Jolt Country

by **Flack** » Mon Sep 03, 2012 6:42 pm

New Wallpaper: http://slid3.tumblr.com/image/30471196652

by **The Maladaptive Locomotiv** » Mon Sep 03, 2012 2:36 am

RIP Skylar

by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Sun Sep 02, 2012 11:48 am

Have you been enjoying this season for the most part? What are your thoughts about it, friend?

by **Nobody** » Sun Sep 02, 2012 2:30 am

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:THE DIRECTOR'S KORNER

Ben, there is one scene in the latest episode where Hank gets yelled at by his boss over a TV screen. I thought that was weird.

I hadn't seen the episode when I last commented. Yeah, that "TV screen" is a $60,000 Cisco Telepresence unit. That's $60,000 per node, btw.

Same thing you can buy from a competitor for about $12,000.

by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Sat Sep 01, 2012 4:49 pm

Two things at play here.

1) You act as if there is no such thing as government waste.

2) I am asking about DRAMA MANAGEMENT in a television show.

Don't aspie out on me, nobody, and piss down my neck and tell me it's raining.

by **Nobody** » Thu Aug 30, 2012 8:53 pm

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:THE DIRECTOR'S KORNER

Ben, there is one scene in the latest episode where Hank gets yelled at by his boss over a TV screen. I thought that was weird. Why wasn't that guy in the room? It's New Mexico, everything worth seeing is at most four hours away.

Uh, let's see. Video telephone call over Skype. $0.00.
Video Conference over Cisco Telepresence if installed. $0.00.
In person visit via flight National/Dulles/BWI to Albuquerque International Sunport minimum $292 plus $50 for hotel and another $50 for car rental. And per diem, say $50. $450.

(Government rates might be less but it's still going to be more than $200 to travel there.)

by **The Happiness Engine** » Thu Aug 30, 2012 6:52 pm

RetroRomper wrote:And this season is actually two in some ways, as they are waiting till next summer to air the final 8 episodes.

Holy Goddamn shit television is the absolute worst. "GUUH BETTER MILK AD DOLLARS WITH RERUNS WHILE WE DRAG OUT THE END OF OUR ONLY GOOD SHOW!"

If I'd known and wasn't reading about it here I wouldn't have even bothered to start watching this season until it was done.

by **Flack** » Thu Aug 30, 2012 2:40 pm

Yeah, if the birthday thing was fake, I don't think he would have done the whole bacon bit.

I didn't think about the season being split into two. It makes sense that they would leap forward a year a year from now.

by **RetroRomper** » Thu Aug 30, 2012 1:03 pm

The Happiness Engine wrote:Side Note: It's possible the birthday breakfast was with a fake passport as a final ditch "buy a scarface machine gun and flee" last-ditch effort? Probably not.

I don't think his passport was faked as the whole vesting of his birthdate was a unique way to confirm to the audience that they were watching a flash forward.

And this season is actually two in some ways, as they are waiting till next summer to air the final 8 episodes. Considering how much story and conflict they are able to pack into barely a quarter of a season for any other series, its possible they could flip the entire story on its head.

Guess we'll have to wait and see.

by **The Happiness Engine** » Wed Aug 29, 2012 10:05 pm

I figured better to follow up here than Flack's thread but Todd is taking so many damn notes because he is so OBVIOUSLY stealing Walt's recipe. Give him 5 cooks and he's gone, maybe to the same guy paying Walt.

The first 4 seasons were turning Walt bad. The final season is about watching the results of the choices he has made so far.

Side Note: It's possible the birthday breakfast was with a fake passport as a final ditch "buy a scarface machine gun and flee" last-ditch effort? Probably not.

by **pinback** » Wed Aug 29, 2012 6:23 pm

That's strange, usually internet groups dedicated to one specific topic rarely if ever discuss that topic!!!

by RC » Wed Aug 29, 2012 4:42 pm

Flack-iPad wrote:I missed the broadcast of this episode so I went to get it from the pirate bay and the second comment was "RIP Mike" which pissed me off.

I recorded this and didn't get to see it until Tuesday night, except some asshole on my friends list with some bullshit/ironic BB group showed up in my feed saying 'Mike dies at the end'. Fucker

by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Tue Aug 28, 2012 9:17 pm

All of you are extremely lucky that I am not in the same room as any of you right now, is all.

by **Flack** » Tue Aug 28, 2012 7:30 pm

Yeah, Hank is in charge of the DEA office in ABQ, so it makes sense that he would now report to someone in DC. My wife works for someone in DC and she has meetings like that 2-3 times a week.

We also have a "telepresense" room which is different than a video teleconference. In the telepresense room, you sit around a table (by yourself) with 10 or so rather large HD monitors. Every telepresense room is decorated the same so all the people you are chatting with have the same backgrounds and everything. It's about as close as you can get with current technology to that scene in Star Wars with the holograms sitting around the Jedi Council.

by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Tue Aug 28, 2012 10:39 am

So you're saying BB is a "sci-fi" show. Wow, just wow.

by **pinback** » Tue Aug 28, 2012 9:47 am

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:
pinback wrote:I just told you the answer, Robb. You're saying you don't like/believe that answer?
I am saying that your answer is BULLSHIT. Don't piss down my back and tell me it's raining.

I rewatched the episode last night and I am pretty sure I'm right. Hank is in a "district office" and the boss was at the "home office", and because we live in the FUTURE, we can have meetings over TV screens now.

by **Flack-iPad** » Mon Aug 27, 2012 8:58 pm

I missed the broadcast of this episode so I went to get it from the pirate bay and the second comment was "RIP Mike" which pissed me off.

Fucking Walt, man. Has there ever been a character in television that swung so rapidly? Not that long ago we were all hoping he would live. For a while I was hoping he would get caught. After this last episode I am hoping Skyler knifes him in his sleep.

by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Mon Aug 27, 2012 3:21 pm

pinback wrote:I just told you the answer, Robb. You're saying you don't like/believe that answer?

I am saying that your answer is BULLSHIT. Don't piss down my back and tell me it's raining.

by **RetroRomper** » Mon Aug 27, 2012 1:27 pm

Its odd that Mike became the "professional" with likable characteristics and a set goal: Walt has routinely played into his ego even when he has had various outs (declining the job at Grey Matter to assist with his cancer treatment) and has constantly become more and more greedy in an emotionally driven manner.

Mike embodies everything I thought that Walt was trying to represent when he took his first furtive steps into the meth business and once again when he is given a way to wrap this chapter of his life nicely together, he asks for more though it doesn't actually solve any of his problems (taking a bow out of the industry would for one, begin the process of patching up his relationship with Skyler).

So... Wow. Mike... He will be missed.

by **pinback** » Mon Aug 27, 2012 9:15 am

I just told you the answer, Robb. You're saying you don't like/believe that answer?

BB

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