I'm a writer, and being a writer, I become very emotionally invested in stories and their characters, and so far in Breaking Bad, I haven't found myself very emotionally invested. Yes I care, yes I'm rooting for some characters, but I've never found myself really attached.
I've read some threads and reviews already on this episode and those who wrote them stated that this is the episode in Breaking Bad when you realize who you care for, who you're truly rooting for.
And that was no exception to me. When Hank called Marie, I knew without a doubt that Uncle Jack and his men were going to show up. I knew when Hank told Marie he loved her that he wasn't getting out of the desert. I knew Walt was gonna get away. And I didn't want to believe it, but it happened.
Jack and his men showed up, and it's the first time the show has used slow motion, and I started saying, "No, no, no. Please God, no." And then they opened fire, and yeah, I realized that I'm truly rooting for Hank, that I truly care about Hank and Steve and even Jesse, and a small part of me still cares for Walt, because he still cares about Hank. He still cares about Jesse.
And then the episode ended, and I'm pretty sure I swore out loud.
Anyway, I've never become so involved in a TV show to the point where I'm breathing hard and saying, "No, no, no" out loud. Well done Vince Gilligan and Team. You've truly done it.
Breaking Bad is arguably the greatest show of all time, because it takes an average man, and turns him into a lunatic sociopath obsessed with money and building a legend of himself. It takes a punk pothead kid and turns him into a guilt-ridden man driven by revenge. It takes a very 2-D character of a man, and turns him into the definition of good, turns him into an everyday, ordinary cop who becomes, in a small sense, a patriot filled with an unshakable feeling of betrayal and an unbound drive to take down the man who has ruined so many lives. It takes a mom and makes her into a trapped, paranoid woman who's goodness is eventually spoiled. It turns lies into death-and-life conflicts, hope into a black light, anticipation to an incomparable level, writing to the ability it's never been brought to before, and goodness to evil.
It takes television to an expectation that may never be met again.
I've read some threads and reviews already on this episode and those who wrote them stated that this is the episode in Breaking Bad when you realize who you care for, who you're truly rooting for.
And that was no exception to me. When Hank called Marie, I knew without a doubt that Uncle Jack and his men were going to show up. I knew when Hank told Marie he loved her that he wasn't getting out of the desert. I knew Walt was gonna get away. And I didn't want to believe it, but it happened.
Jack and his men showed up, and it's the first time the show has used slow motion, and I started saying, "No, no, no. Please God, no." And then they opened fire, and yeah, I realized that I'm truly rooting for Hank, that I truly care about Hank and Steve and even Jesse, and a small part of me still cares for Walt, because he still cares about Hank. He still cares about Jesse.
And then the episode ended, and I'm pretty sure I swore out loud.
Anyway, I've never become so involved in a TV show to the point where I'm breathing hard and saying, "No, no, no" out loud. Well done Vince Gilligan and Team. You've truly done it.
Breaking Bad is arguably the greatest show of all time, because it takes an average man, and turns him into a lunatic sociopath obsessed with money and building a legend of himself. It takes a punk pothead kid and turns him into a guilt-ridden man driven by revenge. It takes a very 2-D character of a man, and turns him into the definition of good, turns him into an everyday, ordinary cop who becomes, in a small sense, a patriot filled with an unshakable feeling of betrayal and an unbound drive to take down the man who has ruined so many lives. It takes a mom and makes her into a trapped, paranoid woman who's goodness is eventually spoiled. It turns lies into death-and-life conflicts, hope into a black light, anticipation to an incomparable level, writing to the ability it's never been brought to before, and goodness to evil.
It takes television to an expectation that may never be met again.