Where Is This? - Page 88

Clodfobble · 01-28-2014, 01:05 PM

Yep, it's the house in Albuquerque where they filmed the series.

footfootfoot · 01-28-2014, 01:55 PM

Who the F is Walter White?

glatt · 01-28-2014, 02:20 PM

Character on a very popular tv show that had its final season this year.

footfootfoot · 01-28-2014, 02:23 PM

Ahh, I just googled it.

Griff · 01-28-2014, 04:46 PM

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Originally Posted by footfootfoot

Ahh, I just googled it.

We are similarly out of touch, must be the cozy caves. The ladies here started to watch the series even going back to the beginning to try to get me on board. It didn't take. If I want to see drug ruined lives, I'll just teach special ed...

orthodoc · 01-28-2014, 06:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Griff

If I want to see drug ruined lives, I'll just teach special ed...

You could also work in the ER, or live in western PA, or have a child with a drug addiction.

I haven't had any desire to watch that series.

Griff · 01-28-2014, 06:34 PM

Yeah, it just isn't entertaining. I'm glad someone else gets it.

Gravdigr · 01-28-2014, 10:52 PM

It ain't about the drugs. They're there, yeah, but that ain't what the show's about.

orthodoc · 01-28-2014, 11:16 PM

Yes, but isn't about his choices in the face of a terminal illness, about his rejection of any caring or responsibility toward anyone not in his family? He produces meth to finance his treatment so that his family doesn't suffer. What about the people he harms? Am I missing something?

Gravdigr · 01-28-2014, 11:43 PM

I'm just saying there's a lot more to the show. If someone's decided they're not gonna like it, they're not gonna like it.

Clodfobble · 01-29-2014, 09:14 AM

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Originally Posted by orthodoc

Yes, but isn't about his choices in the face of a terminal illness, about his rejection of any caring or responsibility toward anyone not in his family? He produces meth to finance his treatment so that his family doesn't suffer. What about the people he harms? Am I missing something?

There are overarching themes about accomplishment, about doing something that no one else could have achieved, about wanting to leave a legacy that's more than just money. The show doesn't glorify these, rather it shows the downfall that can come from such hubris. It's about how we all make bad choices when confronted with our most dire fears. Walt doesn't start cooking to finance his cancer treatment, he reluctantly does it so his children--a special needs son, and a newborn baby--won't be homeless and destitute when he dies. At first, he doesn't even want treatment; the money he plans for is just enough to care for them after he's gone. He doesn't try to get people hooked on meth, he just figures the meth heads are going to buy it from someone anyway, it might as well be him for a couple months. You start out thinking Walt is a weak but fundamentally caring guy, but slowly over the course of the series, pride transforms him into a total bad guy. Other characters start out being bad guys, and you realize that they're more good guys, in the end.

It's about how none of us are perfect, and we all have the potential in us to be a bad guy, given the right circumstances. It's about how evil isn't born; it's made. It's a cautionary tale.

I can still understand not wanting to watch the base storyline, it's pretty intense. But it's definitely about more than a jerk who gets people hooked on meth.

Undertoad · 01-29-2014, 09:25 AM

Yeah: Breaking Bad is about meth, like There Will Be Blood is about oil, Apocalypse Now is about Vietnam, Leaving Las Vegas is about alcohol, The Shining is about a resort hotel, ... you get the idea. It's just the context for a character slowly descending into madness/destruction in a world where he often seems like the sanest of all.

Gravdigr · 01-29-2014, 02:55 PM

It's one of the most well-written shows ever broadcast.

Imho, 'Breaking Bad' is the second best thing ever shown on television. The best being 'Lonesome Dove'.

Griff · 01-30-2014, 06:01 AM

I get that its "good." It's the sort of thing I'd watch on the big screen, one time. It isn't the sort of thing I'd allow space to inhabit my mind week after week. The real world can be a dark enough place without help from Hollywood.

fargon · 01-30-2014, 07:16 AM

It is shows like this, and others is the major reason I watch PBS, and got rid of cable. I can find no entertainment value in a show about a cooker and gratuitous violence. There are other shows that I find objectionable and refuse to watch, like Modern Family glorifying faggotry and portraying men as idiots. Needless to say I don't watch a lot of TV. Turn off the boob tube and read a book.

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01-28-2014, 11:16 PM	#1314
orthodoc Not Suspicious, Merely Canadian Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 3,774	Yes, but isn't about his choices in the face of a terminal illness, about his rejection of any caring or responsibility toward anyone not in his family? He produces meth to finance his treatment so that his family doesn't suffer. What about the people he harms? Am I missing something? __________________ The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. - Ghandi

01-28-2014, 11:43 PM	#1315
Gravdigr The Un-Tuckian Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: South Central...KY that is Posts: 39,517	I'm just saying there's a lot more to the show. If someone's decided they're not gonna like it, they're not gonna like it. __________________ These statements have not been evaluated by the FDA, EPA, FBI, DEA, CDC, or FDIC. These statements are not intended to diagnose, cause, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. If you feel you have been harmed/offended by, or, disagree with any of the above statements or images, please feel free to fuck right off.

01-29-2014, 09:25 AM	#1317
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	Yeah: Breaking Bad is about meth, like There Will Be Blood is about oil, Apocalypse Now is about Vietnam, Leaving Las Vegas is about alcohol, The Shining is about a resort hotel, ... you get the idea. It's just the context for a character slowly descending into madness/destruction in a world where he often seems like the sanest of all.

01-29-2014, 02:55 PM	#1318
Gravdigr The Un-Tuckian Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: South Central...KY that is Posts: 39,517	It's one of the most well-written shows ever broadcast. Imho, 'Breaking Bad' is the second best thing ever shown on television. The best being 'Lonesome Dove'. __________________ These statements have not been evaluated by the FDA, EPA, FBI, DEA, CDC, or FDIC. These statements are not intended to diagnose, cause, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. If you feel you have been harmed/offended by, or, disagree with any of the above statements or images, please feel free to fuck right off.

01-30-2014, 06:01 AM	#1319
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	I get that its "good." It's the sort of thing I'd watch on the big screen, one time. It isn't the sort of thing I'd allow space to inhabit my mind week after week. The real world can be a dark enough place without help from Hollywood. __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

01-30-2014, 07:16 AM	#1320
fargon Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: La Crosse, WI Posts: 8,924	It is shows like this, and others is the major reason I watch PBS, and got rid of cable. I can find no entertainment value in a show about a cooker and gratuitous violence. There are other shows that I find objectionable and refuse to watch, like Modern Family glorifying faggotry and portraying men as idiots. Needless to say I don't watch a lot of TV. Turn off the boob tube and read a book. __________________ Annoy the ones that ignore you!!! I live a blessed life I Love my Country, I Fear the Government!!! Heavily medicated for the good of mankind.

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