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depressing about why we shouldn't look at this character as some kind of Pathos Journey and have sympathy with him...
So...I hate Meth and Meth Labs...and I'm horrified that folks are reduced to making a living out of this that preys on people and rural houses and abandoned places to do their dirty deeds which hurts kids and those involved...while they make their lifestyle seem "exciting."
Just saying.... It's to me like "Gun Runners" or something. I don't want anything to do with promoting this to Adults or Children or the Unemployed as a way to dramatize what they do which is evil.
But, I appreciate your reasoned response to me...from your view point. Not going to convince me to give it my time...(as I pointed out the downfall of those who might be "turned on to the drama of this as a way to make a living in these "Unemployment Times"
...but, I can't get over what was done to that relatives house..because of the METH and that I think the folks who did that to that house are Criminals and Disgusting.
Still appreciate your reply, though.
get's involved with Drugs/Meth....then one has to expect the Angst, Downfall and Ultimate "Hope for Redemption."
But...I just can't see how this isn't glorifying this for some and forgetting the Tragedy it is for those sucked into that and how it eventually effects the broader society. Mostly the Meth People break into places that look "unoccupied" and then they do their thing. But, "Unoccupied" doesn't mean "Abandoned" and that there aren't others affected by what they do.
"Breakfast" was just code for... something.
I think Lydia is shot in the face (drawback to season 4?) and Todd/Uncle Jack are killed, but I could be very wrong. For all the twists and turns, Walt might use the ricin on himself and I wouldn't be a bit surprised.
Good luck with your office pool though! 
And don't blather about it "glorifying meth" until you have seen the entire series.
REDEMPTION?
I don't know if I'd want to watch the whole thing to get to that ...that he goes through this to be redeemed.
But, if it gives HOPE to those in his lifestyle or wanna be lifestyle...then perhaps it's important for a view.
But, what about the rest of us who don't live that lifestyle?
Whatever for those who find the redemption .... Look whrever one can find a "New Path" to life...it's a good thing for them.
Does this Series really cause some grand awakening...or is it just another MSM thing to do a "Greek Tragedy" in contemporary terms...that misses the message and overwhelming scope of the Original Greek Tragedies? IOWD's... Just PAP for trying to show Sensationalism/Redemption?
It is how brilliantly interwoven the character's stories were written and the plot twists where just as you think they have painted themselves into a corner, they resolve it in a way that makes you go "but of course!".
Small things like Walt taking on the habits of those who he didn't believe should have died (bread crusts, drinking whiskey on the rocks) - the entire show has been a brilliantly written and executed masterpiece.
If nothing else, it exploded the economy in rural New Mexico.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/29/business/breaking-up-with-breaking-bad-is-hard-for-albuquerque.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
Very good for New Mexico. And, the several new series which will be shot there because of the "subsidy" passed to benefit the productions.
From the article:
Others have doubts. Debbie Ball, who owns the Candy Lady, believes that the boom will fade in a year’s time. She has been churning out blue rock candy meant to resemble the special blue meth manufactured by Walter White in the show. The candy was used as a prop in the first two seasons of “Breaking Bad,” and she now sells it to tourists in what she calls “dollar dime bags.” She estimates she has sold 35,000 bags since August 2012.
Ms. Ball also leads limo tours, booking one or two “Breaking Bad” circuits a day since January. Among her other tie-in products are hand-painted Pez dispensers depicting some of the show’s characters. All told, she says, she has seen a 25 percent increase in sales of her “Breaking Bad” products and a 10 percent bump in sales over all in the past year.
For now, anyway, “it’s like Christmas every day,” she says. “It’s basically another business that’s been spawned out of this.”
Carrie Mettling, co-owner of the local chain Rebel Donut, expects that most viewers who haven’t finished watching the series will be caught up within a year, at which point enthusiasm may wane.
Rebel Donut makes the Blue Sky doughnut, which is slathered in blue frosting and dusted with blue rock candy. As it turns out, one of Rebel’s three branches is inside the building that doubled as the Drug Enforcement Administration office on “Breaking Bad.” “I thought it would be pretty funny to sell blue-meth doughnuts in the D.E.A. building,” Ms. Mettling says. “It was an ironic coincidence.”
She created the first batch of Blue Sky doughnuts in June 2012 as a gift to the “Breaking Bad” star Aaron Paul. After she posted a picture of him with the doughnuts to her store’s Facebook page, sales spiked. She typically sells six dozen a day and 40 dozen on Sundays, when the show is broadcast. For the current season’s premiere, fans hosting viewing parties across the country bought 1,500 dozen.
The set decorator Michael Flowers says he patronized antique stores when designing sets, recalling that he spent $20,000 on scrap metal at a local salvage yard while building the show’s meth-lab set. Mr. Flowers described his philosophy as: “Don’t shop at chains. Go to ma-and-pa stores; keep the money in Albuquerque.”
I'm too impatient to watch an entire series. I also read the first & last chapter of books, skipping the middle.
Always been one of my failings that I never learned to 'enjoy the journey'. 
