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I kind of did end up disliking Mike by the end tbh. Nothing against the actor, and I did like Mike a lot more when he was first introduced and working for Gus in a lower capacity, but I hated how he ultimately came across as believing that he knew it all and everyone around him were idiot children, some of his screen time was quite grating to me in the final season. People (correctly of course) note how full of himself Walt became, but I never saw Mike as all that different, he was just more world-weary and long-suffering with it if that makes sense? He absolutely gave me the vibe that he thought that he knew it all about this business, and it was everyone around him that kept screwing up. That was something that was apparently endearing to viewers, I saw a lot of love for example for the scene of him acting like Walt and Saul were a couple of kids fighting in Saul's office, but really he came across to me as every bit as arrogant and know-it-all as Walt, just for Mike it was apparently considered a positive character trait to be arrogant and condescending! But really, if you look at how much Walt and Mike clashed when they were both fighting over who got to be in charge and dictate their business terms etc in season 5, or (in a subtler way) fighting over who got to be the one to influence Jesse and hold sway over him, they weren't all that dissimilar, so it's strange to me that Mike gets so much fan love in comparison


And I'm not that into the zombie genre either really, it's mostly the Veronica Mars connection that caught my interest and got me excited about what they're doing with the characters