Spoliers?

I didn't see any spoilers.

Here's a spoiler: Snape kills Gus with a bellus ringus spell.

/The cake is a lie

I call FAIL if there is no meth.

Aaron Paul as Jane is actually convincing

/trap

The chicken suit pic is awesome

I wonder if Giancarlo Espsitio got really 'faced.

No, a spoiler would be telling people that the old guy had the bomb hidden under his wheelchair and blew the black guy up.

fark you guys, watch a show when it airs or don't biatch about spoilers.

Already missing the show. I can't wait to see how season five tops this, especially when you consider Mike will be coming back from Mexico. I can't decide which show is my favorite: Deadwood, The Wire or Breaking Bad.

I have had the worst week in my life, thus far, and these photos made my day. Thanks subby!

skinink: Already missing the show. I can't wait to see how season five tops this, especially when you consider Mike will be coming back from Mexico. I can't decide which show is my favorite: Deadwood, The Wire or Breaking Bad.

I'm going to say it should be Breaking Bad, since unlike the other two it'll actually get to have a real, proper ending that they were able to plan a year+ in advance and don't have to accelerate any plotlines to handle.

Discounting that part though, it's a very close thing.

skinink: Already missing the show. I can't wait to see how season five tops this, especially when you consider Mike will be coming back from Mexico. I can't decide which show is my favorite: Deadwood, The Wire or Breaking Bad.

Hard to say until they conclude Breaking Bad. I have to say, though, that the second half of this last season, especially "Crawl Space" and "Face Off", has been the best stretch of TV I can remember watching.

skinink: Already missing the show. I can't wait to see how season five tops this, especially when you consider Mike will be coming back from Mexico.

Oh yeah, I should also mention that Mike has quickly gone from being "hey it's that guy who was in that one thing I can't remember the name of" to "oh sweet another Mike story, this is going to be awesome." Mike would be what you'd call a "breakout character" were it not for the fact that everyone else on that show is already so damn engaging.

Cagey B: skinink: Already missing the show. I can't wait to see how season five tops this, especially when you consider Mike will be coming back from Mexico. I can't decide which show is my favorite: Deadwood, The Wire or Breaking Bad.

Hard to say until they conclude Breaking Bad. I have to say, though, that the second half of this last season, especially "Crawl Space" and "Face Off", has been the best stretch of TV I can remember watching.


Agreed, with those 2 episodes with scenes in Mexico. Step aside, The Wire, BREAKING BAD is officially the best show in the history of ever

season 4 was freaking mental

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That is about 9 levels of awesomeness.

ThisNameSux: No, a spoiler would be telling people that the old guy had the bomb hidden under his wheelchair and blew the black guy up.

fark you guys, watch a show when it airs or don't biatch about spoilers.

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I concur.

Toshiro Mifune's Letter Opener: HappyHarryHardOn: Agreed, with those 2 episodes with scenes in Mexico. Step aside, The Wire, BREAKING BAD is officially the best show in the history of ever

season 4 was freaking mental

It's a show that continually raises the bar from season to season.

I thought Season 3 was incredible, and I had no idea how Season 4 would improve upon that. Sure enough, Season 4 *did* improve upon that. Truly an impressive season of TV.

Not only was season 4 raisiing the bar, it did so from episode to episode... I didnt think I could have my mind blown harder than seeing Gus get rid of the cartel, almost singlehandedly. But man, that last episode, Ive never, ever had my jaw on the floor like that. An epic ending to an epic villain

Toshiro Mifune's Letter Opener:
Cagey B: skinink: Already missing the show. I can't wait to see how season five tops this, especially when you consider Mike will be coming back from Mexico. I can't decide which show is my favorite: Deadwood, The Wire or Breaking Bad.

Hard to say until they conclude Breaking Bad. I have to say, though, that the second half of this last season, especially "Crawl Space" and "Face Off", has been the best stretch of TV I can remember watching.

Aye.

The Wire's great stuff, but Breaking Bad might just be my favorite TV drama of all time.

It's made that much of an impression on me.



HappyHarryHardOn: Cagey B: skinink: Already missing the show. I can't wait to see how season five tops this, especially when you consider Mike will be coming back from Mexico. I can't decide which show is my favorite: Deadwood, The Wire or Breaking Bad.

