>> ^shuac:

I never understood what 1sttube was supposed to mean. Like it was "first on television"?
Ick.
What's the process for renaming a channel? Cuz that one needs it. How about, oh I dunno, something crazy like television. Maybe?


I've been on the sift 6 years, but each time I sift a video I have to look at the tool tips for half the channels to see what the heck they are; even then sometimes I don't know.

They are named by people who know the sift inside-out, for people who know the sift inside-out - which is a pretty poor design IMHO.

>> ^TheJehosephat:

If you want to avoid spoilers for people, maybe remove the word "heist" from the title. "Train heist" already gives away a lot.


Yea you're right.... I'll just take Spoilers out of the description

I love that Johnathan Banks (Airplane, Buckaroo Banzai, Otherworld, Wiseguy) as Mike the cleaner, keeps coming back to show us something new. The Salamanca Brothers from season 3 were truly frightening and the ending of episode 7 of that season was the most intense five minutes of television I've ever seen in all my years. Breaking Bad is an epic show; among the very best television can be.

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Breaking Bad + Mogwai = awesome

>> ^bmacs27:

Upvote anyway, but come on... the Wire was a better show.


I hear that a lot. We watched Season 1 of The Wire, and enjoyed it. But I never felt the burning need to watch 4 (or 6) episodes in a row the way I did with Breaking Bad.

http://www.movieweb.com/news/breaking-bad-may-hit-the-big-screen-after-season-5-finale

>> ^kymbos:

For a second series that was just inching along prior, the final two episodes finally gained some momentum, IMO. I was stoked with the last two episodes.
But explain something to me (and forgive my lack of names - I'll try to describe them).
The red-head guy who took Winterfell - he made a speech, the guy from the Office clocked him on the head, and the next thing the whole place has burned down. How does that work? Why didn't the 500 Starks outside bust in and stop them? What happened to the red-head? They couldn't burn down Winterfell and then hand him over and just wander off, surely? They'd have them on spikes in no time.
Also, Sansa is told by the Dog that he'll take her to Winterfell at the end of ep.9 - then in the finale he's just gone and she's still around. What?
Apart from that, on the whole, my only criticism as a noob is general pace. Some story lines are left unprogressed for ages, while we watch Rob slowly fall in love with someone. There are so many people we're attached to on cliff-hangers, spending half an episode setting up a romance between Rob and his ladyfriend is just redundant.
Otherwise, it's no Breaking Bad but I like it.


That scene doesn't come off very well in the book either. I can't really tell you what happened in the book without spoiling it, suffice to say that a few more things happened between those two parts of the story. They handled it differently on the show than in the book, and I think they'll explain how it played out at the beginning of the next season. One note though: Robb did say in the show that any Ironborn except Theon could leave unharmed if they surrendered.

Sansa's story will also play out more, you're supposed to be confused.

As to the pace, that's just the way the books are written. It gets so bad that eventually, the two latest books take place simultaneously, with different characters. Book four: A Feast For Crows contains no Tyrion at all, you have to read through to the fifth book to find out what Tyrion was doing while the events of the fourth book were playing out. Weird huh? But I couldn't stop reading them.

For a second series that was just inching along prior, the final two episodes finally gained some momentum, IMO. I was stoked with the last two episodes.

But explain something to me (and forgive my lack of names - I'll try to describe them).

The red-head guy who took Winterfell - he made a speech, the guy from the Office clocked him on the head, and the next thing the whole place has burned down. How does that work? Why didn't the 500 Starks outside bust in and stop them? What happened to the red-head? They couldn't burn down Winterfell and then hand him over and just wander off, surely? They'd have them on spikes in no time.

Also, Sansa is told by the Dog that he'll take her to Winterfell at the end of ep.9 - then in the finale he's just gone and she's still around. What?

Apart from that, on the whole, my only criticism as a noob is general pace. Some story lines are left unprogressed for ages, while we watch Rob slowly fall in love with someone. There are so many people we're attached to on cliff-hangers, spending half an episode setting up a romance between Rob and his ladyfriend is just redundant.

Otherwise, it's no Breaking Bad but I like it.

>> ^Auger8:

He's got a point.


Damn straight.

When I speak of ecstasy, I'm not talking about a sense of awe or wonder in the presence of natural beauty or a particularly moving passage in a piece of literature. There is, of course, no religious barrier to experiences of that sort. What I'm talking about is ek stasis, standing outside yourself. The Greeks originally used this term to speak about the powerful trances that would come upon the worshipers of Dionysos at their holy revels.

When I say "ecstasy," then, I'm talking about visions of gods and angels. I'm talking about howling to the bowels of the earth to dredge up demons and bend them to your will. Or alternatively, quiet sitting, focusing the mind on only the tip of your nose for an hour at a time, until a vision of the Unconquered Sun comes on you and explodes your world. The kind of experience that causes you to walk around for the next week as if the blood in your veins has been turned into holy wine. I'm talking about experiences that are life changing, help you to break bad habits and come to epiphanies.

Literal belief in these things is not necessarily key. But our brains need a hook to plug into this transcendence. Very few of us are able to do it without some kind of religious approach. And, of course, literal belief can sometimes be quite dangerous, if the belief is not just wrong, but demands harmful action--the Pentecostals who literally demonize those who disagree with them, for instance.

So we're not just talking about metaphor here. Non-literal interpretation by no means implies metaphorical interpretation, in the sense of the metaphor as a literary device.

Did Max Payne "break bad"? (Shave his head)

I can't tell if he's the bald guy or not....seems like he might be. Maybe he'll get a porkpie hat and we can call him Heisenberg.

Meth and violence? Nope. Not going to do it. I'm a delicate flower!

That is the problem with excellent acting -- the better you are at it, the less folks understand that what you are doing is incredible.

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>> ^bareboards2:

I have never wanted to watch this show despite hearing such great things about it. So I know nothing about the character or the actor.
But I gotta say --- skillful is an appropriate tag. That is one helluva great audition tape. That is very hard to do, be that natural and alive. This actor is great.


Oh man, you owe it to yourself to check it out.

And yeah, that's exactly why I also thought it belonged in skillful. Maybe @<a rel="nofollow" href="http://videosift.com/member/Deano" title="member since April 30th, 2006" class="profilelink">Deano will reconsider... :

>> ^bareboards2:

I have never wanted to watch this show despite hearing such great things about it. So I know nothing about the character or the actor.
But I gotta say --- skillful is an appropriate tag. That is one helluva great audition tape. That is very hard to do, be that natural and alive. This actor is great.


Oh man, you owe it to yourself to check it out.

And yeah, that's exactly why I also thought it belonged in skillful. Maybe @Deano will reconsider...

Thanks for the promote!

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Wonderful. *promote