Walt is obviously a monster for most of the show’s run but I think people sometimes go too far dunking on people for sympathizing with him given how the premise is overwhelmingly set up to have you sympathize with him, then have that sympathy rot into disgust and pity alongside his transformation. Yeah he’s not some sigma to idolize but you are supposed to feel sorry for him

I disagree. For one, I don't think you can divorce the discourse from the social context of the time. it's inherently reactionary. people weren't really saying "oh, it sucks Walt had cancer and our country sucks so he had to sell meth." They were talking about how epic he was and how much it sucked that his wife "was a bitch." People were legit harassing the actor who played Skyler because they didn't like how "mean" she was to Walt even though both Walt and Skyler aren't real! I think it makes sense to sympathize with him for a bit but a lot of people misread the show and took their sympathy way too far. he was basically the original Rick Sanchez and we could have prevented Rick and Morty from being as annoying if we bullied the Walt stans harder when we had the chance.

even from a sympathy standpoint, there's so many better characters to sympathize with. Jesse's right there basically the entire time and he's at least attempting to be a good person and seems way more conflicted about the morally heinous things he's done.

also Marie is fucking funny and I never understood the hate behind her. the only bad thing about her is she married a cop.