Emerging from the telly hole

[sabotabby]

Okay, so Breaking Bad just shot up to Second Favourite Thing On TV* (eclipsing even Fringe and Mad Men, though in fairness this may be because the latter hasn't aired in such a long time) with the fourth season.

You're now allowed to discuss spoilers on my LJ. In other news, I may soon have to produce a long ramble about why I like it so much. For now you just need to understand that it's one of those shows that makes me want to copy what I see on TV. I don't mean drug-dealing and murder; I mean I look at those shots and that editing and wrack my brain all day figuring out how to replicate it. TVTropes says they're using handheld cameras to film, which is making me confused.

Right, now I will need some new TV to watch, I guess. It's probably going to have to be the rest of The Wire.

ETA: Mostly for snarkitysnarks, who is a bad influence in so many respects, Breaking Bad: Friendship is Magic.



* First being Treme, though I think BrBa's cinematography is actually better and the acting about equal.

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[snarkitysnarks.livejournal.com]

Mostly for [info]snarkitysnarks, who is a bad influence in so many respects, Breaking Bad: Friendship is Magic.

You don't understand. I am the *best* influence.

Sadly I couldn't keep looking at them, because they quote from seasons I haven't yet seen. D: I only just started season 3. The folks and I have been watching it together (Dad was the one who told me about it) so the going is a little slower. Perks include hearing my parents argue about the best way to melt a dead body with acid.

I actually noticed a lot of shots that seemed hand-held, mostly because that's the kind of shot that makes me slightly ill. Thankfully it's not obvious often enough to make it unwatchable like some kinda Cloverfield thing (which I had to leave half an hour in. Completely unwatchable). But if all of the shots are hand-held, that is some fucking magic they're employing or something.

Though I haven't caught up, I could do a small ramble about what I think makes Breaking Bad the Greatest. It's that in one episode you can be laughing about people melting a body, in a different episode you can discover that a human head on a tortoise is the most terrifying thing you've seen this year, and in another episode a drug addict makes a little kid a sandwich. It is the perfect storm of d'awwwhatthefuck. I especially like that so many of the most horrible situations are patently hilarious, but then when it seems like it should be funny it's actually the worst thing. Like human head on a tortoise.

[sabotabby]

Watch it watch it watch it.

I notice some obviously hand-held shots, but not most. TVTropes says "most." I almost puked during Cloverfield, incidentally, and could not for the life of me understand why people liked it. I just told the kids yesterday that if I puke while watching their videos, they automatically fail.

I think I could probably write a ramble about why BrBa is so awesome without fully ruining seasons three and four, given that it mostly amounts to things that aren't huge spoilers. Well. Except for some things that happen in S4 that are amazing, though the parts that I find amazing are generally not huge spoilers either. But it's mostly things like there's a human head on a tortoise and a drug addict makes a little kid a sandwich (and plays Peek-a-Boo with him, which killed me dead), which I don't think really spoil the viewing experience if you know about them in advance. Like I can tell you that there is karaoke in S4, and it is the Best Thing, but it won't matter that it is the Best Thing until it happens.

[snarkitysnarks.livejournal.com]

I consider anything and everything a spoiler, so I'm gonna have to wait to read your upcoming ramble until after I have caught up.

don't tell me there is karaoke

don't tell me

Why do I have the hugest weakness for bad people interacting with children? Every time it is done, it gets me.

[yes-justice.livejournal.com]

Perks include hearing my parents argue about the best way to melt a dead body with acid.

Hahaha!

What I love about it is its realism. Some people in the know, cough, on that one.