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Skylar did nothing wrong.Edmund Sparkler posted:Yeah, there are so many safeguards in place in the modern era to make it nearly impossible for that to happen, especially the way it did. I didn't let it ruin my enjoyment of the show, though.
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Saalkin posted:I have never heard anyone outside of two goons say this. yeah the show hooked me right from the jump, episode 1. s1 and s2 are great, s3 is a bit of a lull and probably the worst season overall, the show picks back up halfway through s4 and fake climaxes with what seems like an ending at the end of s4, starts slow with s5 part 1 and rips to an exciting and satisfying finish in s5 part 2
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May 5, 2023 15:40
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Elukka posted:Skylar did nothing wrong. The whole Jane death bit has a lot of neat stuff surrounding it from behind the scenes. Like it was written at first to have Walt physically flip her into position where she'd chock instead of just doing nothing to help her. And Mike being introduced because bob odenkirk couldn't make it to set that day so they made a new character to be the cleaner.
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May 5, 2023 15:45
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hot cocoa on the couch posted:the fly episode was so loving bad, i already felt like s3 had become formulaic and loaded with filler, but then i watched the fly episode and i was so loving pissed off lol. i almost quit the show then and there. glad i didn't but ugh man I also just watched BB for the first time and that was probably my favorite episode lol Anyway breaking bad rules and now I'm watching Saul and it rules even more so far
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May 5, 2023 16:09
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skyler couldn't tell the difference between raisin bran and raisin bran crunch and goons STILL defend her
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May 5, 2023 16:18
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STABASS posted:skyler couldn't tell the difference between raisin bran and raisin bran crunch and goons STILL defend her I think Walt Jr. complains about the horrible cereal choices and that is when he truly became the best character
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May 5, 2023 16:20
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Walt Jr sucks poo poo I hate him
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May 5, 2023 16:21
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I02BxxD2M0E the weird blatant advert where walt buys him and flynn new cars was pretty out of place, but it was a banger of a song choice
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May 5, 2023 16:22
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I still think Mike needs his own show. I will die on this hill
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May 5, 2023 16:23
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Rad-daddio posted:I still think Mike needs his own show. BCS is as much about Saul as it is Mike.
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May 5, 2023 16:26
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Panic! At The Tesco posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I02BxxD2M0E that was really common for those years of TV Everyone was experimenting with product placement, especially cars, and they were bad at hiding it. I think streaming and DVR ad skipping were finally starting to cut into their budgets. Modern Family even had an episode where they talked about the lane control features and great gas mileage in their new Toyota Prius. not to mention however many episodes of Cougar Town were just blatant adverts for Target.
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May 5, 2023 16:26
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Rad-daddio posted:I still think Mike needs his own show. nah
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May 5, 2023 16:27
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Breaking Bad was responsible for Pontiac selling upwards of 5 Aztecs
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Rad-daddio posted:I still think Mike needs his own show. He's one of the best characters but he's also like 100 years old. He was looking rough in better call Saul and I don't think you could justify recasting. But also a prequel series about Mike but just using current day Jonathan Banks would be lol
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I thought the ending of BCS was great. I didn't like it at first but after thinking about it it grew on me. Saul had, once again, distorted reality into his favor and it looked like that, once again, he was going to skate. He realized what a monster he had become and the damage he was doing to everyone and everything around him. He was tired of running from his past and saw how many things were building up behind him and didn't know how much longer he could run. He knew he couldn't fundamentally change who he was. No matter how much he ran and tried to live straight he'd never be able to do it. He'd always be Slippin' Jimmy. So he decided to go out with a bang, similar to the ending of BB but morally opposite. He waited until it was guaranteed that he was going to walk, just to demonstrate one last time that he had the court wrapped around his finger. That's when he decided to stand up and burn it all down. To prove, probably to himself more than anyone else, that he was the one who was truly in control of the situation and that it was his choice. No one else's.
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Saalkin posted:
set it back when he was a new fresh faced young cop, like in his early 20's or something. but no de-aging tech or make up, just current day jonathan banks lol
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PIZZA.BAT posted:So he decided to go out with a bang, similar to the ending of BB but morally opposite. He waited until it was guaranteed that he was going to walk, just to demonstrate one last time that he had the court wrapped around his finger. That's when he decided to stand up and burn it all down. To prove, probably to himself more than anyone else, that he was the one who was truly in control of the situation and that it was his choice. No one else's. No, it was just to gently caress over that dumb former prosecutor lawyer.
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Better Call Saul was also great because of Kim Wexler. She was such a cool and likeable character who was acted so well by Rhea Seahorn. It was almost like he saw all the criticism he had for making all of the ladies in Breaking Bad unlikeable foils that exist to try and stop the main characters from being cool dudes and wrote her to be really fun with great chemistry with Jimmy.
