Am I the only one who kept rooting for Walter? I mean he did a lot of not so good things but I still didn't hate him for it.. I got a lil pissed when he killed Mike and wanted to kill Jesse.. but he made up in the end when he freed Jesse and made sure the money would go to his family.. he finished his tasks and he died in peace
shareI'm rewatching the show now, and I'm on season 3. It's becoming very hard to root for Walt because of how his job is interfering and hurting Hank and his job. Hank has good cop instincts, but his instincts are undermined because he is (innocently) turning to family (Walt), not knowing it's a mistake, and by the way that's something that anyone would do, and yet because of who Walt is and what he is doing, Hank's game is thrown completely off. Hank would have captured Jesse in the mobile home if it weren't for Walt. It was sad to see Hank think that he just wasn't right for being a cop, when the opposite was true: he's a great cop.
Plus the torment Walt put Skyler through.....and his role in letting a young woman die, devastating her father, and being a key role in the deaths of hundreds? in that plane crash. Yeahhhhh.......the price, human toll that it's taking in order for him to leave his family cash is getting PRETTY HIGH!!
It's a great show, isn't it?
A simple mind is a tidy mind.
You're not alone. When it comes to antiheroes, there are always those who go beyond feeling for them and root for them no matter what. There is a segment of the audience who root for Walt no matter what. Who say things like he did "a lot of not so good things." Framing it softly like that. They try to minimize and rationalize what he does and his core flaw -- i.e. they embrace the identical logic and attitude of the character, and thereby miss what the show was about.
Heck, even his own creator called him a "creep" and a "monster."
"You must not judge what I know by what I find words for." - Marilynne Robinson
I "rooted" for him in the sense that he was a fascinating character to watch and was almost always up against people who were more despicable than he was. I don't confuse that with justifying his actions necessarily, especially to the point where like many I find reasons to make excuses for him but condemnations of others, like Jesse, Hank, and Skyler. I see things in different layers, especially being that this is afterall fiction, not reality. I rooted for him to succeed but also rooted for him to fail, as contradicting as that seems.
shareI like to see it another way. I root for Walt as a CHARACTER, but not as a PERSON. The person and the character are two separate entities.
shareI think I get that, but not sure. Would the person be who you see when taking an arm's-length view outside the spell of the story? So that when you're "with" the character - ie no distance - you're rooting for him no matter what he does?
If that's close to your experience, then in the progression from Mr. Chips to Scarface did you begin to see the person relatively more often than earlier?
To me the character begins to lose what bound me to him initially. I don't mean only the immorality, but in the stripping away of his complexity as both a character and a person. I mean in the same sense that an addict or someone starving or trying to survive brutality starts to lose dimensions, so that at the extreme they express few qualities of self that are unrelated to the drug or to plain survival.
"You must not judge what I know by what I find words for." - Marilynne Robinson
I've watched the entire series twice, first time was back around 2014 and again a month or so ago. Both times I rooted Walt all the way through, but, my second time through, I found Skylar to not be quite as annoying, first time through I absolutely HATED her but this time around she just seemed different and I could see thing's from her point of view too. I respect her because I think even in the end she still had love for Walt and truly understood him more than anyone else, hell, (minor spoilers) she could have easily had him locked up for the rest of his life in the last episode but never said a word and let him have his time to speak...
Plum near cut his head in two mmmmm hmmmmm