Banter RDT 171 - Brought forward to 2.00pm midnight
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OzarkStill going. NO SPOILERS!
Getting a Breaking Bad overlap. We're supposed to hate Wendy like Skyler, yeah?
No, you're supposed to hate Wendy like Walter.
But I love Walter
I've tried to watch Ozark like 3 times but shit is boring.
Come at me.
Come at me.
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First time I watched BB through I hated Skyler, Jesse and Hank and sympathised with Walter.
Second time through I realised how much of a massive manipulating campaigner Walter was and that Jesse and Hank were brutally f’ed over by him. Skyler was still a bit of a bitch tho.
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Carbine Chaos
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- Perth FC, Everton, Delhi
I too find myself sympathising a lot more with Skyler on second viewing.
Can't extend that same fondness to Marie, sadly.
They're minerals FFS.
Can't extend that same fondness to Marie, sadly.
They're minerals FFS.
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Hey I reformed. I found Hank to be arrogant and Jesse to play the victim too much. I think I just kinda sympathised with Walter coz he seemed to be doing the best for his family. It took the second watching to realised he's a meth dealing manipulating campaigner bag, and now I love Jesse and Hank.
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I'd agree with both of those, but that's part of why I love them. They both change a lot through the course of the series.
Grow up.
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It's the banging of Ted that ruins any possibility of sympathy.
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Ted has to be the worst character of the entire BB/BCS universe. Cringed whenever he was on-screen.
I nearly gave up on it but the last series is pretty good. Ruth rules.
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I didn't know who Bill Burr was the first time I watched it.
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Final episode sums it up, where he finally admits to Skyler that he did it for himself in the end because he liked it and was no longer about the family
“iTs LiKe tHe NeXt bReAkInG bAd” the plebs like to tell me.
Drug wars are fun, financial planning is not.
Bender_
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He was VERY good at it.
Sympathised with Skyler from the beginning. Wanting your husband to stop making meth is a perfectly sane response. Not actively assisting your husband in his drug manufacturing when you don't even realise he's doing it because he's an arrogant lying sociopath is also not worth any hate.
I don't think the show ever lost sight of the fact that Walt was a bad, bad person but a vocal section of the audience did.
I don't think the show ever lost sight of the fact that Walt was a bad, bad person but a vocal section of the audience did.
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Yeah I admit my opinion of her wasn't the best, I think I got too caught up in the whole idea of him trying to do all he could for his family's future, and then she screwed around on him.
In short, here's my poorly considered opinion that I regret in meme form:
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Hard to overlook the underwhelming birthday hand shandy from the pilot episode tho.
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BB and Better Call Saul are absolutely amazing shows really, will be sad when it all ends.
I'll probably circle back to BCS eventually. Maybe when it's over.
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It's a great show to binge - coz it's kinda slow moving so watching it week to week almost feels like you get nothing out of it, but watching it back to back it's so good.
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