Everything You Believe About Walter White Is a Lie

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  @thecynicaloptimist1884 · 6 months ago

  Walt punching up the tissue dispenser when he gets news that he&apos;s in remission is a great highlight of this: he fears losing the thing that gave him permission to be his true self. It&apos;s also interesting that Walt&apos;s empire itself acts like the cancer that&apos;s killing him: it starts off small, almost unnoticed, and then spreads throughout the American Southwest. <br><br>It corrupts others (like cancer cells destroying healthy cells), and damages the lives of those in its peripheral orbit (like Andrea), like how cancer doesn&apos;t just affect the person living with it. Then, it seemingly stops, blue meth isn&apos;t being produced any more, the meth lab (the tumour) is destroyed; almost like his empire is &quot;in remission.&quot; After Walt starts up again, it comes back with a vengeance, spreading aggressively across America and even internationally, before imploding in on itself and dies - much like Walt&apos;s cancer spreading rapidly after a long period in remission.

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• TH

  @thecynicaloptimist1884 · 6 months ago

  I think, fundamentally, Walter White is a prime example that power doesn&apos;t corrupt, power <i>reveals.</i>

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• CO

  @cormorant12 · 5 months ago

  These men exist. My father was a real-life incarnation of Walter White, minus the meth empire, and he was psychologically abusive. He had his Gray Matter moment, a successful scientific research career that dropped away from under his feet, and he never found his footing again. This bred resentment and the need to assert dominance in the one place he still could, his home. And especially with me, because I was the child who wouldn&apos;t go along and mirror his supposed greatness back to him. So I became the scapegoat. He never cooked meth, but there were numerous get-rich-quick schemes. Attempts to take what he felt the world owed to him. None succeeded, he had no business sense, but he never learned. That would require the ability to admit his failures were due to him, not the world incapable of appreciating his talent. He had a similar charming, somewhat ineffectual but ultimately harmless persona that made people around him blind to what he was actually capable of. Eventually that feeling of humiliation and inability to reconcile the way he saw himself and the way the world treated him led to alcoholism and death.

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• KN

  @Knocks-u4b · 5 months ago

  &quot;It says, &apos;this is what happens when this particular kind of pain gets unlimited power&apos;&quot;. Brilliantly put, an excellent analysis and breakdown of Walter&apos;s actions and the psychology behind them.

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• SK

  @sketchynerves · 3 months ago

  My avoidant ah trying not to take it as an attack while hearing how avoidant ppl take things as an attack

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• RE

  @rebeccadelbridge2998 · 5 months ago

  It is revealed on the second watch. &nbsp;EVERY SINGLE CHOICE, he makes, is the most selfish, arrogant, conceited one a person could muster.

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• TH

  @TheJrr71 · 5 months ago

  Very interesting analysis.<br>First time I watched BB, I completely fell for Walt, my empathy was fully engaged, so much so that I found myself rationalising some of his most egregious acts.<br>Watching it the second time... Walt&apos;s birthday party... he asks Hank about the money taken from a meth lab raid... hang on a minute... this is before his diagnosis! It was as if I had suddenly seen the Statue of Liberty in one of those 3D images! Changed the entire show, it was awesome!

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• SO

  @somerandomnesspoo8467 · 3 months ago

  &gt;I&apos;m not comparing you to a meth kingpin<br>But I WANT to be compared to a meth kingpin, I&apos;m currently in my Waltmaxxing arc

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• EF

  @Effin_the_Chat · 5 months ago

  I only noticed it the second time I watched the show from the beginning. You nailed it.<br>Bryan Cranston&apos;s great comedic ability to look like he was bungling things, like in Malcolm in the Middle, hid the fact that the character was secretly evil and devious. He always fooled us because he gave us a sense that he meant well, and was just jerked around so much that he wanted, like all of us to take control of his life. It wasn&apos;t until the second time watching the show, that I realized he was evil from the start.

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• BL

  @blankeon6613 · 5 months ago

  Walter never became Heisenberg. Heisenberg was his power fantasy that he built up over years of hating everyday life. Walter is not aware how much his own subconsciousness influences his decision-making because he never confronts all the negative emotions in his life or works through them, he just pushes them down. He is fully controlled by his Shadow. <br>I think one of the reasons he feels so strongly connected to Jesse is because he sees Jesse as someone like himself who &quot;failed in life&quot; and never fully &quot;applied himself&quot;. Just like Walter feels like he never fully applied himself, he doesn&apos;t want Jesse to live a failed life like Walter.

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• MR

  @MrDajdawg · 1 month ago

  He turned down the money because he wanted to make the money himself. &nbsp;And an offer from a company that he helped build feels likes scraps from the table.

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• TH

  @TheDemethar · 2 months ago

  they stole from him and then offered to help him pass away peacefully. to hell with their money id say

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