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MADem

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1. If I were to assign a "profound" lesson to BB, I'd agree it was the MEDICAL CARE piece.

Reply to hootinholler (Original post)

Sat Sep 28, 2013, 01:59 PM

Sep 2013

If Walter White had himself some Obamacare, he wouldn't have to go broke to pay for cancer treatments.

There would be no story.

It's only the fact that we don't have "health care for all" that makes this story even possible. It's the motivator to the entire tale.

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Interesting Take on Breaking Bad in Salon [View all] hootinholler Sep 2013 OP

If I were to assign a "profound" lesson to BB, I'd agree it was the MEDICAL CARE piece. MADem Sep 2013 #1

If Breaking Bad was set in Canada... Electric Monk Sep 2013 #5

Walt would still be Walt... dairydog91 Sep 2013 #19

Interesting read. Thank you. Comrade Grumpy Sep 2013 #2

The Sopranos captured me but BB, thankfully won't be on when Downton Abbey comes on..n/t monmouth3 Sep 2013 #3

Oooo, when will that start again? n/t hootinholler Sep 2013 #4

January 5, 2014...Cannot wait..n/t monmouth3 Sep 2013 #8

Is that a stardate? hootinholler Sep 2013 #9

Yes, it is. Kind of a nice show to start the new year, right? monmouth3 Sep 2013 #11

Proof reading is your friend... Electric Monk Sep 2013 #15

More info... monmouth3 Sep 2013 #12

Interesting post. My take is that the acting is supurb! nt kelliekat44 Sep 2013 #6

As long as Pinkman does not throw a blood clot and Walt refrains from becoming a lumberjack Drahthaardogs Sep 2013 #7

I'm wondering if Walt shows up hootinholler Sep 2013 #10

Walt still has that machine gun (m60?) and the ricin he went back to his old house to get Electric Monk Sep 2013 #14

Hmmm, I wonder where that got to hootinholler Sep 2013 #16

And where does he get a machine gun exactly like the ones the Nazis have? Generic Brad Sep 2013 #17

In one of the flash forwards it showed him buying it in a restaurant parking lot, iirc Electric Monk Sep 2013 #18

It's Vince Gilligan kydo Sep 2013 #13