It's an on-going narrative, so unfortunately we can't just throw out an episode for you to watch like it was The Honeymooners. =(Prove me wrong. I got bored 1/3 of the way through Season 2. Give me an episode to watch.
Breaking Bad vs. The Wire
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The guy in Homeland was the star of Life. I loved his Zen ex-con / rich detective character. I used to think I prefered gritty realism over pretty much anything. That was until I watched The Road. As a life long fan of all things post-apocalyptic The Road was pretty much the turning point when for the first time I realized even I (who I didn't think I had any standards) actually have my limits.
I don't do depressing or completely nihilistic. Real life as I have experienced it or atleast witnessed first-hand if not directly experienced has served me my fill of gritty realism and hopelessness and depression and futility and nihilism. I've had quite enough of it.
So for me to consider anything 'entertainment' it must have a pretty strong fun factor to it. Even if it's insane scarey-psychotic funhouse/thrill-ride kind of fun. Or perhaps a more all encompassing term for it would be energy. Whether its negative or positive energy I feed on it like a psychic vampire. If I am going to live vicariously through some fictional characters role-playing with each other all I ask is that they remind me what it means to be alive. I don't want to be reminded of how dead inside I've become in my 40 years.
I'm only on the second season of Breaking Bad right now and it definitely has been worth watching so far. It has completely drawn me in and I feel compelled to see it through to the very last episode no matter what happens because I have all sorts of ideas and theories about what I think is going to happen in the long run and I can't wait to see what other kinds of seemingly impossible to get out of situations they can get themselves into and then back out of again. Will they continue just barely surviving as they have been or will they finally come out on top for once so that their struggle is no longer about survival so much as maintaining the flimsy empire of cards they've haphazardly constructed?
Breaking Bad has just the right balance of edge of your seat anxiety followed by measured doses of tension breaking climax. It's fun in an exciting, scarey roller-coaster kind of way, but only because it lets you off after fairly short but exhilarating rides. Some may get sick but I'm one of the many who run to get back in line for another ride.
HAving said that I wouldn't put it at the top of my list of all time favorite TV shows. Of the more recent shows I've watched some I would rank higher follow:
Chuck
Life
Reaper
Supernatural
..not necessarily in that order - but I certainly enjoyed them a hell of a lot more than I am Breaking Bad. Except when Supernatural became all about Lucifer and angels it become a lot less fun to me. I think I had the most fun watching Chuck if I had to choose one. I guess I'm a true nerd so I identified more with his character than any others. Perhaps thats another important factor. How well do we personally identify with the main characters we watch?
I don't do depressing or completely nihilistic. Real life as I have experienced it or atleast witnessed first-hand if not directly experienced has served me my fill of gritty realism and hopelessness and depression and futility and nihilism. I've had quite enough of it.
So for me to consider anything 'entertainment' it must have a pretty strong fun factor to it. Even if it's insane scarey-psychotic funhouse/thrill-ride kind of fun. Or perhaps a more all encompassing term for it would be energy. Whether its negative or positive energy I feed on it like a psychic vampire. If I am going to live vicariously through some fictional characters role-playing with each other all I ask is that they remind me what it means to be alive. I don't want to be reminded of how dead inside I've become in my 40 years.
I'm only on the second season of Breaking Bad right now and it definitely has been worth watching so far. It has completely drawn me in and I feel compelled to see it through to the very last episode no matter what happens because I have all sorts of ideas and theories about what I think is going to happen in the long run and I can't wait to see what other kinds of seemingly impossible to get out of situations they can get themselves into and then back out of again. Will they continue just barely surviving as they have been or will they finally come out on top for once so that their struggle is no longer about survival so much as maintaining the flimsy empire of cards they've haphazardly constructed?
Breaking Bad has just the right balance of edge of your seat anxiety followed by measured doses of tension breaking climax. It's fun in an exciting, scarey roller-coaster kind of way, but only because it lets you off after fairly short but exhilarating rides. Some may get sick but I'm one of the many who run to get back in line for another ride.
HAving said that I wouldn't put it at the top of my list of all time favorite TV shows. Of the more recent shows I've watched some I would rank higher follow:
Chuck
Life
Reaper
Supernatural
..not necessarily in that order - but I certainly enjoyed them a hell of a lot more than I am Breaking Bad. Except when Supernatural became all about Lucifer and angels it become a lot less fun to me. I think I had the most fun watching Chuck if I had to choose one. I guess I'm a true nerd so I identified more with his character than any others. Perhaps thats another important factor. How well do we personally identify with the main characters we watch?
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HAHAHAHA, Fucking Homeland!
SPOILERS
So I was looking for an image to explain one of the few bits I liked about this shitshow and got a "where did we leave our characters?" content-mill spew:
SPOILERS
So I was looking for an image to explain one of the few bits I liked about this shitshow and got a "where did we leave our characters?" content-mill spew:
HAHAHAHAHAHA Can you FUCKING imagine something more at home in a lower-ranked Dallas episode? "OMG I hope it wasn't all a DREEEEEAAAAAM!"Carrie:
Where she left off: The CIA placed her on administrative leave, which Saul said meant her days with the agency were over, and her work was discredited to the point that no one believed her crazywall's worth of color-coded evidence. She pieced together that Brody really is a terrorist and tried to plead with his daughter Dana, but that just landed her in jail. Disgraced, desperate, and unemployed, she decided to undergo electroconvulsive therapy to treat her bipolar disorder. And then, just before the first shock that would jangle her short-term memory, she remembered how Brody had once cried out "Issa" (the name of terrorist mastermind Abu Nazir's late son, killed in an American drone attack) in his sleep. She was just about to connect the dots that Issa's death had radicalized Brody when zap. But maybe she'll remember?