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Funny, don't know if you caught the talk show on AMC afterwards. Vince Gilligan was a guest. They asked him about the watch thing...he said it didn't have any real meaning at the time, but was only done for continuity sake. He said the scene at the diner (where Walt plays with is birthday bacon) was filmed over a year ago, and after watching it, he realized, Walt wasn't wearing the watch in that scene. Knowing what sticklers the fans are, he had him remove it in that scene. It was only after that, the he said he came up with an "arty-farty" reason for Walt removing the watch...it was a gift from Jesse for his previous birthday, and Walt taking it off, and leaving it, signified him leaving Jesse, and anyone he ever cared about, behind. They also asked Gilligan if there was anything in the final script that they couldn't film, because of time restrictions. VG said that after Walt gets off the phone, in that watch scene, there was a part in the script where he turns, and sees some young man staring at him. Walt realizes he recognizes the man as one of his former students...and he also relaizes that the young man recognizes him as not only his former teacher, but as Heizenberg. Walt approaches the kid, and says something like "you know who I am... let me ask you, was I a good teacher?" The kid just sort of nods "yes", kind of stunned...and Walt asks him "what do you remember from what I taught you"....the kid just replies something to the effect of "all the burning beakers, and the different colers of the flames". Not as obvious as the use of "Crystal Blue Persuasion" last season, but a great closing song non-theless...any time Badfinger gets some recognition, the world is a little better!

Phil Spector belongs on his own page... I like ELO, but man, I despise the production work that Lynn does with other artists. It seems like, "hey, lets make a Jeff Lynn record, you can sing...."

Pretty much what I was saying Gungy...but it is May and Taylor who want to "tell" the Freddie Mercury story, through their clouded lenses. If they just want to tell the story of the rise of Queen, that is one thing...but if they want to tell the Freddie Mercury story, they can't really do their friend any justice by not telling his story accurately. Being closeted is likely what killed him. It almost sounds like they just want to sell their story, and sell more of their records...is there a band that has more cinematic anthems than Queen? Their motives, at least to me, sound disingenous. If they don't want to tell his story, than by all means, let him rest in peace.

He sounds just like one of my nephews...great kids, but marble mouths all the way.

One sort of dangling issue, for lack of a better term...the money that the brotherhood stole from Walt. I know, Jack, in an attempt to thwart Walt from shooting him, offers to let Walt know where it is, but Walt doesn't seem to care. He just shoots him...so, you have to wonder, at that point, did Walt go into the brotherhood compound, expecting to die? Just tio seek revenge? To find/free Jessie? It seemed like (maybe I missed a subtlty) his intent was to be arrested, not to die. So, he was just leaving all that money (about 70 million) on the table, with a bunch of guys who he was intending to kill?

I agree with this! I liked Gailey a lot (my favorite Bills HC since Wade), but he wasn't without his faults when it came to gameday playcalling. People seem to forget, pretty quickly, how much Gailey was damned by many here, on a weekly basis for being "too pass happy", and then explaining, after the game, that the "running game just wasn't working" that particular day, despite evidence to the contrary. I feel he deserves credit for making the best of what he had, in guys like Donald Jones, and David Nelson...but, didn't most of us feel, at that time, that he was squandering games by refusing to play Spiller more, when he was was runnin the ball pretty effectively? As Kelly points out, perhaps his biggest mistake, was putting too much trust in Fitz. I do think the guy should be an OC somewhere, but given his history, it willl likely never happen again in Buffalo....

Great finish. Interesting that they referenced the Marty Robbins song multiple times in the episode, yet we never hear the line about Felina... always keeping us guessing.

Yes....so why bother making a biopic of him?

I am not saying it was my favorit episode by any means, but it was hardly meainingless to the show. It was the point where Walts' madness was starting to show...the episide where Jesse started to gain some equal ground with Mr White. Gilligan is way too good, and too smart to waste an hour of a season on mere filler. Not sure where you read/heard he said it was "filler"...in tv it is what is called a "bottle" episode...an episode that runs on a low budget (the whole episode takes place in the lab), to save on budget for the season...it was an important episode in relation to character development. I saw some of the first season the other night...I hadn't seen it in about 5 years...you really watch these differently, knowing what will happen later. Walt is much more passive/agressive than I remembered, even early on.

Cohen is dropping out, the article says, over creative differences. It seems Brian May and Roger Taylor want a flick with mainstream appeal, while Cohen wants something a little more dark, or artisitc. I can't fault Cohen at all...May and Taylor are as likely interested in selling more copies of Queens Greatest Hits, as they are in telling the story of their friend, honestly. Mercury, by all accounts, had a lot of secrets and skeltons...that would be a much more interesting story, than a glossed over Queen story. I love that band, don't get me wrong, and I think May is a mf'er on the guitar but to this day, May seems reluctant to even admit that Freddie was gay, or if the other guys in the band are, or even knew that Freddie was. In my opinion, if the living powers that be aren't interested in telling the story, maybe it is a story not worth telling. A persons sexuality doesn't define them necessarily, but you can't tell the story of Freddie Mercuy without acknowledging it. It was a huge part of his life, and, sadly, his death. The way the climate and temperature about homosexuality have changed over the years, I can't believe that this could be an issue, or that exposing it to the un-knowing masses (who doesn't realize that Freddie Mercury was gay, at this point?) would be controversial. Just doing a puff-piece movie about Mercury, in my opinion, would be a great dis-servince to him. If the portrait of Mercury was "dark", it wouldn't necessarily be taken as being negative.

