Sunday March 2, 2008
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The side effects of chemo begin to plague Walt, who is also cooking meth again. Jesse's friend, Skinny Pete, introduces him to a distributor named Tuco, but things go awry and Jesse ends up hospitalised.
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This episode was magnificent. I particularly loved the opening sequence which was the perfect mix of this show's use of the flash forward technique, setting up the story and the rest of the season. I am aware that the second season has already aired in America, however I am only just catching onto the show, but it's so far been amazing.
This episode was the best so far with certain elements of the plot reaching an interesting conclusion, while other elements were created that will no doubt be explored further in the end of the season and possibly the second.
Amazing episode
Amazing show.
First off let me say that this is one of the finest hours of television that I have seen in a long time! Holy cow, I was so amazingly impress, the pacing of this season has completely picked up to the action packed ways as was seen in the pilot. While Jesse goes to meet Tuco and gets his balls handed to him on a plate, Walt intervenes after Jesse is hospitalized to get their meth that was taken back and reparations for Jesse's troubles. But instead of more meth as a peace offering, BOOM! That was so bad ass!
Bad physics and morrally objectionable. hide show
I can't overlook the exploding mercury crystals. 1. From the blast of the explosion and fire that we see coming out of the windows - it tells us that realistically anyone withing 30 feet of that blast would have been killed. Yet the people at ground-zero and unharmed.
2. the first time the distributer is broght the crystal he smashes it up to snort it. He didn't do it this time, and would have died in an explosion if he did.
And morally speaking, I believe that putting one's pride ahead of ruining hundreds of lives is despicable. I lost respect for the character in this episode because now he has an option of taking the job with his ex-partner to get some $ to leave behind for his family and his treatment costs. But he puts his pride above that option and decides to cook meth and ruin lives.
I still love the twisted dark style of the show tho - and will continue to watch.
Where else can you see someone continually vomitting and see a chemo-tainted-pee action shot.
Walter takes another step on the path of Chemistry-Fu and enters the ranks of the death-warrior. Metaphorically, of course. hide show
Wow. Best episode of any show I've seen this year!
It made me think of a quote from a Frank Miller comic called Ronin: "If you intend to die, you can do anything." There's something uniquely fascinating about a character who has lost the fear of death because he has accepted its inevitability; the far inferior movie "Falling Down" from 1993 gave us a similarly meek modern-day hero pushed past the point of fear into becoming an unstoppable force of nature.
Bryan Cranston's Walter is tremendously vulnerable and mortal but at the same time as frighteningly badass as any action hero... This show is what you'd get if Lifetime made a kung fu movie. Cancer drama meets Scarface. Sheer grim death-warrior determination plus Chemistry-Fu steamrollering over gangsta cliche. Beautiful stuff.
The writers' strike derailed a lot of shows this season, so it's early to be saying this, but I think Breaking Bad is my favorite this year. If AMC doesn't renew it, they're dumber than rocks.
After the last few episodes we were in need of something like this. hide show
Since the first two episodes I felt the pace of the show slowed down a little bit. Although, I feel those episodes were pivotal for character development and to set up other episodes for greatness. But this episode is what I feel like this great show needed. From the opening you can feel the greatness of this episode and can sense your in for another treat just like the first two episodes offered. I don't really want to give away much for someone that may be reading this before watching, but the writers did a fine job in every aspect of this episode as far as I am concerned.
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