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By: Breaking Bad thoughts index « Attentiondeficitdisorderly by Sean T. Collins

Breaking Bad thoughts index « Attentiondeficitdisorderly by Sean T. Collins — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 21:50:46 +0000

[...] Episodes 7-12 * Season Two, Episode 13 * Season Three, Episodes 1-3 * Season Three, Episodes 4-7 * Season Three, Episodes 8-13 * Season Four, Episodes 1-6 * Season Four, Episodes 7-10 * Season Four, Episode 11 * Season Four, [...]

By: Rev'd '76

Rev'd '76 — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:59:17 +0000

“It was watching a suicide.”

I’ve had to fight off that very reaction numerous times with this show. Your spasms at the death of decency in Walt as hubris & ego overtakes him– I felt that in re: sweet Jane. Walt’s true cancer was revealed in that horrible pause: of the soul, & terminal.

By: Rev'd '76

Rev'd '76 — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:33:59 +0000

“The spice must flow, folks.”

STC = 4eva raising the roof nerdcore style

By: Chris Ward

Chris Ward — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 06:48:32 +0000

Sean, let me just say reading your reviews is as fulfilling for me as watching the seasons for the first time. They really scratch that itch between new episodes. Your posts are kind of like a slow cooked pot roast in a fast food blogging world.

Glad to see you were not a big fan of Fly either. That episode is the ONLY episode in 4 seasons where I was really disappointed, and found out later it was due to some show budget BS. I don’t always want to know the real life business behind my favorite TV shows, but I guess that’s the reality most times.

There are no bottle episodes in Season 4. There is not a single bad episode, in my opinon. I was reading a round up of a critics favorite movies of 2011 and he says right up front “You know what? There were some good movies this year. A few great ones. Were any of them as good as Breaking Bad Season 4? Not really.” That pretty much sums it up.

By: Sean T. Collins

Sean T. Collins — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 22:05:36 +0000

Yes, and that’s the sad thing, because in a weird way it wasn’t even the worst thing he’s done. I have to believe that was letting Jane die — whatever her faults, and whatever threat she presented to Walt and his family, she didn’t deserve to be killed for it. No one (that we know of at least) will weep for these two child-killers. And yet this killing had a voluntary quality that Jane’s death lacked, since Walt did what he did in Jane’s case on the spur of the moment to save both Jesse and his family (and himself, of course) — and if you’re going by the morality advocated by Batman Begins, which is a terrible terrible fucking movie by the way, it’s not even murder, it’s simply choosing not to save someone. It’s inaction. This is action, the calculating execution of someone who no longer presented a threat. (It’s the headshot that hurt more than running them over in the first place, since that was simply to save Jesse’s life.) At that point Walt becomes a murderer, no way around it, and since we know he believed himself not to be a murderer at heart, we know he’s violated a core part of himself.

It’s all very complicated, the way it makes you think about what violence means to the people who inflict it.

By: Alex Segura

Alex Segura — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 21:58:30 +0000

When Walt runs over the dealers and blows one of them away — wow. I was shocked. One of my favorite TV moments ever. Walt stopped being redeemable then.