Breaking Bad - - Part 11

[A Necessary Evil]

Yeah, I know. You don't have to rub it in.

Have I mentioned I really hope A Necessary Evil sends you to Belize?

You know what I meant.

 

[Spideyfan93]

Maybe people will actually go back and binge the current season of Low Winter Sun after Sunday night.

That show is more famous for being an annoying ad than an actual tv show.

 

[TheNextNolan22]

Maybe people will actually go back and binge the current season of Low Winter Sun after Sunday night.

That show is more famous for being an annoying ad than an actual tv show.

Sad, but true.

 

[Kane52630]

Can't wait for Talking Low right afterword.

 

[Kane52630]

 

[Sawyer]

 

[TheNextNolan22]

 

[SpideyFan866]

 

[TheNextNolan22]

This cast. hrt:

 

[Shikamaru]

^ Didn't even recognize Saul for a second.

 

[Shawn Wayne]

Has anyone else noticed the metaphor or parallel of Heisenberg being the cancer and vice versa? Go back and watch the first episodes

 

[Upset Spideyfan]

 

[georgec]

It's not over until Huell sings.

 

[TheNextNolan22]

Totally not gonna cry at all.

 

[JJJ's Ulcer]

This cast. hrt:

They all look like they're in the middle of screaming at the photographer.

 

[Bruce Malone]

This cast. hrt:

I guess Mike was a longer lasting character than Gus but I think Giancarlo maybe should have been invited? His character left a huge mark on the series. Arguably its high-point even.

 

[hellblazer103]

I guess Mike was a longer lasting character than Gus but I think Giancarlo maybe should have been invited? His character left a huge mark on the series. Arguably its high-point even.

i felt the same way when i first saw that.


he's apparently making an appearance with the rest of the cast on talking bad after the finale, so i suppose it's not a total loss.

 

[TheNextNolan22]

And....

 

[georgec]

Totally not gonna cry at all.

Nobody's happy.

 

[FCEEVIPER]

Commercials During 'Breaking Bad' Finale Commanding A Cool Quarter Million

What’s the price of history? If the history is a spot on series finale of Breaking Bad the week after its first Emmy for Outstanding Drama, the answer is around $250,000 for 30 seconds.

That puts this very special episode of Breaking Bad at the very top of television’s scripted shows. Extrapolated to $4 million per half hour—how ad rates are compared across the board—this would put Breaking Bad substantially ahead of a normal episode of Modern Family, ABC’s Emmy-winning comedy which pulled in around $2.9 million per half hour in 2012, or NCIS, which averaged about $3 million. A top reality show like American Idol, which averaged $6.6 million per half hour in 2011, makes substantially more.

Of course, AMC isn’t actually getting that much money on this episode of Breaking Bad. The $250,000 number is network’s average asking price. And as in the world of used cars, asking prices and selling prices for television spots are often different, sometimes drastically. Asking prices for the Breaking Bad finale varied wildly with some sources reporting prices as high as $350,000 and others as low as $150,000.

Agencies with the clout that comes from doing a lot of business with the network, for example, can buy time for less and the negotiations start at a lower rate.

Note also that the $250,000 figure is for a single “scatter” spot in the finale episode. An advertiser approaching AMC late in the game for a single spot on this episode probably paid dearly. If any spots were available. As of midweek, AMC was sold out.

Most of the commercial time for the episode was purchased in advance as part of larger buys which included spots in the series’ final eight episodes. “We sold the lion’s share of inventory in the upfront,” AMC COO Ed Carroll said during the network’s second quarter earnings call. The asking price on a “regular season” Breaking Bad spot was around $75,000 this season, up from around $56,000 last year.

Whether by design, or serendipity, many of the spots come with a built-in Breaking Bad connection, from Cadillac’s ads featuring Breaking Bad star Aaron Paul, to a Taco Bell ad which opens with an appearance by the actor who played the owner of the junkyard where Jesse stored his RV in season two.

 

[Prison Mike]

I guess Mike was a longer lasting character than Gus but I think Giancarlo maybe should have been invited? His character left a huge mark on the series. Arguably its high-point even.

I figured he was there because he was still part of the cast and show during season 5A which was submitted this year. Next year is a different story when episodes from season 5B will be submitted. Of course I could be wrong too...

 

[FCEEVIPER]

‘Breaking Bad’ scene fulfilled dying boy’s wish



The pivotal moment in last Sunday’s penultimate “Breaking Bad” episode came when Walt saw his two ex-colleagues on TV, denouncing his contributions to their company’s research. We saw our protagonist transform from willing surrender to the egomaniacal Heisenberg alter ego, bent on revenge.

That twist came thanks to one of the show’s biggest fans, 16-year-old Kevin Cordasco, who died this spring after a six-year battle with cancer. The “Breaking Bad” cast and the creator, Vince Gilligan, visited the boy toward the end of his battle with neuroblastoma and dedicated the first of the final eight episodes to him.

Gilligan offered to disclose how the show ends, but Cordasco refused, hoping to stick it out to the end. Sadly, he didn’t make it. But his contribution to the plot did, Gilligan explained in the “Breaking Bad Insider” podcast.

“Kevin, who was our wonderful, No. 1 fan … he told me that first day I spent with him, visiting him, he told me what he liked about the show and I said, ‘Is there something you feel is missing from the show? He said, ‘You know what, I want to know more about Gretchen and Elliott. I want to know more about Walt’s backstory with them. I want to know what happened.’”

Gilligan obliged and had his writers weave into that pivotal final scene during the “Granite State” episode, when Walt sits at a New Hampshire bar, ready to turn himself in, but sees his former business partners being interviewed by Charlie Rose (a bit of a stretch, but oh well). They tell Rose that Walt contributed next to nothing to their success, when in fact his research helped them make millions. Being slighted so infuriates Walt that he decides to head back to Albuquerque for a revenge involving an M60 and a vial of ricin. And that’s where they presumably will pick up in Sunday’s much-awaited final episode (9 p.m., AMC).

 

[Sawyer]

but sees his former business partners being interviewed by Charlie Rose (a bit of a stretch, but oh well).

They're heads of a billion dollar company, is it really that much of a stretch?

 

[Bruce Malone]

I think he might be referring to the sheer coincidence of it all? As in Walt leaving his cabin for the first time in months and just happening to stumble upon that interview at that exact time.

 

[JJJ's Ulcer]

I guess Mike was a longer lasting character than Gus but I think Giancarlo maybe should have been invited? His character left a huge mark on the series. Arguably its high-point even.

Huh? The Emmy's was considering the first part of season 5. Gus wasn't even on that. Mike's character was.