blazerwkr
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mixduptransistor
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RE: .nm
(09-18-2013 04:16 PM)blazerwkr Wrote:
To get derailed, the thread needed to have been on track in the first place. If anything it's more coherent now than it was at the first post.
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blazers9911
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Seriously, of all threads to post that in... a thread with no title and no topic is the one that gets it.
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RE: .nm
(09-18-2013 03:55 PM)mixduptransistor Wrote: Meanwhile nobody is thinking about poor Huell. He's got to be pretty hungry by now
I'm pretty sure he ate the DEA agent who was guarding him. He's fine.
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mixduptransistor
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You know, I actually felt really bad for Huell when Hank tricked him with the fake brains picture. Poor guy thought he had really gotten Jesse killed.
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(09-18-2013 03:12 PM)blazers9911 Wrote: I really can't either. I'm guessing that episode is kind of the pinnacle of the series, and I'm perfectly fine with that. I'm kind of with you in thinking that Walt's last act on Earth will be saving Jesse. There was just so much going on in the episode, that I was pissed every time a commercial came on.
I think the next two will just be different, but I have confidence they'll be as good in their own way. There probably won't be another balls-to-the-wall, holy-sh!t-i-can't-believe-that-just-happened episode. My guess is the pace will be much, much slower in the penultimate episode. It'll be people dealing with the aftermath and Walt coming to terms with who he is while he's hiding out, shedding the egomaniacal denial of his own nature that has created all the problems for everyone around him, and determining to find redemption where he can. And then they'll start the last episode at the precise place where the flash-forwards ended and it'll be high-stakes tension in the finale with Walt returning to right some wrongs on his way out of this life.
When a show has at least six scenes in one episode in which heartbreaking and/or breathtaking moments are fully earned, it is doing epic work that ought to place Vince Gilligan and his team alongside Twain, Fitzgerald and Hemingway as great American storytellers. There aren't ten television shows that have ever been made that had even one moment better than (1) Hank's death and Walt's reaction (how good is Bryan Cranston?); (2) Walt selling out Jesse to the Nazis; (3) Jesse's torture and realization of how they were going to make him cook (how good is Aaron Paul?); (4) the knife fight; (5) the baby asking for her mommy and Walt's phone call to Skyler; and (6) the baby in the fire truck crying real-life crocodile tears (how good is baby Holly?).
The two best -- to me -- had always been Deadwood and The Wire. But what BB is doing in this last season sets it apart.
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RE: .nm
(09-19-2013 11:26 AM)Memphis Blazer Wrote: I heard on the BB podcast (it's great to hear Gilligan and staff talking about the behind the scenes stuff) that the scene where the baby was wanting her mother was completely unscripted. The actual baby started calling for her mother and they realized it was perfect for the story.
Another cool thing from the podcast. The last scene in the firehouse where the firemen are playing chess, the chess board is set up to show that the White King (walt) is about to be checkmated in two moves. There are two episodes left.
And I think the action picks up this Sunday with where the flash forwards left off. We will learn simply that Walt has been in hiding for six months and we will find out how everyone's lives have been altered since the last episode.
Maybe. But the episode title is Granite State.
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