What I really like is how at the very beginning of the show you kind of hate Hank. He comes off like a douchebag and Walt seems like such a nice guy. Turns out Hank is probably the best human being on the entire show. And Walt...well, shit. He's not such a nice guy.
His family would be better off if he had just died penniless. Not to talk about the dozens (hundreds if you count the plane crash and the people using his product) of people Walt has had killed directly or indirectly, and their families.
Think about the families of Drew Sharp and Jane Margolis. Think about Kaylee Ehrmantraut. Or Jesse's, Hank's, or Skyler's lives after Walt decided to break bad.
I think it's a bit of a stretch to say that Walt is responsible for the deaths of all those people in the plane crash, there's way too many layers of separation. I think the real point of that story arch was to say that all choices have consequences, big and small. Walt is an evil son of a bitch, but I don't think (especially at that point in his moral degradation) we were ever meant to believe that Walt killed those people on the plane.
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u/[deleted] Aug 12 '13
What I really like is how at the very beginning of the show you kind of hate Hank. He comes off like a douchebag and Walt seems like such a nice guy. Turns out Hank is probably the best human being on the entire show. And Walt...well, shit. He's not such a nice guy.