re: Skylar White

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frick Hank. He was always trying to belittle Walt in front of his family, as far back as the first episode.
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Yep, Hank looked for ways to make Walt look small and unmanly in front of his wife and kids. Screw Hank.

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Begs the biggest issue about BB: the amount of 1-dimensional characters. Hank, Hank's wife and Saul all basically started as cardboard cutouts of TV tropes. It's true, the writing did pivot to adding substance (perhaps most glaringly for Saul), but for me, it was already tainted.

And Walt Jr. has always been my single biggest complaint. So many interesting things could have been done with his character (e.g. he gets into drugs himself or whatever). But instead, he's insanely boring and nothing more than a boring moral counterpoint to Walt with nothing interesting about him at all except his disability.

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Begs the biggest issue about BB: the amount of 1-dimensional characters

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to play devil's advocate, I don't know why there shoudl be a presumption that everyone HAS to have some kind of character development. In BB just off the cuff you could name probably several dozen characters that were kinda sorta important and more than just a bit role player. Do we want to do a deep dive into every one of their backstories? What's the point? Does it really matter if we don't see some deep thought provoking backstory on Marie?

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Walt Jr. has always been my single biggest complaint. So many interesting things could have been done with his character (e.g. he gets into drugs himself or whatever). But instead, he's insanely boring and nothing more than a boring moral counterpoint to Walt with nothing interesting about him at all except his disability.

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I don't disagree. Like you said I feel like his entire purpose was to just illustrate how shitty and stressed skyler is and how tough the White's life is in general.

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to play devil's advocate, I don't know why there shoudl be a presumption that everyone HAS to have some kind of character development. In BB just off the cuff you could name probably several dozen characters that were kinda sorta important and more than just a bit role player. Do we want to do a deep dive into every one of their backstories? What's the point? Does it really matter if we don't see some deep thought provoking backstory on Marie?

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It's possible to have bit players without having them be cartoonishly one-dimensional. We don't have to know a lot about Marie. We also don't have to make her like a sitcom character.

But Saul has always been my biggest criticism in this regard. It seems quite obvious to me that the writers really didn't know what the story arc was going to be when they introduced him. He is cartoonish when he is first presented.