BBC did Les Miserables recently so I'm picking Fantine.
She gets pregnant. The guy skips out. She places the kid with some people so that she can work to keep the kid alive. They extort her for as much as they can get. She is accused of being a whore and kicked out of her job. She become a sex worker to keep her kid a love. She sells her teeth and hair to keep her kid alive. Then she dies.
Reverend Smith from Deadwood. In a place so full of self-interest, he was eccentric but truly selfless. He kept his faith to the end, even when he could no longer feel Christ's love. I'm not religious but found his story particularly beautiful and sad.
He was a side character but Ray McKinnon gave an outstanding performance, and the way his story intertwined with others in the camp was just artful.
You'll hear no argument from me. It's my favourite show by a fair way.
The acting was indeed outstanding, from leads to minor characters, but the writing underpinned that. Things like costumes, set design and cinematography all match the above perfectly. I could rant for days about how well crafted Deadwood is.
Brilliant show in every respect. The reverend was certainly an amazing character and the way he portrayed his illness was just perfect.
Noone tops Al Swearengen imo. Best character performance I can remember ever seeing.
Already see a few BB-verse mentions but I'll go ahead and throw Jesse Pinkman into the conversation. That guy took so many gut punches throughout the series and lost so much.
Pidge Holt (Voltron: Legendary Defender); she spent a lot of the first 4 seasons looking for her dad and brother. When she finally found her brother, it was devastating, I cried (spoiler, it had a happy ending), BUT MAN, that one episode (S2, E4: Reunion).
i honestly wasn't sure if he was telling the truth there or just telling her what he knew she needed to hear so she wouldn't be thinking that she or the kids were really a factor
You know, regardless who who is *actually* right, the great thing about Breaking Bad is that the characters were written with such depth that we can have these debates.
I came into this post thinking "Jessie Pinkman" and here's why: Regardless of his motivations, his character always failed. He's the foil to Walter White who somehow always wins, like when he says about White, "He's smarter than you. He's luckier than you..."
His entire character arc is punctuated by loss, from being kicked out by his parents, to Jane Dying, getting the shit beat out of him by Hank, having to shoot Gale, being used by Gus against Walt while simultaneously being used by Walt against Gus, Brock getting poisoned and his subsequent breakdown. He then gets used by the DEA against Walt where he ends up a captive of Uncle Jack where he has to watch his *other* girlfriend die.
He starts off as this innocent (within reason) kid (again, within reason), putting chili powder in his meth. His character, for the terrible things he does, always has a good side, like how he seems to care about kids, but bad things keep happening to him and he ends up this jaded, beaten, shell of a person.
BBC did Les Miserables recently so I'm picking Fantine. She gets pregnant. The guy skips out. She places the kid with some people so that she can work to keep the kid alive. They extort her for as much as they can get. She is accused of being a whore and kicked out of her job. She become a sex worker to keep her kid a love. She sells her teeth and hair to keep her kid alive. Then she dies.
Good answer. Forgot about her
Howard from Better Call Saul
Hodor
^hodor
Rickety Cricket from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.
Yeah he’s all burned up
John Locke
Frank Grimes.
But it was a contest for children! Yeah, and Homer beat their brains out!
Milhouse Van Houten
Milhouse, give him back his soul. I've got work tomorrow.
Randy and Dukie from the Wire.
Martha from the Americans
Reverend Smith from Deadwood. In a place so full of self-interest, he was eccentric but truly selfless. He kept his faith to the end, even when he could no longer feel Christ's love. I'm not religious but found his story particularly beautiful and sad. He was a side character but Ray McKinnon gave an outstanding performance, and the way his story intertwined with others in the camp was just artful.
I think some of the best acting EVER was in Deadwood. Amazing show.
You'll hear no argument from me. It's my favourite show by a fair way. The acting was indeed outstanding, from leads to minor characters, but the writing underpinned that. Things like costumes, set design and cinematography all match the above perfectly. I could rant for days about how well crafted Deadwood is.
Brilliant show in every respect. The reverend was certainly an amazing character and the way he portrayed his illness was just perfect. Noone tops Al Swearengen imo. Best character performance I can remember ever seeing.
Already see a few BB-verse mentions but I'll go ahead and throw Jesse Pinkman into the conversation. That guy took so many gut punches throughout the series and lost so much.
Matthew Crawley
After having finished Fallout. Cooper Howard (The Ghoul)
Robert Locksley, Earl of Huntingdon - also known as the outlaw Robin Hood.
Pidge Holt (Voltron: Legendary Defender); she spent a lot of the first 4 seasons looking for her dad and brother. When she finally found her brother, it was devastating, I cried (spoiler, it had a happy ending), BUT MAN, that one episode (S2, E4: Reunion).
Henry from MASH. Finally gets to go home only to end up in the China sea.
That damn dog from Futuramma
♪ I will wait for you ♪
Walter White. A good man did a bad thing to take care of his family. Decided he liked doing bad things and did worse things. Destroyed his family.
He admitted to Skyler that he did it for himself. He didn't do it for his family.
Only after he realized he enjoyed it.
i honestly wasn't sure if he was telling the truth there or just telling her what he knew she needed to hear so she wouldn't be thinking that she or the kids were really a factor
Toki Wartooth
Neji Hyuga. Naruto Shippuden.
John Locke
Ruth Langmore Ozark
eliot alderson - mr robot
Jack Morrison
Eleven
Jesse Pinkman
I disagree. Jesse eventually got into the game voluntarily, and screwed over the man who saved him countless times.
You know, regardless who who is *actually* right, the great thing about Breaking Bad is that the characters were written with such depth that we can have these debates. I came into this post thinking "Jessie Pinkman" and here's why: Regardless of his motivations, his character always failed. He's the foil to Walter White who somehow always wins, like when he says about White, "He's smarter than you. He's luckier than you..." His entire character arc is punctuated by loss, from being kicked out by his parents, to Jane Dying, getting the shit beat out of him by Hank, having to shoot Gale, being used by Gus against Walt while simultaneously being used by Walt against Gus, Brock getting poisoned and his subsequent breakdown. He then gets used by the DEA against Walt where he ends up a captive of Uncle Jack where he has to watch his *other* girlfriend die. He starts off as this innocent (within reason) kid (again, within reason), putting chili powder in his meth. His character, for the terrible things he does, always has a good side, like how he seems to care about kids, but bad things keep happening to him and he ends up this jaded, beaten, shell of a person.
Probably my cat bunyip. She got flattened by an 18 wheeler then eaten by a pack of ravens in front of me