looking at the account’s history I’m pretty certain its a long-game bit but satire is dead and buried in a ditch somewhere and americans really do think like this
og tweet and juniper’s tweet i stole this from
I watched Breaking Bad recently and one of the things I knew going in was that Skyler was supposed to be an “annoying bitch” because the show needed to make you hate her.
Imagine my surprise when she just reacts very authentically to being forced into a series of impossible situations. I can’t defend smoking while pregnant and being aware of the potential effects, but most everything else she does is totally understandable given what (and who) she’s dealing with.
Bonus BB hot take: Everyone hates Marie but I love her she’s one of my favorites
Bonus bonus BB hot take: Walt is obviously a monster for most of the show’s run but I think people sometimes go too far dunking on people for sympathizing with him given how the premise is overwhelmingly set up to have you sympathize with him, then have that sympathy rot into disgust and pity alongside his transformation. Yeah he’s not some sigma to idolize but you are supposed to feel sorry for him
Bonus Better Call Saul hot take: Jimmy did a whole lot of bad things and made bad choices but I still think he was failed by many of the people in his life and if he’d had a better support network things wouldn’t have gone down like that
ya how else is skyler supposed to react? is she supposed to go “oh ok walt, thats cool. keep making meth i guess”
She’s supposed to have a brief but demure and non-disruptive struggle with morality before saying “I may disagree with your decision to cook meth but I’ll fight to the death for your right to do it”, at which point all of Albuquerque claps and Walt hands her a crisp $100 bill
Walt is obviously a monster for most of the show’s run but I think people sometimes go too far dunking on people for sympathizing with him given how the premise is overwhelmingly set up to have you sympathize with him, then have that sympathy rot into disgust and pity alongside his transformation. Yeah he’s not some sigma to idolize but you are supposed to feel sorry for him
I disagree. For one, I don’t think you can divorce the discourse from the social context of the time. it’s inherently reactionary. people weren’t really saying “oh, it sucks Walt had cancer and our country sucks so he had to sell meth.” They were talking about how epic he was and how much it sucked that his wife “was a bitch.” People were legit harassing the actor who played Skyler because they didn’t like how “mean” she was to Walt even though both Walt and Skyler aren’t real! I think it makes sense to sympathize with him for a bit but a lot of people misread the show and took their sympathy way too far. he was basically the original Rick Sanchez and we could have prevented Rick and Morty from being as annoying if we bullied the Walt stans harder when we had the chance.
even from a sympathy standpoint, there’s so many better characters to sympathize with. Jesse’s right there basically the entire time and he’s at least attempting to be a good person and seems way more conflicted about the morally heinous things he’s done.
also Marie is fucking funny and I never understood the hate behind her. the only bad thing about her is she married a cop.
also Marie is fucking funny and I never understood the hate behind her. the only bad thing about her is she married a cop.
Personally I love people who literally shit their pants at the thought of someone smoking a marijuana, those are my favorite non annoying people for sure
I don’t see how they bungled the conclusion. Everybody fucking hates his guts at the end. His own son spits on his offer of money and tells him to die. Even Jesse rejects his attempt at cathartic martyrdom and tells him to do it himself. He dies alone, in a pool of his own blood, taking solace in his vengeance because it’s the only fucking thing he has left.
jesse we need to hire skinheads jesse there is no way this will go wrong
One of my chuddiest relatives spends the majority of any time when I’m around him complaining about “things getting so political these days” and he listed some “woke” movies that he claimed he didn’t hate for “prejudiced” reasons but because they didn’t “follow the hero’s journey.” :lord-bezos-amused:
Maggie Mae Fish blasts into Campbell in a few of her videos and unfortunately I forget who did it but I saw a great feature length take down of thst asshole. Campbell used the literary studies equivalent of phrenology combined with a rigorous study of his own biases which he then, following the scientific method, made a bunch of shit up and called it a formula. It’s just a 3 act structure but turned into something more complicated like Dan Harmon and his Story Circles. It’s far from the be all and end all of how even western stories have operated including non modern classical literature.
Read something about how Bezos was really involved in Prime Video original content and was always making sure it had Joseph Campbell’s hero’s journey.
Patrick Bateman=Hero :soypoint-1:
:soypoint-1: THOSE BLOOD SOAKED BLUE CURTAINS ARE AMAZING :soypoint-2:
Blue curtains and their consequences have been a disaster for the human race
