What's funny is the more I think about it, the more I think the OP chose one of the worst comparisons to make the point about Loki, precisely because of the way BB positions Walter.
I'm a person who tends to be able to sympathize with (and often really, really like) villains who show any sort of sympathetic traits/motivations, even villains in more realistic canons. Stringer Bell of The Wire is one of my favorite characters of all time -- and not in a love to hate way; I really half wanted the man to succeed despite how terrible he was. Heck, I even sympathized with Gus on BB some after the episode "Hermanos."
But I haaate Walter at this point. HATE. Why? Because the show is working overtime to make sure I do. Even with the killing Coulson thing mentioned above, Avengers is trying nowhere near as hard to make me hate Loki. The point of that movie is for us to root for the good guys; hating Loki is just part of that story. The point of Breaking Bad is for us to hate Walter, full stop.
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What's funny is the more I think about it, the more I think the OP chose one of the worst comparisons to make the point about Loki, precisely because of the way BB positions Walter.
I'm a person who tends to be able to sympathize with (and often really, really like) villains who show any sort of sympathetic traits/motivations, even villains in more realistic canons. Stringer Bell of The Wire is one of my favorite characters of all time -- and not in a love to hate way; I really half wanted the man to succeed despite how terrible he was. Heck, I even sympathized with Gus on BB some after the episode "Hermanos."
But I haaate Walter at this point. HATE. Why? Because the show is working overtime to make sure I do. Even with the killing Coulson thing mentioned above, Avengers is trying nowhere near as hard to make me hate Loki. The point of that movie is for us to root for the good guys; hating Loki is just part of that story. The point of Breaking Bad is for us to hate Walter, full stop.