Best Gale singalong: Major Tom or that Spanish song

Hahah! I never thought of that! God gale was such a dork, poor guy. NOT cut out for that world at all!

Gus probably let out a big sigh, adjusted his tie and knocked on the door while thinking to himself exactly that; what the hell was I thinking? This is my meth cook?!? Lol

I guess good help is hard to find.

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Yeah, I'm obsessed with The Americans!  It's the best drama series I have seen since Breaking Bad (counting out Game of Thrones which is awesome, because I think GoT and BB are hard to compare.) It has great characters and there's a lot of emphasis on them struggling internally with what they are doing - something I always appreciated the most about Breaking Bad - but there's also tons of more fast-paced sequences and action. Of course the struggle the characters on The Americans (they are KGB spies, the show's set in DC in the early-1980s) go through is in many ways more understandable even though they do awful things.

I think the recent-ish shows that are most "like" BB are The Americans and House of Cards, but I prefer The Americans. I love the setting and the balance the show manages to strike, much of it is the main characters but there's also tons of scenes taking place at the FBI, at the Rezidentura (the Soviet embassy in DC), sometimes in Moscow. The Russians are actually presented as human beings, who think about the Cold War and fear things like nukes just like the Americans do. And everyone who speaks Russian for more than two sentences actually sounds native, hallelujah.

The quote's from a book in the A Song of Ice and Fire series, on which Game of Thrones is based on. It's from a dialogue between Jaime Lannister (who's my favorite) and another character. The other character is questioning Jaime's honor, so he answers (not out loud) that honor is a horse, since that is actually what Jaime named his own horse.  It sounds kind of lame explained this way, but Jaime's a very funny dude (in the books.)


Do you even know what honor is?
- A horse.

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The song is about an unnamed man whose hair inexplicably falls out ("Crapa Pelada" literally means "bald man") and who becomes despondent and isolated. Pure parallel to Walt's situation.

Nice! I never really paid attention to the lyrics, they are so fast (especially the chorus, I understand nothing of it.) Thanks for pointing that out. :)

If you want, you can draw some parallels between "Major Tom" - the personification of David Bowie's struggle with drugs and the inspiration for that Major Tom song Gale sings - and Jesse. They would be kind of forced if they were out of nowhere, but in the context of Breaking Bad and Gale performing the song it's a nice exercise.

Ashes to ashes, funk to funky
We know Major Tom's a junkie
Strung out in heaven's high
Hitting an all-time low - David Bowie, Ashes to Ashes

There are many things in Space Oddity and Ashes to Ashes that could fit Jesse, not just the above. In Space Oddity Major Tom is floating - they used this visual with Jesse when he tried heroin for the first time - in space and there's a problem with his capsule (he also meets two angels - could be Jane and Andrea - with whom he floats.) By the end of the song he is resigned: "Planet Earth is blue - And there's nothing I can do."

By Ashes to Ashes he has lost his hair, lost his money, and wants to quit ("Time and again I tell myself - I'll stay clean tonight").

Linking these up here cause I love both songs a lot.

Space Oddity:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D67kmFzSh_o

Ashes to Ashes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMThz7eQ6K0


Do you even know what honor is?
- A horse.

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