That was the best episode you pleb

Your opinions are valid, but your taste is terrible.

Obvious troll! You started out strong, but gave yourself away when you singled out the best episode of the series.

the best episode was S1E1, after that it was all downhill. overrated.

Middle Class White Person Does Something Only Poor People Do But Poor People Are Hated By Test Audiences So Middle Class White Person It Is the series was fine for Weeds, but asking us to swallow that formula for METH is just ridiculous.

Not that Weeds (first season) wasn't an entertaining fantasy, and Breaking Bad is a fun show, just ridiculous. It's sort of like watching The Tick.

I've only seen one episode (The one with the bell) and I was like "Holy shit I need to see this show." I was always a fan of Vince Gilligan, especially the X-Files that took the whole thing less seriously and introduced the Lone Gunmen, the weird episode where they time travel.. it was very cartooney.

I might check it out, now that Californication is over. That show's brilliance is that the episodes usually end in the same place and it's very sandboxy, like the whole show's writing a novel and a page gets torn and scrapped.. I haven't even seen seasons 1-5 but was able to immediately pick up on 6. Breaking Bad seems to have a more linear feel to it, and it's not like everyone in the world doesn't know how it ends.

Breaking Bad really is one of the most overrated shows. It's not horrible, but not deserving of all the praise its received. I watched every season waiting and waiting for it to develop into something better, but it never really happened. That fly episode was the WORST.

No, you're the worst show. Breaking Bad is Best Show, and Fly Episode is Best Episode. End of discussion.

The final episode was shit, however. On a scale of one to Battlestar Galactica, it rate somewhere in-between the finales for True Blood and Dexter.

Serioisly PoETV, what the fuck are you watching that's so amazing you can roll your eyes and sigh at Breaking Bad, Sopranos, The Wire, Game of Thrones, and Hannibal?

It's a mid-90's PC strategy game, isn't it? ISN'T IT

You didn't like The Tick? What the hell's wrong with you!

Yeah, I'm not even going to deign to answer hipster Tick-hate.

NEXT UP: PoeTV says Neil deGrasse Tyson is an idiot.

Oh wait that already happened.

Hey don't talk about Phantasmagoria that way! Seriously I want to watch it, but I kind of wish I was watching it with everyone else. My best friend has a Los Pollos Locos tattoo for crying out loud. The linearity isn't a bad thing. If anything Californication suffers from a lack of it for a lot of people. It doesn't really matter what happened last week; it's like waking up from with a hangover and nobody seems to remember even though your actions had serious implications in real life. I really don't know if BB has a linear method of storytelling, but I'd say it's pretty similar to The Wire. I rented half of the first season and was hooked.. actually skipped classes to finish it before it was due back, but naturally someone checked out and never returned the rest of the season. I sort of forgot. Its brilliance is not lost on me, but I did sort of get distracted by stuff. Mostly kittens wearing tiny top hats.

Neil deGrasse Tyson is a partial idiot, surely:
http://theweek.com/article/index/261042/why-neil-degrasse-tyso n-is-a-philistine

In Tyson's defense, he was pretty much following the interviewers' line of conversation, and in context his answers aren't quite as anti-intellectual as the article suggests.

Still, not one of his better moments.

NDT has a point there, too! Let me ask you something: when was the last time you met a philosophy major who actually wound up getting anything out of it? Philosophy is a dead discipline (especially now, what with all the fucking post-structuralists running around) and even in the best of times, studying philosophy won't really get you much further than a simple intro to philosophy class would have done. I mean, let's face it. Philosophy is a soft major for young people who have serious affectations. I'm not judging, my family is full of philosophy majors - my dad was one, my uncle, he's a philosophy *professor*. I'm speaking form experience, and I don't like it any more than the author of that article does! But facts are facts.

NDT is a scientist. Scientists often have a dim view of modern philosophy, and for good reason: scientists ask deep questions, too, only scientists *get results*. There's a methodology to science, a deeper epistemology that philosophy has rarely ever encountered, and (now that Wittgenstein is dead) may never have again. I don't see NDT as a philistine, I just see him as a bold man of science who cuts past the social conventions and sees philosophy for what it is: fun bullshit, the smart kid's party major.

Jesus Christ, you guys. I don't dislike Breaking Bad at all, else I wouldn't have wasted 50 hours of my life watching it. It's good, very good, but it had it's fair share of WTF moments.

Like the end of the fourth season, where Walt resolves the seemingly endless chess match between himself and Gus by convincing his second worst enemy on the planet to suicide bomb himself, which he's able to do because the goons that have been constantly riding his ass inexplicably missed him going to the nursing home. Then, all it takes is a complete invalid convincing his nurses and the DEA that he has important information that must be heard At All Costs Right This Minute, while meanwhile the aforementioned goons that were supposed to be tailing Walt pick up on this and conclude, with no further proof, that they've been ratted out. Gus goes to the nursing home, which apparently lets just anybody walk right in and talk to anybody, and boom.

"Better Call Saul" might end up being okay, but I kind of doubt it. Saul Goodman was a great supporting character, not someone who'd benefit from being fleshed out to the focal point of his own series.

He partially had a point, and partially was an idiot.
He uses lines of reasoning that are more philosophical than scientific at times.

A big fat slice of what philosophy is about is spotting bogus arguments (incl. philosophical ones), and he does that plenty in defense of science. He's not exactly collecting data when he's defends it.

:( You don't know how often I wish he was still around.

I've kind of been curious. I like Iannucci's other shows like Time Trumpet and I'm Alan Partridge, and In the Loop is a fucking fantastic (and mostly unseen) film. The thing about white house or any other nation's political satire is I think it's done better in 90-120 minutes, like Game Change. Whats-her-name is a perfect Sarah Palin and Ed Harris is great as McCain.

But then it's over after 90. I guess I'd rather just watch a show about something I'll probably never have to deal with, like drug cartels and space going-around-in. :)

That being said, if the show's anything like Time Trumpet, I'd watch it. TT was just "too British" for me in full, so I prefer to watch the myriad clips on poetv. That's not to say that I don't follow British politics, but there's plenty of "only funny if you live there" jokes that went right over me noggin they did.