EVA
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Is it just me, or did Dean Norris lose a fair amount of weight between seasons? From certain angles, he looks positively gaunt, at least compared to how I'm used to him looking. Must've been one hell of a dump he took in Walt's bathroom.
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And damn, Michelle MacLaren, you bad. Between her work on this show and last season of GAME OF THRONES, she has a strong case for being the best director working in TV right now. She's so good, it almost makes me want to track down her episodes of random shows like MEMPHIS BEAT and THE EVENT to see if she can make anything look amazing. She had a ton of showy shots in this episode, but there was this one fleeting shot when Walt was burying the money, where you just see Walt from the neck up down in the hole and his face is illuminated by the taillights of the van and it looks like he's in Hell, which I thought was just brilliantly, subtly awesome.
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Literally the only good thing about LOW WINTER SUN is that it gives the criminally underrated and underutilized James Ransone a high profile part. It's even a different sort of part for him - an actual competent human being, instead of the fuckwits and burnouts he usually plays.
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ARYAN BROTHERHOOD FTW I continue to pretend that Kevin Rankin is still playing Devil from JUSTIFIED and will do so until the show says otherwise.
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Can I just say that I kinda love Lydia? I wasn't really sure about her while last season was in progress, but after going back and binge viewing it, I really came to appreciate her more. Every other high level player in the meth business we've met has been a cool, calculating customer. Stoic, even. She's the exact opposite - jittery, frazzled, completely conspicuous. And in that context, it makes total sense that she might be the one to destroy Walt's life. She's the type to make an emotional decision that gets...messy.
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Dawn appeared for the first time, once, in season 4 before popping up again so she could get flambéed to start season 5. I really don't recall them every being mentioned before in any specific way before then. Even if they were referenced in some slight way beforehand, a reference does not make them characters anybody gives a damn about. It was a blatant case of Sutter coming up with a plotline to bridge seasons 4 and 5, then realizing there was no one Tig really cared about that he could afford to kill, so he reached deep into Tig's bio (and/or his own butt) and pulled out this daughter to sacrifice. I think another problem with it was that Tig isn't the most lovable character himself. I mean, it's not ideal, but *maybe* you could still get some mileage out of killing a nothing character, IF we just love the character suffering the loss so much that we feel it for him, if not for person being killed. But Tig is one of the least sympathetic characters in the club, second only to Clay.
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You can't be too hard on Coates. Sutter just pulled the daughter out of his ass a few episodes before that. I'd be confused on how to play it, too.
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I've been wondering what Hoardak's new handle was. Keep it down home, cuz.
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I ride or die with Ziggy Sobotka and give zero fucks.
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He'll play. They'll take the same course of action Auburn did with Cam Newton: Play him until the NCAA says you can't anymore. When you've got a once-in-a-lifetime player and a shot to win it all, you let it ride. And this case is so big, there's no way the NCAA will have a ruling on it until after the season.
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I don't see Hank and Jesse "working together," but I fully expect Hank to scoop up Jesse and try to flip him on Walt pretty soon. Hank is the most moral character on the show, and I doubt he'll waste too much time fretting over what exposing Walt will do to his career. He's never even been that career-minded anyway, having shirked or avoided several opportunities to move up before begrudgingly accepting his current position. He would be perfectly happy going back to working cases on the streets. Only the family issue will give him any pause. However, Jesse HATES Hank, and I don't think he's really to the point of hating Walt enough to snitch on him yet. He seems more frightened of Walt and depressed than anything. Knowing that Walt killed Mike no doubt breaks his heart, but, as Gilligan said after the show, Jesse understands that Mike was a player and that when you play the game, getting put down for the long goodnight is a likely outcome. I think he'd have to find out about Brock and Jane before he got to the point of flipping.
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Actually, he said, "Hell yeah." Which is the best possible response.
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Actually, he said, "Hell yeah."
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I'm trying to decide if the show has slipped back to season 5 levels of aimless sucktitude. It's like the polar opposite of BREAKING BAD. The show is ending and there doesn't seem to be any sense of urgency whatsoever.
