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DCHawk1 wrote: ↑Sun Dec 01, 2019 10:36 pm

HouseDivided wrote: ↑Sun Dec 01, 2019 9:30 pm That was also about 50 years ago. The world is a little different today.

You are correct. And yes, people lose their freaking minds when Scarlett Johansson gets cast as a trans man.

But I don't think that the reverse is what's going on with Hamilton. Hamilton is explicitly intended to challenge historical preconceptions and to make the case that, from the start, America has been a place where anyone, even a West Indian orphan, can become an aide to the Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army, Publius, and the first Secretary of the Treasury. The ahistorical racial casting is an homage to the American ideal. It's a good thing.

ousdahl wrote: ↑Mon Dec 02, 2019 7:32 am sorry to get the thread back on topic, buuut....

so I've been binging Breaking Bad again.

as brilliant as it was, does anybody else feel like the whole nazis angle was sort of hurried or something?

everything else about the whole series is so meticulous. But with Uncle Jack and co, we never really get any backstory or character development. They're so evil, and well connected among prison gangs, but we never know why. They're supposed to be some kind of criminal geniuses, even though they just seem like a bunch of drunk white trash. They apparently thrive off some criminal empire, like so many of the other brilliant antiheros. But in contrast to the other smooth criminals who use professional fronts to hide in plain sight, we're supposed to believe these guys somehow go undetected just running around with swastika tattoos and machine guns. Nephew Todd even has a legit day job in pest control. It was almost like the writers just said "how do we end this? Well we need some antagonist...howsabout nazis??"

pdub wrote: ↑Mon Dec 02, 2019 3:18 pmSome people care.

zsn wrote: ↑Mon Dec 02, 2019 2:56 pm

ousdahl wrote: ↑Mon Dec 02, 2019 7:32 am sorry to get the thread back on topic, buuut....

so I've been binging Breaking Bad again.

as brilliant as it was, does anybody else feel like the whole nazis angle was sort of hurried or something?

everything else about the whole series is so meticulous. But with Uncle Jack and co, we never really get any backstory or character development. They're so evil, and well connected among prison gangs, but we never know why. They're supposed to be some kind of criminal geniuses, even though they just seem like a bunch of drunk white trash. They apparently thrive off some criminal empire, like so many of the other brilliant antiheros. But in contrast to the other smooth criminals who use professional fronts to hide in plain sight, we're supposed to believe these guys somehow go undetected just running around with swastika tattoos and machine guns. Nephew Todd even has a legit day job in pest control. It was almost like the writers just said "how do we end this? Well we need some antagonist...howsabout nazis??"

There are a lot of "....we're supposed to believe......." moments, beginning with the mercury fulminate incident!! Anyway I'm in general agreement with your point and I don't think that the nazi angle was necessary, and the plot would work just fine if Uncle Jack and his henchmen were just run-o'-the-mill bad guys. BTW, I still cannot drive by a house tented for termite treatment without a chuckle! But I think Uncle Jack's guys were introduced because Walter needed somebody on the "inside" to off Gus' guys and the nazi angle could give cover as it could be passed off as racially motivated rather than connected with meth trade. At least that's the way I saw it........

El Camino does show some back story and ties up other loose ends. Don't know why the next episodes of Better Call Saul are taking so long......

ousdahl wrote: ↑Thu Dec 05, 2019 7:25 pm does he ever land one?

chiknbut wrote: ↑Thu Dec 05, 2019 5:54 pm Sorry to divert from the Alaska talk, but I didn't know where else to put this. Sound up!