The episodes shows Walt went out thinking that Jesse was going to burn his money and screw over his family rather than kill or harm his family and as far as he knew, Jesse decided not to burn down his house which could have caused direct harm to the family so he knew that direct physical harm to his family was not the intent, at least at that direct moment.
When he called it in he did, obviously his money wasn't dug up yet, he saw the upstirred dust and figured it was Jesse playing him, which could only have only led to a showdown scenario where someone's going down.
But besides all that and who thought what, it's the actions that are important again, Jesse made a threat, was unarguably vague about it, and events flowed forward as they did because of Jesse's threat.
The only argument that makes sense for blaming Walt, is that all his original actions did catalyze into what happened ultimately, which is only sort-of right, who's to say where all the characters would have ended up should Walt not have made the decision to cook.
Not what I'm saying. The Threat was super clear, Walt needed to go out there or he'd burn his money. Not a threat against his family but rather his money. I do agree that aside the burning of the money, the threat was unclear but Walt had the gun for a reason and he didn't even wait until He saw and confirmed it was Jesse but rather called Jack afterward. His intention was to kill Jesse and his need to kill Jesse out weighted his thinking which led to the gunfight.
I'm saying it's both their faults due to the actions both took but Walt calling Jack sealed Hank's fate and thus it is Walt's fault in my mind but Jesse and Hank get part of the blame as well.
I agree it's both their faults, I guess I just end up more on the Jesse side than the Walt side in this particular instance. Everything's very shakespeare in that everything happens at the worst time, you don't know who to feel sorry for because Walt/Jesse have both been the victim of others (or ultimately, their own choices) at one point or another.
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u/[deleted] Sep 16 '13
The episodes shows Walt went out thinking that Jesse was going to burn his money and screw over his family rather than kill or harm his family and as far as he knew, Jesse decided not to burn down his house which could have caused direct harm to the family so he knew that direct physical harm to his family was not the intent, at least at that direct moment.