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hydro11

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I have also only just started plowing through Breaking Bad and half way through S2 I'm not really feeling the love. I'll keep going as it sounds like the latter seasons are the ones that made everyone go back and binge watch the earlier ones.
 
To start with I thought the show was about how circumstances made a good guy turn bad but FFS has 'Breaks Bad' immediately and the show is more about him finding ways to be better at it. So far many of the characters are just plain annoying, including Walt himself, and everytime I think Jesse is getting interesting he becomes really irritating again.
 
Maybe by watching late I am suffering from over hype, but it ain't looking like the best TV show ever as some folks exclaim.
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This was sort of how I felt. Breaking Bad is just a good TV show. The way people were going on about it, I thought it did something extraordinary like examine the human condition. In reality, I thought it was just a drama. People did things and then it ended. It was worth the 50 hours I spent watching it but not much more than that.

gollum

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This was sort of how I felt. Breaking Bad is just a good TV show. The way people were going on about it, I thought it did something extraordinary like examine the human condition. In reality, I thought it was just a drama. People did things and then it ended. It was worth the 50 hours I spent watching it but not much more than that.
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I think the problem now is BB was a really slow burner, you sort of watched it thinking "yeah, its a neat wee show" then as it went on it got darker & darker & you got more & more insight into the depths of Walter & who he has become & its very much "wow! thats really fucking awesome". The genuis of the show is it only slowly dawned on you what the characters were capable of. The viewer is like being a frog being slow boiled.
 
But it only really worked that way if it snuck up on you. So if you hear its the best thing ever you watch it going "WTF?".
 
Same I guess as Game of Thrones, if you haven't heard anything the fact that all these main charcaters die is new & traumatizing, if you have heard thats what happens you watch it going "yeah, whoop de fuck, the lead died".

jegga

On the advice of several ferners I watched an episode of Hell on Wheels, not sure what series its from but it had a badass fight with a Grizzly bear and a black dude. Is he worth getting attached to or is he disposable like the black actors in the walking dead? Being a person of colour on that show is like wearing a red shirt on star trek.

taniwharugby

that is from S4...the latest one.
 
If you go back to the start, get as attached to Mr. Ferguson as you like....

jegga

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that is from S4...the latest one.
 
If you go back to the start, get as attached to Mr. Ferguson as you like....
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He appears to be unhinged, I hope the bears son comes back for revenge.

dK

OK, I have just finished watching Breaking Bad, and I enjoyed Season 5 the best and liked the ending (no spoilers from me, for the 3 other people in the world that hasn't seen it yet).
 
Over all I would still rate The Wire as better than Breaking Bad, for me Season 3 was really boring and I had to struggle through it

shark

The only thing I'm religiously watching these days aside from rugby and cricket is TWD. I got into Southland last year but unfortunately only the final series and then it was prematurely canned. 
But I fucking love The Walking Dead. 
I used to watch a lot of cooking shows but I'm a little sick of them now. I think the NZ MKR really ruined much of the genre for me. 
Did I mention how awesome TWD is??? 
When new series of Mike and Molly and The Big Bang Theory are on I watch both. 
But TWD........

taniwharugby

TWD isn't so much a TV series, more a survival documentary (plenty of what not to do stuff) 
Taken an interesting turn, but was always trouble on the horizon.

shark

<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="taniwharugby" data-cid="474935" data-time="1425318680">TWD isn't so much a TV series, more a survival documentary (plenty of what not to do stuff) 
Taken an interesting turn, but was always trouble on the horizon.</blockquote>
 
It's become slightly repetitive in that the group goes from one encounter with a bunch of crazy survivors - the hospital cops, Terminites, the Governor - to the next, and it's just a matter of waiting for them to discover the angle and then knock them all off in a confrontation while losing and replacing the occasional core character for dramatic effect. And yet it's still enjoyable to watch, wait, and try to figure out what's going on then witness the action. I expect this seasons' cliffhanger will be exactly when we learn the intentions of the Alexandrians, and must only be 2-3 episodes away now. Next weeks' trailer was edited so it looks like Daryl is being stalked and shot at, but I suspect the two aren't related and we'll have at least one more episode of settling in and hints at what's to come before anything major is revealed. Maybe the Alexandrians arent bad in general and it's just a few internal bad apples - already fingered in last nights' episode - who force our heroes' hand. Ricks' comment at the end about not becoming weak and being in a position to take the town by force if need be was quite telling, and was one of the interjections they throw in from time to time to show us how ruthless he has become. It certainly made me look forward to the possibility. You can see cracks appearing in the group already (Daryl), but also their potential for ruthlessness if need be also lingering under the surface (Carol and Rick) and one suspects they'll reunite in arms following a divergence in Alexandria

Crucial

Banshee - Brutal and sick. 
 
