Favorite Breaking Bad Character

Hardest poll ever.

Thinking about it, it's Jesse or Gus. Though S1&2 Jesse>S3&4 Jesse. Goofy meth head beats brooding murderer.

Will anyone vote for Walt?

I <3 nu-Jesse more because of rooting for him to get his shit together, as opposed to being annoyed at his fuckwit slackerness.

Voting for Tyrus though, of course

walt is the actual real answer, he is 100% the best character on the show and the only one it is inconceivable w/o

no one votes for the main character in these things

Tyrus

i'd be weirded out if someone voted for ted

voting Tyrus, correct answer is Mike

http://i.imgur.com/XpR1o.jpg

Totally baffled by Tyrus love. Totally boring, scowling heavy, doesn't scare me. Agree with whoever said on other post that he looks perpetually like Madonna backup dancer. Totally missed casting opportunity IMO, should have complicated him w/ a sense of humor or really anything.

Voted Mrs. Pinkman

Really couldn't stand Jesse during the first seasons, but grew very attached to him during the last two. I think the actor's great too.

could someone plz explain the Tyrus meme going on here?

http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ls9e8wmU851qhtqtjo5_250.gif

BREATHING FURIOUSLY

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Tyrus was robbed

lol @ 1 vote for walt tho

This is about right.

Also ha ha @ Holly getting more votes than anyone in the White family. Proves the show can carry on with her in the lead.

I'm a little sad for Ted. That damn fool.

Also ha ha @ Holly getting more votes than anyone in the White family. Proves the show can carry on with her in the lead.

― Jeff, Tuesday, October 25, 2011 7:10 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

ha ha... joeks?

Hank Schrader 4 lyfe 100

i'm sure this got talked about in the main thread but the actor who played Tuco is probably the worst thing this show has ever had going for it, aside from dubstep being played at meth parties (at least thats otm)

what's wrong with him?

i thought the character Tuco was great! never thought abt the actor much.

only 1 vote for Hector

huh

I didn't vote cause I hadn't seen the finale yet and didn't want to run into any spoilers but I prob would have gone with saul? they're all great but if you think about how great he is for how much time he gets on screen...

This is the only picture I could find of Tucco in his brief appearance on Deep Space 9: http://images.wikia.com/memoryalpha/en/images/c/c0/Vargas.jpg

eh idk i just felt there was an over-doing it w/ the way dude played a CRAZY DRUG DEALER

i guess it was necessary to set up a stark contrast to Gus, but the same exact character could have been played more honestly

weird - he actually reminded me of a thing i knew.

Only 2 seasons deep at the moment, but would've voted Jesse.

gr80 otm, Tuco was awful, although afaict that was as much how the character was written as how the guy played it -- really came close to giving up on the show entirely during that stretch in season 2

i didn't have a problem with tuco.. at the time his craziness was v effective at conveying how in over their heads they were, and how dangerous this game was. meeting somebody like gus at that point wouldn't have raised the stakes as effectively imo. also yeah he was ott but i get the feeling some drug kingpins play that kind of role as a means of intimidation, and it wouldn't be surprising to me if that role took on its own reality in the kingpin's persona

vaguely remember reading some interview where the creators of the show said the only reason they wrote the gus character in the first place was because the tuco actor had other commitments?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Cruz

Can't see what they might have been but wait, Tuco is 50?

Raymond Cruz is actually a very nice man in real life, a very sweet guy. Plays one hell of a scary bad guy. Watching the dailies come in on this footage, I said to myself, “Wow, this guy is so damned scary. He’d be a great addition to the show; we’ve got to keep him around for a long time to come. We’ve got to think of more stuff to do with him.”

And right about the time we were having these discussions in the writers’ room, we found out from Raymond Cruz’s agent that he was going to be unavailable to us, because he was a regular on the TV show The Closer on TNT. The producers of The Closer were very nice and very helpful, but they also needed him day-in and day-out to do their show. So they were very magnanimous in helping us work out the opportunity to do one last episode with Raymond Cruz, and that turned out to be the episode that introduces Tio, his uncle, and the one in which Tuco dies.

All of this long-winded explanation is a way of saying the initial plan was to keep Tuco around for a long time, but we were left with no choice but to kill off the character. And, in the absence of Tuco, and the vacuum that that left behind, we thus came up with Gustavo Fring. Gustavo Fring is as button-down, and as business-like, and as cold-blooded as he is because Tuco was not. Essentially Gus Fring was everything Tuco was not. That’s where that character derived from, and that’s why he became the character that he became. You try to think ahead when you do a show like this, and yet so many of your best inventions stem sometimes from bad luck and happenstance.

