Your history classes sound much more fun than any I ever took.

Why could the suit of armor not fit inside the elevator?  Aren't suits of armor generally about as big as a human body?  Did this suit of armor belong to a historical version of Ser Gregor Clegane?

At the very least, there should be a moment where the two patriarchs beat their sons in a pickup basketball game and then follow the weeping sons through the house, screaming and bouncing basketballs off their sons' heads as the rest of the family freaks out and unsuccessfully tries to intervene.  That's quality…

I was sure Walt Jr. was going to accidentally fall on that knife somehow.

In Pulp Fiction, that's Jesse inside the gimp suit.

Yeah, it was great how they framed the phone in the first shot… and then Skyler went for the knife.

If that baby didn't want to be kidnapped, it shouldn't have been such a backstabbing bitch.

Oh shit, Walt just dragged Jesse out from under the car to kill him.  No way this can get any worse.
…
OH SHIT, Walt just gave the Nazis permission to slowly torture Jesse to death.  NOW there's no way this can get any worse!
….
*head explodes*

I agree with the sentiment of your post, but all it does is make me want a TV show with Michael Haneke as the head writer.

"My name is ASAC Schraeder, and you can go fuck yourself."

From Aaron Paul's Twitter feed:

OH FUCKING COME ON!  WE JUST WANT A SPACE TO TALK ABOUT THE BREAKING BAD EPISODE! YOU DON'T HAVE TO HAVE THE REVIEW UP YET!

Glad I'm not the only one who came here looking for a place to say HOLY SHIT!

@avclub-0e426c437145b137c301c8c34d0060a2:disqus not exactly what I meant- it's more that, when you're not spending a good deal of mental energy wondering where the show is going with all of this stuff, it's easier to appreciate as a whole.  90% of the comments from Korra Book One seemed to be some variation of "I…

"the only reason she ever won anything seemed to be because a bad guy fucked up"

*folds arms, storms off*

There was a lot of table-setting that needed to be done in these episodes.  Last season, we were learning about all the characters, so the table-setting was integrated into the character stuff.  Now we know most of the characters, which apparently means that the first few episodes involve the characters remaining…

I would re-watch Korra in one go, if you haven't already.  The whole thing improves immeasurably when you're not living and dying on the cliffhangers.

"I don't think there's romance in the cards for them" is a deliberately evasive non-answer.  Could go either way.

Man, Bolin was reaching "small excitable unicorns from the Charlie the Unicorn videos"-level annoying during some of those info dumps.  I know straight info dumps are dramatically inert, but Bolin hamming it up while everyone else is just trying to get all the cards on the table is so much worse.