T_S_A_R
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"'i'm on a plane with cocaine"
so close.
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It will be interesting to see how Froome rides this, because he'll have to shell Purito, Valverde, Cancellara etc. who will hammer him in a sprint. Should be an interesting race, would be quite something to see GB control a whole race again.
if they try that it'll be as loltastic as the olympic road race.
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Wonder if Cancellara held a bit in reserve for the road race? He very nearly grabbed silver, but when you`ve won it before it`s less of a concern & no way was anybody beating Martin today.
if he has been aiming for the road race since the spring he will probably be a bit leaner than usual considering the course.
the ten circuits at the end will be brutal, it'll be interesting to see how early the serious attacks come.
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a great time from martin. cancellara is supposedly aiming for the RR so he's looking good for that.
horner has released all his biopassport info and even though it heavily points towards him doping it's within the parameters allowed. as well as being hilarious horner is intentionally confirming that riders can cheat without being caught. he knows that no one can take his vuelta without stripping every other result this year.
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good to see jonny page tackling half the celtic team in the build up to the goal.
top man.
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how does fat lee only get a ban and a fine for match fixing when two pakistani cricketers were jailed for spot fixing?
oh aye, racism.
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How much he sold his share for is irrelevant, his hand was forced due to circumstances. They built a huge company off the back of his research. He sold as he felt he was being forced out because of what had happened with him and Elliott in regards to Gretchen. Schwarz admitted at the party they hosted in series one that Walt was the brainchild behind the entire Grey Matter and offered him a place back.
No point in arguing with you, though, as you like to poo-poo the entire series regardless just to be controversial. Yet continue to watch it religiously.
i watch it because i enjoy it. I much prefered the first two seasons to the 4th and 5th but it's still worth 45 minutes of my week and i'd class it alongside the likes of boardwalk, lost, oz and prison break season 1 and 2 as entertaining but flawed shows.
This is a thread to discuss the show so i don't see why criticisms shouldn't be mentioned especially when fanboys are loudly creaming themselves. The breaking bad hysteria is reminiscent of early reviewers of the dark knight rises being harrassed for saying it was actually a bit shit.
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Thinking back to the abandoned house, have they explained where the Heisenberg spraypaint came from yet? It looks certain that Walt will go on a rampage, or have someone go on a rampage on his behalf in the next episode. Obviously the final scene tees that up with his former colleagues who have pretty much damned him on TV as nothing, despite building a business with them. Pretty gutted for Jesse over his missus getting killed. Finally, what was with Marie arriving at her home with papers all over the place in the street?
he sold his share for 5000 dollars so he couldn't have built it up much.
The final scene was classic breaking bad. Walter decides to give himself up, phones the police then sits down for a final drink. Just at that exact moment the bartender flicks the channels past an interview with his old friends talking about him which inspires him to change his mind. Walter then evades the police despite having no car, no map, being crippled with cancer and completely unfamiluar with the area.
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seeing the house wrecked for a second time in a flashforward and then discovering again that the damage is irrelevant to the overall plot was pretty annoying.
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No, i dont think so. Decent epsiode but more of a set up to what i expect will be complete carnage in the final one. Cant believe theres only one left
surely they would just check where he made the call to marie from and search from there? the thousands of shell casings might be a give away as well.
i'm not normally bothered about fingerprints or csi stuff on crime shows (i don't care that todd and his cronies were touching the cot with their bare fingers) but it has been mentioned on the show a few times that the police can take location from cell phones including about 4 episodes ago.
i would have been nice to see marie's reaction to hank being dead within the first few months of her widowhood but obviously todd's crush on lydia is more important.
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did the DEA find hank's body?
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So we're five series into a programme about a guy who becomes a drug kingpin because of a financially debilitating illness, despite having an offer for full financial support.
And the complaint is someone affiliated to the Aryan Brotherhood couldn't have people murdered in jail? Really?
You have to take a bit of a leap of faith with the show as a whole. One of the great strengths of the it is how gripping the show is regardless.
the complaint isn't that the aryan brotherhood could have people murdered in jail.
the complaint is that walter had a problem with people in jail planing to testify against him which was quickly resolved by recently introduced character todd piping up that his uncle could organise for all of them to be murdered. it's weak plotting, it doesn't make it a bad show or not enjoyable but if people are going to shout about breaking bad being the best program ever it has to be able to stand up to criticism.
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an interesting bit of info from the guardian review of the difficult men book.
The genesis of The Wire is a more familiar story, because of its background in Simon's work as a Baltimore police reporter, and Homicide, the now-famous book that came out of it. But Martin's account is still interesting. If you've ever wondered why the final series is so much worse than the other four, it's all here. Simon's writing partner Ed Burns, a brilliant, arrogant former policeman whose surveillance operations inspired the titular wire, usually shot down his bad ideas and came up with good ones by the truck-load; but he was off working on the Iraq war mini-series Generation Kill. Simon, meanwhile, became carried away by a long-running feud with his former employer, the Baltimore Sun. The show's other main writers, particularly George Pelecanos, had little interest in the satirical newspaper storyline, and felt, surely correctly, that the subplot in which Dominic West's McNulty simulates a serial killing spree was poorly judged.
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No there isn't. The definition of immoral is "not conforming to accepted standards of morality", an immoral act is something that could be considered vicious, or amoral. It's exactly what organising 11 simultaneous murders is.
They haven't given any indication of evil misanthropic intentions? I'd say that's likely because they're too busy murdering rivals, police men and trying to cook crystal meth. it's a 45 minute show, do you want a back story of Uncle Jack murdering black people and being involved in KKK rallies as a youth?
