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5/28/09 at 8:07am
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Re: Breaking Bad Season 2

See, I don't need to be on Walt's side to enjoy watching him. This is just a generalization but, I think this is why I like movies from the UK. In the USA everything needs to have the happy ending. In the UK movies I've seen this is not the case.

I've even read about when studios do a test screening and a director bucks the trend and ends on a non-happy note, the movies test poorly. And when they re-edit with the happy ending, the movie tests a lot better.

However, in life it's never black and white. Everyone has gray in them. Some are darker gray than others though.

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5/28/09 at 11:04am
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See, I don't need to be on Walt's side to enjoy watching him.
I agree. I watched every episode of 'The Shield' and hated Vic Mackey since the pilot when he shot a cop in cold blood. But I still enjoyed watching him for seven seasons. Now I realize this is a little different because Walt was perceived to be a "good guy" from the pilot, but as I stated in another post, I think the writers have done a brilliant job of very slowly and gradually migrating him to the dark side. In fact, now that I've had time to think about it even more, I'm even more convinced that it was a very realistic reaction by Walt.
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5/31/09 at 8:17pm
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Re: Breaking Bad Season 2

Of all the scenarios that could lead up to the swimming pool scenes, that was one that I never anticipated.
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5/31/09 at 8:34pm
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Ah-ha, laughing at Walt, felt good at the end when Skylar busted him.

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6/1/09 at 5:28am
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Re: Breaking Bad Season 2

An interview with Vince Gilligan, to be read after watching the final episode of this season:

Breaking Bad: Vince Gilligan season two finale interview - NJ.com

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6/1/09 at 4:39pm
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Unfortunately Walt will never know he was the catalyst that led to that final scene.

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6/1/09 at 9:16pm
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Unfortunately Walt will never know he was the catalyst that led to that final scene.
He was a catalyst, certainly not the catalyst.

I just finished watching the finale. I'm still not sure how I feel about the whole plane crash thing. Seemed way out there. That interview was interesting though and cleared some things up.
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6/1/09 at 10:22pm
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I'm a little annoyed actually that they built up that crash for so long and then it was something out of the middle of nowhere that caused it. As soon as I saw that her father was an air traffic controller, I knew that it it was a plane crash. That being said, it was absolutely ridiculous, even if Walt had something to do with why it happened. Other than that though, I thought it was a great finale.

Edit: And especially more ridiculous since as mentioned in the interview the pink bear is shown in an episode before, as well as in Jesse's garage in one of the webisodes.
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6/2/09 at 6:32am
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I would've never guessed the plane crash. I knew once I saw the NTSB truck. Great show, weird season finale.

I like that he got busted. Maybe in season 3 she'll come around when he tells her where the money comes from ala Lorraine Bracco in Goodfellas.

"I'm going shopping, give me some money." "How much?" She holds her fingers 2 inches apart.

I did like that they brought the cleaner in but I kept asking why they didn't just move her next door to her own apt?

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6/2/09 at 6:38am
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Re: Breaking Bad Season 2

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I would've never guessed the plane crash. I knew once I saw the NTSB truck.
Same here. Once they showed Jane's father working at air traffic control and Skyler said that Marie would bring Walt Jr. home, I thought plane wreckage was going kill them (since there was two body bags in the drive way) making Walt inadvertantly responsible for the death of his own son and sister in law.
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6/2/09 at 6:43am
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I thought plane wreckage was going kill them (since there was two body bags in the drive way) making Walt inadvertantly responsible for the death of his own son and sister in law.

Ah you need to read the Vince Gilligan interview posted above. Doesn't give away too much just some specifics about who's in the bag.

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6/2/09 at 6:48am
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Ah you need to read the Vince Gilligan interview posted above. Doesn't give away too much just some specifics about who's in the bag.
Yeah, I figured since you didn't see Walt Jr. and Marie at the house that I was wrong and it was just some random crash victims (and Gilligan confirmed that).
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6/2/09 at 9:22am
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In retrospect, this season has been the mixing up of Breaking Bad, The Butterfly Effect, and Donnie Darko.

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6/3/09 at 5:38am
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Re: Breaking Bad Season 2

This has been a great season. I had a feeling we would not know exactly who is in the body bags in the finale. I must have missed it when Walt said "which one?" when asked where his cell phone was, and only knew about it when Skylar confronted him after the surgery.

I do see Walt as a tragic figure, kind of like Macbeth. Both of them started out with ambitions, which would get the best of them, and cause them to go off the deep end and commit murder.

Also, seeing Walt's picture held under the Wanted sign, as Hank was holding the jar, just telling where it began for Walt, and how far it has gotten.
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6/3/09 at 8:13am
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One interesting note from the interview...

There really is a "Save Walter White" web site as seen in the show... when you get to the "donate now" button, it takes to the National Cancer Coalition web site.

Link to "Save Walter White"

Pretty clever.


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6/3/09 at 9:42am
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One interesting note from the interview...

There really is a "Save Walter White" web site as seen in the show... when you get to the "donate now" button, it takes to the National Cancer Coalition web site.

Link to "Save Walter White"

Pretty clever.


Haha that website is hilarious.

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