I get how someone who doesn't really think much about the media they consume could watch Breaking Bad and think Walter White is doing what he does for moral reasons. If someone who just watched the show casually while relaxing after work doesn't get it, there's no reason to be snobbish about it. It's easy to get caught up in the male power fantasy if you're an alienated Western male.

But the fact that this clown calls this "analysis" is making me yell at my screen. Letting Jane die was "morally justifiable" because she was a "bad influence on Jesse"? He "overcame his fears" by killing Tuco and Gus? Rejecting the money from Gretchen was good because he's "nobody's charity case"? Holy fucking shit imagine missing the point this badly.

And then this nonsense about "humans follow incentives that provide positive rewards in the brain" as if it was profound psychology and not just a comically verbose way to say "humans do what they like & want". It's a completely meaningless sentence, the point is to analyze what Walter values most at different points throughout the show, and if you look at that you'll find that he values his ego over money & his family's safety from episode 1, when he rejects even asking Gretchen for money and chooses to cook meth instead, greatly putting himself and his family at risk right from the start because his ego doesn't allow him to ask others for help. He becomes more ruthless and more megalomaniacal as the show progresses, sure, but this clown thinks he was still perfectly justified in everything he did up until the point he poisoned the kid.

If I ever put out media analysis like that, I want you all to put me out of my misery because clearly I must have been lobotomized.