Walter White is the greatest TV character of all time correct?

[Suicide King]

The breaking bad hype has reached a breaking point. There is no way he is the best character in Tv history. The main problem with breaking bad is it is suspense, thriller and action first before drama. As a result the depth of the character suffer.

He is top 10.

Its hard to say who is the GOAT, he is a great criminal mind, but they make the story so ridiculous just so he can but his skills to work. The show is popcorn tv, and they use to many plot devices just to keep the story moving. The story is very outlandish, they could make him flap his arms and fly and it wouldn't bother me.

 

[GreatestLaker]

Michael Scofield

Both are better characters than Walter.

 

[Mic-Nificent]

The breaking bad hype has reached a breaking point. There is no way he is the best character in Tv history. The main problem with breaking bad is it is suspense, thriller and action first before drama. As a result the depth of the character suffer.

In what fukking way has Walt's character depth suffered? Walt is one of the most well developed character I've seen on Television.

 

[Mic-Nificent]

and then go to the nudie bar

Where a bucks enough to see their stuff........At the nudie bar

 

[GreatestLaker]

Short lived, but was still a great character.

 

[yseJ]

I wouldnt say ww is the goat character as a character itself. the acting job is top 10 for sure though, and might be top 3. cranston been fukking killing it.

 

[obarth]

Just dramas:

1.Tony Soprano
2.Jack Bauer
3(tie).Walter White
3(tie).Don Draper
5.Dexter Morgan
6.Vic Mackey

When you start factoring in other genres, he probably falls out of the top 5.

 

[Rarely-Wrong Liggins]

even in death he had to make sure he was presentable

Gus>Walt

Gus is black?!

 

[krackdagawd]

Michael Scofield

Both are better characters than Walter.

Dexter wasn't even the best character on his own show. That goes to the trinity killer.

 

[hex]

Gus is black?!

Fred.

 

[ECA]

Michael Scofield

Both are better characters than Walter.

Dexter's last four seasons has ruined any goodwill that show once had, and Michael C. Hall has been phoning it in during those years too.

And the dude that plays Michael Scofield is. Would be a much better character if he was played by anybody else

 

[nieman]

Short lived, but was still a great character.

He wasn't the best character on the show, not even the best Stark (Arya)

 

[LostOne]

In what fukking way has Walt's character depth suffered? Walt is one of the most well developed character I've seen on Television.

Well for starters who is Walter White, who are his parents, brothers, sisters, childhood? Prior to graduate school WW is a ghost.

 

[Mic-Nificent]

Well for starters who is Walter White, who are his parents, brothers, sisters, childhood? Prior to graduate school WW is a ghost.

First of all, Walt's past has been touched on before.

Second, the stuff you're claiming was never touched on doesn't necessarily add to a character's depth. A characters background could be a complete mystery but that same character can still have depth.

Character depth is about the way a character feels and reacts, about their internal struggles, their ethical boundaries, their thought processes.

If you're gonna complain about a lack of depth for a character or say the development of it has suffered you should have a better grasp of the concept.

 

[hex]

Well for starters who is Walter White, who are his parents, brothers, sisters, childhood? Prior to graduate school WW is a ghost.

We know all of those things about Tony Soprano, but Walt has shown more depth over the series than Tony did in 6 seasons of "Sopranos".

Us knowing who Tony's mother is gives us a window into why he is who he is but defining character depth by other characters is a one trick pony. You could look at Livia, or the flash backs with his dad, and say "so that's why he turned out like that"....but beyond that it adds nothing to the character. Ultimately the Tony in season 6 is more or less exactly the same Tony in season 1. Anything we could've learned about him, from who he surrounded himself with is moot after season 1.

We know Walt doesn't really talk to his parents, that he watched his dad die, that he lost the love of his life to a colleague and missed out on billions. That's enough really.

And before people get all crazy, I'm not saying Walt is the GOAT character, or better than Tony. But what you're saying has nothing to do with anything.

Fred.