Mike's complaint about Walt in "Say My Name" doesn't make sense

Janes death is on Jesse's hands, not Walt's. Jesse and Jane put themselves and Walt in danger by demanding that Walt turn over all the money or else Jane was going to turn Walt in. So, as you so poignantly stated in your original post, 'was Walt suppose to meekly roll over and let Jane turn him in and put his entire family's safety at risk from the cartel'? Walt, rightfully so, has stated several times that given the option of protecting himself & Jesse or the other guy that the other guy loses. Thus, Janes loss. Just another example of Jesse repeatedly putting himself and Walt in jeopardy.

Mike would have shot Walt on several occasions if not for Jesse.

Well hello there cnn lol.

Walter is the main character, so of course you get to see things from his perspective, but you also get to see other characters' perspective, especially Jesse, but also Skyler, Hank, and Marie, in certain episodes. All through the series you are expected to judge Walter's every action and decision (and his motives), and to pretty much blame everything on him, but in reality the other characters are also part of the "cause and effect", and while you are focused on "evil" Walter, you are likely missing many of the other characters' faults and shortcomings. Hank is the only one, apart from Walter, who truly acknowledges his "dark sides" (at least some of them), the others are more or less lying to themselves.

Your opinion about Walter is also, in some ways, a matter of perspective. Either way you look at it of course he is a criminal (I am not denying that), but while you might see Walter as an average guy who does bad things, I see a genius who, despite being in the meth business, is a rather nice guy compared to the other meth dealers/movers (and Jack and his gang), who for the most part are psychopaths and cold blooded killers, and can even murder children without remorse. Walter never is, and never becomes, as bad as they are. However, if you consider that all murders (or even the intention of murder) are equally evil, no matter the motives, then you would have to admit that Jesse, Skyler, and Hank, are just as "evil" as Walter. And that Jane, considering she was 27 year old and knew very well that when you take heroin you risk dying of an overdose, yet still introduced Jesse to this drug, was very close to being as "bad" as Walter (not to mention the fact that she was also greedy, and stupid enough to threaten a drug dealer). I kind of liked her character tho, at least she was more interesting than Andrea.

How can you blame Walter for his loyalty to Jesse? Jesse is a good guy despite his faults, while Gus is a cold blooded killer. And eventho it also causes a lot of trouble, their loyalty to each other is what keeps them alive through thick and thin during the whole series (or most of it).

Gus definitely does threaten Walter's family. When Gus takes Walter in the desert and threatens him, Walter points out that the only reason Gus hasn't killed him already is because Jesse won't let him. Gus threatens him once more at some point during the scene when he says that Jesse "will come around". Later during that scene Gus also mentions that he will have to deal with Hank himself (i.e. obviously kill Hank), and that if Walter intervenes he will kill him and his whole family, and he is very specific about it, even mentioning his infant daughter. So this doesn't leave Walter with many options, he could of course have killed Jesse which would have made him indispensable to Gus again, he could have just let Gus murder Hank, or warn him and then look behind his back, and his family's, for the rest of his life, not to mention that considering both Gus and Mike wanted to kill Jesse, he too would have been murdered eventually whenever they would have had the chance. Walter simply chose the best option: kill Gus. And he finally had to resort to a more elaborate plan, which unfortunately also involved Brock, only because Jesse's loyalty (to Walter) was failing (despite the fact that Gus had murdered a child, and had threatened his life more than once) and he still wouldn't give the ricin to Gus.

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Snooze.