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Date Posted: Monday, September 30, 11:05:54am
Author: AurraSing
Author Host/IP: d154-20-56-169.bchsia.telus.net / 154.20.56.169
Subject: A lot of the show's fans will agree with you.
In reply to: Lij 's message, "The Emmy's need a new award category - Best Series Ending" on Monday, September 30, 07:43:15am

I've never been a fan but from what I have been reading about the finale, Vince and the crew did a fantastic job. Part of what makes a show like this work is not dragging it past a realistic time line, something shows like X-Files erred with.

We've been watching Charlie Boorman/Ewan MacGregor's 2007 show, "Long Way Down" over the past few weeks. Last night one of the eps dealt with their transit through Rwanda and their visit to the genocide memorial set up at the school house where something like 2000 people died in a three day bloodbath. Part of the memorial is the brick schoolhouse, with many racks of victims' skulls, bones,etc plus hanging near the front, the bloody rags that were all that was left of the victims clothing, the ones that were not burned to death that is.
Ewan wondered aloud afterward why the victims were not given a burial, but it's one thing to look at a mass grave and quite another to walk through a building filled with the remains of genocide victims. The incident was compounded by the failure of the UN to protect the potential victims and by the west for mostly treating it at as far as arm's length as possible.

In the end, no one won. The dead were not coming back and their killers were either jailed or fled into exile, living in refugee camps in other countries.

Breaking Bad was a pretty damn fine drama but the failure of humanity to live up to it's potential is more than enough drama for me. Last night was a sad example of how we will always be our own greatest enemy and every good intention in the world can never overcome the level of hatred and venom we are capable of meting out on our fellow man.

sigh

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[> Another take on the series... -- AurraSing, Tuesday, October 01, 11:01:54am (d154-20-56-169.bchsia.telus.net/154.20.56.169)

http://www.avclub.com/articles/breaking-bad-ended-the-antihero-genre-by-introduci,103483/


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