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

[Recca Gatsby]

Jack Bauer

 

[jdashmaj]

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

where you can't touch a breast but you can cave in a chest at the nudie bar

the GOAT father figure

 

[LostOne]

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.

One snippet of graduate school is all the background history we get...

Yes that is true but if we got a better look at his history we would have a better idea of who Walt is/was.

I know what character depth is.

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

Knowing a characters history and who they were before they were helps us understand why he reacts, how his ethics have transformed etc.

 

[Suspicious Dingo]

Al Swearengen from Deadwood is the GOAT tv character, and anyone who disagrees is a hoople-headed cocksucker.

 

[LostOne]

Another big problem with this is that people here have a short memory. Most of the shows mentioned are less than 20 years old and most of those are also American shows. To be called GOAT you better have done your research. Lets not forget Tv Movies and Miniseries people.

 

[hex]

Knowing a characters history and who they were before they were helps us understand why he reacts, how his ethics have transformed etc.

We know all of that about Walt though so I'm still kinda fuzzy on your logic here.

Fred.

 

[hex]

Another big problem with this is that people here have a short memory. Most of the shows mentioned are less than 20 years old and most of those are also American shows. To be called GOAT you better have done your research. Lets not forget Tv Movies and Miniseries people.

I'm 37. The vast majority of old school GOAT contenders had very little character development if we're going by your standards.

Also I would put characters from "The Wire", "The Sopranos", "Breaking Bad", "Mad Men", etc. up against any TV show from any year. There's a reason this is considered the Golden Age for TV.

Fred.

 

[Ohene]

I was with you until the GOAT dad part

Has Walt ever scored four touchdowns in one game?

forgot i made this thread

would Al sacrifice his well being for Pam and the kids though? and sell meth to provide for them?

 

[Ohene]

Georgie boy begs to differ

Youre right

 

[Ohene]

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.

this is what people are missing

 

[BrothaZay]

McNulty>>>

 

[Mic-Nificent]

Youre right

Costanza is a p*ssy. Al Bundy would have beat that chump down, stole his lunch, then hit the nudie bar with Griff and Jefferson.

 

[kash10003]

man, i love breaking bad and WW, but i think George Costanza is the hands down winner, Larry David made curb your enthusiasm and somehow made costanza an even better character

 

[jay211]

Al Swearengen is the greatest TV character ever. I think if you stack all the top contenders up they fall below Swearengen. Lots of layers to his character. And man did he have some of the greatest dialogue ever spewed out of a characters mouth.

 

[FeloniousMonk]

forgot i made this thread

would Al sacrifice his well being for Pam and the kids though? and sell meth to provide for them?

He did worse...


He worked at a shoe store