Breaking Bad - First Time watch Thread

[Distorted Humor]

Well, Starting to watch Breaking Bad for the first time. All I know is that the creepy guy from big love, and the dad from Malcolm in the middle is in it, and its about meth cooking. And it supposed to be good.

Well, So it begins.

 

[Shurik]

You are in for a very wild ride.

It's the best show on TV right now. Everything about it is perfect.

 

[Distorted Humor]

"Pilot"

So a man is driving a RV in the desert, in his underwear and a gas mask, and the viewer goes "WHAT THE HECK?"

Turns out the guy is walt, who for the last 50 years missed his calling of being a bad ass, and instead meekly teaches chemistry at a high school. We get hints that he had done very big work in the past, but settled for the high school job. But we know he the man since he has a hot wife who more then ten years younger then him.

Then at his second crappy job at a car wash, he falls over, is checked, and has lung cancer even though he does not smoke. With a kid on the way, a older son who is disabled, and what undoubtedly expensive cancer treatments. (though he has yet to tell his family, which will be fun, as his brother in law is a DEA agent.) He decides to live better though chemistry and cook meth. So he partners up with Arron Paul, who last was seen being a creepy guy boning the oldest daughter on "Big Love" as his partner in meth cooking. Funny enough, he less creepy as a tweeky meth cooker then the guy on Big love.

Walt cooks meth that is the shazam, Arron decides to sell it to the cousin of the guy who went down in a drug raid, and next you know, Walt to save his life offers to show how he cooks stuff, as the half Asian, half Latino cousins in crime are going to kill them. So they go into the Winnebago of DOOOM. walt cooks up some tasty phosphone gas, two criminals dead, and we get to the point where walt thinks that he is busted, but turns out it just a fire crew trying to put out a fire from one of the dead half-amigos old cigg.

Then he goes home and shows that at age 50 he can still surprise his wife in bed.

Rating: A

DuPont Moments of Better living though chemistry: 2 (Cooking the uber-meth, and killing bad guys with superior chemical knowledge)

Moments of Walt being a Bad-ass: 3, Cooking Uber-meth, beating up Punk in store, Killing minor criminals.

 

[Distorted Humor]

"Cat's in the Bag…"

Turns out that one of the two petty crooks is not completely dead, and turns up walking down the street looking like a extra for a zombie movie. So Mr. White gets him and Walt and the boy wonder have a issue.

One corpse, getting smelly, and one more then alive guy that needs to be killed. I still giggled when they used a bike lock to keep the crook in one spot as a improvised bondage gear. Guess this isn't Farscape.

The wife knows something is up, so she confronts him, so he says the boy wonder is selling him pot. They (Walt and the boy wonder) can't decide who gonna kill, and who gonna get rid of the body. So they flip a coin, Walt gets the kill, and boy wonder gets the disposal. Walt get acid to dissolve the body, and says specifically to get a type of plastic to hold the body and acid.

Boy wonder has a very bad day on dispsoal, first, Skylar confronts him when he dragging a dead man, reveals to the boy wonder that Walt brother in law is a DEA agent, then he drags the corpse to the 2nd floor bathtub. insert one body, two perfectly good guns, and a vial or two of acid.

Walt comes to visit, and then all hell breaks loose. Acid ate though the tub. So as a viewer you get to see 200 pounds of goo fall from the cealing as the acid eats it away like Alien acid.

Last bit is a native American kid finds a gas mask at the cook site. Guess we will see the DEA start a investigation.

Rating: A

DuPont Moments of Better living though chemistry: 3 (Dissolving bodie)
Walt Bad ass moments: 3 (Almost gave it to him telling off the wife, but decided that didn't rise to the level.)

 

[Harvey]

It's a terrific series. On all accounts: acting, writing, directing, music supervising, editing, cinematography -- the series regularly achieves the heights only highly-budgeted and comfortably scheduled feature films usually achieve.

At first I was worried that the premise wouldn't work after a couple of seasons, but unlike, say, Dexter, the show has proven me wrong on that account for the entirety of four seasons. A part of me thinks that the show could sustain itself for another four years, but a fifth and final season of 16 episodes is probably about right.

I think the series only gets better in the second and third seasons, when it expands its regular cast with several additional actors.

