Thread 212631368

can someone really change this much in a year, personality wise?

if you have cancer yeah

Only if you’re using the meth

>get the cancer
>become drug dealer
So it's now ok to be a criminal?

>>212631368 (OP)
yes, literally me in the last 10 months or less.

If all you watch is Cat Ballou yes.

>>212631368 (OP)
He was already like that.

>>212631368 (OP)
he was supressing his nature before

>>212631368 (OP)
>fiancee cheated on me and dumped me
yes it's very real

>>212631368 (OP)
Heres a question that has been bugging me. Why waltuh didnt start making his own methelamyne in the last seasons? If Jesse's trip to Mexico with Gus and Mike told us something, that something is that beaners are capable of making that substance inside a dirty lab. If waltuh decided to make methlamyne, he would have saved himself from multiple headaches

>>212631749
Do make methlamyne they would have to make a dedicated methlamyne making operation which would require different chemicals which would require dedicated operations to making these chemicals etc in the end making meth is basically just an afterthought after going through weeks of making other chemicals. They wanted to make meth though. Also their system was based on quickly cooking in houses covered by the exterminator business, they wouldn't have enough time to do all that.

>>212631749
they're two dudes working in a tent, the mexican operation had a warehouse sized lab
i guess they could have done it but it would've severely reduced productivity and profits

hank
>macho in regular life
>can hold his shit together in dangerous situations
>yet gets mentally traumatised by them

walt
>betacuck in regular life
>can hold his shit together in dangerous situations but throws tantrums in the process
>seems to be unphased by whatever happened to him in the past

who is more of a man?

>>212631368 (OP)
No, but he didn't really change. He just stopped pretending.

>>212632174
hank of course, he took care of his family while walt endangered it for his ego

>>212631435
this right here. cancer, especially stage 3, gives you the freedom to not give a fuck. despite this, or maybe because of this, Walt dedicates his life to setting up his family the best way he knows how. yeah, he absolutely went way beyond that for himself, but initially he was only in it to help his family. He turns Gus down several times evenwhile Gus is saving Walt from the other bad boys. In the end, his own excess pride and ambition are his undoing.

Greek mythology right there.

>>212631368 (OP)
If you think you're going to die very soon? Yeah.

>>212631368 (OP)
Yeah, believe me, it's real.
I went from being a good guy to antisocial psychopath in pretty much one year. I was already diagnosed with a personality disorder in childhood though, and I guess the trauma I went through just made the disorder manifest itself again. Walt's arc is possible, guys.

>>212631975
>>212632044
Wasnt Waltuh into "the empire" business, as he claimed to Jesse? Eventually, he had to produce methlamyne if he wanted full control of his meth production. That deal with that bitch was good for as long as it worked, but that train robbery was a very stupid and risky move.
I'd rather have my own methlamyne supply to make meth, rather than robbing trains.
My problem is that this thought never crossed Walter's mind, and it was never debunked with a counterargument in the show. This is unlikely for this show since it has a script that doesnt leave loose ends. My theory is that since waltuh was a super chemist, he would be able to make methlamyne even in a cooking pot easy, but the chemical process might have been very time consuming, and time was always against waltuh

>>212631522
the man was angry at life and wanted to secure a good life for his son & wife

>>212632715
>and it was never debunked with a counterargument in the show
that's a good point. i do consider it weak writing when fans have to explain it, even if it makes sense

>>212632174
Upvoted.

>>212631368 (OP)

For the autists here, he always had the violence and cruelty inside him but the cancer diagnosis and meth business just gave him an excuse to let loose.

>get cut out of your billion dollar startup
>get cancer and have to work a second job to provide for your wife and kids one of which is disabled
>get humiliated by your students and cook meth
>get exposed and have your wife nag at you relentlessly
>she cheats
>"okay but maybe the money will be good"
>almost get killed numerous times
>wife gives all the money you need to get a new identity and run to the guy shes fucking
>kill gus and still have to be on the run
>jack shows up and fucks you over at the end taking almost all your cash
>wife and kid immediately turn ungrateful and accuse you of killing hank refusing to let you explain
Walt did nothing but bust his ass for an ungrateful pack of cunts. Should have let them rot.

