Favorite Breaking Bad Character

that joke still isnt funny

Tyrus tho

I hear he was GREAT in the Shield.

Jesse is in a vodka commercial with puff daddy

"Enjoy Ciroc Responsibly.... BITCH."

Just started watching this on netflix, why did I wait so long?

Haha, I just read this as "favorite barking mad character...'

Tyrus

Everyone except Tyrus.

by favoriting everyone except tyrus, you are singling out tyrus

http://oyster.ignimgs.com/wordpress/write.ign.com/76341/2012/04/Breaking_Bad.gif

screaming through season 4 - Gus, Mike, Jesse.

Gus's cartel backstory puts him over the top. He's so damn inscrutable.

That gif is hypnotising me.

Who on Earth voted for JR?

who shot "jr"?

intro two-page spread of the upcoming MAD magazine parody: http://videos.theonion.com/avclub_video/2012/06/MADMagazine-BreakingBad.jpg

I'm only at the end of Season 2. Show is pretty good, but arrival of Odenkirk made show waaaaay more engaging imho

tyrus

how did gus win, he was so boring and tight-assed

s'all good maaaaan

That's what's interesting about Gus!

krazy 8 is kinda underrated, good character arc there. love the plate shard twist.

how did gus win, he was so boring and tight-assed

― Hungry4Ass, Monday, July 23, 2012 8:16 PM (14 minutes ago)

Is this a joke post?

gus just isnt an interesting character, i get why people think hes fwickin cool or whatever but hes a thinly drawn whatever

gus is a pretty cool antagonist and a great performance from g-espo but i do think the inscrutable quiet dude who also is capable of emotionless and vicious violence is such a cliche it made his unpredictability a bit predictable, like is S4 ep1 i knew what was going to happen in that scene the instant he started putting on that raincoat.

thought he was gonna break into song tbh

http://www.kellimarshall.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/singin_in_the_rain.jpg

gus is a pretty cool antagonist and a great performance from g-espo but i do think the inscrutable quiet dude who also is capable of emotionless and vicious violence is such a cliche it made his unpredictability a bit predictable, like is S4 ep1 i knew what was going to happen in that scene the instant he started putting on that raincoat.

― omar little, Monday, July 23, 2012 4:52 PM (24 minutes ago) Bookmark

yeah you're otm about that character type. i overstated my case, he is a cool character and i dig esposito's performance, its just so hard to make a character who's always the cool quiet badass not seem tiresome and mechanical (i know there was more to gus than that but i never found the cracks in the facade compelling)

Best part of the Gus arc was seeing him as an apple-cheeked youngster, ready for the world and wanting to make some meth for the Cartel with his boyfriend.

<3 ^

fun fact: don eladio and his right-hand man Hector were both in Scarface

took me awhile to not see Bob Odenkirk Playing a Kooky Lawyer and to see Saul Goodman, broke the spell of the show for awhile. But he's great in this.

There was one scene where Saul visits Walt in the hospital while Hank's recovering from being shot. The two of them are in a dark, empty waiting room. I can't remember what exactly they were discussing, but it was after that scene that I realized I wasn't seeing Mr. Show anymore.

"no honor among thieves... except for us, right?"

Saul is very Stevie Grant

every time he appears I always think of this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AhgyXtZQgU

finished season 4.

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

liked it best when Jesse and Walt were low-level losers and there was some tension between Walt's extracurricular activities and his "normal life", before the question of whether or not he was doing this because he was going to die/had cancer had been so clearly resolved - by the time we get to season 3 it's essentially an OTT crime dramedy and while it's fun I find it sort of less engaging

shakey otm

xpost I agree with Shakey to some extent -- but I do have kind of a fascination with Walt's megalomania, and how it's affecting his relationships. Kinda like watching poison spread through a body on time release or something. I've always enjoyed that kind of Richard III character arc, maybe I'm a sadist at heart lol.

That tension is still there IMO, obviously it's ramped up by now but there are three family members who are still completely in the dark.

(xpost also yes the character arc is fantastic)

four if you count Holly, although i imagine she suspects something

Yeah he told her everything that one time.

so he did!

She's trying to communicate everything to Hank and Marie via the medium of adorable little animal hats but no one's picking up the message.

Walt's arc has been fun but it's basically been complete since he murdered his third or fourth guy imo

xp

nah he still has to eat his own infant daughter

I think he's still got some depths to plumb

and some plumbers to kill with the sharpened handle end of a plunger