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You gave it a generous amount of your time. I'd say if you don't like it in the first few episodes it might not be for you. I was hooked almost immediately.

I made it like 3 episides of season 1 before I threw in the towel lol

I am baffled by your opinion here, can I ask... what was another show, or season of a show that, in your opinion, did 'get good'?

Sometimes that's true. Not all times. But many shows have a weak season 1 but then get amazing. And you can't really skip it without losing context.

I've never managed to watch the whole series. There's great bits but I get super uncomfortable with Walters bumbling, flagrant dishonesty with his wife and family. I get the same thing with a few different shows and I just don't enjoy it. To the point where I find myself just switching the TV off mid way through a scene and going to do something else without even really thinking about it.

If I had to describe the sensation it would be "extreme toe-curling cringe".

That was my second watch so not a huge deal to me

I had to double take, I read that as 'second wife' the first time

Honestly from the point where

...he lost all my sympathy. I was increasingly curious about how things were going to go wrong for him. More fascinating train wreck, less investment in him personally.

... You are saying you find the idea of someone being very reckless and engaging in very risky behavior, for the thrill of the whole thing, to feel more alive than just going through the mundane motions of an average and safe life, to feel powerful, to prove to themselves that they can do something remarkable and be exceptional...

You find this stupid and unrealistic?

Like, I'll give you that the science of the show has flaws, but like... it is at least fairly within the ballpark for most things, decently detailed with a lot of other things... like, the FCC is not going to let you air a show that provides detailed, accurate instructions on how to cook meth or make a thermite bomb/lance, lol.

But... I don't get how you find the concept of people being motivated by ... whatever in particular it is, to do dangerous things... is stupid an unrealistic. This happens tens of millions of times, every day.

The entire point of Walt breaking bad is that... yeah, he had a taste of all that violent and dangerous shit... and he liked it.

At one point, I think the last time he sees his wife, Skyler, Skyler basically asks him why he did all this insane shit... and Walt more or less says, I'm not gonna lie to you, I'm not gonna bs you... "I was good at it."

His normal life was unfullfilling to him, constantly being disrespected and belittled, not feeling fulfilled by what he had... and he found and chose a path that granted him the validation and respect he felt he never had.

Yep, that destroyed him and his family and many other people in the end.

The whole show is thus a cautionary tale, that even an otherwise meek, intelligent, and generally respectable man can repress much of his true nature, and that if this isn't consciously addressed and reconciled responsibly, in a healthy way... it can manifest as a transformation into an entirely different person, with different fundamental values and goals.

Walt is basically a midlife crisis gone nuclear, a giant episode of toxic masculinity bursting forth, a man's repressed shadow self (if you're into Jung) subsuming and transforming him into a monster.

That says more about you than you'd ever care to admit.

They made a sequel and kept going??

That is true.

Though... I find the assumption they are talking about Cyberpunk 2077 more realistic:

CyberPunk 2077 did have a very controversial, busted ass broken launch, took em like 2 or 3 years to fully fix it up.

Whereas like... a person with an anime avatar... is presumably familiar... with anime?

Akira? Ghost in the Shell?

Is... cyberpunk as a genre generally... controversial? In... modern day?

I can see it as more controversial like, 20 to 30 years ago... back when Pokemon cards were literally demon magic, as was DnD.

But not present day?

I realize this is not infallible logic... but the idea of an anime fan who finds the genre of cyberpunk controversial.... this is basically ridiculous to me, whereas 77 much more recently was in much more controversy.

Or, perhaps I am just old.

oh hey look a civilian airliner!

There has to be some other whey!

I just have a friend who uses it and tells me what shows are coming

I first watched it during University years, and I was very much of the camp that was doing the vicariously living through the power fantasy of Walt’s rise to power and the bitch wife and crying jessie ruining it for him.

I recently, like a year ago as a 31+ year old rewatched it again, and jesus christ what a top to bottom egoistic selfish asshole Walt is, all I did is feel sorry for Skyler and Jessie.

I think knowing where it's going makes a big difference. Like, first time in going in blind Walt is a sympathetic for the first bit, and for most of the story is dealing with the unintended consequences of raising funds for his treatment. Knowing where it's going it's a lot easier to see him in a lot worse light earlier in the story.

It's the adult Tom&Jerry.

Proofreading wouldnt really help this would it? Cp wasnt a typo, they intentionally typed it thinking ... well iunno what they were thinking but likely along the lines of " good abbreviation for cyperpunk, really saved some time huh".

Ahhhhh that

I remember now thanks

About the grudge, yeah that's a gamer thing