you missed my entire point. the deceit and bullshit is how walt dealt with her, because she is the way she is. fuck her, if she wasn't such a pretentious and abnoxious cunt, he would have been able to be more honest with her.
I got that point, I was just trying to explain that without the characters having been developed the way they have been - it'd be an entirely different show. It's not really a matter of just dialing in a different personality or wittier dialogue coming out of their mouths or something, it's the essentials that drive the entire story. The female characters are ostensibly boring, stereotypical and suburban (Skylar is
pretentious?! wtf) because that's the jumping off point for essentially every single plot device and conflict in the narrative.
1) Man finds out he is dying.
2) Man hatches hairbrained scheme to provide after his death by cooking meth.
3) In order for this to work effectively, Man needs to keep family in dark about the whole affair until he's dead and gone.
4) Hilarity ensues...
See? The fundamental concept of Breaking Bad could not be done without these type of characters. It's one thing if you just don't like the show, but that doesn't appear to be the problem. I wouldn't "like" either the Marie or Skylar character if I had to hang out with them every day either, but thankfully I'm not in Junior High homeroom with any of them and it's just a television program that I only have to appreciate their relevance within in regards to their advancing the story, which I most certainly do.
these bitches aren't simply flawed. they are monstrous. the writing on this show is bloody terrible.
I'm really not trying to be a dick here (really), but considering that you just compared True Blood favorably to this show, I have to ask - aside from Sookie's fairy oasis and sexxxxy vampire Eric, of course - what DO you think is good television writing if Breaking Bad ain't it?
You didn't think that was fantastic writing in the Season 3 episode "Fly" where Walter's fear of "lab contamination" was used metaphorically to let the audience know his whole entire scheme was essentially a total failure since he had more-or-less lost his family before checking out, directly because (see #3 above) of his efforts, and he was now a man with little to live for outside of making sure Skylar took the damn money and providing his third "adopted" child (alluded to through MORE EXCELLENT WRITING in the finale's opening flashback) Jesse with a little guidance before he finally kicks the bucket? How about the dialogue between Walt and Gus on memory at their little dinner party?
I could be totally wrong, of course. I would love for that to be the case and for you to open my mind to even higher quality television writing that I'm apparently missing out on, so lemme know!