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Panic! At The Tesco posted:set it back when he was a new fresh faced young cop, like in his early 20's or something. but no de-aging tech or make up, just current day jonathan banks lol *veteran cop* drat it rookie, you can't just go around the regs. you're young and soft, this life hasn't beat you down inch by inch yet!! *jonathan banks sneers*
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Caesar Saladin posted:Better Call Saul was also great because of Kim Wexler. She was such a cool and likeable character who was acted so well by Rhea Seahorn. It was almost like he saw all the criticism he had for making all of the ladies in Breaking Bad unlikeable foils that exist to try and stop the main characters from being cool dudes and wrote her to be really fun with great chemistry with Jimmy. Kim is maybe the best written lady character in a show of all time. Also rhea is amazing and I'm in love with her
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May 5, 2023 16:47
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Panic! At The Tesco posted:set it back when he was a new fresh faced young cop, like in his early 20's or something. but no de-aging tech or make up, just current day jonathan banks lol loving lmao
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Mike's character was great in how he just didn't give a gently caress about anything, and he also had all this specific underworld know how. Didn't he have to find the engineers who made the underground drug lab?
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Rad-daddio posted:Mike's character was great in how he just didn't give a gently caress about anything, Did you even watch the show?
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Saalkin posted:He's one of the best characters but he's also like 100 years old. He was looking rough in better call Saul and I don't think you could justify recasting. They could just explain it by saying he has Benjamin Button disease. It must run in the family because his granddaughter also ages in reverse, too.
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My partner and I just watched 48 Hours and Beverly Hills Cop back to back and it was a treat to see Jonathan Banks play a cop and a henchman in two different 80s Eddie Murphy movies.
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He's in Airplane, too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7jtcCERJYE
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ChairmanMauzer posted:He's in Airplane, too. Wow that's totally him and the other posters above are right, get on that Ehrmantrout spinoff before his face fully puddles on the ground.
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Saalkin posted:Did you even watch the show? I mean, in season 7 when he pilots that blimp I felt the show had jumped the shark a little. ...and don't even get me started on the talking dogs.
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better call saul has too many episodes for a spinoff and i shan't be watching until years after it's doen for sure
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hot cocoa on the couch posted:better call saul has too many episodes for a spinoff and i shan't be watching until years after it's doen for sure no it's good you should watch it.
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hot cocoa on the couch posted:better call saul has too many episodes for a spinoff and i shan't be watching until years after it's doen for sure It's the best spin off of all time and in the running for one of the best shows as well. You just watched bb so it's fresh I'd watch it soon
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SweetMercifulCrap! posted:The issue isn't that people incorrectly think Walter White is a genius because it's clear that he is a chemistry genius, it's that half the people that watched the show think that he's supposed to be a criminal mastermind badass when, as another goon said, he's actually just Mr. Magooing his way through the drug cartel world and keeps getting lucky, which inflates his ego. The "I am the one who knocks!" scene isn't meant to make you go "wow, what a badass", but rather make you reflect on how delusional he has become. yeah, he basicaly gets lucky that fring cleaned the board for him and pissed off enough people that no one cared when he became two face. Rad-daddio posted:Mike's character was great in how he just didn't give a gently caress about anything, and he also had all this specific underworld know how. yeah, mike is great. he is burned cop who broke and basicaly decided to work for the other side. he is ruthless psycho but only when he needs to be. also he badass monolouges actually carry weight because you know he did that poo poo.
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hot cocoa on the couch posted:better call saul has too many episodes for a spinoff and i shan't be watching until years after it's doen for sure Saul is already finished it’s run and it’s a better show than BB in a lot of ways.
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hot cocoa on the couch posted:better call saul has too many episodes for a spinoff and i shan't be watching until years after it's doen for sure It's a prequel series, not a spinoff
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SweetMercifulCrap! posted:The issue isn't that people incorrectly think Walter White is a genius because it's clear that he is a chemistry genius, it's that half the people that watched the show think that he's supposed to be a criminal mastermind badass when, as another goon said, he's actually just Mr. Magooing his way through the drug cartel world and keeps getting lucky, which inflates his ego. The "I am the one who knocks!" scene isn't meant to make you go "wow, what a badass", but rather make you reflect on how delusional he has become. Yeah, he’s way out of his element in the criminal world. They also give you a pretty good clue early on just how egotistical he is during a flashback where he proudly describes how he can use chemistry to quantify God. A guy that far up his own rear end, raring to go after decades of living below his perceived station, is definitely going to fool morons and junkies into thinking he’s a all around mastermind with sheer bluster. Guys like Fring see him for what he really is; a potentially valuable, but unstable, specialist suffering delusions of grandeur.
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SweetMercifulCrap! posted:The issue isn't that people incorrectly think Walter White is a genius because it's clear that he is a chemistry genius, it's that half the people that watched the show think that he's supposed to be a criminal mastermind badass when, as another goon said, he's actually just Mr. Magooing his way through the drug cartel world and keeps getting lucky, which inflates his ego. The "I am the one who knocks!" scene isn't meant to make you go "wow, what a badass", but rather make you reflect on how delusional he has become. That is precisely my point, thank you. The show is about a middle-aged man having a mid-life crisis and letting it harm everyone around him.
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I forgot why Gus didn't just have the other chill dude who drove the Subaru keep making the meth. I was hoping they would touch on that guy more in BCS, but they didn't mention him at all iirc.
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Dapper_Swindler posted:
My favorite part of his back story is when he's buying that sniper rifle, and the conversation about a wood vs. a manufactured stock showing that Mike used to be in the military, probably serving during Vietnam.
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Rad-daddio posted:
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Rad-daddio posted:I forgot why Gus didn't just have the other chill dude who drove the Subaru keep making the meth. gale? jesse clipped him in the finale of 3 i think it was
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