^Same here.
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Breaking Bad - I just wanted to say...
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^Same here.
It's not that it was a bad show at first, just a little boring. Not much happened in a given episode. And it was small scale. It didn't get really interesting to me until they got involved in Saul and Gus and Mike. Also, him keeping it a secret from his wife was a lot less interesting than his wife being in on it.
The first episode I saw was the season 2 premiere, and that was interesting enough that I decided to go back and watch the whole thing. The pilot's a bit rough but I thought it was still good.
I liked it right from the beginning myself. It was small scale as mentioned but I think it had a believability that was both lost and compensated for as the story got crazier. As it went on it got a little over the top at times but then that had an appeal of its own. I felt both ends had their merits.
They melted a body in a bathtub. THAT is a little boring?
In the first season it seemed like it was going to be a different sort of show. You could see an unwelcome formula showing through, you could see the show just reaching to preserve the status quo no matter what crazy adventures happened. I can't say more without entering spoiler territory, but this impression proved to be very false somewhere around the end of season 2.
Season 1 choreographed the rest of the series in a way that was far more boring than the series eventually turned out to be, and I think that's why some people don't like it after season 1.
Season 1 choreographed the rest of the series in a way that was far more boring than the series eventually turned out to be, and I think that's why some people don't like it after season 1.
I liked it right from the get go and find the first season to be really smartly written and I like that it takes its time. I didn't think there was ever really a dip in quality although I wasn't particularly sold on the finale.
Its more because it took 3, 4.. or was it 5? episodes to resolve the issue of the body and the other guy. I just found the pace mind achingly slow. And I don't enjoy watching anyone suffer, so watching how the guy who lived got resolved was just very painful for me.
This was my thought process as well. I had heard about the show before and the premise intrigued me, but when I found out the guy who played Hal starred as a badass meth dealer, and won a bunch of Emmys in the role, I absolutely had to see it. I was hooked from the first scene, which has never happened to me with a show before.
I would normally suggest that you give the show a chance and try to watch up until the end of the third season, as that's when the show really takes off as a suspenseful action-thriller. But if you really don't like watching people suffer, this show might not be for you. Jesse's story in particular is an emotional rollercoaster that only spirals downward.
Something I found interesting watching behind-the-scenes stuff and interviews is how much of the series they were making up as they went along. Jesse was originally going to be killed after a handful of episodes, for example. When they started the last season with the contents of Walter's trunk they didn't know what they were going to do with that and so on. It's amazing how well it all came together in the end.
If memory serves, the only season that was planned in advance was the second, which is probably the most uneven of them all and has the only real "filler" episodes in the series' entire run.
This show grabbed me right from the beginning, the premise, Cranston's performance, the chemistry (No pun intended) Even the dark comedy was right up my alley. I actually grew to miss it as it took a back seat to the wild ride. It felt to me like an evolution straight out of real life, with Aaron Paul's performance mutating in tandem with the show, from downright goofy at the beginning, to almost suicidal near the end, with every stop along the way.
I don't think I've ever seen two characters (Make that 3 to include Hank) so successfully altered in a matter of 62 episodes. Watching them evolve, & the tone of the show change made it feel more like watching real people than anything I've ever seen
I don't think I've ever seen two characters (Make that 3 to include Hank) so successfully altered in a matter of 62 episodes. Watching them evolve, & the tone of the show change made it feel more like watching real people than anything I've ever seen
The only thing that saved Jesse was the writer's strike.
Then again, at one point in production Jack was going to die in the pilot of Lost.
I remember reading that as well and simply being stunned that they didn't have it all planned out from the start. Everything just fit together so perfectly; from the season on. I remember being floored by how well the opening scenes of season 2 tied in so perfectly with the last scenes of season 2.
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