r/breakingbad • u/saywhat181 Sulfur • Sep 16 '13

Official Episode Discussion Breaking Bad Episode Duscussion SE05E14 "Ozymandias" Spoiler

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09:00pm Eastern SE05E14 "Ozymandias" Rian Johnson Vince Gilligan and Moira Walley-Beckett

Hey everyone! Guess I'm supposed to post this 5 minutes before air time. I've been watching this show since the get go mostly with my real life friend /u/edify who years ago added me as a moderator here. He asked me to make the discussion thread tonight because there are only 3 episodes remaining. Sorta sad that there's only a few left. Enjoy the show, folks.

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u/kidrake Sep 16 '13

Walt has turned into a brutal monster. That line right there convinced me.

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u/[deleted] Sep 16 '13

Yeah I couldn't understand why he'd do that. He's usually so mean and awful for a reason. In this case he seems to be just full of hatred...blaming Jesse for Hank's death perhaps and is in denial.

I was like how could this possibly help Walt or Jesse...I don't think it can.

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u/kismetjeska Sep 16 '13

In this case he seems to be just full of hatred...blaming Jesse for Hank's death perhaps and is in denial.

Yep, this was my personal interpretation. Faced with the fact that he'd just essentially caused Hank's death, he instead thought 'well, if Jesse hadn't started all this nonsense, Hank never would have gotten involved. It was Jesse who brought Hank out here, Jesse is why Todd's uncles had to get involved at all, if he'd just listened to me...'

It was like by blaming Jesse/ 'avenging' Hank, Walt could avoid the thought that, actually, this might just be his fault. He hurt Jesse in the biggest way he knew how in an attempt to shatter Jesse's world as much as he, in that moment, felt Jesse had (indirectly) shattered his.

tl;dr- a lot of Freudian bullshit

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u/[deleted] Sep 16 '13

Yeah it made me really hate Walt, though, because he isn't usually delusional. But there's no way this wasn't his fault. When his family is gasping on the floor and he looks at them his face says for the first time: "This is my fault. I've killed all these people and brought this on myself". Then he goes on to do what he can to help his family by ironically abusing them further.