Breaking Bad

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I like everything lol

Felina and the episode before it were my least favorite. Tuco's cousins are silly i agree but unpopular opinion, they were genuinely scary on the first watch so they weren't completely shit. Anything connected to Gus is badly written cause Gus is a badly written character. Another unpopular opinion but i actually like the white supremacists in that it shows how much of an immoral degenerate Walt has become and i love how loyal and unprotesting Todd is in contrast to Jesse. Fucking hate Andrea or whatever Jesse's spic gf's name was. Their relationship so cringe and they have zero chemistry, the acting is awful...by far the worst part of the show.

Gus died a season too soon

She's a subplot character. Someone who is in a similar position as the main character. Bored with her life and the lack of intrigue and accomplishment. She's also childless, so even her sister with deadbeat husband and cripple son seems better. So she steals some shoes out of spite against a rude salesperson, the way Walt acts out of spite against the loud stock broker, she gifts something valuable to Skyler that brings trouble, the way Walter gifts drugmoney to Skyler. She invents new names and profession and having kids, the way Walt becomes Heisenberg, a drugcook and adopts a kid that isn't completely useless.

Subplot characters are to reveal the character of the protagonist. When faced with seriously hurting the relationship to Skyler, Marie breaks down, apologizes and cries. Walter just doublesdown and lies more. He isn't really contrite, not even in the last scene where he admits he did it for himself.

they're fairly well behaved and incredibly competent

andrea actor is terrible

It's not about whether they're nazi or not, it's just that they were poorly written. Look at better call saul, they introduced Lalo pretty late, but they put some thought into him as character. They did that for Todd, but not the others. Even Bolsa has some fucking character.

And even Todd was the stereotypical "germanic blond autistic and evil".

This. This was god awful to slog through.

The marketing was really at odds with the actual plot of the show. Even the fucking DVD/BD covers are bullshit. It makes you think some guy becomes a criminal mastermind and drug overlord, when really Walt is a bumbling retard who causes all of his own problems through his own stupid actions trying to pretend that he's somehow still a "good" guy despite his actions.

Jesse as well flip flops as much as Walt. He'll be crying about his dead girlfriend and how much he hates Meth and then the next screaming about how someone isn't giving him 100% of the profit for each cook.

I watched BB during the original run and rewatched it a couple of times, each time with someone who hasn't seen it so it was fun. But watching it for many times, I really hated the cliches and the cousins are atrocious. They were straight out of a bad 80s action movie. Also Gus is too robotic, I hate it when characters are written as super human.

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Walt should have survived at the end

Yeah, this was terrible. It also only existed so that Vince could do an epic ruse throughout season 2 of making you think Walt or his family were dead. Literally every plot point that was involved in making the crash happen would have worked better without it

the entire show after they changed it from a comedy to epic jesse drama after the third episode of the first series when vince decided he just liked 'having aaron paul around' too much. everything after that point was wheeling to try to make things important that hadn't been. the rest of the show is rise of skywalker

>prefers badly written nazis over well written nazis

great post, good sir. Haven't you posted this on r/unpopularopinion for that sweet karma and reddit awards?

>*picture of Season 2 Walter White holding a crude aluminium antenna while making a distressed face and squeezing his eyes and wearing a hood over his head while being in the desert*

Most of the cartel shit was bad and cartoonish. The neo-nazi shit in S5 was very bad too. It should've been Walt vs Hank from beginning to end.

The Fly

I thought it was trying to sell the fantasy of being a dangerous drug lord to nerds. If they were too capable or if they were not insecure enough, the bigbang aficionados wouldn't be able to identify with walt and jesse.

It's basicly Weird Science, but for crime work instead of a girlfriend.

It wasn't perfect but it was much better than The Sopranos, Mad Men, The Wire or Game of Thrones.

Everyone was a cardboard cut out that didn't do shit if Walt wasn't in the room, BCS does this alot better with a much stronger fleshed out cast.

Also season 5, they wrote themselves into such a stupid corner.

>It makes you think some guy becomes a criminal mastermind and drug overlord
90% of people who watched the show think this was what happened. The show itself also got it confused along the way

The show was an interesting wild ride. I think the scariest character to me had to be Gus. At least with Tuco and Hector, they were just obviously the typical "Pablo Escobar"-ish druglords. But Gus? It was just "routine" to him. That dual nature creeps me out.

I never got the impression that Walt was particularly evil or psychotic. Did i miss something?

You have to be some level of
.something..if you think the first season I br ba's best

Im marathoning a rewatch of this show and I tend to skip a lot of each episode. Especially anything that has zero to the plot about characters I dont care for i.e. Skyler, Walter Jr, drug addict Jane etc

go back

>Subplot characters are to reveal the character of the protagonist.
Which is why you run into problems when you take a subplot character and give him his own series.

you know how i know you never had real a job or probably even left your suburb?

Not disagreeing and I recognize all the points made and we all know what kind of character she is meant to be. The problem is she is grating and on surface level there is little to her. And she isn't her OWN character, she is in service of other ones.

That's fine. But there's like 1000 tv show examples alone where that's been done with a character but way way way better. Solid show, but I don't think I can ever be convinced to tolerate Marie

Go ahead, shitpost away. I stand by what I said. I've worked a few jobs, so I'll admit I don't know anything.

This. But when it was airing it wasn't like good decent people were getting called Nazis. At least it didn't seem that way to me. If they aired it now I would probably seethe

this, and walt should have allowed gus to kill jesse and from there run with gus in a pablo escober tier kind of thing