Walt coerces a former student into cooking meth with him, murders a dude, and then decides to commit suicide by cop in literally the first episode of the show.
You just THINK its a gradual slide because you like the guy and his life obviously sucks. The “gradual slide” is the audience watching him become better at being a criminal. His characters journey is actually a gradual realization that he is a complete piece of shit from day one until he does ONE thing that is entirely altruistic in the final episode of the series. Its not about a good person that goes bad, its about a bad person that goes good at the very end.
Jessie actually lays this out for the audience in the first episode:
“Nah, come on man. Some straight like you, giant stick up his ass, at like what, sixty, he’s just gonna break bad?”
He is right. People don’t just turn bad. Walk was a piece of shit before the first scene ever happened. The events of the show just give him a set of circumstances where it manifests in an unmistakably obvious way.
Walt coerces a former student into cooking meth with him, murders a dude, and then decides to commit suicide by cop in literally the first episode of the show.
You just THINK its a gradual slide because you like the guy and his life obviously sucks. The “gradual slide” is the audience watching him become better at being a criminal. His characters journey is actually a gradual realization that he is a complete piece of shit from day one until he does ONE thing that is entirely altruistic in the final episode of the series. Its not about a good person that goes bad, its about a bad person that goes good at the very end.
Jessie actually lays this out for the audience in the first episode:
“Nah, come on man. Some straight like you, giant stick up his ass, at like what, sixty, he’s just gonna break bad?”
He is right. People don’t just turn bad. Walk was a piece of shit before the first scene ever happened. The events of the show just give him a set of circumstances where it manifests in an unmistakably obvious way.