Was he really intelligent when he killed people, lost his family, friends and his soul?

That man was really impulsive and made some stupid mistakes. Let’s say he was just well educated

@@joshuafisher4241 difference between intelligence and wisdom. Knowledge and application of knowledge

@@striker8961 '“In theory, any brain that has a large number of neurons connected into associative circuitry … could be expected to add flexibility and complexity to behavior,” said Herculano-Houzel. “That is my favorite operational definition of intelligence: behavioral flexibility.”' read this recently I like it

If you don't mind watching an anime, death note follows a very similar narrative in that sense

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Who are you talking to right now?

A man sees this interview and doesn’t acknowledge greatness and you think that of me? No, you clearly don’t understand so let me clue you in, I am the one who likes

I am the one who likes the one who likes

I'm the one who replies

Little beans?

nah walt was a top g who put his bitch in line

Great overview!

Breaking Bad is a story a successful business, period. Not a legal one, of course, but you can see a story of men who made some bad decisions in his life and didn't get what he deserved. And now is finally 'breaking bad' and getting what he want to.

@@FelipeUebio "Breaking Bad is a story a successful business", is it though? He got what he deserved. He walked out on a legitimate business that would eventually provide everything he could dream of because he was a weak fool who hated his wife earning more money than him

“I have to protect this family from the man that protects this family” lol

Its kinda like she realizes at that moment that this is no longer the Walt that she knew, this is someone completely different.

@@sillythygoose He was always a nasty person, but he could now show it. I like that just after this scene where he shouts at a woman, he shows himself for the coward he is.

​@@AndrewLakeUKthere's no man woman angle here. It's his wife, who also knows everything; and the scene happened. Plain and simple

@@flyingspaghettimonster2925 Right, cause the whole emasculation Walt perceives feeling like he doesn’t fit his ideal of manhood, Gus literally manipulating him into coming back to cook by saying “a man provides”, sure, gender concepts and dynamics have no influence in this moment 😒

It is a partnership. They need each other to be performing at a high level with their respective talents.

Jack Nicholson is the same way.😊

There is so much that goes into acting a character in a great way, and so much of an effect that it has on how great the character actually ends up being. Bryan is as important to the character as Vince is.

It’s just virtue signalling. Acting “humble”. But the writing and acting are equally important.

True. And some of those even pretend to own the story of the character, which is even more repulsive.

Check out better call saul is haven't already Vince is a genius and the attention to detail is something else

​@@peterf08 Vince isn't the only one to be a genius. There are a lot of writers behind both shows, and for Better Call Saul specifically Peter Gould has played a part as big as (if not bigger than) Vince Gilligan Obviously Vince Gilligan deserves a lot of credit and he's talented but he isn't the only one

Vravo Bince!

@ramhthewatermelon i know that bro im just pointing Vince out in this case and he would be first to say that

No kidding... Think, "Lost"...

And then you have the "bravo vince" comments

@@TheNinja94a Vrabo Bince

Vravo cinbe

@@TheNinja94abravo jenny

That was both hilarious and also a little bit terrifying at the same time.

He shook his head and waved his hand afterwards because he knew it wasn't a clever joke and doesn't really warrant applause

This is why no intelligent person will put too much faith into conspiracy theories. Most of them are based on the belief that hundreds or thousands of people (like the moonlanding) all act logically and rationally towards one goal. COMPLETELY impossible. System fail because people fail.

Which is weird, because as clever as Walter White is, I've never seen him as anything more than a man who got in way over his head and has barely scraped by several situations. Even by the end of the show, he is not Gus Fring. He has always had the product, the skill to create it, and he's always been smart enough to outwit people who would use and/or kill him, but never once does he really get his drug empire off the ground. Gus is the corporate guy, Walt is the supplier. In this business, the supplier isn't the one with all the power, despite the leverage they have if their product is as good as Walt's. He scraped by on just barely a few inches with Gus and nearly got himself killed on several occasions. He's not a clever mastermind, he's just an incredibly adaptive survivor. Most of Walt's plans were impulsive. He's like a cornered animal that fights ferociously to survive, but he's never really the hunter that corners the other animals. By the time he reaches a position of freedom from all other competition, like Gus (or the people in the Cartel who Gus conveniently killed off for Walt), he's taken down by his own hubris and a bunch of white trash neo-nazis.

