My ramblings on Breaking Bad, let me show you them

Yes, I know I should be posting about Occupy or any number of things going on in the world, but I'm up to my ears in trying to teach kids how film works as a medium, and it so happened that I was finally talked into watching a show that makes great use of film (well, video, but the conventions of film) as a medium. (I'm also reading an interesting book about social networking, so get ready to hear me rant about that when I'm trying to teach kids how the intertubes work as a medium. Probably not as much, though, because so far nothing has blown up in the book.)

I highly recommend bitter_crimson's post on why you should watch the show, as it convinced me and I more or less agree with said post, having now watched the show. Also, those clips are about a thousand times funnier in context.

A note on spoilers. There are some. But they're things like (as snarkitysnarks brought up in my last post) "human head on a tortoise." Which makes absolutely no sense if you haven't seen the show, so probably won't ruin your enjoyment of said scene when it occurs. If I told you what happens after there's a human head on a tortoise, I suppose that would be a spoiler.

Accordingly, if you're one of those people who cannot possibly know anything about what's going to happen before you see it, might be better to skip this one. But I'll try not to give everything away.

( BrBabble )

Um, that was longer than I meant it to be. Shorter sabotabby: As a viewer, I like to be manipulated into watching things that I shouldn't like, and to be conscious of said manipulation. And also drugs are bad.

* The best example of the latter is that scene in The Wire where the guy can't put an IKEA bed together. I hated that character and wanted him to die. I can put an IKEA bed together.

** SORRY! I typed it, regretted it, and couldn't find another way to express that idea. Just ship me off to York University to run anti-oppression workshops or something.

Remember the days when you found out about celebrity deaths through LiveJournal?

R.I.P. Bil Keane. You gave me so much pleasure for all the wrong reasons.



Incidentally, my favourite Family Circus of all time had Billy eating a hot dog wiener and the caption "I ran out of bun!" It was not a 'shop and there was no irony or intentional double entendre at all.