[ SECRET POST #6752 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6752 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

No!!! You should not feel bad!!!! YOU are the one who gets it, and the internet that fucking fell for Walt's rationalizations and protagonism are the ones who did not get it. Walt is 100% written as entitled, controlling, vindictive, condescending and bitter right from the beginning.

He fucking destroys a guy's car battery for cutting him off in episode 4!! He truly can't handle being insulted, ever. He's an absolutely terrible teacher. Writing 'did you even try' on a failing student's paper is a bad fucking teacher. He's hugely ableist to his son (see when Walt is teaching him to drive especially).

Walt is always a bully, he just does it in socially acceptable ways, while constantly feeling like he's better than the life he's living, and better than everyone around him. When he gets the cancer diagnosis, suddenly the life he's always thought was beneath him is the only one he's ever going to get, and there's nothing to be gained by following the rules anymore because he's going to die anyway, so all the breaks come off.

He absolutely can't stomach taking support from anyone, because his ego is the size of the goddamn sun. He turns down Schwartz's offer of a position with solid health care because he would rather cook meth so he can feel like a man and a genius and a hero than like someone who needs help, even when accepting it would be so much better for the family he claims to be doing it for. He doesn't even tell his own wife about his diagnosis for ages.

He's a shit from start to finish and you should feel CORRECT AND SMART AND VINDICATED.

[neoyi]

+1

Yep. All of this.

[(Anonymous)]

Hell yeah!

I did enjoy the show, but Walt is a dick.

[(Anonymous)]

+2.

The whole point is that Walt is the villain of the story, he's just not dialled up to 11 in the beginning, but the guy was a fucking egotistical jackass from the get go, his illness just makes all that worse because he stops caring.

[(Anonymous)]

To be fair, the guy whose car he blows up was kinda a dick. Not trying to defend Walt because I don't like him either but there was at least a bit of nuance there. He deserved something, it's just that blowing up his car was a bit extreme. Walt always reacts to other people's flaws in ways that go way too far.

[(Anonymous)]

That's not nuance. Nuance would be if he did deserve to get his car blown up, but not for anything he did at Walt and Walt doesn't care about that. Then it would be more complicated.

[(Anonymous)]

this!
He is awful from the start and just gets worse. He is spiteful and full of pride.
That is why it was a good call to keep Jesse who is much more sympathetic without being necessary a good person.

[(Anonymous)]

came here to say this but thank goodness you said it better than I could have!

Like, there are a lot of terrible things he's dealing with and absolutely there's a critique to be made about American healthcare, but you can't forget that Walt's ego is actually the bigger problem than his diagnosis from the get-go.