@@Lucifronz Well, Walt never became nearly as big as Gus due to lack of experience and resources, but I wouldn't call all of his plans impulsive. A good amount, sure, but the others were indeed premeditated and clever, if very risky. He may never have become a true crime kingpin, but at some point he was well on his path to become one. He defimitely had a lot of power and a sizeable crew in his control at multiple points in the show. But I mostly agree. While Walt's plans were mostly very clever, not everything he did had to have been planned, and that's when he would make most of his mistakes.

@@Lucifronz Walter did have his drug empire though, it was basically Gus's empire but rebuilt with an even better secret network than fastfood. That's why he retired in a clean manner, he had reached his goal basically. Even with the carelessness of Hank finding the book, Walter managed to claw out of it with the tape which was ingenious. It was ironically his (fatherly) attachment to Jesse that set off his downfall. Gus said from the start that Walter had poor judgement referring to still wanting to be partners with Jesse no matter what and this went on until even Skyler advised Walter to kill Jesse Old Yeller style. Due to his refusal to kill him Walter got rattled by Jesse wilding out which also allowed Hank to get a second chance, but the following impulsiveness from both sides to get one up led to the disastrous results.

@@islandboy9381 Eh, Walter was a dying old man and a fugitive at the end of the show so he didn't have much of a retirement to look forward to anyway. If he didn't care about Jesse, he wouldn't have cared enough about his family. Of all things I think this was a choice - die slowly, sitting on top of a pile of gold, hated by everyone who is still alive, or leave something of a legacy

I think that Steve Carell makes a better WW but we all have our opinions.

I mean I don’t see why not. It’s not like they’re the only great actors in the world, all it takes is chemistry. I’m not understating their performance because I’ve been in love with this show since I binged it in 2013. I honestly can’t imagine anything being as good as Breaking Bad aside from Better Call Saul but imo nothing tops BB. Although I’ve heard The Sopranos is just as good.

@@DaSpaceJammer what about Don Cheadle?

I don't know about that, but the casting choice was excellent, there's no doubting that. I like what we got and I wouldn't trade it for the world.

@@Lucifronz I think maybe Bruce Willis for Hank

I like this interpretation, a lot of people go "oh it's not badass, he's just an egomaniac yelling at his wife about how cool he is." Which is true, but also the fact that he wants to be seen as this almighty kingpin in the first place (even if he isn't) shows how evil he's gotten

I always liked her character, not because she's a pleasant person, but because I understand the type of person that she is. She just makes sense, and adds a perfect tension and resistance to Walt's shenanigans.

@@OldTimeyDragon Totally agreed. I enjoyed watching her riding Walt's outrageous roller coaster from beginning to end!

As i see she looked down on Walt, and she was kind of a bully and definately manipulative. Disappointed in what he'd become from the once powerful genius. That's why she had the thing with Ted, and later when Walt became 'badass', she also enjoyed it, she loved crushing Bogdan into the ground for example.

@@Sgyozo I never saw it that way, especially after watching the series a few times. She is definitely a person who wants control, not because she is a control freak, but having control is what gives her life order. Many people are that way, and people who are generally selfless often try to control things in order to preserve peace and order. There's nothing wrong in that. Lots of things happen that complicate those things, such as being pregnant so late in life and Walt's cancer diagnosis. Obviously, she wants him to survive, hence why she pushes for treatment and tells Elliot to hire Walt so that he can have insurance, even though she knows that it will hurt Walt's ego. At the end of the day, for her it does not matter that the job offer is one of pity, what matters is that he gets the treatment that he needs in order to survive. If she didn't care about him, she wouldn't do what she does.

