Eehhhhhh, yes and no. Part of why BB is so good is that Walt is believably bad. Part of it is the slow shift to full wannabe druglord, but another huge part of it is that he is a very flawed person, and shows it very quickly.
Within the first episode, heās very dismissive of Jesse and obviously avoidant with his wife. He lies about things all the time. He demeans Jesse a lot. He quickly demonstrates an inflated ego. His jealousy over the chemical company is very obvious from the start. Iām sure I could remember more.
Heās a very not so good person even before all the stuff happens that pushes him further. Sure, he tries to be nice, but so do most bad people. The ones who donāt try to be nice end up in trouble or dead.
He also doesnāt go full bad in actuality. Sure, he pretends to, and still ends up doing all sorts of bad stuff, but he still wants to give the money to his family, doesnāt like killing people/etc.
Basically all of that is to sayā¦ Waltās shift in BB is so believable because itās actually not that big of a character shift. Really, the story is a great example of why itās wise to not have a bunch of little bad character traits. lol Sure most bad people arenāt going to become drug lords, but most people donāt have Saul Goodman as their lawyer getting them off of every little thing.
Yeah I saw these things right away too. By the time he was giving his disabled son shots of tequila I already felt I knew where things were going and stopped watching lol
Eehhhhhh, yes and no. Part of why BB is so good is that Walt is believably bad. Part of it is the slow shift to full wannabe druglord, but another huge part of it is that he is a very flawed person, and shows it very quickly.
Within the first episode, heās very dismissive of Jesse and obviously avoidant with his wife. He lies about things all the time. He demeans Jesse a lot. He quickly demonstrates an inflated ego. His jealousy over the chemical company is very obvious from the start. Iām sure I could remember more.
Heās a very not so good person even before all the stuff happens that pushes him further. Sure, he tries to be nice, but so do most bad people. The ones who donāt try to be nice end up in trouble or dead.
He also doesnāt go full bad in actuality. Sure, he pretends to, and still ends up doing all sorts of bad stuff, but he still wants to give the money to his family, doesnāt like killing people/etc.
Basically all of that is to sayā¦ Waltās shift in BB is so believable because itās actually not that big of a character shift. Really, the story is a great example of why itās wise to not have a bunch of little bad character traits. lol Sure most bad people arenāt going to become drug lords, but most people donāt have Saul Goodman as their lawyer getting them off of every little thing.
Yeah I saw these things right away too. By the time he was giving his disabled son shots of tequila I already felt I knew where things were going and stopped watching lol
Yea, it was rough to watch the first time through. lol Heās such an asshole from the start. Reminded me of some family members.