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The premiere drew 5.9 million viewers, up a shocking 102% over last year's premiere and easily the show's biggest audience ever. Saturday afternoon, I was hanging out with a friend playing videogames and he noted that almost everyone on his friends list was watching Netflix. I joked, "They're all catching up on BREAKING BAD before the last season starts tomorrow." Maybe I was right?
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IM3 is like one big mulligan on IM2. The plots are even kinda similar. In 2, you had an evil supervillain using a clueless putz businessman to get revenge on Tony, whereas in 3, you have an evil businessman using a clueless putz "supervillain" to get revenge on Tony. And instead of the all the drone suits to fight at the end, you get volcano people.
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DVDVRSBE: The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell
EVA replied to jaedmc's topic in READING & WRITING
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Yeah, I definitely have the exact opposite take on Walt/Jesse. Walt's feelings for Jesse are genuine. Cranston has said as much, that he saw Jesse as a lost boy that he could save. Of course, it's often difficult to reconcile that with how Walt actually treats Jesse at times, but I think that's a defense mechanism for Walt. He is often cruel and callous to Jesse because he thinks tearing down Jesse's self-esteem will keep Jesse from leaving him. It's an emotionally abusive relationship, for sure, but emotional abusers do care about the people they abuse (mostly), they just have really fucked up ways of showing it. This was plainly played out at the end of last season (either in "Buyouts" or "Say My Name"), in that period when the kids were staying with Hank and Skyler was waiting for him to die, when Jesse showed up at Vamanos demanding his buyout. Walt runs through his Greatest Hits of manipulation to convince Jesse to stay, but to no avail. And the look on Walt's face after the door slams and he realizes Jesse isn't coming back says it all. It's not professional frustration that he's been left alone to run the new enterprise or that he won't get to set up the second cook he was going to put Jesse on. The hurt is clearly much deeper than that. At that point, Jesse represented the last reciprocal, unencumbered caring relationship he had left, and he wanted desperately to keep it. Jesse IS his surrogate son. And despite all the ugliness in Walt that has been exposed over the course of the show, it has never been a lie when he talks about how much he cares about his family. I fully believe that, if put in a situation where he had permanently lost his biological family, whether through death (unlikely) or being placed in some sort of protective custody where he couldn't get find them, he would go to war for his surrogate son. Lest anyone forget (because it seems like ages ago now), Walt screwed up his relationship with Gus irreconcilably FOR Jesse when he killed those street dealers. He could have easily stayed out of it, let Jesse get killed, and kept making money hand over fist at the superlab. But he didn't, because he cares.
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My wildly off-base speculation that will surely look silly weeks from now: The Aryans, or whoever, come for Walt at his home (that's been Skyler's nightmare for forever, so of course that has to happen), but Hank saves the day. Skyler and the kids go to witsec or something like that, but Walt uses Saul's guy to vanish. Walt is exposed as a criminal and becomes one of the most wanted dudes in America. In lieu of Walt, Lydia & Co. settle for kidnapping Jesse and putting him to work. Walt comes back to save Jesse. And then....who the fuck knows.
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LOW WINTER SUN is such a generic gritty cop drama. Avoid. AMC is going to be up shit creek when both BREAKING BAD and MAD MEN are gone. Critically, anyway.
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One of the great tragedies of the scope of the show getting bigger is the diminished role of Badger and Skinny Pete. Those guys are great. Them infiltrating the NA meeting to sell meth and accidentally getting sober in the process was such an underrated moment in the history of the show. (Although I guess they didn't stick with it...)
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Watching Talking Bad... How sick do you think Vince Gilligan is of reciting the "It's Mr. Chips turns into Scarface" pitch in interviews? Because I'm sick for him.
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With Giancarlo Esposito and Jonathan Banks finally off the board, I'm hoping this is the year Dean Norris finally gets some award recognition for playing Hank. And to that end, this would be a pretty awesome submission episode for him. Not that anybody is ever beating Aaron Paul, as this episode also showed.
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I like how Lydia is always terrible at these covert meet-ups. I'm assuming Todd is who Walt left in charge of the cook, in which case...yeah, Lydia is going to have the Aryan Brotherhood on Walt in a jiffy.
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Watching all of those episodes in a row really hammered home how thoroughly Walt destroyed Skyler's soul last season. It was brutal.