lerath666
Super Freak
To preface, I want to be perfectly Clear. I'm not "pro-walt" nor "anti-walt" The characters are who they are.
My viewpoint is ONLY that there are no True " Hero's" and/or "Villians" amongs the main cast. Only shades of grey.
Well get to marie in a moment.
I was going to reply, but Iron Jedi makes part of my arguement for me, though for a different reason.
This is the thing. Walt Jr is fragile. Both physicaly and mentaly. his flip-floping makes perfect sense when you consider that.
Very true. It fits with his mentality, and his Naive, simplistic viewpoint. Which is needed for the story to work. IF I had to liken the story to anything, SO far I'd say it's in the vein of a Greek or shakespearian Tradgedy. So far, EVERYBODY LOOSES and/or Dies. And it's an AMAZING story Becuase of this.
Now, lets talk about Marie, and why she is despicable.
Marie, like most of our characters is Motivated by her Love.
Love of family, and Love of Hank.
Marie Sees herself as an upright person who can do no wrong, that everyone else should aspire to be like.
This is her major flaw as well. She, like Walt, is driven by Ego.
She is merely at the opposite end of the spectrum.
She sees herself as Rightious, and feels everyone should follow her example.
We also know she is at best a cleptomaniac, and at worst a Full on Thief with denial issues. She stole a several thousand dollar tiara early on, and completely Refused to adit to ever doing it. Even now, she went so far as to let Skyler take the blame for it.
And while we have seen nothing to indicateshe is still doing this, we also have not seen anything to indicate she has stopped.
This is unsuprising, as the show is walt's story, not hers.
NOW, you CAN argue the severity of the crimes if you wish, but that still dosn't change the fact that she has no moral highground to stand on. Don't forget, she was willing to full on kidnap HOlly as well at one point, and it took hank FORCING her to stop to not do it.
We've already talked about how Walt Jr. is fragile, and not completely there, mentaly or physicaly. And Yet, Marie, in her " I know what's best for you" mentality, COMPLETELY DESTROYS the poor boy's world, causing MASSIVE, and unintelligable emotional and mental scarring.
She didn't care what effect this information HAD on the boy, she just wanted to discredit walt.
Why? Becuase she was angry at him for the video.
Yes, she had every right to be, but what she wanted was not justice, but Vengence. you can Hear it in her voice when she mentions it to Skyler. Her seething rage also comes across in her eyes.
EXCELLENT JOB by the actress on that BTW.
The end point, the overarching theme of this show, can be summed up as thus.
How Far are you TRUELY willing to go for those you love.
And the repurcussions/fallout from those actions.
My viewpoint is ONLY that there are no True " Hero's" and/or "Villians" amongs the main cast. Only shades of grey.
Well get to marie in a moment.
I was going to reply, but Iron Jedi makes part of my arguement for me, though for a different reason.
This is the thing. Walt Jr is fragile. Both physicaly and mentaly. his flip-floping makes perfect sense when you consider that.
Very true. It fits with his mentality, and his Naive, simplistic viewpoint. Which is needed for the story to work. IF I had to liken the story to anything, SO far I'd say it's in the vein of a Greek or shakespearian Tradgedy. So far, EVERYBODY LOOSES and/or Dies. And it's an AMAZING story Becuase of this.
Now, lets talk about Marie, and why she is despicable.
Marie, like most of our characters is Motivated by her Love.
Love of family, and Love of Hank.
Marie Sees herself as an upright person who can do no wrong, that everyone else should aspire to be like.
This is her major flaw as well. She, like Walt, is driven by Ego.
She is merely at the opposite end of the spectrum.
She sees herself as Rightious, and feels everyone should follow her example.
We also know she is at best a cleptomaniac, and at worst a Full on Thief with denial issues. She stole a several thousand dollar tiara early on, and completely Refused to adit to ever doing it. Even now, she went so far as to let Skyler take the blame for it.
And while we have seen nothing to indicateshe is still doing this, we also have not seen anything to indicate she has stopped.
This is unsuprising, as the show is walt's story, not hers.
NOW, you CAN argue the severity of the crimes if you wish, but that still dosn't change the fact that she has no moral highground to stand on. Don't forget, she was willing to full on kidnap HOlly as well at one point, and it took hank FORCING her to stop to not do it.
We've already talked about how Walt Jr. is fragile, and not completely there, mentaly or physicaly. And Yet, Marie, in her " I know what's best for you" mentality, COMPLETELY DESTROYS the poor boy's world, causing MASSIVE, and unintelligable emotional and mental scarring.
She didn't care what effect this information HAD on the boy, she just wanted to discredit walt.
Why? Becuase she was angry at him for the video.
Yes, she had every right to be, but what she wanted was not justice, but Vengence. you can Hear it in her voice when she mentions it to Skyler. Her seething rage also comes across in her eyes.
EXCELLENT JOB by the actress on that BTW.
The end point, the overarching theme of this show, can be summed up as thus.
How Far are you TRUELY willing to go for those you love.
And the repurcussions/fallout from those actions.
