Breaking Bad Season 3 [** Spoilers **]

Basq

Just a bump to say Season 3 begins March 21!

amacachi

I was planning to bump closer to the time. :pac: (When there was an early leak)

Basq

amacachi wrote: »

I was planning to bump closer to the time. :pac: (When there was an early leak)

Best to start a new thread for Season 3 discussion anyways.

Mr E

Still 5 weeks away, kids. Its like looking forward to Christmas while Trick or Treating.

ziedth

i'm looking forward to this more then christmass though

Reginald P. DuM

Can't wait!!

kfk

Where can I see season 3? Had to download all of season 2! Think I saw season 1 on FX UK

KerranJast

Why wouldn't you download Season 3? There's no way I'd be able to wait for it to show up on some obscure Sky channel.

Basq

kfk wrote: »

Where can I see season 3? Had to download all of season 2! Think I saw season 1 on FX UK

From our Charter:

Don't ask where you can download/stream TV shows or give any links to them. Infact try to stay away from discussion of downloading altogether.

Cop on lads!

EDIT: Oh, and three new promos for Season 3:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKOd6JjXmUU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJIuC0-Be8I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4D-mCQLN_4

Mr E

At the start of Promo 4, I was thinking "Jaysus, they're some eyebrows on your man".
I laughed when Walter seemingly felt the same way.

Roll on Sunday week....

Reginald P. DuM

Mr E wrote: »

Roll on Sunday week....

Amen!!

Start up an ol' Se03 thread there someone. Lets get cracking.

amacachi

Why has there not been an "early premiere" yet?

amacachi

Also, if anyone's interested. http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=62347293#post62347293

Mr E

Posts moved from Season 2 thread....

InKonspikuou2

I just don't possess the ability to watch a show from week to week. So i'll have to wait until the season is over before watching it. Can't wait. Best new show of recent years.

pickarooney

I'm thinking of doing the same thing.

Reginald P. DuM

pickarooney wrote: »

I'm thinking of doing the same thing.

I agree its the best way of watching a series, back to back.. However there's no way could I sit out ten weeks of knowing new episodes are just a click away while waiting for the seres to finish.. Can't be done.. Plus there's the matter of staying away from this thread.. No, week by week is the call.

Basq

It's back tonight kids!

And just a recap to refresh your memories:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rujxpkAnUzk

Richard Dower

TBH...never watched the show myself, is it very dark and gritty?

nevaeh-2die-4

i cant not wait, i have be hooked since the pilot aired.

it such a great show , im surprised it isn’t huge.

Really looking forward to season 3.
I think Walter has turned over to the other side big time, it was all about the money at the start now he loves the new "life"

Mr E

After putting this show on the long finger (and watching all 20 episodes over the course of a week at Christmas), I can't flippin' wait!

Redisle

I feel like I missed an episode after watching that recap! I don't recognise the bit at 5:10 when he burns some money nor do I recognise the bit at 5:33 with the two lads carrying axes or 5:36 when Gus wants to buy 3 months of Walters time.. And I just watched season 2 last week!

Maybe these pieces are clips from season 3 promos? Because Walter dosen't "lose" his family as such until the last episode of S2 and he mentions that when burning the money in that clip.

Nevertheless, looking forward to tomorrow evening!

amacachi

Wish I could **** off home now and watch this! Agh!

ScumLord

I didn't know the new season was eminent, how happy I was to see it pop up on the web this morning, I just couldn't wait and had to watch it there and then. Great to see this show back.

Gingervitis

Bad ass Mexicans...
Just wish they didn't do the "Cool Guys Don't Look at Explosions" walk!
Great start, they didn't pull any punches, while keeping the brilliant dark humour.

One minor complaint would have been that Walter can be perhaps too out of touch with the prevailing mood to be taken seriously, even though it was still a hilarious scene in the gym.
Top notch stuff.

DeepBlue

Since the show started we've pretty much known that Skylar had to find out at some point. I was surprised that that scene was so underwhelming.

Pretty naive of Walt to think that such a careful guy like Gus is going to let him just walk away without any repercussions.

Reginald P. DuM

Good start, and already it's almost safe to say BrBa has lost none of it's magic. Great to have it back. Mondays will have a redeeming feature for a while again.

tvnutz

All the stuff with the two Mexicans,the crawling,the chaning their clothes,the shooting everyone in the truck was so creepy. Especially the crawling on the ground part at the start. What was all that about?

