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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! And the rasping breathes that Krazy-8 was taking and his shuffling attempts to get away from Walt, only to end up trapped in the basement, was all so grotesque and horrible. But in a horrible way I was kind of laughing at times too. One minute you feel like you're watching a horror movie when you see Krazy-8 trapped in that dark basement, the next I was cracking up at Walt rolling the toilet paper over. And again with Jesse having to dispose of the body when Skyler suddenly turns up to confront him over selling marijuana to Walt. So much hilarious black comedy in this episode
The episode really did a great job too though of showing how horrific it was for someone to have to confront taking a life for the first time, there was something so sad and pitiful about Walt noticing that Krazy-8 doesn't like eating the crusts :/
And lol I was never one of the people that found Jesse annoying at first, he would crack me up back then with his rather slow responses bless him and his trying out the containers to see if a body would fit in them. Really thought the disposal of the body was at least 50-50 Walt's fault, he couldn't just tell Jesse why it was so important to only use that particular container?? Poor Jesse, Walt really did dump a lot of shit on him from the beginning and never apologised for insisting that the body and Krazy-8 end up in Jesse's house, even though he knew Jesse didn't want to bring that stuff back to his home
And I really think that Anna Gunn is underrated as an actress, she had some hilarious reactions at the breakfast table to Walt and Walt Jr discussing wonder bras, and to Jesse's answerering machine message
Mind you I'm not one of the fans that either really love or really hate Skyler, most of the time she's just kind of there for me. It's not really until much later, with the breakdown of her marriage to Walt and him being such an ass over the situation he put her in, that I started feeling for her more. But I've never felt either extreme love or hate for Skyler, and it does seem like most of fandom does fall into one of those camps these days?
And everything about the third episode is really tragic with Walt starting to bond with Krazy-8 before having to kill someone in cold blood for the first time. Walt does come across as hopelessly deluded, what with checking that Krazy-8 wasn't angry with him and so desperate to come up with any excuse not to have to kill him in cold blood, only to be shocked and ready to kill when he realised the poor guy had kept a jagged edge of plate in case of a chance to escape, when really who wouldn't in his position??? The first time I was watching I was expecting the death to be cleaner with Walt putting something in the food, but it made sense that the first time he killed was just this total moment of desperation and quite brutal to carry out. He was obviously struggling a lot with the concept of taking a life, and his crying "I'm sorry" afterwards seemed very heartfelt as he'd obviously spend the scenes prior to that getting a real human insight into the guy which only made it harder for him
And there's still some funny moments here with Walt and Jesse's slapstick fight or Hank trying to scare Walt Jr straight and asking Marie how he should do that, show him autopsy pictures of a pot overdose LMAO. But that opening with Walt and Jesse cleaning up the body as younger Walt discusses elements that make up the human body with Gretchen :shudders:
(All gifs courtesy of the BB tag on tumblr)
And regarding the special features, it would have been nice to get some commentary on why certain scenes were deleted, the one from the pilot with Hank and Marie was kind of a fun intro that it seemed a shame to lose. But then I love Hank and Marie lol.
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! And the rasping breathes that Krazy-8 was taking and his shuffling attempts to get away from Walt, only to end up trapped in the basement, was all so grotesque and horrible. But in a horrible way I was kind of laughing at times too. One minute you feel like you're watching a horror movie when you see Krazy-8 trapped in that dark basement, the next I was cracking up at Walt rolling the toilet paper over. And again with Jesse having to dispose of the body when Skyler suddenly turns up to confront him over selling marijuana to Walt. So much hilarious black comedy in this episode
The episode really did a great job too though of showing how horrific it was for someone to have to confront taking a life for the first time, there was something so sad and pitiful about Walt noticing that Krazy-8 doesn't like eating the crusts :/
And lol I was never one of the people that found Jesse annoying at first, he would crack me up back then with his rather slow responses bless him and his trying out the containers to see if a body would fit in them. Really thought the disposal of the body was at least 50-50 Walt's fault, he couldn't just tell Jesse why it was so important to only use that particular container?? Poor Jesse, Walt really did dump a lot of shit on him from the beginning and never apologised for insisting that the body and Krazy-8 end up in Jesse's house, even though he knew Jesse didn't want to bring that stuff back to his home
And I really think that Anna Gunn is underrated as an actress, she had some hilarious reactions at the breakfast table to Walt and Walt Jr discussing wonder bras, and to Jesse's answerering machine message
Mind you I'm not one of the fans that either really love or really hate Skyler, most of the time she's just kind of there for me. It's not really until much later, with the breakdown of her marriage to Walt and him being such an ass over the situation he put her in, that I started feeling for her more. But I've never felt either extreme love or hate for Skyler, and it does seem like most of fandom does fall into one of those camps these days?
And everything about the third episode is really tragic with Walt starting to bond with Krazy-8 before having to kill someone in cold blood for the first time. Walt does come across as hopelessly deluded, what with checking that Krazy-8 wasn't angry with him and so desperate to come up with any excuse not to have to kill him in cold blood, only to be shocked and ready to kill when he realised the poor guy had kept a jagged edge of plate in case of a chance to escape, when really who wouldn't in his position??? The first time I was watching I was expecting the death to be cleaner with Walt putting something in the food, but it made sense that the first time he killed was just this total moment of desperation and quite brutal to carry out. He was obviously struggling a lot with the concept of taking a life, and his crying "I'm sorry" afterwards seemed very heartfelt as he'd obviously spend the scenes prior to that getting a real human insight into the guy which only made it harder for him
And there's still some funny moments here with Walt and Jesse's slapstick fight or Hank trying to scare Walt Jr straight and asking Marie how he should do that, show him autopsy pictures of a pot overdose LMAO. But that opening with Walt and Jesse cleaning up the body as younger Walt discusses elements that make up the human body with Gretchen :shudders:
(All gifs courtesy of the BB tag on tumblr)
And regarding the special features, it would have been nice to get some commentary on why certain scenes were deleted, the one from the pilot with Hank and Marie was kind of a fun intro that it seemed a shame to lose. But then I love Hank and Marie lol.
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