Comments by "RiC David" (@RiC_David) on "The Take" channel.

  1. I'd never noticed those two times Walt outright calls Jesse "son". While the term is used non-literally, Walter's inflection--especially in the first clip--sounds more like the way a father would say it - it's the intonation we use for people's names rather than filler words like man, mate etc. The on/off father/son dynamic was always apparent but it's interesting that was sprinkled into the dialogue too.
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  2.  @georgerafa5041  You're not that one guy on r/breakingbad who's been insisting for years that Walter did nothing wrong and who also throws around that sort of language (blaming Walter clearly becoming bad in s5 on "political correctness" and the like) are you? I'm guessing you don't have anything to evidence the show's creators making events convoluted to keep the Office crowd from getting too offended, whatever that specifically suggests? Besides, the series DID end with Walt being clearly set up as the anti-hero again rather than the villain, as he became in s5. Your post is extremely flawed in many placed, like blaming Walt Jr for blaming Walter for Hank's death when that's what Walter suggested to him - the viewer knows the truth but you're "offended" at Walt Jr not seeing what the TV viewer saw? And yes if you'll weaponise the word 'offended' to smear people you want to paint as foppish then I'll return the favour.
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  3. Agreed. That point about Todd being a brilliant psychologist reminded me of their bizarrely off-the-mark classification of him previously as 'evil for evil's sake - someone who just likes making others suffer' - that's not verbatim but I'm 96% sure that was the wording. Tons of people in the comments were disagreeing on that, myself included, and I just don't get how they can come away with such a warped perception of the character.
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  4. @TK Wallace Yeah. I have no idea why he quoted that with the 'laughing so hard I'm crying' emoji. It wasn't a laugh line and I don't get what aspect of it would be hilarious.
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  5. I'm going to steal that name and build myself an empire.
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  6. Meaningless. They're both attractive women and how attracted you were to them is really neither here nor there. Why would you even be insulting one of the actors on their looks?
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  7. I love your videos and I love that these are still being produced in 2018! I only watched Breaking Bad last year, 9 years after it began, and luckily for me the rich discussion of it continues strong as if it were still current. I don't think analysis of these characters and themes could ever get old for me. I mean they took the most two dimensional main character of the series and gave so much depth to him as a person that his relationship with his brother is as compelling a subject as anything Walter White related. I can't get enough of this universe or these thought provoking videos.
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  8. Some of the things mentioned here are too much of a stretch (like a book report that needs to make more connections to get the grade) and a few just didn't make sense to me. Todd being Jesse's evil analogue is a great observation but you said that Todd keeping the tarantula as a pet reflects his creepy nature, contrasted with Jesse not harming the beetle he picks up—those could just as easily be reversed! Todd has cared for, protected (as much as tarantulas need protection!) and looked after the spider, and a beetle could be described as 'creepy' or a number of undesirable adjectives. This was just the one example that made me decide to bring it up, so listed alone it likely seems like nit picking but overall there's too strong of a 'homework' feel to these videos. I'm too tired to try to reword that until it properly conveys what I mean, but it's why I don't watch these vids to the end while other channels' I'm hungry for more even after 30 mins.
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  9. Just talking colours: It's interesting how established associations of colours don't always match your personal perception of them and connotations. While not being American may help, green has never signified money, greed or envy to me. It was my favourite colour through most of my childhood and adult life and to me was how most people would think of white - the opposite to darkness/evil. Green was the light, the good, the happy and True. This comes through with our association of eco-friendliness and plant life/fertility but other than that, green has mostly negative symbolism in Western culture and that's backwards for me. Then there's purple, the colour that I only recently started to appreciate. The royal aspect isn't one I relate to it in the slightest; I understand that purple was such a rare and expensive colour to dye fabric with centuries ago that it became associated with royalty and riches. That said, red is the colour I link to royalty if only because of England's Royal Family, and if not red then blue. Purple to me is the way Prince (the musician) used it - deep, charismatic, androgynous, sexually ambiguous, artistic, sensual. Astrologically it would be mercury, with Queen's Freddy Mercury also embodying my associations of the colour. Interestingly though, both have royalty in their names, which is funny as royalty is the antithesis of every adjective I used to describe purple just now.
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  10. Whoah, lay down the pipe. Or at least do some H to mellow out.
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  11. No he didn't. Not saying Bobby never killed anyone..but it wasn't murder, he was himself going to be murdered during that drug deal so he shot the guy dead.
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  12. I was surprised to disagree so strongly with your analysis but Todd absolutely wasn't the "evil for evil's sake" sadist for who committed violence for its sadistic pleasure, that was bizarelly off the mark. He's a genuine psychopath, which you did acknowledge, but he never appears to get any emotional kick out of violence or evil - the reason his character is a terrifying concept is because he's entirely indifferent. He'll do the most evil things imaginable because they make sense from a pragmatic perspective—a child witnessed your crime? Murder him without a moment's thought or regret. Want to maximise your drug production? Torture and enslave Jesse under the threat of murdering his girlfriend and her young child. Gus is driven, among other things, by revenge so even he is a man of emotion and human feeling. Todd is akin to the nightmarish threat of artificial intelligence concluding that it would be most beneficial to its overall objectives to eradicate the human race - it won't hesitate and it won't dwell on it, emotion is non existent and morality is irrelevant.
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  13. "You guys" "mean to [character]" If there was better faith there, I'd bother
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  14. This was the perfect analysis video for me - you skillfully (why's that word on the tip of my tongue?) avoided descending into the dry soulless academic pontificating that so many film/TV study videos and podcasts do. That's why I said "for me" because for some minds, that's rich and fulfilling but I find myself feeling queasy every time I hear 'motif', 'exposition' or 'establishing shot' because it sucks the heart out of the art for me and reduces it to lines of computer script. And then we have Gus, the perfect subject as he's my favourite Breaking Bad character - not favourite in the way I like Jesse the most or am most invested in Walter but favourite to see on screen performing and be fascinated by because of his human psychology that's distinctly devoid of humanity and yet wholly a creation of the human condition. Corporations are likewise the antithesis of the 'heart and soul' aspect of humankind while simply being the fully realised extention of one ugly aspect of our mind: greed/power/war and personal success without empathy.
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  15.  @TheGeorgeD13  Well seeing as I'm inclined towards Texas Red's suspicions on this, I thought I'd flat out ask to see if someone would provide an explanation that wasn't some sort of snide gender related satisfaction. It's been three weeks, the joke had a good run, won't you indulge me here?
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  16. And Gould. It's mostly Gould.
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  17. What's the Lol? It's not a fresh stereotype, is it? It's a tired one.
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