#breaking bad spoilers

[prokopetz]

"Walter White would never" Walter White helped the cops catch his own criminal alter ego because they were about to blame his crimes on the wrong guy, and he couldn't stomach the thought of someone else taking credit for all the terrible things he did. That's the beauty of Walter White as a character, at least from the perspective of transformative fandom: he would. He's such a ridiculous man that literally nothing is out of character for him, provided you can contrive some circumstance where doing so would serve his ego.

[numahachi]

[corgoship]

i will never be over the whump-fanfiction-level of suffering the writers of breaking bad put jesse pinkman through. like, first he has to endure the absolute monstrous menace that is walter white and his "affections" for a full year, but when he finally defeats him and is free from his control, he gets thrown into more abuse and slavery working for neo nazis??? for half a year??? he sleeps in a cage in the ground??? he has to watch his girlfriend be killed in front of him??? he is unrecognisable??? who wrote this i just want to have a talk (i know exactly who wrote this)

oh yeah and then they made el camino 6 years later because it wasn't enough apparently. what the fuck.

[redr1vers]

so basically

[chomchomcherrybomb]

YouTube comments are so funny

[b0xcutter]

i finally finished my very extensive breaking bad/better call saul uquiz so you should definitely take it

https://uquiz.com/eR2Fv3

[breastmiik]

Saul Goodman arranges a blind date between Walter White and Gus Fringe

[dustandashes1812]

What it feels like watching the last season of breaking bad

[aieaiedro]

still on my bs about lalo and howard enjoying haunting the lab

[pissbbyy]

i cannot stop thinking abt the scene when jesse cries in walt’s arms in the crackhouse. it’s been plaguing my brain for months. i’m sitting in class n all i can’t think abt is jesse crying his little orbs out

(brba spoiler warning for the mfs that i know irl)

i mean, my god, EVERYTHING about this

walt calling jesse son. jesse immediately locking his arms around walt & desperately clinging onto him for support. walt actually seeming to care about jesse’s state for the first time in a WHILE. jesse immediately going from super out of it to WEEPING into his arms. walt’s evil evil little face of guilt after jesse sobs about jane’s death being all his fault.

breaking bad is a comedy show until a Situation occurs & jesse’s crying sucker punches you in the gut

i h8 this show

[prokopetz]

The funny thing about Walter White's "I did it for me, I liked it, I was good at it" confession is that he is, to all visible evidence, disastrously incompetent at literally every part of the job other than the chemical synthesis, and at no point whatsoever is he visibly enjoying himself.

[notswush]

[redr1vers]

walter doesn’t become a worse man over the course of brba. he just gets better at lying to himself about it. he always has that streak of cruelty in him - that part of him that keeps itself afloat by putting others down. we see it in season one in how he blackmails and verbally abuses jesse, how he treats that failing student, when he explodes the rich man’s car, when he beats up walt jr’s bullies. some of these things may have been justified - but through all of them we see walt being driven, energized, by those rushes of power, of cruelty. they may be justified, but that’s not why he did it. that’s just why he tells himself he did it, once it’s done. he was always driven by that rush of power, of cruelty, since day one.

and as time goes on we see how he gets better at these little excuses. he indulges himself more and more, bit by bit. he excuses his behavior towards his wife, his son, to jesse, to hank. walt uses jesse as a kind of life-raft, to keep his excuses and his yearning for power afloat. jesse is malleable, manipulatable, controllable. as the show’s body count rises walt tells jesse it’s alright, tells jesse it was all necessary, that they did what they had to do. he berates jesse to boost his own ego, uses jesse to keep himself in control, keeps jesse in an agonizing subordinate position all through the show, so he always has someone to keep him on top. to give him the power, the ego, the reassurance, the forgiveness that he needs. he isolates jesse, guilts jesse, shames jesse, and then when jesse breaks and does what walt wants - such as killing gale - he showers jesse with assurances, reminders that it’s okay. they did what they had to. there was no other choice.

and even as jesse forgives walt, over and over, buying walt’s excuses and manipulation, jesse can’t quite forgive himself. part of him understands it’s all bullshit. we see jesse try to fight it, without realizing who he’s fighting - screaming at the narcotics anonymous meeting, asking why? why does he, who killed a man, get to move on, say it means nothing, claim it was justified? by season 4, he’s accepted that it’s bullshit. he knows he’s a bad guy. he doesn’t do what walt does - chase himself in circles excusing, explaining, what he’s done. and so the rift between them - despite walt’s best efforts - starts to grow.

by the end of the show, walt doesn’t even need an excuse: walt is the excuse. he believes he’s the exception; the one who’s so smart, so exceptional, so special that whatever it takes to get his way is simply necessary. walter and heisenberg aren’t separate people, not really - it was all walter, right from the start - but walter likes to believe that they are; because heisenberg is special. heisenberg deserves better, so he should get better, no matter whose lives are at stake. it’s the classic case of a white man born and bred to believe he’s above all consequences.

so “heisenberg” isn’t a different person, not really. walt doesn’t turn into someone different over the course of the show. he is the same man, from the start to the end - an angry, bitter old man with an extraordinary capacity for cruelty.

[benjimatorarts]

Digital Oil Painting Practice

[breakingbadmspaint]

Breaking Bad Season 2 (MS Paint)

I'm watching Breaking Bad and drawing my experience on MS Paint with my mouse. (Purple haired person is me)

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^ I love him already

^ I just wanted to draw his smug little face

Holy shit, that season was insane. 10/10

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