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Yes. Exactly. Cannoli Send a noteboard - 12/09/2011 01:24:10 AM


Walt had his reasons for getting into this in the first place, but right from the start it's been his own pride, stubbornness, weakness, and anger that has driven the worsening of every situation, including what happened to Hank. He's put his entire family in danger. And right from the start it didn't have to be that way, if he had accepted the money from his friend the way Hank and Marie accepted the money from Walt himself later on.
Also there were opportunities to get out with the money ahead of the game that he passed by. He let his ego drive him on. Look at the family dinner when he scoffs off Hank's idea that Gale was Heisenberg, and points out that his notes are copies, because he can't stand to hear his lackey & copycat being praised and regarded as a genius by the brother-in-law he kind of looks down on as an intellectual inferior. Right there, that was an opportunity to get the very last guy interested in pursuing his case to assume that "Heisenberg" is dead and give up the hunt, but instead, he spurs Hank back to the chase. And it is not just his freedom he risks in doing so, but now Hank is a threat to Gus, whose own reaction to that threat would almost certainly result in more violence.

He's made his own bed every step of the way, and even the things that are outside of his control have been set off by his selfish actions. And the thing is, it's other people who have been and are probably going to suffer because of his incredibly poor decision making. I don't cheer for Walt anymore. I'm afraid that even if he manages to get out of these situations, he wouldn't learn any lessons. He seems to be incapable of learning lessons anymore. I don't know if it's even possible for him to return to a straight, normal life (though I could see it happening and making him miserable at the end). Don't get me wrong, I love everything that's happening. But I have a lot of fun cheering for Hank instead of Walt, and urging people to put Walt out of his misery and make the world a better place. :D

I have more sympathy for Jesse than for Walt. Jesse has done some pretty bad things too, but I think he's more capable of redemption.
That's possible, but I'm also on the 'kill Skylar' team. I think Hank would be a better parent to their kids anyway. Skylar flirted with becoming contemptible with her revenge sex with her boss and her attempts to bully Walt out of the marriage, because she was too greedy to forfeit the payload by divorcing him and exposing his crimes; and her embracing the money laundering this year has pushed her over the line, particularly her storyline with the car wash. Skylar, Miss Queen-Bitch-Know-It-All wants the car wash, so she screws the owner out of it, simply because he was not inclined to sell the business he worked for years to build up, when she demanded he do so! Moreover, she barges into the whole money-laundering plan, running roughshod over the guy who's actually earning the money, and the lawyer who has at least a rudimentary knowledge, fixates on the car wash despite the lack of expertise or amenable partners, and then discovers too late that the car wash is insufficient to launder the sums of money Walt brings in. She's as bad as Walt with her making messes out of her own stubbornness and pride, but she lacks the genius Walt possesses that gives him a reason for his ego & pride.

Hee. I get the feeling Gus hasn't killed him precisely because he likes to go visit him and rub in his recent failures.
Exactly. Living well is the best revenge, and the fact that even when he isn't gloating in Tio's face, in situations like where the cousins have come to seek revenge, the old man has to ASK Gus, where he could once bully him. But sicking the federales on the other guy who killed Gus's first partner has been made retroactively sweet.
Cannoli
“Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.” GK Chesteron
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