If their goal was to make us not like Jimmy anymore, they succeeded admirably. What he did to Irene was absolutely despicable, possibly worse than anything Walt ever did on BB.
Despicable yeah, but not worse than the orchestrated murder of 10 inmates or whatever it was.
I am looking at it in relative terms. Killing people is worse than conning an elderly woman and making her lose her friends, yes, but Mike's guys in prison that Walt had taken out were all bad guys/criminals. Not that that makes it okay, but I am just saying, what Jimmy did to was at the expense of an elderly woman who appears to be a very nice lady, and might have to spend the rest of her days alone because Jimmy turned all of her friends against her. There is no way to sugarcoat how awful that is.
Walt's killings of the most loyal group that Mike had surrounded himself with was .....well, the worst. THAT was the moment I totally lost any 'cheering' for Mr. White.
You are kidding with the loyal group comment, right?
First off, Chris was taking Lydia's money to kill everyone else on the list PLUS Mike. Yep, real loyal.
Second, Dan the lawyer was flipping on all of them in the Say My Name episode. Again, real loyal.
Lastly, Dennis (from the laundry) was ready to flip on all of them as well, before Hank blew him off to go "rattle some cages." Again, real loyal.
So yeah, let's not romanticize a bunch of criminals and act like there was all of this honor among thieves. The second anything went bad for any of them, they were ready to turn on everyone else.