Breaking Bad 1x3
Added 2023-07-03 08:46:24 +0000 UTCComments
HANK: I'm like rainman counting his toothpics. GOMIE: yeah you are like rainman retarded
Veli-Jussi Hirvonen
2024-11-06 12:13:25 +0000 UTCSkylar told Walt jr not to say Yo because of Jesse.
Curtis Murphy
2023-08-23 21:55:15 +0000 UTCWell stop. If you ever meet a disabled person they’ll thank you for your intelligence.
Martin Robertson
2023-08-14 13:03:31 +0000 UTCbro i always use those words ngl lmao
Methampheminist
2023-08-14 13:00:19 +0000 UTCthese guys calling Skylar a square as if being straight edge is a bad thing 💀
Methampheminist
2023-08-14 12:19:06 +0000 UTCI love so much that so many of these characters have things about them that rub me the wrong way... Hank having zero problem using retard as an insult, Skylar and her sis being shocked and concerned about pot, and sure that it will lead directly to heroin, Jesse's obvious shortcomings and Walt's mental justification for crossing moral boundaries. They all have very human flaws. We don't have to agree with them to appreciate them as characters. In fact, it's kind of an important theme of the show. That sequence leading up to and including where Walt kills Crazy 8 is just so good.
Ian Hillan
2023-08-09 08:14:15 +0000 UTCBalled not bailed!, we both enjoyed it very much. But it is an emotional roller coaster
Chris Bruneau
2023-07-04 20:08:04 +0000 UTCYour wife got halfway through Season 5 and bailed? Did I read that right? No judgement but why not either bail on a show sooner or just finish it?
Mike Minerals
2023-07-04 19:46:23 +0000 UTCThere’s a difference between rude speech and DISCRIMINATORY speech. But I was more referring to the fact that I’m glad people these days have picked up on that kind of language and there’s less of it now.
Martin Robertson
2023-07-04 06:15:16 +0000 UTCIt doesnt make sense to me to want to watch a show that features murderers and stars bad guys and then be annoyed when the bad people in the show about bad people with "breaking bad" in the title use naughty words. also hank says hella racist stuff throughout the show and you're honing in on the thing he says that personally annoys you? seems hypocritical and cherry picking. i would recommend shows about nice people who don't want to hurt people's feelings if you're trying to avoid rude speech.
Chad Gloria
2023-07-04 06:12:52 +0000 UTCI really disagree. Don’t do it now but don’t change the past. Show it. Like Game if thrones rape scenes. Don’t enjoy it but don’t hide it. It’s throws you into the raw unpleasant time. The best shows like breaking bad, sopranos, succession all have ugly characters who say nasty things. But I’m an adult, don’t fluff it up. Let me see it as if real people were there.
TinCan Cosmanaut
2023-07-04 04:50:14 +0000 UTCNot a plot spoiler in any way. Just a name
Chris Bruneau
2023-07-04 01:32:35 +0000 UTCYes Chris it is fictional dialogue but it is still being said by actors on screen for a tv show that is meant to be taken seriously and is aired to thousands of people. I think it is fair to be irritated by use of slurs or words that are now understood to be offensive, but I also think it is productive to be aware of the time this show is set in and the fact that these characters are fictional.
MrMoleHole
2023-07-04 01:11:51 +0000 UTCNo spoilers
MrMoleHole
2023-07-04 01:06:31 +0000 UTCMike is right, its just fictional dialogue. ease up
Chris Bruneau
2023-07-03 22:14:58 +0000 UTCGirls, this show is absolutely fantastic. please be patient, a lot of the characters are a little unlikeable at first, but you will grow to love all of them, in different ways. This show will make you laugh and it will make you cry. (my wife balled thru half of season 5) I cant wait for you to meet Saul Goodman......
Chris Bruneau
2023-07-03 22:12:53 +0000 UTCI have to agree with Michael. The whole point of some of these characters is that they say insensitive/rude/crass stuff regularly and that there's a reason for it (i.e. not simply to shock/offend). It's like people complaining that Tarantino has characters using racial slurs, particularly the n-word. It's like, first of all that kind of language is just part of his writing style and to be expected (and can be fitting for the time period like Django), and secondly, most of the time these aren't the most reputable/upstanding characters talking like that, so it makes perfect sense in the film's universe.
Jeff I.
2023-07-03 19:05:51 +0000 UTCI think the "gateway drug" thing really came about from people not understanding statistics (and those who do, but are willing to lie about it). Yes, maybe >90% of people who shoot heroin/snort meth started with alcohol and/or pot - but on its own, that does not tell you anything. First, you'd need to also know the percentage of people who use(d) alcohol/pot but never anything harder. But even then, correlation is not causation - and it may be (probably very often is) the case that many people who abuse drugs starting with (but not necessarily limited to) pot have underlying issues which make them gravitate towards drug abuse, and pot is just usually the first illegal thing they can get their hands on.
Michael Bauer
2023-07-03 10:54:25 +0000 UTCI agree, 10/10 analysis
MrMoleHole
2023-07-03 10:50:22 +0000 UTCLike other things in the show, it's meant to present the kind of character Hank is: Yes, he's loyal, competent, a good uncle and brother-in-law, and usually well-meaning - but he is also at times quite unempathetic to people outside the rather conservatively defined norms of his suburban life. Making some ableist comments and displaying some traits of toxic masculinity is part of that. Similarly for the guy Walter has in his basement - definitely not a good guy. Definitely not a character that would care about being empathetic. It's not an endorsement - I mean, our main characters cook meth and kill people, and it's absolutely not an endorsement. Just like racist characters using the N-word - I don't get what the problem is supposed to be. They're not supposed to be nice people, or progressively minded people - so why should their speech not include things we may disapprove of? Their actions already do, and we recognize it as an apt part of the characterization.
Michael Bauer
2023-07-03 10:24:40 +0000 UTCLetsss goooooooooo@
MrMoleHole
2023-07-03 10:23:32 +0000 UTCAbleist in this case.
Martin Robertson
2023-07-03 10:11:38 +0000 UTCYeah Hank is the stereotypical "toxically masculine" guy
MrMoleHole
2023-07-03 10:11:07 +0000 UTCMercifully it wasn’t Maple or Arianna saying it. It was the DEA guy in this show.
Martin Robertson
2023-07-03 10:06:25 +0000 UTCYeah different times, I know a few reactors who continuously use the words "spastic" "retard"
MrMoleHole
2023-07-03 10:04:40 +0000 UTCI really fucking hate the use of the word "retard" in this show. Makes me so angry. But this was 2008 so people weren't quite as PC about disabled people back then. Hell, they're still not in some areas. What I'm trying to say here: Never use the word "retard". Or "spastic". Ever. Under any circumstances, to any audience. Your disabled friends will thank you. They say they don't mind you using the words, but they do.
Martin Robertson
2023-07-03 09:48:41 +0000 UTC