Good start to the season,it will be interesting to see how it goes.

Minstrel27

ScumLord wrote: »

I didn't know the new season was eminent, how happy I was to see it pop up on the web this morning, I just couldn't wait and had to watch it there and then. Great to see this show back.

Imagine my delight to see that it retuned 5 minutes ago. Should have it in a few minutes \o/

ScumLord

tvnutz wrote: »

All the stuff with the two Mexicans,the crawling,the chaning their clothes,the shooting everyone in the truck was so creepy. Especially the crawling on the ground part at the start. What was all that about?

I'd say it's some sort of Catholic pilgrimage.

Richard Dower

Record ratings! http://tvbythenumbers.com/2010/03/22/breaking-bads-third-season-premiere-is-highest-rated-episode-ever/45694

Minstrel27

That was great. At the end it was like the two brothers were walking straight from hell.

L31mr0d

Excellent episode... right up until the last minute.

When I seen the Hispanic guy shooting the petrol tank I was thinking "Great, they are dumping the old hollywood physics and showing that shooting petrol tanks does not make them explode, they are going to mirror reality"

Then he lights his cigar and throws it into the petrol (which wouldn't of set it alight)... in slo mo... it bursts into flames, then they slowly walk away from the explosion without looking back at it...

it was just so cheese ball. I'd expect it from an 80's action movie, not BrBa

amacachi

L31mr0d wrote: »

Excellent episode... right up until the last minute.

When I seen the Hispanic guy shooting the petrol tank I was thinking "Great, they are dumping the old hollywood physics and showing that shooting petrol tanks does not make them explode, they are going to mirror reality"

Then he lights his cigar and throws it into the petrol (which wouldn't of set it alight)... in slo mo... it bursts into flames, then they slowly walk away from the explosion without looking back at it...

it was just so cheese ball. I'd expect it from an 80's action movie, not BrBa

I'm guessing it's a long time since you've enjoyed anything. :pac:

nevaeh-2die-4

great start, lovley to see it back wish they could of gave us a double episode to start the season

ixoy

L31mr0d wrote: »

Excellent episode... right up until the last minute.

When I seen the Hispanic guy shooting the petrol tank I was thinking "Great, they are dumping the old hollywood physics and showing that shooting petrol tanks does not make them explode, they are going to mirror reality"

Then he lights his cigar and throws it into the petrol (which wouldn't of set it alight)... in slo mo... it bursts into flames, then they slowly walk away from the explosion without looking back at it...

it was just so cheese ball. I'd expect it from an 80's action movie, not BrBa

Agreed - I was happy to see that it didn't explode when you shoot the petrol tank but then was disappointed to see that silly slo-mo moment. They were more interesting when they were doing the creepy crawl. Still it's early yet.

adox

Great start to the season. Its great to have some lunatic baddies on board again. Tuco was so fantastic in season 1.

Basq

People were underwhelmed with this? I really don't see why!

I think people are forgetting that Breaking Bad has two major strengths - it's writing and it's performances - both of which this episode delivered in spades. Cranston can just pull off emotional turmoil with such depth and ease.. he's an absolute pro (noticed he directed the season 3 opener)! And Aaron Paul looks to be playing as far away from Jesse as possible in this episode - and all the better for it.

I am a bit worried that the "Mexican-Matrix-Twins" (I couldn't help but think of the twins from the second Matrix film everytime they were on screen - see below!) have the appearance of real cardboard-cutout Mexican gangsters. Hopefully, there's a little more to it than that - but I have faith in Gilligan.



Great to have this back... one of the best shows on the telly right now by far!

#Daniel

Wonder what was with the crawling/deeply feared twins.

Anyhoo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sqz5dbs5zmo

was all I could think of when the episode ended...

Basq

#Daniel wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sqz5dbs5zmo

Andy Samberg = Legend!

adox

There's an AMC app on the American iTunes store which I just downloaded and it has loads of video clips, interviews etc from Breaking Bad and other shows.