I don't see what you can't grasp about greed being the downfall of humanity by the way. It's known as the root of all evil because it's unquenchable. The very nature of humanity is always to want more, often to its detriment.
if he meant the downfall of humanity is our greed then it makes a bit more sense but is still completely wrong considering humanity has been on a solid upward curve. the downfall of humanity is their greed implies he was only talking about the convenient nazis and that they desire the downfall of humanity.
i don't want uncle jack's full history but if they are nazis make them do something racist or anti semitic.
immorality is obviously a factor in organising 11 prisons murders but a very small factor. walter was immoral but he couldn't do it, the number of people who would be able to organise a prison gang to commit multiple murders is very small but serendipity meant that walter had the nephew of one on the payroll.
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And a chemistry teacher/family man that turns to cooking meth because he's dying is a believable plotline
http://www.buzzfeed.com/natashavc/inside-the-life-and-crimes-of-the-real-life-walter-94kb
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The bolded part is completely correct. Never heard the phrase "greed is the cause of our woes", or "greed is the root of all evil"?
What's ludicrous about it? Before meeting Walt, Todd was a thief, he then cold bloodedly murdered a child and assisted in the cooking of vast quantities of Class A narcotics. Does that not sound like the sort of person who might have relations who are equally, if not more, immoral?
there is a difference between immoral and being able to organise 11 simultaneous murders in multiple different prisons.
the bolded part is an awful attempt at saying something profound. The downfall of humanity is their greed. what does it even mean? we haven't even heard any of the nazis say anything racist or anti semitic never mind being given any indication that they have evil misanthropic intentions.
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Indeed, but the methheads aren't going to pay top dollar for an inferior high are they? The idea of the blue is that because its so pure the high was better raising the price and demand of the product
in my experience narcotics are a sellers market.
meth heads will pay as much as they can because they are addicts.
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TSAR: The running theme throughout the series is that each individual is not in the money business, but in the empire business. The Nazi's want to make even more money. The downfall of humanity is their greed. Again you fail to understand the importance of the % yield of the drug they are making. Hence why they need to keep Walt alive and they figured that leaving him one barrel would keep him sweet enough to cook for them. Todd is aware of how he under performs in the yield and tells his Uncle to spare Jesse's life.
They went to Todd's Uncle as they had to. If it wasn't him they would have made contact with someone else that had those connections. It isn't weird. A coincidence perhaps, but weird not. It is a MacGuffin used to help the plot of the story.
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at the bolded part.good stories shouldn't have macguffins. walter coincidentally working with a guy who it just so happens has an uncle that can murder all the imprisoned witnesses who are about to turn against walter is ludicrous plotting.
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they can't cook walters blue brand themselves which is the demand
Blue brand is the only thing worth money on the market now because of purity
this is incredibly stupid on the show never mind in real life.
on the show prior to walter and jesse teaming up gus, tuco and declan were all making fortunes making and selling meth. the idea that the meth heads of new mexico and beyond are now turning their backs on getting high because it's not the heisenberg blue is utterly retarded.
in the real world the quality of drugs goes up and down all the time but people keep taking them regardless.
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Plus, Lydia was hardly "in the middle" of a gun battle, was she? She was hiding in a bunker shitting herself.
she knew she was going to be in a bunker when she hatched the plan? she knew that declan was going to go up and see what was happening rather than staying with her?
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. Still strange that they have all that cash and they still want Jessie to cook for them
just one of many strange things going on
it's strange that they would export crystal meth to the czech republic rather send over the methylene.
it's strange that scared of her own shadow lydia would allign herself with a nazi prison gang and put herself in the middle of a gun battle.
it's strange that before walt started making meth gus and other people were making millions off crystal meth but now no one can manage to produce and sell it properly without walt or jesse.
it's strange that the nazis didn't kill walt and roll him into the hole rather than give $11m to a traumatised man who's brother in law they have just murdered and who they have stole $70m dollars from. i bet that won't back to haunt the nazis of convenience.
it's weird that todd's uncle was conviently in charge of a nazi prison gang just when walt needed a load of people in jail killed.
it's weird that hank and gomez decided to take down a dangerous meth dealer off the books (i must have went for a piss when hank convinced gomez this was a good idea)
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that Filipino girl was really good, it was a shame she didn't win.
i hit the hat trick in the final round, dujardin, romero, grainger, it's far too easy these days.
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His "whereabouts hour"? Never heard of that one. I thought it's more along the line of a whereabouts diary, & that they'd wait, unnnounced, on your appearance to do the test.
How hard would it be for his team to say "he's at this hotel", & contact him?
you've got to give them one hour a day where you will be in a specified location. most sports people choose 6am-7am because then it's easy enough to give your location before you go to bed.
if the testers can find you they can test you at anytime but for the other 23 hours they don't need to inform the testers where they are.
the best whereabouts story is serena williams who made herself available in her house between 6am and 7am but when the testers showed up at her front gate hid in her panic room until they left because she 'thought they were intruders'.
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So was, I would've been pissed. Based Todd.
And Walt is a child poisoner, that's worse than anything Jesse has done. Why is it okay for Walt to "f**k over" Jesse but not that other way around? The difference being that Jesse was gonna give Walt to the DEA but Walt gave Jesse to Nazis.
i hate walter as well. If anyone wants to kill or torture him more power to them.
I dislike jesse more for the characters stupidity than anything else. Walter is just an utter c**t. After they killed and disolved the tarantula boy i went full into hoping they all die horribly.
They were always dicks just for making meth but they are despicable now. Hopefully the next episode starts with vern schillinger showing up and raping jesse.
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Procycling thread
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the russian team have had all their bikes stolen and might not start.
sair wan.