Breaking Bad is a purely fictional TV show with an overtly unrealistic, fantastic plot....a complete fairy tale. The characters however, are very compelling and realistic, and you can genuinely empathize with the emotional struggles and inner conflicts that they go through....That's what makes the show so great. It can go from drama to comedy to action/adventure in a single episode. It has a little bit of everything and the viewer never knows what the next scene will bring. It lulls you into a false sense of security with something lighthearted, and then drops a bomb on you time and time again!
It does contain gratuitous, cartoon-like violence at times that's just there for pure entertainment, like any gangster/crime or action/thriller type movie or show. People root for people to die all the time in the context of TV and movies, that's just part of the fun of it! That's why I find it funny that there's a select few posters in this thread getting on their "moral high horse" and passing judgment on the people who are hoping that certain characters get killed off or "take the money and run" etc. It's a fucking TV show! It's just so naïve, immature and IDK.....fucking pretentious....I abhor people who think they're just "so enlightened" and nitpick every little thing that everyone else does...I've spent years of my life around people like this and the only people who can stand them are the other people with the exact same stick up their ass, or as Walter White said a few episodes ago in the flashback scene in the desert, "So and so has 'bug up his butt' and he's insisting that I stay late!"
From now on I'll make sure that I only identify with and root for the fictional characters that conduct themselves in the most politically correct, morally upright manner that mirrors how everyone should live day to day in real life!
When I watch a slasher film like a Friday the 13th and the other people in the room with me drinking beer all cheer when an asshole character gets killed, I'm gonna push the non-prescription, unnecessary frames back onto the bridge of my nose and say, "How can you guys cheer for someone dying?!"..."Nobody deserves to die!"...."Cheering for people who die in movies is disrespectful to the people who die from senseless violence everyday in real life!"....Then, I'll go in my bedroom, fire up my MacBook and put on a jazz-fusion record(an actual vinyl record) by some band nobody's ever heard of before and lament how ignorant everyone is....