context; personal nonsense
The first time I tried watching Breaking Bad was when the series had ended but was relatively fresh. At that time I guess my comprehension was not good. Because I stopped at the episode when there is a single fly in the lab. My interpretation at that time was that the episode was a comedy filler but upon rewatching that arc I couldn't be further off the mark. So it's fair to say I did not understand what was going on.
series spoilers
I don't really know what to say. The whole point of this season seems to be watching W.W. be a monumental piece of shit. In the previous seasons you had at least a modicum of a reason to root for him because apart from his origin story he was in a tussle against powers greater than himself. Now he is just being a garbage human being for no reason.
I think it is just a logical culmination of how badly W.W. is characterised in the series. He goes from someone who is "cut off" from a multi-billion dollar endeavour for $5000 bucks of rent money to someone who wants to be the king of meth slingers at any cost. The transition is not subtle because it turns out he was a sleeper hardcore badass all along and he just needed the consciousness of mortality that a cancer diagnosis brings about to be doing his thing.
So far I have been viewing the series as somewhat of a fantasy setting which has made the whole thing acceptable premise-wise and very enjoyable. But towards the end as they are wrapping it up I don't feel compelled to see it through for a reason other than the sunk cost.
I feel like Jesse has been much more sympathise-able throughout. It is not a surprise he did not "apply himself" with a teacher like W.W.
Walt is only sympathetic at all for the few episodes before we know he could've been A-OK when his former business partner offered to pay for everything. Jesse is sympathetic throughout to me IMO, he's a smart kid who got into trouble and manipulated by some old man.
apparently Gilligan wanted him to go on being sympathetic but ended up being convinced by other people working on the show to go the other direction
AFAI understand they only agreed to pay for the treatment. But there is whole lot of other costs that come after the treatment's success or failure. For example, the living expenses of Flynn, Holly, their education et cetera.
But the wealthy couple are never asked to pay for those so I don't know what to make of that.I think leaving that in the dark just adds to the incoherence and noise.
I mean they offer to give him a job making waaaay more than he makes now plus there company's very good healthcare. Either way Walt is already paying for junior and holly was a decision they decided to keep despite being old and broke. Not saying I know what acess to abortion was like in New Mexico in the 2000's.