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March 14, 2008

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Talk Forum: What You're Saying

The season finale of Breaking Bad left the Talk forum with much to say. "The finale was a cliff hanger for sure!" Dr Jeseuss exclaimed. "Leaving it to end at that would be 'breaking bad.' There's so much room to grow going into another season."

Rickyjames concurred that the season tied up nicely: "We certainly ended on the right note, with Walt watching his latest 2 pounds drive off into the sunset, all set up to do more batches for quite some time to come, with the soundtrack wailing about the saving of his soul as we fade to black...." Pamala, however was more cautious: "Not a great finale, but that's to be expected as this was not originally written as the final episode. That fact in mind, I think it stood up very well."

Meanwhile, kgirl55 considered Walt's conversation with Hank about America's decisions about drug legalization. "Although I do believe Meth is a very dangerous drug," she writes, "society seems to arbitrarily dictate what we can do with our bodies and sometimes." Similarly, satireV wondered if we want Walt to get away with his crimes: "Will the powers allow...the bad guy to win?"

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Posted by Clayton Neuman
March 14, 2008 10:05pm


Vince Gilligan on Bryan Cranston's Chemistry and Breaking Bad's Science

Creator Vince Gilligan lectures on the science of Breaking Bad, and discusses sharing sets with an Oscar-winning picture in this special bonus segment of AMC's exclusive interview.

Q: You've said before that you don't see Breaking Bad as a morality tale. If that's the case, then how do you portray the consequences of Walt's and Jesse's actions?

A: Well, yeah, it's a tough balancing act. There's a lot of balancing acts with this show, the balance between humor and drama, and also the balance between keeping the show entertaining and showing the reality of the horrors of crystal meth. It's kind of a tightrope. And how we do it is, we just try to keep it as real as possible. Walt is really a babe in the woods when this series starts. He knows nothing about the drug. He could probably write out on a chalkboard its chemical composition, just off the top of his head, but he doesn't have any relationship to it in any real human regard. He doesn't understand just how terrible it is. And we're not going to shy away from how horrible the drug is. But on the other hand I feel like this is a character study more than anything else. It's not a morality tale. It's a story about a character and ultimately things are probably not going to end so well for him because of this initial, really fundamentally terrible choice he made in the pilot. Our fundamental task at hand is to keep the audience watching, and to keep the audience learning about this character of Walt. But the thing that really helps us, that really saves our bacon at the end of the day is Bryan Cranston's acting. If it were another actor other than Bryan Cranston, we'd be in big trouble. You just like the guy no matter what he does. He just kind of leads you by the hand as you watch the show, and you forgive him just about anything.

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Posted by Clayton Neuman
March 14, 2008 10:20am

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