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[Lopezzz]

Go go Jesse kill them all :)

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Jesse var så tæt på ricin da han brændte huset. Den var bag stikkontaktet :))

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Anna Gunn om sin rolle som Skyler i BB:

LOS ANGELES — PLAYING Skyler White on the television show “Breaking Bad” for the past five seasons has been one of the most rewarding creative journeys I’ve embarked on as an actor. But the role has also taken me on another kind of journey — one I never would have imagined.

My character, to judge from the popularity of Web sites and Facebook pages devoted to hating her, has become a flash point for many people’s feelings about strong, nonsubmissive, ill-treated women. As the hatred of Skyler blurred into loathing for me as a person, I saw glimpses of an anger that, at first, simply bewildered me.

For those unfamiliar with the show: Skyler is the wife of Walter White, a high-school chemistry teacher who, after learning he has lung cancer, begins cooking and selling methamphetamine to leave a nest egg for Skyler, their teenage son and their unborn daughter. After his prognosis improves, however, Walter continues in the drug trade — with considerable success — descending deeper and deeper into a life of crime.

When Skyler discovers what Walter has been up to, she tries to stop him, to no avail. She is outraged by the violence and destruction of the drug world, fearful for her children’s safety, disgusted by the money Walter brings in and undone by the lies and manipulation to which he subjects her.

Because Walter is the show’s protagonist, there is a natural tendency to empathize with and root for him, despite his moral failings. (That viewers can identify with this antihero is also a testament to how deftly his character is written and acted.) As the one character who consistently opposes Walter and calls him on his lies, Skyler is, in a sense, his antagonist. So from the beginning, I was aware that she might not be the show’s most popular character.

But I was unprepared for the vitriolic response she inspired. Thousands of people have “liked” the Facebook page “I Hate Skyler White.” Tens of thousands have “liked” a similar Facebook page with a name that cannot be printed here. When people started telling me about the “hate boards” for Skyler on the Web site for AMC, the network that broadcasts the show, I knew it was probably best not to look, but I wanted to understand what was happening.

A typical online post complained that Skyler was a “shrieking, hypocritical harpy” and didn’t “deserve the great life she has.”

“I have never hated a TV-show character as much as I hate her,” one poster wrote. The consensus among the haters was clear: Skyler was a ball-and-chain, a drag, a shrew, an “annoying bitch wife.”

I enjoy taking on complex, difficult characters and have always striven to capture the truth of those people, whether or not it’s popular. Vince Gilligan, the creator of “Breaking Bad,” wanted Skyler to be a woman with a backbone of steel who would stand up to whatever came her way, who wouldn’t just collapse in the corner or wring her hands in despair. He and the show’s writers made Skyler multilayered and, in her own way, morally compromised. But at the end of the day, she hasn’t been judged by the same set of standards as Walter.

As an actress, I realize that viewers are entitled to have whatever feelings they want about the characters they watch. But as a human being, I’m concerned that so many people react to Skyler with such venom. Could it be that they can’t stand a woman who won’t suffer silently or “stand by her man”? That they despise her because she won’t back down or give up? Or because she is, in fact, Walter’s equal?

It’s notable that viewers have expressed similar feelings about other complex TV wives — Carmela Soprano of “The Sopranos,” Betty Draper of “Mad Men.” Male characters don’t seem to inspire this kind of public venting and vitriol.

At some point on the message boards, the character of Skyler seemed to drop out of the conversation, and people transferred their negative feelings directly to me. The already harsh online comments became outright personal attacks. One such post read: “Could somebody tell me where I can find Anna Gunn so I can kill her?” Besides being frightened (and taking steps to ensure my safety), I was also astonished: how had disliking a character spiraled into homicidal rage at the actress playing her?

But I finally realized that most people’s hatred of Skyler had little to do with me and a lot to do with their own perception of women and wives. Because Skyler didn’t conform to a comfortable ideal of the archetypical female, she had become a kind of Rorschach test for society, a measure of our attitudes toward gender.

