That was the entire point of the show. The writers wanted to see if they could get people to root for a villain, if they knew why the villain was bad and if the shift was gradual enough. It’s literally the title; they wanted to break the concept of what people consider “bad”, and see if the audience would go along with it if they felt the reasons were justified.
and he reveals how much more of a piece of shit he really is
That’s the thing though. From many peoples’ perspective, he wasn’t always that piece of shit. It wasn’t “revealing” as much as it was “changing”. He took on aspects of every person he killed, for better or worse. The idolatry was certainly a problem with the fans, but (again) that was the entire point of the show. By the later seasons, even the writers were baffled at how people were still rooting for Walt, because he was inarguably a monster. But because people watched his descent into madness, they were still hoping for him to come out on top.
He doesn’t really BECOME a bad person so much as get places in situations that more clearly illustrate that he is a bad person.
He blackmails a former highschool student of his to cook meth, murders two dudes, and decides to commit suicide by cop in the FIRST EPISODE of the show. The series goes on to do little more than present him increasingly extreme opportunities to do something horrible to benefit himself and he never fails to do it. He is CONSISTENTLY terrible for the entire show until literally the last episode. We are given increasingly clear evidence of who Walt really is. The journey isn’t Walt’s its the audiences and that of all the other characters around him. Walt really stays the same, he just gets better at being a criminal. It is everyone ELSE that changes around him.
That was the entire point of the show. The writers wanted to see if they could get people to root for a villain, if they knew why the villain was bad and if the shift was gradual enough. It’s literally the title; they wanted to break the concept of what people consider “bad”, and see if the audience would go along with it if they felt the reasons were justified.
That’s the thing though. From many peoples’ perspective, he wasn’t always that piece of shit. It wasn’t “revealing” as much as it was “changing”. He took on aspects of every person he killed, for better or worse. The idolatry was certainly a problem with the fans, but (again) that was the entire point of the show. By the later seasons, even the writers were baffled at how people were still rooting for Walt, because he was inarguably a monster. But because people watched his descent into madness, they were still hoping for him to come out on top.
But it’s also just a century-old idiom for what happens to the main character.
Why does that remind me of American politics?
He doesn’t really BECOME a bad person so much as get places in situations that more clearly illustrate that he is a bad person.
He blackmails a former highschool student of his to cook meth, murders two dudes, and decides to commit suicide by cop in the FIRST EPISODE of the show. The series goes on to do little more than present him increasingly extreme opportunities to do something horrible to benefit himself and he never fails to do it. He is CONSISTENTLY terrible for the entire show until literally the last episode. We are given increasingly clear evidence of who Walt really is. The journey isn’t Walt’s its the audiences and that of all the other characters around him. Walt really stays the same, he just gets better at being a criminal. It is everyone ELSE that changes around him.