Furthermore he thinks D9 is about Apartheid when it's actually about illegal immigrants - it's the most basic allegory ever invented and he still misreads it.

Hmm, I never found The Fall smug or aloof, or lazy in fact. Luther is a bit lazy but I never found it smug, certainly no more so that US TV.

The Irene Adler stuff must make them very confused.

The Private Life Of Sherlock Holmes is already 43 years old, Kev.

Indeed! Good little movie. Cody seemed to have really matured as a writer, certainly everything between Oswalt/Theron and Theron/Wilson was very well realised with believable dialogue. This seems like a step back/in it for the money deal.

Yeh I get the point being made, but the larger forces aren't things Walt can control so he's at their mercy and they existed beyond him and before him as they will exist after he's done.

" he can often will himself into being that." is an even better description, imo.

I dunno, there are a lot of forces pressing down on Walt when he decides to start selling meth - the cancer, his damaged fucked up shame about greymatter, his emasculation at his job and at home. It's not like everything was fine and dandy. He was under pressure.

Yeh the Skyler hating stuff is out of proportion. I think we do need to recognise the show definitely sets her up as another obstacle for Walt to get around in the early seasons, but as we move into the later seasons Sky goes from obstacle to (a) moral centre so she's now telling Walt harsh, nasty truths and trying to…

Breaking Bad is ultimately about the will to power. We have to acknowledge the seductive nature of power, the effort it takes to achieve and the style in which it's done while being wholly aware that it's a corrosive process.

Interesting to note that while BB doesn't serve to offer us answers about questions of morality and freedom it does give us plenty of revelations about plot mechanics and motivations. Whereas with Lost we get the creators "answers" about morality and belief but plot mechanics and motivations are vague and broad.
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Not only that but it gives us such a clear insight into Walter White it really comes close to explaining his whole beguiling character

Eh, Walt is a total badass of legendary proportions and I like to celebrate that. It doesn't mean I don't also think he's a bad guy, or that his soul is turning rapidly from grey to black or that the show is only a ownage delivery system, but you have to recognise that Walter, Hank, Gus and Mike are all badass…

A Fish Called Selma

Then how do you know where to aim?!

To be fair the only thing he did wrong was bow out of the one thing he did that was actually really good.

Yep you need maths and science in your repertoire as well as lit stuff to qualify as renaissance.

There are a LOT of really fucking stupid people.

None of them touch Yeats though.

Yes absolutely. I doubt he will but I want the magnificent bastard to pull it all off, even if it means the rest of the cast die in ways agonising, ironic or pitiful.