I watched the first season of Weeds, and it didn't grab me.
Well ... then ....
Fine.
And remember, if you hurt her, I will beat you to death with a shovel.
Willow ,'Conversations with Dead People'
Natter 66: Get Your Kicks.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Aims - Sep 01, 2010 9:00:55 am PDT #21589 of 30001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
§ ita § - Sep 01, 2010 9:02:21 am PDT #21590 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
The main character would really like to justify his wrongdoing (more so than Tony Soprano, probably) but he really can't.
Tell me more. I watched enough of the Sopranos to know they victimised innocents, but I don't know that much about Breaking Bad. Do you know enough to compare it to Weeds?
Daisy Jane - Sep 01, 2010 9:02:46 am PDT #21591 of 30001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
I hope so too, Jessica. Hopefully your colleagues were evacuated.
Jessica - Sep 01, 2010 9:06:33 am PDT #21592 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
The news reports I'm reading now say the immediate area was evacuated, but not the Discovery building itself.
Daisy Jane - Sep 01, 2010 9:07:56 am PDT #21593 of 30001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
I just now saw the local story, and yeah. People seem to be holed up in offices.
-t - Sep 01, 2010 9:10:55 am PDT #21594 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I watched Weeds for a while. I don't know if it's a good comparison for Breaking Bad, other than they both have to do with illegal drug distribution.
I haven't watched the last half of the most recent season, yet, but I'd say the main theme of Breaking Bad is the journey from exploring this whole meth cooking thing as sort of a reasonable response of the main character to a truly terrible situation to the growing realization that all those choices he made that kept getting him deeper (into the underworld and into his own darkness) were not really things he was forced to, but options he preferred. It's dark dark dark and kind of harrowing (which is why I haven't finished watching) but really really good.
-t - Sep 01, 2010 9:11:27 am PDT #21595 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Yikes on the hostage situation! I hope that ends up okay for everyone, somehow.
Sparky1 - Sep 01, 2010 9:11:36 am PDT #21596 of 30001
Librarian Warlord
The alert I got said the roads were closed down around the building.
Frankenbuddha - Sep 01, 2010 9:14:49 am PDT #21597 of 30001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Jessica - Sep 01, 2010 9:16:34 am PDT #21598 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Just saw that they were able to evacuate the onsite daycare, which is a relief.