Season 5 - 2 Promos

Basq

All very brief so far.. but here's the promo that's been out a few weeks..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KISc4qvlN-4

.. and here's two new ones..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZBtq0Mc528

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmFlKdb9woc

Mousewar

:wetshimself:

PigeonPie

Goosebumps watching those!

internet_user

crazygeryy

Rosy Posy

crazygeryy wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdDs5ny1BMc&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Now I love Breaking Bad as much as anyone and think it kicks the ar$e of any other tv show on the market but that promo is just a tiny bit pretentious IMHO. They're giving us nothing.

On a side note I did that poem in school fifteen years ago and still remembered it verbatim!

crazygeryy

Rosy Posy wrote: »

Now I love Breaking Bad as much as anyone and think it kicks the ar$e of any other tv show on the market but that promo is just a tiny bit pretentious IMHO. They're giving us nothing.

On a side note I did that poem in school fifteen years ago and still remembered it verbatim!

awwww i think it's a fantastic promo.it's doing what promos should. building the tension.
i had never heard the poem before.

Rosy Posy

crazygeryy wrote: »

awwww i think it's a fantastic promo.it's doing what promos should. building the tension.
i had never heard the poem before.

It's by Shelley. It was in the green Soundings book. It's a good choice in terms of the theme- the fallen king and the fallacy of huberis- but it would have been nice to see them use something by Whitman or at least an American author.

I dunno, to hear Walt recite it like that just felt a bit cringe...echoes of the 'say my name' scene which made my skin crawl. I guess it emphasised for me what a d!ck Walt has become and how little I now like him. Maybe it was a good promo after all.

tigger123

Rosy Posy wrote: »

Now I love Breaking Bad as much as anyone and think it kicks the ar$e of any other tv show on the market but that promo is just a tiny bit pretentious IMHO. They're giving us nothing.

On a side note I did that poem in school fifteen years ago and still remembered it verbatim!

I'd disagree. Walter said that he was in the "empire business, not the the meth business", and the poem is about the inevitable fall of all empires, no matter how powerful they are. It seems to be suggesting that the closing episodes will see the end to everything Walter has built? Wasn't there a shot of Heisenbergs hat in the dessert too, covered in dust?

ScrubsfanChris

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmTY7k4WX-o

Rosy Posy

Argh! I can't wait!! My OH was insane enough to suggest we wait til all eight are out and binge on them over a couple of nights but I wouldn't actually sleep knowing they're out there (and that someone in internet-land might spoil them for me!). Its hard enough waiting til the kids go to bed on a Monday night!

snausages

tigger123 wrote: »

I'd disagree. Walter said that he was in the "empire business, not the the meth business", and the poem is about the inevitable fall of all empires, no matter how powerful they are. It seems to be suggesting that the closing episodes will see the end to everything Walter has built? Wasn't there a shot of Heisenbergs hat in the dessert too, covered in dust?

As a reference though it's a little on the nose. Kind of cringey for what's mostly just fun popcorn escapism.

Rosy Posy

snausages wrote: »

As a reference though it's a little on the nose. Kind of cringey for what's mostly just fun popcorn escapism.

That was kind of my first feeling on seeing it myself, although I'd have to disagree with you on the 'fun popcorn escapism' part.

IMO this show has the most involved character development since the Sopranos. It also explores serious moral and social dilemmas- the ethics of the drug trade, America's health system, choosing between what's right and what's best for your family. Add to that the gripping plot and snappy dialogue and you've got one of the most compelling shows on tv, something that gets under your skin, not some kind of sugary snack for the brain.

But the promo did give me a cringey feeling all the same, which was why my initial reaction was that it was pretentious, but on reflection for me it mirrors my reaction to the scene with Declan etc in the desert where Walt says, 'Say My Name' (afair that's the episode title too). There was something about Walt's ego and his huberis that I found deeply uncomfortable and slightly comical (on a par with watching an episode of the office or extras). He's just so full of his own importance that its exasperating because he can't see what he has become which is in essence a petty criminal and peddler of misery, albeit on a large and successful scale. And I think that to evoke that kind of response in an essentially nothing promo is actually pretty clever. For me it made an emotional connection to the character, where he's at and how I feel about him with really very little. It kicks the ass of, for example, the Dexter promos which just seemed to splurge snippets of the entire series arc across the screen.

snausages

Rosy Posy wrote: »

That was kind of my first feeling on seeing it myself, although I'd have to disagree with you on the 'fun popcorn escapism' part.

IMO this show has the most involved character development since the Sopranos. It also explores serious moral and social dilemmas- the ethics of the drug trade, America's health system, choosing between what's right and what's best for your family. Add to that the gripping plot and snappy dialogue and you've got one of the most compelling shows on tv, something that gets under your skin, not some kind of sugary snack for the brain.

But the promo did give me a cringey feeling all the same, which was why my initial reaction was that it was pretentious, but on reflection for me it mirrors my reaction to the scene with Declan etc in the desert where Walt says, 'Say My Name' (afair that's the episode title too). There was something about Walt's ego and his huberis that I found deeply uncomfortable and slightly comical (on a par with watching an episode of the office or extras). He's just so full of his own importance that its exasperating because he can't see what he has become which is in essence a petty criminal and peddler of misery, albeit on a large and successful scale. And I think that to evoke that kind of response in an essentially nothing promo is actually pretty clever. For me it made an emotional connection to the character, where he's at and how I feel about him with really very little. It kicks the ass of, for example, the Dexter promos which just seemed to splurge snippets of the entire series arc across the screen.

Yeah, I get the sense in the last 2 seasons or so that the 'mask' is slipping. They kind of hammer that point home with Mike's line "you might have killed Jesse James but that doesn't make you Jesse James" (or words to that effect). The legend of Heisenberg surpasses the man. Walt is just Walt. His hubris will kill him.

It's just that the poem promo is awfully unsubtle with the stuff its foreshadowing. Not quite on the level of ghost Harry in Dexter, but still.

pyramuid man

Its quite nice to see a show not give away everything that's going to happen in a promo. Nice change of pace.

crazygeryy

i think i know the answer to this but is there Any way to watch the first episode live?as in when amc show it.

Mousewar

crazygeryy wrote: »

i think i know the answer to this but is there Any way to watch the first episode live?as in when amc show it.

Fly to America?

Could be worth it.

crazygeryy

Mousewar wrote: »

Fly to America?

Could be worth it.

could be.

dave1982

crazygeryy wrote: »

i think i know the answer to this but is there Any way to watch the first episode live?as in when amc show it.

netflix are showing here a US pace