I can’t say that I have enjoyed being the center of the storm of Skyler hate. But in the end, I’m glad that this discussion has happened, that it has taken place in public and that it has illuminated some of the dark and murky corners that we often ignore or pretend aren’t still there in our everyday lives.

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[BarçaDK]

Den nye Breaking Bad episode er den dårligste af de fire nye!

Nærmest ingen action eller twist. Dog hæver den forventningerne til de sidste fire - der skal efterhånden fart på, hvis man skal tro Odenkirks (Saul) udtalelser om, at så godt som alle loose ends afsluttes!

[soul_pitcher]

Ikke helt enig :)
Det er selve essensen af Vinces måde at fortælle en historie på. Det er så en sublim serie, at hverken action eller twists er nødvendige. Jeg synes, det var et fedt afsnit.

[Flax_Generous]

Ja, jeg synes også, at det var et fedt afsnit. Walt har for længst 'broken bad', men han får alligevel seriøs modstand af Skyler og Hank i at være mest usympatisk - de to får sagt nogle grimme ting om Jesse!

[BarçaDK]

Jeg så virkelig frem til

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mødet mellem Jesse og Walt til sidst.

Da det ikke skete sad jeg med en lidt flad fornemmelse.

[Lopezzz]

Hvem holder i med, Pinkman eller Walt?
I'm with Pink.

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Fuck da' police. Alle er efterhånden nogle lede stoddere. Jeg holder med Saul!

[Flax_Generous]

Det kan selvfølgelig ikke ende godt for Walter White, men jeg tror heller ikke, det ender godt for Jesse. Breaking Bad har indtil videre udspillet sig som en klassisk tragedie, helt ned til den ironiske misforståelse mellem Walt, Jesse og den skaldede mand, der sætter den sidste dødsdømte konfrontation igang. Og hvad er mere tragisk end at lade Walt aflive sin surrogatsøn, der samtidig er en af seriens eneste lidt sympatiske karakter? De har allerede gjort noget tilsvarende med Gale (Problem Dog), og næste gang bliver det Jesse (Rabid Dog).

Da Marie for øvrigt giver Jesse en kop kaffe, står der DEA på koppen, mens hanken på koppen udgør det sidste D. Måske tilfældigt. Måske ikke...

[Lopezzz]

Det kan selvfølgelig ikke ende godt for Walter White, men jeg tror heller ikke, det ender godt for Jesse. Breaking Bad har indtil videre udspillet sig som en klassisk tragedie, helt ned til den ironiske misforståelse mellem Walt, Jesse og den skaldede mand, der sætter den sidste dødsdømte konfrontation igang. Og hvad er mere tragisk end at lade Walt aflive sin surrogatsøn, der samtidig er en af seriens eneste lidt sympatiske karakter? De har allerede gjort noget tilsvarende med Gale (Problem Dog), og næste gang bliver det Jesse (Rabid Dog).

Da Marie for øvrigt giver Jesse en kop kaffe, står der DEA på koppen, mens hanken på koppen udgør det sidste D. Måske tilfældigt. Måske ikke...

Talking about spoilers lol
Tror at koppen spiller ingen role da den ikke blev zoomet ind :)

[Flax_Generous]

Det er 100% gætværk, aner ikke hvordan det ender. Vince Gilligan snyder mig sikkert.

[Lopezzz]

Men kanon god idé med koppen Alex. Måske skulle du twitte Vince om det så han kan lave en sæson mere :D

[BarçaDK]

Fin observation med koppen, men der er så meget symbolik i Breaking Bad, hvis man leder. Fx stødte jeg på et billede af Hank bag tremmer i det seneste afsnit. Jeg tror da, at de blot har moret sig med at smide falsk spor ind til nysgerrige seere som os.

[JonasV]

The pink Teddy Bear that symbolizes death made another appearance in last week's episode of Breaking Bad