Breaking Bad

[JJJ's Ulcer]

I saw it. It's a cool nod, except Heisenberg was so infamous by the end of the show his death would be national front-page news.

 

[Bruce Malone]

Problem is Jack clearly had bloody wounds on his torso. Maybe he got ricochets too. It's not a good explanation, but the best I can think of.

That whole scene was very over-the top and hard to believe overall. The show does have a precedent for this though as the Gus Fring bombing is pretty close to it in that regards. The show started embracing pulpiness over grounded reality in the 3rd season with the twins i'd say.

 

[Homer J. Fong]

He had an M60, there was no way that scene wasn't going to be at least a little over the top.

 

[Sawyer]

I started watching the pilot again last night. One of the transformations that blows me away the most is Anna Gunn's. If I didn't know better, you could tell me that the pilot was well over a decade ago compared to the finale, and I'd believe it. It just shows how Walt really sucked the life out of Skyler.

 

[Bruce Malone]

I didn't have a problem with it due to the fact that like i said BB hasn't been really hard reality since season 2 but I thought what walt was going to do was set himself up on that hill overlooking the compound like we saw earlier on and just start firing from there. That would have been the more realistic way to use that weapon on them but obviously there was a reason they did what they did for the show.

 

[Homer J. Fong]

I bought it the way it went down. I always had a hard time imagining Walt toting a machine gun anyway.

 

[JJJ's Ulcer]

I honestly thought the M60 was a red herring. That it'd malfunction or Walt would break into a coughing fit and be too weak to operate it. Then he'd be forced to improvise another way to kill them. But I'm happy how things turned out. I can suspend belief. It's not too bad considering the kind of illogical crap that happens in other dramas (starts with a 'D').

 

[Upset Spideyfan]

Plus, even if there is a God I doubt one of the miracles he's granting is helping a mass-murdering meth kingpin evade the police so he can kill some more people (even if they are bad).

I don't know seems like something that would be up Old Testament God's alley.

But I think Walt was definitely "praying". Otherwise, what is he asking to help him get home so that he can handle it from there. Now I don't know if he's necessarily praying to God per say it could just be a general call out to the cosmos, or to fate, or what have you.

 

[Eggyman]

I thought he was just talking to the car. Sounds daft but it happens. Come on, start you bastard!

 

[vanson]

anyone seen the spanish remake trailer ?

looks like they are going for a shot-by-shot remake... and its shot digitally.. and it looks kinda ridiculous ^^

 

[TheNextNolan22]

http://whatculture.com/tv/breaking-bad-5-alternate-scenes-were-glad-we-didnt-get-to-see.php/2

 

[Kane52630]

 

[SpideyFan866]

http://whatculture.com/tv/breaking-bad-5-alternate-scenes-were-glad-we-didnt-get-to-see.php/2

That Walt, Jr. one would've ruined me.

 

[Mister J]

^^Even money that Cranston is hiding behind a bush somewhere, waiting to toss that thing.

I don't know it this has been mentioned but Walter White's obituary is in an Albequerque paper tomorrow. I have a pic of it but don't know how to post it from my phone

 

[JJJ's Ulcer]

http://whatculture.com/tv/breaking-bad-5-alternate-scenes-were-glad-we-didnt-get-to-see.php/2

Wow. So now at one time or another the writers considered killing off Jesse, Gomez (in season one long before Ozymandias), Walt Jnr and Skyler. Glad they exercised restraint.

 

[FCEEVIPER]

Spoiler

That's soo cool in so many levels.

 

[BatLobster]

Wow. So now at one time or another the writers considered killing off Jesse, Gomez (in season one long before Ozymandias), Walt Jnr and Skyler. Glad they exercised restraint.

It seems like that was pretty much all Gilligan, and it was his writing team that reigned him in. I get the feel that if Gilligan had surrounded himself with yes men, the show overall would've been more "dark for the sake of being dark". Luckily, he had the good sense to surround himself with a dynamic team that would call him out on stuff.

 

[Bruce Malone]

^^Even money that Cranston is hiding behind a bush somewhere, waiting to toss that thing.

Were they going for parody or trying to emulate a real obituary? He obviously died from the gun shot wound and not the cancer. The cancer would have likely killed him later on but that wasn't his actual cause of death.

 

[Maximus One]

With all the scrapped story lines we've heard about now I really REALLY wish the pick-a-number-chisel game had made it in. That **** was brutal

 

[JJJ's Ulcer]

What's that?

 

[Keyser Soze]

What's that?

It was a plan for an early bad guy that was never used, a drug dealer who would ask those who wronged him to pick a number between 1 and 6, not knowing what number they were picking. They'd pick a number, and it corresponded with a vertebrae in their spine that he would then crush with a hammer and chisel.

 

[Infinity9999x]

It was a plan for an early bad guy that was never used, a drug dealer who would ask those who wronged him to pick a number between 1 and 6, not knowing what number they were picking. They'd pick a number, and it corresponded with a vertebrae in their spine that he would then crush with a hammer and chisel.

The character eventually evolved into Gus.

 

[Homer J. Fong]

I listened to the Breaking Bad Insider podcast on "Felina," in which he did describe all those alternate scenarios, and that one involving Jesse's killer and Walt Jr....Even though I'm glad they didn't do it (it would not have worked for the first or second season, when Vince was thinking of it), I think it's pretty great stuff.

 

[BestGirl]

anyone seen the spanish remake trailer ?

looks like they are going for a shot-by-shot remake... and its shot digitally.. and it looks kinda ridiculous ^^

Here's the trailer:

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It's easy to match the Colombian scenes with their American counterparts.

That Walt, Jr. one would've ruined me.

It wouldn't make sense anyway. If your limbs are being slowly chopped off and cauterized with a blowtorch, why wouldn't you commit suicide by setting off a gun pointed to your heart?

I also don't understand why the authors referred to Skyler as being one of the most unlikable characters in the series. The hate sent her direction just baffles me.

 

[Kane52630]

I also don't understand why the authors referred to Skyler as being one of the most unlikable characters in the series. The hate sent her direction just baffles me.

Indeed.