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geebsTV commentary:
Breaking Bad- One last bit of commentary on the ep- mainly, are people who are watching this show even watching this show? I mean, I guess I shouldn't be surprised some people don't grasp the subtleties of the plot, given how many people still don't understand things like the narrative of Pulp Fiction. (The scenes aren't in chronological order, how hard is that to frickin' understand?!) But still. I mean, there are people who saw the episode last night, and hours later are all, "Whoa, people tell me Walter's speech on the phone was to exonerate Skylar?!" And some are actually skeptical about that! Like they really think he was just extremely angry! Between that and the few people who were happy Hank died and Marie is such a bitch, so ha ha that her husband died (people who are like that, wtf, are they sociopaths?!), its like, do these people even understand the show!?
I know people started out wanting to root for Walt, but jesus, wanting Jesse and Hank and Marie and Skylar dead because they were interfering with his success? If they think that, they truly don't understand Walter. There's two things motivating Walter- his pride, because of the way the things with his ex and the company he worked for went down, and his family. For a while he was deluded enough to think he could be the big man and still keep his family, and while several times throughout the series he was shown he couldn't, I think this ep was the final nail in the coffin, where it finally sunk in. Hank is executed in front of him- and as I said in my last post Walt willing to give up the $80 million to try and save Hank's life is the biggest proof that despite their animosity once Hank found out Walt was Heisenberg, Hank was family. Then when he tried to get the family to run away with him, Skylar attacks him with a knife, and Walt Jr. called 911 on him. Like if you're one of those people who believed Walt's speech and thinks they were a bunch of ingrates, like why are they going against him when he's trying to provide, you're a friggin sociopath!
One thing I was wondering, why do some people think he lost the $11 million in between now and the flash forward? Did I miss something where he said he lost the money? I mean, at least 500K right there went to Saul's guy. Obviously he had money to pay Bobby Singer for the M-60. And he's depressed and on the run, he's not going to be living large!
Elementary- Seriously, if you're going to be a writer of a crime procedural, how hard is it to get a consultant or at the very least google to see if you know what the eff you're talking about in terms of guns. I mean, obviously, the investigators are going to encounter guns, so since its gonna come up a bunch, they could try to get something close to right. So I was watching an ep that the ex-roomie hadn't seen. And this one guy's car was shot up by an MP-5. Only first, the captain does the effin, "it was a semi-automatic!" even though the gun was firing bursts, mixing up semi-auto with auto. Seriously, even if you don't know guns, do you friggin understand prefixes! But like it happens enough it's excusable. I sometimes wonder if they purposely do that because semi-automatic is a longer word than automatic and make its sound more complex?
What really annoyed me was Sherlock being all, "these holes were made by a rifled barrel, not a smoothbore, so they must've modified that MP-5!" Hey, genius, all effin modern small arms that are not shotguns have rifled barrels! So no, no one would have had to do any friggin modifications on a firearm to give it a rifled barrel, it already has one. This one, I can't excuse because its an unnecessary detail that has no bearing on the case that is just utterly wrong.
Breaking Bad- One last bit of commentary on the ep- mainly, are people who are watching this show even watching this show? I mean, I guess I shouldn't be surprised some people don't grasp the subtleties of the plot, given how many people still don't understand things like the narrative of Pulp Fiction. (The scenes aren't in chronological order, how hard is that to frickin' understand?!) But still. I mean, there are people who saw the episode last night, and hours later are all, "Whoa, people tell me Walter's speech on the phone was to exonerate Skylar?!" And some are actually skeptical about that! Like they really think he was just extremely angry! Between that and the few people who were happy Hank died and Marie is such a bitch, so ha ha that her husband died (people who are like that, wtf, are they sociopaths?!), its like, do these people even understand the show!?
I know people started out wanting to root for Walt, but jesus, wanting Jesse and Hank and Marie and Skylar dead because they were interfering with his success? If they think that, they truly don't understand Walter. There's two things motivating Walter- his pride, because of the way the things with his ex and the company he worked for went down, and his family. For a while he was deluded enough to think he could be the big man and still keep his family, and while several times throughout the series he was shown he couldn't, I think this ep was the final nail in the coffin, where it finally sunk in. Hank is executed in front of him- and as I said in my last post Walt willing to give up the $80 million to try and save Hank's life is the biggest proof that despite their animosity once Hank found out Walt was Heisenberg, Hank was family. Then when he tried to get the family to run away with him, Skylar attacks him with a knife, and Walt Jr. called 911 on him. Like if you're one of those people who believed Walt's speech and thinks they were a bunch of ingrates, like why are they going against him when he's trying to provide, you're a friggin sociopath!
One thing I was wondering, why do some people think he lost the $11 million in between now and the flash forward? Did I miss something where he said he lost the money? I mean, at least 500K right there went to Saul's guy. Obviously he had money to pay Bobby Singer for the M-60. And he's depressed and on the run, he's not going to be living large!
Elementary- Seriously, if you're going to be a writer of a crime procedural, how hard is it to get a consultant or at the very least google to see if you know what the eff you're talking about in terms of guns. I mean, obviously, the investigators are going to encounter guns, so since its gonna come up a bunch, they could try to get something close to right. So I was watching an ep that the ex-roomie hadn't seen. And this one guy's car was shot up by an MP-5. Only first, the captain does the effin, "it was a semi-automatic!" even though the gun was firing bursts, mixing up semi-auto with auto. Seriously, even if you don't know guns, do you friggin understand prefixes! But like it happens enough it's excusable. I sometimes wonder if they purposely do that because semi-automatic is a longer word than automatic and make its sound more complex?
What really annoyed me was Sherlock being all, "these holes were made by a rifled barrel, not a smoothbore, so they must've modified that MP-5!" Hey, genius, all effin modern small arms that are not shotguns have rifled barrels! So no, no one would have had to do any friggin modifications on a firearm to give it a rifled barrel, it already has one. This one, I can't excuse because its an unnecessary detail that has no bearing on the case that is just utterly wrong.
