The show isn’t really about a good person who turns bad. It is about a terrible person that unfailingly makes choices that benefit himself without any regard for the impacts to anyone else. The progression is simply that he is placed in increasingly extreme circumstances to demonstrate this behavior and the audience learns more about why he makes those decisions. He is NEVER portrayed as a good person at any point in the entire run of the show. You can count on one hand how many decent things he does, and almost all of them benefit him in some way.
The only genuinely altruistic thing he does in the entire show is the last thing he does in the final episode.
Oh, yeah, no, I get that. A “good” person would have stopped well before he got to the point where most of those things were even options. And I did eventually finish the show.
It’s not only Breaking Bad, I just think there’s so many other ways to show that a character is a horrible person without having to actually show something like that
The show isn’t really about a good person who turns bad. It is about a terrible person that unfailingly makes choices that benefit himself without any regard for the impacts to anyone else. The progression is simply that he is placed in increasingly extreme circumstances to demonstrate this behavior and the audience learns more about why he makes those decisions. He is NEVER portrayed as a good person at any point in the entire run of the show. You can count on one hand how many decent things he does, and almost all of them benefit him in some way.
The only genuinely altruistic thing he does in the entire show is the last thing he does in the final episode.
Oh, yeah, no, I get that. A “good” person would have stopped well before he got to the point where most of those things were even options. And I did eventually finish the show.
It’s not only Breaking Bad, I just think there’s so many other ways to show that a character is a horrible person without having to actually show something like that