thinking about why i never enjoy the friends to lovers trope, and it's for the same reason i don't read coffee shop aus and the like. stories without conflict and drama are just boring to me. i need growth and tough choices, and change.
YouTubers PLEASE stop disguising your shitty abridged series recaps as reviews. I’ve been listening to this video for 10 minutes and just realized this guy is just telling me what happens in the movie with no additional commentary except bad jokes.
Finishing season 4 of Better Call Saul is making me look at Walter White in a slightly different way. I always thought he was a terrible person (and he is), but if you’re looking at him from the point of view of Better Call Saul, he comes across more as a chaotic force of divine retribution to the protagonists. To Gustavo, he’s a similar seemingly mild manner citizen that is actually a secret evil genius who beats him at his own game. To Mike, he’s a dark mirror version of Werner (which is the first name of the real Heisenberg) who brings him nothing but strife. And to Jimmy, he’s another larger than life genius like his brother, Chuck, who constantly makes him feel powerless. It’s like Walter is a Homeric character preprogrammed by divine forces with just the right negative qualities to compel him to carry out justice against these characters without his knowledge, and once that was done, he was no longer useful, and his empire quickly disappeared.