Hard to say until they conclude Breaking Bad. I have to say, though, that the second half of this last season, especially "Crawl Space" and "Face Off", has been the best stretch of TV I can remember watching.


Agreed, with those 2 episodes with scenes in Mexico. Step aside, The Wire, BREAKING BAD is officially the best show in the history of ever

season 4 was freaking mental

The Wire and Breaking Bad are fantastic in different ways, and damn near perfect at what they're trying to accomplish.

The Wire beats Breaking Bad in terms of realism, scale, and incisive social commentary, but Breaking Bad definitely has the edge in "Holy shiat, I can't believe that just happened!" It comes down to what you prefer.

Meh, the show was fun but the way you all go on about it being so great must mean that the rest of everything else on tv is abysimal dog shiat.

Toshiro Mifune's Letter Opener: The Wire's great stuff, but Breaking Bad might just be my favorite TV drama of all time.

I think of "Breaking Bad" as a comedy, not a drama. And not in a condescending way ("24", at its peak, was the funniest show on TV- better than "Arrested Development"). But for all that they sometimes throw the intensity dial to 11 on "BB", it never fails to make me laugh.

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That said, I think both shows will ultimately stand the test of time and come to represent the finest television dramas ever made.

I think that's a fair bet at this point. I can't think of any drama that can match either show. Deadwood I suppose, but it was cut too short.

Maybe the old BBC adaptation of I Claudius just for the writing and acting, and even that one only lasted like 13 eps and can't hold a candle in terms of visuals and cinematography; they did their best, but the technology wasn't advanced enough.

Wally Weaver: Maybe the old BBC adaptation of I Claudius just for the writing and acting, and even that one only lasted like 13 eps and can't hold a candle in terms of visuals and cinematography; they did their best, but the technology wasn't advanced enough.

What about Brideshead Revisited? In fact I can think of half a dozen BBC Dramas that are up there.

Toshiro Mifune's Letter Opener: Amen to all of that, HappyHarryHardOn.

At the risk of sounding repetitive, I have no idea how the final season is going to improve upon Season 4.

Even so, I have great faith in the creative team to end this show on a hauntingly outstanding note.

I have a thought: Mike.

Look at why Season 4 (and Season 3, really) was so riveting: Gus. Gus was the villain you love to hate and root for a little at the same time. He was calm, collected, pragmatic, had a more-than-not respectable set of ideals (barring the bit with hiring out to gangs who employed kids), and even had a sympathetic backstory. But turn it around, he could be absolutely vicious, vindictive, and remorseless if you crossed him, and in very little order Walter did just that. For about a season and a half he was the biggest threat Walter had ever faced, not just to Walter personally but to his family and friends. And despite the fact that, at his core, Walter is a fairly bad person, you still rooted for him over Gus because Gus was worse, if only by just a little.

Now look at Mike. What's the one thing that really defines Mike, more than anything? I would say it's the same thing he said Jesse had: loyalty. Everything Mike has done that we've seen on the show has either been to protect Gus, or (indirectly) to stop Jesse or Walt from going through with some horrible decision that would have doomed them all (with the possible exception of the Season 3 finale). The only people he's ever killed have been Very Bad Men.

So if Mike returns with vengeance in his heart for the slaying of his former employer, and dare I say friend, can we as an audience really fault him? Even if we can, is Walt any better? As far as I can tell, Walt has actually done more reprehensible things with less hesitation than Mike's ever shown. He's poisoned a child, tricked his elderly neighbor into entering a house full of hitmen, let a woman choke to death on her own vomit, used former friends as a cover for his drug money and then blamed them for not making him rich, and tricked his brother-in-law into thinking his wife was critically injured and in the hospital. And that's just what I remember off the top of my head.

If it comes down to a head-to-head of Mike vs. Walt, I honestly don't know who I would be rooting for... and that would make for some great TV.

Toshiro Mifune's Letter Opener: Porous Horace: Meh, the show was fun but the way you all go on about it being so great must mean that the rest of everything else on tv is abysimal dog shiat.

Not true.

Justified is pretty boss.

Justified is basically "Deadwood 2010". Timothy Olyphant plays virtually the same character, but in modern times with a smaller budget and a supporting cast that's (overall) 3/4ths as good. Which is funny, because the show is about 3/4ths as good as Deadwood.

