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Breaking Bad - Season 3

Agent Richard07

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Season 3 of Breaking Bad starts on March 21st. Anyone watching?

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I think this is one of the best shows on right now. I'm going in spoiler free and I can't wait.
 
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I recently decided to watch the first two seasons and I really enjoyed it. Oddly enough, the music video they played above was one of the worst parts for me. XD The song was just God awful even if the lyrics were great.
 
I'm definitely in. I can't predict at all where they're going with the story - very exciting! :bolian:

Oddly enough, the music video they played above was one of the worst parts for me. XD The song was just God awful even if the lyrics were great.

That's just the show's extremely weird sense of humor coming through. Remember that guy's head on a tortoise? :rommie: What the frak, people?
 
I recently decided to watch the first two seasons and I really enjoyed it. Oddly enough, the music video they played above was one of the worst parts for me. XD The song was just God awful even if the lyrics were great.

It was supposed to be absurd.
 
extremely weird sense of humor coming through. Remember that guy's head on a tortoise? :rommie: What the frak, people?
That scene creeped me out almost as badly as it did Hank.

So looking forward to this season. I agree with Rolling Stone when they wrote that this is the darkest show about a father trying to provide for his family ever to show up on T.V.

Now let me ask a question from the end of last season; Skylar didn't find out Walt's secret in the season finale, did she? The same Rolling Stone article stated that she did. Maybe I misread the article.
 
That Mexican polka music literally always sounds the same to me. I wouldn't be surprised to learn that there's only one song ever, and they just change the lyrics. :rommie:
 
It is very possible that substituting an indirect catastrophe for the dramatically honest catastrophe that the previous season built up to is the beginning of the end, at least as far as keeping the high quality up is concerned.

We now have a situation where the series is basically reset. To go on, Walt has to re-choose a life of crime and choose to adopt Jesse as his ne'er do well son.

But, why will Walt Break Bad when his cancer's in remission? What is there to break him? How could being bad get back Skylar and the new baby? (Not that he really wants Walt Jr. back. There was an element of seriously not nice to the man even before he snapped in the face or mortality.) There are hints that somehow Mexicans out for revenge will pull him back in, but that implies the stupid Breaking Bad-Ass scenario, not worth watching.

And what about Jesse? Even though he doesn't know that Walt let his girl friend die, he already knows he's dominated and despised. Why would he get back into business with the man?

Skylar is actually pretty badly drawn and I have no idea what she wants. Her unpredictability is not actually a tribute to the writing. Second season should have ended with Dean and her sister gunned down, just to concentrate the character on something besides pregnancy and marriage.

My guess is they'll come up with a more or less dramatically plausible rationale for resetting the series. But a continuation would be more powerful than a reset. We've already seen Walt getting into crime and triumphing from the power of desperation.

PS Apparently drug ballads like that are a genuine phenomenon. Personally, I don't hate folk or popular/folk music.
 
Can't wait. I don't watch a lot of hour long dramas on TV, but this show is totally addictive to me.

No way to predict where they will take the story. It seems obvious that Skyler will end up with Ted - probably too obvious.

I see a great ending to the series being a shot of Walt sitting in his prison cell, staring out. You can see on his face that he is reflecting in disbelief the irony that, while he beat his cancer, he's lost everything else in the process. Jesse's dead, he's lost his wife and son to another man, and he's lost his freedom. The camera continues to pull back on this shot. Of course, this probably won't even be close to what actually happens.

Should be a great ride though. As much as I love it, I kind of hope season 3 is it. Any further and it seems like it might stretch it too thin. Sometimes, a short run is appropriate for a show, i.e. Life on Mars. A 4th season would be great, but I think it would be very difficult to keep up the current intensity level.

On a side note, in that last scene of season 2 , that stuffed animal hit the swimming pool with the force of something more like a bowling ball. Way too much of an impact for a soft stuffed animal. I don't care how high it fell from.:rolleyes:

P.S. When that one episode started with that weird ballad, I didn't know what the hell was going on for a minute. This show throws a lot of curve balls for sure.
 
Surprised the cat's out of the bag to Skyler already.


What was up with the crawling people?

What did the dude hang on the goat horn? Only thing I can think is the car key, but there were no keys on it. Keyless entry and ignition?

Regardless, those guys are real assholes. Walt better watch his back.
 
The plane collision from last season seemed a bit over the top, but I'm willing to overlook it if they can continue to keep it real.

I didn't expect Jesse to feel like the crash was his fault. If his guilt gets worse, Walt will have to come out and reveal that he was responsible for his girlfriend's death.

Surprised the cat's out of the bag to Skyler already.
Yeah, and sure enough, she won't tell. I also liked how they handled Walter finding out that he was responsible for the crash. The way they took us through the news updates quickly was pretty effective. I think I was expecting them to draw things out a little more.

What was up with the crawling people?
Some kind of religious devotion I guess. I wouldn't mind learning more about what that and the shrine were all about. At least we know that the legend of Heisenberg has reached far and wide.

Regardless, those guys are real assholes. Walt better watch his back.
They're coming for him. Looks like what was said in the lyrics of that Mexican music clip is coming to pass.
 
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It looked like some kind of Santeria ritual to me. Which would certainly explain the fear everyone had above and beyond just seeing some gangers.
 
We are really past the point where we see that some of the bad guys are like Walt, which is to say, still a human being. Making all the Mexican gangsters in particular raging monsters is getting a little old. The peculiar rite at the shrine was to make the twins seem outlandish I think, not devoted in their own twisted way (as Walt or Jesse might go to their own churches in all meaningless sincerity [don't think either is Jewish, the only Jewish leads on TV are on Numb3rs.]) And it is not a bit obvious why they needed to massacre a bunch of people so they could flee from a pillar of fire and smoke through the desert on foot. This doesn't seem like good planning to me. How could these clowns somehow drive Walt back to crime?

Jesse's messed up. The "bad guy" he thinks he is, is a cliche. He's a bad guy like Walt.
 
I doubt the Mexicans are going to drive Walt back to crime. Mr. Pollos Chicken Owner is. He was fuming (for a guy who shows no negative emotions) when Walt refused his offer.
 
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