Underworld is an absolute masterpiece. Anybody doesn't think so can shit in his fist and squeeze.

Did you just have the temerity to suggest that Paddington puts the "holla" in Holocaust?

DiCaprio's car was a Lamborghini.

He is good at writing tv movies.

What if he finger-synchs piano by Art Tatum?

Nor beginning.

That's been a common, and perfectly valid objection to the "it was all Walt's fantasy" argument. But is it so much of a stretch to contend that Walt accepted his son's contempt as deserved, and just wanted to get the $ to him without causing him anymore trouble? He didn't go to Skyler for reconciliation. She genuinely…

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Why should I read Foucault's Pendulum if I've already read the DaVinci Code? Kidding! Solid book- and yes, I might be a prime candidate for that bogus publishing company they run. But the arguments against Walt's envisioning the rest of the episode from inside the Volvo simply don't compel me as much as the little…

Well first, while it's true that Vince Gilligan did say that Walt finally figured out how to get the $ to the kids, I don't think it makes him an asshole for supporting the straightforward narrative in interviews while also having made an episode that works on a much deeper tragic level as well. On the contrary, I…

Well, I think the visual parallels/straws at which I grasp are the flashing coplights outside the car in NH/flashing coplights outside the nazi meth lab and yes, Jesse's woodworking fantasy. In fact, while there's no way that Vince Gilligan could say, "Hey, look for dual meanings or alternate realities!" his tease…

I like the concept of Heisenberg as cancer treatment, but aside from things Vince Gilligan has said, the episode works as fantasy in the car. The implausibilities starting with the keys dropping from the visor are forgiveable, but not negligible. Am I just kooking out on Dark Side of the Moon/Wizard of Oz crap? It's…

Maybe (though Newhart was in Vermont), but one of the most notorious series finales is of St. Elsewhere, where it turns out that the whole show was formed in the imagination of an autistic boy staring at a snowglobe.

Ah, but it is hinted at- In the Talking Bad episode after Granite State, VG said the clue to the finale was woodworking. Also in Granite State, WW was too weak to be Heisenberg anymore. That suddenly changed? Also the police lights converge around the Volvo in NH just like they converge around the nazi lab at the end.…

Increasingly convinced Walt died in the Volvo. Penultimate episode: Granite State- he's inert, helpless, and his cancer undermines anymore Heisenbergian episodes. In the car, surrounded by snow (St. Elsewhere, anyone?), he takes a moment, composes a fugue-like fantasy of what he wishes he would do, what he'd…

"But if there's any… regret in that embrace…" Ever see the Godfather Part II?

Thanks for the response. This was a really similar situation in that the contractual obligations were nebulous and stayed that way just to get him to agree to do the movie. But we thought he was satisfied enough with his performance and the movie as a whole that he might agree to put his face on the DVD- what the fuck…

I invested in a movie called See Girl Run. I loved the script and was thrilled when Adam Scott agreed to act in it. The movie came out very well, but Mr. Scott refused to promote it, and now my investment is worth considerably less. Small example that nobody's gonna read about here, but the guy should do the right…

Nucky figured that Jimmy was dead weight and Manya could be an asset (especially after AR stated his preference for a world without him). 
The big fake-out for me was the heroin that Luciano gave Jimmy. I figured he'd load right up on that after his wife got killed and go off on a totally different odyssey.
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Murmur of the Heart much?