I thought Tucco was pretty effective. He was ott for sure, but he conveyed the sense of "fucked up person who could snap and be very dangerous to you any second" really well. So well that I couldn't watch some of his eps when they first aired because he reminded me of a real methhead I was once in close quarters with. The guy I knew was not a murderous drug kingpin - just a hillbilly tweaker and small time dealer - but there was that same sense of instability and irrationality that felt very disconcerting in a small space. Since that level of realistic menace wouldn't really carry on TV, you get Tucco.

right i just mean the way delivered lines while he was screaming or getting high or doing a maniacal laugh made me rmde half the time

tuco reminded me of actual tweakers. but the difference was that a guy like walt doesn't actually get to get over on crazy tweaker tuco. he gets himself killed, or his arms broke, or something. that was the problem w/that character for me: there are characters like that, but they're immune to your clever getaway plans and shit.

their clever getaway plan didn't actually work iirc

i guess i only know tweakers like Badger /lol hawaii

yup - pretty much what Jenny & mr aerosmith bootleg said. reminds me a crazy not-so-much-meth-but-whatever-was-around-head i knew. he could really jack up the crazy sometimes, he was uunpredictable and occasionally scary and every one in a while he could be really logical and rational. but that would last only as long as it needed to before his next plunge off the deep end.

Spooge 0
Spooge's girlfriend 0

;_; ;_;

seriously, two of the scuzziest characters on TV ever!

Spooge´s girlfriend´s manic laugh after they jack Badger or whoever is seriously chilling.

Tio Salamanca solely for the look on his face in the finale. because i don't wanna ruin it for anybody who hasn't seen it (and i fear even massive spoiler tags might not be enough)...i won't say anything else.

Listening to Springsteen tonight. I always found the first line of "Atlantic City" to be kind of unintentionally funny: "Well they blew up the Chicken Man in Philly last night." After the last season of Breaking Bad, though, I wonder seriously if Gus, and his final adios, is an homage to that line that was planned all along.

Just a theory.

Oh, sorry... MASSIVE SPOILER ALERT! (Too late, I guess.)

pretty sure anybody who hasn't finished isn't reading the thread. I had to force myself to avoid this thread while I was finishing Season 4 *just in case*

walter white remind anyone of gabe kotter?

WW: Skyyyler, [Rolls eyes once around the room before returning focus back to SKYLER, perched on couch. Sighs.] Skyler. Have I ever told you about my uncle from Santa Fe?

mike > saul > hank > a few various minor characters >>>>> the rest

this show did get 100x better after the first two seasons

Feel like this show is about one thing and one thing only, really: being addicted to the tension that comes from high risk behavior. This applies to the major characters, who all engage in dangerous behavior against their better judgment under pretexts of varying degrees of flimsiness, but also to the viewers, who are jerked through one long intense standoff after another. It's fun and it's interesting but it feels very self-contained and almost RPG-ish in it's construction and the way the characters are constantly being played against each other - it doesn't seem especially concerned with versimilitude or finely developed characters or anything really beyond OMG WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN NEXT/WHICH SUPPORTING CHARACTER IS GOING TO DIE

― Shameful Dead Half Choogle (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, August 16, 2012 11:44 AM (1 year ago)

feeling this post

badger was this show's ziggy. just torture to watch

nver saw badger's penis though, so there's that.

Five more episodes to go. My favourite character at the moment is Lydia--I guess this poll pre-dated her. Mike was great for a while; he became a little mannered toward the end. Excepting his time in recovery, Hank is often my favourite. Gustav, Badger, and Saul, of course. Skyler's amazing at times, and Marie has her moments too. I like Walt Jr. a lot.

I wish I had someone at work I could call Gomey.

Jane says, "I'm going away to Spain
When I get my money saved
I'm gonna start tomorrow
I'm gonna kick tomorrow
I'm gonna kick tomorrow."

Badger and Skinny Pete are a bit like BB’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern- it’s a bit odd having them spit up as they mostly show up as a team.

I think it was Jane who spit up, seconds before she died.

Surprised Gale got no votes here--one of the most intriguing characters I can think of from any series.

I no doubt mentioned this already in one of the BB threads, but the ending to S3/E12--Jesse buying meth off the kid who shot Combo, being told to "Bounce" by him (just like Combo had said to the kid), and then Jesse walking away enraged and staring straight ahead--was one the best.

S3/E11 that should read. S3/E12: somehow forgot crash, bang, "Run."

Read something that called the S3 finale one of the greatest cliffhangers ever. Great finish, but is it a cliffhanger? What are we left wondering?

Quaint reminder of the internet circa 2008 that kills me every time: Skyler using Wikipedia to read up on money laundering, no big deal.

The scene where Skylar tries to get Walt to rehearse the gambling story they're going to tell Hank and Marie is one the series' funniest, I think--Gunn treating it like they're gathered around a table for a full-cast read-through ("You should look down at the ground right here"), Cranston's droll mockery.

Okay: Sky-ler.

There's an early episode where Walt and Jessie meet up in a supermarket, pretending to browse as they discuss plans; positive this is an homage to Double Indemnity. I also wonder if Skyler's great episode-closing "Someone has to protect this family from the man who protects this family" is an homage to Sydney Greenstreet's "I'm a man who likes talking to a man who likes to talk" from The Maltese Falcon.

Hank methodically laying out for Gomey and Merkert how Gale's murder traces back to Fring at the end of S4/E7: masterful.

https://i.postimg.cc/438JfF4Q/hank.jpg

There was a screen-ad for this at the movie I went to tonight:

https://www.londontourism.ca/events/londons-rock-and-gem-show

Immediately thought of Hank's exasperation with Marie when she kept calling all the minerals he was collecting rocks.