It's one of my favorite TV shows, probably my favorite if I had to pick. Lately I've just been watching scenes on Youtube, but one scene struck out to me as a clever thing the writers did. So the part where Skylar is explaining how they've had money coming is becuase Walters been gambling, is a gambling addict and is shockingly good at it because of his intelligence making him good at counting cards and whatnot. If you piece together earlier scenes and look between the lines it's clear that this story is a lie, that actually he's been making his money by cooking and selling meth.
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But he didn't. He did it all for him. He said so in the final episode. "I did it for me. I liked it."
"You can't just have your characters announce how they feel. That makes me feel angry!"
He also said he believes there's "some combination of words, certain words in a certain specific order that would explain all of this". Like for instance...
S01-S04 Walt would say those words to Skylar in the end because that's what she needed to hear to move on, and also to protect the money he's laundering through Gray Matter from her asking too many questions about it. If she finds out the money is from Walter she'll reject it out of spite.
S05 Walter we're supposed to believe is now a totally different person who when he was calculating how much he needed and how many more deliveries before he could get out was secretly loving it and lusting after Tuco's job. He got off on killing the guy with a bike lock. In the Fly he's delirious almost to the point of telling Jesse about his role in Jane's death, yet has the presence of mind that the whole episode was just a way to obscure his criminal lust from Jesse. And he arranges a complicated scheme to get the money to his kids but he never really cared about that at all - just did it for fun I guess.
S05 Walter is obviously absurd and totally out of character, but they had to finish their arc and they had screwed up on making Walk less liked over time because the writers didn't understand actual people's (at least men's) morality is so they had to go 180 degrees all in one season.
Yeah he says a lot of things in earlier parts of the show just to hide things or to say what Skylar needed to hear to move on. When he has nothing left though, that’s when he actually can be honest for once.
What do you mean by this?
Walter could have been telling the truth the one time at the end, even though it's betrayed by his actions of providing through extorting Gray Matter guys, or that he was telling the truth the entire time before, which is consistent with his actions throughout.
In the narrative there's simply no contest over which interpretation is correct; the only reason to believe his 'confession' is that you want to believe and outside of narrative the writers' intentions; they said they're going to make Walter the evil bad man by the end.
And why would you want to believe it? Well, like the writers you've probably been indoctrinated in this idea that a man providing is outdated and toxic, when the reality is it's ingrained into a man's very being by nature itself.
As I explained before Walter was supposed to be more or less unliked already by S05, but the writers' own morality is upside down on manliness so accidentally made him more heroic. Same way they were out of touch on Skylar being hated, they made a similar mistake with their main character.
He had the money, giving it to his son can still be a logical choice while still the entirety of his meth cooking actions are selfish. I don’t really see what the betrayal is in that.
lol what
Meth dealing is toxic. Providing isn’t. Are you using?