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Eight
Registered: Mar 2009
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09-07-12 01:41 AM
Walt's cancer is part of what's motivating him.
It's sort of like the writers are exploring the idea of "what would motivate a guy to compete in a business that is dominated by psychopaths to whom it all comes naturally?" It's not a new theme by any means at all, they just have developed it to a new level of uhhh... detail, believability, psychological profile accuracy maybe?
I love the movie "The Usual Suspects". It explores "what does it take to be at the absolute top of the crime world?"
It's good to watch such entertainment in that it reminds me that I don't want to go there...
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denner
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09-07-12 03:42 AM
Quote from Eight:
Walt's cancer is part of what's motivating him.
It's sort of like the writers are exploring the idea of "what would motivate a guy to compete in a business that is dominated by psychopaths to whom it all comes naturally?" It's not a new theme by any means at all, they just have developed it to a new level of uhhh... detail, believability, psychological profile accuracy maybe?
I love the movie "The Usual Suspects". It explores "what does it take to be at the absolute top of the crime world?"
It's good to watch such entertainment in that it reminds me that I don't want to go there...
My only regret with the show is that I didn't discover until...say the end of next summer so that I could watch all 5 seasons consecutively...instead of having watched every show on its original air date and having to constantly wait until the next season...
I also would have preferred that they run this final season all 16 episodes this summer/fall. Perhaps, they worried that starting the show in mid-July would start to conflict with the NFL on Sunday nights. They probably could have started it in late-May instead and have it over by now.
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Eight
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09-07-12 02:39 PM
I streamed the first three seasons from Netflix recently then bought the last season from Google Play, watched six episodes one after the other.. now I have to wait a week for each episode. I want to watch that last episode in "realtime" so it can't be spoiled.
They are not dragging the thing out like "Lost". I'm thankful for that. I watched Lost up until the last half hour and had to shut it down, I was sick of it by that time, couldn't look at that tormented Jack character anymore..
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brocklanders
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09-07-12 03:58 PM
I did the same thing by discovering Breaking Bad this summer and watching all of the seasons to catch up to the current one.
You're going to have to wait until next summer for the remaining episodes to play out. They split the last season up to run in two parts.
The last episode 'Gliding Over All' was meant to be a mid-season cliffhanger.
Awesome show, ranks up with the best I've ever seen. The writers are very clever showing Walt in the first episode alone and buying a machine gun. It gave away nothing and only makes you wonder what happened/will happen in the final episodes. It will be tough to wait but I'm sure it will be worth it.
Saul Goodman needs his own show! He's growing weary of dealing with Walt and needs to break out!!
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denner
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09-07-12 11:06 PM
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The writers are very clever showing Walt in the first episode alone and buying a machine gun. It gave away nothing and only makes you wonder what happened/will happen in the final episodes. It will be tough to wait but I'm sure it will be worth it.
Saul Goodman needs his own show! He's growing weary of dealing with Walt and needs to break out!!
They are masterful with the foreshadowing. I can't remember if it was the second season where they began every episode with the floating eyeball in the pool and other ominous foretellings...until you got to the end of the season with the mid-air collision and the "ah-ha" moment. It was brilliantly done.
I read the other day that Bob Odenkirk (Saul Goodman) based the character on Robert Evans, the infamous Hollywood producer. It's a great character, even carried a few otherwise "filler" episodes.
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