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Breaking Bad

That was a brilliant discussion by Slovis! What insight, what immense talent and vision!
 
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Think I read on THR the producers were really hoping they could re-inject some empathy into Walter White for the audience. This was really spot on in my view because I came to the series a bit late, ravenously watched everything to the current season (this was about 3 years ago) then started PVRing the new episodes to go along for the exhilarating ride.

What I really disliked was how Walter had completely lost his humanity (Mr. Chips becoming Scarface), whereas Jesse has always held onto it -albeit to troubling, yet natural consequences...which is why I think this season is working so well. Pinkman's character is probably as close as 'we' the audience can come to empathizing with either character given the circumstances. And Hank as well, which speaks volumes about the writing and acting in this series.

Given all this, I find it noble for the producers and writers to try and bring Walter back a bit, but as they say it's impossible to put the genie back in the bottle. It was very telling about Walter when he raced to the desert in a mad dash to save his money from going up in smoke -he was literally blinded by everything else -the bait was perfectly set.
 
I agree, and I think that Vince Gilligan and the other writers did manage to inject some humanity back into Walter White by the very end. (Though I still wanna know how Walt got the Ricin into the packet of Stevia in the coffee shop.)
 
What an ending. Sad to see this one end! Truly amazing series

Credit to Michael Slovis ASC for such an incredible job at giving the show such a distinct look.
 
Great end to a great show.

I wish Dexter could take back that shit of a last episode and try again.
 
Marc Wielage said:
I agree, and I think that Vince Gilligan and the other writers did manage to inject some humanity back into Walter White by the very end. (Though I still wanna know how Walt got the Ricin into the packet of Stevia in the coffee shop.)
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Remember Lidia always sits at the same seat and orders the same thing at the same time and day of the week. Walter removed all but one packet of Stevia which was filled with ricin.
 
Wonderful ending to the show. Really great.

And who cares how he got the Ricin into the Stevia pack. We also don't know how he poisoned Brock with the Lily of the Valley flower, but its better that we don't know, it makes it more mysterious.
 
I used to be a movies first, tv second kind of guy. In other words, if I have the time and the choice, I'll always pick a movie. That has changed somewhat over the last couple of years. Shows like Breaking bad are so well done, and the creators have so much time to explore the characters and storylines. Each episode becomes a mini movie. I'm really going to miss the show, but they ended it at it's peak, something that other shows have not been able to do. Fantastic work by everyone involved. From the writers to the camera team to the production designers to the post team at Keep Me Posted it was all so brilliantly executed. We are in a golden era of television. Television with a cinematic flare.
 
Bob Gundu said:
Remember Lidia always sits at the same seat and orders the same thing at the same time and day of the week. Walter removed all but one packet of Stevia which was filled with ricin.
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Actually, you only need a couple of grains of Ricin in order to affect somebody. It's horribly powerful stuff, and if you filled the packet completely, it wouldn't taste like sweetener.

Steve Sherrick said:
I used to be a movies first, tv second kind of guy. In other words, if I have the time and the choice, I'll always pick a movie. That has changed somewhat over the last couple of years. Shows like Breaking bad are so well done, and the creators have so much time to explore the characters and storylines. Each episode becomes a mini movie.
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It's very true: lots of indie producers have said it's getting harder and harder to sell small movies with difficult subject matter, and that it's possible the future market for this end of the business might be as cable TV series. The rewards are greater, plus you have the potential of doing 30, 40, even 50 episodes of a series instead of being confined to doing just one 2-hour movie.

From the writers to the camera team to the production designers to the post team at Keep Me Posted it was all so brilliantly executed. We are in a golden era of television. Television with a cinematic flare.
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I'm sad that they never gave credit to the data conform people, colorists, and other technicians at Keep Me Posted, because they deserve a lot of accolades on how good Breaking Bad looked over the years. I agree: the show was like a mini-movie every week, particularly the last few episodes.
 
62 Episodes 247 Deaths

62 Episodes 247 Deaths

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Marc Wielage said:
I'm sad that they never gave credit to the data conform people, colorists, and other technicians at Keep Me Posted, because they deserve a lot of accolades on how good Breaking Bad looked over the years. I agree: the show was like a mini-movie every week, particularly the last few episodes.
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It's a company policy. They represent as a team. Kind of New England Patriot's style. Definitely a lot of talented people.
 
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