Hey there snowflakes, actual men insult eachother when they are friends. Including looks, quirks, race, color, creed, etc. It’s all in good fun and part of bonding. Been that way for centuries. I realize you wake up looking to be offended by everything because you are scared of your own shadows and have no real identity, but stay in your safe spaces and leave the adults alone.
I was addicted to the show. I admit it. I considered it the very best TV/Cable show ever and nothing could ever come close. I watched on first run and in the re-run all the way through. Now, as I look back at the show my feelings about it have changed drastically. IF the Sopranos were an actual real-life crew, they would have been wiped out in a year. If that. Talk about a collection of pin-brains... LOL, OK, maybe longer than a year.
1) Emerging from the closet: showing Vito why he’s killing him 2) Grabbing the sheets: Even if you’re right and he’s taking sexual satisfaction from watching Vito get beat to death, that’s just sadism. Are you saying all sadists have to be gay? 3: Shoving a pool cue up his @$*: Humiliation, message as to why he was killed as a warning to others. This whole “everyone who’s disgusted by homosexuality is actually secretly gay” meme is ridiculous
If I may add a small, but still kinda significant, point to your view about the theme of racial tension between Black people and the Mafia in the show, there’s a scene in Season 2 where Sean and Matt try to talk to Richie that blows up in their face partly due to the fact that they’re taking like “wannabe gangstas” (i.e. like Black guys). Richie, being the old-school type, particularly doesn’t appreciate that they’re talking to him that way, which gave us the infamous “You wanna act like a moolignan, we’ll send you to slip n fall school” line.
As a further comparison to that cop from the movie, you can argue he also lets Gomez get shot. Sure he didn't shoot him himself but he brought him out there with him putting him in the line of fire
Hero and villain is all relative. For simplicity's sake, Walt is an antihero, Hank is an antivillain. Some people are blind/oblivious to Walter White's POV because his character violates their biases toward real world virtues. Even though this is Walter White's story in Vince Gilligan's fictional universe. Even when it's right in their face for dozens of episodes.
In the beginning hank was a racist pos that they definitely wanted to villify. Season two they started to try to make him more likeable. Edit: and it sounds like your dad is a racist too, and you just make excuses for him.
I never liked Hank period. It was his corny jokes only he laughed at and his little man complex.. I always kind of looked at him as a villain too because he was always disrupting the plot. To me the hero of breaking bad is Jesse pinkman.. he got the good ending
It's theorized that the cat is staring at the photo because there's a wire tap behind it and only the cat can hear its frequencies. Carlo is the one who said they got the photo of Chris framed and Carlo was a rat as mentioned in this video
Seriously, this was the worst casting I ever saw (Don Johnson as Elvis was a close second). John Wayne always sounded like John Wayne. He always walked and looked like John Wayne. He does all that here, and when he starts with the stilted ridiculous dialogue, it is hysterically entertaining.
it's not a liberal show. that doesn't mean it's conservative at all but i think it's a misuse of the word liberal because there are many lenses through which you can watch the show and see the critique of liberalism (which i think the writers and chase fully intended), zelleman esplanade and hud scam arcs, and the massarone strike breaking are good examples of this i think. it definitely takes a more left view than liberal (and no liberal is not left lol)
I think the best analysis I heard of him was purokino saying he’s not intelligent but wise. Suddenly it all made sense to me. He’s like a boomhouwer from king of the hill.
Anna Gunn wrote a NYT op-ed calling all the fans who criticize her character misogynist, stating Skyler was the only good person on the show and the only one who stood up to Walt, and equating anyone who disliked the character with whackjobs who made death threats to her. Hating her is perfectly legitimate reaction. No one made her become an actress, and negative attention has long been known to be part of the game. It's no excuse for biting the hand that feeds you. Lots of people have a visceral dislike for her for several reasons. It's not obvious in the beginning, but she is not a good wife, and this is only reinforced with the backstory that develops. She nags her husband who works two jobs, ever since she quit her real job to become and e-Bay merchant and pretend author, because her inappropriate behavior made the workplace awkward (and lied to her husband or her sister or [most likely] both about her reasons). She is controlling and completely oblivious to his unhappiness. Some of this is in Walt's utter failure to communicate, but also, she is not a receptive party to communication. We see in the flashback of them buying the house, how she negs & scoffs at his dreams. We see how unreceptive she is to anything she does not want to hear, on matters ranging from Walt's plans for the week to his coping with a terminal illness. Once she becomes aware of his drug business, she spends the rest of the series moralizing at Walt while scrabbling for a piece of the money. Her focus is never on doing what right as much as it is on punishing or controlling him. The lawyer laid out the path for her to do the right and the legal thing. As late as the day Hank arrested Walt, Marie claimed he would do whatever he could for Skyler. That would have been considerably more in the days before she made the extortion video or defrauded an immigrant out of the business he built up from the ground up just so she could get the last word with Walt. Yes, Skyler never killed anyone, but she was never offered the opportunity, she never faced any serious problems or setbacks that murder would alleviate. The closest she came was when intimidation was proposed as a tactic by Saul, whom she holds in deep contempt and her refusal was more about posturing as superior to him. In the end she stooped to exactly those tactics. That she did not intend Ted to wind up in traction does not change the fact that she threatened him with violence and sent two goons to force him to comply with her wishes. When you draw a gun on someone, even if you have no intention of harming them and just want to make them stand down or comply, you are still putting lethal force on the table, and still morally responsible for any harm that gun does. Skyler is ENTIRELY to blame for Ted's injury. Not as opposed to Huel and Kuby, but in complicity with them. Just as she is complicit in Walt's drug empire. Anyone in her shoes would share that blame for not reporting him to the authorities, and as the sister-in-law of a DEA agent, she had an easier out, and less to fear, than most. Others might be forgiven for adhering to family loyalty, but the show pretty quickly dispenses with that motivation. Skyler spends most of the series being incompetent at opposing Walt or getting away from him, and lashing out at innocent bystanders, whether venting her fury at her sister or snubbing Jesse as a Walt stand-in, or cheating Bogdan. She started out behaving in a way that is very relatable as an unpleasant family member. Halfway through the show, Anna Gunn was visibly in ill health, and I think that triggered dislike in people, because while you can and should be compassionate toward the sick, when it is the ACTOR you subconsciously recognize as sick, while being told by the story that the character is perfectly healthy, your compassion is thwarted and all you have is an instinctive aversion to the unhealthy. These are all valid reasons to dislike a TV character, that have nothing to do with misogyny or misreading the morality at play. You are not required to reserve your disapproval solely for the worst person on the show. You can express hate for Skyler without having to preface every criticism with an acknowledgement that Walt is worse or Marie is more petty & selfish. And hating the character or even the appearance, crafted by the wardrobe & makeup people, is not hatred of a real human being, nor should it be condemned as such. The people who conflate criticism of the character with violence or detraction of the actor are just as stupid and wrong as those who conflate the actor & the character they play.
