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I liked it better when rnt just tried to ruin every premium board thread and wasn't trying to ruin the Suck, too.

Compared to you, Betty Draper is tolerable.

That's sort of the point of the show and what makes it so compelling. Even though I have some issues with some of the liberties the writers take, this is why the show is so brilliant. He's not SUPPOSED to be likeable but you're drawn to him because 1) he's the protagonist of the show and 2) Cranston has been soooo good in the role that it's hard to not like him.

I've watched through season 4, beginning in April and finishing last week. I don't think there's been a better TV show. Ever.

But is it correct that somebody is implying that this all happened in 1 year? I wonder why they would do that. It makes me think they're setting me up for something.

Ravens, there's a loose end that never gets explained once in a while, but in my opinion there aren't many considering the complexity and longevity of the story. I find that if you try to fill in too much mundane detail about logistics the story gets bogged down with things that need no explanation instead of advancing the plot. I do agree that the compressed timeline raises a few questions, but since it's such a great show I am comfortable with the suspension of disbelief notion a couple times a season...

Not sure why you would read this thread before you started watching Season 5, but yes, this episode made it very clear that it was almost exactly a year since he was first diagnosed with cancer.

I was on board with most of it until this timeline thing.

It just drives me nuts. First of all, we know that he worked for Gus for at least 3 months (remember, he got paid MORE in the months after 3 and when they were laundering money back into the dry cleaner it was the monthly payments he received at the higher salary). That is 1/4 of the entire timeline of the series right there. It also doesn't incorporate the time it takes Jesse to form a relationship with Jane in Season 2 (had to be at least a couple months since his constant argument was about how he always pays his rent on time), how long Jesse was in rehab (and group meetings), how long he had to form yet another relationship with Andrea (and Brock), how long (season 2) their own organization was running things in the streets, etc.

Further, there had to be at least enough time for Walter to get diagnosed, go into treatment for long enough for the cancer to go into remission, have major major surgery, recover, and then take the job with Gus.

I just don't know the motivation to throw this random curveball at the audience 3/4 of the way through the series when it really makes no sense in the context of everything else. Especially for as carefully as apparently they wrote out the airplane story in Season 2.

If that makes me miserable, I'm sorry.

The timeline in the Nolan batman series is much more mystifying. He becomes Batman over the course of what, a few weeks or a month in Batman Begins? The Dark Knight picks up a few months later and also covers maybe a month. Then The Dark Knight Rises picks up EIGHT YEARS later. So in this universe, the people of Gotham had Batman for like 5 months, and really it was probably the worst 5 months the city could have had. Eight years later I'm surprised anyone even remembers Batman, let alone is yearning for him to come back.

FWIW (and not that it makes a huge difference), TDK was set roughly 9-12 months after the end of BB.

I think the show mentioning the timeline the other night was them acknowledging that they've probably stretched reality a bit by cramming so much into one year. But I don't think they've stretched it TOO much. Like 5th says though, I don't think Breaking Bad has ever been about super neat and tidy writing, it's alot more about the experience and the emotions of the characters.

I think that may be part of my problem. I really just recently started watching. Basically watched all 4 seasons in May/June/July. The reason i started watching was because I'd read a lot of places how it was as good as if not better than The Wire which I'd finihsed last year and is absolutely incredible obviously.

I wonder why they needed to acknowledge it at all. I had no idea that they felt a need to make it all happen within a year. I don't remember anything in the storyline that requires it.

But it's not important to me, I still think it's fantastic.

i enjoy it but bb is unbelievably overrated

bb is fun.....the wire is life

Prepared to make that "is one of the best things I've ever seen on TV" statement at least a dozen more times by the time you catch up to season 5.