Anybody watch Breaking Bad?

[dawg]

And if so, do they sympathize with Walt? I do. I think meth is one of the most evil things in the world, but I can understand why he did what he did. I'm a guy, but if I were Skyler, I wouln't have divorced him over it.

[Deep13]

1. She doesn't want to be an accomplice...

...although she seems to be warming up to the idea.

BTW, do you know the names of the brothers who tried to kill Hank? I just keep calling them the Diablo brothers because they're evil.

[dawg]

2. I hope they wind up back together.

Skyler is wicked hot.

[atomic-fly]

6. i know

those are Pedro's cousins! :)

[LearnedHand]

17. Luis and Daniel Moncada

They are actual brothers.

[City of Mills]

3. Awesome show

I've been obsessed...

[dawg]

4. I've just started watching the show this season.

I think it's pretty good. It's something different, anyway. I get tired of seeing the same old police and medical shows, repackaged over and over again. Oh, and the Pollo Hermanos commercial cracked me up last week.

[Initech]

5. I own both seasons in blu-ray.

I think they don't paint Walt as the hero or the villain. My theory is that he's just a man who's scared of the inevitable and is desperate to provide for his family. But if you watch the show from the beginning you see that Walt's other job gets him into more trouble than he realizes.

[atomic-fly]

7. love it

Walt is proud of his work and like any rock star
get's into trouble with his ego.

[Initech]

14. I love the "Negro Y Azul" music video in season 2.

That was awesome, as was having Bob Odenkirk as the sleazebag attorney.

[Wapsie B]

8. Love the show!

It's one of my all-time favorites. I don't see them sympathizing with Walt as much as I see them depicting his internal struggle in all this. He started something he can't stop, yet he sees how he's negatively affected those close to him. What I find really interesting is Skyler looking as if she's coming around to the idea of Walt's enterprise. The storyline should get even better if she becomes a partner in crime.

[Schema Thing]

9. I enjoy the show, but the odd thing is I sympathize with almost none

of the characters.


I think Walt is a jerk. The classic nice guy who isn't really nice, just a pushover, and angry at the world for it.


And turning down charity that seems to be in a sense "owed" to him in favor of cooking meth? I just don't relate.

[dawg]

10. I don't think Walt is a jerk.

I think he's just too prideful.

[Schema Thing]

18. I think that his pride makes him a jerk.

pride is a big component of most jerkiness, now that I think about it.

[slay]

11. Awesome show - I sympathize with everyone

we all have our flaws from shoplifting Marie to egomaniac Hank and everyone in between. It's a tough world out there and sometimes, many times, people have to do things they don't really want to do. I'm not a fan of meth at all, but what I hate even worse is the "war on drugs". Addicts need help, not prison. But yes - excellent show - I bet HBO are kicking themselves for not having Breaking Bad on their network.

[Mojambo]

12. I would, but I'm dangerously depressed under normal circumstances.

Show seems a little bit bleak for me.

[dawg]

13. Actually, I find it a nice diversion.

I have lots of problems right now that are bringing me down. But I'm not cooking meth, hiding from the law, and there are no Mexican drug lords out to kill me.

[Nuclear Unicorn]

15. Hmmm...

...never seen it. Perhaps something to tide me over until Sons of Anarchy kicks up again.

[LearnedHand]

16. Um, totally. It's like frickin' crack cocaine!

I'm completely addicted. Have been watching since Season I. I sympathize with Walt a little, but I think Jessie is about the most sympathetic character -- or at least he was until the last few episodes. Saul is probably my favorite character; he ROCKS. I hate Skyler; as V. Gilligan probably intends, she drives me right up the WALL with her control-freakishness. I have a Breaking Bad dinner party every weekend, and I've considered getting oxygen tanks for the occasion. We all sit around holding our breaths for an hour!

Oh, and someone in another thread mentioned Dexter; Dexter is my hold-over show until BB comes on again each season. I really wish they'd do two seasons per year. I actually live in ABQ, so it's fun to see familiar places. I even ran into R.J. Mitte (Walt's son) in a local restaraunt one time, and Bryan Cranston (Walt) threw out the ceremonial first ball for the Isotopes a couple of years ago.

[deutsey]

23. I agree about Jesse

I think for most of the series he's been a basically smart, good-hearted but lost kid. I think that episode where he takes care of the little kid whose parents are those skanky meth addicts brilliantly highlighted this aspect of Jesse's character.

However, with all the deaths he's experienced, the betrayals, the addiction, the rejection of his parents, the money, etc., I think Jesse is now becoming completely lost. And it's very sad.

When he laughed about Hank being shot, I thought that was a disturbing turning point for him.

[dawg]

28. I don't think I've been watching long enough to appreciate Jesse.

Since I've been watching, he has seemed like a dumbass to me. Apparently, I need to watch some of the back episodes in order to understand his character better.

[LearnedHand]

31. Excellent analysis

And I agree. Another very sympathetic Jessie scene was where he cried over Jane's death. Broke my heart right in two.

[dawg]

25. Skyler is an ass for sleeping with Ted and shoving it in Walt's face.

She's also really being an ass to Ted if you think about it. She thinks she's above Walt, riding her moral high horse. But she changes her tune when her sister needs some of that "dirty" money. And how ironic that Hank's therapy is going to be paid for with meth money.

[LearnedHand]

32. Yeah, exactly

I LOVE the complexity of this show's writing and of the characters. It's the BEST teevee I've ever seen. Wish they'd make a movie of it.

[Schema Thing]

19. I do like that one of the most moral persons in the storyline is the young

meth dealer Walt teams up with.

[LearnedHand]

20. Yup. That's Jessie.

[pinniped]

21. I'm going to start reporting those suspicious looking Breaking Bad RVs....

that I see parked near the beach all the time.

[deutsey]

22. I love the show

I sympathize with Walt only to the extent that he's a very smart, talented man who's lived a very safe but frustrating life.

What begins as a quick way for him to make sure his family isn't left in financial ruin after his death begins to tap into all those frustrations, resentments, and humiliations he's suffered from taking the safe road all his life. I remember an early episode where Walt is working part time at a carwash to supplement his teaching job and he has to wash the expensive car of a smirking rich young punk that he had a disciplinary run in with at school.

While he starts off wanting to do a good thing for his family, the more he gets into the meth world, the more he finds himself empowered, a player, and even a badass...and he likes it.

That's the tragedy of the show, imo...he had such a good, strong family and in his effort to save it, he ends up losing it and even helps to make the world a shittier place in the process by contributing to the meth trade.

[msanthrope]

24. It's an excellent show that doesn't insult the viewers...

We aren't being spoonfed or being given some storyline that ends in sweetness and light.

Walt is paying for every dime he makes. So is Jesse.

[Yavin4]

26. Did Anyone Else Notice This?

A few episodes ago, it started off with a parental warning, and the reason was because of a strip club scene with topless women.

A few episodes later, they show a guy's head getting blown off but there was no parental warning before the show.

What gives?

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

27. Prudes are dumb.

They don't make sense.

[dawg]

29. And it was just pasties anyway.

Not completely topless, not that I cared or anything. ;)

[libodem]

30. Yes

I watch it in re-un form on Mozilla Foxfire. Must be extra popular right now because I'm having a hellva time getting that particular series to connect an buffer for me.