Breaking Bad Season 3

taviow said:
Do they really start filming this early? S4 only starts in July next year...
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3 days in December at the car wash location for sure, it's been booked (only way it will change is if it snows). If I can't get on set I'll see if I can take some pictures from the outside since it's fairly close to my apartment. I'm sure they will have trailers and such all over since there is a huge parking lot right behind it.
 
Nothing really to update yet, but looks like I probably won't get on set physically.
 
I've been watching this over from the beginning over the course of the last week or so, and it's amazing what a masterpiece it is. Not only does it excel in story, acting, characters, and such, but even how it's shot is both brilliant and artistic. My girlfriend is studying art in college and has paused multiple times during an episode to point out things like the rule of thirds. It's amazing how much thought is put into every single aspect of this show.
 
Yeah. I love this show to death, and it's subtle things like angeles and stuff that I don't really pick up on, but simply enjoy without really knowing why.
 
Bryan Cranston has won Emmys for best leading actor in a drama for the past 3 years in a row for it...
 
just finished season one with some friends, incredible show. took us a while because of schedules with uni work and the like, plus we're also rinsing our way through lost because they haven't seen it yet, but yeah we finished that tonight. cannot wait to watch more, the last two episodes of the show really sold it for me and i was enjoying it before then just as much, though it can be a little heavy sometimes. anything to do with medicine or medical health is a real chiller for me.
 
Get used to "a little heavy". Much more of that coming. I'd actually say it can get "quite heavy".
 
oh i'm all for it, the crushing realities of living are one of my favourite parts of television these days, it's just this show hits home with the medical health elements really hard. harsh stuff.
 
oh man it just gets better. season 2 is great and season 3 is even better. i'm beside myself thinking about the coming season.
 
Season 3 is the best so far. I'm glad the wait is almost over.
 
I don't think I liked season 3 as much as you guys did. It was great, but I'm not a big fan of things ending in the middle of plot arcs. That's why I like S2.
 
I don't know, season 2 had a pretty big plot arc with the plane crash and Skyler telling Walt to move out because she found out he was paying for the cancer treatment himself.
 
But all those things happened within season 2. I wasn't left midway through the story with a giant cliffhanger.
 
lol? I remember you and I having a long conversation about this, how BB struggles with seasonal arcs and instead makes really compelling single episodes that are strung together. And Dexter kicks ass because it has great seasons and episodes. They're not as bad about that now, but still, there shouldn't be one story strung out over two seasons.
 
Seemed like they ended one arc and teased us with the beginnings of a new one.
 
taviow said:
Then what do you want out of the show? Also, you clearly never watched Babylon 5.
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A well organized story arc within every season. No, but I distinctly remember you describing an episode to me.

Vegeta897 said:
How do we know there is?
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Are you saying the situation between Gus, Walt, and Jesse might be resolved in like one episode or something. That's fine, but that should've been the S3 finale.
 
Sheepo said:
But all those things happened within season 2. I wasn't left midway through the story with a giant cliffhanger.
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lol no. Ending a story arc is not the same thing as answering every question. We don't learn who the G-Man is at the end of the first Half-Life. Season 3 was a perfectly contained story arc - after the finale the season's main storylines are wrapped up and the slate is almost completely clean for the show to go ANYWHERE next season.
Gus was moving to replace Walt with Gale and kill Walt and Jesse, who were proving too problematic. Now that they've basically forced his hand by killing Gale, the show can go anywhere - cooperation or war with Gus. All of the other minor story arcs within the season (Jesse's trials and tribulations, Walt/Skylar drama largely resolved or at least in a new phase, Hank's story etc) are basically resolved insofar as the conflict that had arisen during the season was resolved or at least moved on from in every case (Hank's injury, Walt/Skylar sort of back together, Jesse over his dead gf).
In short I think you're just being overly butthurt by the cliffhanger and intense anticipation for next season because the show is so good you can't bear not to know what happens next ;)
 
Yes, it concluded quite a few things, but you can't say that the story ended, because it reached a turning point and can go anywhere from here. Your Half-Life analogy is poor. If anything, the ending to S3 would be like Half-Life ending right before we enter Xen.
 
TV show stories don't end between seasons, they simply transition into new story arcs... just as Breaking Bad did. My point with the G-Man reference is only that all ends are not tied up between seasons or sequels, responding to your complaint that season 3 "ended in the middle of things".
 
This is not a new story arc, it's a continuation of the old one. The G-Man is a mysterious element of HL that interested us, but he wasn't the main story or motivation keeping us going. The conflict between Gus, Jesse, and Walt was the main plot of S3 and it wasn't concluded in S3.
 
There were several smaller story arcs that were wrapped up, and while the Gus situation may be larger than a single season the season's conflict was still resolved in the sense that it has moved on to a new phase. Supporting characters like Gus can last for more than one season... I think you're nitpicking an awful lot here. I also think you're arguing for the sake of argument since you don't bother to respond to anything you can't nitpick, so this is the point where we agree to divergent opinions and I go back to looking forward for season 4 :p
 
I feel like the "Trouble with Gus escalating" that we got towards the end of Season 3 is more of a preview of what's to come in Season 4. With everything else that happened in Season 3, I didn't really feel like Walt vs Gus was the central conflict - certainly not as much as it's going to be come Season 4.

Really I think you both have pretty valid opinions. Season 3 did have a pretty cliffhanger ending that ends with a "Oh shit now what" moment, but at the same time it does wrap up quite a few things. Breaking Bad has never really had "cut and dry" finales, though. Even with this seasons ending we see developments that aren't yet resolved. Hank still can't walk, Jesse relapsed back into drugs and shot the nerdy guy.

Mostly I feel like Season 3 was about truth and consequences. We've got the plane crash and Jane's death in the opening, Tuco's cousins showing up, and Walt telling Skyler that he is indeed a meth cook. Later on in the season, we learn more about Combo's death, and how that knowledge affects Jesse.

While the season did stop "in the middle" of trouble with Gus, it wasn't something that was going on for the entire season. It wasn't until the last two or three episodes that Gus and Walt really started realising how much of a problem the other was.
 
@Ennui

Yes, I can definitely agree with you that S3 did handle and finish several smaller story arcs and did gave a turning point to the larger one. I'm not making any complaint along the lines of "lol, S3 is only half a season." I felt like the season as a whole didn't really get a proper resolution and was just left hanging, but that's really not that big of a complaint. It's really just my preference for seasons to be tidier bundles than the one we got here. I still really enjoyed season 3 and I'm really looking forward to season 4. And what am I not bothering to respond to?
 
Hey baby, the only reason I'm ignoring you is because I agree with pretty much everything you say. You and me are made for each other.
 
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