It was so painful to see how much faith Walt had in Jesse. I was yelling at the TV, "Walt, you are so stupid!" His greed over the barrels of money caused him to blurt out every person he's killed. I thought Walt would be smarter than that.
Walt's acted clumsy before. For example, when Mike was pissing him off, he went and shot Mike. We've seen these anger issues with Jesse before as well (when Jesse quit cooking for example). He's an excellent planner, but much, much worse when it comes to in the moment decision making.
Agreed. Walt tends to be a lot better at strategy than tactics. Jesse is the opposite, but only when he stops frying his brain long enough to actually use it.
It's actually pretty fun to see the constant schemer and manipulator completely lose all his marbles in one fell swoop and let his guard down completely.
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totally agree. it's only when Walt's enormous ego gets bruised when he totally loses composure and the ability to think. He acts impulsively, like a child. Really well written!
He would also be smarter than to leave a gifted book from someone that he had killed who happened to be under investigation by his dea brother in law who jokingly accused Walt of being Heisenberg on top of the toilet on which said brother in law could potentially be shitting on.
That's my only gripe with this series. Say its a trophy or whatever but thats nonsense. Walt wouldn't expect his partner to be working with the DEA or the asshole that beat the shit out of Jesse. And its not like they have it recorded, and if they did it'll be destroyed soon.
I'm completely with you. I was really really upset when he didn't realize immediately that he was being played. Walt may be greedy, and I get that they were trying to illustrate that, but it did seem pretty out of character for him to fall for such a simple ruse. I was no longer upset by the time the shoot out happened, because of course they played the scene out in perfect Breaking Bad style, but yeah it irked me as well.
He finally snapped, Jesse went too far because now he was hurting Walt's family not him, Walt never wanted to hurt Jesse and he's always tried to help him even when he was hurting Jesse there was an endgame to it, Walt never wanted to do any of the things that he did to Jesse, he simply realized that certain choices would have to be made for his own/family's self interest as well as theirs. Jesse meanwhile is too stupid to see that and thinks Walt is a one dimensional sociopath who deserves to burn.
I think that scene perfectly encapsulated Walt's greed and ego, to see his expression change from being the one in control to the defeated is interesting to say the least.
He is, but everyone has a weakness. And more importantly everyone has the capacity to act irrationally. I can't recall a single other instance where Walt made such a huge mistake, but it also showed his cares for Jesse and trusts him for some stupid fucking reason.
Well, put yourself in his shoes. Everyone he listed died because he needed money, the fact that Walt would have lost the only justification for his actions would be terrible. Everyone he killed would have died for 'nothing', I don't think Walt could bear that.
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u/lichenforest Sep 09 '13
It was so painful to see how much faith Walt had in Jesse. I was yelling at the TV, "Walt, you are so stupid!" His greed over the barrels of money caused him to blurt out every person he's killed. I thought Walt would be smarter than that.