>>212632863
im watching this show with my gf now (S5) and she's completely on walt's team and hates skyler while im the one defending her

>>212631368 (OP)
>can someone really change this much in a year?
>a guy with cancer
>OP is a fucking moron

>>212632715
The issue is essentially that you need a large industrial faculty to make methylamine, including a bunch of massive pressure reactors because there a bunch of gas phase chemistry in there. Think something like an oil refinery
t. nerd

>>212632921
>anon learns about engagement farming
have you only been posting for a week or something

>walter always was.... LE BAD.....
Reddit is down the hall to the right, sirs.

>>212632898
that could be because you're 40 and your gf is 18

>>212632922
Making methylamine is easy. That isn't the hard part. That part was made up for dramatic effect.

>>212632894
he didn't get cut out of the startup, he left (presumably before it got big)

>>212631749
they could make phenylacetic acid, pretty sure we don't even know where they got the methlamyne from

>>212631368 (OP)
Walt has bipolar disorder, it was just a manic episode triggered by the cancer diagnosis

>>212632979
No, it’s not. It’s nasty stuff and it’s made from even nastier stuff

>>212632863
Everyone has it in them, so Walt is nothing special. If you think back to his life before cancer, he was already a dead man spiritually; kudos to him for making something out of himself before physically dying. Modern life is just dead people walking with a lot of rage inside of them. Just fuck the system.

>>212633023
Solid and liquid phase chemistry vs gas phase chemistry. One you can do in a bathtub, the other you need a bunch of large pressure vessels. Apples and potatoes

>>212631749
That's the biggest chemistry flaw in the show, even worse than the mercury bomb.
Methylamine is piss easy to make, about as hard as water carbonation to make soda, literally just methane gas added to ammonia liquid. Boom methylated amine. It would take awhile to purify the ammonia from windex but it really isn't what they build it up to be.

>>212633184
Lol no

>>212632693
This. I used to be a nice guy. Then this fucking bitch left me. So now I'm basically Patrick Bateman+Tyler Durban+Tony Sopranos. If anyone gets in my way, they're in for a bad time.

>>212632174
Walt is smarter and has the Devil on his side

>>212632174
Hank witnessed more traumatising shit than Walt did

>>212633738
Yet Walt's life was way shittier since the beginning. Resentment and failure kill a man's soul over time.

>>212632952
>Reddit is down the hall to the right, sirs
unfortunately, it's right here, in every other thread

What if Walt had never gotten cancer
>keeps slaving at the car wash
>keeps teaching retarded kids
>retires (if he's lucky) when he's 66 or 67
>now he's even more miserable because he's alone with his thoughts most of the day
>now not even a handjob on his birthday
>days just blur together
>teenage daughter is in her hating him phase
>older kid is in his 30's still living with them because he can't wipe his own ass
>doesn't even have the wagie motivation of looking forward to the weekend
>his entire life is a weekend without nothing to do
I'd have given myself cancer

>>212631368 (OP)
He never changed. He just stopped holding back, he had almost nothing left to lose so he let loose. Did you even watch the show?

>>212632715
>>>212632044
>Wasnt Waltuh into "the empire" business, as he claimed to Jesse?
Walt is a tryhard who makes grandiose statements but doesn't really know all that much. It's a character trait. Remember he got ultra butthurt when he found out he had to replace the whole logistics and distrubtion network that Gus had built up with his own money because he just assumed these things simply existed.

>>212631368 (OP)

Why wasn't Skylar working? Walt Jr was old enough to be home alone after school. WTF was that lazy roastie doing all day?

>>212634678
>Why wasn't Skylar working?
he didn't want her to and objected when she got a job

>>212635030
>gets a job
>immediately fucks her boss
gee, I wonder why. on the other hand, no idea what she did while junior is at school

>>212632898
this but we finished and we're on bcs. Except I never defended Skyler for even a moment because she's a stupid bitch written as a stupid troublemaking, attention-seeking bitch for the sake of drama. Walt was still objectively wrong sometimes thoughbeit.

>>212636279
she was completely right to fear for the kids' safety and keeping them from walt

>>212637138
>Skyler let's fucking leave, we have to go
>NO IT'S UNSAFE
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