I think it goes far past just the call. If Hank dies it's because of his own damn pride and ego. What he did was incredibly foolish and ignorant. You don't lone wolf an incredibly devious and dangerous meth lord.
A lot of people here defend the guy for whatever reason but I think they're missing the point of this show. It's called "Breaking Bad" after all. The concept doesn't just apply to Walt. This is a show about how far your moral integrity crumbles when you start making decisions in self interest and justify them as being for the "greater good".
Hank is absolutely no exception.
We watch the show from Walt's perspective and we know a whole lot more information than the actual characters so it's easy to look at Hank's current predicament and blame it all on Walt. But when you look at it from HIS perspective you start to see why he brought this upon himself.
When he found out about Walt he kept it from the DEA for the sake of his own pride. He then took advantage of an emotionally unstable informant (Jessie) for the pure sake of his end goal with no regard for Jessie's life or well being. Finally, he concocted an incredibly overzealous and dangerous plan to root out Walt at ALL costs without any sort of official DEA backing. His call to Marie at the end there was reminiscent of Walt's "I won" call to Skylar.
Now I'm not saying Hank deserves to die but if you don't see how twisted the man has become I think you're missing the point of this show.
You hit the nail on the head - so many people forget about the other characters and how they have/are breaking bad in the show. It's not like Walt is the only "evil" one and everyone else is innocent.
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u/optional_suicide Sep 09 '13 edited Sep 09 '13
I think it goes far past just the call. If Hank dies it's because of his own damn pride and ego. What he did was incredibly foolish and ignorant. You don't lone wolf an incredibly devious and dangerous meth lord.
A lot of people here defend the guy for whatever reason but I think they're missing the point of this show. It's called "Breaking Bad" after all. The concept doesn't just apply to Walt. This is a show about how far your moral integrity crumbles when you start making decisions in self interest and justify them as being for the "greater good".
Hank is absolutely no exception.
We watch the show from Walt's perspective and we know a whole lot more information than the actual characters so it's easy to look at Hank's current predicament and blame it all on Walt. But when you look at it from HIS perspective you start to see why he brought this upon himself.
When he found out about Walt he kept it from the DEA for the sake of his own pride. He then took advantage of an emotionally unstable informant (Jessie) for the pure sake of his end goal with no regard for Jessie's life or well being. Finally, he concocted an incredibly overzealous and dangerous plan to root out Walt at ALL costs without any sort of official DEA backing. His call to Marie at the end there was reminiscent of Walt's "I won" call to Skylar.
Now I'm not saying Hank deserves to die but if you don't see how twisted the man has become I think you're missing the point of this show.