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Full-length trailers are now out for Better Call Saul and for iZombie! "How 'iZombie' differs from 'Veronica Mars' (aside from the fact she's dead)"

Anyone else planning to check out either of those shows? :)

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Hmm good point about 5b, I was disappointed that Hank didn't get any back-up and let anyone else know what he was doing, maybe then him and his partner could have had more protection in the end :( I'm not sure though if I agree that it was a turf war in Hank's mind, or if it was the personal betrayal of Walt that really got to him, as there were so many indications throughout the series that both Hank and Walt liked one another more than you might at first assume from the pilot. Maybe a mixture of both? It was pride in the final arrest though I guess when Hank wanted to be the one to bring him in. Still I did always get the feeling that we were supposed to see him as the more stand-up guy deep down, in comparison to Walt being the one focused on his ego at the expense of his family, whereas Hank could generally curb his ego when it mattered and put others first

And I totally agree on wondering if fan reaction starts colouring your views! I feel like that a lot with Mike and Jesse especially because those are the characters I most often see praised at the expense of Walt in the final season, and so that always make me dig my heels in and focus on the fuck-ups those characters made that deserve to be called out. I don't think fan reaction affected me as much with Skyler or Walt though, fans on both sides seemed so extreme that I just kind of stick to my own reading of their characters, whereas there seems to be such a fandom consensus with Mike and Jesse that it bothers me more I guess. I used to agree with fandom on Jesse for most of the series, but I started getting impatient with him in season 5 at the time that he was really blatantly becoming the fandoms woobie, and many viewers were only watching from the of POV of how mean Walt is to Jesse. Which is true a lot of the time, but there's a whole lot more to the show than that y'know, so I started possibly tiring of the character a little bit at times because of the overzealous fandom. I mean I can't know how much fandom may or may not have coloured my views, but I was definitely starting to feel that Jesse fatigue in season 5b in certain scenes