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, he’s 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. I’m sure I could remember more.
He’s 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 don’t try to be nice end up in trouble or dead.
He also doesn’t 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, doesn’t like killing people/etc.
Basically all of that is to say… Walt’s shift in BB is so believable because it’s actually not that big of a character shift. Really, the story is a great example of why it’s wise to not have a bunch of little bad character traits. lol Sure most bad people aren’t going to become drug lords, but most people don’t 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, he’s 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. I’m sure I could remember more.
He’s 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 don’t try to be nice end up in trouble or dead.
He also doesn’t 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, doesn’t like killing people/etc.
Basically all of that is to say… Walt’s shift in BB is so believable because it’s actually not that big of a character shift. Really, the story is a great example of why it’s wise to not have a bunch of little bad character traits. lol Sure most bad people aren’t going to become drug lords, but most people don’t 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 He’s such an asshole from the start. Reminded me of some family members.