"I am the one who knocks"
I finished watching all four and a half seasons of Breaking Bad! Finally, I don't have to avoid spoilers - although I was spoilt well in advance for the season four finale unfortunately.
Walter White gets my vote for being the most terrifying villain on television at the moment, just because it's not that events transformed in in Heisenberg, it's that Heisenberg was in him all along, he just was unleashed once Walter stopped giving a damn about the rules. That's a very terrifying statement - that a ruthless egomaniacal crime lord could be lurking in the most innocuous of people. Thankfully, the trio of Skylar, Jesse and Hank exist to make a case for decency existing in the world, given that the former two managed to stop themselves from heading too far down the path and the latter actually has become a better person in the face of adversity.
I'm rooting for Skylar, Jesse and Hank to join forces to take him down (not sure how they would join forces, but it'd be awesome), and if anyone is going to pull the trigger, right now I hope it's Skylar.
Also, Bryan Cranston's amazing, and should be in everything, but looking him up in IMDB it appears he is in everything now and that is good. Also, I hope Aaron Paul has a long and wonderful career because he is also amazing.
ETA: this tribute video is amazing and pretty much in a nutshell why everyone should be watching the show - because it is brilliant.
In the other TV show I am watching right now, stuff has actually happened on Once Upon A Time. In fact, so much stuff happened they didn't have time for flashbacks in the last episode which I am very okay with.
I do really like that in a season where the emphasis has thus far been on mother and child relationships, the fairytale that it's been hinting at and skipping around all season is Rumpelstiltskin since Rumpelstilskin is the only fairytale I can think of which is about a mother fighting for her child.
Although, I can never really tell if the writers have a master plan or if they're just winging it. For example, Hat Trick from the first season is quite brilliant really for introducing the multiple universe thing and how to travel between them, and, if Cora is indeed the Queen of Hearts, introducing the season two big bad and Regina's mother under the radar - which is quite great and they deserve kudos for that. But then, they can't even seem to get Emma's lie detecting ability consistent. I don't know.
The show has so many flaws I could pick it to pieces, but just being a genre show in which women and their relationships with other women are the emphasis and there's as many badass mothers and grandmothers, good, evil and morally ambiguous, I can't help but love it. And then I see media deride it or ignore it, and I can't help but wonder if it gets more than its fare share of criticism because it's clearly about women and the audience that watches are women. I can't prove it, but I'm pretty sure that genre shows with an emphasis on women get the worst of it, being derided for being a genre show and being ignored by the fanboys (the exception being anything by Joss Whedon).
In television I used to watch as a child, there's a really good article here on Knightmare which I remember spending hours watching as a kid because it was the best (in other things I remember doing as kid - writing a letter to Jim'll Fix It *shudder*. Anyway...). Somehow I does not surprise me to find out it was rigged, I can't remember any team winning, nor does it bother me. I do remember though that freaking giant spider that lurked in the forest which freaked me the hell out every single damn time.
And, watched Skyfall. I'm not a James Bond fan, I've had major issues with the way the franchise treats female characters as far back as I can remember (honestly, I've thought of the franchise as sexist since before my age had hit double digits) - but the trailer and interviews promising lots of Judi Dench had me intrigued and...I loved it. I thought it was fantastic.
Walter White gets my vote for being the most terrifying villain on television at the moment, just because it's not that events transformed in in Heisenberg, it's that Heisenberg was in him all along, he just was unleashed once Walter stopped giving a damn about the rules. That's a very terrifying statement - that a ruthless egomaniacal crime lord could be lurking in the most innocuous of people. Thankfully, the trio of Skylar, Jesse and Hank exist to make a case for decency existing in the world, given that the former two managed to stop themselves from heading too far down the path and the latter actually has become a better person in the face of adversity.
I'm rooting for Skylar, Jesse and Hank to join forces to take him down (not sure how they would join forces, but it'd be awesome), and if anyone is going to pull the trigger, right now I hope it's Skylar.
Also, Bryan Cranston's amazing, and should be in everything, but looking him up in IMDB it appears he is in everything now and that is good. Also, I hope Aaron Paul has a long and wonderful career because he is also amazing.
ETA: this tribute video is amazing and pretty much in a nutshell why everyone should be watching the show - because it is brilliant.
In the other TV show I am watching right now, stuff has actually happened on Once Upon A Time. In fact, so much stuff happened they didn't have time for flashbacks in the last episode which I am very okay with.
I do really like that in a season where the emphasis has thus far been on mother and child relationships, the fairytale that it's been hinting at and skipping around all season is Rumpelstiltskin since Rumpelstilskin is the only fairytale I can think of which is about a mother fighting for her child.
Although, I can never really tell if the writers have a master plan or if they're just winging it. For example, Hat Trick from the first season is quite brilliant really for introducing the multiple universe thing and how to travel between them, and, if Cora is indeed the Queen of Hearts, introducing the season two big bad and Regina's mother under the radar - which is quite great and they deserve kudos for that. But then, they can't even seem to get Emma's lie detecting ability consistent. I don't know.
The show has so many flaws I could pick it to pieces, but just being a genre show in which women and their relationships with other women are the emphasis and there's as many badass mothers and grandmothers, good, evil and morally ambiguous, I can't help but love it. And then I see media deride it or ignore it, and I can't help but wonder if it gets more than its fare share of criticism because it's clearly about women and the audience that watches are women. I can't prove it, but I'm pretty sure that genre shows with an emphasis on women get the worst of it, being derided for being a genre show and being ignored by the fanboys (the exception being anything by Joss Whedon).
In television I used to watch as a child, there's a really good article here on Knightmare which I remember spending hours watching as a kid because it was the best (in other things I remember doing as kid - writing a letter to Jim'll Fix It *shudder*. Anyway...). Somehow I does not surprise me to find out it was rigged, I can't remember any team winning, nor does it bother me. I do remember though that freaking giant spider that lurked in the forest which freaked me the hell out every single damn time.
And, watched Skyfall. I'm not a James Bond fan, I've had major issues with the way the franchise treats female characters as far back as I can remember (honestly, I've thought of the franchise as sexist since before my age had hit double digits) - but the trailer and interviews promising lots of Judi Dench had me intrigued and...I loved it. I thought it was fantastic.