Is Breaking Bad that good? I'm finding it boring

[ECA]

 

[winb83]

you can kinda tell that Breaking Bad became aware of its own success and praise and that compromised it. the show gets more and more ridiculous and over the top as it goes on. it has some borderline cartoon type logic, reasoning, and explanations at this point. the whole car wash thing. the dude that tried to run and fell. yeah bytch magnets.

 

[hex]

you can kinda tell that Breaking Bad became aware of its own success and praise and that compromised it. the show gets more and more ridiculous and over the top as it goes on. it has some borderline cartoon type logic, reasoning, and explanations at this point. the whole car wash thing. the dude that tried to run and fell. yeah bytch magnets.

Unlike the totally realistic season 1 which featured a nerdy high school chemistry teacher punking a drug lord for $50,000 with a handful of fulminated mercury.

Or no wait....maybe you mean season 2, which featured a mid-air airplane collision directly over Walt's house, who just happened to be indirectly responsible for it because he let an air traffic controller's daughter die. Literally lotto odds there, but let's over look that.

Nah nah....you mean season 3. When Jesse's new girl friend...out of the millions of people in New Mexico....just happened to be the sister of the kid that shot Jesse's friend in season 2.

Season 4 featured "The Wire" levels of realism with what happened to Gus. Nothing at all cartoonish about that. Nor was any of the planning that led to that moment outlandish or convoluted.

But season 5 though....that's when shyt got totally unrealistic.



And at specifically mentioning the magnet scene, when real-life scientists can't even say for sure it wouldn't work:

Can a Magnet Zap a Hard Drive as Depicted on Breaking Bad? | PCMag.com

If you're going to play the "realism" card at least be smart enough to notice obviously impossible shyt, like suicide by AED in ep 2.

Fred.

 

[winb83]

Unlike the totally realistic season 1 which featured a nerdy high school chemistry teacher punking a drug lord for $50,000 with a handful of fulminated mercury.

Or no wait....maybe you mean season 2, which featured a mid-air airplane collision directly over Walt's house, who just happened to be indirectly responsible for it because he let an air traffic controller's daughter die. Literally lotto odds there, but let's over look that.

Nah nah....you mean season 3. When Jesse's new girl friend...out of the millions of people in New Mexico....just happened to be the sister of the kid that shot Jesse's friend in season 2.

Season 4 featured "The Wire" levels of realism with what happened to Gus. Nothing at all cartoonish about that. Nor was any of the planning that led to that moment outlandish or convoluted.

But season 5 though....that's when shyt got totally unrealistic.



And at specifically mentioning the magnet scene, when real-life scientists can't even say for sure it wouldn't work:

Can a Magnet Zap a Hard Drive as Depicted on Breaking Bad? | PCMag.com

If you're going to play the "realism" card at least be smart enough to notice obviously impossible shyt, like suicide by AED in ep 2.

Fred.

Walt gambles well and felt guilty about it but we took his massive winnings and bought a car wash and pay expensive medical bills? nobody buying that shyt. they pulled that outta their asses and it doesn't even sound believable.

in comparison to that him punking a drug lord with explosives seems believable. its TV i don't expect realism but even you can admit the happenings on the show get more and more bizarre as it goes along. that train robbery was ridiculous.

seriously man you don't have to be this show's white knight defending it from every sliver of criticism it faces. i like the show but its a bit wacky. that's become part of it's charm.

 

[hex]

Walt gambles well and felt guilty about it but we took his massive winnings and bought a car wash and pay expensive medical bills? nobody buying that shyt. they pulled that outta their asses and it doesn't even sound believable.

in comparison to that him punking a drug lord with explosives seems believable. its TV i don't expect realism but even you can admit the happenings on the show get more and more bizarre as it goes along. that train robbery was ridiculous.

seriously man you don't have to be this show's white knight defending it from every sliver of criticism it faces. i like the show but its a bit wacky. that's become part of it's charm.

White knight? I can criticize the show better than you. The fulminated mercury scene is literally impossible, it's not stable enough to be carried around in a baggy, let alone set on a table until you'd need it to magically detonate via a toss.

You didn't know that, because you're focusing on silly shyt like the "Walt bought a car wash" subplot which is one of the least unrealistic things in the series. Likewise people try to act smart and focus on the magnet scene, but over look the AED which is 100x less realistic.

Or the train heist, despite the fact that in real life it's easier to rob a train than the show made it seem. You know how people rob trains in real life? They cover the tracks with shopping carts, derail it, then hop on board with crow bars. That happened a couple years ago.

If we're going for realism let's just have Walt rob a methylamine truck which literally drives around unprotected in virtually every state in the U.S.:

I don't mind if people criticize the show, but actually know what you're talking about if you do.

Fred.

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

S3 ep4....I'm going to have to go with this show is overrated. It's cool, but I think i woulda been better off starting mad men instead.

 

[PYRRHUS 88]

I like Breaking Bad, but I also feel that it's a bit overrated. To me it's several notches below the real GOAT's of TV shows, like The Sopranos.

