Why do we love the bad guy ?

I guess you're not as morally corrupt as I am ? Escobar is obviously an abhorrent individual and I didn't mean to minimize the crimes he committed, but these qualities or lack of make him a compelling individual. My point was that bad guys have always held that allure despite their villainous nature to enthrall their audience. Moura, to his credit, has captured that brilliantly and despite the hideous events portrayed, the audience as always is engrossed with the character. Is Pablo Escobar a likeable individual, I think not, but captured in film his life makes for extremely interesting drama, as bad guys always have.

he is likeable. only anti drug nerds made him unlikeable. leave him alone and the guy wouldnt have had to waste people

Because we feel morally better when we see someone else doing much worse bad things than ourselves, so we can say to ourselves that I'm not so bad when I lie, cheat, smoke the pot and drugs that Pablo and drug dealers use to kill people that we condoned their murders by being accomplices by using their drugs, run a red light by committing a misdemeanor crime, then say, compared to Pablo and other villains I'm not so bad.

Then go on to make your position to say, I'm rooting for the good guys which negotiate with criminals like Whitey Bulger and Mafia Rats to allow them immunity to murder and drug deal, while the good guys make you believe their on the side of the people, when their really on the side of their own corrupt agenda to do whatever's necessary to get a win, no matter the stakes.

The mission of the law to go after the biggest drug dealers is just there to fulfill the mission of politicians so they can build a name for themselves. Therefore we get on our moral high horse of self-righteousness and naively believe the guys with white hats don't sometimes where a black hat. Rooting for good or bad is just choosing to go to war, whereas war has no moral grounds but only killing grounds on both sides, for one to wipe out the other.

There is no dignity or justice in war when families and innocent people become casualties, just your desire to choose the good side to fight without you having to see the atrocities that goes with war, so you wash your hands of any guilt or shame and feel better when someone else does your dirty work for you. Does that sound familiar? Like with the episode Pablo gave to his soldier to blow up the plane when the good guys declared war. So, if you root for the good guys to declare war, expect repercussions of the innocent, which you have blood on your hands because you want justice. I want justice, but at least I know the price I must pay with people lives to get it, where it may take thousands of lives to be sacrificed just to get the one bad guy from destroying the world and taking it over.

I agree, many people of the law is breaking the law upon suspicion.

Showing a complete lack of understanding of the categorical imperative.

In which is sad for humanity itself.

That's the biggest *beep* only Pablo's naive old mother would believe; Pablo was a gangster, and the only way he got up there was because he was willing to be more evil than the devil, if they kill your friend or rob you, you would have to kill their whole family and burn everything to the ground. The guy only trafficked drugs because there was money involved, nothing else, and to get money and power he was willing to kill anyone who had it, or who stood on his way. The key to his power was classic terrorism, to intimidate others, that's why he killed in the gruesome manner he did and let everyone know. He was a bully from the very start. He was an alpha dog, maybe cute when you are in high school and you aren't really hurting anyone but a few girls hearts, but very damn bad when in your greed you don't give a damn if hundreds of innocent people are burned.

You're just messing with us, correct? You can't possibly believe he "WAS the good guy", who, initially, was innocently selling wanted goods to people. He was threatening, with violence, those and their families who couldn't be bribed. His original motto was "silver or lead?", remember?

Oh you are right about that. His egotistical portrayal has been a huge turn off for me liking this character of Murphy. I' am however loving Wagner as Pablo. Great series so far.

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