I recently started watching “Breaking Bad” a
few weeks ago and at first I found the story of someone diagnosed with cancer’s
transformation to a risk taking criminal from mild mannered school teacher
somewhat compelling. I am now on episode 23 and I am now finding that the main
character has simply become a totally amoral creep with not many, if any,
redeeming qualities that I can see. He does sort of seem to care for his
ex-student that he made his protégée “bad ass” as well as he sort of cares for his
son (not as much as I thought he would) but there is hardly any way you can
call him a good influence on anyone. It seems to me the episode in which the he
lets a poor innocent girl choke to death from a drug overdose (hurting his
partner and the poor girl’s father besides the girl herself, thus getting rid
of a problem for him and he sure has become good at getting rid of problems and
there are no scruples involved when he decides to get rid of a problem of any
kind. I am hard pressed to believe that if a person had good moral standards to
begin with that they could make such a complete fall from grace as Walt does so
for me the character is starting to become more of a caricature of a stupid
amoral asshole than anything else. I feel the scene in which he is driving his
car that has a broken windshield in which he flips out at the policeman who “dares”
to pull him over for driving a dangerous car more than a little bit absurd. For
a character who has in the past tried to be careful of calling attention to
himself because of his illegal activities it seems pretty unbelievable that he
would drive a car that so obviously calls attention to him, as well as the fact
that if he is really so smart he should know he is endangering his son’s life
by driving him around in a car with a shattered windshield. I realize that the
writer is trying to show Walt is totally losing touch with what’s right and
what’s wrong but by calling attention to himself in such a stupid way doesn’t
seem in line with this character’s previous shrewdly evil actions. There is
nothing “bad” or “intelligent” about driving a junky car around asking to be pulled
over. I guess I will find out in the coming weeks if the writer can get the
character back on track to what his original transformation from the mild
mannered Walt “Kent” to the bad assed “Super” Weisenberg as the show is coming
to the final countdown within a month or so. I have also noticed the wife is
starting to be rather devious as well and Walt’s not being “honest” with her
has been one of her biggest complaint’s, because at this point I am not sure
she would care that he is doing something illegal as much as she cares that he
is hiding it from her. I personally would rather be kept in the dark about what
he is up to, like one of the character’s in one of my favorite series Justified”
said, “I prefer that they don’t tell me much because then I don’t have to lie
when I say I didn’t know what was going on”. I guess I will find out if the
show continues to stretch the limits of reasonable transformation of character’s
personality traits or gets back to a little bit more believable morality
failures in its main character’s.tions. There is
nothing “bad” or “intelligent” about driving a junky car around asking to be pulled
over. I guess I will find out in the coming weeks if the writer can get the
character back on track to what his original transformation from the mild
mannered Walt “Kent” to the bad assed “Super” Weisenberg as the show is coming
to the final countdown within a month or so. I have also noticed the wife is
starting to be rather devious as well and Walt’s not being “honest” with her
has been one of her biggest complaint’s, because at this point I am not sure
she would care that he is doing something illegal as much as she cares that he
is hiding it from her. I personally would rather be kept in the dark about what
he is up to, like one of the character’s in one of my favorite series Justified”
said, “I prefer that they don’t tell me much because then I don’t have to lie
when I say I didn’t know what was going on”. I guess I will find out if the
show continues to stretch the limits of reasonable transformation of character’s
personality traits or gets back to a little bit more believable morality
failures in its main character’s.
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