I always defend Skyler, at most she was annoying in the first season, especially about the weed and stuff but understandably in a way as it was 2008. But if you still hated Skyler by the end of the series I think it says more about you as a person tbh. Everything she did was a reaction to Walt's insane behavior, but the viewer sides with Walt because he was the tragic protagonist. In a way I think it's beautifully written by Vince because it exposes the viewer's biases. You hate Skyler because she stands in the way of Walt, when in reality Walt is the one making all of these crazy decisions that kill people and destroy people's lives, including his own and her own. I can't take you seriously if you look at me and tell me by the end of the series in the kitchen scene you see both of them broken and still say that Skyler was wrong. She was right. And on another note, the people who hate her for "cheating" on Walt are insane to me, she wanted to be separated from him, and he strong armed and manipulated her to allow him to move back into the house and they honestly think that SHE was the asshole in the situation? Again, these kinds of takes are just self reports and projection imo.

He has his fair share of "Hilarious" moments as Walter too...such a dweeb

Oh nice Vince agrees with me!!! Hell yeahhh

Nice observation! Btw this also happens gradually through the entire series he dresses darker and darker

So true dude XD

I watched the last episode with my nose practically touching the screen. It was so tense.

I think it’s kind of both - but it’s best to remind people not to be like him

It's because she still saw him as this mild mannered weak suburban dad when he wasn't. Being emasculated by your own wife for half your life will eat you from inside and it will bubble up at some point.

Absolutely 💯. He abused her in many ways.

​@@t221000lmaoo abuse? Put down the crack pipe yo

Foggalplscieieess!! HAHAHAHAHA!!!

Anna Gunn and Rhea Seehorn; just so real in their roles.

I get the same feeling too.

In the context of the show it is nearly impossible to see it as Walt being a badass. He spends most of season 4 crying, scared and paranoid of Gus and only later outsmarts him. This is pure cope on Walt's part to look cool. He was not even the one who knocked. It was Jesse.

​@bebo2629 while it is a coping mechanism, I think Walt himself believed it. He only became truly humbled and realized the shitstorm he brewed post-Hank in the desert.

Yeah, Walt wasn't even the one who knocked (on Gale's door). It was Jesse, because Walt was actually Gus's hostage at that moment. Walt (and his family) was in more danger there than ever before. Urgrent, grave, unrelenting, mortal danger. So he was actually lying to the one person who could see his situation clearly.

What is not there to understand? She hated the guts of Walter. She was okay with meek Walter but not with Confident one.

@@DailyLifeSolution I don't understand your comment either

​@@DailyLifeSolution he was confident but he's *murdering* people. What is there to like about a cold blooded killer?

People hate her because we are socialised to admire male power and violent strength, and when she acts in a realistic reasonable way towards Walter's evil actions, we just view her as an obstacle. With the "one who knocks" scene the tables (for me at least) turn, and we do recognise what he really is. It was around that point in the series that I started rooting for Skyler and the family's safety, and for Walt to quit his ego trip.

​@@DailyLifeSolution he didnt get more confident. He became a psychotic murderer.

100%

In fact, nothing was really stolen in terms of credit. Walt felt inferior to Gretchen and her wealthy family, which crushed up his ego, so he voluntarily left before the company really took off. So in both cases, his inferiority complex ruined a situation that would have turned out fine

Also, it was a brilliant way to move the plot. In the hand of lesser writers, we all would have groaned at the scene, "oh gosh, what a stupid and unrealistic way to keep Hank interested in finding Heisenberg, no one would risk to be caught that way". But in Breaking Bad, it makes absolutely sense that Walter White would NOT accept someone else taking credit for his work. When I watched that scene I was basically telling at the screen "shut up! what are you doing? shut up!!!", I couldn't believe he was telling that, but it made perfect sense given the kind of person Walter is.

great point

hes speaking metophorically though

True - if she had known what we knew she wouldn't have let him get away with saying that

Still a badass scene lmao. People defend skylar here as if she is an innocent fairy and act dumbfounded when pointed out that she entitled her way into walters business and literally caused her boyfriend to be paraplegic.

nothing wrong with that, and yes I would certainly assume they were..

thats all u have to add?

​@@yungcunt1717 yes

​@@yungcunt1717 I wanna add that I like her shoes

Stunning eyes

Kim's hotter

Marie gang where u at? Gotta represent

​@@turolretar Marie simp checking in

This thread ----> 🤮🤮🤮

Lol

You never learned about butterflies⁉️

​@@TheNinja94a did not know they had a word for it, no 😭 (or that it could be used like he's doing)