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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Snarf Zagyg" data-source="post: 8858263" data-attributes="member: 7023840">You can tell a story.You can't tell this story. That's what you're missing. Not all stories are the same. Here, watch this-Is the Sopranos not a good tv show just because Analyze This is a movie about a mob boss seeing a psychiatrist?Is Buffy a bad tv show just because, um, Buffy is a movie?But the ways in which this character study (and yes, it is a character study) is more than just the base of what you have stated is obvious. Where in this two hour movie do we see Gus Fring? Where does the movie have room for the pathos of Jesse and his girlfriend? Or Jesse's complexity? What about Skyler's boss (and Saul's henchmen)? Or even Tuco and his violence?Yes, a movie can capture your parable perfectly. The beauty of this television series is that we saw how these people operated ... it became real. It was both hypertextualized (Gus Fring and the bomb) as well as sadly banal (Walt and Mike in their final scene). It's not better, nor worse ... but it's very different. Not understanding that there is a difference and assuming that this story could just be a movie does an injustice to both movies and to serials.</blockquote>