I'm the one who knocks (BaBr2)

Hello! If this is the first post you're reading about Breaking Bad... STOP, ok, STOP! (inside joke)

Nah, but I'm serious, please read the Bromine Barium post before.

You know what's great? BaBr2 actually is a chemical compound... Hihihi.

Ok, so, what did I like about Breaking Bad?

• The characters: The series is absolutely driven by the characters and their evolution from episode to episode. They are all surprisingly credible characters. At no time, you will have the feeling that some of their actions feel out of place or forced by the plot. What's more, you will begin to understand their motives for their actions. If you read my post about Death Note (not that it's about 3 centuries old by now), it's a similar concept. Walter White is, at the beginning, no bad guy at all. But the circumstances make him change. He will do some serious bad stuff and what's great and a little frightening is that you will... kind of understand him. But not only Walter evolves. As the episodes pass you will notice how everyone reacts to the events. The psychological aspect of the series is really great, because every now and then you will start intuiting an alteration in someone's behaviour and later on, when they do something that proves it you'll feel like "I knew they would end up doing that!" Nonetheless, that doesn't mean that the series has no suspense... One specific aspect about the characters that I'd like to point out is the relationship between the two main characters Walter and Jesse. These two will go through quite some problems. On a sidenote, the two actors that represent them (Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul) have become very good friends in real life. 

Somehow they do fit together well and somehow they don't. Walter (left) and Jesse (right) experience each other's good and bad sides in the most dramatic situations and that puts their relationship as a team on the border

• The villians: Technically, the villians are also part of the characters... but they deserve a paragraph for themselves. Just imagine. You live in a state that shares a border with Mexico. You produce drugs. But there are those guys  that have been producing drugs before you. You better don't mess with them... They aren't precisely known for being in favour of a free market.  Especially one of Walter's enemies (I said villians earlier, but the concept of good and evil is much more complex here) is incredibly iconic. I won't spoil you anything about that person, but there will be a lot of epic moments, I guarantee it. Oh, right, the epic moments...

• The action and the badass moments: Since Walter has to deal with some pretty hard guys, he comes up with many ingenious and equally crazy plans to take action by himself. For getting inspired for this post, I watched a video of the list of the Top 10 most memorable moments in Breaking Bad. Before they revealed the number 1 on their list, they made a short tribute to all of those moments that didn't make it to the video, despite being unforgettable. And it's true. You could do a Top 50 countdown and you wouldn't even nearly cover up all the cool moments. When the conflicts reach their climax, there's so much tension you could it with the knife. I haven't EVER, EVER been STARRING at the screen with THAT MUCH SUSPENSE. And you know what's best?

• The series gets better every season: No TV series nor film trilogy nor game franchise I've ever watch/played managed to do this. But Breaking Bad does. The series has a good start in season 1, leaves you without fingernails in season 2, complicates things positively in season 3, blows your mind in season 4 and season 5... Well, to be honest, both season 4 and 5 are practically perfect to me. So, at the end of season 4 you won't be able to deny that this is the best thing you've ever seen in your entire life and afterwards it... Let me explain that with an old gamers' quote:

Sean Connery approved

 But of course, there's one problem about getting better with every season (let's go for the cons):

• The first season is the weakest one: Why is that a problem? It is because, when you start watching like me having heard from all the sides that this is the best series ever produced, after the first few episode you feel like: "Ok, this is actually quite cool. But that good? I hope it gets better." And holy Jesus Christ it DOES get better. It just feels a little slow in the beginning, but at the latest when you reach season 2, you will be totally hooked.  

• Uncomfortable family scenes: Since Walter's family begins to fall apart once he starts to disappear without any warning in order to cook meth, these scenes are absolutely necessary to make you understand how the characters feel. But the thing is, the characters feel uncomfortable in these moments; and so will you. In season 1 this has the biggest effect since there's not that much action yet. Just so you know what I mean, there's another list on the Internet called 'Breaking Bad': 8 unbearably tense dinner scenes. I think I've made my point.

• It eventually ends: Breaking Bad has the ending it deserves. You will be satisfied after the last episode. But that also means that it'll make you sad that it's already over. They're even planning to make a spin-off sequel which will be centered on a character called Saul Goodman who first appears in season 2. It will tell his story before the events of Breaking Bad. While he definitely is a character with a lot of potential, I'm not sure if I like the idea; yet.

And now, I am going to reveal you the true ending of Breaking Bad. At first I thought I shouldn't spoil, but I just can't stay quiet. In the end, Walter gets sick of drug making and of his family and friends and Albuquerque and he finally decides to leave everything behind and move away and start a new family. These are the events seen in the classic series "Malcolm in the Middle":

So he doesn't want to do this anymore...

And then he creates a new family. And really flourishes in that new role. That's why he's looking younger here. Only that.

Sorry for spoiling.




And finally, why should every single one of you reading this post give Breaking Bad a try?

Case 1, you're a male person: If you're a man, then it's easy. Let me repeat: there are drugs, there are badass villians and quotes, there are explosions, WHAT ELSE DO YOU WANT? (only a few boobs in no more than one or two episodes though, sorry)

Case 2, you're a female person: You will love it as well, because this series has set a new standard of gripping. It's is actually more than some gunshots and explosions (in fact, it doesn't have THAT many of them). There are so many shocking moments, things will happen that you didn't expect and it's so much fun to try to analyse the relationship between the different characters. Also, when it comes to the most critical conflicts, the series gets quite emotional. Both men and women are bound to cry at one episode or another (of course I didn't).


And I forgot one last thing: there's a lot of Spanish talking. It's so hilarious when you understand them without any need of subtitles. It adds another layer of depth to the series, so if you're following my blog it's very probably that you also understand Spanish and that's just another reason TO LEAVE EVERYTHING AS IT IS AND START WATCHING Breaking Bad RIGHT NOW!
or at least after finishing final exams

Okay, now it's the last thing. They're making a Southamerican version of Breaking Bad: Metástasis. It's... It's a violation, no, IT'S RAPING the original series IN THE FACE. God... Here's the trailer that tells you the story of the first two episodes more or less (NOTE THAT BREAKING BAD IS ACTUALLY LIKE OVER NINE THOUSAND TIMES BETTER):

THERE ARE NO FREAKING CHEMICAL ELEMENTS WITH THE SYMBOLS "Wa" AND EVEN LESS "Él" WITH A FREAKING DIACRITIC