COMMUNITY Breaking Bad - A Hindsight Discussion

Loch121 said:
Can’t agree I have watched both of those shows more than once and I still love them
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Well yeah people tend remember the feeling they had when they were watching their favorite show or listening to their favorite artists over re-evaluating their favorite media from a critical perspective.

Breaking Bad was grew sillier and sillier towards the end.

Walter blowing up a hospital to kill one person - silly.

Walter's playing Zodiac Killer with his brother-in-law - silly.

Walter shaving his head and walking around like a bad ass and acting like a dick when he's too afraid to even pick up a gun? Silly.

Only way the show worked was by making Walter the smartest character in the show and all the other criminals were bumbling idiots, outsmarted and out maneuvered by Walter.

But his dumbass brother-in-law is able to put two and two together?

I like the show, but it's a very middle class White bread male fever dream of what being a drug dealer is like.
 
ZMaKEa said:
Well yeah people tend remember the feeling they had when they were watching their favorite show or listening to their favorite artists over re-evaluating their favorite media from a critical perspective.

Breaking Bad was grew sillier and sillier towards the end.

Walter blowing up a hospital to kill one person - silly.

Walter's playing Zodiac Killer with his brother-in-law - silly.

Walter shaving his head and walking around like a bad ass and acting like a dick when he's too afraid to even pick up a gun? Silly.

Only way the show worked was by making Walter the smartest character in the show and all the other criminals were bumbling idiots, outsmarted and out maneuvered by Walter.

But his dumbass brother-in-law is able to put two and two together?

I like the show, but it's a very middle class White bread male fever dream of what being a drug dealer is like.
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Walt started the show blowing up a room he was standing in by the penultimate ep

A man got made into a smoothie in like ep 3
 
I been on some BB and BCS rewatch shit lately

Funny how Lalo was Gus’ biggest challenge .

By the time you get to BB Gus has already checkmated the cartel.

It seemed like Gus was under pressure,but he was playing them like a fiddle.
 
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Loch121 said:
I been on some BB and BCS rewatch shit lately

Funny how Lalo was Gus’ biggest challenge .

By the time you get to BB Gus has already checkmated the cartel.

It seemed like Gus was under pressure,but he was playing them like fiddle.
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After my most recent BB rewatch, I can see parallels between Walt and Gus from BCS in this they always managed to find a way when their backs were against the wall
 
One of my favorite scenes from my most recent rewatch is when Gus goes to the hospital to basically give Jesse time off to tend to Brock

He goes back to his car and nothing appears out of place yet, he's super suspicious and just watches... Like a terminator scanning for something

Then just dips. Like does he really sense something is off or is this just convenient writing to foil Walters plans

Either way, just a great scene with tension
 
AP3.0 said:
One of my favorite scenes from my most recent rewatch is when Gus goes to the hospital to basically give Jesse time off to tend to Brock

He goes back to his car and nothing appears out of place yet, he's super suspicious and just watches... Like a terminator scanning for something

Then just dips. Like does he really sense something is off or is this just convenient writing to foil Walters plans

Either way, just a great scene with tension
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Looking at how Gus handled Lalo I think I get it.

Simple answer is when beef is on Gus is wild paranoid

Also Gus has OCD and something may have felt out of order.

Gus thought the Brock thing was a set up because he knew he didn't poison him and he left his car unguarded and still had beef with the cartel and Walt.
 
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AP3.0 said:
Walter was the the most selfish character on the show

he hid his selfishness behind the guise of his family, when in reality, he was driven by power and the ability to control and manipulate people. Walt's character is probably one of the best 5 in the past decade of TV, but dude was a POS when you really think about it

dont @ me either
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Just started a re-watch of BB and Walt has been a complete asshole up to this point. From lying to Skylar, manipulating Jesse, even talking that shit to Gretchen. Mans already had it in his mind to start a drug empire early on, cancer or not.
 
This mfer Walt started lying immediately, tried to make Skylar feel like she was tripping about his behavior, felt like he was pushed out his own company even though he left on his own and then blamed his old friends for it. On top of that, wanted to kill Tuco (understandable), wanted to kill Emelio and Krazy-8 and have Jesse do the brunt of it, forced Jesse to continue cooking after that, etc. Guy was a POS once he got a few dollars.
 
I believe Walt losing out on Gray Matter/Gretchen was the biggest reason/driver for him becoming that guy. Once he had an opportunity to build something into an empire, he took it with no hesitation. He was tired of being that regular, underwhelming guy for 50 years.
 
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