omg I never have anyone to talk BB with (though that is slowwwwwwwly changing), and it KILLS me, because this show just makes me want to burst with babbling about how insanely, untouchably great it is. You! You, also, please come read my lonely Breaking Bad post. LET'S TALK ABOUT HOW AMAZING IT IS.
I love "4 Days Out," but, ergh, "Fly" didn't really do it for me, unfortunately. I could kind of see what they were going for, and oh my Goooooood, SO CLOSE TO TELLING HIM ABOUT JANE, but, overall, IT'S A FLY LET IT GO OMG. (It was sad because that was like the first and only episode that I had even close to negative feelings about.)
Haha, I'll have to disagree with you there, I'm afraid. I loved "Fly" so much I wrote a post rambling all about it, lol. It's a metaphor! It shows just how ridiculously obsessive over pointless things Walt gets when he's got absolutely no control over the rest of his life, lol. Also, it's easily the best bottle episode I've ever seen. BUT I DIGRESS.
I was thinking of titling this post "HEY ZELLIE HEY HEY HEY" and just addressing it specifically to you. YOU GOOF
I feel like the only thing that can possibly save him from being completely dragged down by Walt into this black hole of terrible, is that slight bit of distance that's left between them.
TRUE. I don't know, it's weird because tv has taught me that since Walt and Jesse are the two main characters, the show should be about their ~unlikely friendship~ and ~growing bond~, but while in some ways that is a good thing for them to have, in other ways it is TOTAL POISON. e.g. Jesse's hospital monologue that Walt has turned everything in his life to shit. :(
But when what happens later? OH SHIT, someone finds it. OH CRAP, Hank finds out where it came from. OH JESUS, stuff is missing from the school lab! And on and on from there.YEEEEESSSSSSSSSS. That level of continuity is practically unheard of, and it gives it all so much realism because it is SO MESSY. There are so many tiny, tiny ways for everything to go horribly wrong! And
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I was thinking of titling this post "HEY ZELLIE HEY HEY HEY" and just addressing it specifically to you. YOU GOOF I love you so much, dude. (OMG SUNDAY. HOLD ME.)
Yeah, that's just another one of the ways this show sort of stands in defiance of what we're accustomed to seeing on TV. But I feel so strongly now, especially after a rewatch, that Jesse just HAS to escape the absolute worst of what's sure to come upon them somehow, and the only way he can do that is to not get too much closer to Walt than he already is (which is of course dangerously close, hence the absolute mess of shit that is his life most of the time).
I honestly believe (and I wish I'd thought to just ask him when I met him, but I got all flustered, lol) that Vince Gilligan learned a continuity lesson from his years on The X-Files like you'd get nowhere else, and that it mostly comes from his being a fan of XF before they hired him on to write for it. He was The Continuity Guy on that show too, but it wasn't HIS show, so he didn't get to really run with it. Now it'
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You! You, also, please come read my lonely Breaking Bad post. LET'S TALK ABOUT HOW AMAZING IT IS.
I love "4 Days Out," but, ergh, "Fly" didn't really do it for me, unfortunately. I could kind of see what they were going for, and oh my Goooooood, SO CLOSE TO TELLING HIM ABOUT JANE, but, overall, IT'S A FLY LET IT GO OMG. (It was sad because that was like the first and only episode that I had even close to negative feelings about.)
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I'd be interested in reading your post, though!
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I feel like the only thing that can possibly save him from being completely dragged down by Walt into this black hole of terrible, is that slight bit of distance that's left between them.
TRUE. I don't know, it's weird because tv has taught me that since Walt and Jesse are the two main characters, the show should be about their ~unlikely friendship~ and ~growing bond~, but while in some ways that is a good thing for them to have, in other ways it is TOTAL POISON. e.g. Jesse's hospital monologue that Walt has turned everything in his life to shit. :(
But when what happens later? OH SHIT, someone finds it. OH CRAP, Hank finds out where it came from. OH JESUS, stuff is missing from the school lab! And on and on from there.YEEEEESSSSSSSSSS. That level of continuity is practically unheard of, and it gives it all so much realism because it is SO MESSY. There are so many tiny, tiny ways for everything to go horribly wrong! And ( ... )
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I love you so much, dude. (OMG SUNDAY. HOLD ME.)
Yeah, that's just another one of the ways this show sort of stands in defiance of what we're accustomed to seeing on TV. But I feel so strongly now, especially after a rewatch, that Jesse just HAS to escape the absolute worst of what's sure to come upon them somehow, and the only way he can do that is to not get too much closer to Walt than he already is (which is of course dangerously close, hence the absolute mess of shit that is his life most of the time).
I honestly believe (and I wish I'd thought to just ask him when I met him, but I got all flustered, lol) that Vince Gilligan learned a continuity lesson from his years on The X-Files like you'd get nowhere else, and that it mostly comes from his being a fan of XF before they hired him on to write for it. He was The Continuity Guy on that show too, but it wasn't HIS show, so he didn't get to really run with it. Now it' ( ... )
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