Why Twitter is useful: someoene asked Vince Gilligan whose idea the fantastic Ozymandias promo for Breaking Bad had been, and he replied:
Shelley's "Ozymandias" came up a lot this season, as my writers and I are nerds who never see the sun... However, the idea of cutting the poem into a promo was the idea of the brilliant director Rian Johnson.
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That said, I do think that there's still a hefty amount of misogyny in the Skyler haters arguments. In the comments once again some fan roots all their hatred in the handjob scene from the Pilot and actually cites Skyler's emasculating treatment of Walt as the reason Walt HAD to fight back and reclaim his manhood in such an extreme way. It seems there are a scary amount of men who see Walt as the righteous rebel defying his controlling bitchy wife. Oh and you also have all the rants about Skyler being so ungrateful that Walt cooked all that meth and made all that illegal drug money for her and the kids.
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Yes, as much as I appreciate any pro-Skyler articles to combat the moronic hate campaign against this character, I'll admit that piece was lacking in depth of thought. I think Anna Gunn herself was recently talking about "ego" being Skyler's worst quality as much as it is Walt's. A big part of Skyler NOT going to the police was her belief that she was clever enough to control this frightening situation all by herself. Skyler (unlike Walt) has the self-awareness and sanity to realize when things have gone too far and she'll admit when she's run out of good solutions to the horrifying mess Walt has made of their lives.
Meanwhile, another article also made me rise my eyebrows: the sixteen worse things Walter White has done on Breaking Bad. I'm kinda amused that "cooking many many tons of highly addictive life destroying ( ... )
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Yes, exactly. And see, if people said this is why they don't like Skyler, that they condemm her for this, I wouldn't argue. But instead, you get the "smoking while pregnant"/"slept with Ted" stuff, and of course endless variatons of "emasculating bitch".
I'm kinda amused that "cooking many many tons of highly addictive life destroying crystal meth" doesn't rank anywhere on the list of bad things Walt has done.
Quite. Methinks the show needs to bring Wendy back, or show us other addicts to remind everyone again graphically of the source and consequence of Walt's "empire".
Though I would like to add that Walt didn't force Jesse to cook meth. Jesse was already cooking meth. Walt just blackmailed Jesse into being his partner, something Jesse was willing to do once he saw the quality ( ... )
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I don't even think Gale was all that naive, in terms of poisoning people that is. Gale seemed to have his eyes open when he explained to Walt that if he wasn't cooking meth, tweekers would still get their drug from some other source and at least with his meth they get exactly what they pay for, etc. I think Gale was a bit of a hedonist. He loved the "magic" of the lab and he seemed like a globe trotter. Gale probably planned to use the money he earned to explore the world. He was such a loner so maybe he had a low capacity for empathy and that stopped him considering the damage his drug was doing. I guess Gale was naive to just how dangerous Gus's organisation was, but then Gus fooled Walt into thinking his business was non-violent too.
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Hank: has a dark side, which is shown both in his beatinig of Jesse and in his treatment of Marie during his reconvalescence. However, he has that saving grace of knowing that what he did to Jesse is not okay simply because Jesse is a criminal, and that he can't brush it off or hide it or allow his superiors to ignore it. So, is Hank a good man? Not always, but he IS a moral one.
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