Good point. Scorsese especially has moments where he's consciously crying out "YOU GUYS — LOOK AT MY KICK-ASS CAMERA WORK!" The trick of it is the trick itself still adds to rather than distracts from the story.

I love old radio plays, where set description has to be worked into the dialog. "Quick! Hide the gun! Jake just broke through the front door and he's running up the stairs!" *clop clop clop*

This is such a tiresome non-issue, but come on — how often do you know the address of your local drug kingpin? How often is that just common knowledge from the news? Unless it's a landmark like an office building or a public place, how often do the police or the news just broadcast an address of a location under…

Yeah, that's one issue I just sort of take for granted with network television; all the actors are model-class, no matter how much you dirty them up. It's distracting not because they're so pretty, but because you'd never find that many pretty people in one place together outside of a catwalk. None of these people…

Okay, quick — give me the address of the biggest drug dealer in your town. Know where he lives? Know all his nicknames? Do strangers seek out that dude's place to vandalize it, especially if they don't know if he still has contacts out there who might be interested in protecting an asset? And does it matter all that…

I kinda doubt Carol did it, and yeah, she'd probably know because she's next door. As far as who painted the place, I still think it had to be someone who was a little closer to Walt. I mean, do you know where the major drug lords in your town live? Even after they're busted? The more I think about it, the more I…

*grumble grumble*

Had to be done by someone who knows Walter White was Heisenberg, which means they know Walter White and where he lived. I'm guessing possibly Jesse, or Badger and Skinny Pete after they realize who Jesse was working with.

Dead-eyed Opie?

This whole play with focus continues in Granite State (season 5, episode 15 — i.e. last week). It's a tricky little play on things when Walt's up in the cabin and his eyes are going. The first time he walks out to his gate, the camera is watching him walk down the driveway and it's about the shallowest focus I can…

Dirty, sweaty, grimy, no-makeup-wearing, looking less like an Abercrombie ad — at least they're paying a bit more attention to what life without power might be like this time around. At least for this episode. And is it just me or has Google slimmed down?

I'm sort of enjoying the Lord of Darkness from Legend walking around talking like Jabba the Hut and bending necks. It's more fun if you imagine it's Tim Curry in the role.

Acker's been on it since the middle of the second season, so you got a bit to catch up on, buddy.

Caveat: Know if (or hope that) your barber actually understands this stuff. Not all of them do. I've asked for a tapered cut and walked out looking like my head was carved to look like a box. (I didn't walk back in again, ever.) Just because your barber's an old man, or even someone who went to school for this stuff,…

Including but not limited to:

I like Joe for the Visually Impaired: "When the butterfly hits the dome, it makes some kind of spot!"

I wish the Dome was narrated by Morgan Freeman.

Angry Cereal Leprechauns was the name of my Flogging Molly cover band.

I figured the rage Dean Norris conveyed in that scene was out of having to be part of that line of dialog.

Hard to believe Dean Norris is so good in Breaking Bad, and so two-dimensionally flat in this. Shows how important writing is to what an actor can bring to a role.