The only slightly positve comment in the whole thing! Conceptually funny, but not the Onions best piece, execution wise...they should just stick to pikcing on the Browns! Comedy gold!

The Dick Jauron era (and the general idiocy of the Bills football section of TSW) helped me to transition from being an obsessive Bills fanatic, to, as Jim says, a more "casual fan". I still read an article or two most days, listen to GR when I can, and I consider myself fairly knowledgable, but I hate throwing so much of my mental energy (the older I get, the less of that I have to waste) on something that, honestly, rarely pays off in a positive way. I don't pour over stats trying to fiugre out how our guys stack up against the rest of the league...I will let somebody else figure that out. I still watch/go to every game (I have been a fan since 1972, and haven't missed only one game, either live or on television) since 1983, but I just don't get all bent out of shape about things like I used to. I am ,generally, very happy when the Bills win a game, and just kind of blase when they lose. To some, that is being a "bad fan"...to me, it is just being a "smarter fan".

Where was the pizza from?

Ditto..

I thikn the show just lost its' way...the writing just got sloppier and sloppier. The whole concept of the show is pretty far-fetched to begin with, but early on, they almost had you believing that it could happen...the opening sequence to of the show, Dexter fixing breakfest, Dexter chewing his breakfest, Dexter getting dressed, Dexter tieing his shoes...he was much more meticulous early on...he would think of every angle before acting...it is almost like the show was such a big hit, it kind of wrote itself after a while, all attention to detail was cast aside. I remember a few seasons ago, there was one where Dexter set up a "kill room" in an airport...how believable is that? Not very...more and more, the show just insulted the viewers intelligence....like "hey, we know your gonna watch, so why bother with a well thought out script?" Like they were just mailing it in... I have not read all the books, and don't intend to, but I can tell you the first two are superior to the series in every way. The lack of development of any of the characters was brutal...Quinn was a different guy every episoed, just going by the same name, and being played by the same actor. The Matzukah character, was okay as a bit player, but giving that there was never any attempt to develop characters in any way, the attempt to flesh him out with the "long lost daughter", at the last second, was just silly and pointless. This show could have been so much better with some effort.

Will forever disagree about the Sopranos finale...Dexter doesn't even belong in the same vicinity... I suspect "Breaking Bad" will have a pretty great fianle that will make most everyone happy. I think more so than the Sopranos, Gilligan had the Breaking Bad mapped out to a degree...he knew where he wanted it to go from the begining. Just a different, more conscise, style.

No worries, Charlie would lull Walt to sleep with his endless yammering....fade to black....

I like Williams. I like more at safety, but I can deal with him at corner, especially after this past week. As awful as that game was for the Bills, they were still in position to win (or at least tie it up) in the final 10 minutes...better play from one of our corners, on just one of those plays, could have been the difference between winning and losing. I know Gilmore is still weeks away from returning...sure would be nice to have a properly motivated Byrd back in the secondary...I realize that may never happen though.

Which of these "flavor of the week" WR would you think will have the least amount of FF production the rest of the season: 1- Julian Edleman 2- Robert Royal 3- Robert Woods

This season last season was pretty awful. I had high hopes that something might actually happen this, final, season...but just more of the same, right up to the final minutes...Miami metro, it appears, is stocked with the most incompetent police officers ever...still wondering what the whole point of Matzuka's long lost daughter story was... I am guessing that was just thrown in the story to give Matzukah something to do the last season...but it was just a sill waste of time. Madison Burdge is a hotty, and we did get to see her ta-tas...but that story went absolutely nowhere. For me, the show only got progressively worse after the second season...a great concept that was poorly executed... good riddance Dex, you wore out your welcome about three seasons ago..."Weeds" is probably the only other series, in modern tv, that I can remember really liking and, and then hating myself for watching it somewhere along the way...

I don't know how much Grey Matter will, ultiamtely, play into the finale, but I do think it made Walt second guess his decision to surrender to the DEA, and it triggered the switch to turn him into Heisnberg one last time...

Funny, as time passes, perceptions change. There was a time, believe it or not, when Ernest Tubb and Patsy Cline were considered, by purists, to be the "death of country music". Not sure, exactly, what Bragg meant... but country music, as "american" as it is, has its' roots in europe. If he is talking, stricltly, about the roots of the genre that has become known as Americana, he may be partially right, if not, he probably needs to get over himself a little bit. Its' true that europeons seem to have a greater appreciaton, in general, for American roots music, so they might play a large role in its' relevance.... but the music itself is American....

Pretty great video...but I think you won't get a lot of people here to spend 1:40 to get the point...I know a lot of people who work hard to make a living playing and creating music... buy their CD's if you like them, don't burn them.