Best of all though it has the season 3 opener up for streaming(albeit in 6 parts) and it works.

wyndham

From Crave Online

Bryan Cranston on season 3 of 'Breaking Bad'
Cranston talks 'Breaking Bad' and 'John Carter of Mars'.
by Fred Topel
Mar 23, 2010 The Paley Center for Media included a panel on AMC’s Breaking Bad as part of their PaleyFest2010 series of events. They screened the first episode of season three, which premieres March 21. You can also get the DVD and Blu Ray of Season Two to catch up. We caught a few quotes from series star Bryan Cranston first on the red carpet, and then in the panel discussion.



Q: What should we expect coming up this season?

Bryan Cranston: What I think is very courageous of what he’s done is that the conceit was that Walt knew that if this news ever got out of what he was doing, if his wife ever found out, game over. He would lose everything. That’s what he’s trying to keep and maintain, the core of his family together. In the first episode of the third season, she finds out through and educated guess. From that point on, it spins even further out of control.

Q: How far removed are we not from where you originally thought you’d be in season three?

Bryan Cranston: It feels like we’re a little bit past where I thought we were. When I knew that this was going to change from the very beginning to the end, I knew we were going to change characters from a nice guy, sweet guy to becoming a drug kingpin. I don't know, where is that center? How quickly does he change? It’s a little quicker than I thought it was going to change and at first I started resisting it, but then just trusting him [Vince Gilligan], you let it go and let him take you away. It’s a big trust exercise.

Q: Have you been able to adapt easily along the way?

Bryan Cranston: I suppose so because initially, your own personality steps in and when you read something that’s not very favorable that someone does, you go, “Oh, God, he’s very selfish” or “God, he’s mean to her.” Then you go [inhales] take it back, go with it and allow yourself to be those things. Allow, and that’s what Walt is going through now. He’s starting to go through a period where he needs to accept himself for who he really is and who he’s becoming.

Q: Where did you find those two actors who play the hitmen in the first episode back?

Bryan Cranston: They came through casting in Los Angeles, Daniel and Luis [Moncada], they’re brothers. One had never acted before in his life, which is Danny. Luis has but not as much. He didn’t have as much experience but these guys are the real guys. They have had an opportunity to turn their lives around. We had to cover up some tattoos. Any gang related things we have to cover up, but the tattoos are phenomenal to look at. They’re very visual. On Luis’s eyelids are two words, f*** you. I said to him, “Wow, did that hurt getting that on there?” He said, “No, what hurt was the spoon they had to put underneath the eyelid in order to engrave the tattoo on.” If you can go through that, I know you’re not going to flinch when I blow up this truck.But they’re great, sweet guys. They have found a new purpose in life and they found a home. When a guest cast member leaves or it’s their last shot of the series, there’s an announcement made by one of the Ads and a round of applause, appreciation for their talents and efforts on the show. Of course we did that for both of them separately, and both of them cried. I called them p*ssies. No, they’re absolutely very sweet guys and they play a very, very important role coming up.

Q: And they really didn’t flinch when you blew up the truck.

Bryan Cranston: Because I threatened them. I did, I told them not to. I said, “We can only explode one truck. If you flinch, it screws me completely. You cannot flinch.” So we did a test of it in a drum, a steel drum and I put them, I think they had to be 60 feet away from it. Although, on this shot we used a long lens which compresses the distance so it looks like they were closer. The order to blow up the truck was really given to the special effects guy. We put a line in the sand and he was watching when Luis was out on the far left of the screen. When Luis got to that point, he was able to blow it. I told the guy, “When you see that line and you pass it, it’s going to go. No flinching.” I can’t imagine reshooting that. That would’ve been terrible. So they did it and I told Danny too, I said, “Danny, when you’re walking away, if you think of it and you’re calm, just pull that cigarette back up. Just a nice casual drag as if you’re walking through the park.” This was the guy who’d never acted before. He did a wonderful job. He did it.

Q: Will we see Bob Odenkirk again?

Bryan Cranston: What I love about his character is he’s justifiably nonchalant. He’s laissez faire. Walt and Jesse come in and were angst ridden, tight and he’s like, “Ha ha, drug dealer getting shot, been known to happen.” It’s important for his character because his stakes are not the same as my character or Jesse. You have a wonderful juxtaposition between the energies playing really, really well. We’ve got some fun stuff coming up with Bob.

Q: Was it fun directing an episode again?

