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Originally Posted by capt_noonie  In all fairness, in real life I totally agree with you guys. But this is a TV show. If you didn't like the main character to some degree, how can you like the show? The way it's written is for you to like or at least care about the main character and root for him. I am totally rooting for Walt.
I am currently watching the ep where Mike quits and Jesse wants out also, and now Walt is trying to recruit Todd. I am guessing that Todd and his uncle are going to be the new villains?
Do any of you guys see any of the characters as not evil, bad, or corrupt in some way? Of course I"m not talking about Jr or the baby.  Pretty much all the characters are "bad". Like Brit said (I think?) what would it take for you to break bad? I guess I sympathize with the characters, I've been there myself! Well not cooking meth, but you know what I mean. |
I actually began to hate Walt at the beginning of the 5th season. For a while, I feel like I kept rationalizing his behavior and what he was doing. But even the creator of the show said he did not like him anymore in the end. I'll discuss more after you see the ending tho about more of my feelings!
But I NEVER felt like Walt was satanist. Yes he did bad things, often with good reason, often not, but I did not feel like he was pure satanist with any thing he ever did. And one of his last quotes in the last ep, I was so happy to finally hear him say.
Jesse would be who I think I cared about most. Ya know he was a young kid messed up in a bad world, he had grown up in a somewhat wealthy American family, 'good parents', as did Walt, they both had no real 'reason' to wind up like they did. They just... did. I think a lot of times ppl only think 'bad people' raised in 'bad families' and 'bad neighborhoods' do this, but no. He was kinda trapped in this world, and yes he could have left at any time, but Mr White really did manipulate him. Alot. Sometimes it was for his own sake, other times it wasn't. (spoiler from season 2----) Like I did not disagree with him letting Jane die. She was turning him into a heroin addict, and was basically going to take all of his money, and they both prob would've died from an overdose anyway. So in a way he did Jesse a favor.
As far as me... I have to be honest, I think if I were in Walt's position, and knew I was going to die fairly soon, and had lived a fairly boring life, and knew I deserved more, I can't say I wouldn't feel the same way, knowing I was going to die and leave behind nothing. As much as money will not necessarily make people happy (as we def see in this show), it does had a sense of easiness that you wouldn't otherwise have. And to know you're going to die and leave your family with nothing but debt, can't be a GOOD feeling. I could never see myself doing something as awful as cooking meth, mostly because I'm really not smart enough and would prob blow myself up
but I would prob do things I wouldn't have otherwise.