Breaking Bad Season 5: Say hello to my little friend

[communicator]

My daughter was the same age as Harry Potter as the books were released, which was great. Now I am the same age as Walter White. Next weekend we both have the same birthday. Also, he's going freelance because his last job didn't work out so well

Comments

[frenchani]

Like you I relate to Walt a lot and am very invested in the Mr White/Jesse relationship. I think it's the teacher in me!

I find Walt fascinating and so human, so real. he's become pretty unlikable, but his flaws and most horrible personality traits are precisely what makes him so human. It's juts such an honest portrait the writers and Cranston provide.

[communicator]

Interesting you mention teaching, because that is one of my main jobs I have done, that and writing, and I think they are both roles where you have to balance reaching into someone's head with respecting them and letting them make their own mind up. Walt has gone way wrong here.

In this recap in the Huffington Post the writer says "Not only is Walt a smirking, arrogant monster at this point, he feels he's above connections to anyone else... The thoughts he has about others center on his need to control them, to know that he dominates them, to know that he is the puppet-master of all he surveys."

it's a dramatisation of how being a mentor and father can go bad

[frenchani]

it's a dramatisation of how being a mentor and father can go bad

Exactly!

There's also the fact that a teacher in his classroom is a king in his kingdom. You're the master, you've got the power, there is no "let's vote now". We are all potential dictators. Walter is no fit to be a company man, unlike Mike, he has to be the master. I wonder if this is the reason Grey Matter didn't work.

In a way, Walter always had the potential for the Heil The King! arc we are seeing now.

I love that show so much.