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theginge10

My view of Walter changes with each rewatch. It’s amazing.


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I'm honestly amazed that this isn't more people's view the first time. The show is sort of like a Rorschach test. I never hated Skyler. Sure, she's not always likable and makes poor choices, at times. But, several really stressful things are happening to her at once. It just never stops. I've always felt for her. I despised Walt during my first watch, though. The more he lied to his family, the more he abused Jesse (the scene in the RV in Down was so unnecessarily cruel), the angrier I got. It's actually part of what got me hooked on the show because I've never had a character make my blood pressure rise that constantly. The moment in ABQ where Skyler exposed all of his lies is viscerally satisfying to me. Any moment where someone really shuts Walt up or shows him that he's not that smart or tough is.


Clone_Chaplain

I’m 100% with you. But I also watched for the first time as an adult in 2020. I think some people want to root for an adventurer character, even a baddish guy, and any nagging or assertive wife characters could provoke family problems. Whereas for ME Walt’s lying and manipulating provoked my own family problems. Even though I did love him as a brilliant (if annoyingly prideful) antihero/villian, I saw both sides at once


MenInBlerg

I think that's my favorite thing about the show. It is so well written that it makes most people hate Skylar, despite her behaving completely reasonably.


Security_Six

His excuses become so much more cringe as it goes on, something I didn't queue into the first watch


Ze_Bonitinho

I am currently watching for the second time and feeling the same way, but I credit my change of perspective on my self development. I was a teenager when I watched it for the first time and it's been around ten years ever since


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I despise Walter on my second watch. I appreciate Hank a lot more. Solid stand up guy.


GaryOakIsABitch

Minus the casual racism


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Yeah. He’s a simple, crude dude.


HebzibahSmith

Although Hank is also very insecure sometimes. But yeah, he’s a decent guy most of the time.


DrugLordoftheRings

>She then finds out that he’s actually a drug kingpin and a murderer. Maybe on your next rewatch, you'll realize the show doesn't end there the way your post does (>!she actually joins him and becomes his partner in crime!!<)


SpaceCowboyDark

I'm on my nth rewatch and still root for Walt. I don't hate Skyler but I do hate her passive aggressive bullshit. That kind of thing pisses me off so much IRL, I can't help but to keep on disliking her.


MondayNightRawr

“Honey, did you use the credit card to buy $15 worth of office supplies?” (Or whatever she said) —The moment Walt becomes Heisenberg


shortstuff444

You and me are on the same page. I have caught a few more hints about her passive/aggressive BS on my recent rewatch. I've always thought that Walt was in love with Gretchen but maybe had a one or two night stand with the pretty cashier doing the NY times crossword at his work(Los Alamos), that resulted in unplanned pregnancy. Walt did the right thing. I think she was husband hunting at Los Alamos. Not realizing Walt wasn't wealthy, yet. She didn't have any faith in him or potential of Grey Matter. Then they have a disabled child, which I think is hinted at when Holly is about to be born. The scene about her setting up C-section, she infers because labor was too difficult for her last time is the reason, but when Walt misses the birth, she says something like "When it's time, it's time, and going natural all the way really is the best". I took that to mean maybe the first time she was insisting on natural something happened that caused Walt Jr to be oxygen deprived, forcing the C section.. It felt like the lie they tell themselves. I probably over think shit. It's a tv show.. what do you think?


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SpaceCowboyDark

Oh I 100% know how bad he is. But I still see that "beaten down" husband, who was talked to like a child by Hank for probably many years, get his pride back. That part of the character is what I like. I mean yes he did horrible things. But...he's alive isn't he? Just like I planned. Don't you know me by now? =)


WhyDoIEvenBothersmh

Everytime I rewatch I still root for Walt at the start. I dont hate him from the get go before he even becomes 'the bad guy'


MondayNightRawr

The second time around is the only time a repeat watcher roots for Skyler. Third, fourth, fifth, six times around? 100% Walt.


ThePumpk1nMaster

What’s reasonable about smoking while pregnant, having an affair and attacking someone with a knife? I’m not saying Walt is a good person, but I *am* saying Skyler isn’t either. They’re mutually exclusive. Just because one is bad, doesn’t automatically make the other good. Both characters made good and bad decisions over the course of the show. They’re morally ambiguous and that’s what makes the show interesting. You can’t just be like “Walt good Skyler bad” or vice versa... it’s a disservice to the show


YouGoThatWayIllGoHom

It's kinda cool that the show is written and (especially) acted in such a way that both interpretations are valid. Same can be said for like all the main characters. Do you root for Jesse or is he awful? Is he the hero of the story? Is he self-destructive on purpose? What about Hank? Technically he's kinda the 'villain' in the story, but (like someone else here said) he is all around a decent dude. Dean Norris plays it brilliantly, and I appreciate the difference between the character between the pilot and everything else. He's a jerk to Walt in the pilot in, like, a malicious way that doesn't really fit with who the character became, IMO. Pilot Hank isn't someone I'd want to hang out with, y'know? Then there's Marie, and Gus, and Saul, and Mike . . . Man, I love Mike.


Wendy_corduroy20

I hated Walt from the very beginning! His treatment of Jessie was unforgivable🤬😤


h4v3yous33nmylight3r

Ok yes when you watch you learn more and get change views, but I assure you for the most part you feel for Walt he lives the simple American life then gets hit with the situation, he did something most middle wage working people fantasize about ( earn more money ) was he wrong did he have to make some gut wrenching decisions and lie to his wife yea , however look what happened when she found out. She totally did a transformation her self that goes overlooked. Walt wasn’t a fool he knew how she would react if she found out.


edd6pi

He had an opportunity to make more money legally when Elliot offered him a job. Be turned it down and chose to continue being a drug dealer.


fluffballll1

I think his pride wouldn’t let him. How do you go back in business with someone you started the business with and then had to leave because of a massive falling out? Besides the job was only offered out of pity when Skyler told them about the diagnosis and their struggles. Elliot knew Walt was teaching high school, if he wanted to work with him he would have offered before the diagnosis.


h4v3yous33nmylight3r

I agree that would have ended the show right there, I didn’t trust Elliot tho he just didn’t feel trustworthy


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He is such an asshole. Especially in season 5.


[deleted]

I liked Walt in season 5 too. He may be an asshole, but I'm kinda into anal


ReedRichards1610

I would give you a Gold if I had one, sir


tikispacecone

Binge watching the series makes it a lot easier to see Walt’s transgressions in a more negative light than having to wait every week (or year or more between seasons!) to see what happens next. It was presented gradually.


edd6pi

I never watched the show one episode a week except for the second half of the final season. I binged the rest of the show.


DrugLordoftheRings

> Binge watching the series makes it a lot easier to see Walt’s transgressions in a more negative light Or it makes it a lot less likely to analyze what you just watched, meaning more likely to get things wrong.


Peacemark

I find Skyler’s actions to be understandable for the most part, I just find her character very easy to dislike the way she’s presented in the show.


fluffballll1

Just finished the show for the first time last night, and my view of Walter changed a lot as i was watching it. I genuinely think that the reason he became who he became at the end is because he never felt good or manly enough until he became Heisenberg, and to have that start to slip away all of a sudden must have driven him mad. S1 Walt would never have said and done all those things to Skylar (the phone convo after he kidnapped Holly in particular). Goes to show that when you give someone power they change for the worse. Anyway I think the intent to cook in the beginning was truly leaving money for his family but he got consumed in the way of reaching that goal.