stupid...

and yes he would have to get right away from the RV yard cause Hanks just called someone to bring the warrant!

They have just gotten a bit too footloose with plausibility and believe me, I love this show and I'm trying really fucking hard to suspend disbelief, but this last episode really pushed the envelope of credulity.

No, I'm not catsonearth. I'm Mirezzi.

I also thought Walt casually walking into the new Mega Meth Lab while $4/hr earning Mexicans are walking around was just......................................WTF.

By the way, earlier on in this thread, we mostly agreed that the Quiet Mexicans were fucking annoying (not scary, just derivative) and we all hoped there was a good explanation for them being so quiet.

It turns out there was no explanation at all and the producers really just failed in an effort to make super badass robotic immoral nihilist meanie mexi-terminators...it's weak shit and it just got weaker when they fell for "I'm the boss of the north so feel free to kill the DEA agent."

Now, if Hank the Loose Cannon kills them in spectacular fashion, I might get back on the bandwagon. For now, I'm starting to think Breaking Bad should have ended after the second season. We're dangerously close to exhaustion now (See also: Mad Men).

Man how big is the stick up your ass when you tune in?

  On 4/28/2010 at 7:44 PM, karmakramer said:

Man how big is the stick up your ass when you tune in?

That's a very good question. I think roughly the same size of the Night Elf cock buried in your throat when you queued up to watch Avatar for the 10th time. So, 24 inches?

hahha dreadlocks

Stop ruining my fun

  On 4/28/2010 at 8:20 PM, The Overlook said:

  On 4/28/2010 at 7:44 PM, karmakramer said:

Man how big is the stick up your ass when you tune in?

That's a very good question. I think roughly the same size of the Night Elf cock buried in your throat when you queued up to watch Avatar for the 10th time. So, 24 inches?

Night Elf Cock makes me live forever though... you should try it sometime, it'd probably be a good awakening for yourself... maybe you'll be able to enjoy something sometime.

elf cock, lol anyways i thought the episode was pretty awesome. It actually made me have hopes for the future of the show, i was getting tired of Walt not cooking anymore and irritated at Hank's inability to get closer to heisenberg. Things are falling into place very nicely now. My only complaint is how easy the Pollo dude got the silent mexican's off Walt's trail. You would think if the guys were hardcore enough to go on a crawling pilgrimage they wouldn't give up so easily (or be willing to 'trade' assassinations)

I gotta admit elf cock did make me lol irl

Just finished episode 6 and have to say I was really disappointed, easily the worst episode, direction wise, in the entire series. It was a hurried mess that's for sure. I don't understand why they decided to solve so many of the open plots in one episode... plus solving them with lukewarm, magic-hat type shenanigans. What happened to all the subtle pacing and detail? Why all the sudden are we met with with spastic spree of cheap trills. The number of contradictions on the characters alone leads me to wonder wtf really happened on the set... it made no sense at all.

  On 4/29/2010 at 2:10 AM, goffer said:

Just finished episode 6 and have to say I was really disappointed, easily the worst episode, direction wise, in the entire series. It was a hurried mess that's for sure. I don't understand why they decided to solve so many of the open plots in one episode... plus solving them with lukewarm, magic-hat type shenanigans. What happened to all the subtle pacing and detail? Why all the sudden are we met with with spastic spree of cheap trills. The number of contradictions on the characters alone leads me to wonder wtf really happened on the set... it made no sense at all.

Fuck yeah. Jesus, I thought I was the only one...I am used to playing the role of spoilsport / movie cunt, but good lord, this episode was all kinds of cheap and fucked up.

I definitely agree with the lot of those saying this episode was one of the best moments on TV and also those saying it had some fucking ridiculous rationality to some of the scenes... but I loved it

for me it personified what makes Vince Gilligan's stuff so enjoyable, but hey don't listen to me i just sat through Home Fries again for like the 7th time and enjoyed it immensely. Still his finest work besides some of his X-files episodes IMO

The scene where Gus offers Walt $3mil right after he says "I'm done", I'm guessing that parallels the IRL interaction between the creators and the network.

You couldn't keep this show gritty and realistic past 2 series. It was already teetering under the implausibility of fuckups like Walt and Jesse still being alive. In The Wire (official yardstick of TV realism™) they would have lasted 7 episodes max being that dumb.

I reckon they figured they had made a nice realistic(ish) drama about consequences and inevitability and whatnot, and then when the network said "more plz" they said "no, story done", and then the network said "have this private island" and they said "fuck realism, lets make some magic realism magnolia donnie darko everything is interrelated crazy shit and let's throw in some Robert Rodriguez cartoon drug enforcers and just have a fucking blast"

I think I preferred the realistic version but I get the choices they have made and it's still fun.

Wow what an episode!! The final scene was way too intense.

yeh no shit that was a bad ass episode holy god, this stuff really is too good for TV sometimes. You can dissect the surrealism in the writing and find infeasibility all you want but GOD DAMN

is there some subtext here with Hank fighting back against the Mexicans with all the bad blood in the Southwest right now against immigrants?

I dunno but it was damn good entertainment

  On 5/3/2010 at 9:36 AM, vasio said:

Wow what an episode!! The final scene was way too intense.

Yeah, really good stuff.

FUCK YEAH , HANK FTW !!!!

That was probably the best scene is Breaking Bad History.

Anything can happen now...

season-finale quality episode, and only 7 in.

after the elevator doors closed, i figured I knew what was going to happen, but nope.

so was Gus the one who warned Hank? sounded like his voice put through a voice distorter