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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.

BEN, would YOU have directed it that way if it was your show?

(By the way, Vince Gilligan says he does not go to the Internet and look up Breaking Bad. If he does when he drops the mic and finishes the show, please realize: everything else is perfect, and this is what we are left to quibble with. Where the goddamn actors are in the room.)

I don't know why that scene bothers you so much. Who-- Because the DEA boss is in Washington, DC? And Washington isn't in New Mexico? I dunno. Who cares? Christ.

I have been yelled at over a video conference from someone in DC. I can vouch for the validity of this scene.

pinback wrote:I don't know why that scene bothers you so much. Who-- Because the DEA boss is in Washington, DC? And Washington isn't in New Mexico? I dunno. Who cares? Christ.

Who cares, he says. WHO CARES.

Asshole, can we just talk about the fucking sh-- You know what? FUCK YOU.

The Wire is back on top. At least when they had their "Getting Yelled At By Bosses Scene" everyone was in Baltimore in the same god damn room.

Keep posting to this thread, Ben. I'm delighted to move Red Dwarf back on top of Breaking Bad as well.

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.)