I feel that the Season 4 of Breaking Bad was the weakest point in the show.
Hear me out. I’m not talking about the last four episodes of that season, which are not that bad, I guess. I’m talking about the rest of them.
My problem is that they are too slow-paced and have a fair amount of relatively pointless scenes and/or storylines. The plot is progressing rather sluggishly. This is too obvious when we compare it to the other seasons. Which is not a good argument on my part, but something I couldn’t stop thinking about during the first watch.
The first episode of Season 4. A lot of stuff but actually nothing exciting. They make big deal out of Gus’s decision to spare the duo, trying to create a suspense for thirty minutes, but it’s not working as their fate’s already been sealed in S03E13. And of course, “the protagonists of the show can’t die”, especially in a first episode of a season. Then we have Skyler trying to find Walt, only for Walt to reappear at the end of the episode. There’s no purpose to ten minutes worth of scenes other than to show that she’s not willing to risk Walt’s crimes being revealed to the public and hence starts to slip on the crime path herself; which is once again has been established already in Season 3. Gus kills Victor who is later replaced by a henchman with the identical attitude (Tyrus). Walt wants to kill Gus, but he’ll remind of that in every single next episode at least multiple times. Recovering Hank scene, we’ll get plenty of them later; they’re not unnecessary but still too slow-paced for me.
Compare this with the other seasons’ opening episodes. S01E1 - no explanation needed. S02E1 - Tuco scares the duo, they plan to get rid of him and take some measures, Tuco gets ahead of them and kidnaps them both. A lot happens since S01E7. S03E1 - Skyler confronts Walt about being a drug dealer, Walt doesn’t want to cook meth (for the third time lol), Jesse overcomes his feeling of guilt, the twins are introduced.
This is just an example of how I am feeling towards the most of the Season’s 4 episodes. We have something like Walt, Skyler and Saul spending multiple scenes at the first five episodes to finally buy the carwash, even though they already seemed to agree on that in Season 3. For more than half of the season very few things happen or change, when the previous seasons finished some of their story arcs at that point and overall the . Whereas in Season 4, it’s the same story points (1. Walt wants to kill Gus. 2. Jesse buddies up with Mike. 3. Gus tries to win Jesse’s trust and turn him against Walter. 4. Hank looks for Heisenberg and tries to investigate Gus.) repeated over and over again until episode 10 IIRC where the action starts and it’s not so sluggish anymore.
Okay this a rather incoherent rant but I hope my opinion is clearer now.
I feel, shall we say, “unqualified” to go into a long speech on Breaking Bad. I’ve only been an active fan for about two years now, and I usually have to be in a fandom for about five years before I feel confident enough to type out an entire dissertation on a subject involving it. I could maybe do one on an individual character or event, but the overall series, or even a season? Nah, I gotta let it slide for now.
How is pastry “pasta”? I will say Pop Tarts are awful. Unlike the Hindbærsnitte, which is basically the Danish equivalent of the Pop Tart. But made by a baker and not designed to be toasted. Taste wise, they are the same. Yet the Hindbørsnitte is superior in every way.
Yet calling cake, pasta. Is like calling a bike a car.
A lot of things are flour based. But it doesn’t make it pasta or a cake. A car is metal based and it got wheels, it doesn’t make it a bicycle. There are categories, all apples are fruit.
Even quicksand has a bottom, so has faulty logic. You are welcome to your opinion, yet it doesn’t make it true.
No, but two flour-based products specifically shaped into a pocket in order to have a paste-like food product sealed inside and then cooked is a tad bit more specific than the relationship between cars and bikes being pieces of shaped metal with wheels. And yes, that would put Hot Pockets along the same curve, although not pies, as they (typically) are not completely sealed and are not rectangular.
And quicksand does have a bottom, yes, however A) the depth is unknown and B) the more you struggle, the faster you sink, which was the point I was actually going for.
See above.
While I despise those dickless lunatics who seem to be popping up all over these days, if you’re truly that bored, I could act the part of you wanna role play.
They might not be remembered by some, but I hated how these chips were pulled off the market. What I’d kill for Eta to hearken back to making them again.
