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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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 Well, like the writers you've probably been indoctrinated in this idea that a man providing is outdated and toxic, when the reality is it's ingrained into a man's very being by nature itself.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?
When Tuco beat that guy to death and Walt was calculating how much money and how many deliveries his family needs before he can get out, do you think he was actually doing that for himself?
It should be rhetorical. The reason why you think he was doing that for himself is only something you can answer, but it's not anything in the narrative.
What about when he made that money and then kept going?
What about it?
If by "He did it all for him. He said so in the final episode" you meant he originally was doing it to provide for his family and then after Skylar rejected every attempt out of spite he started doing it for himself, that's a weird way to phrase it.