re: #373 Hecuba’s daughter

That’s one reason I refused to watch certain otherwise lauded series: I was not a fan of rooting for drug dealers (Breaking Bad) or serial killers (Dexter) or mobsters (The Sopranos). I don’t want to feel sympathy for people who are truly objectively evil.

I respect the choice, I see where you’re coming from.

For me, though, there was a lot more to Breaking Bad than just making us root for drug dealers. It was a character study in ego and hubris, and Walter White watching everything he’d built crumble, leaving him broke, isolated, on the run, and dying alone, having to face the fact that he hadn’t done it for his family, he hadn’t been forced into it by circumstance - he did it because he enjoyed it and it made him feel powerful, and paid no attention to who it hurt.