Been binging this for the first time with my girlfriend who’s a big fan. It’s been a pretty decent campy thriller for the most part and I’ve enjoyed it, but I just got to s3e10 and damn, I’m actually starting to think I love it (sorry if I’m being too specific by singling out one episode).
This show’s always been best when it revolves around Jesse and Walt’s interactions and this season’s been comparatively lame because they’ve been separated and preoccupied with their domestic conflicts— Skyler isn’t a very well written character, she’s like if Carmela Soprano was deliberately written as an obstacle. I was starting to think we’d never get the “Walt and Jesse are in over their head” formula again, but this one surpassed all the previous ones, even the one where they’re stuck in the desert.
The first half is filled with some of their funniest interactions yet, and it ends with a very moving scene of Walt talking about his inability to communicate his motivations to Skyler and an attempt to express his guilt about Jane to Jesse. I almost cried when he lamented that he’d lived too long. I really loved Jesse sheepishly asking if Walt’s cancer had gone to his brain by poorly telling a hilarious story about his aunt being convinced there was still a possum in his house. This show takes very little time to explore its main characters compared to Mad Men and Sopranos, but this episode (s3e10) really impressed me and it feels like the central relationship deepened a lot from it.
>s3e10
That’s literally the only bad episode in the series and it’s fricking awful. You’re moronic.
>That’s literally the only bad episode
How is it bad? I’d say the pilot was the worst episode so far, but that’s the case with every show I’ve seen aside from Twin Peaks. They need to hook the morons.
>What is so campy about it?
Are you serious? He basically has “science” as his super power, with special blue meth that only he can make. Just this season he was introduced to an unexplained massive meth lab sitting in the middle of a major city and he was hunted by mute cartel assassin twins. I find this all charming, but it’s pretty much comic book material.
>This show takes very little time to explore its main characters compared to Mad Men and Sopranos
I stand by this. Those were character driven shows, this is a plot driven show. Walt’s inner conflict is there primarily to move the plot forward, exploration of it is of secondary concern. It was almost hard to take seriously in the beginning with how caricaturized his situation was to elicit our sympathy for his actions (works two low paying jobs despite being a genius, is married to the kind of woman who grounds her kids for listening to rap music, is constantly emasculated by his brother in law). If anything, this latest episode legitimized the series for me, it now feels more like there’s something rewarding going on beneath the fun thrills. Even still I don’t feel Walt was being completely honest with himself, but he was trying to be, which is even more interesting.
>Are you serious?
Yes, and so is the show.
>He basically has “science” as his super power
Not "superpower", he's just a good scientist.
>special blue meth that only he can make
Not "only he", it's just his trademark. Many people can make it, he's just better.
>unexplained massive meth lab sitting in the middle of a major city
It's explained in BCS. But I don't think explanation was necessary.
>mute
No.
>comic book material
Not even close.
>Not "superpower", he's just a good scientist.
Do you really think that scene in Tuco’s office was plausible? Or the improvised battery in the desert?
>mute No.
So the assassin twins with choreographed movements aren’t campy because they actually do say a word or two here and there?
>Do you really think that scene in Tuco’s office was plausible? Or the improvised battery in the desert?
Honestly, I have no idea, I don't know much about chemistry. And I don't really care, it's not a documentary.
>aren’t campy
Never got that impression. If anything, they were very creepy and threatning.
And even if I had problem with those things, they are completly irrelevant in a grand scheme of things. I don't like word "nitpick" but it's just nitpicking.
It's like with those "expert rates movies based on their accuracy" videos. It may be interesting but only as a piece of trivia. I know Braveheart has nothing to do with history but I don't give a shit even though I love history. Because art is about telling a story, not mimicking reality. Saying
>muh implausible because something is not exactly right
is just peak autism.
>And even if I had problem with those things
I don’t have a problem with those things, I already said I didn’t
>they are completly irrelevant in a grand scheme of things
They aren’t, they very much contribute to the show’s heightened reality
>They aren’t
And for me they are. Agree to disagree.
I feel like you’re completely misunderstanding me here. Somehow you were the one that accused me of being autistic.
What’s a realistic movie to you then if you value realism so much?
