u/Pure-Boat993

In 2020 i was trying on Twitter to defend Adam though I barely knew him and I watch Colleen reguralry. I was convinced that the situation - Megan Trainor and all - was all just a big misunderstanding. I remember people mocking Adam's mom for both being sceptical of Colleen as well as letting Adam meet her. I was responding - well it's hard to be a mom! Didn't Colleen say so herself? There were constantly all these new comments about how Adam took a selfie in the bra and now he's lying. About how he made an inappropriate photoshop of Miranda, when he was still a minor anyway. Adam addressed all of this already. I did feel, even tho this is not about me, like an avalanche was just getting bigger.
In 2023 I gave up watching Colleen completely because I am disgusted with how much she did, and i talked online a bit to Oliver and Becky, trying to be nice. I felt so bad for them, and for Ella...Today, just like in 2020, because of Adam and Josh of it all, I go back to "Cancelling" by Natalie Wynn, because it still seems relevant to me, tho, not so much for Colleen but more regarding Josh, Adam and the fans. What do you think?

"But it takes longer than a couple hours to cool down, lower your defenses, listen, learn, grow, seriously reflect on what you may have done, or said,that was wrong.
That can take days or weeks or months.
And a lot of the people who are attacking me(Natalie Wynn), they're not pausing to

- self-reflect

- they're not holding themselves accountable for the consequences of their actions...

They're just venting their unfiltered rage.

But in response to these attacks, I, as a person with a platform, I'm not allowed to react like a human being.

I'm not allowed to get angry.

I'm not allowed to show pain.

I'm not allowed to get defensive.

I'm not allowed to lash out.

I'm not allowed to numb the inside as I try to frantically calculate the ideal PR response that pays due deference to the valid concerns of these poor marginalized

people,

all the while ignoring the tsunami of verbal abuse that's crashing over me.

People don't try to persuade me like I'm a human being.

They order me around, they tell me what to believe.

They demand that I say exactly what they want, or else.

They don't treat me like a person with my own opinions and feelings.

They treat me as this brand of moral commodity to be consumed, or denounced.

And this is all terribly ironic because of

the conflicting demand that creators "be authentic all the time"....

it doesn't feel like an ab se, because i am known, i have a platform. And it's true , that I have more "power" than any commenter individually. But, as a collective, comments have a TERRIFYING POWER, that they don't seem to be aware of as individuals. As Jon Ronson, author of a great book on public shaming put it:

"I suppose that when shamings are delivered, nobody needs to think about how ferocious our collective power might be. One snowflake never feels responsible for the avalanche."

And that's how you get these situations, where you have hundreds of people endlessly bashing someone, who's already been knocked to the ground, and feeling all the while LIKE THEY'RE PUNCHING UP.
know, there's actually a kind of power in safety and obscurity. And many ways being a public figure makes you really vulnerable. For example, you're more vulnerable to doxxing, stalking, harassment on a scale that most people probably cannot even imagine. You're vulnerable to having your reputation permanently degraded in
a way that people who are posting anonymously, or pseudonymously, are pretty much invulnerable to. "

My fave Mrs Heisenberg moments:

1. When she gets almost arrested bcs of Marie's stolen tiara, so she fakes labour to get herself released before they call the cops
2. When she fakes anxiety attacks with Holly in her arms to make the guy let her into Walter's appartment - that's some Heisenberg level of manipulation
3. When she scares the crap out of Lydia
4. When she starts telling Marie and Walt about the gambling in the hospital... it's hilarious how Walt leans in, like a child listening to a fairy tale, he looks so curious where her story goes
5. When she dresses up and plays a stupid accountant to save herself and Ted from the IRS
6. When she figures out that Walt is a drug dealer all on her own
7. When she introduces Marie in the pilot - hilarious
8. When Marie tries to talk to her in season 5, but then makes it all about herself, and Skyler cannot suppress a smile.... lol
9. When the police does not want to remove Walt from the house, Flynn yells at her but she still doesn't tell Flynn what Walt is doing
10. When Flynn calls her the b-word and she still doesn't tell him
11. When she breaks down and Hank hugs her, it is such a real thing to show what type of personalities they both are, Hank is so awkward there, lol
12. When she manipulates Walt into choosing the car wash of Bogdan, the evil eyebrow man.... pitting two proud bosses against each other! So easy!

For me it is the episode "Down" when Walter offers Jesse breakfast. Why don't we get to see it? I wanna see them eat breakfast together. I guess we kind of got it in El Camino flashback.

Easter eggs are probably not the same thing as 4th wall breaks, right?
Which one is your favorite????

For me it's Marie, over and over.
... In season 5, episode 4, "Fifty-one", Marie points out that the fact, that 4 seasons have only happened over a course of 1 year is weird, and it seems like it has been "longer" since Walt's diagnosis. For the fans it indeed was much longer, lol.

... Her psychic powers come into play with the exploding head.
season 2, Episode 5 Marie comments on her worries about Hank taking a DEA job in Texas by saying the Cartel "litters the place with human heads like a calling card or a shout out or something" and nobody really responds to her. Hank doesn't want to show how his PTSD is already full-bown after shooting Tuco, and everyone else kinda ignores her. It's just Marie. She says so much hilarious crap. Who cares, right?

... In season 5 episode 11. Marie tells Walter to k* himself, bcs then all the troubles will end. Hank objects, that Walt should not get off that easily. Things however turn out somewhat as Marie wanted. Walter gets shot by covering Jesse and as if it wasn't enough, he is even asking Jesse afterwards to shoot him. I wonder if on some level Marie always knew, that Walt is suicidal from the get-go.

... Marie's therapist is the one who says in season 5 that there is no situation that cannot be made WORSE by violence, which is certainly true for the entire Breaking Bad universe,
no matter how cool exploding grandpas in wheelchairs look,
but also,

... Marie actually calls out Hank for stalking her, when he is pushing on Flynn that he should "persist" and not take "No" for an answer from girl. He then dives into the story about how he basically wore Marie down , and unlike Walt and Skyler, when Walt talks about the two of them met,
Marie does not show any positive nostalgia, instead
coldly responds that it was before they tightened up stalking laws. She basically
foreshadowed some real-world development there, too. As much as Hank's character change for the better, I guess,