Why does this board suddenly hate breaking bad?

it's popular

>>212247653 (OP)
>>first air date 2008
Because zoomers were 9-10 yrs old when it came out so they feel they missed out

I don't hate Breaking Bad.

Watch the plinkett reviews

>>212247653 (OP)
Contrannyism

>>212247653 (OP)
Next year the people who were born when the series premiered in 2008 will be 18 and can post on 4chan.

No one hates Breaking Bad, but it's time to admit it wasn't that great. And even at the time people said it.

>when he's deciding whether to kill that drug dealer
>he writes "judeo/christian principles" on his list of reasons not to kill him
kek I forgot how this show started

>>212248139
yea, there were many logic loopholes, but despite that it was still a masterpiece among all other shitty work

>>212247992
Plinkett reviewed breaking bad?

>>212247653 (OP)
contrarianism and disliking anything reddut likes

>>212248219
>>212248139
You marathoned it years after it came out. Of course it's not gonna be that good. It was like LOST or Game of Thrones in that its appeal was based in mass popularity across most demographics when it aired. Everyone followed and talked about it online and IRL, which made watching it more fun.
This is impossible to recreate in 2025. Demographics are isolated in bubbles of content that panders to them. Even when huge hit shows come out and episodes are released weekly, they are not watched at the same time and people avoid discussion to avoid spoilers. Added to which, a large percent of the male population is completely checked out of all "trending" media so they don't give a fuck. Personally, I only watch things years after they come out now because it's likely garbage anyway.
tl;dr you had to be there

Rewatching, was going well until the fucking terminator twins
gave up

>>212249088
Uh, I actually watched it long after the fad was over.
It was heavily flawed by several moments, but it was a masterpiece. (it's insanely hard to find works/masterpiece with very limited flaws)

>>212247653 (OP)
The more you watch it the easier it is tp find flaws and take in just how ridiculous it is.

>>212249615
It doesn't hold up like the Sopranos.

>>212247653 (OP)
Because faggots like you overhyped it into the ground.

reddit

>The Sopranos
/tv/
>Breaking Bad
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>Fallout 3
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>Fallout Jew Vegas
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I've always hated it retard

>>212247932
Yeah and I was 13 when it concluded. I was caught up brother didn’t miss out on anything, but go ahead grandpa be mad.

>>212247653 (OP)
Cause people realised Breaking Bad was always a goofy live action cartoon for adults.
>two face gus
>i am le one who knocks
>bbbb-bonfire
>machine gun in trunk killing nazis
>magnets bitch
>any scene with le 4d chessmaster gus
>it's not le meth
>the two assassin brothers

>>212247653 (OP)
I only like this series more as it ages. It is a remarkably unpreachy piece of media considering when it was made.

I know Vince eventually got all butthurt about people not understanding that Walt is...le bad, but if you actually go and rewatch it all you can see that browbeating Walt is literally never the point of the series. The fact that he becomes a monster is always played in a more tragic than condemnatory way and even to the very end its made in a way that has you rooting for Walt just to see where he ends up. You might root for Jesse or Hank too but you still want to see what shenanigans Walt is going to try to get out each new scenario. You still empathize with him.

It is just a kino story about a smart prideful guy flaming out filled with lots of good characters, funny dialogue, engaging plot points, and decent cinematography and music. And the atmosphere is very comfy, especially early on.

>suddenly

>>212251563
>It is a remarkably unpreachy piece of media considering when it was made.
I agree, this was a huge merit of the show. But in S5 they ruined it. They had scenes where Walt was a cartoon villain, complete with villainous quips and evil music. It really detracts from the rest of the scenes where Walt is more genuinely depicted. Probably the worst thing about S5 but the list is long.

>>212252627
I agree there are some goofy lines and sequences but Walt is never totally dehumanized nor made into an antagonist. He is still very human in Ozymandias, and when he begs for Hanks life.

And then in the very end we are unambiguously rooting for him when he takes on the nazi gang and Lydia and saves Jesse. Even when he says "I did it for me, I was good at it" to Skylar she doesn't condemn him or anything, she seems to almost gets it despite it destroying all their lives. He's still depicted as a sort of antihero and sympathetic character.

I really only noticed when I rewatched it recently because the discourse has become so heavily focused on Walt being evil that I forgot how the show really felt. Its only in the first half of S5 that Walt is genuinely cartoonishly evil and this is just him fully giving in to his ego and malice. He resurfaces as a more complex human after that

>HEY TUCO, THIS IS NOT LE METH
>DAMN HEISENBERG YOU SO EPIC WIN, I’M GONNA WORK WITH YOU NOW PAPI

>>212249088
That literally wasn't true at all until the very last season. The show didn't blow up until it was on Netflix and started spreading by word of mouth, it was a literally who show for most of its run

It's just not that good. It literally got mogged by its own prequel series.

faggots on /tv/ are just contrarian retards, who gives a shit? it's still gold. also love sopranos too.

>>212252856
I was "rooting" for jack and Todd. I felt they deserved the money more

>>212247653 (OP)
The hate and calling it garbage is unfair to Breaking Bad, its good but its not the best thing ever made. Its a tier or two below Sopranos.
>>212249088
You made up a whole bunch of bullshit. Nobody gave it a shit about Breaking Bad until Season 5B started which was in 2013. Most people MARATHONED the show on Netflix because of shitty reddit memes.

It was fun when it aired

But it's obviously a cringe power fantasy now

>>212247653 (OP)
IDK what you mean, but the last time I watched it it was extremely boring but also way more kino than it was on previous watches. Its weird. I appreciate it more but enjoy it less.

>>212249088
You're a faggot

I wish they didn't drop the dark humor in later seasons.

I don't, I just like poking fun at it

>>212247653 (OP)
zoomer contrarianism.

>>212247653 (OP)
Paying Badger and Skinny Pete to threaten Elliot and Gretchen was pretty stupid
Blowing up Tuco's office and getting away with it was pretty stupid no matter how ballsy it was
Lashing out because you feel personally threatened by Gus' autism was stupid
You'd expect an intelligent, evidently well-read man like Walter to have more intrigue to his character, but the whole series consists of him behaving like a hormonal teenager. At least Sopranos went through the effort of showing you that Tony can't just lay low and collect his envelopes every month. Walt would've probably sued Gray Matter after he left if this occurred IRL and come away with a settlement but of course he can't do that in the show because that would ruin the contrived plot.

It's not a masterpiece, but I find it very rewatchable. It's like the junk food of wannabee prestige television.

>>212253740
>Lashing out because you feel personally threatened by Gus' autism was stupid
?

>>212249088
I can rewatch lost and game of thrones though

>>212253775
>he killed a loyal employee because he was so much as seen at a crime scene
>surely it will be fine for me, the amateur who he initially had doubts about working with
>it certainly won't be a problem that he knows about me DEA family member who is already tracking Gus' car and doing stakeouts on his facilities
yeah, pretty unwarranted by Walt, he had nothing to worry about

>>212253709
Old your old. We love and have memed the shit out of this show for years.

>>212253775
Walter was envious of Gus' austere, no frills attitude and the respect and loyalty that it granted him

>>212247653 (OP)
It's basically
>Reddit: The TV Show