Everyone seems to love the character Gus, but I found him largely uninteresting Couldn't wait for his inevatible death.

 

[Darts]

S3 ep4....I'm going to have to go with this show is overrated. It's cool, but I think i woulda been better off starting mad men instead.

Its overrated when people match it up with the classic tv shows...but since u have enough back-story, I would suggest u go straight to S4 particularly the last few eps.

Its almost like a different show in the last 2 seasons...less dramatic stuff and more suspense/edge of ur seat type shyt.

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[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzpkPy7H700"]Walter White's laugh from Breaking Bad's "Crawl Space" episode - YouTube[/ame]

 

[winb83]

White knight? I can criticize the show better than you. The fulminated mercury scene is literally impossible, it's not stable enough to be carried around in a baggy, let alone set on a table until you'd need it to magically detonate via a toss.

You didn't know that, because you're focusing on silly shyt like the "Walt bought a car wash" subplot which is one of the least unrealistic things in the series. Likewise people try to act smart and focus on the magnet scene, but over look the AED which is 100x less realistic.

Or the train heist, despite the fact that in real life it's easier to rob a train than the show made it seem. You know how people rob trains in real life? They cover the tracks with shopping carts, derail it, then hop on board with crow bars. That happened a couple years ago.

If we're going for realism let's just have Walt rob a methylamine truck which literally drives around unprotected in virtually every state in the U.S.:

I don't mind if people criticize the show, but actually know what you're talking about if you do.

Fred.

The magnet scene isn't criticized for whether or not its actually possible it's criticized because its ridiculous. Nobody would likely even attempt it or think it up in a desperate pinch. Who outside of TV writers if they were in the middle of a crisis would come up with that solution? Would you?

It's Wild E Coyote style execution to me. I don't care about the actual science of it.

 

[KiD WavE]

The magnet scene isn't criticized for whether or not its actually possible it's criticized because its ridiculous. Nobody would likely even attempt it or think it up in a desperate pinch. Who outside of TV writers if they were in the middle of a crisis would come up with that solution? Would you?

It's Wild E Coyote style execution to me. I don't care about the actual science of it.

says the dude with some little anime girl in his avatar

 

[KiD WavE]

Walt gambles well and felt guilty about it but we took his massive winnings and bought a car wash and pay expensive medical bills? nobody buying that shyt. they pulled that outta their asses and it doesn't even sound believable.

in comparison to that him punking a drug lord with explosives seems believable. its TV i don't expect realism but even you can admit the happenings on the show get more and more bizarre as it goes along. that train robbery was ridiculous.

seriously man you don't have to be this show's white knight defending it from every sliver of criticism it faces. i like the show but its a bit wacky. that's become part of it's charm.

thats the point ... you ever talked to an addict or a drug dealer ? how many lies they come up with that sound credible ... sometimes you just go with it because they are family and you want to believe

 

[ATearInMyEye]

problem is..at this point there is no likeable character; I mean Jesse was cool at first but he came bytchmade. Walt is supposed to be the "protagonist" but he rarely ever possesses any type of those traits. I think it is probably the best show on TV right now but if these final 8 episodes dont deliver

 

[hex]

The magnet scene isn't criticized for whether or not its actually possible it's criticized because its ridiculous. Nobody would likely even attempt it or think it up in a desperate pinch.

It's Wild E Coyote style execution to me. I don't care about the actual science of it.

Equally ridiculous shyt happens all the time in real life. Hell, more ridiculous shyt than that happens in real life.

Back in the 1960s a guy named John Draper was able to get free long distance using a toy whistle that came in a box of Captain Crunch. He used it to whistle the exact tone (2600 hertz) that AT&T used to route calls.

Who outside of TV writers if they were in the middle of a crisis would come up with that solution? Would you?

Nobody would likely even attempt it or think it up in a desperate pinch, right?



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_draper

And before you say some silly shyt like "bu bu but, that's one thing", stop. I got dozens of more examples.

Walter White is not a normal person. He's a very specific class of criminal. The type you'd see on "Masterminds", a series full of real-life "Wile E. Coyote" crimes. Half the shyt on that series makes "Breaking Bad" look like "The Wire", and it all actually happened.

Fred.

 

[hex]

problem is..at this point there is no likeable character; I mean Jesse was cool at first but he came bytchmade. Walt is supposed to be the "protagonist" but he rarely ever possesses any type of those traits. I think it is probably the best show on TV right now but if these final 8 episodes dont deliver

Walt isn't supposed to the protagonist at this point in the series. The whole point of the series is to make him the antagonist. Most people don't know that, so they're kinda like

Fred.

 

[ATearInMyEye]

Walt isn't supposed to the protagonist at this point in the series. The whole point of the series is to make him the antagonist. Most people don't know that, so they're kinda like

Fred.

thing is with this show whenever there's a guy who seems redeemable, they kill him off.

Spoiler

Like Mike. At first he seemed like a "bad guy" but as we saw his motifs were merely just to provide for his granddaughter