re: I'm halfway through binging Breaking Bad

My Sister quit watching after Season 1 because her hate for Walter White was so strong.

I really never hated Skyler. I know she did not play things right but she was in a bad situation. Im not sure how any person would handle that place she was in.


On the other hand, I wanted Marie to die with fire. She was the only character on the show that I just hated.


Skyler White may have been a easy character to hate but Anna Gunn played it perfectly.

Everybody has an opinion but this is just wrong:

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This show is vastly overrated.

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Especially the use of "vastly" as a descriptor.

There have been several new series done for TV/cable that have taken advantage of the time span of several seasons, with 50-100 hours of air time, to develop long character arcs of the type you simply cannot achieve in a normal television show or even in a movie or trilogy series of movies.

These shows were made with the knowledge that they could be watched later thru Netflix and other such formats, so that viewers could catch all of the subtle and slow developing nuance that they might have missed if they relied on trying to catch the show in order every week at the time it aired.

The makers of Breaking Bad have done this as good as if not better than anyone else. The character arcs are incredibly long. Characters that you once hated or loved will unfold in ways that surprise you time and again, and you end up loving those you hated and vice versa.

A valid criticism is that they did this so well that it actually detracted from the overall enjoyment of the show. You end up not really liking or trusting ANY of the characters. They all seem so flawed that there's hardly anyone to root for.

Nevertheless, the intellectual and emotional roller coaster is one hell of a ride. The use of foreshadowing and flash back are superb and the complexity of the characters, especially Walter, is just beyond anything you ever see in a TV show.

Her character would be more sympathetic if she didn't treat him like Walter Jr. from the get go. I think most of her frustrations stem from the fact that she wasn't in control.

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Should I open Pandora's box and start watching this series from the beginning? Serious question

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Yep.

Skyler is disgusting. I mean, there aren't any likable characters on the show and she's by far the worst. She should've been the one with cancer. Vagina cancer.

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And I know it's been discussed many times, but I don't know that I can loathe a person any more than Skyler White. Horrible, horrible person, and anyone that makes excuses for her, i.e. her husband was a criminal, etc., is just as horrible.

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How can you possibly loather her more than WW himself?

I guess he could have been done better, but he seemed like an insufferable teenage angsty son or a bitch who happened to have cerebral palsy. Probably pissed because of his malady, and trying hard to be normal. That was done fairly well, and no need to muck around with such a minor player anyhow.

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Man commits crime (many argue it shouldn't even be a crime) to help provide for his family after his death.

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Long time since I watched it, but I think you've seen enough already to know that WW's motivation is only tangentially to provide for his family after his death.

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Woman cheats on man and throws it in his face as punishment.

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Again, you haven't seen the whole thing, but her cheating is way down on the list of bad things that either of them did.

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Seems pretty self explanatory to me.

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Look deeper.

if you dont like Hank you arent American.