Don't let those gays gaslight you anon, I know what you mean and I agree, everything about BB aesthetically is a fricking comic book material. I love the series but I couldn't help cringing every time the twins were on screen.
Thank you. I actually liked the twins for the most part though.
I don’t know, Eric Rohmer’s rom-coms? When did I say I highly value realism? I don’t.
Rom coms are not more realistic than Breaking Bad, you’re getting ridiculous
You don’t even know what movies I’m talking about moron
it's far too early to be making today's most virgin post
Fricking moron ova here
Go back to whatever filth you spawned from
BB has a lot of those pulpy aspects that approach comic book territory, but that doesn't necessarily make it camp tonally.
Camp is all about parodying and making something ridiculous, but while we are supposed to find humour in the ridiculous characters, the exaggerated characters are just as much used to create tension and dark comedy in which these things are taken seriously.
Take Spooge and his wife, for example.
The bickering couple are obviously ment to be funny, which could be campy, but then Jesse is knocked out and put at the mercy of these people, making that unstable nature a threat the audience can take seriously. At the same time, this brings in the dark comedy aspect that Jesse is this relatively normal guy who's in way over his head.
>campy
That's probably the last word I would use to describe this show. What is so campy about it?
>This show takes very little time to explore its main characters compared to Mad Men and Sopranos
Again: what the actual hell?
This. If anything fricking Fly is the only campy episode, shit’s straight up slapstick. And it was actually really gritty for the first three seasons.
It kind of is campy early on. If you rewatch it the tone does change quite a lot. OP, it just progressively gets better and better. It is definitely a plot driven show, BCS is far more of a character study
>If you rewatch it the tone does change quite a lot
I know, watched it many times. I would say it's more of a black comedy early on but not campy.
>OP, it just progressively gets better and better
This.
Really??
This show was always a goofy live action cartoon for adults.
>two face gus
>i am le one who knocks
>bbbb-bonfire
>machine gun in trunk killing nazis
>magnets b***h
>any scene with le 4d chessmaster gus
>it's not le meth
>the two assassin brothers
Fricking morons.
prove me wrong, kid. Prove me wrong
S1 has loads of camp
>cow houses
>acid bathtub
>dry handjob while ebaying
>"that's not camp tha-"
shut the frick up
You need to watch more TV shows. Preferably not ones a woman picks for you.
>You need to watch more TV shows
That’s never good advice
Okay then, stay a philistine homosexual
I’ve already seen all of The Sopranos, Mad Men, Twin Peaks, Boardwalk Empire, Bergman’s miniseries (even Face to Face) and the first two seasons of True Detective. Television’s a philistine’s medium anyways.
fly
Of all the episodes, that was the one that stood out to him positively. Just laughable. He isn’t even being a contrarian, has to just be brain damage. It has literally zero relevance to the plot.
It’s like somehow Palpatine has returned
>showing walt's obsession with keeping his lab clean only to show in the later seasons walt doesn't give a shit about working in a roach infested poison gas house which is a subtle way of showing moral decay than sopranos' psychiatric sessions
>zero relevance
you gays are all the same man
Carmella was a woman who is in complete terms with the crine life (yes those money donation were just a facade)
Skylar was always in conflict with the crime life
Very different characters. Skylar isn't even that much of a obstacle, like for instance that one scene where she manipulates walt in front of saul already puts her above carmella
They are very different characters, I just felt like negatively comparing her to Carm. In the beginning she’s too much of a device to garner the audience’s sympathy for Walt’s midlife crisis, she doesn’t at all feel like a fully formed character in season 1. I think she’s become more sympathetic and realized as the circumstances have changed.
Everything you post is peak moron
Why’s that?
You like Fly for frick’s sake
Nobody’s given an even slightly decent argument against it so far
Ok homosexual
Take this and get back to me
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Scared of your own incompetence?
Not that high
>Mensa dropped their qualifications a standard deviation
Can't have been racist because it still excludes 100% of them.
I’m confused, do you like Carmela or not
I do, much more than Skyler. I especially like her ass.
Your entire post just screams that you're a massive underaged homosexual
BB really went to shit after the season 2 finale
Characters are schizophrenic. There actions make no sense until you realize episodes have different writers. Then at the end they character assassinate the main character.