The meth was because he felt he squandered his life being passive and wanted to go out in a blaze of glory to prove his brilliance (which he felt was unfairly ignored)
It wasn’t for his family at all, it was for his ego
I feel like the show is more about toxic masculinity where Walt refused to swallow his pride and ego and as a result ruins the lives of everyone around him and his own just to claim something as petty as not asking for help.
Almost everything in the show is a problem of his own making and at the end realises it and tries to right those wrongs.
The interpretation of Walt as a cool villain character is an extention of that toxic masculine mindset where seeing someone who is literally destroying everything in his own life and others is cool actually cos edgy and manly. But the result of such a mindset is dying alone in a cabin abandoned by everyone.
Absolutely with the toxic masculinity but I'd argue that this particular 'rugged individualist man provider' facet is also very much good old ideology pushed by capitalism.
Kim also felt trapped because she was working a high paying job protecting pointless properties and evicting people and felt more fulfilled helping the average person. She would jeopardize her corporate job multiple times in order to escape the rat race and help vulnerable people even if the material reward was little to nonexistent - something most humans* can relate to
Let's not forget how Gus Fring is able to run probably the largest meth cartel in North America in plain sight, under the noses of the authorities, simply because he has an air of respectability, or in other words, because he's a business owner.
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The meth was because he felt he squandered his life being passive and wanted to go out in a blaze of glory to prove his brilliance (which he felt was unfairly ignored)
It wasn’t for his family at all, it was for his ego
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I feel like the show is more about toxic masculinity where Walt refused to swallow his pride and ego and as a result ruins the lives of everyone around him and his own just to claim something as petty as not asking for help.
Almost everything in the show is a problem of his own making and at the end realises it and tries to right those wrongs.
The interpretation of Walt as a cool villain character is an extention of that toxic masculine mindset where seeing someone who is literally destroying everything in his own life and others is cool actually cos edgy and manly. But the result of such a mindset is dying alone in a cabin abandoned by everyone.
Absolutely with the toxic masculinity but I'd argue that this particular 'rugged individualist man provider' facet is also very much good old ideology pushed by capitalism.
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Kim also felt trapped because she was working a high paying job protecting pointless properties and evicting people and felt more fulfilled helping the average person. She would jeopardize her corporate job multiple times in order to escape the rat race and help vulnerable people even if the material reward was little to nonexistent - something most humans* can relate to
Edit: in addition to the man who refused to move
*not a human :billionaire-tears:
Let's not forget how Gus Fring is able to run probably the largest meth cartel in North America in plain sight, under the noses of the authorities, simply because he has an air of respectability, or in other words, because he's a business owner.