Bryan Cranston: Fun in retrospect. There are fun moments but it’s almost like you don’t have time to think of how fun this is, for me anyway. I think really seasoned directors can just sit back and know what they want. I’m constantly thinking, “Am I going to forget something?” For some reason, it always feels like your AD comes up and whispers in your ear, “We’re behind, we’ve got to move it.” I just started. Are you kidding me? It’s a time crunch and you’re hitting 14 hours a day. You want to shoot for 12 hours a day but you’re probably there for 14. I go home and then I do homework for the next day, so I’m up for 18 hours working.

Q: You’re shooting John Carter of Mars. Even though you don’t get to go to Mars, is that an important part of the story?

Bryan Cranston: It’s fantastic. Andrew Stanton is terrific. Taylor Kitsch is a great young actor and I’m having a great time doing it.

Q: When you read the Breaking Bad scripts, what shocks you?

Bryan Cranston: For me, when I first read the first page of the pilot script. It read just like you saw. Opened up on a beautiful setting, red mountains, trousers are falling from the sky. They hit the ground, an RV rolls over them. Insider there’s a middle aged man only wearing tidy whities and he wears a respirator, driving madly. Act 2, dead bodies sliding up and back in a sea of fluid and glass, another man passed out with a respirator. I’m thinking, “What the f*** is going on?” That was page one. It took off from there so it was one of those rare moments when you respond to a piece of material so strongly that I knew I had to get in as fast as I could to try to get this role, because the longer I waited, I knew that every actor in Hollywood would want this part. Fortunately, I was the one to get it.

Q: Do you think Walt could ever talk Skyler into accepting his new lifestyle?

Bryan Cranston: Well, there certainly is an allure to forbidden fruit. I think that’s what, in general, Walt is discovering about himself, certainly through this third season. He has to embrace who he’s becoming in order to survive. He has to start thinking like a dealer and acknowledge the true darkness that lies within him, which I think is allegorical to what lies in every human being, that we don’t want to face sometimes but it’s possible. I don't know. I thought it was very courageous that the writers threw out the conceit of Walt needing to keep the secret and now we don’t know what’s going to happen. We don’t press it. We don’t really want to know what’s going on. It’s like our own little present as well, so we discover maybe a week before we shoot it what’s going to happen next. So Anna and I just kind of go in, all of us when we read the next script, we start reading in varying degrees. “Did you get to the part- -?” “No, no, don’t tell me, don’t tell me.” It’s fun to figure out what’s going to happen and try to guess. You’re usually wrong. He throws curveballs quite often but it’s like one big trust exercise. Beginning actors, there’s a lot of that fall back and your partner will catch you. For most of it, it’s really like that with Vince because we just fall back and we know that he’ll take care of the characters and nurture them in a strange, odd, unpredictable way but he’s going to go there. So it’s possible that it could go that way, that she would come around but I don't know. I really don’t know. I like that about it.

Q: Are you worried at some point the show might get too dark?

Bryan Cranston: The very first time I met with Vince about this was about three years ago. The thing that struck me was he told me he wanted to do something, and I realized after he told me that what he just said has never been done on television, in the history of television. To put on a series where your main character changes from one person to another by the end, he said he wants to take Mr. Chips and turn him into Scarface. So that’s what is going to happen. We are in a transformation. My character is metamorphosizing from one kind of person to another. This has never happened before and that fascinated me. I’m on this journey that you think, I would think going in that I would know where I’m going and I have no idea where I’m going. It’s frightening and exciting at the same time. So we are changing this person. By the end of this season, I imagine if you take him to where you want to take him, that he is going to be a bloodthirsty killer. We’re not playing a game here. I really don’t know what’s going on in his head. It’s good. Not many people do. It is interesting to go on this journey, all of us together, and not really know where the end is.

Q: Even Scarface got to enjoy the fruits of his labor. Would you like to see Walt enjoy himself a little?

Bryan Cranston: Yeah, he certainly feels like he needs a break certainly. The interesting irony is that this man has never been more alive since he got this death sentence. He is a guy now who has the capability of intimidating someone. He’s never felt that as a man. He’s got a pocketful of money. He has adrenaline pumping in his veins and that’s an important thing. It says a lot. He feels important and he feels more virile. There are things I think he wouldn’t change. The question, would you rather live an exciting year and a half or a drab, boring, dull, depressing 20 more years, I don't know. I’m not sure.

Q: We hear you’re a Dodger fan?

