(October 15, 2018 at 12:01 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote:(October 15, 2018 at 10:39 am)Clueless Morgan Wrote: A different kind of brutal:
For the most part I can watch cancer story lines - they're sufficiently fake that I don't relate too closely with them.
Ah. Imagine that, someone whose favourite film is A Clockwork Orange and is on the autism spectrum greatly overestimates how desensitized other people are to on-screen violence.
If I am remembering that scene correctly (and I may not be) I would rank it as in my top 3 most disturbing/hard to watch things I've seen in TV or film.
Quote:So I take it you thought Walter White's battle with cancer wasn't realistic. Or sufficiently on the sidelines that it wasn't too hard to watch. Or that operations weren't a part of the treatment, if I recall.
Not realistic at all. I'll put it in spoiler tags in case you don't want the conceit of the show ruined
tl;dr
Watching Breaking Bad after having cancer is probably like working in the medical field and watching medical dramas: soooooooo faaaaaaake!
Teenaged X-Files obsession + Bermuda Triangle episode + Self-led school research project = Atheist.