Review of "Ozymandias" episode.

And yup, too:
It makes me glad that I haven't seen the show. It may be great writing/acting/story - it's not my speed (not these days).

"Ozymandias," as written by longtime Breaking Bad staffer Moira Walley-Beckett and directed, with emotional violence and blessed visual restraint, by high-stylist Rian Johnson, was one of the most visceral and unpleasant viewing experiences I can remember enduring. It seemed designed to counter our cultural turn toward binge-watching. It was punishment for our bottomless, self-serving hunger. It felt sick, like a purge.

..My decision came in first 1.5 episodes--or wherever it was that this 'chemist' committed his first murder.
Friend had sent me ?-episodes (4? 6?.. never went that far.)
Already the opening scenarios had telegraphed that which--I had not bothered to extrapolate, nor could I then imagine This Thing running about like Upstairs, Downstairs
[however being it's polar-Opposite of civilized, historical, informative, etc. Maybe that's its Attraction?]
No redeeming 'reason' to watch it except to vicariously Be a meth-guy/killer.. (with an alleged/weak 'excuse list' for suddenly choosing to BE 'Mr. Hyde' and to assassinate Dr. Jekyll et Alia.)

In sum--by Episode 1.5 I had put it with every banal car-crash/heaped-dead-bodies in piles Action flic:
simply a Devolutionary-thesis, each of its impressions provoking Horror at minimum/with NO redeeming 'social' or other qualities: just Shock-via-lazily-cobbled algorithms
designed to: just-shock, 'cause it gets the mouth-breathers viscera' into Action-mode and sells beer or dope or whatever.
I was right (about what it would turn out to be) without making any guesses--never mind. even remotely: the inconceivably Vicious subsequent episodes and >This 'Ozymandias' Thing!<
I spared myself this raping-via-execrable-impressions and, this link is ex-post-facto Relief at what I did-Not have to wade through cause-it-was-Soo-'popular cha. cha. cha.

What a bitchin Real, fucking! Rorschach! ... for an entire audience of voyeurs who will watch ANY
--cockamamie nihilist sex-as-violence kinda aberrant-shit, so long as 'everyone else is, Too.'

Baa Baa.. ..But: the sheep Shall be sheared.. psychologically; is that the Worst Way?
And.. Who KNOWS?! just what sort of putrescent plots shall ensue, fueled by the Succe$$ of THIS foray into misanthropic seppuku: maybe a 3-D sequel?

Post #380,772 by Another Scott 9/16/13 2:24:33 PM Reply	Review of "Ozymandias" episode. Some good writing, lots of spoilers if you're a fan - http://www.grantland...ght-in-ozymandias It makes me glad that I haven't seen the show. It may be great writing/acting/story - it's not my speed (not these days). Cheers, Scott.
Post #380,774 by CRConrad 9/16/13 2:33:24 PM Reply	Heh, I saw what you did there.
Post #380,776 by boxley 9/16/13 3:04:36 PM Reply	sounds like a crap show from that description having met more than a few meth heads in RL than I cared to, watching aother one on the screen would be a waste of time Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free American and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 58 years. meep
Post #380,779 by Another Scott 9/16/13 4:21:27 PM Reply	The cinematography looks pretty good. And the music isn't too bad, from this clip... http://www.youtube.c...tch?v=53j4vQ8Un0k (4:37) (SFW). (via Kathleen Geier - http://www.washingto..._fond_f046891.php ) ;-) Cheers, Scott.
Post #380,791 by boxley 9/16/13 5:52:04 PM Reply	maybe, this link is a few years after I was hanging around them. Just fun party folk then the meth got too deep for most. I'm not a joiner, but I don't mind a good party http://www.yourepeat...ch/?v=udWV9KZsajw Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free American and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 58 years. meep
Post #380,880 by Ashton 9/17/13 11:57:25 PM Reply	I see.. too. And yup, too: It makes me glad* that I haven't seen the show. It may be great writing/acting/story - it's not my speed (not these days).* "Ozymandias," as written by longtime Breaking Bad staffer Moira Walley-Beckett and directed, with emotional violence and blessed visual restraint, by high-stylist Rian Johnson, was one of the most visceral and unpleasant viewing experiences I can remember enduring. It seemed designed to counter our cultural turn toward binge-watching. It was punishment for our bottomless, self-serving hunger. It felt sick, like a purge. ..My decision came in first 1.5 episodes--or wherever it was that this 'chemist' committed his first murder. Friend had sent me ?-episodes (4? 6?.. never went that far.) Already the opening scenarios had telegraphed that which--I had not bothered to extrapolate, nor could I then imagine This Thing running about like Upstairs, Downstairs [however being it's polar-Opposite of civilized, historical, informative, etc. Maybe that's its Attraction?] No redeeming 'reason' to watch it except to vicariously Be a meth-guy/killer.. (with an alleged/weak 'excuse list' for suddenly choosing to BE 'Mr. Hyde' and to assassinate Dr. Jekyll et Alia.) In sum--by Episode 1.5 I had put it with every banal car-crash/heaped-dead-bodies in piles Action flic: simply a Devolutionary-thesis, each of its impressions provoking Horror at minimum/with NO redeeming 'social' or other qualities: just Shock-via-lazily-cobbled algorithms designed to: just-shock, 'cause it gets the mouth-breathers viscera' into Action-mode and sells beer or dope or whatever. I was right (about what it would turn out to be) without making any guesses--never mind. even remotely: the inconceivably Vicious subsequent episodes and >This 'Ozymandias' Thing!< I spared myself this raping-via-execrable-impressions and, this link is ex-post-facto Relief at what I did-Not have to wade through cause-it-was-Soo-'popular cha. cha. cha. What a bitchin Real, fucking! Rorschach! ... for an entire audience of voyeurs who will watch ANY --cockamamie nihilist sex-as-violence kinda aberrant-shit, so long as 'everyone else is, Too.' Baa Baa.. ..But: the sheep Shall be sheared.. psychologically; is that the Worst Way? And.. Who KNOWS?! just what sort of putrescent plots shall ensue, fueled by the Succe$$ of THIS foray into misanthropic seppuku: maybe a 3-D sequel?

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