Remember how a decade ago the biggest show in the world was about an American who turned to crime in part because of medical bills and the apparent takeaway has been "I liked when he said 'you're goddamn right' lol"
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I think we need to acknowledge that at a certain point of popularity, media literacy breaks down in favour of 'this is what I want it to be and SHUT THE FUCK UP IF ANYTHING TELLS ME OTHERWISE'.
See also, 'Born In The USA' by Bruce Springsteen, the catalog of Rage Against The Machine, Star Trek.
He turned to crime because he wanted to. He had rich friends who offered him money. He straight up says he did it because he wanted to, there's a whole big monologue about it. "I did it for me". I haven't even seen the show and I know it better than you do.
Don't forget that a whole bunch of men took Gus's speech about a man providing at face value and made it their personality instead of recognizing it as a manipulative attack on Walter's fragile masculinity.
Breaking Bad has always attracted horrible takes because the kind of people Walter and Gus were based on accurately saw themselves reflected in the characters. I guess I can't really blame them for not seeing in their fictional analogues what they fail to see in themselves.
I'm still getting over the fact that the creator of Leverage had to *tone down* the evil shit the fictional companies/CEOs did compared to their IRL equivalents.
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See also, 'Born In The USA' by Bruce Springsteen, the catalog of Rage Against The Machine, Star Trek.
The thought's roiling in there all the same.