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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe Moral of Breaking Bad?
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tridim
(45,358 posts)The show wasn't anti or pro-meth, it was just meth -- normalized. I hated the subject matter from the first episode.
MiddleFingerMom
(25,163 posts)FSogol
(45,488 posts)Bring on moor gunz and violence!
SharonAnn
(13,776 posts)Just couldn't get into the whole thing. I found it morally objectionable. Just couldn't get past that.
warrprayer
(4,734 posts)Hooray for teachers!!!
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MiddleFingerMom
(25,163 posts)Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)SwampG8r
(10,287 posts)lose his own soul?"
MiddleFingerMom
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CanSocDem
(3,286 posts)Just Say No To Drugs....unless they're really good.
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NoOneMan
(4,795 posts)Walt was a genius in a cage, enslaved from a corrupt system and marginalized. It started in college for him--the last time he was really alive and expressing himself artistically and intellectually. Meth manufacturing was a way for Walt to live again, and was also an act of pure revolt against this very system
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)and he says it, in the last episode.
The wheels within wheels of the writing, one of the things that made this an excellent show.
texanwitch
(18,705 posts)Walt wanted what he should have had from the beginning.
Sold out for a few months rent.
That ate at his soul, Meth was just a means to a end.
Dreamer Tatum
(10,926 posts)He very clearly lamented that he sold his stake in the company for $5000 that would someday be
worth billions. He made a mistake and it burned him up. Meth was his way, as he said himself,
to build an empire.
Buns_of_Fire
(17,180 posts)Words of wisdom I have always followed.
MiddleFingerMom
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A gun and water.
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drm604
(16,230 posts)give Americans healthcare.
Ultimately, it was his craving for success and power that drove him, but it all started with him not wanting his cancer to bankrupt his family.