Done and dusted, can we get back to more hotties with their yayas out now pleae.

jegga

Does Banshee have GOT levels of nudity and if do why have you waited till now to mention it?

Nepia

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Banshee - Brutal and sick. 
 
Done and dusted, can we get back to more hotties with their yayas out now pleae.
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Was it you that quipped don't worry about them killing off the hotties as they replace them? Well they haven't replaced shit. :ireful:
 
 
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Crucial

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Does Banshee have GOT levels of nudity and if do why have you waited till now to mention it?
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It's been mentioned lots. This is a Cinemax (SkinnyMax) show, what else do you expect.
 
You need to watch series 1 and 2 though, The titty quota has dropped in Series 3.

Crucial

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Was it you that quipped don't worry about them killing off the hotties as they replace them? Well they haven't replaced shit. :ireful:
 
 
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Yep, you were right to be worried. Hopefully they will recitify this soon.

taniwharugby

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It's become slightly repetitive in that the group goes from one encounter with a bunch of crazy survivors - the hospital cops, Terminites, the Governor - to the next, and it's just a matter of waiting for them to discover the angle and then knock them all off in a confrontation while losing and replacing the occasional core character for dramatic effect. And yet it's still enjoyable to watch, wait, and try to figure out what's going on then witness the action. I expect this seasons' cliffhanger will be exactly when we learn the intentions of the Alexandrians, and must only be 2-3 episodes away now. Next weeks' trailer was edited so it looks like Daryl is being stalked and shot at, but I suspect the two aren't related and we'll have at least one more episode of settling in and hints at what's to come before anything major is revealed. Maybe the Alexandrians arent bad in general and it's just a few internal bad apples - already fingered in last nights' episode - who force our heroes' hand. Ricks' comment at the end about not becoming weak and being in a position to take the town by force if need be was quite telling, and was one of the interjections they throw in from time to time to show us how ruthless he has become. It certainly made me look forward to the possibility. You can see cracks appearing in the group already (Daryl), but also their potential for ruthlessness if need be also lingering under the surface (Carol and Rick) and one suspects they'll reunite in arms following a divergence in Alexandria
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[spoiler]These Alexandrians are an interesting bunch, particuklarly thier leader...video taping them all?? 
I did wonder if it was some kind of future breeding thing to screen out the weak, but they have a gay couple which doesnt help. 
she is very keen for them to stay yet their first encounter with that dude he said theyd have an entry interview of sorts, was that it? cos they kinda missed the boat allowing them to come in..whats with taking guns off them but allow Darryl to keep his x-bow? who they better not kill, I've had enough of shows killing off characters I like having on the show!!
 
Are they just muppets? 
Although I suspect them being weak is a ruse to let them get weak and complacent, but to what end? 
Are they experimenting with a cure, so need people to turn to try turn them back?? I doubt we'll have another cannibal commune. 
Or is Rick and Co's paranoia and distrust going to ruin the community who just want to welcome them in to help move toward the future? 
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Anyone watching Better Call Saul? Seems to be getting pretty good ratings.

jegga

TR I think its going with the plotlines of the book again and the people in that community are just clueless and she needs Rick to help them sort their shit out. We'll probably know for sure if thats the case when we find out if the leaders husband is still are and if not what happened to him.

taniwharugby

Yeah my brother said it seems to be going back along similar lines to the <strike>comics</strike> graphic novels.

jegga

Rest assured if they are following the comics Rick manages to find massive amounts of trouble which leads to the brutal death of one of the main cast.

Bones

Better call Saul has been pretty good so far...

taniwharugby

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Banshee - Brutal and sick. 
Done and dusted, can we get back to more hotties with their yayas out now pleae.</blockquote>
Yep, guess we will learn more of proctors bodyguard fella soon too, theyve been giving snippets recently, I think Rebecca thinks more of herself than her uncle does...yes to more hottie's! 
Jegga - TWD [spoiler] I had thought that community were just muppets, but if so, how have they survived so long? There must be a fair few groups like Ricks (the Governor, the cannibals) roaming looking for a new home, if they were weak surely someone would a dealt to them? I mean I already gave my location lined up for where I'll live and how I'll survive there [/spoiler]

The Silver Fern

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