 

[Roger Wilco]

At first I was worried that the premise wouldn't work after a couple of seasons, but unlike, say, Dexter, the show has proven me wrong on that account for the entirety of four seasons. A part of me thinks that the show could sustain itself for another four years, but a fifth and final season of 16 episodes is probably about right.

I don't know if it's enough,

somewhat spoilerish, but mostly speculation:

Spoiler: .

I wanted Walt to go all the way to Scarface style badass gangster boss, but that won't happen now with only one season left.

 

[Distorted Humor]

It's a terrific series. On all accounts: acting, writing, directing, music supervising, editing, cinematography -- the series regularly achieves the heights only highly-budgeted and comfortably scheduled feature films usually achieve.

At first I was worried that the premise wouldn't work after a couple of seasons, but unlike, say, Dexter, the show has proven me wrong on that account for the entirety of four seasons. A part of me thinks that the show could sustain itself for another four years, but a fifth and final season of 16 episodes is probably about right.

I think the series only gets better in the second and third seasons, when it expands its regular cast with several additional actors.

Glad to hear they are able to maintain this, as watching this has been enjoyable, but at times I thinking how are they going to continue this without writing themselves in a corner.

 

[sidious618]

I think the show gets better each season which is saying a lot considering how good the first season is.

 

[Harvey]

At first I was worried that the premise wouldn't work after a couple of seasons, but unlike, say, Dexter, the show has proven me wrong on that account for the entirety of four seasons. A part of me thinks that the show could sustain itself for another four years, but a fifth and final season of 16 episodes is probably about right.

I don't know if it's enough,

somewhat spoilerish, but mostly speculation:

Spoiler: .

I wanted Walt to go all the way to Scarface style badass gangster boss, but that won't happen now with only one season left.

Considering...

Spoilers for season four finale

Spoiler: .

That Walt was willing to endanger and potentially sacrifice an innocent child in order to save himself and kill Gus, I think he's well on his way towards becoming Scarface. He's certainly come a long way from being "Mr. Chips" in the pilot episode. I figure that a lot can happen in 16 episodes -- consider how far Walt went in the 7 episode first season; season five will be more than twice as long as that year.

 

[Kelthaz]

I tried watching the show a few months ago, but I gave up after the first two episodes. I can't quite put my finger on it, but it just wasn't grabbing me.

 

[Roger Wilco]

Give it another shot, it's really worth it. I just watched the first episode too before giving up on it, then started watching it again much later and was hooked immediately.

 

[TheGodBen]

Glad to hear they are able to maintain this, as watching this has been enjoyable, but at times I thinking how are they going to continue this without writing themselves in a corner.

Breaking Bad does an amazing job of shaking things up and keeping things fresh by using plot twists that you wont see coming, but also happen naturally (for the most part). It's difficult to imagine what's going to happen in the next episode, let alone trying to predict how things will play out over five seasons. You're in for a treat.

What Breaking Bad does better than any show I've ever watched is build up tension to an unbearable level, then it kicks you as hard as it can, right in the teeth. The characters are also brilliant. Walter White would have to be in my top 5 TV characters, but most of the other characters are top-notch, particularly Jesse and Hank. Those two characters are noteworthy because you go into the show thinking that they're one thing, but as you learn more about them you begin to sympathise with them, even when they're in conflict with Walt.

I considered doing a review thread for the show when I watched it a few months back, but I figured that some people would complain that I hadn't finished Babylon 5, so I'm glad to see someone else doing it. And with counters, no less.

 

[Roger Wilco]

The characters are also brilliant. Walter White would have to be in my top 5 TV characters, but most of the other characters are top-notch, particularly Jesse and Hank. Those two characters are noteworthy because you go into the show thinking that they're one thing, but as you learn more about them you begin to sympathise with them, even when they're in conflict with Walt.

The acting as well. I only knew Walt from Malcolm, but he's so different, so intense, so credible, it's amazing. And that's only one of the characters. He fully deserves all the awards he's won.

 

[Shurik]

My favorite character besides Walt and Jessy is Saul Goodman, the criminal lawyer.

 

[Roger Wilco]

AKA: Fonzie!

 

[Ryan]

Glad to hear they are able to maintain this, as watching this has been enjoyable, but at times I thinking how are they going to continue this without writing themselves in a corner.

There are a few seasons where the story comes to a grinding halt for a long while but they always manage to get the show back on track with some new crazy development.