Bryan Cranston: Oh, I love the Dodgers. I’m in mourning right now. Willie Davis passed away. I used to watch him all the time when I was a kid. He always used to run like he was hurt, like Mickey Rivers. Remember that? Mickey Rivers was that way. Vladimir Guerrero has that kind of thing, always looks like he’s hurt.

Q: Did you go to any spring training games?

Bryan Cranston: I didn’t go this year but I try to go as often as possible. I went to the Dodger fantasy camp a couple times where for a week, you get to be a baseball player and that’s all you do. You play baseball, morning, noon and night, talk baseball, have lunch next to Duke Snider and all these other old time Dodgers and things like that. The younger Dodgers and the ‘70s Dodgers and the ‘60s Dodgers are there. It’s fantastic, so much fun.

DeepBlue

Anyone know if the Breaking Bad podcasts will return this season?

chalkitdown1

I haven't heard anything about them, but I hope they do. They were a great listen.

DeepBlue

chalkitdown1 wrote: »

They were a great listen.

That they were - especially when they had Aaron Paul (Jesse) and Dean Norris (Hank) on . They never had Bryan Cranston on the podcasts but I thought they might get him for the first one of the season seeing as he directed the episode again (he also directed the opening episode of season two).

dowremi

breaking bad is too me the best television show of the past 11 years. I love the fact that it is not afraid to break the cable tv limits with it's edginess and. compelling story. I love the idea of a terminally ill cancer patient becomes a complete bad ass drug dealer. it's drama at its finest. Each episode throws me for a loop because I can never predict what the hell is going to happen next. Now this brings me too my question: How the hell will it end? My prediction is this;
ok, bear with me..my thoughts on this might be a little extreme but it goes well with the whole twisted mess of the series.

He ends up killing Jessie.

Woww...reallly....ooooooo ahhhhhh

yea he kills that little piece of crap and ends up walking into the desert sunset. THE END

Basq

dowremi wrote: »

breaking bad is too me the best television show of the past 11 years. I love the fact that it is not afraid to break the cable tv limits with it's edginess and. compelling story. I love the idea of a terminally ill cancer patient becomes a complete bad ass drug dealer. it's drama at its finest. Each episode throws me for a loop because I can never predict what the hell is going to happen next. Now this brings me too my question: How the hell will it end? My prediction is this;
ok, bear with me..my thoughts on this might be a little extreme but it goes well with the whole twisted mess of the series.

He ends up killing Jessie.

Woww...reallly....ooooooo ahhhhhh

yea he kills that little piece of crap and ends up walking into the desert sunset. THE END

KerranJast

Butch and Sundance ending. That would be class.

ziedth

Loved the new ep,

I'm starting to get the feeling that Jessie is going to turn into a badass while walt will try and get out of it.

The cool guys don't look at explosions walk wasn't needed but i guess they trying to push how mean they are. Would have been better if they just lit the hay in fire.

It's really hard to see where this is gonna go, my guess is something is going to happen (walt junior maybe) that they will need major money and he will have to take apollo chicken guys offer.

Simply the best new show in the last 5 years IMO

KerranJast

ziedth wrote: »

Loved the new ep,

I'm starting to get the feeling that Jessie is going to turn into a badass while walt will try and get out of it.

The cool guys don't look at explosions walk wasn't needed but i guess they trying to push how mean they are. Would have been better if they just lit the hay in fire.

It's really hard to see where this is gonna go, my guess is something is going to happen (walt junior maybe) that they will need major money and he will have to take apollo chicken guys offer.

Simply the best new show in the last 5 years IMO

Well they could just threaten to kill his family. Pretty simple coercion tactic right there.

DeepBlue

Enjoyed the second episode more than the season opener.
I wonder if Saul was skimming off the deal to buy Jesse's parent's house or if Jesse himself screwed them over.
Loved everything Saul did in this episode. He brings the comedy back in a series that's gotten progressively darker as it's gone on.

It's interesting that Skylar could lose everything herself if she tells the police what she knows and also that Hank's job could be on the line. Contrary to my impression last week it seems there's still a lot of drama left in that storyline. Also Skylar has shown that she's happy enough to go along with illegality so long as it's not too "glaring".

Finally it seems Gus has enough clout to call off the two Mexicans. Can't wait for next week.

Oh and for anyone interested the podcasts are back.