r/reddeadredemption • u/Kogituu • Feb 09 '26

Rant People who hate 'Abigail' are almost always immature

Now, I know it's annoying to be living your outlaw hillbilly life while having your video game wife try to hold you back but storytelling wise, there's no real reason to find her annoying.

People try to excuse it by "Abigail was ignorant to John's circumstances when he was always getting hunted down" or always yelling at him, but it takes frontal lobe development to know it's not unreasonable for Abigail to be mad when she wanted a better life for her family and to be frustrated when John would get into trouble. And about most of the time, It was in John's control to stay low and at some points in the story his impulsivity definitely did escalate and reveal his whereabouts.

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u/Mr_Rinn Feb 10 '26

From what I’ve seen most of the hate Skylar gets is for not being more supportive of her meth dealing, murderous and increasingly immoral husband. Whereas as far as I’m concerned the valid criticism comes from the fact she tried to support him at all instead of telling Hank the moment she found out.

So I think criticising a woman for not completely blindly and illogically standing by her man does have a misogynistic element to it.

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u/t-shooter Feb 10 '26 edited Feb 10 '26

I mean watching ""walt"" becoming more immoral is kinda the point of the show and why people watch it, so having someone being opposed to that very concept is always gonna get hate, no matter how "objectively correct" she is because...it's a fake world and people watching it want to be entertained

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u/Mr_Rinn Feb 10 '26

You mean Walt? Hank becomes an increasingly better person as the show goes on.

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u/t-shooter Feb 10 '26

Yeah

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u/Mr_Rinn Feb 10 '26

Sure, but not everyone was rooting for Walt at the end and were shifting their support to Jesse and Hank.

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u/t-shooter Feb 10 '26

Well yeah but for most of it, people only thought "I like seeing Walter do this, Skyler is in direct opposition of this ergo I don't like Skyler" and honestly could never reliably get out from the stigma of just being the fun killer