2 All-New Episodes of 'Geek Fallout' this week!!

GF SPECIAL ON THE SERIES FINALE OF ‘BREAKING BAD’

October 3rd, 2013

Chris is joined in the Batcave Studio with his wife Crystal where they discuss the final episode of 'Breaking Bad': 'Felina'. 

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Now go break some bad!

And

GF EPISODE 35: SENIOR CITIZENS ARE AWESOME!!

October 3rd, 2013

Chris is joined on the podcast with Jeff and they discuss:

Segment 1: Top 5 Senior Citizens in Pop Culture (Character and/or actor)

Segment 2: Believe It or Not Headlines (Crazy shit happening in the world)

Segment 3: Beer Goggles: What movies have you seen recently? What's on your 'To-See' list?

Segment 4: Nerd Conversions: Jeff is going to explain what ‘War Hammer’ is and how someone would get started in joining that world of fandom.

Geek Fallout is a proud member of The Atomic Geeks Podcast Network.

Welcome To The Wasteland!

Tube Talk: Sunday Nights

Aaron Paul & Bryan Cranston from 'Breaking Bad'

Tube Talk: Sunday Nights

Spoiler Warning!!!

Well it’s that time again: great TV viewing on Sunday Nights. I have my PVR set to record multiple shows and I will attempt to break down each as best I can.

- Breaking Bad (AMC): Well we are down to the final episode of this great series. The last season has been nothing but epic. The last 2 episode in particular were amazing to watch. I cannot wait for the final episode. I will have to watch it a day later as I will be working…hopefully I won’t get spoiled BEFORE watching it. Also having actor Robert Forester guest star on last Sundays episode was great. Too bad we could not have seen him sooner.



- Talking Bad (AMC): Much like ‘Talking Dead’, the companion talk show to ‘The Walking Dead’, AMC has decided to do this talk show format for BB. Chris Hardwick also hosts this show. Being a huge BB fan and having Vince Gilligan, Dean Norris, Anna Gunn and the other actors on and answering some questions was awesome. Glad they are doing this show, just wished they had done it sooner.





- Dexter (Showtime/Movie Central): Well I have to first say I enjoyed the final season, which just ended last Sunday. Did I like the final episode: NO I did not. I’ve said it before that this was a series that had a lot of potential and could have gone to some really neat places, but in the end they didn’t. I really felt the final episode and the decisions Dexter (and the writing staff) made were dumb and really not tryue to the character or the show itself. It was sad to see a show I had been following for 8 years end the way it did. (I really miss Julie Benz and John Lithgow on this show…just saying…)

- Ray Donovan (Showtime/Movie Central): This show premiered right after the first episode of ‘Dexter’ this summer, and I was hooked right away. It takes place in LA where Ray Donovan (played by the great Liev Schreiber), who is originally from South Boston, is a "fixer" for the powerful law firm Goldman & Drexler that represents the rich and famous. However, he experiences his own problems when his father, Mickey Donovan (played to perfection by Jon Voight), is unexpectedly released from prison. So far I loved this series and I intend to continue viewing next season. It was a surprise hit for me. Worth checking out for sure!



- Boardwalk Empire (HBO): Season 4 just started a few weeks ago and I still love this period drama about prohibition and gangsters in the 1920’s. Steve Buscemi is amazing as ‘Nucky Thompson’. Last season, especially the season finale was amazing and this series has a lot to live up to but so far so good.



- True Blood (HBO): Dropped this show after last season. Done and done.



- Walking Dead (AMC) premieres October 13th!! I cannot wait. Looking forward to checking out their companion series set to debut in 2015!!



Other TV other Nights of the week:



- Under The Dome (CBS Monday Nights): I had been enjoying this series in the beginning then I fell off about half way. I kept tabs on it, watched most of the episodes because my wife really liked the series but I found myself questioning why I was still watching. I never read the Stephen king novel from which it is based but I can’t help but feel it should be darker. Dean Norris (Breaking Bad) is excellent as ‘Big Jim’ on this series, but I find the supporting cast tends to fall flat. Some of the plotlines make no sense and some of the acting is terrible at best. Not to say this is a bad series, I do enjoy some aspects of it. It has been renewed for a second season so my wife will be sticking with it, and I’ll keep tabs on it but I wish it would go darker and weirder.

See you next time for an update. Go break some bad!

Breaking Bad "Ozymandias": WTF!!! (Spoilers)

Well it’s been almost 17 hours since I watched last night’s episode of ‘Breaking Bad’ and I am still shell shocked. What an incredible hour of television, even if it made me both sad and mad. Bryan Cranston better win another Emmy this year, as well as Dean Norris ‘Hank’ and Aaron Paul ‘Jesse’. Going into last night’s episode I figured Gomez would die but I held out hope that Hank would make it, but at least he died a hero. 2 more episodes to go and I have a few predictions:

- Walt will have a change of heart and save Jesse from the Nazi’s.

- Jesse is going to kill Todd. Brutally would be preferable.

- Walt is going to poison Lydia.

- Walt is going to die, either in a ‘Scarface’ shoot-out or cancer. Or maybe Jesse will kill him and put him out of his misery.





"Ozymandias"



I met a traveller from an antique land

Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone

Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,

Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,

And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,

Tell that its sculptor well those passions read

Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,

The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed:

And on the pedestal these words appear:

"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:

Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"

Nothing beside remains. Round the decay

Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare

The lone and level sands stretch far away.

"Ozymandias" is a poem written by Percy Shelley about the downfall of kings -- how all people in power will eventually lose that power.

Sunday Night On The 'Tube'

Sunday Nights seem to be a great time for new cable TV series. Here's a few to talk about:

- 'Breaking Bad' is back and just as great as they enter their 5th and final season. Apparently season 5 will be split in 2 8 episode segments with the last half of season 5 airing next summer. I kinda hate when shows split seasons, why not just call them season 5 and 6 instead of season 5 and 5.5. anyway 2 episodes in and so far it is still a great show. Hopefully Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul win Emmy's again for their performances because it is well deserved.

- I am still watching 'True Blood', why exactly I don't know. This show has such great potential but it never reaches it in my opinion. Hoping one day HBO will just give Eric Northman his own TV series spin-off.

- 'Hell On Wheels' starts again with season 2 August 12th on AMC. Looking forward to this show returning. TNG & DS9 veteran Colm Meaney has a major role on this series. He's kinda the bad guy. Still it is a great series, love TV westerns when they are done right.

Bryan Cranston as 'Walter White' from AMC's 'Breaking Bad'