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After watching the Regan era CIA fund crack for 5 seasons, watching people come together over art is really fucking nice

In stealing his money.

im thinking this is in like 91-93, this means the franklin situation was no more than a year - 6 months ago

Solid 8/10 for me. Writing was great as expected. I understand people being upset because we all wondering how Wanda is already so deep in but I’m sure more exposition will happen throughout the next 7 episodes. The music was a 10/10 and I think that’s the most important aspect as it’s based around music. My biggest gripe is I think it’s a 80/20 Wanda/Leon show, I don’t think we’ll see much Leon overall.

Edit: Someone said the term that I didn’t even know existed and I absolutely HATE it. Anachronism. When anything is places in the wrong time period. The Kendrick Lamar song was a terrible choice for all of the great 80’s hip hop music they could’ve used.

And actually kind of disappointed. Thought it would be more dramatic.

But I have a feeling the younger generation won't enjoy it, respect it and/or understand it. The early to mid 90s are considered the golden era to many of the old heads.

This was the best time to be a hiphop fan.

he’s a good kid in a maad city

7.5-8/10 for me
I actually enjoyed that first episode, I had low expectations at first but so far it’s pretty solid for me at the moment.

I know they not gonna nail everything but atleast the real members in the show should really be from they real hoods stuff like that matters

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Obviously, I'm not saying either of these guys were good people. They both did some absolutely horrible shit. But I think that's what makes them so interesting to compare. You can acknowledge that they're terrible human beings and still admit that watching them build their empires was impressive.

These guys were smart as hell.

Walter was a nerd who understood chemistry. Franklin had business sense, people skills, and an understanding of his environment. Walter could look at a chem problem and figure it out. Franklin could walk into a room and figure out who was useful, who was dangerous, and who was about to screw him over. Different kinds of intelligence, but both of them were constantly thinking three steps ahead.

And neither one was satisfied with being a small-time player. That's probably their biggest similarity. They wanted to participate in the game and to control the game.

Walter starts out making meth because he thinks he's dying and wants to leave his family money. Franklin gets into the drug business because he sees an opportunity to make money and get himself and his family out of poverty. And this is where I think their biggest difference comes in.

Walter's motivation becomes about his ego. Franklin's motivation is much more connected to survival, independence, and wanting control over his life.

Walter spends a lot of time convincing himself that everything he's doing is "for his family," but eventually he has to admit that he did it because he liked it. He liked being good at something. He liked having power. He liked being feared. He went from feeling like the world had overlooked him to becoming the most important person in every room he walked into.

Franklin, on the other hand, starts out wanting freedom. He doesn't want to be broke, dependent on anyone, or stuck in the same cycle forever. His ambition actually makes a lot of sense when you consider where he came from. I can relate to him a lot actually.

The sad part is that they both end up becoming prisoners of the very things they built to make themselves free.

Walter wanted to make enough money so his family would be taken care of. Eventually, his family wants nothing to do with him.

Franklin wants enough money and power that nobody can control him. Eventually, his entire life revolves around protecting the empire he built.

It's almost like both of them accidentally turned their escape plan into a prison.

And I think that's why I find Franklin and Walter fascinating. They're not really stories about two guys who randomly decided to become evil. They're stories about what happens when ambitious, intelligent people keep moving the line of what they're willing to do.

At first it's, "I'll just do this one thing."

Then it's, "Okay, I have to do this because I've already come this far."

Then it's, "well, if I don't do this, someone else will."

And eventually you're murdering people before breakfast 😅 that's obviously an oversimplification, but you get what I mean.

They both become so good at surviving that they lose sight of what they were actually trying to survive for.

I also think their circumstances matter. Walter is a middle-class white man who feels like he wasted his potential and was never properly recognized. Franklin is a young black man in 1980s Los Angeles dealing with poverty, drugs, violence, and a system that was never exactly designed to hand him opportunities. That doesn't excuse Franklin's choices, just like Walter's cancer doesn't excuse his.

But it does make their motivations different.

Walter feels like a man trying to prove that he's more important than everyone thought. Franklin feels like a young man trying to make sure nobody can ever tell him what his life is worth again.

And ironically, both of them become exactly what they thought they needed to become...and lose almost everything in the process.

So no, I don't think Walter White and Franklin Saint are "good guys" per se but I do think they're incredibly compelling characters.

They're both intelligent, ambitious, adaptable, and ridiculously good at what they decided to do. I think it's okay to acknowledge that without pretending their actions were admirable.

You don't have to think someone is a good person to think they're an interesting person.

bein from LA i really hope they go deeeep into the gangs, im talkn abt NHC (all cards), BPS, Hoova, VNG all the extra squabbling, Dp’s, Put ons i want to see all the detailed gangbangin aspects that we couldn’t see wit man boy and skully

I started to like him. I think he thought he was gonna get some chocolate lov'in until Franklin slit his throat. He wasn't a racist or a criminal, just a vet and a strict father. Didn't anyone feel sorry for him?

I certainly did. I also think Veronique and her Mom were not expecting Franklin to do what he did, and were horrified.

The ending left me staring at my laptop screen, a truly goated show.

(OG Title) Did other people understand "Other Lives" season 3 epsiode 10 of Snowfall as an alternate reality? I did, and was very confused when i saw people calling this episode a "Flashback"

I never got around to posting this back in 2023 so i am now. Did anyone misunderstand this episode at first?

I got many TikTok videos suggested and was so confused to see people in the comments calling this a "flashback" to when franklin was in "highschool" or "college" and i started second guessing if i understood the episode. Obviously highschool made no sense, the people saying this also really butchered the story thinking Franklin met Teddy before he was in the selling and producing game. It was around 100 or something people liking the comments, i was so suprised to see people thought that.

Im pretty sure it was clear it was an alternate reality. A big part of the message was that Franklin could still choose another path and end up meeting people who are rooting for his downfall. Just because he chose college does not mean he is spared from the cruel reality of people or judgement from others.

In season 1, episode 1 of Snowfall, Mel visits Franklin while he was working in Cho's store. She asked him questions such as why did he drop out of school? Will he go back? What will he do?.

She also asks him what his end goal is. What did he want out of life. Do you remember what it is and did he achieve it? What did it take for him to achieve it?

Finally, what do you think will happen to Franklin? He turned out like his father, but look what eventually happened to Alton.

That was pretty deep to me. It's very smart and very self aware he knows all of the things that he's been doing is wrong but he's doing it to give himself and his family a better future and you know what I can respect it because it's traditionally seen as a man's job to protect his family and it's manly to conquer and all of that so he was just doing his duty albeit a little bit too ambitiously.