Tigerlily

Haha, maybe we were seperated at TV birth! Good call on how did Jesse how where the hospital was... never caught it. I guess that's just a leap of faith or a gap in the story we're expected to fill in. I can overlook a few of those for an otherwise amazing series that really did pack a punch. I have watched a few seasons of The Wire and while I did like it, it never truly hooked me and I must have had some life event of just got busy or whatever and dropped it and never picked it back up again. I think I stopped watching at season 3 or 4, right after "Hamsterdam". My favourite TV show ever is The Shield and at the time The Wire was compared to it and swept all the accolades... I never got the hype on that one either. Certainly very good, but not "best ever". I did watch and love The Sopranos from start to finish though, I still rate The Shield over that, too. I like Breaking Bad over The Wire. Sopranos over both of those and The Shield over everything! (I'm a die-hard Shield fanatic, lol)

This, exactly. I never really liked him and almost stopped watching at the end of Season 2. When he allowed Jane to die, it just totally solidified my loathing of his character. Friends were like "you can't stop watching now! this is when it gets really good!!!"... so I persevered. I don't think I've ever watched a series so intently where I actively barracked against the main character like this and yet was so invested in the outcome. I wanted Hank and Jesse to prevail and Walt to either get captured or die. I did want his kids to get a nest egg of cash though, otherwise it was all an exercise in destruction and futility! Thankfully, the writers fgured out a way to make that happen.

Bwahaha!!! I think that was the episode I thought "omg, please somebody launch this beotch into outerspace, kthx"... she was just an absolute pill in Season 1. And you know, it's not that (at least) most of the time she was justified. But she was just such an unrelenting harpy. And at that time, Walt is still just this bumbling, pathetic science teacher, in over his head, trying to cook up some meth to pay for his cancer treatment and leave his family a modest nest egg - $700k and some change was his pie in the sky goal, remember? My, how things changed... She was everything you said, and also, really fricking annoying. That scene, IMO, perfectly illustrates how everything about Walt's life before meth was underwhelming and pathetic. I also feel like the dynamic between Skyler and Walt had given her the upperhand because he always seemed to be snivelling and grovelling. I just watched the finale, and there is a scene that looks back on the first season where he and Jesse need to stay in the desert longer to finish a cook. Walt walks away to figure out what hes going to tell Skyler about coming home late, and he just sounds like a nervous subordinate, tryng to fgure out something palatable and pleasing to tell The Boss. Of course, its a stark contrast to the Walt of later seasons. Skyler was also about 10 years younger and more attractive than Walt, even when adjusting for the age dfference. He always seems simultaneously grateful for her, and tired of the grovelling dynamic between them. Jesse is probably my favourite character in the series, but I actually don't fault Skyler for this at all. Jesse almost burned down their family home and for all she knew, posed a further threat to herself, Walt and their children. I'd want him dead too.

I feel the same way. It was so hyped up, "best show ever", yada yada yada and I'm just like, yeah... its cool. It doesn't help that I pretty much loathe Walt and cheer against him in every scene (except where it means Jesse or any other character I actually care about might get hurt or lose in some way). Also agree with everyone who said said that Gus Fring was an EPIC character. RIP Fring. The scene where he takes out the cartel was classic. Stone cold gangster.