How did this shit even get OK'd? He fricking threw that shit at his own feet and it exploded with enough force to toss an air conditioner down the street. Did he think he was invulnerable or something? What would've happened if Tuco had died? How did the police not see him walking away on security footage and bring him in for questioning? What the frick was he thinking?
rule of cool + writers strike + bravo vince
>NOOOO WHY ISN'T THE PULPY COMEDIC crime DRAMA COMPLETELY REALISTIC
Breaking Bad isn't perfect but this is the biggest midwit argument against BB on this board, every fricking time. It'd be different if it had established itself as a serious, grounded drama from the very beginning, and then descended into whacky antics. Right from the start we had autistic shit like this, Tuco himself is a borderline cartoon character.
Breaking Bad 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
It’s a live action cartoon in the same way the sopranos is.
How so? Please be specific.
Hohoho Bing bong Ching Chong hehe
Sopranos is a wily coyote cartoon where you’re waiting for Tony to receive come comeuppance and most of the tension derivatives from that. Breaking Bad is similar in that the audience is morbidly curious as how far Walt will go to exercise his ego and prove to others he knows best. The stakes and circumstances trying to conspire against him are ridiculous as well as the reliefs he gets by blind luck (his brother in law is dea and has the intuition of a brick until it’s literally spelt out for him)
But your comparison of the Sopranos to a Wile E Coyote cartoon is based on themes and morals. Whereas in case of BB, we have scenes which are directly lifted from a looney tunes cartoon. Case in point, Gus walking out straightening his tie and then dying. It could perfectly fit in a Bugs Bunny or Daffy Duck cartoon. The same with it's not le meth scene or those goofy assassin brothers.
Dunno sopranos always felt like heightened reality to me. Best I could ascribe it to would be a cartoon, but you could easily call it a drama with moments of levity and surrealism. Some episodes like the whacked guy getting away and never being brought up again come to mind. Another is Tony literally watching the news for updates on Junior being arrested again too unbelievable but it works in the context of the show.
>where you’re waiting for Tony to receive come comeuppance
I was never waiting for this. Is this how leftists see Sopranos or something? Genuine question.
I saw Sopranos as a case study on the death of masculinity in the modern world. That fact that you can only express masculinity through crime and violence is not an indictment of Tony.
It’s not a genuine question if you’re gonna put me in a camp for stating my opinion. You’re watching because something has to happen if he gets away it’ll feel anticlimactic and contrived, if he succeeds you’ll feel uncomfortable routing for a morally reprehensible person. That why it ended the way it did. Ambiguously so people can reason their own ending. Because as you stated people are going to take away different things from the character study.
Id argue the sopranos is closer to theatre and satire than 'a cartoon' like bb is
Thats a good comparison, Paulie is used exactly how comedic relief characters were in shakespeare honestly
You know thinking back on this it is similar to a Greek tragedy a tad. Man can’t over come his nature but sees it through to the end despite everything.
>>two face gus
>>i am le one who knocks
>>bbbb-bonfire
gun in trunk killing nazis
b***h
>>any scene with le 4d chessmaster gus
>>it's not le meth
>>the two assassin brothers
all kino
>if I say kino it makes all this goofy shit better
>do I fit in yet giuse???
>>the two assassin brothers
The Mexican Terminator twins. Pure schlock.
When you stop and think about their actions in BB they actually come across as incompetent morons.
>disguise themselves while crossing the border
>but wear their shoes that are apparently super recognisable
>Kill everyone then walk off into the desert with no water
>Kill an old lady because they need a place to stay instead of just going to a motel
>leave the corpse outside for anyone to find
>only manage to clip Hank in the arm once out like 6 shots
>don't get out of the way as Hank reverses into them
>Hank gets the drop on the other one despite only moving into the next row of cars
>die because you wanted to do your execution that you got from the battlepass
>two face gus
The show was reasonable until then. Everything else you listed is just "rule of cool" shit you'd see on any live action drama that isn't trying to be super serious HBO shit, but Gus walking out and straightening his tie was when it became an actual cartoon.
Th show was reasonable? Ofc it wasn’t, and was never supposed to be.
Saul Goodman, the magical criminal lawyer?
The fricking 99% pure meth that is literally impossible for anyone else to make both in-show and irl?
pharmas make 100% pure meth and have done so for over a half-century. It would be simplicity itself to hire a former worker and pay them a shitload to tell all.
That is one reason this story was rejected by so many networks. Vince made it all about the violence and drugs but it was really because it was so full of holes it would never pass as a crime drama, which everyone thought it was gonna be.
gun in trunk killing nazis
Mythbusters tried this and it actually worked. Not the magnet though
Go break the myth that you get no b***hes homie
they didnt had to do all that. im sure that being a nazi does not make you invulnerable to bullets
It's not the fact whether the machine gun could work or not, but the fact that they were killed in such an over the top way using a plan which consisted of so many variables for it to be successful.
If the nazis made Walt park his car in a place not parallel to their house or actually checking his trunk, the entire thing would be useless
>bbbb-breakfasttt
I hated this meme so fricking much, it made me hate the show. I blame myself for going on the subreddit back when it aired.
The stupid jesus christ marie le crystals was [rett fricking stupid too.
I hate it.
>aschtually it's supposed to have errors that defy common sense
Why does it matter? Do you have autism?
It matters because Walt is supposed to be a smart guy.
This plan is not smart.
Breaking bad is just reddit sopranos
If you want a perfectly accurate depiction of cooking and selling meth do it yourself instead of watching TV moron
>Americans have to sell drugs because they don't have free healthcare
To be fair, Americans need less medical attention because they aren't constantly getting stabbed by muslims.
Alexs! Please search up violent crime statistics for both European countries and America. Forward the results to anon and call him a homosexual
Americans need less medical attention? Do you read b4 u post?
>need less medical attention
Former partner offered him the job with full medical benefits but he refused because of pride.
It was always gonna be full of plot holes.
Gus was the worst offender. He had a chemist who was happy to make 96% pure meth with no hassle but he hired the brother in law of a DEA agent instead because muh extra 3%
>free healthcare
Its not free anywhere moron. You just pay more taxes
Breaking Bad is a White suburban power fantasy.
Is This Is Not... Le Meth Walt the most powerful Breaking Bad character?
no-one in this thread even has good enough memory to remember that he threw it all the way across to the other side of the room
no he didn't breaking soiboy
I think watching his goofy show has addled your brains
He was exactly 6 feet away from the front of the desk and you know it.
Rule of cool still applies.
There is nothing realistic about BB or BCS. It is television version of GTA.
if we're being honest that's where the show went downhill
He had cancer
It's basically a super power
Tuco was on drugs and drugs also give you superpowers
Such a strange show to think back on. The slow pacing, long takes etc presented a confidence, that I and everyone else took to come from them 'knowing what they were doing' in a story sense. It's like someone saying 'Hey. Stop. Listen to me...' and making a point of making an intense look at you for a long pause. When the thing that they said didn't seem like a big deal, you'd think that you just needed a minute to let it sink in...you'll 'get it' in a minute... You'd be pissed if you found out later they just made something up off the top of their head during the pause and that's why it didn't really amount to much. You would not listen to them again
my only problem with this scene is the idea that the explosion large enough to blow out the windows didn't trigger the rest of the bag
Also, what if Tuco had tried to crush and snort the mercury fulminate before they brought Walt in?