"the less than stellar reception of Book Two"? Is Book 2 not well regarded? I love that season. It has some of my favorite moments in it.

"Varrick is downright swoon-worthy with stubble. And Bolin should always have messy hair. It just feels right." Every thing about this is correct. Bolrick (Varrin?) is the best! I almost would rather watch just their storyline.

Vince Gillian and the writers are artists.  Artists create fictions that say something about reality.  It is not pseudo intellectuals who are misinterpreting this show: you are.

Exactly.  This is why BB is an important piece of art.  Because how it is viewed reveals something about human-kind, the humanities, and our individual humanity.  Walter White is a cancer, and he reveals the cancer within our culture.    

It took me one episode to realize it was about male privilege.  The first episode.  The show runners are completely aware that they were creating a show that critiqued male privilege - its the audience who are in denial. 

I can understand it from Walt's perspective - he's diseased.  He is a sick individual who see's the world through "Walter White" colored glasses (and I'm not talking about the cancer).  
They never took anything from him that he wasn't willing to sell.  They offered him back into the company and he refused.  They are…

I understand the motivation with regards to Walt.  What I don't understand is the viewers who are excited at the possibility and anticipating how it will play out

I forgot about Walt and the Neo-Nazi using Andrea to find Jesse when he was holed up with Hank.  How quickly we forget!

I'm not saying it was sadistic to Jesse (though it was in narrative terms), I was saying it was sadistic to the audience without serving a narrative purpose.  I'm fully aware of the actions Jesse has taken during the course of the show. I am far from an apologist and I don't believe this show exists in a moral…

PBS, you inconsistent bitch!

I agree with everything you are saying.  My question was more rhetorical and giving up hope that he might take a redemptive turn.   He is already evil - despite what the sociopaths on this page are saying - If he uses his penchant for destruction against Neo-Nazis, he is still a bad person, but it frames differently.…

So Walt is truly evil?

"His" "his" "his".  Did you ever think this whole thing is about the Grey Matter story in his head, and not reality? People miss opportunities and decided to opt-out of great ideas all the time.  Why do you think Gretchen or Eliot needs to die because Walt wasn't brave enough to fight for success until he was dying?

I agree.  It was a struggle not to turn of the TV and walk away from the show in that moment.  It was sick and cruel, and did nothing to move the story forward.  That scene could be taken out of the episode and would have changed nothing narrative.  It was truly sadistic.  Also.  How did the Nazis even know about…

Right, because this is Jesse's fault?

The killing of Andrea, hands down.  I nearly walked away in that moment.  Sick and sadistic on the part if the show runners.

What on earth did the Gretchen and Elliot do to deserve this?  The choices Water made are his, not theirs.  Additionally they made overtures to hire Walt, to pay for his chemo, to help his family.  This is kindness, not evilness. 
They are business people trying to distance themselves from a criminal.  They are not…

I agree.  Besides, Charlie Rose is on at night, not the middle of the day.

Jesse.  Theon deserved what he got, as awful as that was.