/But 3/4ths of "freakin' awesome" is still pretty awesome

Toshiro Mifune's Letter Opener: Wally Weaver: I think that's a fair bet at this point. I can't think of any drama that can match either show. Deadwood I suppose, but it was cut too short.

Which is a damn shame in and of itself.

I loved The Shield, but I'm still wondering if it stacks up along the greatest. It's admittedly been awhile since I sat down to watch it.

Start-to-finish, yes it is. The plots are well-paced and consistent, almost nothing just sort of "wanders off and disappears" (or "Cougars" if you're familiar with the TV show 24), and the whole arc not just tells a story, but tells you the future of the characters as well if you think things out logically. On top of that, you can watch it over and over and over and the episodes never get old (mostly because some of the episodes are just packed with stuff that you might not notice the first time around).

Of course, the problem some people may have with the show is that its essentially a Shakespearean Tragedy; it's not meant to be uplifting.

Maybe the old BBC adaptation of I Claudius just for the writing and acting, and even that one only lasted like 13 eps and can't hold a candle in terms of visuals and cinematography; they did their best, but the technology wasn't advanced enough.

I would say that length shouldn't be TOO much a detriment in these cases. Fawlty Towers was only 12 episodes long, and I'd have no problem ranking that amongst the greatest comedies of all time.

And yes, Derek Jacobi *rocks* that adaptation.

I, CLAVDIVS (heh) has been one of my favorites since I saw it. Derek Jacobi's performance in the "Utopia" epsiode of Doctor Who was what made me put him on my "This Guy Is Awesome" list, but watching him portray Claudius would have done it too if I hadn't seen Utopia first. Holy hell that guy can electrify a scene.

And as for the effects, I will say that the old-age makeup they slapped on Jacobi wasn't too bad in terms of making him look old. Not great, but it did resemble what he wound up looking like when he approached real old age.

Toshiro Mifune's Letter Opener: Amen to all of that, HappyHarryHardOn.

At the risk of sounding repetitive, I have no idea how the final season is going to improve upon Season 4.

Even so, I have great faith in the creative team to end this show on a hauntingly outstanding note.

This is why the ending was mind-blowing. IN my head, there was NO WAY Gus was leaving so early... now for season 5:

as yukichigai mentioned, there is Mike who will play a part, but im tempted to think he's, in a way, just a goon working for Gus, so he could possibly be paid off, or even switch to walter's side

my money is on this: remember when Don saved his life in Mexico, because of "who he knows"? well, im tempted to think there might be someone higher than Gus we havent met yet. Maybe Walter killed Darth Vader, but there is still the Emperor looming somewhere.

Either that, or it is the rise of Walt to the top of the food chain, and eventually is downfall

I liked Mike at the chemical warehouse, being signalled by the boss.

boss: (ever so slight look/motion)
mike: (understanding, places gun to wall)
boss: (gesturing, higher)
mike: (moves gun up)
boss: (gesturing, a bit lower)
mike: (lowers gun, bang)

I hate to say this, but I think Breaking Bad has taken over Dexter in my mind as my favorite TV show. I never saw Dexter when it was actually on, but during a down period in my life I started watching it from season 1 episode 1, and over the course of a month I watched every episode up to the end of season 5. When I finally saw the last episode of season 5, I was actually sad, as if something was now gone from my life.

I have watched Breaking Bad since the start, catching every new episode as they came out. I would simply not miss an episode, no matter what, I was home to watch it.

Now that Breaking Bad is between seasons and Dexter is in season 6 I find that I miss Breaking Bad more than I enjoy watching Dexter. If given the choice, I'd watch Breaking Bad. Just like Funyuns, Breaking Bad is awesome yo!

Mugato: Jane's dad's still alive. I loved Jane. I'd like to see Q take his revenge.

Didn't he off himself shortly after the plane collision?

I absolutely think that there's a more powerful man backing Gus. I've stated before that I think Gus was a former Chilean General that got removed from power after a democratic revolution. The way he folded that nanpkin right before he vomited in the Don's mansion, and the matter-of-fact tones he uses supports this. Also, he lived too modestly. An old car and only an upper-middle class home...Where was all his drug money + the franchise profits going? I would guess to probably fund rebels looking to retake Chile back.

Vince stated in an interview that yes, Gus is dead, but his character will probably return via flashbacks.

Also there are still some dangling issues that appear minor (e.g. Marie's Klepto problem) that may be fleshed out more.