'I am awake' 'What?'

I'm re-watching Breaking Bad season 1 at the moment, it is nice to go back to those early days and be reminded of how Jesse and Walt made the most hilarious partnership ever in the beginning. I rarely laugh at actual comedies, but I was cracking up at so many different lines ("The cow house..where the cows live!"), and Jesse and Krazy 8's reaction to Walt "being some kind of nudist" :crying with laughter:





And I know Walt is pretty much loathed these days and a lot of people have said they hated him and his ego right from the start, but I found him pretty heartbreaking in the pilot. I thought it did a great job of setting up how disrespected he felt by everyone around him, so that you were wincing right along with him when his boss pushed him around and the kids from his school made fun of him for washing their car. And yeah it was funny in a way too when he was so inept with the gun that he still had the safety on when he was trying to make the big gesture of killing himself before the police got there, but also kind of sad to me. And I know that teaching wasn't his first career choice but still he seemed genuinally into talking about it to the class, only to be disappoined at how switched off everyone was, so I can't help wondering why he didn't teach at college with kids who genuinally wanted to learn. Surely he would have found some satisfaction in that?

Anyways. Everything about the pilot, including the music and cinematography of course, is basically perfection and it's easily one of my top ten episodes of the entire series


And then the second episode becomes so freaking suspenseful (well not that the pilot wasn't!) and horrific, doesn't your heart just almost stop when you hear the movement in the RV and realise that someone is still alive back there! ( Read more... )