I understand and respect your decision to not continue, but I have to let you know that your feelings on it are totally justified and even vindicated in the final episodes that you didn’t watch. The misery and frustration is intentional. The arc of struggle, glory/success, and awful consequences are kinda the whole point of the show, and there’s almost some amount of cathartic redemption in seeing Walter realize just how badly he has fucked up and what he does with that knowledge. I’m being intentionally vague in case you or others decide to go back and finish, even though it’s pretty unlikely.
One of my favorite things about the show is that it’s very much a show that encourages discussion about morality in a very gradual way. Most people would agree that Walter starts off as a decent man, and he’s become an evil man somewhere along the way, but testimony differs from viewer to viewer about where exactly that line was along the way. So I’m curious, as somebody who didn’t finish specifically because of what a spectacular cautionary tale it was, where was the line for you? At what point did you stop rooting for Walter White?
I was gonna say “good” but settled on “decent”. He was certainly flawed like any of us, but he was a loving father and husband who was using his knowledge to teach the next generation. I think he was resentful of how his life panned out, and that’s why he so quickly decided to spend his remaining years proving that there was greatness within him to achieve something so much more, especially in spite of the whole Gray Matter thing.
I understand and respect your decision to not continue, but I have to let you know that your feelings on it are totally justified and even vindicated in the final episodes that you didn’t watch. The misery and frustration is intentional. The arc of struggle, glory/success, and awful consequences are kinda the whole point of the show, and there’s almost some amount of cathartic redemption in seeing Walter realize just how badly he has fucked up and what he does with that knowledge. I’m being intentionally vague in case you or others decide to go back and finish, even though it’s pretty unlikely.
One of my favorite things about the show is that it’s very much a show that encourages discussion about morality in a very gradual way. Most people would agree that Walter starts off as a decent man, and he’s become an evil man somewhere along the way, but testimony differs from viewer to viewer about where exactly that line was along the way. So I’m curious, as somebody who didn’t finish specifically because of what a spectacular cautionary tale it was, where was the line for you? At what point did you stop rooting for Walter White?
Wait, most people agree that Walter starts off as a decent man?
You are right, but he wasn’t that cold-blooded schemist he’s in the end all the time. Waltuh gradually descended to that state of mind.
I was gonna say “good” but settled on “decent”. He was certainly flawed like any of us, but he was a loving father and husband who was using his knowledge to teach the next generation. I think he was resentful of how his life panned out, and that’s why he so quickly decided to spend his remaining years proving that there was greatness within him to achieve something so much more, especially in spite of the whole Gray Matter thing.