There is a reason.
He used to be an up-and-comming partner in a high-tech firm. He left that, apparently because of fall-out from meeting Skyler and dumping his then-GF (who married his partner) and became an underachieving teacher. His partner stayed in the business and became very wealthy. So although he appears to be “mr average” he never really was. More like “mr frustrated”. It makes sense that a beauty would be attracted to an ambitious up and comming tech genius.
From what we have seen, it seems to me that Walter dumped Gretchen well before he got together with Skyler.
Perhaps. In one scene there was a flashback to Walt & Skyler buying the house and he was commenting that it seemed kinda small - indicating that at the time he still believed he was going to make it big.
I don’t think those things are mutually exclusive.
Naw. How hot you are is heavily determined by who you hang around with. My brain instantly adjusts to the Hollywood standard of beauty. In fact, it does such a good job that I find that I find that I think someone is ugly onscreen, but then see a candid picture of them and think they are gorgeous.
I guess a book would be worse, as their hotness would have to be described in detail for this to work, but I haven’t really encountered that except in bad fanfiction, and then there’s quite a lot more that takes me out of the story.
Fair enough. I was thinking Walt in the high-tech business = Walt still associated with Grey Matter. The larger point being, when Skyler hooked up with Walt he was still an ambitious high-tech guy, not a burnt-out chemistry teacher.
What sitchensis is saying, grude, is that whatever you said in the Pirate Bay thread so upset him or her that he or she cannot read posts by you in other threads and respond rationally to them.
That is nothing compared to Boomerang, where the plain girl was played by Halle Berry.
That’s not entirely accurate. Over the last ten years, the number of theatrically-released movies has been growing steadily. Box Office Mojo has numbers going back to the early 80s and the yearly number of theatrical releases stayed pretty consistent at 450-500 until the early 2000s, when it shot up to 550-600+.
So more movies are getting made, more movies are getting released by the major distributors, and even more movies than that bypass the theater all-together and come straight to DVD (which doesn’t quite carry the stigma it once did).
I admit to being absolutely enthralled by this show right now. (I was even thinking of starting a thread asking “what is your current television/book ‘guilty pleasure’” where I would 'fess up about SoA. Most people who know me would be astonished that I would watch a program that glorifies violence and outlaw behavior so religiously. They think I have much more highbrow tastes.)
I actually catch myself appreciating the fact that the majority of the actors in SoA are at least ordinary looking, if not downright unattractive. I was in a pool hall last night to watch a tournament. Not a single one of the men* in that room would have looked out of place on the show. (In fact, some of them looked the part so completely, I found myself wondering just how much they might be like the show’s characters in other ways, which made me pretty uncomfortable.)
To me, Ron Perlman, who plays Clay Morrow, hands-down wins the Ugliest Actor Currently on Television award. I sometimes get so distracted by his ugliness that I lose track of his dialogue.
*I will take exception, however, to the show’s cast of “biker chicks.” I’ve seen quite a few real biker chicks in my time and none of them look like the uniformly skinny, perfectly made up and coiffed girls that fill the SoA’s clubhouse. Uh uh. No way. Now, maybe a couple of them are LuAnne’s porn girls happily doing double duty for the club, but the others . . . No. So I guess ugly guys are okay but ugly chicks aren’t. And people wonder why women have body-image issues.
I never knew that Adam was pimping for Jack. Anyway, he surely knew how to keep Jack happy.
[humorless & blind to sarcasm]
Jack had no sexual relationship with Jamie, though she was his personal friend in a way none of the other assistants (except possibly Mike what’s-his-name, the EADA from the last season) seemed to be. And (though I may be wrong), I seem to recall her telling him early on that Schiff had warned her about him.
Not that it mattered. After Claire, I’m fairly sure Jack was done with workplace romances.
[/humorless & blind to sarcasm]
I agree with you about H:LotS first couple seasons. After that they had cops played by Isabella Hoffman, Callie Thorne and Michael Michele, each of whom is an attractive babe.
Michael Michele is the exception here, but the other two, to my eye at least, are everyday-woman-pretty rather than supermodel beautiful. Ironically, the former is not only far more attractive to me than the latter, but less jarring to suspension of disbelief.
I’m female, and yes it bothers me. This is the 21st century, but t.v. and film execs still can’t accept a normal female who is also intelligent and articulate. I’m simply tired of the same old “debonaire, handsome, sophisticated man (regardless of age)” acquires a 20-something hottie. He charms her, fucks her, and moves on to another woman. I don’t watch much of US productions; I’m with anaamika-- a lot of my favorite shows are on BBC (America); they simply feel so true to life for me. Also “Copper” – the tone and atmosphere reminds me of Deadwood. It doesn’t romanticize the early days of our country but shows the raw and sometimes horrifying things that really occurred. (Although I’m having a hard time accepting that a black man could have acquired enough knowledge to be a coroner.) Perhaps these images don’t bother the younger generation, but I’d bet that they get the same message I got from rom-coms and Disney movies: You’re not going to get anywhere unless you’re beautiful and subservient, then maybe your prince will come. HA!
Yep takes me out of the story aswell.
When channel flicking the other day I watched for a few minutes a bit of an old series "Dr. Quinn Medecine woman "or somesuch, more out of fascination then anything else.
Set in a dusty Wild Western town, not only were all of the characters incredibly good looking, but, their clothes were immaculately clean and unfaded, their hair was likewise perfect, clean AND conditioned, and all had plucked eyebrows, plucked nostrils, clear complexions, bleached teeth and not a few nose jobs around as well.
Unsurprisingly I didn’t linger.
Beautiful yes, subservient, not so much.
I certainly can’t think of a Disney movie of the last 20 years that doesn’t feature in its lead female role a strong-willed, intelligent girl or woman who’s great at everything but eventually has to go against authority to do what she feels is right.
So I guess that’s a pretty positive image for girls growing up right there. Although we might end up with a whole generation of mavericks reaching adulthood…
ETA: Well, I see I got ninja’d. But perhaps my post is slightly less WTF
She was supposed to be plain in that movie?
Over the years, you can see the cast for H:LotS getting prettier–while the show didn’t necessarily get better. Young Andre Braugher & Young Kyle Secor were enough male hotness for me; having more “regular” guys in the cast made for a nice balance.
I don’t mind a actors being more attractive than average but object when everybody is a 20-something supermodel. Besides, they all start to look alike. (Multicultural casting is not so much PC as Less Boring.)
The new Dallas just began in the UK. Caitlin Moran of the Times:
I’m sure it’s been said before, but I can’t stand medical shows precisely because they feature all 20-something doctors with nary an adult among them except for one older guy who are always “Chief of Staff” or something.
Yes, I’m overgeneralizing, but that’s how it seems…